Machinery's Handbook Guide 27th Edition (Machinery's Handbook Guide to the Use of Tables and Formulas)

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Illustrates through hundreds of examples, solutions, and questions how to take full advantage of the Handbook to solve the types of problems typically encountered in drafting rooms, machine shops and on the factory floor.
Allows you to quickly become more thoroughly familiar with the vast range of contents found in the Handbook.
By practicing the many practical techniques explained in this Guide, you will be able to obtain the solution or information needed to resolve on-the-job problems.

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Machinery's Handbook Guide to the use of tables and formulas.......1999-02-21

Hardcover -224 pages 25th print edition

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Henry and Mudge's Review
Henry and Mudge's Review
Wonderful easy reader -parents will enjoy it, too.
Summer adventures with H&M!
My favorite of them all...so far

Henry And Mudge In The Green Time
Cynthia Rylant
Manufacturer: Aladdin
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ASIN: 0689810016

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Henry and his 180-pound dog Mudge are best friends forever. And in this third book of their adventures, they share summertime fun!

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Henry and Mudge's Review.......2007-03-30

I think this is a very good book because it describes the fun-filled adventures Henry and Mudge have in full detail. What I mostly liked about the book was the vocabulary the author uses. The author uses simple words that everyone can understand so that people of all ages can join in on Henry and Mudge's good times.

Henry and Mudge's Review.......2007-03-30

Wonderful easy reader -parents will enjoy it, too........2001-06-28

Henry and Mudge books are some of the best books available to beginning readers, and parents would be hard-pressed not to enjoy them as well. While a few of the books in the series show Henry's idyllically happy parents in a way that might make children from less traditional families sad or "homesick" for that situation, this particular book is purely about a little boy, his big dog, their imaginations, and being a kid in the summer. Cynthia Rylant's writing is fun yet poetic, and Sucie Stevenson's illustrations are charming as always.

Summer adventures with H&M!.......2001-04-05

Henry and Mudge are the best of friends. It doesn't matter at all that one of them walks on four legs and drools a lot!!

In this third book in the H&M series, summertime has arrived with adventures galore for boy & dog. Divided into chapters, each functioning as a mini story but related to each other, Henry and his 180-pound dog Mudge explore the wide, green world of summer. In one of the most notable chapters, a bee stings Henry, and boy does it HURT!! Fortunately, good ol' Mudge is there to make Henry feel better (a good face-licking by Mudge helps Henry forget his pain at being stung-Mudge likes the salty taste of tears).

As a teacher I love the H&M series because the illustrations are always bright, vibrant and immediately draw my students into the story. I also love the short, easy sentences, which are perfect for beginning-to-intermediate readers who feel that they're ready to tackle chapter books. As a parent, I love the way that this series is about the small adventures in life that are right on the level of the reader. Nothing blows up, aliens don't invade the countryside sucking out peoples' innards, and the world isn't narrowly saved from oblivion. Mudge is a wonderfully realistic dog that is completely devoted to Henry, like most real dogs are devoted to the children they live with.

As of this writing, there are some 20 H&M books, each a small treasure and each a wonderful read. Though they're numbered, it's not at all necessary to begin with #1 and progress up to #20; readers can grab whichever title catches their whim and follow along with the adventures. I myself have read them all and am not so patiently waiting for the next ones to come out. Each book comes highly recommended.

My favorite of them all...so far.......1999-07-30

My 4-year-old son, Frank, has 16 of the 18 (?) books that are available in this collection, and although all of them come hightly recommended, I believe Green Time to be the best. This book highlights all that is good about a boy and his dog. Rylant never personifies Mudge too much but depicts their relationship beutifully. When my son read about Mudge getting a bath, he giggled as each part was washed. But the biggest surprise was watching his sheer delight as Mudge shook from head-to-toe. He understands that Henry would cry when he gets stung by a bee, and he laughed when Mudge eats popcorn. These books are simple and kind, and I hope there are more.

