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Non-Engineer Review.......2005-01-20
As a non- engineer, but fully engaged in the Injection Molding business as a recruiter of Plastic Part Design Engineers, this book delivers technical information but easy to read and comprehend. Not just a book on theory, but practical applications. I recommend for non-engineers and engineers.
Excellent book........2003-02-28
This book is excellent. It is technical but easy to understand, has illustrations, comprehensive, and very informative. Highly recommended.
Practical, Hands-on Manual for the Plastics Professional.......2002-09-17
This book reveals the basic background required by personnel in the plastics field in designing parts for injection molding. It has many examples and illustrations of real-life applications instead of endless derivations of equations. It is a very useful, well structured, easy to follow guide for assisting in your design and knowledge of polymer related products.
Practical, Hands-on Manual for the Plastics Professional.......2002-09-17
This book reveals the basic background required by personnel in the plastics field in designing parts for injection molding. It has many examples and illustrations of real-life applications instead of endless derivations of equations. It is a very useful, well structured, easy to follow guide for assisting in your design and knowledge of polymer related products.
Plastic product design was never made so clear and pellucid.......1998-10-07
Dr.Malloy's book reflects the common problems an engineer would face while designing a plastic part. His book takes all the possible design problems that one might not even expect. He deserves 10,0000000**********'s.
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From raw materials ... to machining and casting ... to assembly and finishing, the Second Edition of this classic guide will introduce you to the principles and procedures of Design for Manufacturability (DFM)Ñthe art of developing high-quality products for the lowest possible manufacturing cost. Written by over 70 experts in manufacturing and product design, this update features cutting-edge techniques for every stage of manufacturingÑplus entirely new chapters on DFM for Electronics, DFX (Designing for all desirable attributes), DFM for Low-Quality Production, and Concurrent Engineering.
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A "must have" for design/manufacturing engineers.......2000-02-12
I teach Product Design Engineering at Ohio State and I can honestly say that Bralla is absolutely the best single reference for working designers and manufacturing engineers that I've found. An incredible compendium of useful info on just about any manufacturing process you can think of, and plenty you HAVEN'T thought of, plus chapters on Design for Assembly, materials, economic considerations - you name it. The book is a bit pricey, but considering the amount of useful information packed into it, it's a steal. Bralla far exceeds McGraw-Hill's regrettably low standards for their handbooks - this one is a keeper!
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This indispensable, all inclusive reference guide to plastic part design is compiled with the product designer in mind, who is looking for more detailed information on plastic resins, the rules and geometries underlying their use in product design, and the advantages and limitations of their use in industrial applications. The designer will also find valuable advice on resin and tool selection and processing parameters that will allow fast and successful product development and manufacture. Thousands of hours of research and cross-referencing have gone into the completion of this work. In addition, the hands-on knowledge of a plastics expert with more than 35 years experience incorporated in this handbook makes it an invaluable tool for any product designer facing the challenges of our global plastics industry.
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The First Snap-Fit Handbook, now updated and available in an all new second edition, provides an extremely valuable resource for product development teams. It represents a major advance in the design of integral plastic attachment methods and contains the best blend of analysis and real-world experience. This second edition includes new chapters for introducing snap-fit technology and provides strategies for ensuring long-term snap-fit capability and learning. Written by Americas leading authority and creator of the attachment level approach, this book provides the tools needed to masterfully implement snap-fit design. It presents a step-by-step description of the snap-fit development process and includes many illustrations to show what kinds of snap-fit features are available to the designer.
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Very goo technical book but.......2006-12-16
I found it to be a great book for technical stuff. I'm new to constructing and engineering and have never finished it in University and just had to take over someone's place at a job. But I have to say that I was dissapointed only at one thing: It does have a vast variety of different Snap-fits but I was hoping that I could find a table with all possible snap fits in it. Like for example I found a few snap fits that are not listen in the book but I still have to say that is is quite an excellent book. It would be great to have a very large table of all possible snap fits at the back and some data.
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Excellent Book.......2007-09-15
I'm a Principle Staff Mech Engr with ten years experience at Motorola and Nokia. This is an excellent resource book for design, and a helpful resource when putting together snap-fit design workshops for jr and sr mechanical engineers.
Author Clarifies.......2005-11-06
Potential readers should take advantage of this site's feature that lets you review this book's Table of Contents and Introduction. As is clearly explained in the "Introduction" and "Reader Expectations" Sections, this book is not just about equations for snap feature behavior. There are indeed many sources for feature behavior calculations; some are provided in the book. This book is useful if you want to understand a snap-fit attachment as a system in order to avoid many common errors. Many of these errors are trivial, but they are repeated again and again in all kinds of plastic products. My personal experience is that the root causes of most snap-fit attachment problems are neither prevented nor resolved by simply calculating feature behavior and a 'systems' approach is essential. To post this message, I must rate my own book; this is not an attempt to bias the ratings.
