Welcome to The Book Stack

The Book Stack is the campus bookshop of Bader College. If you are studying at Bader College, or are due to soon, you can order your course texts through The Book Stack. We will set aside the books you order so that they are ready for you when you arrive at the College.

To buy or to lease, your choice

At The Book Stack we will help you connect with the texts that you will need for your courses of study in a way that is affordable. Through us you can identify the core reading items for your courses by viewing the course list page for Courses in Fall 2023, and then Winter and Summer periods when we are advised what these will be by the teaching staff.    You can then buy new or have donated copies as you prefer (but please be aware that donated copies may have some surface damage and/or writing in them). For some texts, we also offer the option of leasing books, which is by far the cheapest method of getting a textbook for an entire term – as long as you don’t want to own the book or wish to write in it!

We will also try to offer, wherever possible, donated copies from students that have attended the College in previous years. If a student donates their textbooks to Bookstack we will ensure that these are listed for free to students for following years (if those textbooks are still being used for those programmes), we firmly believe in the ethos of “paying it forward” and will support students to do this as much as we can. 

  • Buy new— we sell at cost to keep our prices as low as possible. Please note some books may not be available as new copies.
  • Buy used—to keep a book forever but at a lower cost, buy our good condition used copies. (Some copies are sold as Used – damaged. These copies include (usually) highlighting or annotations, or will have creased covers. All are still readable texts, but are sold at a very reduced rate to reflect the fact that they are damaged.)
  • Lease (not available on all titles) – for really expensive titles which you are unlikely to want to keep at the end of term, we offer a lease option. You pay a fee at the beginning of term and you keep the book for the whole term. As long as you return the book to us at the end of term in a condition that is almost the same as when you received it, then you will incur no further charges. (See our Terms and Conditions page for further explanation of the lease option.)
  • e-copies – some of our books are avaliable as e-copies only. Where this is the case you will see this clearly marked on the shop listing. Sometimes you might be directed to a third party supplier to purchase these. 

How to place an order

First consult the ‘Courses in Fall’, ‘Courses in Winter’, or ‘Courses in Summer’ pages under ‘Contact Us’ menu to identify which books are required for your courses. Some courses don’t require you to buy a textbook. Once you have identified the titles, either use the search option to find the books you  need, or go to Products by course code to retrieve all books for a particular course.

Once you have identified titles you wish to buy, add your chosen titles to your basket and go to checkout to place your order. You can pay by credit card: Visa, Mastercard and American Express are all accepted. If a title says it is available for back order, it means we do not have copies in stock, but we will order them once we receive your order. Just add these books to your basket as you would the titles we have in stock.

When we receive your order, we will set your books to one side and email you to let you know that they are waiting for you here on campus and let you know how you can collect those items. 

Ordering non-stock items

If we do not have in stock the book you need, just contact us and ask us to order it for you. We will agree with you a new or used copy and a price, and you will pay this once you receive the book. Any books you need, whether on your reading lists or not, can be ordered in this way.

Not just books…

Stationery

We sell a range of stationery for you to purchase while you are at Bader College, feel free to come and puruse the selection in Library West, or you can purchase items online alongside your Bookstack orders. We also sell calculators, which are the approved calculator required for courses in Math and Science at Bader College.

Lab equipment

If you are a scientist you will need to buy the following lab items. Order through the online store.