Structural Engineering Handbook

Book Description

The only reference to all important structural engineering principles and design techniques, this best-selling, internationally renowned handbook is updated for current standard specifications and codes (including the 1994 AASHTO specifications) and the latest design developments. Contributions from structural engineers discuss a broad range of vital topics. Concise, practical and user-friendly, this one-of-a-kind resource gives you not only up-to-the-minute information on the planning, design, and construction of a variety of engineered structures, but also practical examples and detailed descriptions of design procedures.

Customer Reviews:

"The Book".......2006-11-02

The "Bible" for structural engineers for decades past and present. Updated and a "must have" for the structural design engineer. The place to start when a new problem is encountered.

Useful resource.......2004-03-17

It's a book with many useful information, tables and examples. A really valued reference.

Unit problem.......1999-07-18

This book is quite good but its usability is lost to a great extent because it is not written in Metric units. Also, chapters on computer application are not well written

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Excellent!
Great Book.
An ok beginner collector book
Asian shells
Very reliable handbook.

Shells (Smithsonian Handbooks)
S Dance
Manufacturer: DK ADULT
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0789489872

Customer Reviews:

Excellent!.......2007-06-27

Shells is an excellent reference book for the beginner or seasoned shell collecter. The color photos are excellent and the general maps are helpful.

Great Book........2007-01-09

i love shells, I love knowing as much as I can about them and this book is great. The pictures them selfs are well worth the money but then you get all the great info about shells, things i did not know and is hard to find. the book is very enjoyable and full to spend time in.s

An ok beginner collector book.......2006-08-07

All collectors become well aware of the two most famous shell book authors as they enter a journey into this hobby; R Tucker Abbott and Peter Dance. Dance has written this book as a general shell book of world wide shells, more to promote interest than being a particularly useful field identification guide. There are at last count, somewhere around 80,000 members of the mollusks; clearly any shell book has to take that into account and only the more popular species are going to be present.

What Dance has is some representaive members of the more popular species the casual collector is likely to find or purchase. While I like the clean photographs I find the ranges that are listed for the different species are a bit too general. But again, this is a book to get one started in the hobby.

While getting very long in the tooth, don't overlook Abbotts Golden Guide of seahells for the beginner. It is a surpringly good intro book as long as you don't take the relative abundance of species listed too seriously (In other words don't put a morgage down on a Glory-of-the-Seas you'll likely be making a poor investment!).

A much better general shell book once you've found you really can't id all your worldwide shells is the Abbott/Dance Compendium of Seashells. It helps ID well over 4,000 species. Otherwise use regional guides of which there are numerous examples such as Seashells of North America: A Guide to Field Identification (Abbott).

Asian shells.......2006-07-02

Don't buy this book (Smithsonian?--US?) unless you are interested in shells of SE Asia.

Very reliable handbook........2004-07-08

This handbook on shells is very reliable in the field or in a studio. Dozens of mollusks, crustaceans, and other exotic shell collectibles are listed here, turning out at more than two hundred species listings! However, most featured here are east coast species or found way out of the United States, which makes it not as reliable for an American beachcoming in Santa Barbara or Baja California. For those living out on the east coast or in the Caribbean, this is an excellent and very reliable resource. Also quite fun to read as a coffee table or easy chair book.
There is a catch however, as the book is bound in low quality paperback. May show wear more quickly than Audubon leatherback guides or Peterson solid lamination and paper. Best for a landlocked ocean lover wanting to take an extraordinary look at the seas marvels and shell collectibles at a nearby store.

Magic Lantern Guides: Canon Eos 3 (Magic Lantern Guides)

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Content. Worth it?
Good EOS-3 guide
How to understand EOS 3 and EOS SYSTEM.
Magic Lantern Guide's Canon EOS-3, Great for Beginners

Magic Lantern Guides: Canon Eos 3 (Magic Lantern Guides)
Bob Shell , and Artur Landt
Manufacturer: Sterling
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1883403596

Book Description

It's nearly professional in quality, with the most advanced features--and if you want to use one to its utmost, you'll have to go beyond what the regular instruction manual tells you! This top-of-the-line guide lays out everything there is to know about the new 45-point autofocus, the 21-zone evaluative metering, the eye-controlled focus, and 18 custom functions for expanded camera flexibility. And, of course all accessories are covered, including the sophisticated E-TTL flash exposure system.