The Story of Two Souls: The Correspondence of Jacques Maritain and Julien Green

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The Story of Two Souls: The Correspondence of Jacques Maritain and Julien Green

Manufacturer: Fordham University Press
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Green Man, Earth Angel: The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the Soul of the World (Suny Series in Western Esoteric Traditions)

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Grab a highlighter & some paper & a pen
Beautiful!
Do your Self a favor and read this book!!!

Green Man, Earth Angel: The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the Soul of the World (Suny Series in Western Esoteric Traditions)
Tom Cheetham
Manufacturer: State University of New York Press
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ASIN: 0791462706

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Argues for a renewed vision of the cosmos based on the centrality of the human encounter with the sacred.

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Grab a highlighter & some paper & a pen.......2007-02-01

This book of Cheetham's is another success! It is one not to be rushed through, I find myself wanting to jot down many notes & highlight almost everything. Get the book, lock yourself at home for a weekend & emerse yourself in it...you won't be sorry.

Beautiful!.......2006-02-21

The works of Tom Cheetham are as world-changing as they are needed. In his first book, "The World Turned Inside Out", he provides the reader with an introductory text to the works of Henry Corbin. In this book - Green Man, Earth Angel- he "explores the central role of imagination for understanding the place of humans in the cosmos". He embarks on these explorations by examining the role of language, the problems of scientific rationalism and through an examination of the worldview of the Abrahamic faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
As Dr. Robert Sardello in the foreword says:
"This book requires slow reading, for as you read these living words you are undergoing a transformation. At the end of this reading, the world will not be the same".

Do your Self a favor and read this book!!!.......2006-01-03

YEAH!!!Another book from Tom Cheetham that speaks to the Soul...Clarity...well Re-Searched...WE LOVE IT!!!

Loving; Living; Party Going (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

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Green tackles the big subjects
Cliche-driven doggerel! Yuck!
Loving, Living, and Party Going
A Writer's Writer's Writer
Limpid, fluid and porous as water; soars like a bird.

Loving; Living; Party Going (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Henry Green
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
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ASIN: 0140186913

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Green tackles the big subjects.......2003-06-13

Have you ever sat and thought, man, I wish someone would write a book about living? And possibly loving? Well, Henry Green has gone out and done just that. I had never thought that a book about going to parties might be necessary, but after reading it I think that Mr. Green has indeed performed a valuable service. This wonderful collection of novels is, quite frankly, a comprehensive exploration, and no new books need be written on any of these subjects.

In any case, the writing made my jaw drop in spots, it was so good, and Green way of looking at things is funny and humane while being mercilessly clear-eyed. The only reason I think they've stopped teaching his books in colleges is because they don't have the sort of things one can write papers about: complicated networks of imagery and whatnot that can be dug out of the text and have a title slapped on them. Green's book are too alive to have anything particularly systematic going on in them, while retaining the structure and unity of true works of art. Amazing books, go out and read them.

Cliche-driven doggerel! Yuck!.......2003-02-13

I only read "Loving," but let me tell you, that book is the worst. Every fundamental rule of writing is broken is this "book." Yuck! I mean, the last line of the book is really "and they lived happily ever after." Puh-leeze!

Loving, Living, and Party Going.......2002-12-07

Three satirical novellas about three different classes of British citizens.

'Loving' is a comical look at British servants. The setting is Ireland during the 2nd World War. The dialogue is typical of the class of people being profiled and is mildly funny. The servants steal, gossip, and con each other as they struggle with their future and fret over the potential Nazi threat to Ireland.

'Living' is set in Birmingham and features charcaters who work in a factory. Younger workers and upcoming managers clash against older workers and management. Even though it was not as funny as the other two 'Living was was my personal favorite beacuse the characters were easier to relate to.

'Party Going' is a tongue in cheek satire of the rich and spoiled as they are stranded at a train station waiting to begin a holiday in Paris.

A constant theme in all three novellas is the uneasiness of all the characters over what they perceive as a changing world.

A Writer's Writer's Writer.......2002-04-03

If John Updike is a writer's writer, Henry Green is a writer's writer's writer! This volume is an excellent introduction to this little known, fascinating, 20th century British writer.

