Manufacturing Books

My husband is an amateur blacksmith, so I'm often looking for creative and informative books to give him about this craft. I bought this book based on its beautiful cover and the great narrative I read at Amazon about its contents. Once my husband received it, I was even more sure I'd made a good purchase. He LOVED the book - got so many great ideas from it - and found numerous helpful websites and practical applications. This is a must-have for any blacksmith you may know.

I preordered this book, not really knowing what to expect. I was pleasantly surprised. This book is a wonderful collection of photographs of modern blacksmiths works. It has a lot of those smiths who have become known as masters within the community. It was well worth it, just to see what other smiths were doing.

- Ex Blacksmith ~ Colvin Run Mill

This book provides a no non-sense, easy to apply explanation of how control and automation systems should be installed to ensure reliable service. With more and more control system manufacturer's cutting back on installation documentation, this book is timely in helping fill the documenation gap.

This book covers one of the most important topics to assure that a Control and Safety System can perform at its intended highest availability, reliability and safety level. In the other hand is hard to find books that treat this topic with the practical detail and clarity needed for real world industrial applications, the ones you may face at your job while working either in an engineering, project, operational, or maintenance department in any given Plant or Industry. If you work with PLCs, DCSs, SCADAs, ESDs, SISs, Hybrid Systems, or just single loop controllers or measurement applications, you will find what are considered the best or recommended practices in industry, as well as warnings, cautions, and notes on essential and critical information about Power, Grounding and Shielding issues.

Anther thing I liked about this book is that it is profusely illustrated with diagrams and tables that make it even friendlier when looking for advice on specific issues.

I am an Industrial Practitioner of Process Measurement & Control who has been working in the Process Industries for more than 16 years as an Automation, Instrumentation, Process Safety and Process Control Engineer. As a result I have been dealing with Control Systems Power, Grounding and Shielding issues in a day-to-day basic. I found this book to be a very useful reference and a refresher, that will be useful for experienced and newcomers engineers and Technicians to gain a better understanding of almost every aspect that has to be consider to ensure that all the Control Systems you are accountable for have been properly installed.

As far as I concern it is the first book was written on its subject on the world. Thefore I congratulate to Proffessor A. Keith Thompson who gave this valuable knowladges to the people who work or study on controlled atmosphere storage of fruits and vegetables. I didn't see it. Honestly I would have seen it.

It was the first book was writen on this subject. I congraculate to Professor A.K.Thompson.

I was really impressed by "Cornhusk, Silk, and Wishbones: A Book of Dolls from Around the World," by Michelle Markel. The author discusses many different types of dolls. Each entry includes a short but informative article and a full-color, richly detailed photograph.

I won't mention all the dolls depicted, but here are some highlights: bread dolls from Ecuador, a 19th century corn husk doll from the United States, a 19th century French Jumeau doll with an elegant outfit and glass eyes, Russian Matryoshkas (nesting dolls), ornately clothed Thai Ramakien dolls, a Mexican nativity set, and much more. A true visual feast.

A delightful book on an intriguing subject. Michelle Markel introduces the reader to dolls and doll crafting in an easy understandable manner. This book is interesing to both adults and children alike. Complimented by outstanding photographs and descriptions, this beautiful book should be on every doll lovers shelf!

Corporate Power, American Democracy and the Automobile Industry is a must read for anyone who wants to go deeper than "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" into the automania that is America. Thoroughly researched, politically savvy, and sharply critical of corporate control of our democracy, this book fits oh so well with all election year reading material. Makes you want to dump that SUV and jump on the bus!

If you've raised an eyebrow at the recent Bridgestone/Firestone/Ford scandal, get ready to raise two-you may need to borrow a few more-when you read this book. In Corporate Power, American Democracy, and the Automobile Industry, Stan Luger provides an intriguing historical context (think shady past) for the auto industry's latest disregard of public safety and consumer protection. If you think tire failures and SUV rollovers are bad, dig deeper-this is just icing. Luger gives you the cake-the misdeeds of corporate greed run thick through America's car industry. This book recounts forty years of the automobile industry's use (and misuse) of corporate power and reveals how this power has influenced public policy, politics, and our everyday car culture. From public safety to environmental protection, Luger illustrates how the automobile industry has flexed its muscles in the political arena to, guess what, maximize profit at our expense. Luger tracks the car industry's patterns of power and shows us that the market isn't just about supply and demand-it's about influence, decisions of the elite, and a disregard for the democratic process.

Luger shows how, time and again, the automobile industry has shirked responsibility for the negative impact of its products and held regulations at bay. For example, Luger explains how "blaming the drive" is a well-worn response of the auto industry. Recently, Bridgestone/Firestone tried to argue that its tires aren't faulty-SUV drives are at fault for improper tire inflation. Luger gives us the historical pattern for this position: from the late 1930s up until the early 1960s, the auto industry repeatedly argued that the cause of automobile accidents lay with the driver. It argued that increased driver education and responsibility would eliminate most accidents and pushed for programs and legislation that funded drivers' education and stiffened enforcement of traffic violations. Of course, Ralph Nader proved in the mid-1960s that the driver wasn't to blame, and that the car-unsafe at any speed-was. Which brings us to Luger's important point: social movements, such as Nader's consumer rights campaigns, are key to meeting capital's flagrant abuses head-on. Whether it's the labor movement or the environmental movement, organized response can challenge corporate power.

