Machines Books

I've been a Machinist for over 20 years and love this book for a reference. There is so much information for a good machinist to know, and too much to remember all.

This practical little book contains about 90% of the information that you'll ever really need without going to Machinery's Handbook. It is also a small fraction of the price, is much less bulky, and is durable and easy to flip through with the spiral binding.

These are the specific sections included: I. Mathematical Information (decimal equivalents, areas, gage blocks, shop trig.), II. Drills (grinding, common problems and causes, drill sizes- decimal and metric, cutting speeds) III. Tapers, IV. Screws, Threads, Fasteners V. Milling, Shaping, Turning (cutters, speeds and feeds, lubricants), VI. Gears, VII. Weights, Gages, Tolerances, VIII.Tool Steels, IX Metric Information, X Reading Shop Prints (symbols, dimensioning and tolerances, geometric tolerancing, surface texture specs.)

There is a good index in the back of the book and the table of contents in the front is also detailed. There are black side indexes to help you flip quickly to the ten main sections. The spiral binding is durable and the paper quality is heavy.

Between school, the shop floor, and engineering offices I've been working around machinery for about thirty years now- this really is a practical, usuable book for a reasonable amount of money. Fits in your pocket- and if it disappears you won't be out a fortune.

I'd always liked the idea of making a patchwork quilt but was reluctant to make the investment in the equiptment. Lynne's book convinced me and I've never looked back. Her explanations are crystal clear and the pictures accompanying every block show what you are aiming for. I can't wait until her next book is published!

This book was based on classes Ms. Edwards taught in England. Her students produced some stunning work. Excellent instructions and lovely photographs compliment the text. A must if you love sampler quilts and enjoy working with Liberty-style prints and colors.

This was a great book. Many technical stories and analysis of how things tick and the people who keep them ticking. This may be especially geared toward aircraft nuts, but it was still good for anyone interested in powered things. It even included a story on Steinway Pianos - very interesting.

I had borrowed this book from my local library. I liked it so much, I had to own a copy. I put Stephan Wilkinson right up with John McPhee as one of my favorite writers. If you like aircraft, boats, or cars, this book is a great read.

One of the best, if not the best guide book in the market today. Great simple easy to follow directions that get you up and running fast. Well written and perfect for someone who needs additonal guidance in an easy to use format. I recommend this book for anyone who uses Front Page. It will supplement your exisitng library of Front Page material. I also recommend this book for use as a supplement for a college course on this subject. Great for the novice who needs a quick understanding of the subject. Buy it, you will not regret it!

FrontPage Bones is a well written comprehensive book that gets right to the point and is easy to understand. The search engine optimization tips & techniques alone are worth their weight in gold.

This book is a necessity for any serious collector of Mills bell machines. It is filled with reproductions of the original Mills sales literature, parts lists, price lists, pictures with parts callouts, etc. A treasure of information. See also Mills of the Thirties

If you own a Mills slot machine you need this book. Detailed information on machine breakdown, lubrication and cleaning, theory of operation. It has gotten me past many otherwise hard to solve problems.

12 stories covering the gamut from time travel and machine life to religious wisdom and political conspiracy, 5 nonfiction pieces ranging from evolution to nuclear power, 7 biographical anecdotes, and a one-act play!

Another collection of masterpieces. Known Nukes should be translated into all languages, understood and globally debated.

It has a lot of examples and lists of commands. You can learn MIPS straight out from this single book. No need to look elsewhere, this is the only book you'll ever need.

This book in an excellent introduction to Assembly language. What I thought to be very difficult programming language isn't actually such a monster after all.

Just a "warning," the assembly language instruction set here is smaller and the processor architecture is less complex than, say, an Intel x86 processor. However, if you want to get a feel of how Assembly language is, this is definitely a good book.

The book isn't monstrous in pages so that's a plus. What I like about this fact is, I can actually reread the chapter if I don't think I understood it enough.

