Message-ID: <9701291614.AA04082@lan.vita.org> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 11:14:03 EST From: Brij Mathur <mailto:bmathur@VITA.ORG> Subject: Re. Appropriate Technology Books for Developing Countries To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
VITA has received several inquiries in response to a recent posting regarding the Village Technology Handbook. Most people wanted to know how to order it. I am taking the liberty to post this information to the whole list.VILLAGE TECHNOLOGY HANDBOOK
English edition - $19.95
French and Spanish editions -- $14.95 each
Shipping & handling $4.00 for the 1st copy and $1.00 for each subsequent copy.
Besides this VITA has published over 200 other technical manual and bulletins. You can access VITA's catalog as per directions below. Prices on some titles may have changed.
VITA has also produced a CD-ROM that contains all titles pub- lished by VITA. This CD-ROM costs $95.00 + $5.00 for shipping and handling. Cost of paper copies of all these titles will be in several thousand dollars. VITA's publications catalog information can be retrieved in either of two ways.
1. The catalog information is presented on VITA's gopher server which can be reached at vita.org
2. The entire catalog is available as an ASCII file on the anonymous-ftp server.
host: ftp.vita.org directory: /pub/vita.info filename: 95pubcat.txt Brij Mathur
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