But don't just read this book for its hard-hitting analysis; it's also a witty narrative with juicy asides about the sleazier side of the automobile industry. You'll die laughing when you come across the story about the most expensive executive midnight snack in history (don't read it while driving!).

It is a wonderful scientific full illustarated book which contains all formulations and procedure to prepare most of the cosmotics used daily in our life.

As a non-chemist who is certainly not the intended audience of this work, I realize that my opinion about it is of limited value. However, I found it extremely helpful and interesting. I'm a bit confused by the "2nd Edition" and "1992" publication date listed above-- as best as I am aware, the second edition of this book was published in three volumes sometime in the 1970's by Wiley-Interscience. (Needless to say, it is probably a little bit dated.) Nevertheless, since the authors & title are the same, I feel confident I know what book I am talking about.

Because I am merely an interested layperson, I'd hesitate to buy the book at full price-- I was fortunate enough to find a used copy.

This book was written for professional cosmetics chemists, and contains information about various toiletry products, from toothpaste to hair dye, from shaving cream to lipstick, from hand lotion to contact lens solution. Each chapter briefly discusses the history of the cosmetics product in question, and how it is intended to work, and what are considered to be desirable qualities in a product of that kind. In many cases, formulas for different versions are given. Each chapter has extensive references at the end, and each volume also includes a glossary of trade names for the various products. This glossary is helpful if you are also using older "make cosmetics at home" books (as compared with most of the modern book which are all about smearing guacamole all over your body), as many of these list their ingredients by trade name.

A great book to learn more from if you are the kind of person who really enjoyed "Creating Your Own Cosmetics" by Nikolaus Smeh.

This is an amazingly comprehensive collection of Cracker Jack prizes, with HUNDREDS of detailed photos showing THOUSANDS of prizes. While this book is a must-have for the serious collector of Cracker Jack prizes, it will delight anyone with pleasant memories of those special prizes.

The accompanying prize lists with descriptive and historical information are presented chronologically, with prizes grouped by series where applicable. An elaborate identification system reflecting the prizes' date, composition, marking, type, size, color, and description is utilized, with estimated value for each prize given.

Searching through CRACKER JACK TOYS for that fondly remembered surprise can be almost as much fun as originally digging for it in a box of Cracker Jack!

After my grandmother passed away, we found a shoebox full of cracker jack toys. It was her special treat for her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. We took them and mounted them for memory reasons, but this book brought our love of the little toys to a reality of why we loved them as children and the precious value that they have for us today. A great part of our childhood in a great book!

This is a great reference book. I purchase a bunch of craft business books at the same time and this one is by far the most useful. I really like how each chapter had homework assignments so that you could write your business plan step by step with out even knowing it.

Craftsmen may want to profit from their skills but many lack the business acumen to make their art profitable. Enter the Robbins, who show how to evaluate business opportunities, develop proper pricing and marketing formulas for success, and promote and sell products in a variety of mediums, from wholesale to the Web. More a business book than an art guide, Creating A Successful Craft Business focuses on the particular nuts and bolts which are essential to a craft business's success.

While I do not disagree with the previous review, I felt the need to point out that illegal immigrants are certainly NOT the only ones forming the backbone of the workforce at these rural meatpacking plants. Indeed, in the small Midwestern town in which I grew up, meatpacking is just about the only job that pays something resembling a living wage for those who choose to stay in the rural Midwest. And from observing the people I knew who worked there, believe me, it's not exactly living high on the hog. In my opinion, these blue collar workers are being squeezed just about as hard as they can be, and not enough light is shed on that fact. But for many people who choose to live in the place of their birth (or a place they've come to call home), they don't have much choice when it comes to where to work.

If you're not already aware of the heroic struggle immigrants undergo as they pursue the American dream, this book will clue you in.

We've all heard xenophobes rant about immigrants taking jobs away from American workers. Now meet the immigrants who sign on to jobs Americans won't touch -- the ones with no safety nets -- low wages and no benefits, i.e., no paid vacations, no profit-sharing, no health insurance (despite dangerous working conditions), no compensation for loss of limbs, no pension plan, no social security contributions.

One's perspective is changed with the realization that these new Americans are proud to be working at a place where the hourly wage is a whopping $7-8/hr. If this is the American dream, imagine what life must be like at home!

Fink goes to work in a meat-packing plant in Iowa for an up-close look at the conditions and environment in which immigrants (mostly from Mexico and Central America) toil to support families both here and in their homelands. Her sensitivity to the workers' pride and plight, and her empathy with their every-day existence is remarkable for an American. She is to be commended for her courage in wading into a stark and noisy reality -- one not altogether known by many U.S. citizens -- while retaining her writer's objectivity.

This book is highly recommended.

It's helpful for M.E. for plastic parts design. So many informations to help engineers how to design plastic parts and how to asembly it.

Excellent book covering all aspects of designing plastic parts for assembly and mass production. Bryan McDonald. Apple Product Design. Product Design Manager.