Manufacturing Books

This was the required textbook for my Apparel Manufacturing class. My teacher ran her own manufacturing company several years ago and told our class that no book she has read even came close to providing the wealth of knowledge available in this book. Seam finishes are explained in terms necessary to complete spec packs, including seam diagrams and stitch numbers used as standards in the industry world-wide. If you plan on putting a technical section in your portfolio or plan to work in the manufacturing side of the industry or plan on being a pattern maker, I recommend this book more than any other. It is rare that I enjoy a textbook so much, but I have read it through and referenced it constantly since the class. Worth every penny.

This is a very very interesting book that provides different applications of fuzzy logic for building intelligent machines. Special attraction of the book is the application of fuzzy tools in mobile robotics for sensory uncertainty management, path planning and navigation. The book is highly readable and requires a little backgrond of fuzzy sets and systems. The book is useful for practitioners of fuzzy sets, robotics and intelligent systems in general.I believe that the readers will enjoy reading this book.

When I first started Statics and Strength of Materials I had trouble understanding Statics and some theories in Strength of Materials. I have studied and read "Schaum's Outline Statics and Strength of Materials" by John J. Jackson & Harold G. Wirtz, and also "Applied Statics and Strength of Materials" by Spiegel Limbrunner.
This is the best book I read on this subject so far. After reading this book I finally understood everything. The book is very readable the author did a excellent job explaining everything specially in Statics.
If your learning this subject for the first time this is the book to get. The only down fall of this book is that there are errors and misprints in some of the examples in this book. Hopefully they come out with a second edition with the errors and misprints corrected.
I still gave this book 5 stars because of the superior job the author did in explaining this subject.

This is first place to start when getting into S88 and batch control. The language is written so everybody in your organization can read it from the instrument tech, to the process engineer, to the plant manager.
The book helps clear up a lot the confusing nomenclature from the actual standard by using real world examples.

I read this book in the same day I received it. It is extremely informative. The first chapter details the history of papermaking. It talks about paper not only being used as a means to record our history, but also as an art form.

Chapters 2 through 4 cover the basics of papermaking. Supplies and equipment you will need, techniques to adopt, and of course the how-to of it all. Even down to creating your own watermark. It gives simple instructions for building your own molds and presses that anyone with access to a lumber yard can make. All-in-all, the art of making one's own paper seems to be quite inexpensive, and this book makes it seem like with just a little practice, one can easily become an expert.

The 5th chapter seems just a little more advanced. Once you master the basics, you will be able to go through this chapter and learn how to use 3-Dimensional molds, imbedding objects (like leaves, flowers and larger fibers) into your paper, and even making a portfolio to display your work.

I love this book and it has made me so excited to create my own workspace for making paper.

This is a great book with awesome pictures and descriptions of flies. This is a great beginner book as well as advanced book.

This book is a beautiful compilation put together by the former head of Special Collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Beginning with the illuminated manuscripts of medieval times, he traces the history of illustration and book decoration throughout the centuries. The design and layout of the book are also discussed in the chapters about bookbinding and typography. Not only does he address the amazing history of book illustration, but opens the door to the future of art and book design. Comics and graphic novels are given equal face time as the historical manuscripts, as is the experimental art scene in present-day Britain (posters, zines, etc.)

Each chapter includes a one-page essay on a certain illustration or design, or about the history of that medium. The essays are particularly well-written. My favorites among these essays included Ian Fleming's Bond books and the birth of the paperback, the descriptions on the medieval Book of Hours, and the illustrations of the fairy stories.

Beautiful book, and an amazing piece of scholarship.

Julius Schramm, by Hugo Kükelhaus and Julius Schramm

In this little booklet, Hugo Küekelhaus recapitulates the core of Schramm's own essay on the artist-blacksmith's craft-faithful adherence to techniques that exploit and express the natural qualities of forged iron-and Schramm himself follows up with an autobiographical sketch. More than a dozen photos illustrate both Schramm's notion of a disciplined approach that derives from ancient tradition and his own innovations within that tradition. Those innovations have been carried forward by his successors, notably Fritz Kuehn, and have become a part of the contemporary idiom of the craft.

...Schramm reminds us that making objects with integrity of ornament, function and natural expressive of the material is no crime but a rich aesthetic and intellectual experience.

Michael Spencer, Artist-blacksmith, from the postscript

This book was informative, we happen to have a copy of the desk pictured on the cover, but with a few more details, and this was great to help track it's history.

very useful information. A lot of practice questions that really help. I would recomend this book to anyone that want to pass ase a1.