Friday, July 28, 2006

Amazon.com has lost its mind

Like all of you, from time to time I purchase books on Amazon. Every once in a while, the mysterious datamining technology Amazon used to "suggest" books I might enjoy, based on past purchases, throws me a complete curveball:

We've noticed that customers who have purchased The Corrections: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen also purchased books by Hartmuth Arenhövel. For this reason, you might like to know that Hartmuth Arenhövel's Many Body Structure of Strongly Interacting Systems: Refereed and Selected Contributions of the Symposium "20 Years of Physics at the Mainz Microtron MAMI" will be released soon. You can pre-order your copy by following the link below.

Many Body Structure of Strongly Interacting Systems: Refereed and Selected Contributions of the Symposium "20 Years of Physics at the Mainz Microtron MAMI"Hartmuth Arenhövel (Editor), et al
Price:

$220.79(August 2006)

Book Description: This carefully edited proceedings volume provides an extensive review and analysis of the work carried out over the past 20 years at the Mainz Microtron (MAMI). Further, an outlook on the research with the forthcoming MAMI upgrade is given. This volume is an authoritative source of reference for everyone working in the field of the electroweak probing of hadronic structures.

Couple of comments. First, I purchased "The Corrections" more than four years ago. Second, can anyone explain why purchasers of "The Corrections" -- a novel about a family in the midwest -- would also be interested in Hartmuth Arenhovel edited symposium volumes that are the authority reference for everyone working in the dynamic and exciting field of electroprobing hadronic structures?

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