Imagine how screwed you’d feel—on at least two levels—if Chemical Shifts and Coupling Constants for Silicon-29 was one of your college textbooks. $8,539! The reviews are very funny. Here’s an example:
My bank just received a major TARP bailout package, so me and my buds in top-level management got our quarterly bonuses after all. Vegas junkets are too conspicuous these days and black caviar from the Caspian Sea is getting a little old hat, so I bought a copy of Landolt-Bornstein’s “Chemical Shifts and Coupling Constants for Silicon-29” for another V.P. as a gag gift. Last week when I flew to Bora-Bora for a weekend management retreat there he was, reading it on the beach! He had some reservations about how a couple of the formulas were expressed, but apart from that he thought it was well-researched and compellingly written. On his recommendation I’m going to pick up a copy for myself to read at the next management retreat in Dubai. This book has some legs.
P.S. “scamsandhoaxes” is the closest tag I have for something like this. It’s no hoax, as near as I can tell, but wow, what a scam.
