Re: Radiation Detection & Measurement

[Chris Alston <alstonc@odrge.odr.georgetown.edu>]

I received several thoughtful (largely commiserative) responses to my
original posting, for which i thank you. I hope not to engender a lengthy
thread, but I have a couple of observations. For one, I wasn't questioning
the price of the hardcover, it's clearly on a par with other technical
texts (and the value is exceptional), only the fact that it's not available
as a trade paperback. The latter are highly durable books, and are notably
lighter, i.e., more portable. A case in point is Cember's Intro to Health
Physics, for which one might expect an even more limited market than
Knoll's tome.

Then, contrary to the opinion of at least one respondent, the differential
price, between hc and pb, is important, from my church mouse's POV. Here is
one example, from Science of 14 April 2000: Leigh EG, Tropical Forest
Ecology - A View from Barro Colorado Island, Oxford U Press, New York,
1999. In hc it's US$85, as a pb it's $US39.

Finally, caveat emptor to those of you who may look for good prices on the
Net. The only heavily discounted offers I've seen have been for the second
edition. I recommend a careful reading of the "fine print."

Happy hunting
cja
alstoncj@georgetown.edu

P.S. Erik, I haven't been able to link to the site below. Do you have any
suggestions?

At 08:17 PM 8/7/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I just checked my favorite book shopping bot (agent) and found four (4) 
>suppliers of new copies of the third edition of Knolls (ISBN 0471073385) 
>with total delivered price (shipping, taxes and currency conversion) of 
>less than $70 US.....the lowest being $58.00.
>
>The site I used to locate these low prices 
>is:  http://media.dealtime.com/books.html
>
>Erik
>
>Erik C. Nielsen
>Senior Radiochemist
>mailto: nielsenec@earthlink.net
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