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The Works : Anatomy of a City
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Land Development Handbook (Handbook)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional |
| ISBN: 0071375252 List Price: $150.00 Amazon Price: $150.00 Usually ships in 24 hours |
Avg Cusomer Rating: 5 Reviews: Summary: very good all-around reference I primarily work as a structural-architectural engineer and am becoming more and more involved in civil-site work. This handbook is exactly what I was looking for in terms of something that would quickly get me "up to speed" in the fundamentals of civil-site design. Of course, no single book could (or should) be thought of as a substitute for the experience and mentoring received from seasoned professionals in a design office, but this one has enough technical explanation and details to get you going with confidence. I choose this one over the Colley book (reviewed both before making purchase) as Land Development Handbook has more of the technical info that engineers would seek. Summary: Difficult to follow! I am in a class at Community College of Baltimore County and we are using this book at this time. Our whole class along with the Professor find this book to be very difficult to follow. The book constantly repeats itself making it extremely boring to read and is not fluent at all. They have examples that reference charts that are 3-5 pages apart from the problem being discussed the formulas you almost have to figure out for yourself how they are used and there are alot of typos. I recomend burning this book!!!!!!! Summary: A Must Have Pub Ever since I purchased this publication I can't stop using it. Every civil engineer should have this as part of their reference library, regardless of your area of specialty. It provides macro to micro scale explanations of general processes, design applications, etc in a very readable format. More times than I can remember I have looked to this book for an answer or at least for some guidance and was throuroughly satisfied. No it is not a definitive reference for civil engineers but its' breadth and usability overshadows any technical shortcomings. If I had to have just one reference book for my area of practice (general civil), this would be it. Yeah, yeah, the "Standard Handbook for Civil Engineers" is a more definitive reference, but I usually find out what I need in this pub. ps - Almost everyone of my fellow employees that has used the book has purchased their own, find someone you know who has a copy and check it out for yourself. Summary: |
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Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Reuse
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math |
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Avg Cusomer Rating: 3 Reviews: Summary: Packed with Information, Riddled with Typos and Omissions I have been using this text in a wastewater engineering course. It covers the different aspects of wastewater engineering well, providing in depth treatments of each. However, the great size of this book (over 1800 pages) may also be its weakness, making it an unmanageable project for the editors. In one month of usage, I have found serious gaps in the problems. Many cross-references are incorrect, and there are some problems which omit values required for solution. In short, this is a good source of information. With closer editing, it could be better. Summary: Bible of Wastewater Engineering This is the bible of Wastewater Engineering. I'm currently a student studying Civil/Environmental Engineering and every professor I've talked to in my department has recommended this book for any type of Wastewater Treatment Plant design. If this book doesn't have the information you want (unlikely), the WEF MOP might. Summary: MUST HAVE FOR ALL SANITARY ENGINEERS I can't stress enough the value in this text. Like my title states this is a must have for all sanitary engineers. The book covers everything you must know concerning wastewater treatment written by professionals working in the field. I would hope some day that they publish a book on pump stations and sanitary sewer design as well. I think that they would also be on the top of the list for these areas as well. Summary: |
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Civil Engineering Reference Manual for the PE Exam, Ninth Edition
Publisher: Professional Publications (CA) |
| ISBN: 1888577959 List Price: $196.00 Amazon Price: $123.48 Usually ships in 24 hours |
Avg Cusomer Rating: 4 Reviews: Summary: Excellent resource, but be gentle I bought this book as my primary resource manual for the PE test. It contained pretty much everything that my texts had, but it took some time to learn how to navigate. If you buy this book, I have a few suggestions: Give yourself plenty of time to get familiar with it's contents and their locations. There is a lot of information, so you have to look pretty hard for some of it. Also, I used this book for about a month and a half, flipping pages, sticking pencils, stacks of papers and books inbetween the pages as I looked for info and as a result, the binding broke free towards the back, so use care with this book, it may not hold up to extensive abuse. Good luck (but not too much, I need to pass this damn thing!) Summary: PE BOOK THE BOOK IS GREAT AND IT WAS DELIVERED JUST AS PROMISED. THANKS AMAZON. Summary: Great for a starting point-get practice problems for Geotech I agree with other users on the great index and also explains clearly phase diagram and their formulas. As I and others can attest to, we have long needed a practice oriented book for the Geotech PM Depth. Improve your odds and get Geotechnical review book by soilstructure.com My copy is well worth the price. Summary: |
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Construction Funding: The Process of Real Estate Development, Appraisal, and Finance
Publisher: Wiley |
