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Mechanical Engineering Reference Manual for the PE Exam, 13th Ed
The extensive index contains thousands of terms, most indexed in a variety of ways, in anticipation of how you’ll search for them. Dynamics and Vibrations: Kinematics; Kinetics; Power Transmission Systems; Vibrating Systems Materials: Engineering Materials Properties and Testing; Thermal Treatment of Metals Fluids: Fluid Properties; Fluid Statics; Fluid Flow Parameters; Fluid Dynamics; Hydraulic Machines Power Cycles: Vapor, Combustion, and Nuclear Power Cycles; Refrigeration and Gas Compression Cycles HVAC: Psychrometrics; Fans, Ductwork, and Ventilation; Heating and Cooling Loads; Air Conditioning Systems Heat Transfer: Natural Convection; Evaporation; Condensation; Forced Convection; Radiation Machine Design: Basic and Advanced Machine Design; Pressure Vessels Thermodynamics: Inorganic Chemistry; Fuels and Combustion; Properties of Substances Control Systems: Modeling and Analysis of Engineering Systems Plant Engineering: Manufacturing Processes; Instrumentation and Measurements; Materials Handling and Processing; Fire Protection Systems; Environmental Pollutants and Remediation; Hazardous Material Storage and Disposal Fundamentals: Math Review; Probability; Statics; Engineering Economic Analysis Law and Ethics: Engineering Law; Ethics. What’s New in This Edition 36 chapters with new material, and 46 chapters with revisions to existing material 300 new equations, and 128 updated equations 27 new tables, and 31 updated tables 7 new examples, and 34 updated examples 10 new appendices, and 27 updated appendices 35 new figures, and 28 updated figures 1,094 new index entries, and 108 updated index entires. Michael R. Lindeburg, PE, is one of the best-known authors of engineering textbooks and references.
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"I just recently passed the mechanical PE exam (fluids discipline), and I thought I would share the studying strategy that seemed to work for me. The very first thing you should do is purchase this book, the Mechanical Engineering Reference Manual (MERM), even if you do not plan to take the PE for several years. At this pace, in about 3 months you will have read the entire book (around 1500 pages) and at least attempted every single practice problem. At this point you will be in full panic mode, because you won’t feel comfortable with any of the practice problems because as I said, they are much harder than what is on the exam. When you have finished the book, it should be right about the time that you have to choose your specific mechanical discipline for the exam. You will start to feel a lot more comfortable at this point because the questions are much easier than what you’ve seen so far. Update in response to some questions: On test day, you will see people walk into the exam with dozens of books. I went into the exam with only the following materials and it was more than enough: Mechanical Engineering Reference Manual. Practice Problems for the Mechanical Engineering Reference Manual. NCEES Sample Questions and Solutions (Thermal and Fluids Systems). NCEES Sample Questions and Solutions (Mechanical Systems and Materials). NCEES Sample Questions and Solutions (HVAC and Refrigeration). A 1" Three Ring Binder of helpful equations, saturation tables, and conversion factors that I accumulated during the study process. I hope this has helped, and most importantly, good luck!"
"If you master this book, it is the only one you'll need (IMHO) to pass the Mechanical Engineering PE test."
"I borrowed someone's copy of the NCEES practice exam and between these materials and that exam, it's all the prep I did. You will see people with a ridiculous amount of materials on exam day, I took this book and my ASHRAE books (I took the HVAC depth exam) and it was everything I needed."
"Used this book (and ONLY this book + a unit conversion book) for the October 2014 Mechanical PE exam and passed."
"I highly recommend this book."
"So not really a flaw of the book... the book is great."
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Choose the right soapmaking equipment Blend colors and aromatic scents Create all kinds of soap, from bath soap to facial cleanser Make soaps for holidays and special occasions. Alicia Grosso has been creating handmade soap and toiletries for more than a decade.