Customer Reviews:

Content. Worth it?.......2004-01-25

This book is nothing more than the factory owner's manual with a bit more explination. This would be a great book to buy if you didn't have the original manual. It explains a few thing a little more clearly, but not much more for the money. It does also consist of an overview of Canon lens, but is not up to date.
Overall:
If you have the manual, don't buy this book.
If you don't, buy this book.

Good EOS-3 guide.......2002-03-29

Good complement to the sometimes ambiguous owner's manual: the different metering and autofocus systems are well explained, and allow you to learn how to get the best of this camera.

The worse part is, IMO, the flash operation: the book is really weak on this topic, and it disappointed me a lot.

How to understand EOS 3 and EOS SYSTEM........2001-09-24

I'm a CANON EOS user for almost one year and I've had: EOS 500 and A2. Now I have EOS 50e and 3. All cameras I've bought in the used market without owner's manual. The Magic Lantern Guides help me to understand all cameras I had. The authors of the books write beyond the camera. They write about Flashes, Lenses and History... I could quickly understand overall EOS SYSTEM and love it. ...

Magic Lantern Guide's Canon EOS-3, Great for Beginners.......2000-07-25

If you're familiar with the Magic Lantern Guides (MLG), you already know this book as they all follow a common pattern: the basics of photography intermingled with operational specifics about the camera.

Everything in Canon's EOS 3 manual is covered here, but in a more expository manner. Whereas the original manual lists features and how to turn them on and off, MLG tells you more of the how and why. Moreover, photos and diagrams are given to expand on important points.

Basic operational functions are covered first while advanced functions are introduced in a graded progression. Thus, you if need to get started fast, read the first few chapters and save the advanced features for a rainy day.

The final section of the book is a survey of selected Canon lenses. Again, they cover the basics--lens classifications & uses--while surveying the various models.

I have 2 negative points about this book: 1) Some of the images are second-rate stock photos; and 2) the text needs professional editing (wordy & grammatically incorrect at times).

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If you use UNIX, you probably use csh to type commands even if you've never heard of it. It's the standard shell (command line) on most UNIX systems. tcsh is an enhanced version that's freely available and highly recommended. Using csh & tcsh describes from the beginning how to use these shells interactively. More important, it shows how to get your work done faster with less typing. Even if you've used UNIX for years, techniques described in this book can make you more efficient. You'll learn how to:

Make your prompt tell you where you are (no more pwd)
Use what you've typed before (history)
Type long command lines with very few keystrokes (command and filename completion)
Remind yourself of filenames when in the middle of typing a command
Edit a botched command instead of retyping it

This book does not cover programming or script writing in csh or tcsh because the tasks are better done with a different shell, such as sh (the Bourne shell) or a language like Perl.

Customer Reviews:

Misses the most fundamental concepts!.......2006-10-21

A book for the basic UNIX user. Does NOT include anything about writing scripts for this shell! Worthless! Don't waste your money.

Amazon likes to bury bad reviews because it negatively affects the sales of an item. When considering a product on Amazon you should ALWAYS look for the bad reviews. This will give you a more realistic impression of the quality of the product.

Massive omissions.......2005-03-15

What the heck ? This book omits MOST of the commands of csh/tcsh.
I later realized that I could have found this from the other
reviews, but I fundamentally DON'T understand the purpose of a
book that leaves MOST of the details about csh/tcsh OUT of the
book. What is this, csh/tcsh for ignorant people who wish to
remain so ? Grrrr !

