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I've had better
This book is kind of vague, especially the questions.The information is good and the cd is helpful sometimes. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Chemistry - General    2. Engineering - General    3. Material Science    4. Materials    5. Materials Science (General)    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Technology    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Materials science    10. Technology / Material Science   

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Seems okay, presentation was clear and logical
Was able to understand the examples and the illistrations were clear. Material
Okay, but not great
Not a bad text.It is well-written and clear, but lacks depth.Slightly oversimplified.There is not a sufficient variety of problems.I taught from this text and found that I had to supplement it with my owninformation. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Dynamics    2. Engineering - Mechanical    3. Material Science    4. Mechanics, Applied    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Statics    7. Technology    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Mechanical engineering    10. Technology / Engineering / Mechanical   

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Hard to read but book compiled with great care and detail
I must agree, it is probabily not the easiest book, you can pick up and read. It is voluminous, information is very dry, might be difficult to 'make notes' from this book. It may not be structured the way, you might normally find in most of the textbook. But having said that the information is compiled with great care and extraordinary detail. It contains the cutting edge information you can find out about biomaterials. For example, each section made up of 10-15 pages is purely written straight out of the latest journal articles.
Biomedical Engineering Student
...I was not impressed with the content of this book because of mistakes made in the data it reported ie. that polymers can't form crystalline structures. I also found that the equations presented in the text did not have detailed information and at times the explaination of how to use the equations were slight. Fabulous book for beginners and advanced students
This is a well written book with something for just about everyone. There are parts geared directly to engineers, but issues like foreign body response are dealt with rigorously enough for the best bio geek. All classes of implantable devices are covered with a healthy dose of historyto boot! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biocompatible Materials    2. Biomedical materials    3. Biotechnology    4. Engineering - General    5. Family & General Practice    6. Material Science    7. Medical / Nursing    8. Science    9. Science/Mathematics    10. Technology & Industrial Arts    11. Materials science    12. Medical equipment & techniques    13. Science / Biotechnology   

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Fabulous book
One could read all day out of a book and still not be able to visualize how to identify different fabrics.Texture is so much more important.I don't sew but I do buy vintage clothes for my prop company.This book was very helpful.The only thing I think would be better if all the fabrics except the tweeds, etc. were the same color.

all about silk
I bought this book in 1993 because i needed to familiarize myself with the silk fabric.i also bought many other books on the subject.today i was browsing through my bookself and came across my copy of all about silk and i am still amazed by its content.i will now order the other two books which have since been available.

An incredible book
This is an absolutely indispensible book for costume designers andseamstresses alike.It has an incredibly easy format to read loaded withpertinent information about the fabrics as well as the actual fabricsamples.I am studying to become a costume designer and realized that myfabric vocabulary was very limited. I was overjoyed to find this book andam loving it. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Art / Design / Textile & Costume    2. Beauty & Grooming - Apparel Guides    3. Reference    4. Clothing Design    5. Design - Textile & Costume    6. Sewing    7. Textile fabrics    8. Wool    9. Wool fabrics   

Subjects:  1. Advanced    2. Analytic Mechanics (Mathematical Aspects)    3. Engineering - Mechanical    4. Fluid Mechanics    5. General    6. Material Science    7. Mathematics    8. Mechanics - General    9. Science/Mathematics    10. Technology & Industrial Arts    11. Flow, turbulence, rheology    12. Technology / Engineering / Mechanical   

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Inaccessible
Denn's text is much shorter than most introductions to fluid mechanics,but he seems to have left out all of the material that would make the topicinteresting and accessible to the novice.The topics are well-ordered andhave a logical progression, but almost all of the explanatory matter ismissing.It is extremely difficult to get a conceptual understanding offluid dynamics by looking at page after page of variable manipulation.Inaddition, the index is so incomplete as to be useless; most of the termsone would look up are not listed, or point only to the page where it wascursorily defined. Pedagogically logical;ordered progression of concepts
Denn's book is an excellent introductory text for chemical engineering fluid mechanics.The book starts off with the basics of dim-analysis and proceeds into macro and then micro problems.This is a very logicalordering and allows the student to see the subject from a broaderperspective instead of getting bogged down in the systematics of theproblems themselves.A careful reading is definitely needed to get themost out of the book, though.And the section on turbulence is a bitunclear.Overall, though, a good book to keep for many years to come as achem eng.

