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1.		Principles of Foundation Engineering from CL-Engineering Price: $129.94 Customer Review: "..... this book maintains the CAREFUL BALANCE OF CURRENT RESEARCH AND PRACTICAL FIELD applications that has made it a leading text in foundation engineering courses throughout the country and internationally....." [from the book of the back cover]	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		Principles of Geotechnical Engineering from Pws Pub Co Price: $79.80 Customer Review: This is a great book. It came recommended to me by my engineer supervisor. I am a geologist who needs to learn more about geotech and the engineering side of the industry.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		Geology For Engineers and Environmental Scientists (2nd Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $82.00	Click here for more information


4.		Geotechnical Engineering: Principles & Practices (2nd Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $136.00 Customer Review: This text book is a good read, it explains it's figures and has much better descriptions for the examples to follow. I wish i had this Book last year.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		Workbook: Homework & Character Book, SIMPLIFIED VERSION from Prentice Hall Price: $30.00 Customer Review: this book was very helpful, clear, and concise. i had no problems and it made learning the language easy as well as fun at the same time. enjoy!	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		Foundation Design: Principles and Practices (2nd Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $119.95 Customer Review: ..content of this book is ok, but some very important topics are briefly presented..it gives only erlementary informations on foundatin design....	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		An Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering from Prentice Hall Price: $99.50 Customer Review: I got this book in a flash. The seller made a mistake with my order by sending me a better copy than I order and was nice enough to inform me that I would not be getting the paperback I order, but a hard cover, still at the same price which was very nice. I am not sure I would have noticed that I... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		Six-minute Solutions For Civil PE Exam Geotechnical Problems (Civil Engineering) from Professional Publications (CA) Price: $49.99 Customer Review: This book is great. Don't be fooled by the obscure points made in the solutions! The PE Exam is just as obscure, and the problems here will teach you what to look out for. You can't do enough practice problems to prepare yourself.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		Soil Mechanics and Foundations from Wiley Price: $56.72 Customer Review: I think that this book will do it's job if you are new to geotechnical engineering and you'll need to learn the fundamentals of soil mechanics.I've used it for my first undergraduate course in soil mechanics and it was very illuminating.The only drawback is that it does not cover all bound... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


10.	[no image]	Essentials of soil mechanics and foundations from Reston Pub. Co Price: $142.50 Customer Review: This book has been a big part of my school curriculum in the past couple of years. I have used this book in three of my classes. It was used in Foundation Design, Soil Mechanics, and Earthwork Design. I found the book to be very helpful. It provides an index that is easy to use and was very... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		Soil Mechanics Laboratory Manual from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $55.00 Customer Review: I have used this book for many years in my Soils & Foundations class that I teach at the University of New Hampshire, and just upgraded to this latest 7th Edition. I was very glad to find that they finally dropped the included diskette that used to be glued into the back, the files on it were... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		Fundamentals of Geotechnical Engineering from CL-Engineering Price: $25.00 Customer Review: This book is a fantastic introduction to the fundamentals of geotechnical engineering. I recommend it to everyone	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.	[no image]	Foundation Analysis and Design from McGraw-Hill Education (ISE Editions) Customer Review: I found this book to be very insightful in all things foundations; shallow, deep, etc. Joseph Bowles does an excellent job of bringing a very technical subject to novice engineers seeking to increase their knowledge base on such a complex subject. My preference would have been English units but the... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


14.		These United States: The Questions of Our Past Concise Edition from Prentice Hall College Div Price: $19.78 Customer Review: the question of are past was a vary grate book i have learn something form the book and it had few maby some economic review so keep up the good work	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


15.		Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering from Prentice Hall Price: $99.38 Customer Review: It is good stuff. I learned all the best soil dancing moves. I am going to tear it up on the dance floor now. As long as there are good shear waves.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.		Soils and Foundations (7th Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $79.91 Customer Review: This book explains the subject of soils and foundations in a straight-forward manner that is not terse and steeped in needless derivations or largely unnecessarily advanced math. I've even seen one book on this subject that delves into finite element analysis. Instead, this book explains its subject... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


17.		Soil Mechanics in Engineering Practice from Wiley-Interscience Price: $120.36 Customer Review: The original edition of this book has been the bible for the geotechnical community for a long time and this enriched third edition is even better with ready-to use empirical relations which come handy for practicing engineers.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


18.		Hydrologic Analysis and Design (3rd Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $110.99 Customer Review: This books is hard to read because of the extensive and monotonous writing in addition to lacking variety of examples. I took a semester of Hydrology Design, taught by Dr. Mc Cuen himself, in which he had to complement the lectures with numerous handouts with graphs, formulas, examples, and... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


19.		Explosives Engineering from Wiley-VCH Price: $124.99 Customer Review: If you are a novice to the field of explosives engineering, this text should be read after reading Paul Cooper's "Introduction to Explosives Technology." It is a cure to the 'I want more' feeling which that text produces. As in that text, it leaves one feeling 'why did I have so much trouble... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


20.		Soils in Construction, 5th Edition from Prentice Hall Price: $82.40 Customer Review: This is only Table of Contents of 5th edition. Not any rate or review. Table of Contents I. SOIL MATERIALS. 1. Physical Character of Soil Constituents. 2. Natural Soil Deposits. 3. Soil Index Properties. 4. Soil Classification. 5. Stress Analysis and Engineering... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


21.		Soils in Construction, 5th Edition from Prentice Hall Price: $82.40 Customer Review: This is only Table of Contents of 5th edition. Not any rate or review. Table of Contents I. SOIL MATERIALS. 1. Physical Character of Soil Constituents. 2. Natural Soil Deposits. 3. Soil Index Properties. 4. Soil Classification. 5. Stress Analysis and Engineering... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


22.	[no image]	Soil and Water Conservation Engineering from John Wiley and Sons (WIE) Price: $273.68 Customer Review: Good reference, middle of the road in terms of required knowledge (not basic, but not reference only). A little light on some topics, but good overall.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


23.		Simplified Building Design for Wind and Earthquake Forces (Parker/Ambrose Series of Simplified Design Guides) from John Wiley & Sons	Click here for more information


24.		Soil Physics with HYDRUS: Modeling and Applications from CRC Press Price: $79.96	Click here for more information


25.		Experimental Soil Mechanics from Prentice Hall Price: $114.66 Customer Review: Usually, books on the subject of experimental soil mechanics focus on laboratory procedures. This book, however, goes well beyond the procedures (which are neatly explained and illustrated with high quality photographs) and provides tools to process the resulting data with the help of common... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


26.		Geotechnical Engineering Calculations and Rules of Thumb from Butterworth-Heinemann Price: $65.01 Customer Review: Long in topics, short in details. Not recommended for more than a "C" aspiration.	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


27.		Engineering Geology: An Environmental Approach (2nd Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $92.41 Customer Review: I purchased this textbook to use in a college course. The text of the book is good, but the quality of the pictures is completely unacceptable. The photographs are in black and white, and they appear grainy and unclear. Even with the captions, I frequently cannot even tell what the photos are trying... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


28.		Geochemistry, groundwater and pollution, Revised edition (PBK) from Taylor & Francis Customer Review: it takes acceptable long time. and acceptable dirty. and acceptable wrinkled paper cover. so. i give an acceptable star rank.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


29.		Petroleum Related Rock Mechanics from Elsevier Science Price: $111.84 Customer Review: This book is all that I expected, and more. Its reading is easy and is related with what I was looking for in practical situation.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


30.		Craig's Soil Mechanics: Solutions Manual from Spon Press Price: $28.08	Click here for more information

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