| ISBN: 0471394661 List Price: $90.00 Amazon Price: $82.11 Usually ships in 24 hours |
Avg Cusomer Rating: 5 Reviews: Summary: What a Phenomenal Job! I read construction funding, prematurely perhaps, as one of my first ever real estate books - and I loved it! The book takes the reader through several once-real-life scenarios and explains the construction process step by step. I think that both ambitious beginners and more seasoned loan officers and developers would benefit from reading this book. Summary: MBA student Very interesting book; very easy to read. As a small real estate investor I found it very helpful in understanding many of the ins and outs of real estate and financing, especially on the scale i would like to grow to. Summary: A first class book on Real Estate Development The third edition of Construction Funding by Nathan S. Collier et al is a remarkable demonstration of insight and expertise. Collier and colleagues provide an exceptionally lucid description and analysis of the process of real estate development that is accessible to non-experts while being authoritative at the same time. In addition to being an excellent text for students and others interested in careers in real estate development, this book serves as essential background for all those whose responsibilities include any part of the development process. Summary: |
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Energy Efficiency Manual: for everyone who uses energy, pays for utilities, designs and builds, is interested in energy conservation and the environment (Energy Efficiency Manual)
Publisher: Energy Institute Press |
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| ISBN: 0965792676 List Price: $199.95 Amazon Price: $199.95 Usually ships in 24 hours |
Avg Cusomer Rating: 5 Reviews: Summary: Useful and interesting - STRONGLY RECOMMENDED Despite the intimidating name and size of this tome, I found it fascinating to read. It covers everything from light bulb selection to rooftop chiller maintenance. The depth and breath of coverage is amazing. This is not a hippie guide to backwoods eco-conservation. It is a practical manual, firmly grounded in science and economics that explains different strategies for maximizing comfort while minimizing energy use. In every case, the author examines both the pros and cons of the measure, and calculates the expected payback term. It is so helpful to have a book that is realistic in its treatment of energy conservation. Lots of books outline promising energy saving techniques, none I've read before talk so frankly about the problems you will encounter when you implement them. Quite technical in many places, the text excels at explaining important concepts that are often ignored in other texts. I have a background in physics, but not until reading this book did I have a good grasp of the operation of absorption coolers or how the spectrum of a light bulb affects the visual comfort of the scene it illuminates. The concise overview of heat transfer mechanisms is more thorough than any thermodynamics textbook I've ever read. Most important of all is the practical advice that is clearly based on a huge body of real experience. As the book so frequently points out, energy saving measures are useless if they break or are defeated by building occupants. Hundreds of (non-obvious) examples of these failures are given, with pictures. This book would be great for anyone with responsibility for designing or maintaining buildings of any size. If you are hesitant to pay the high price, find it at a local library. I don't write many Amazon reviews, but after reading this book I felt compelled to strongly recommend it. Summary: Superlative! A must have! Superlative! The ENERGY EFFICIENCY MANUAL by Donald Wulfinghoff is a "must have" for professionals, libraries, facility managers, policy makers, homeowners, and anyone else who is serious about saving energy and cashing in on lower energy bills. It is the ultimate energy saving resource for businesses, industry, and government. PLUS, it will save money and reduce pollution, satisfying corporate bottom lines, policy makers, and environmentalists all at the same time. This book is unique. Highly informative, illustration-rich, and user-friendly, it is treasure trove of everything you need to know about energy efficiency from A to Z. Don't bother looking elsewhere -- the ENERGY EFFICIENCY MANUAL simply has it all. This book will pay for itself almost as fast as you can spot a hot air leak or install an energy-efficient light bulb! -- Amy Vickers Summary: A secret weapon for the energy auditor As an energy auditor I'd almost call the Energy Efficiency Manual a secret weapon, except it has so many good ideas that I can't help but show it to many of the customers and prospective customers I meet. The diagrams are very useful, as is the self contained but well cross-referenced way in which each improvement measure has been written. For example, talking to the maintenance manager of a hospital, we looked at the diagrams of hot/cold deck multi-zone systems while discussing the pros and cons of upgrading a constant volume air conditioning system to a variable volume system. It is by far the most useful book on energy management that I have ever read (well, in the case of the Energy Efficiency Manual, that I have partially read - its an enormously large book!), and the ratings of each of the measures are particularly useful, along with the practical, no-nonsense approach. The book is extremely well cross referenced and Wulfinghoff has covered an enormous body of knowledge in writing the book. As someone fairly new to the field I'm grateful that he went to the effort of documenting and making available his knowledge and 30 odd years experience in the Energy Efficiency Manual. Summary: |
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The Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean Production
Publisher: Harper Perennial |
| ISBN: 0060974176 List Price: $14.00 Amazon Price: $11.20 Usually ships in 24 hours |