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Sodium Bicarbonate: Nature's Unique First Aid Remedy
It is called sodium bicarbonate, although you may know it as baking soda. Sodium Bicarbonate begins with a basic overview of the everyday item known as baking soda, chronicling its long history of use as an effective home remedy. When Hippocrates said in 400 BC, “Let food be thy medicine,” he did not dream that individual vitamins, minerals, and even enzymes could be taken in concentrated form. Almost twenty-five hundred years later, the best emergency room and intensive care doctors use concentrated nutritional medicine to save lives every day, including baking soda. Sodium bicarbonate is a world-class emergency room and intensive care medicine used every day to save lives. Bicarbonate is the ion normally responsible for alkalinity , or the capacity of water to neutralize acids or resist changes in pH. But even in the wildest dreams of a pharmaceutical executive do visions come for a drug they might fabricate that would match the fantastic medicinal properties of simple, inexpensive baking soda. Sodium bicarbonate acts as a powerful, natural, and safe antifungal agent, which when combined with iodine, covers the entire spectrum of microbial organisms. One can easily and cheaply take it orally or pile it into one’s baths, and these offer a good measure of protection. Administration of nutrients in groups of threes resulted in further reduction of tumor incidences, coming down to somewhere between 16 to 23.1 percent. This book is about the application of the least expensive, safest, and perhaps most effective cancer medicine there is, and that is the primary reason so many people have been interested in my writings and research on sodium bicarbonate. Simple baking soda is a prime component of my Natural Allopathic Medicine protocol for cancer (which includes the nutrients in the above study), holding down the number two spot coming right after magnesium. Most of us were amazed to find out that there is an oncologist in Rome, Dr. Tullio Simoncini, destroying cancer tumors with sodium bicarbonate. The child arrived in a coma at the paediatric haematology ward around 11:30 in the morning, with a clinical history of leukemia. Because of the child’s disease he had been taken from a small town in Sicily to Rome, through the universities of Palermo and Naples, where he underwent several chemotherapy sessions. “As I was of the opinion that the child was comatose both because of the proliferation of fungal colonies in the brain and because of the toxicity of the therapies that had been performed on him, I concluded that if I could destroy the colonies with sodium bicarbonate salts and at the same time nourish and detoxify the brain with glucose administered intravenously, I could hope for a regression of the symptoms. After a continuous intravenous infusion of bicarbonate and glucose solutions, at around 7 pm, when I returned to the university, I found the child speaking with his mother, who was in tears,” said Dr. Simoncini. There is an amazing amount of materials on sodium bicarbonate and baking soda on the Internet and I am responsible for much of it over the years. It is hard not to be moved by such testimonials, but many discount such information as unscientific―yet, there is nothing unscientific about sodium bicarbonate because we are talking basic chemistry. My books Treatment Essentials (simple instructions on the protocol), and my soon-to-be-released Surviving Cancer Compendium with Natural Allopathic Medicine (2,500 pages), offer patients and their doctors information new to the world of oncology. It is a necessary cancer medicine and oncologists have secretly been using it for decades to protect their patients from the deadly chemo chemicals they use. Mechlorethamine, also known as chlormethine, mustine, nitrogen mustard, and HN2 and sold under the brand name Mustargen, was the prototype anticancer chemotherapeutic drug. You will also be given lots of fluids (as a drip) and a drug called mesna with your cyclophosphamide to help prevent bladder irritation. Everyone who chooses highly toxic and dangerous chemotherapy should be advised that science indicates that it might be the sodium bicarbonate that’s doing the helping and not the poisons. Wouldn’t it be sickening to think that patients had to take a pile of poison just to get their simple, inexpensive and safe bicarbonate treatments?
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"I've always believed that when oncologists hang a chemo drip and put sodium bicarb beside it (to keep the chemo from killing the patient and/or wiping out their kidneys), that the real credit for any improvement or cure that takes place belongs to the soda bicarb, not to the chemo drug. But let's face it, sodium bicarb is cheap and chemo drugs are making the cancer establishment wonderfully wealthy."
"As the good doctor himself has pointed out, magnesium bicarbonate may well be better than sodium bicarbonate for some applications, but the book is quite informative & worthwhile."
"This book opened my eyes to an easy way to alkalize my body."
"I own more than 300 doctor and health books, 30 concerning Cancer, but still by reading this book I received much new knowledge, among other learning that Bicarbonate actually, but unknown by most doctors, are used in their injections in the hospital emergency rooms. To me the book especially was interesting by containing much writings about fighting Cancer cells either by Oxygen or by getting the pH in the body up to the Alkaline at 8, or 8+, as Cancer lives in Acid and die in Alkaline. But to me it especially was interestingly reading about Fungal, where Sodium Bicarbonate is a proven antifungal in Agriculture, and especially that by many science persons it now is believed that Cancer and Diabetes are the results of some of some of the 400 bad Fungal, out of the existing 1.5 – 5 millions. But all put together the book is good in reading by persons who want to know more about how by the cheap Backing Soda to live healthy, where without doubt most doctors don’t know anything about Sodium Bicarbonate if we ask them."
