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Re: Book club for EE

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From: Steven Christensen
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:12
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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
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