This is not a review of the content, this is a review of the physical product. Though this was fairly expensive, it is possibly the least attractive physical book I have ever bought, or even encountered, in my life. It looks and feels like a cheap mail-order catalogue. I assume that the american version, which is truly astronomically expensive, is printed at least on better paper, but even apart from the binding and the paper, this is also one of the ugliest text-book designs I have ever seen. (I now realize that I expected more from a Frenchman - so much for stereotypes).
A product like this makes no economic sense that I can see. It is a moral argument for piracy.