One of the best book on LEARNING to USE the shell.......2001-03-08

I've seen many books on unix shells, however almost all the other books focus on shell programming instead of actually using shell to work more effectively and efficiently. This book fills the gap (hence the name "Using...". I personally recommend Zsh if you are looking for the most comprehensive shell. However zsh is too comprehensive and there is no book on it. Tcsh shell is an EXCELLENT shell to do your work (type in commands, listing files, and etc). It has all the essential goodies: command line completion, command-line editor, history, and etc. It found it more friendly than ksh and less complex than bash and/or zsh. This book teaches you step by step how to use the shell to do your every day work effectively. The author explains everything clearly which is more than what I can say about many books that just touches a little bit of using the shell as a command interpreter aspect of the shell as if everyone spend more time writing the shell scripts than using the command line. These aspect of the csh/tcsh are the basis for similar utilities in the other shells: ksh, bash, and zsh. I find that even if you use bash or zsh, you'll appreciate the information in the book. The other reason the author didn't write much on programming is because c-shell is less frequently used in shell programming because of the now famous posting of "C shell programming considered harmful", which is also on the book's homepage. If you have the patience to read through the book, you will find it an excellent investment of time. (The only other book I would say this for sure is the "Learning the vi Editor."

I can explain the wide disparity in reviews of this book!.......2000-10-10

The five reviews of this book that have come in ahead of mine range from 1 star to 5! The reason is simple, but the people panning the book didn't explain (or understand?) the problem very well.

Here's the dope: a Unix shell is both an interactive command interpreter, and an environment for writing scripts, which are basically programs using the interactive commands and some logical control structures to automate tasks that don't really need to be run interactively.

The author of this book, Paul Dubois, is of the opinion that neither csh nor tcsh are appropriate environments for shell scripting. I happen to disagree with him, at least insofar as I teach a little shell scripting in tcsh in my sophomore level software course. However, his opinion is worthy...making the argument that csh and tcsh shouldn't be used for shell scripting. Dubois recommends sh and perl for scripting.

So it boils down to this: this is an excellent book for learning how to make the most of the interactive environment of csh and tcsh. It's loaded with neat tricks and good insights. And it's a particularly good reference for tcsh, which usually gets little mention in other books.

If, on the other hand, you want a book about shell scripting, save your money: THIS IS NOT THE BOOK FOR YOU. It has no material on shell scripting.

Excellent summary of csh / tcsh.......2000-08-22

I've been a csh and tcsh user for many years now, using tcsh on a daily basis. This book taught me even more about my familiar shell. The author makes it clear that his intent is to make the reader more productive in the shell environment, and he provides all the information and examples necessary to do just that.

As noted, this book does not cover csh-style shell scripting at all. If you're looking for a scripting reference, look elsewhere.

If, however, you're looking to improve your overall knowledge of csh and tcsh as far as daily is concerned, look no further. When combined with the manpage, this book makes both an excellent tutorial and reference.

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I thought it was a fantastic first-field guide.

Picture Perfect

This book is one of the greatest shell handbooks in print.

The best book for beginner shell-collector I've ever seen

DK Handbooks: Shells
DK Publishing
Manufacturer: DK ADULT
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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What Lives in a Shell? (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1)

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The Shell Book

Shells (Smithsonian Handbooks)

ASIN: 1564580326

Book Description

Over 500 species of Gastropod, Tusk Shells, Chitons, and Bivalves photographed and described as to superfamily, species, range, occurrence and size.

Customer Reviews:

I thought it was a fantastic first-field guide........1999-06-01

However, I was a little annoyed at the scarcity of the other regions in the book,mostly because I was interested in finding out about the shells within the area in which I visit to go shelling. However, I thought it was a wonderful first-field-guide with excellent color pictures, specific descriptions, indication of common\uncommon, and the size of the shells.

Picture Perfect.......1999-03-30

This has to be one of the most useful books I have bought. The photography is very clear. The colors are also good. Best of all I can see all of this without my bifocals.

This book is one of the greatest shell handbooks in print........1998-08-24

I have been collecting shells for around 20 years and never bothered to get a book about them until now. My 4 year old daughter started collecting and I wanted to make sure I had all the answers to her questions about shells. This is definatly the book to have. She is facinated by the great pictures and the cut-aways of the shells. This is a must have for your shelf.

