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1.		Building Construction Illustrated, 2nd Edition from John Wiley & Sons Inc Price: $49.95 Customer Review: Excellent condition for a used item and for the price too. The books from Francis Ching are always very pleasent to read and to have.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $73.83 Customer Review: The content of Roark's Formulas is very handy for a desk reference type book and is referred to in many other works like Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers and Design of Weldments and Design of Welded Structures by Omer Blodgett. My copy of the 7th edition looks like the pages... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		Introduction to the Thermodynamics of Materials from Taylor & Francis Price: $46.93 Customer Review: This book is just plain awful. How can a book that's been through 5 editions and 30+ years be this bad? Typographical errors are rampant, in the text, the equations, and even a few figures. The notation is inconsistent both across and within chapters. This could all be dismissed as a superficial... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		Applied Statics and Strength of Materials (4th Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $37.06 Customer Review: Ordering from Amazon saved me money from having to buy it from the school's bookstore. I find this text book easy to understand and very helpful.	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		Advanced Mechanics of Materials from Wiley Price: $78.88 Customer Review: I find this book very clear and yet it has several topics. But the site where the solutions are supposed to be are rather confusing, and, for some unknown reason, only teachers have access to the answer key. I think a graduation student should be given the right to check his answer, since he is not... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		Materials Selection in Mechanical Design from Butterworth-Heinemann Price: $203.65 Customer Review: The product was as stated no surprised arrived in good time, and in good order	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		Materials and Design, Second Edition: The Art and Science of Material Selection in Product Design from Butterworth-Heinemann Price: $27.71 Customer Review: i'm not a big fan of this book. I come from an engineering background, and am studying industrial design for my Masters.. so maybe some of my dislike for the book is coming from my dislike of this particular class, but I am trying to be objective! --what I don't like: There's "further... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		Statics and Strength of Materials from Prentice Hall College Div Price: $70.00 Customer Review: Great condition product. The seller communicated well with me. (Off record) The wierdest thing about me wrting this review was that ,inutes before i was actually thinking about writing a review about this book- the AMAZONl ink came up asking me to write one! it's like the internet KNOWS lol.	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		Wills' Mineral Processing Technology, Seventh Edition: An Introduction to the Practical Aspects of Ore Treatment and Mineral Recovery from Butterworth-Heinemann Price: $37.88 Customer Review: Updated by Tim Napier-Munn and a few of his mates from JK Tech, this is a standard bread and butter volume for anyone in the minerals processing area.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


10.		Foundations of Materials Science and Engineering from McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Price: $9.99 Customer Review: Generally clear explanations, but errors given in some of the examples made times extremely frustrating. Errata on companion website is no help either.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		Schaum's Outline of Strength of Materials 4th Edition from McGraw-Hill Price: $10.50 Customer Review: I have always used Schaum's Outlines for classes and this one is working great. It is very helpful with useful examples and solved problems.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		Schaum's Outline of Statics and Strength of Materials (Schaum's) from McGraw-Hill Price: $11.99 Customer Review: Book is in good condition. Seller responded promptly. Definately a good buy. Would buy from this seller again.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.		Engineering Materials: Properties and Selection (6th Edition) from Prentice Hall College Div Price: $48.57 Customer Review: This was the required reading for the Ball State University (ITMFG 262) and Purdue University equivilent (MET 141). The only reason I bought it was because I had too. Hopefully it will be a good resource in my future engineering career.	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


14.		Advanced Mechanics of Materials (2nd Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $88.32 Customer Review: I just got this book in the mail and am really disappointed in its quality. For $130 I was expecting a good quality binding and pages. I bought it new from amazon and I can barely open the pages because they are warped so badly. The binding is so fragile I am afraid all the pages will pop out of it... more info	Customer Rating: 2.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