I gave it 5 stars because although it is not perfect, it suits my needs for information beyond enough.

As Friedman points out, Japan's rise from postwar devastation to the first ranks of industrial nations has stimulated two rival explanations. One, the "market regulation hypothesis," claims Japan actually owes its success to playing the development game by the book. The other, "bureaucrat regulation hypothesis," claims that Japan's civil service applied a brilliant industrial policy to achieve the desired results. Friedman briefly but cogently outlines the implications of either theory, including logical problems with both. He then proceeds to deduce another hypothesis yet.

His method is exciting because it demonstrates how statistical analysis and historical research can come together to make a rigorous, compelling case. Friedman's approach is highly scientific and deductive, and yet very easy for non-specialists to follow. Focusing on the specific case of Japan's machine-tool industry, he demonstrates the gradual evolution of industrial policy methods from 1925 to the mid-70's. For decades Japan's famous MITI sought to make the country's industries competitive by consolidating the huge number of tiny, regional machine shops into one big "modern" firm. Instead, MITI was thwarted; often its policies achieved the opposite of what was intended.

Friedman introduces the politics of industrial relations, and how the "political" relationships between categories of producers, and towards the Japanese state, helped shape Japanese industry into its contemporary mix of strengths and weaknesses. The amazing resilience and aptitude of the small Japanese firm is shown to be a source of strength and flexibility.

This is actually a fairly short book, and yet it is packed with very creative, enlightening ideas. I was especially impressed with his detailed accounts of wartime Japan and the role of *zaibatsu* in the rise of militarism.

The startling conclusion drawn by Friedman is that there is no one path to development. Japan's was not the result of universal economic laws that apply the same way everywhere; nor was it the result of an infallible MITI. The country might have reached industrial preeminence in several different ways, and those ways would have been specific to Japan's peculiar circumstances.

Friedman was one of the first to capture the essence of the Japanese business model that took the world by storm in the 1980s. Vividly written and wisely analyzed, this is a must read for historical context on the whole of Japanese business.

I bought this book about 5 years ago when I first got a job in the UK Financial Industry. It covers all the basics and you can start with little or no previous knowledge (I did!). To illustrate his point he includes examples of Indices, Exchange Rates, Unit Trust prices etc. from the Financial Times newspaper. It is easy to understand too. Can't recommend it highly enough.

This is an excellent guide to the basics of money and financing.

The book focuses on London as a financial center and the British finanacial system in general, making frequent comparisons to New York and global practices. However, as it describes financial basics I think the that it would be useful to people almost anywhere interested in understanding such basics as: interest rates, banking, shares, insurance, foreign exchange, etc.

I was most impressed by Coggan's clear explanations helped by historical descriptions, e.g. goldsmiths and silversmiths became the earliest bankers when they stored gold and silver in their safes for nervous citizens. Then, when they noticed that of all the gold and silver stored in their vaults only a small amount was required for withdrawal, and this amount was roughly matched by new deposits, the idea of lending the idle gold and silver was born. The earliest smiths were from Italy and did their business from wooden benches in the market places. The Italian for bench is "banco" and was corrupted into the English word "bank".... Suddenly at the hands of Coggan banking seems like a very human enterprise and becomes easy to understand.

Coggan's knowledge is obviously thorough and his explanations are excellent. I highly recommend this book. Comments to LearningResearch@Cox.net

This book is great, fun and exciting for all ages. A great read, over and over again. A delight to read to children, and adults will love it as well. hilarious and inciteful, it grabs your attention and keeps you in stitches. A definate must have for poetry lover everywhere.

I just got my copy of The Monkey Machine by Christopher John LeBeau. It is a book of poetry that has something for everyone. It's extremely entertaining, funny and lighthearted, touching briefly on some political and economic issues as well. Parents this is something your children will love, these poems will feed their imagination for sure. Adults without children will also definitely enjoy this book. Get it today!