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Dewey Decimal Number: 629
EAN num: 9780130482051
ISBN number: 0130482056
Label: Prentice Hall
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Quantity: 2
Page Count: 300
Printing Date: December 10, 2004
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This two book set—a Classroom Manual and a Workshop Manual—provides a current and deep technical discusion of engine rebuilding and repair. This revision, written by a new author, has greatly reorganized the Workshop manual to eliminate duplicate material and improve the correlation between the two books. Provides users with an excellent resource in preparation for ASE Certification tests. In addition to the latest information about lubricants, engine design, and manufacturing, the books cover the following key topics: OSHA safety self-inspection worksheets; Engine parts, operation, and construction; Engine physics and chemistry; cooling systems; intake and exhaust systems; Tools for engine rebuilding; Engine testing and diagnosis; Engine removal, disassembly, general inspection, and cleaning. For auto mechanic professionals, those preparing for the ASE Certification Exam, or for use as a reference tool for those seeking a good foundation in theory and repair of engines.
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Needs to be formatted better, May 6, 2008
By Gerard J. Sagliocca "gerard_socialcritic" (schenectady, ny United States) - See all my reviews
My comments on this textbook :
1. Introduction
I just got done reading the whole damn book for an Engine course at HVCC college in upstate eastern New York State with a great instructor and stock car racer, Ken Tremont; and friends, believe it or not ... it was a brutal experience for me, and mind you, I'm an experienced technical learner !
In other words, I know how to study and how to organize text material for quicker assimilation to the brain. You see my kind readers the human brain apparently likes text material formatted in certain specific ways, and if it does not "see" what it expects, within a certain + or - range, then the brain will begin fret subconsciously and it begins finding any excuses why a reader should not read the damn material to begin with!
Most Publishing house, and I clearly blame them, for some crazy reason, either do not know this or pretend not to know this and they throw text material in any which way; and we as consumers, end up with the mish mash as with this textbook.
The publisher chose for some strange reason this silly 2-column format which, in my view, was the worst choice for them make. They also do not number the subsections and use strictly the size of the lettering to tell readers what is a major subheading and what is a smaller subheading. This is scary stuff when one has many subsections and all are essentially major subsections.
2. Bad Format !
Aside from having a few technical errors, on which I will not say too much at this time, the biggest damn problem with the book is the terrible way it was laid out.
In general, laying out any textbook can be done in so many different ways or as Mathematicians call it "permutations", so that when one considers the many variables involved in any textbook, that in most cases a publisher has literally hundreds of ways to show the material off to the readers. Newspaper end up doing a more better job at laying out their papers than what I see from most publishers who have come to believe just slap on a pretty front cover and charge the most one can in the textbook marketplace! There should be a federal refund law protecting students from such badly formatted textbooks.
Having established that in this book it contains several hundred Figures and diagrams but apparently nobody at Chek-Chart Publishing took the great time or hired some good lay out artists to make sure the many Figures were as close to the text where they were being discussed in the chapters!
So doing a 2-column format is at the very least ridiculous for a book containing several hundred figures and diagrams!
NOTE: 2-Column format is OK for most literature type books where there are few figures. So using the standard 2- column newspaper format is Ok since it may help readers speed read the material; however when a reader has to stop and go all the time and try to locate the damn Figures at 1 or 2 pages or more away from the text where it is being discussed, is like stop and go traffic jam which ends up frustrating the poor reader and his patience.
And so this book, like his other textbook on Fuels System are bad news city in that they harass the poor reader' patience.
Also this 2-column format allows Major topics to begin at the bottom of the damn page! How silly! (I am trying to be kind! here friends.)
3. Bad chapter questions!
Also the End of Chapter questions are often way above the level of difficulty covered within the chapter; so I think they must have hired another group of people developing questions who rally did not totally relate to the author who wrote the original chapters.
So right about now I'm fully ready to scream just because I had to endure and read all these 2 books and I had no help from the damn Publishing house who seems clueless that formatting text material is very crucial to an average reader.
Sincerely,
Gerard J. Sagliocca, P.E.
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