Avg Cusomer Rating: 2 Reviews: Summary: Misleading and dated This is a fairly poorly researched book, despite the authors' credentials; their history of American automobiles is grossly inaccurate and only serves to reinforce incorrect stereotypes. They spend very little time actually describing lean production, preferring to talk about how every other company will go bankrupt because they don't have it. The misreading of the Volvo story is also rather galling, though to be fair, Volvo's team-based approach was already being dismantled (for non- by the time this book was written. This book is a product of the late 1980s, and should be regarded as a period piece rather than a serious academic work, though to be fair there are many lessons for manufacturers in it. Summary: Takes a licking - keeps on ticking For those of you long in the tooth you may recall John Cameron Swayze's love-in with Timex watches where in a 60 second commercial he would submit the watch to behemoth like torture, rodeo riding, outboard motors, and then hold the watch up and say, 'it takes a licking and keeps on ticking.' So the Toyota Production System (TPS) makes their now famous pilgrimage to the US Auto workers and are soundly - rejected. The important part of this is not so much that we refused to accept their business points and authorities but raher that they did it so well, and went back to doing it so well. The TPS includes paying by seniority, not position, no American type manager, group consultation sessions of representative workers to make important decisions, performance maintenance, 1/3rd the production defects and you could go on. We won't adapt that style of business because of the polarizartion of labor and management and a host of other reasons. However, it's a good lesson to read in other businesses where leaders may consider adopting some of the more successful portions of TPS. 5 stars. Larry Scantlebury Summary: A Milestone - a mile behind This book is certainly a kind of milestone in the auto literature history. Yet, for today's readers it is probably not the first choice to read. The huge impact the book had and its benefit is that it rightly lifts the Toyota production system (TSP) to the status of the Ford assembly line and other revolutionary inventions in production organisation. It declares TSP as the successor of Fordian mass production. There were books about the TPS before, notably the book of Taiichi Ohno in the mid-1980s, one of the principal creators of TSP, but the audience was not sure about its real significance. TSP came a long way from the 1950s and its development was evolutionary rather than instantaneous. Its deployment was painstaking and required a lot of Japanese perseverance. The Japanese deserve all the credit for pulling that through. With this book the MIT plays a kind of authority in the history of production technology and bestows TSP official recognition. For today, the book is still interesting to read from a historical perspective but if you want to get into the details of the history of TSP Fujiomoto's "Evolution of a Manufacturing System' is probably the best choice today. The problem with "the machine that changed the world" (besides its title) is that is to one-side and totally uncritical of the Japanese manufacturers. This was probably necessary to ring the alarm bells at the time but it was not justified. The decade following the publicaton of the book would show that the Toyota system involved certain risks and idiosyncracies of the Japanese market context. (It is interesting to note that only Cusamano, who worked on the product development part of the MIT project without being an author of the book, acknowledges the high risk of escalating design costs that would later push Nissan to the verge of bankruptcy). For Madzda and Mitsubishi TPS was very problematic as well. While the authors are totally concentrating on production systems, which is ok, it is not the single success factor in auto industry as the authors implicitly suggest. They almost treat cars as a commodity, exchangeable, only attributed by quality and certain design criteria. The ranking the book presents is based on production efficiency (first, Japanese, second come US firms, and the Europeans are the worst of the worst). Yet, it makes it very difficult to understand the sustained success of the French and German car industry. Admittingly, the UK industry went downhill, but at the same time Spain became one of the biggest auto production location in the world. What the authors (professors of production technology) neglect is that the European market and the Japanese market are very different from the US market. First, local markets have very different preferences. Auto companies in Europe, Japan and the US have a strong home market advantages by perceiving and responding to these home preferences much earlier. Second, local requirements are very different as Porter notices in his book about the competitive advantage of nations. For instance, German autobahns require top performance, high fuel prices in Europe make European cars more fuel efficent and so on. The real success of the Japanese in the US came when they started to develop cars solely for the US market needs which were then manufactured with the quality the TSP system achieves. As a result of the Japanese focus on the US market, they were never really successful in Europe, where performance, innovative technology and design ranks somehow relatively higher than in Japan and the US. Yet, Toyota's sustained global success indicates that they have created a marvellous production system that is worth studying. But it is not very easy to understand in all its parts, that is has not been until today fully adopted by companies outside Japan demonstrate its complexity or dependence on the Japanese market context Summary: |
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Continuum Mechanics for Engineers, Second Edition
Publisher: CRC Press |
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