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Article #17036Re: Book club for EE
From: Steven Christensen
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:12
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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Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.engr Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!babbage.ece.uc.edu!uceng.uc.edu!schriste 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 Lines: 31