"Excellent book..homeopathic healing information...just by taking 1/4 tsp."
"I used the information in this book to get my body pH level from a horrendous 5.6 up to sometimes 8.0 now by taking....simple...baking soda. I ingested cheap baking soda to get my body pH normal now I'm feeling like a CHAMP!!"
"This book is a valuable account of how to raise your ph (acid alkaline balance) to maximize health."
"This should be required reading in every high school."
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Best Coatings, Ceramics & Glass Engineering

Introduction to Ceramics, 2nd Edition
Many advances have been made in understanding and controlling and developing new ceramic processes and products.
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"Thanks to this book, I find PhD is much harder than I thought it should be."
"When you find Schroedinger's wave equation on page 10, you know this us a serious book."
"A Classic...a reference book for any material scientist."
"However, Kyngery et al. teaches us the basic science we all need to know to be able to work on ceramics."
"perfect condition, fast delivery, good price."
"Dr. Kingery passed away around 2000s, and the book with not be updated with hot topics (transparent ceramics, electronic devices, new theories in glass network or sintering of ceramics, and etc.)."
"It is a crystal clear explanation that gives a clue towards looking deeper where needed into the subject, but gets the point across quickly in a page or two."
"But it did bother me that the theory of magnetic properties of materials is developed *by analogy* to the theory of electrical properties. But magnetism and electricity are distinct concepts, and nothing in Physics would allow you to guess their theories to parallel each other so well until *after* you've learned their theory the appropriate way."
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Best Chemical Cosmetics

The Everything Soapmaking Book: Learn How to Make Soap at Home with Recipes, Techniques, and Step-by-Step Instructions - Purchase the right equipment and ... and sell your creations (Everything®)
Choose the right soapmaking equipment Blend colors and aromatic scents Create all kinds of soap, from bath soap to facial cleanser Make soaps for holidays and special occasions. Alicia Grosso has been creating handmade soap and toiletries for more than a decade.
Reviews
"This book taught me how to make soap."
"This is a decent book for anyone interested in soapmaking."
"It is very comprehensive in explaining any information a new soapmaker might need, including safety information, and I believe has enough info included that even someone who's been making soap for awhile might learn something new."
"So much information.. great for a beginner in CP soap making."
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"I have been wanting to get this book for a while now and I am so happy that I got it."
"Shipping was quick, pictures shown on book were very clear, was amazed."
"I bought this for my recently retired husband who expressed his desire to make soap."
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Best Fluid Dynamics

Mechanical Engineering Reference Manual for the PE Exam, 13th Ed
The extensive index contains thousands of terms, most indexed in a variety of ways, in anticipation of how you’ll search for them. Dynamics and Vibrations: Kinematics; Kinetics; Power Transmission Systems; Vibrating Systems Materials: Engineering Materials Properties and Testing; Thermal Treatment of Metals Fluids: Fluid Properties; Fluid Statics; Fluid Flow Parameters; Fluid Dynamics; Hydraulic Machines Power Cycles: Vapor, Combustion, and Nuclear Power Cycles; Refrigeration and Gas Compression Cycles HVAC: Psychrometrics; Fans, Ductwork, and Ventilation; Heating and Cooling Loads; Air Conditioning Systems Heat Transfer: Natural Convection; Evaporation; Condensation; Forced Convection; Radiation Machine Design: Basic and Advanced Machine Design; Pressure Vessels Thermodynamics: Inorganic Chemistry; Fuels and Combustion; Properties of Substances Control Systems: Modeling and Analysis of Engineering Systems Plant Engineering: Manufacturing Processes; Instrumentation and Measurements; Materials Handling and Processing; Fire Protection Systems; Environmental Pollutants and Remediation; Hazardous Material Storage and Disposal Fundamentals: Math Review; Probability; Statics; Engineering Economic Analysis Law and Ethics: Engineering Law; Ethics. What’s New in This Edition 36 chapters with new material, and 46 chapters with revisions to existing material 300 new equations, and 128 updated equations 27 new tables, and 31 updated tables 7 new examples, and 34 updated examples 10 new appendices, and 27 updated appendices 35 new figures, and 28 updated figures 1,094 new index entries, and 108 updated index entires. Michael R. Lindeburg, PE, is one of the best-known authors of engineering textbooks and references.