"Loving" reminds one of "Remains of the Day" but even though it was written decades earlier is richer in theme (notice the peacocks in the book).

"Living" is my favorite of Green's novels, a lovely evocation of working class life that contains some of the most beautiful prose of the 20th century (stylisticly, Green eschews the use of articles, and this gives his prose an other-worldly poetic quality).

"Party Going" is at once more existential and more funny... upper class silly young things (kindred spirits of Bertie Wooster) are caught in an Ionesco-esqe fog that traps them in a train station (notice the pigeons in the book).

If you love Green as much as I did after finishing this volume, you'll quickly seek out his other 6 books.

Limpid, fluid and porous as water; soars like a bird........2001-10-26

Written at the end of the Second World War, sandwiched between 'Once upon a day' and 'they lived happily ever after', a death and a marriage, 'Loving' is a fairy tale of the rarest enchantment. While war and social disruption echo from the 'real' world, 'Loving' offers us a sprawling castle from which we never leave, crowded with brilliant peacocks, doves making love on a huge dovecote replica of Pisa's Leaning Tower, and the most elaborately absurd decor in fiction. Within this rarefied, hermetic milieu, broadly familiar from the novels of Elizabeth Bowen and Evelyn Waugh, unravels a tale of a declining aristocracy (the cuckolded man of the house is at war) and cast of bickering, spying, scheming, anxious, unsettled servants, with the focus, unusually, on the latter, especially Raunce the new butler, and Edith, the beautiful, lively maid, two of the richest characters in fiction, not because they're particularly extraordinary, but because Green, in fleet, tightly packed comic-romantic-ironic-prismatic prose, remains alert and faithful to their every mood, whim, desire and fear, creating a genuine, joyful, life-like unexpectedness, and, in the combination of unreal surroundings and emotional realism, rapture after rapture of epiphany, such as the distant sight of two girls waltzing to a worn phonograph, endlessly reflected in the glass of a chandelier. It is one of my favourite books.

'Living' is an astonishing achievement by any standards, never mind those of a 24-year-old, and one that suggests that Green's peers are not his schoolfriends Waugh or Anthony Powell, but prose-poets like Virginia Woolf or Samuel Beckett who try to capture the quicksilver complexity of human behaviour. Like 'Loving', 'Living' is a story of the working class, here labourers in an iron foundary in Birmingham, and their wives, daughters and children, with their 'superiors' again playing a subordinate, even ridiculous role. The novel's style is at first daunting, spliced into cross-cutting vignettes, and written in a language that approximates a proletarian idiom. This could have been embarrassingly patronising, a la Galsworthy or Arnold Bennett, but actually facilitates an elastic language full of pure, pregnant poetry. The sharp cross-cutting highlights the novel's many divisions - boss-worker, man-woman, young-old, community-individual etc. - but also connects them in unexpected ways. The title is typically multi-layered - meaning the work people have to do; the way it defines their lives; the struggles of people to better their lives, or simply to live well in an atmosphere of mechanical routine; the idea of class or work as a living in the religious sense, as a vocation you can't avoid. Rigid livelihoods and iron works, a world where the public and private are virtually indistinct, paradoxically produce metaphors emphasising flight, water and fluidity.

The focus of these two novels is reversed in 'Party Going', with its cast of brittle Bright Young Things going on holiday to the Riviera. In a startling narrative conceit predating by two decades Bunuel's similar film 'The Exterminating Angel', the entire novel takes place during four hours in a London railway station, as the passengers are stranded by a heavy fog. Wrenched out of a glittering social context, the party-goers' superficial personalities are exposed, their petty selfishness barely masking fears (identity, sexual, social, gender, age, the future etc.) and resentments. As their tempers fray in the railway hotel, the suburban crowd below sing and laugh and grow increasingly irked outside, a terrible mass embodying various hysterical anxieties for the socialites when they can be bothered to notice them. As this structural image suggests, 'Party Going' can be read as a 'State of the nation' allegory, written between 1931 and 1938, and oppressively articulating the general deterioration of a decade Auden called 'low, dishonest' - it is irresistable to see it portending the coming war and social upheaval. The novel begins with a character finding a dead bird, and besides the fog-dark plot inertia that stills the novel, 'Party Going' is suffused with thoughts and images of sickness and death, its minimum narrative unfolding in interminable, sterile tableaux. If this makes it sound like a downer party, I must add that it is Green's funniest novel, with situations and dialogue as laugh-out-loud funny as Waugh, but with the added, mercurial Green poetry (water and birds again) and descriptive geometry, lending dignity and depth to non-entities who don't seem to deserve it.