Adequate coverage of chemical engineering fluid mechanics
"Process Fluid Mechanics" is a very satisfactory introductory text on chemical engineering fluid mechanics. Denn shows the basics of fluid mechanics in a concise, mathematical, and theoretical manner. A must-have for any beginning chemcical engineering fluid mechanics class. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Chemical & Biochemical    2. Material Science    3. Science/Mathematics    4. Technology    5. Technology & Industrial Arts    6. Mechanics of fluids    7. Technology / Engineering / Chemical & Biochemical   

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - Cultural    2. Archaeology / Anthropology    3. Material Science    4. Science/Mathematics    5. Technology    6. Popular culture    7. Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural   

Subjects:  1. Earth Sciences - Hydrology    2. Material Science    3. Science    4. Science/Mathematics    5. Technology & Industrial Arts    6. Technology / Material Science   

Subjects:  1. Chemical bonds    2. Chemistry - Inorganic    3. Chemistry - Physical & Theoretical    4. Crystallography    5. Crystals    6. Engineering - General    7. Science    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Structure    10. Condensed matter physics (liquids & solids)    11. Crystals--Structure    12. Inorganic chemistry    13. Materials science    14. Science / Chemistry / Inorganic    15. Solid state chemistry   

Subjects:  1. Material Science    2. Mechanical Properties Of Materials    3. Science/Mathematics    4. Technology    5. Technology & Industrial Arts    6. Materials science    7. Technology / Material Science   

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Tungstenopliles, look no further
After groveling and scraping for every little tungsten factoid I could find, this book was more welcome than a healed disciple at an evangelical fund raiser. What EXACTLY is ferrotungsten? Got it (including some typicalchemistries). Lightbulb filaments? Finally a full story.>>Basicallyone heck of a lot of info on my favorite element.<< Omissions?Tungsten in fluorescent lamps is barely mentioned. Radiation shieldingdetails not found. Direct carburizing recipies mentioned but details leftto REFERENCES.Thank you, thank you for the references! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Chemistry - Inorganic    2. Inorganic Chemistry    3. Material Science    4. Science    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Technology & Industrial Arts    7. Tungsten    8. Science / Chemistry / Inorganic   

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Complete,compresive and very much tecnical
This is a good book.it's a clear and compresive book,which haveall topics about the plastics failure and explain about materials factors,selection of materials,design,processing until the quality control and legals aspects of failure.The languaje used is very tecnical. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Fracture    2. Fracture Mechanics    3. Material Science    4. Plastics    5. Polymeric Materials    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Strength Of Materials    8. Technology    9. Technology & Industrial Arts    10. Textiles & Polymers   

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Awsome book for Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Analysis
This book covers almost all aspects of the subject and the CD attached covers the recent development in the field.
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Subjects:  1. Electron Microscopes & Microscopy    2. Electron Microscopy    3. Electron Microscopy In Biology    4. Engineering - Electrical & Electronic    5. Microscopes & Microscopy    6. Research & Methodology    7. Scanning electron microscopy    8. Science    9. Science/Mathematics    10. X-ray microanalysis    11. Materials science    12. Microscopy    13. Technology / Material Science   

Subjects:  1. Chemistry - Physical & Theoretical    2. Engineering - General    3. Material Science    4. Nanoparticles    5. Nanostructured materials    6. Nanotechnology    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Technology    9. Technology & Industrial Arts    10. Chemistry    11. Science / Chemistry / General   

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Difficult to follow and riddled with errors
This book suffers from several major deficiencies. First, it is inherently difficult to follow. The format is designed in such a way that you have to constantly refer back and forth between pages to get all the information you need for an example or derivation. The other thing is the examples are not clear. You find yourself solving the example again because the method isn't clear. In this way, I find the book extremely frustrating. Even after the problems with the contents, the book has errors. Lots and lots of errors. Just look on the inside front cover. "Principal Elastiac Equations"? I checked the dictionary, and I don't know what elastiac is. Or Ch. 12: "Yield and Fructure Criteria"? Is that a new term for the fracture of fructose? Finding all the errors is kind of fun, so if you're into that, get this book. Otherwise, look elsewhere.

