Sounds like a good book! Would you send it to me, and enclose your costs, which I will mail back?
Here's another excellent similar book on this topic, published some time ago but now freely downloadable, to which I refer you in a minutes-ago post on FR:
See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3013724/posts
(FWIW, my academic credentials in engineering and physical chemistry/spectroscopy are B.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
Freepmail me with your address and i will get it out to you within the week.