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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780060409821
ISBN: 0060409827
Label: Longman Higher Education
Manufacturer: Longman Higher Education
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 624
Publication Date: 1984-06
Publisher: Longman Higher Education
Sales Rank: 3972616
Studio: Longman Higher Education
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Product Description:
For Surveying courses offered in Civil Engineering departments. This highly readable, best-selling text presents basic concepts and practical material in each of the areas fundamental to modern surveying (geomatics) practice. Its depth and breadth are ideal for self-study. The 12th Edition is updated throughout to reflect the latest advances and technology.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Lacking at an Elementary Level
This book is sorely lacking at two levels: 1) There are too many errors 2) many concepts are not clearly explained. I have two degrees in electrical engineering and decided to go back and get my Masters in Civil Engineering. The graduate coordinator required me to take the elementary surveying course and this was the required book. I got an A in the course, but please believe me it wasn't a result of this 11th edition.
It is both inexcusable and shocking that there are so many errors within ... Read More
Rating: - This book confuses more than it educates
I am shocked that there are ANY positive reviews, and am highly suspect of the five star ones.
This book needs massive amounts of editing. There are few examples of equations and concepts; of the few that are, about a third of them are incorrect in one form or another (either they refer back to the wrong data, they skip steps, simply get the math wrong...). This is infuriating. I would like to see many more logically worked out examples, if they can manage to get it straight themselves ... Read More
Rating:  - Pretty good for California Civil PE Surveying test
I bought this book for the Civil PE Surveying test. I would recommend its use for this test. I found several answers directly from this book, answers that weren't in the typical test prep book that most people buy.
I'd recommend buying this book and also one old, outdated text book (pre 1980's at least). The exam seems to have some questions that are more of historical note than they are relavent to modern surveying - I had a couple of answers that weren't in this version of the book but ... Read More
Rating:  - Way too many errata for a recommendation
I have been using this book for six months in two different courses, and have nearly completed it.
While the content is fine, the number of errata in this book should not be tolerated.
On the book's web page, numerous errata are listed, but there are many more that have not been reported or compiled. While trying to study this book, the errata keep getting in the way of understanding the material, as there are wrong equations, bad tables, etc.
This book is in its ... Read More
Rating: - how to survive the use of this book
this book is terrible! There are very few helpful illustrations, some simply don't exist ie in the defining of angles and their relationships! for some problems/projects that are fairly involved, several completely different data sets are used, so if you were confused about something on one step you cannot derive understanding from the completion of the problem. So, you are forced to rely on the horrible text written partially in crat -things are explained in the longest possible way! The author and our ... Read More
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EAN: 9780060409821
ISBN: 0060409827
Label: Longman Higher Education
Manufacturer: Longman Higher Education
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 624
Publication Date: 1984-06
Publisher: Longman Higher Education
Sales Rank: 3972616
Studio: Longman Higher Education