Reviews
"I just recently passed the mechanical PE exam (fluids discipline), and I thought I would share the studying strategy that seemed to work for me. The very first thing you should do is purchase this book, the Mechanical Engineering Reference Manual (MERM), even if you do not plan to take the PE for several years. At this pace, in about 3 months you will have read the entire book (around 1500 pages) and at least attempted every single practice problem. At this point you will be in full panic mode, because you won’t feel comfortable with any of the practice problems because as I said, they are much harder than what is on the exam. When you have finished the book, it should be right about the time that you have to choose your specific mechanical discipline for the exam. You will start to feel a lot more comfortable at this point because the questions are much easier than what you’ve seen so far. Update in response to some questions: On test day, you will see people walk into the exam with dozens of books. I went into the exam with only the following materials and it was more than enough: Mechanical Engineering Reference Manual. Practice Problems for the Mechanical Engineering Reference Manual. NCEES Sample Questions and Solutions (Thermal and Fluids Systems). NCEES Sample Questions and Solutions (Mechanical Systems and Materials). NCEES Sample Questions and Solutions (HVAC and Refrigeration). A 1" Three Ring Binder of helpful equations, saturation tables, and conversion factors that I accumulated during the study process. I hope this has helped, and most importantly, good luck!"
"If you master this book, it is the only one you'll need (IMHO) to pass the Mechanical Engineering PE test."
"I borrowed someone's copy of the NCEES practice exam and between these materials and that exam, it's all the prep I did. You will see people with a ridiculous amount of materials on exam day, I took this book and my ASHRAE books (I took the HVAC depth exam) and it was everything I needed."
"Used this book (and ONLY this book + a unit conversion book) for the October 2014 Mechanical PE exam and passed."
"I highly recommend this book."
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Best Chemical Plant Design

Chemical Engineering Design, Second Edition: Principles, Practice and Economics of Plant and Process Design
It contains new discussions of conceptual plant design, flowsheet development, and revamp design; extended coverage of capital cost estimation, process costing, and economics; and new chapters on equipment selection, reactor design, and solids handling processes. New discussion of conceptual plant design, flowsheet development and revamp design Significantly increased coverage of capital cost estimation, process costing and economics New chapters on equipment selection, reactor design and solids handling processes New sections on fermentation, adsorption, membrane separations, ion exchange and chromatography Increased coverage of batch processing, food, pharmaceutical and biological processes All equipment chapters in Part II revised and updated with current information Updated throughout for latest US codes and standards, including API, ASME and ISA design codes and ANSI standards Additional worked examples and homework problems The most complete and up to date coverage of equipment selection 108 realistic commercial design projects from diverse industries A rigorous pedagogy assists learning, with detailed worked examples, end of chapter exercises, plus supporting data and Excel spreadsheet calculations plus over 150 Patent References, for downloading from the companion website Extensive instructor resources: 1170 lecture slides plus fully worked solutions manual available to adopting instructors. Written for the senior design course, and also suitable for introduction to chemical engineering courses, it covers the basics of unit operations and the latest aspects of process design, equipment selection, plant and operating economics, safety and loss prevention. It includes detailed worked examples, case studies, end-of-chapter exercises, plus supporting data, spreadsheet calculations and equipment specification sheets for downloading." Towler (chemical engineering, Northwestern U., Illinois) helped update and revise it, and integrated US laws, codes, and standards into it.
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"It is a good book, with some useful review of heat transfer, and fundamental chemical engineering principles."
"good instruction on plant equipment sizing."
"This is a good overview of process design."
"Arrived on time."
"This text was used for two chemical engineering design courses, and has been one of the better texts I've owned."
"The book isn't particularly good at certain examples."
"One would treasure the knowledge acquired after reading this book and can certainly make the best use of it in his respective field of application."
"It can be helpful to know the background of the person leaving the review: I obtained both a Bachelor's and Master's degree from the University of Toledo, and for the last three years, I have worked both as a process and process control engineer in industry (2007-2010)."
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Best Plastics Chemical Engineering

Plastic-Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too
In her quirky and humorous style--well known to the readers of her popular blog, My Plastic-Free Life --Terry provides personal anecdotes, stats about the environmental and health problems related to plastic, and personal solutions and tips on how to limit your plastic footprint. In this important and enjoyable book, Beth Terry walks the reader through her trials and travails and shows what the average person can do to rid themselves of plastic. This book is inspirational and has helped me kick my plastic habit not only when shopping but throughout my daily life.” ( Congressman Steve Cohen, Tennessee ). But Beth Terry dared to imagine, and with hard work, humor and lots of trial and error—turns out there’s no easy way to make your own liquid hand soap—she broke the plastic habit. With sass and intelligence, the anti-plastic crusader Beth Terry guides readers toward the road less consumptive, offering practical advice and moral support while making a convincing case that individual actions to lighten our environmental impact do matter.” ( Elizabeth Royte, author, Garbage Land and Bottlemania ). This book makes it so much easier!” ( Linda Ronstadt, musician, Plastic Pollution Coalition member ). Anyone who reads this book will be motivated to follow her lead.” ( Jack Johnson, musician, cofounder of the Ko¯kua Hawai’i Foundation ). It is that simple.” ( Daniella Dimitrova Russo, cofounder and executive director, Plastic Pollution Coalition ).