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Judith Green argues that although Henry's primary concern was defence of his inheritance, it did not preclude expansion where circumstances were propitious, notably into Welsh territory. His skillful dealings with the Scots permitted consolidation of Norman rule in the northern counties of England, while in Normandy every sinew was strained to defend frontiers through political alliances and stone castles. Green claims that although Henry's own outlook was essentially traditional, the legacy of this fascinating but repellent personality included some hugely significant developments in governance.

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A Small Cabin That One Person Can Build
Aristotle Locke Rousseau Hume Madison a.k.a. Al Madison
Manufacturer: BookSurge Publishing
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ASIN: 1419615939
Release Date: 2006-01-10

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As reviewed by Kirkus Discoveries: "Step-by-step instructions on how to build a home in an economical and artistically unique way. Owning a home doesn't have to be a trying ordeal, says Madison, who reports that he built his own house with little more than his own muscle power and ingenuity. Though he claims not to be particularly handy, he managed to create a fully functional cabin complete with electricity, running water and Internet access as part of a journey that was both fulfilling and therapeutic. He takes readers through the process, from cutting down trees and laying the foundation for the floor to installing piping and electricity to detailing plans to build additional modules. Pictures and diagrams complement the text, and the author even discusses his future plans to fully automate the cabin. In addition to the down-and-dirty details, he uses quotes from a number of philosophers-Aristotle, Locke, Rousseau and others-to help explain his motivation. It was as much about testing his own abilities as it was about creating a physical shelter. One one level, this is a practical guide that contains pertinent information for people who actually want to build their own cabin. On another, it's a fascinating look inside the mind of a man who chose to go against the grain and who writes with such folksy charm and comical practicality that you can't help but applaud him for bucking the system. Those not interested in building their own homes will be bored senseless by the technical details and some of the long-winded endnotes, but entertaining anecdotes-such as how the author munches on blackberries while simultaneously trimming his beard in his yard to lay down a barrier of human scent that deters snakes-keep the pages turning. In definite need of editorial direction but makes a case for the author-whatever his name is-getting his own home-improvement show." As reviewed by New York Times best selling author Ellen Tanner Marsh: "When Henry David Thoreau tired of the city in 1845, he retreated to the country, living on the shores of Walden Pond and chronicling his experiences in the timeless work Walden or Life in the Woods. Now, in an enchanting new book, A Small Cabin that One Person can Build, readers are presented with a sort of modern-day version of Thoreau's classic. Like Thoreau, author Aristotle Locke Rousseau Hume Madison (a.k.a. Al Madison) decided to retreat from his hectic life, and although he didn't have a place to live, he had some time and money and, more importantly, some land and trees. In this amazing little book, Madison (each of the illustrations names he uses provides a famous quote at the end of it) sets out to build a log cabin-and educate readers on how to do it themselves. In a friendly, approachable style, Madison shows readers exactly how he built his cabin using easy to follow step-by-step instructions, from insulation to wiring to putting on a porch. He lists exactly what tools you need and where to get them. Lest the thought of roughing it doesn't appeal to you, be assured that this cabin is no rustic refuge. Madison added all the modern comforts, including Internet service and a flush toilet. 'There are two characteristics to my building,' he writes 'It was built efficiently and it is a deliberate work of art.' Filled with wonderful photographs and a fine, wry wit, Madison's book is not just a how-to, it's a why-to. Because Madison didn't just build a cabin; he rebuilt himself. As he takes the time to point out, his labors made him healthier, stronger, and emotionally tougher, too. Readers can live vicariously through Madison in this wise and funny book, but truthfully, after reading it you'll want to build a cabin of your own. Luckily Madison is here to show you how."

