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 | | Surveying by Jack C. McCormac ISBN-10: 9780471237587 ISBN-10: 0-471-23758-2 ISBN-13: 9780471237587 ISBN-13: 978-0-471-23758-7 Paperback 2003-10-23 Wiley Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This book provides a comprehensive coverage of the essential skills necessary in surveying and civil engineering. It covers measurements, distance corrections, leveling, angles, area computation, computer calculations, topographic surveying, electronic distance measuring instruments, and construction surveying. * Includes photos and diagrams, lists of useful addresses and degree programs, surveying tables and formulas. * Updated to include more coverage of GPS and GIS. | ||
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Dry but informative This book has all the information you will need, but in a poorly laid out and difficult to read format | ||
Maybe the 6th edition will be better. It is amazing to believe that this is a fifth edition book. The subjects chosen are potentially good choices but the author slices and dices the text to the point of confusion. In order to make a smaller, more manageable book, he has excised discussions which would help in explaining many of these advanced topics. I would like to say he was creating a "Surveying for Dummies" book but that would discredit the concise and well-written texts of this nature and give him too much credit. At close to $100 for a flimsy, ill-written, badly or never edited text, I would be ashamed to put my name on the cover no less be the printing house associated with this book. If you are an instructor looking for a book, run quickly away from this title; you'd be better off sending your students out onto the internet for information that would be more legible and definitely much cheaper. | ||
Terrible Book This was a horrible text book, contradictory in information, difficult to understand and pontificatingly lengthy! One of the only textbooks I have ever sold back! | ||