Badly needs updating, editing, simplifying
This book makes a difficult subject even more difficult. While the definitions and general information are good enough, the derivations seem to be very complicated, esoteric, and confusing.This may be appropriate for graduate level (although many of these techniques are obsolete in view of FE analysis) but this book bills itself, and is used mainly for undergraduate deformable mechanics classes. There seem to be a number of mistakes in the book as well.Professors should probably not use this book for an undergraduate level course--find something newer.Undergrads will probably need to get some sort of supplementary outline material that will simplify things.

Riddled with typos
The good: This is a comprehensive book. The bad: It has tons of mistakes. There are typos galore. The most egregious one occurs in the chapter entitled "Yield and Fructure Criteria." That's right, "Fructure." Pray tell, what exactly is "Fructure"? That's what's printed in big letters. The proofreading is very, very, very sloppy. Maybe these mistakes are more a function of editing deadlines rather than with Popov himself, but that doesn't mean that this isn't a bad volume that you shouldn't waste your money on. I used this book as a text and was very disappointed. Save your money and buy Beer and Johnston or Craig instead. Or even Popov's earlier work, Mechanics of Materials, which I liked a lot. Engineering Mechanics of Solids is just horrible in its mistakes. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Mechanical    2. Material Science    3. Mechanics - General    4. Science/Mathematics    5. Strength Of Materials    6. Technology    7. Technology & Industrial Arts    8. Mechanics of solids    9. Technology / Material Science   

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The Only Book Available on the Subject
The advent of fire arms spelt the end of the armored knight of old. Until very recently the soldier on the battlefield had no protection from being shot. The problem is that the only materials that would offer suitable protection was steel, and steel is so heavy that it is impractical to protect more than a small part of the body. Usually only the head was protected using helmets that offered some protection from the fragments of shrapnel of grenades and exploding artillery.
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Subjects:  1. Forensic Science    2. Legal Reference / Law Profession    3. Material Science    4. Military Science    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Technology    7. Technology & Industrial Arts    8. Technology / Material Science   

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Top of the class
This 4-volume set of paperback books provides a thorough and readable introduction to the science and practice of TEM (transmission electron microscopy).The text is divided into short, digestable sections, each accompanied by figures, graphs and plots.The equations are numerous, but well explained and presented with minimal derivations but full explanations.The books are divided into concise sections making it easy for the reader to find what he/she needs.Overall, a perfect textbook to learn about TEM, and as a reference for those more experienced in this field.

Seems like the best TEM book
Good for both beginners and advanced users. Easy to read and well organized. It looks like there are some mistakes in some equations but it is the best TEM book available.

Not worth the money.
The Williams and Carter book is considered the "standard" in introductory TEM but that does not mean the book is any good.In fact, the writing and explanation is so disjointed in some chapters that our own instructor told us to skip those sections.There are also numerous incorrect figures that will really throw a curve to someone learning TEM for the first time.Buy the book if absolutely necessary but first go to the library and find one of the older texts from 30-50 years ago where they take the time to explain things correctly. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Electron Microscopes & Microscopy    2. Engineering - General    3. Material Science    4. Materials    5. Microscopy    6. Science    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Technology    9. Transmission electron microsco    10. Transmission electron microscopy    11. Biology, Life Sciences    12. Technology / Material Science   

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A Mecahnical Designers Dream
This is an absolute must for anyone working in the UHV field. Why remake the wheel when so many of our past engineers have proven the concepts. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Mechanical    2. General    3. Material Science    4. Science    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Sealing (Technology)    7. Technology    8. Vacuum Technology    9. Applied physics & special topics    10. Mechanical engineering    11. Technology / Material Science   

Subjects:  1. Design and construction    2. Engineering - Mechanical    3. General    4. Maintenance and repair    5. Manufacturing    6. Material Science    7. Pipelines    8. Piping    9. Science/Mathematics    10. Technology    11. Technology & Industrial Arts    12. Materials science    13. Technology / Engineering / Civil   

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Chemical & Biochemical    2. Life Sciences - Biology - General    3. Life Sciences - Biology - Microbiology    4. Material Science    5. Physics    6. Science    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Materials science    10. Technology / Engineering / Chemical & Biochemical    11. biodeterioration    12. materials protection    13. microbial degradation    14. microbicides