The best book for beginner shell-collector I've ever seen.......1998-07-31

I am collecting shells for more than 11 years. At the beginning of this activety I found a lot difficulties in species identification, in determianation of their position in the molluscan systematics. The book of S.Peter Dance was the first guide I had obtained. This book introduced me to the world of "professional" shell-collecting. It showed me the way of collection arrangement, specimen cleaning and labling. I learned a lot of new data on ecology, geographic distribution and systematic of molluscs. Really, it is best book for beginner shell-collector I've ever seen and I greatly suggest it to all beginners and even advanced collectors. The wonderfull photoes of the book makes identification easy, the system of legends and signs (accepted in all other Eyewitness Handbooks) provides brief but very convinient information on geography, ecology, sizes and rarity of the species. Even now (having over 1.500 molluscs species and a lot of identificaton guieds) I oft! en look through this book and gain nesessary information. Unfortunatly, the book deal with marine molluscs only. I am shure, that the books of such quality on land and fresh-water molluscs would be greatly apreciated by collectors.

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A little bit more than the factory manual
Beats the Manual!
Decent features at decent price
Excellent book if you already own any Model Canon EOS
Useful manual

CANON EOS Rebel 2000
Bob Shell , and Heiner Henninges
Manufacturer: Sterling
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1883403626

Book Description

This Canon Rebel was more responsible for introducing autofocus SLR photography to a wide public than any other Canon. It's small, lightweight, easy to operate, and perfect for amateurs. And, whatever model you own--or hope to purchase--this will help you understand how to take advantage of all your camera's features, from the information displays to focusing and metering to choosing an exposure. There are hints on composition, and coverage of lenses, filters, and other accessories.

Customer Reviews:

A little bit more than the factory manual.......2005-06-28

I didn't find it THAT usefull. Just a little bit better than the original manual.
The big differences aren't really as big as stated... and there's nothign that you can't find on the internet or in a basic photography book. For me it doesn't goo DEEPLY into the camera functions or give real life use samples.

Beats the Manual!.......2003-01-03

Being new to the SLR-world, I bought this book because the owner's manual was horrible. I was absolutely clueless with the SLR lingo (aperture, shutter speed, f-stop, etc.)

Although this manual was a great help, I would still recommend the novice user to sign up for a course at the local community college or through the county, if such programs are available in their area. I took a 10-week class through my county's recreation center that was very helpful. Nevertheless, I still reference this handy booklet from time to time and the compact size makes it easy to carry around; mine lives in my camera bag.

Decent features at decent price.......2002-12-31

Good camera with excellent results during day time. Results in the evening or night time vary drastically. It definitely needs an additional flash light to repeat its good performance during the night time. Very light in weight compared to other competing models. Also in my exprience works very well with Kodak Gold 200. Its a good camera to have for the first timers with SLRs.

Excellent book if you already own any Model Canon EOS.......2002-10-17

This book purports to aid in choosing and operating an EOS Rebel 2000 camera. Henninges and Snell explain each feature and function of the camera in exquisite detail. While this book is a boon to EOS owners it is of little or no help to someone still in the shopping stage.

Useful manual.......2002-10-09

This is a great replacement for the original manual. It goes into much more detail than the original manual, and I was impressed with the one that came with the camera, as it was similarly well-written, and Canon seems to have taken more care in producing it than most manuals, as if they really want you to learn the basic and technical features of the camera to make you a better photographer. I would recommend you read the original manual first, and then buy this book if you want more information.

Since we're on the subject of the EOS Rebel 2000, I thought I would make a few comments about the camera too. I bought my EOS Rebel 2000 several months ago and already am extremely satisfied with it. I've taken a couple of short trips in that time and have run several rolls of film through it, and the photos came back nice and sharp. The only thing I could have done better in the photos was to use some exposure compensation. On one of the trips I was shooting wildlife at a beach on an overcast day, and even then, the sand was reflective enough so that the some of the subjects were a little dark and looked somewhat silhouetted. I was aware of many situations where you need to use backlight compensation--for example, I remembered to use it when shooting a stream at Yosemite with the sun shining from the side and glinting off the waters--but I didn't think that on a very overcast day I needed to worry about it, even shooting against fairly light-colored sand. Well, I admit I am still learning technically and I learned something there.