15.		Schaum's Outline Of Statics and Mechanics of Materials from McGraw-Hill Price: $9.85 Customer Review: I used the Schaum's series for my engineering cources in the 1970's, which was extremely helpful in being proficient in the understanding and solving problems in statis and strength of materials. I re-purchased the series for my son, who is also majoring in mechanical engineereing. He, too, finds... more info	Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.		Mechanical Behavior of Materials from Cambridge University Press Price: $2.39	Click here for more information


17.		Ceramic Materials: Science and Engineering from Springer Price: $81.42 Customer Review: I took a ceramics class and found that the text we were using (fundamentals of ceramics, barrsoum) was missing a lot of processing and application info. This text covers every aspect of ceramic science and engineering you could think of and for the price its a must. The only thing that through... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


18.		Applied Strength of Materials (4th Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $94.50 Customer Review: The book I received was in perfect condition and it arrived fast before the semester started. I will definately be doing business here in the future.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


19.		Mechanical Metallurgy from McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Price: $208.71 Customer Review: This book contains tons of useful information on almost everything regarding mechanical properties of materials. It isn't overly dense with formulas and derivations, nor is it overly simplified. The explanations are extremely well-written and the book is well-organized; clearly separating theory... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


20.		Engineering Materials Volume 2, Second Edition: An Introduction to Microstructures, Processing and Design (International Series on Materials Science and Technology) from Butterworth-Heinemann Price: $49.00 Customer Review: By order, I received a wrong book. But I got full refund of my book and all my emails were responded in a really short period of time. If I get a chance, I will do business again with this service provider in future. The refund of the book was made in less than 72 hours after they received back the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


21.	[no image]	Corrosion Engineering from McGraw-Hill Book Company Customer Review: This book is required by Texas A&M for MEEN 460 (Corrosion Engineering). I suggest buying a new book. Excellent book explaining all the intimate details concerning all forms of corrosion.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


22.		Thin Film Materials: Stress, Defect Formation and Surface Evolution from Cambridge University Press Customer Review: I like this book for it is a rather comprehensive treatment of the subject, and is written in a clear prose. However, one should realize that the focus is solely on the mechanical behavior of thin films, which could be attributed to the authors background and research interests. Virtually, all... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


23.		Ceramic Processing and Sintering (Materials Engineering) from CRC Press Price: $109.56 Customer Review: it's the book I needed for my class. Took over a month to get in though. Amazon pushed the delivery date back two weeks on the week it was supposed to arrive. Other than shipping it was fine.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


24.		Welding Metallurgy from Wiley-Interscience Price: $131.89 Customer Review: The item was as expected. The delivery was delayed due to bad weather but I have receive all the information to track my item	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


25.		Applied Strength of Materials (4th Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $94.50 Customer Review: The book I received was in perfect condition and it arrived fast before the semester started. I will definately be doing business here in the future.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


26.		Understanding Materials Science: History, Properties, Applications, Second Edition from Springer Price: $21.67 Customer Review: The text shows an excelent review of materials science fundaments and their relationship with history and current applications including conventional and new materials used in modern applications such as electronic and medicine. Problems with answers are also included. It is hard to find similar... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


27.		Anchorage in Concrete Construction from Wiley-VCH Price: $105.58 Customer Review: The concepts and ideas in this book are covered very well. Where other references and text books only scratch the surface and do not give engineers guidance in more challenging applications, this book helps tremendously. This book will also help engineers undertand the mechanisms and... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


28.		Construction Principles, Materials, and Methods from Wiley Price: $82.19 Customer Review: this book was in the cslb suggested study materials for the contractor exam. understand and be understood by subs; impress customers. expensive and worth it.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


29.		Electronic Properties of Materials from Springer Price: $56.98 Customer Review: Came super fast in the mail. Clean and good quality. Exactly what I expected. Thank you!	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


30.		Thermodynamics in Materials Science, Second Edition from CRC Press Price: $70.04 Customer Review: it looks new. However, this is first edit which has different parts with the second edit. But, totally speaking, it is worth such price.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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