Mary Wore Her Red Dress and Henry Wore His Green Sneakers

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Young children love this book!
My kids adore this book!
Amazingly Fun Book
This is the first book I ever learned to read
This is a classic book for colors!

Mary Wore Her Red Dress and Henry Wore His Green Sneakers
Merle Peek
Manufacturer: Clarion Books
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ASIN: 0899197019

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From Publishers Weekly Peek appends a note about his version of the Texas folk song, along with invitations for children to make up their own lines to sing when they master the easy musical arrangement appended. Starting with dandy black-and-white drawings of a woodland, Peek gradually builds up to full-color illustrations of a gala occasion. Flashes of red and green show up first when Mary Squirrel and Henry Raccoon meet on the way to Kate Bear's birthday party. The revelry at the gathering is heightened by Kate's yellow sweater, the blue, purple, orange, etc., in the guests' costumes. Standout details include the Bears' formal garden in bloom, status-symbol house furnishing (marble statues of twin bears flank the fireplace and support the mantel), imposing birthday cake et al. The towering confection is an uncommon treat; so is the book. Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Young children love this book!.......2007-07-06

This is such a great book. I've used it with many many preschoolers and children, and the remark I always get is "again, again"...

My kids adore this book!.......2006-02-25

The younger loves the beautiful pictures and singing along. The older loves looking for all the little details in the pictures. They both love substituting the names of the characters for their own friends' names! Both learned their colors through this book without realizing what they were actually doing. This is one book I don't mind reading over and over.

Amazingly Fun Book.......2003-02-09

I bought this book for my nephew and the entire family has enjoyed his singing the pages, he had it memorized in no time and he is only 2 years old!!! I would recommend this book to anyone with young children, not just for their enjoyment but for the entire family.

This is the first book I ever learned to read.......2002-09-01

I remember reading this book back in kindergarten and the first grade. It was the first book I ever learned to read. I loved this book so much that I read it until I had it memorized. It's too bad the original cover is not printed in this edition. I'm going to pass this one down to my cousin, Adam, whose only 4. Hopefully, we can continue the tradition so this will be his first book he ever learns to read.

This is a classic book for colors!.......2001-12-13

Merle Peek does an excellent job at getting kindergarteners to be actively involved in this book. I am currently majoring in Elementary Education and I did a bulletin board on this book and everyone loved it! My professor said this was a classic color book. The book is about Katy, it's her birthday and all her friends wear different color clothing to her party. From yellow sweater to green sneakers to pink hat, this book has all the basic colors. This was a song that was written into a book, so it's very rhythmic and is easy to follow. The song is on the back of the book, so all children can enjoy! I loved it and would recommend it to all beginning readers!! Try and read it, what do you got to lose?? I give this book five stars!!

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"Squaw before a teepee"?

Native Americans (TASCHEN Icons Series)
Malcom Green , Catherine Henry , and Edward Curtis
Manufacturer: Taschen
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15th Century Paintings (TASCHEN Icons Series)

ASIN: 3822813532

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The most important images from our photo series volume of Edward S. Curtis' work have been included in this wonderful new (and compact) homage to the great photographer.

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"Squaw before a teepee"?.......2007-03-02

Whenever I read something that labels our Native women as "squaws," I think whoever wrote it has "heap little brains".

Edward Curtis made many beautiful pictures of Natives. However, he was also the prototype of today's Photoshoppers, heavily staging and retouching his pictures of Natives. So while his pictures are often beautiful, they should not be taken as photojournalism or documentary. They should just be viewed for their artistic and technical value, I think.

But the "squaw" writing? It should have been left in the 19th century, not brought into the 21st.

