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1.		Principles of Geotechnical Engineering from CL-Engineering Price: $172.32 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


2.		Geology for Engineers and Environmental Scientists (3rd Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $86.53	Click here for more information


3.		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


4.		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


5.		Six-Minute Solutions for Civil PE Exam Geotechnical Problems from Professional Publications, Inc. Price: $52.50 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


6.		Land Development Handbook from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $107.60 Customer Review: The book was in great shape and the information written in the book helped a lot	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		Soil Mechanics and Foundations from Wiley Price: $50.00 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


8.		Essentials of Soil Mechanics and Foundations: Basic Geotechnics (6th Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $78.79 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


9.		Fundamentals of Geotechnical Engineering from CL-Engineering Price: $155.00 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


10.		Foundation Analysis and Design from McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math 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


11.		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


12.		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


13.		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


14.		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


15.		Geotechnical Engineer's Portable Handbook from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $40.46 Customer Review: I work in geotechnical and structural engineering, often in the field. This book is an excellent tool for my purposes. It contains a broad array of information, importantly being light on the theory in order to provide a HANDBOOK. I have other geotech textbooks, but they do you no good in the field... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.		Finite Element Analysis in Geotechnical Engineering: Volume Two - Application (v. 2) from Thomas Telford Publishing Price: $109.60	Click here for more information


17.		Handbook of Geotechnical Investigation and Design Tables (Balkema: Proceedings and Monographs in Engineering, Water and Earth Sciences) from Taylor & Francis Price: $67.46	Click here for more information


18.		Practical Handbook of Grouting: Soil, Rock, and Structures from Wiley Price: $152.02 Customer Review: This book provides a comprehensive guide to many types of grouting. It has many common sense approaches to solving different problems and describes different processes and procedures in detail. We are a specialty geotechnical contractor and I provide a copy of the book to our engineers and any field... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


19.		Seismic Methods and Applications: A Guide for the Detection of Geologic Structures, Earthquake Zones and Hazards, Resource Exploration, and Geotechnical Engineering from Brown Walker Press Price: $43.15 Customer Review: This book has earned the coveted the Text and Academic Authors Association 2009 Textbook Excellence Award in the college level physical science category. Don't miss it! I also happily endorse this book based on my deep understanding of its content which was developed under my direction as Dr.... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


20.		Single Piles and Pile Groups Under Lateral Loading from Taylor & Francis Price: $145.43 Customer Review: Professor Lymon Reese (Univ. Texas) and Professor Willaim Van Impe of Ghent University have co-authored an excellent comprehensive treatise on laterally-loaded piles. Compared with other expensive books in geotechnical engineering, this 463-page book is an excellent value at $49.50. Chapter 1,... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


21.		Geotechnical Testing, Observation, and Documentation from American Society of Civil Engineers Price: $39.46 Customer Review: Judging from the title and the fact that this book is published by ASCE press, I assumed that this book was written by a geotechnical engineer for an engineering audience, and I read the book in order to deepen my understanding of geotechnical testing, observation, and documentation. Instead,... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


22.		Foundations on Rock: Engineering Practice from Spon Press Price: $175.50 Customer Review: I am a dam engineer, working for an italian consulting company. Foundations on rock is a good manual, being a reference book in our firm together with US army corps manuals. Please consider that the author often follows Hoek's empirical approach for rock mechanics ( he wrote the update... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


23.	[no image]	Excavation Handbook from Mcgraw-Hill (Tx) Price: $302.56 Customer Review: This book contains the most comprehensive information of its kind. Some of the information is common knowledge to the practicing engineer and a good reference to the developing professional. Other information (such as tire selection and dimension) is compiled from other references that would take... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


24.		Geotechnical Engineering: A Practical Problem Solving Approach (The Eureka) from J. Ross Publishing Price: $78.11	Click here for more information


25.		Warriors From The Ashes from Pinnacle Price: $26.99 Customer Review: My husband is a big fan of Mr. Johnstone & I've read most of his books when I run out of my own. G Normally, I find them an engrossing read, kinda like eye candy. This book, though, I found a huge "error." On page 248 the scene that follows where they're trying to assinate Ben Raines is the... more info	Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


26.		Ground Vibration Engineering: Simplified Analyses with Case Studies and Examples (Geotechnical, Geological, and Earthquake Engineering) from Springer Price: $116.10	Click here for more information


27.		Geotechnical Engineering Investigation Handbook, Second Edition from CRC Press Price: $139.16	Click here for more information


28.		Pile Design and Construction Rules of Thumb from Butterworth-Heinemann Price: $84.37 Customer Review: If you have this book, you do not need any other reference for Piles. If you are taking PE Exam in near futre, you must not miss any book from this author and Liiban Affi (of [...])	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


29.		Geotechnical Engineering: Soil and Foundation Principles and Practice, 5th Ed. from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $84.48	Click here for more information


30.		Offshore Geotechnical Engineering from Thomas Telford Publishing Price: $111.28	Click here for more information

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