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- From: schriste@uceng.uc.edu (Steven Christensen)
- Subject: Re: Book club for EE
- Message-ID: <C0qsp4.IMt@uceng.uc.edu>
- Organization: University of Cincinnati
- References: <darknite.726819812@camelot>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:12:40 GMT
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- In article <darknite.726819812@camelot> darknite@camelot.bradley.edu (John S. Novak III) writes:
- >
- >As a near-graduation EE, I have a vested interest in building up
- >a small library fairly quickly.
- >
- >Can someone please recommend a good book club for electrical
- >engineers? What I'm looking for is a club with reasonable
- >prices, with an opening deal which doesn't try to gut my
- >pocketbook with a "You must buy 5 books in twelve months" clause.
-
-
- I'll tell you one to avoid - the McGraw-Hill book club. They seem
- to recycle the same books, most of which are so specific to make
- them unusable but to a tiny population of engineers, or so general
- to make them equally unusable.
-
- Their 3 books in 2 years policy (I think) was a little oppressive.
-
- Steven
-
- >--
- >"Don't worry, if I am teaching in a mathematics course, and they don't know
- > how to derive that formula, I flunk them. Don't worry, I'm teaching in an EE
- > course, so if you don't know how to derive it, I just kill you."
- > -Dr. Santiago Navaro, 02-07-92
- >John S. Novak, III darknite@camelot.bradley.edu
-
-
- --
- Steven V. Christensen
- schriste@uceng.uc.edu
-