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Summary: A Great Sized and Information Packed Book !
Review: A small book that can fit in your shirt pocket. All the facts and technical details engineers, home builders, plumbers, carpenters, electricians and home do-it-yourselfers can use use to find the correct product and dimensions of anything you would need to build or construct.
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Summary: Indispensable for any technoid
Review: A treasury of construction, technical, and scientific data, conversions, and any other related information you ever wanted to know. Very highly recommended for all scientists, engineers, architects, technical writers, and anybody else with an interest in technical, engineering, or scientific subjects. The one caveat is that Glover uses the engineering rather than the scientific notation for representing large numbers. This book is a perfect gift for any man--Tim Allen fans in particular.
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Summary: absolutely everything you wanted to know about everything
Review: An excellent give-out to customers who want to stay in the know about everything, especially in the purchasing world. It has become a tool I will always refer to as long as I have the book.
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Summary: Let us see more of this kind
Review: At the time when most publishers go racing on how fat a book can they make (someone ought to start suing for strain injuries :-), this gem brings the light back to our hands. It shows that is is possible to pack enormous ammount of information, and even use quite a lot of pages, and still retain all qualities of the small and light format.Imagine the wonder of O'Reilly redesigning and publishing a few Nurshell books in this format, or CRC converting a few math and science references, or the ex-Wrox XSLT Programmer's Reference seeing the new printing ... I'm sure everyone who bought this book would have at least one more to add to this list.
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Summary: Every tech reference I need
Review: Between working in my garage, a teen-age son, computers, construction and working in a marine terminal, I need easy access to formulas for converting measurements, figuring volume, getting info on material strength and "trivial" facts on just about everything. This Pocket Reference supplies all this information and lives in my work bag, next to my screwdriver and labor contracts. It has gotten me out of jams with the load limits for wire rope, torquing bolts and bets on the diameter of the planet Mercury. Nice tool for the person who needs to know everything.
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Summary: concise and complete
Review: excellent source of info for maximizing your control over your physical space. my lastest ref lookup was the volume of a gallon, for water storage purposes.
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Summary: My other Lil' Black book.
Review: First there was sliced bread, then there was "The Pocket Ref". I found it such a great reference book that I ordered 6 of them for my associates. It is 100 pounds of information in a 13 oz. package. There has not been a day since I have received it that I have not used it for something (conversions of all types, geometric formulas long forgotten, constants, material information from glues to the mass of Neptune...yeh Neptune!, and yes...bolt torque specifications). One draw back is that everyone that does not have "The Ref" comes to you for the answers. It is a cornucopia of information that every engineer will surely benefit from having.
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Summary: My other Lil' Black book.
Review: First there was sliced bread, then there was "The Pocket Ref". I found it such a great reference book that I ordered 6 of them for my associates. It is 100 pounds of information in a 13 oz. package. There has not been a day since I have received it that I have not used it for something (conversions of all types, geometric formulas long forgotten, constants, material information from glues to the mass of Neptune...yeh Neptune!, and yes...bolt torque specifications). One draw back is that everyone that does not have "The Ref" comes to you for the answers. It is a cornucopia of information that every engineer will surely benefit from having.
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Summary: A great small all-around reference work with a few extras
Review: How did I ever get along without this amazing small reference book? Not only is it incredible how this book fits so much reference material in so little space, but how they squeezed in a gem like this: "Auto Headlight Warning - this simple circuit will buzz if you leave your headlights turned on when the ignition switch is turned off!" complete with a schematic. How about this one: Human Body Composition, which lists such precious metals as Silver and Gold and more fascinating elements such as Silicon, Radium and Arsenic! (For details, see the Table of Contents and Index that amazon.com has thoughtfully provided.)
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Summary: A "Swiss Army Knife" of reference books
Review: How did I live without this book? This book has everything I ever wanted X10. R values? Temperature and wind chill conversions? World wide area codes and airport codes? Wood screw specs? Friction loss in pipe? Mohr's hardness scales? Credit card 800 #s? I mean it's ALL here! I buy these to give them away!
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