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This is a link post The Most Expensive Book That Amazon Sells.
Only $8,539.00. Title: Chemical Shifts And Coupling Constants For Silicon (Check out the customer reviews.)
 (Cockroach Lad on the Wigan Pier, on july the sixth!, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 11:09, Reply)
This is a normal post RECENT BUYERS OF THIS BOOK:
"The Columbia Cartel"
"The Vincentino Family"
"The Fox"
"Slippery Jim Marioso"
"Senator Smith"
"The Charity for Philosophical Debate Society"
"Fast Eddy Giovaninci"

PEOPLE WHO BOUGHT THIS BOOK ALSO BOUGHT:
Laundry Secrets
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 (Cockroach Lad on the Wigan Pier, on july the sixth!, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 11:20, Reply)
This is a normal post sorry to piss on your parade, but:
$40,000
There are some, apparently, more expensive than this on there. - crumbs chief!
 (I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 11:22, Reply)
This is a normal post For that price I'd expect it to include a bevvy of buxom wenches
to read it out loud to me whenever I desired.

However it looks a fairly boring book:( Though I'd put up with this for the wenches.

I thought I'd splashed out earlier this year for a whole load of books at £50 each or so, on architecture, 3d modelling and maths. It seems not.
 (I helped save b3ta! LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 11:30, Reply)
This is a normal post anything exciting architecture - wise?

(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 11:32, Reply)
This is a normal post Mainly historys of skyscrapers (which I have an unhealthy fascination with for some reason)
Going back from theorising about the tower of babel, through to Taipei 101, Flat Iron building etc. Some interesting ones about the non-building side of architecture (which I'd not thought about) covering the idea of skyscrapers as self contained entities so talking about distribution of leisure, commercial, living areas, covering light\vegetation, the importance of open, communal space etc. Probably the best book I bought was:
www.bookdepository.co.uk/WEBSITE/WWW/WEBPAGES/showbook.php?id=0470843551

Most of the other books are either half schematic type books, or wildy theoristic (future cities) ideas for architecture.

I just enjoy reading about them more than anything (and trying model cityscapes, which is my current hobby) :)
 (I helped save b3ta! LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 11:39, Reply)
This is a normal post sounds genuinely fascinating :)

(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 11:43, Reply)
This is a normal post Yeah, it is :)
Hopefully will get to go on a trip to Hong Kong, or somewhere similar, to actually see some of these awesome tall buildings in the flesh sometime.

Incidentally, one of the reasons I got fascinated with tall buildings was a short story by Stephen Gould called, 'Peaches for Mad Molly' - worth reading if you stumble across.
 (I helped save b3ta! LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:19, Reply)
This is a normal post ta for the tip - will search out and have a read :)

(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:24, Reply)
This is a normal post Haha good god
One reviewer states: "I bought two or three for the house, they are perfect for use as an inconspicuous book safe when hollowed out with a Dremel. I keep the most prized portions of my Beanie Baby collection within. "

I need some fresh air, the world is quite mad
 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 11:40, Reply)
This is a normal post It's a Springer
their staple is to print conference proceedings and the like. It's verging on vanity publishing as the only people who "buy" them are the ones who go to the conferences.

Well it's not quite vanity publishing but it ain't far off given only half a dozen people in the world would be interested in buying them so they can cite them in their own research.
 (I helped save b3ta! buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 11:50, Reply)
This is a normal post I know it's not Amazon
but that's nothing:

www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?an=Gould%2C+John&bt.x=51&bt.y=13&fe=on&sortby=1

www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?an=Lear&sortby=1

www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?an=Darwin&sortby=1&sts=t&x=71&y=18

If I glance to my right, I am looking at one of these^ books; most of the rest our below in our strong room
 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:10, Reply)
This is a normal post Ptchah
I'll see your Gould, and I'll raise you an Austen

www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=1189285447&searchurl=an%3Dausten
 (I helped save b3ta! Occulus Swallowed, instead of spat, on, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:24, Reply)
This is a normal post Hah
we've got some books in our strongroom worth a great deal more than that, though i'm stumped if I remember what they are called sat here impatiently for lunch ;)
 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:33, Reply)
This is a normal post I'll give you a quid.

(I helped save b3ta! t0ria has forgotten how this all works, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:58, Reply)