Happily, this little camera gives you manual control over shutter speed and aperture, as well as many other nice features, such as depth of field preview (which even the ELAN II lacks), and a respectable 1/2000th of a second top shutter speed. If you've been mostly a point and shoot camera owner until now, your fastest shutter speed will only have been about 1/500th of a second, unless you own one of the Contax point and shoots such as the T2, which go up to 1/700th of a second, but cost about 5 times as much as even the more expensive and capable point-and-shoot cameras. Then at the extreme high end there's the Rollei QZ 35W, which, although a superb "cadillac point and shoot," weighs in at 22 ounces, and at about twice the price of even the T2, will truly cost you a pile of green stuff. But it's a great camera too and has an amazing 1/8000th of a second top shutter speed.

I'm getting used to the controls, which are a little different from my Rollei QZ35W. The jog wheel feature, for adjusting ASA settings and so forth, I find an interesting feature which I'm more used to seeing on Palm PDA clones such as the Sony CLIE, but I find I like it here, too.

In addition to the lens that came with it, I found a Tokina ATX 25-70 mm constant F2.8 Pro Series lens used at a great price, and decided to buy it for the little EOS Rebel. The camera fits comfortably in my hand, if I have one complaint, it's that the grip on the right side is a little small for me with the much bigger Tokina lens mounted, but it's okay.

To give another plug here for this great little camera, a friend at local camera shop says he knows a pro photographer at a large newspaper who uses nothing but EOS Rebel 2000 bodies, and he just puts his $3000 pro lenses on it. He says they're capable enough to do anything he wants, but cheap enough so he doesn't worry about hurting them. He carries 3 of them at a time with him, and if one has a problem, they're cheap enough so he just throws away the malfunctioning one and grabs a new one out of his bag.

One final thing, as I mentioned above, the original manual is really well written, very clear and concise. They seem to really want you to learn and make use of the camera's features to make you a better, more technically aware, photographer. So be sure to read the manual. Then follow it up with this book.

Customer Reviews:

easy to understand but outdated, also expensive.......2000-01-30

This is a good book, but outdated. I hope Royal-Dutch republishfor a new edition.

Canon Compendium: Handbook of the Canon System (Hove Compendia S.)

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Canon Compendium: Handbook of the Canon System (Hove Compendia S.)
Bob Shell
Manufacturer: Hove Books
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ASIN: 1897802048

Book Description

Canon has its origins in the 1930s when a designer and businessman came together to produce a Japanese 35mm camera that would rival the famous makes from Germany. Canon rangefinder cameras and lenses subsequently earned a high reputation for innovation and quality in the 1950s and ‘60s. This achievement was to be repeated with even more resounding success by the Canon SLR camera and lenses which followed. In this Canon Compendium Bob Shell describes all the rangefinder and SLR models, and their lenses and accessories, from a user’s and enthusiast’s point of view. Comprehensive tables of technical data complete this ideal companion for the Canon user and collector.

Shell Art: A Handbook for Making Shell Flowers, Mosaics, Jewelry, and Other Ornaments

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the book for making shell flowers

Shell Art: A Handbook for Making Shell Flowers, Mosaics, Jewelry, and Other Ornaments
Helen K. Krauss
Manufacturer: Dover Pubns
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Customer Reviews:

the book for making shell flowers.......2005-07-12

first, let me say-this book was written in the 70's so it does NOT have the tons of big, color photos were used to in current craft books. What it DOES have is instructions on making sea shell flowers, shell flower pictures, colleges, shell flower jewelry and mosaics.

There are good drawings that explain how to assemble the items, and what shells to use to make each different flower.

After buying several newer shell craft books that were more "eye candy" than instructional, I was pleased with this books directions. If you are wanting to make shell flower jewelry- which is now "in" again-or shell flower pictures or sailors valentines-then I recommended this book.

4.5 stars!

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Handbook Of Industrial Automation
Richard L., Ed. Shell
Manufacturer: CRC
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ASIN: 0824703731

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"Supplies the most essential concepts and methods necessary to capitalize on the innovations of industrial automation, including mathematical fundamentals, ergonometrics, industrial robotics, government safety regulations, and economic analyses."

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