No comments about All That's Practical about Wood: Stoves, As a Fuel, Heating - Including Wood Pellet Stoves (Energy Conservation, Vol. 9) (Alternative Energy (Richie Unlimited)).

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1 comments about Industrial Automation and Process Control.

1. THIS BOOK WOULD BE GOOD FOR A MANAGER WHOS JUST WANTS TO KONW TERMINOLOGY AND IS NOT REALLY INTERESTED IN BARE BONES AUTOMATION WORK. NOT REALLY A REFERENCE OF ANY SORT BUT DOES MAKE A GOOD READ AS FAR AS ENG BOOKS GO.

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No comments about 547 Tips for Saving Energy in Your Home (Down-To-Earth Energy Book).

3 comments about This Cold House: The Simple Science of Energy Efficiency.

1. As utility bills for consumers keep soaring for electricity for summer
   cooling and for oil and natural gas for winter heating, This Cold House provides some relief in the form of options to make one's home more energy efficient. This will help tenants and property owners save money on their residential energy bills, and these energy efficiencies will help the planet as they slow the rate that fossil fuels are consumed and greenhouse gases are created.
   
   Something that is good for you and good for others, something that is both expedient and altruistic, is the definition of civility. This Cold House reveals that our most private retreat, the home, is yet another site for civility, where our relationship with others can be considered, in addition to our own self-interested efforts to save money on runaway utility bills.
   
   This Cold House is an excellent primer on the various types of heating and cooling systems, the pros and cons of different energy for them (ie., oil versus natural gas versus electricity for heating systems), and insulation options. These form the central pieces of a home that can be made both more energy efficient and optimally comfortable. The book also explores various safety and convenience permutations, as well as the place for personal preference in terms of ambient home temperature.
   
   The book is at once elementary and oddly technical at times and reads like a perfect introductory textbook for an HVAC 101 class. The average homeowner will find some helpful tips if looking to overhaul one's heating system or enhance one's insulation. It will also provide an extremely useful companion if one is undertaking an energy audit of one's home in terms of insulation, system type, and fuels. For renters, it provides some more modest possibilities for saving money on monthly utility bills.
   
   This Cold House is written in a charming, inimitably British, and accessible voice, though at times Mr. Smith becomes cloying with his many winking asides ("My wife really does look beautiful in her new sweater!"). Overall, This Cold House really does make the science of energy efficiency simple, and its consideration of human factors such as convenience and comfort, as well as the more computational, make it a warm, inviting, and, indeed, most civil, volume. It is a very clever idea and very well executed.



2. I just bought my first home and was interested in insulating more, so i picked up this book on a whim to learn some general principles about ventilation, insulation, and other issues related to keeping my house warm. Being a layman with little knowledge of the subject, i figured i'd just quickly scan the book and try to get a few quick tips before being bored to death. Before i knew it, I'd read the whole book! Mr. Smith took a subject that could be dull, technical, and inaccessible and makes it vibrant and fascinating! If you have any interest in physics and would like to know more about the way the world works, read this book! You won't be disappointed.



3. I bought this book with the aim of learning the best way to reduce my fuel bill. It is fair to say that, buried deep within the book, there is some useful information, but the author has a truly irritating style of introducing every single topic with paragraphs of mostly unrelated drivel.
   
   We have descriptions about how the author's wife looks in her sweater, an account of the author's friends' bureaucratic problems getting through to his gas supplier on the phone, and a host of other anecdotes which leave the reader none the wiser concerning energy efficiency, and after an hour or two, were simply too much for this reader - I could take no more and gave up.
   
   Also be aware (as I was not) that this book is intended for an American audience and as such uses units such as gallons and fahrenheit.

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4 comments about Machining Fundamentals: From Basic to Advanced Techniques.

1. Dear: Mr. Walker I am an instructor of Machining Technology and have used and studied your textbooks for a long time I wish to complimnet you on the latest edition of machining fundamentals, the text is super with the color illistrations and layout this was exactly what I was looking for in a textbook. the student workbook is also of good quality. however the instructors guide is beyond compare it is one of the best instructors guides that I have ever seen including the masters. the only complant that I have is with the testing software it is far better than nothing but is far below what I would have expected from you. you could have at least made it a Windows based program that is more user frendly and flexable for the instructor to use and edit to their pacific needs. Their is too many limits on the abilities of the software to use fonts, printers, layout of the test.ect. What I would like to see in the future editions is an improvement on the software maybe even include the text, illistrations, text questions, and a lot more project prints that relate to the text and program that will allow the students to be more compedent in the shop. Thank you for your time and effort. Thomas C. Leckey



2. An easy to understand basic machining book. Good for introducing the various types of machines and associated tooling. Written for the classroom, with questions at the end of each chapter to reinforce what you have read. No techniques or how to stuff.



3. This is an excellent resource for someone who is just getting into machining work. I come from a CAD design background and wanted to know more about the actual processes of production, as well as tools used, etc. The book does a really solid job of covering everything from the proper use of a hammer to giving an overview of modern "high-tech" machining processes using lasers, water saws and so on. Many pictures and exceptional diagrams help to explain the text quite clearly. Done in textbook format with questions at the end of each chapter. It should be noted that while this is an overview of an immense amount of information, I though it did a pretty good job of being detailed and thorough on each subject.



4. This book is well-written, and does not waste the reader's time with useless, off-topic, or wordy writing. John Walker does an excellent job explaining different machines and processes as well as what items may be produces from those machines and processes. Very worthy reading or reference material.

3 comments about Electronic Devices and Circuits.

1. As a former student of Mr. Bogart's I found this textbook far above average as a reference...KK....



2. This book is a classical book for all students who want to understand the subject of electronic devices and circuits.I found this book very helpful in understanding each and every concept and insight of the subject,everything is clearly explained.There are solved examples with each topic and spice examples&exercices with some design exercises are also given at the end of each chapter.



3. This book was the primary text for my Electronics I and II classes as an electrical engineer. It has all the formulas needed to evaluate and create circuits using bjt and fet transistors along with a great deal of other information. What it lacks though is any attempt to instill an understanding of the behavior of the circuit.
   
   At a college level, doing any kind of work should be more than regurgitating formulas on a test form, it should be evaluating the behavior of the elements and how they are working together. If you want to learn how to solve for values in a circuit outlay this book is great, if you actually want to understand the outlay, find something else to teach you.

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