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"I highly recommend it as it's a good comprehensive guide to being more environmentally responsible or even weaning plastic out of your life."
"Large amount of information in a plastic free paper book."
"kinda sorta what I expected, but I could have googled all the info in this little book."
"This book is full of inspirational stories as well as tangible information for those who are trying to eliminate plastic from their lives."
"It made for a disenheartening read at times, but I came out of this book better informed and thus able to really change several things in my consumer choices for the better."
"Very enjoyable book."
"I appreciated that Beth Terry gives a range of options, from drastic changes that will make a big difference in your health and lifestyle (for the better!"
"Although it went way over and above my own disdain for plastic and my reliance on it, it has a ton of solutions and suggestions in each chapter."
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Best Unit & Transport Chemical Engineering

Transport Phenomena, Revised 2nd Edition
Topics also include mass transport, momentum transport and energy transport, which are presented at three different scales: molecular, microscopic and macroscopic.
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"If you are unconvinced, look at the bibliography of any other chemical engineering textbook. So if you want to be a chemical engineer, you should know how to apply the approaches to problem solving in this book."
"By far the cheapest textbook I have purchased in my university career, so I had reservations about its legitimacy, but the textbook was exactly what I needed and it came in good condition."
"This is a little outdated in some of the methods (uses Einstein's relationship for all liquid diffusivity temperature relationships instead of using empirical correlations)."
"Given some time with the book, reading is no problem!"
"I have studied and taught from this book for over 20 years."
"Not very easy to understand."
"Extremely detailed work, excellent revisions, informative side notes, and extremely well organized."
"This textbook is a requirement for chemical engineering."
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Best Chemical Engineering

Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics (The Mcgraw-Hill Chemical Engineering Series)
Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics , 7/e, presents comprehensive coverage of the subject of thermodynamics from a chemical engineering viewpoint. After teaching for over 28 years in the City University of New York, Demodar N. Gujarati is currently professor of Economics at the Department of Social Sciences US Military Academy in West Point, New York.
Reviews
"If you need a Thermo book to teach yourself, get a different one."
"Wish the book would focus more on the application of thermodynamic principles."
"The front of the book tables are missing when compared to an intro to thermo book but it is overall solid."
"SVNA was a great book and provided a good introduction to thermodynamics."
"I used this book for my first thermodynamics class in my chemical engineering major and the book is very understandable and clearly written."
"Terrible book at explaining the basics."
"I recieved the book with loose bonds."
"This book is terribly dry."
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Best Petroleum Engineering

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
Deemed "the best history of oil ever written" by Business Week and with more than 300,000 copies in print, Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power has been extensively updated to address the current energy crisis. The Prize portrays the interweaving of national and corporate interests, the conflicts and stratagems, the miscalculations, the follies, and the ironies." "Impassioned and riveting...only in the great epics of Homer will readers regularly run into a comparable string of larger-than-life swashbucklers and statesmen, heroes and villains."
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"It focuses on the effects of oil on the economies of both consuming and producing nations as well how access to oil affects the political power of nations."
"It makes no sense to export a precious finite resource, and it makes a lot of sense to use our enemy's supply first."
"This is the third copy of this book that I have purchased."
"The sentiments of various people and groups towards oil (good or bad) were negligible in the book which gave it almost a sterile feel. I now have a much stronger understanding of just how oil plays its enormous role in the global society. I can't say enough about how well this book informs its reader in an enjoyable and insightful way. It may at points be dry material, but in no way did i feel like this book was written over my head."
"Although concentrated on the oil industry, this book is really an incredible history of the twentieth century, which makes a lot of sense considering the paramount of oil to that era and now."
"This is a long book, but if you want to write a comprehensive story of oil and its impact on the economy spanning more than a century, it's going to be long."
"This is one of the best histories of the Oil Business."
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