Machinery's Handbook : A Reference Book for the Mechanical Engineer, Designer, Manufacturing Engineer, Draftsman, Toolmaker, and Machinist

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Forget the CD Rom, buy the book
Great for School and Work....
Plan Ahead
Maybe a "newer" version is better?
Tool for Mechanic's Toolbox or Engineer's Bookcase

Machinery's Handbook : A Reference Book for the Mechanical Engineer, Designer, Manufacturing Engineer, Draftsman, Toolmaker, and Machinist
Erik Oberg , Franklin Jones , Henry Ryffel , and Robert Green
Manufacturer: Industrial Press, Inc.
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ASIN: 0831125756

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The speeds and feeds section has been revised, updated, and greatly expanded to include new materials, more cutting tools, and tool life estimates.
The entire welding section has been completely rewritten to incorporate all the latest technologies.
The numerical control section has been expanded and rearranged to facilitate use.
Logarithm and trigonometry tables have been reinstated.
New to this edition are sections on bolt tightening torques, motion control systems, ISO 9000, lasers, dividing heads, bandsaws (including speeds and feeds), electrical discharge machining, retaining rings, machinability of wood, and collets.
All the useful and practical information on contemporary manufacturing processes and all the material on basic mathematics, mechanics, materials, measuring, tooling, machining, fasteners, threads, bearings, machine elements, and engineering standards have been reviewed and updated where necessary.

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Forget the CD Rom, buy the book.......2005-04-19

The book is great. The CD-Rom is an exercise in frustration. That you can only install it on a single computer is the first frustration. Then I tried to print a section for use in the shop. The pages that came out on the printer were not the pages that I requested (error between displayed and actual page numbers?). When I tried to print again, it said I had exceeded the printing limit.

Great for School and Work...........2004-01-11

I have been out of school now for 5+ years... I had to share only 3 Machinery's Handbooks with my class of 30 at LTI... Then when I got out on the job market, I found that most places will not supply you with one, and you almost always need one in the engineering feald, weather it is Mechanical or Arch... (I have worked with both!). So this November (2003), I saved up for one, since I am always borrowing one at work from coworkers... So now I have the newest one in our office at Firestone Industrial Products Co.. Makes me feel good that I have the most up to date one... And now everone is barrowing from me!

It is easy to find what you are looking for, and it is made to last! I have the hard cover 26th edition, and I LOVE it! It is a MUST for people planning on being an Engineer and or CAD Engineer. Since they don't have this built into any Drawing program as of yet. (i.e... CAD/Auto CAD)... Also good for Work or School! A Must! And Hint Hint, you can use it on your taxes as a School or Work Expense, So you get some money back on it! (About $25 back on taxes for it.) So well worth the money!

Plan Ahead.......2003-06-19

Everything mentioned in previous reviews is true. I would only add or suggest to buy the large print edition. You will likely keep this book a long long time and technical data, formulas, tables, etc. will not change, but your vision might.

Maybe a "newer" version is better?.......2003-04-13

OK, the promise is to cut text/pix from the CD and paste it into the word processor -- not nearly as effective as it sounds. The CD does NOT use an OLE based (cut/paste via windows) system. Rather it uses a "Dyna Text" browser software system. The charts/tables are secondary pop-ups -- and are in an essentially unreadable font (too light). The promised key word search is flakey. Hey, it's version 1.0 (copyright 1998)-- it's an OLD product!. IF you really want a CD version, check for a newer version -- MAYBE the newer version is "better", but this one doesn't measure up to the text version in utility or readability. There is a reason it goes for half list price on the used market.

Tool for Mechanic's Toolbox or Engineer's Bookcase.......2002-08-01

Excellent book. It presents American approach to writing technical literature in the best light: writing book to serve as tool in completely the same manner as the other tools serve - to help/enable you to do the job.
The contect, depth in covering different themes is obviously affected by real world's needs, years of practice that direct what you really need to know in depth and what to know generally to stay ahead of problems in common technical practice. Not the only one book mechanical person needs, but big favorite for the most preffered one.
One moment could be crutial in future: when publishers decide to completely include SI units simultaneously with Anglo-American units, as well as SI standards, worldwide audience could be extremely larger.

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