Too wordy and academic.......2005-10-19
I agree with the other people who said this book repeats itself. It could have been about 1/5th the length and still contained the same amount of information. He spends a lot of time on definitions instead of practical information. After purchasing his book, I found some free snap-fit design guides on the internet that I found much more useful.
Too much self-evident things.......2004-09-27
First I must say that this book is not for snap-fit calculation, it is about snap-fir consepts. So it helps a lot in designing snap-fit as a whole (locators, guides etc). Not so helpful if you just have to design and calculate special snap-fit feature.
Good book for beginners but it repeats too much too simple things -> too much "fluffy" pages, less pages would be better better
I would give 3 stars. This obviusly is not 5 star book, altough I would recommend this book if you are going to design more than one snap fitting.
The pratical methodology for snap-fit mechanism design.......2001-05-20
Unlike most of the design reference book, this one gives design engineers very good logical ways, i.e. design methodology, for snap-fit mechanism design. It will avoid the mistakes a young engineer might make, and the writer also provides several very good examples to guide experienced engineers' creativity.
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It's helpful for M.E. for plastic parts design........2000-06-21
It's helpful for M.E. for plastic parts design. So many informations to help engineers how to design plastic parts and how to asembly it.
Fantastic book for designing parts........2000-03-25
Excellent book covering all aspects of designing plastic parts for assembly and mass production. Bryan McDonald. Apple Product Design. Product Design Manager.
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Presenting an ardent defence of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, this book offers a clear and comprehensive exposition of Darwin’s thinking. Michael Ruse brings the story up-to-date, examining the origins of life, the fossil record, and the mechanism of natural selection. Rival theories are explored, from punctuated equilibrium to human evolution (including the recently found ‘hobbits’, Homo floresiensis). The philosophical and religious implications of Darwinism are discussed, including a discussion of Creationism and its modern day offshoot, Intelligent Design Theory. Ruse draws upon the most recent discoveries, writing with a minimum of jargon in order to appeal to all readers, from professional biologists to those concerned that Darwinism is a naturalistic religion that is forced on school children despite their own Christian convictions. Openly revealing his own beliefs, Ruse presents readers with all the information and critical tools they need to make an informed decision on evolutionary theory.
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Quite A Substantive Introduction to Darwinism and its Impact.......2007-04-19
I found this to be quite a useful discussion of Darwin which gets much more into the underlying scientific and philosophical dimensions than do other introductory books. I can't say I understood all of the points the author was making (despite a rather articulate and cogent writing style), but I absorbed enough to at least understand what some of the various arguments relating to Darwin involve. This is not an attack per se on intelligent design or religion even for that matter--in fact one of the most interesting chapters deals with religion in a most even-handed fashion. Especially well done are the initial overview chapter on "Charles Darwin and His Revolution," followed by very detailed and sometimes challenging chapters on topics such as "Humans," "Literature" and the "Facts," "Path" and "Cause of Evolution." The author's discussion of "Dishonest Science" was particularly helpful since so many scientific claims and counterclaims seem to be flying around relating to evolution--and as usual, the discussion is extremely balanced. The author has written many books on evolution and is quite expert on the topic at all levels of complexity. His ability to explain all these concepts to those less versed is to be commended. His bibliography is of great value, and the book comes in at around 300 pages (including helpful illustrations and diagrams). A valuable addition to the library of anyone interested in getting more deeply into Darwin and his revolution.
Truth Over Ideology.......2007-03-05
What a satisfying book! For a while it seemed that we were stuck with two extremes: (1) Creationist/ID efforts to discredit Evolution or (2) rabid scientists (like Dawkins & Crew) who sought to imbue Evolution with a religious tone, insisting that those who accept it must also adopt an religion-bashing atheist. Worse, those latter efforts have turned the discussion on its head, moving it out of the scientific world into the culture wars of politics and religion. Besides, someone's position on faith is so scientifically irrelevant in the first place - science rises and falls on evidence, not on belief.
This is a good middle ground that does NOT take arguments from both sides and fuse them in a confusing mush of conflicting ideas. The defense of Evolution is broad, deep and thorough (although it is not textbook complexity). At the same time he gives air time to those from the other side (ID mainly) who cannot accept the fact that life arose from non-life and that natural selection could bring about such complex organisms as worms (you thought I was going to say "people" - LOL). Ruse not only explains the mechanical workings of Evolution (abbrevieated) but is somewhat of an expert on the history of the idea. This part was, in many ways, one of the most satisfying as he traces Darwins's thought process, suppositions and conflicts. One can almost see the great man pondering these things on his way to church or as he putters in his nice English garden. Parenthetically, Darwin was totally against any war on religion and stated this numerous times.
While it is true that there are philosophical and religious implications of Darwinism, troubles immediately rise when it is used outside biology. That old fandango, Social Darwinism, was once widely accepted by "progressives" as a scientific way of measuring societies and individuals. The new emphasis on biosociology and biopsychology follows the same pathway by proposing that social constructs be formed around biological theories.
The most obvious example of conflict - and one he handles well - is religion. He does this however by diluting the underpinnings of many a religious person, treating miracles as allegory, supernatural events as parables and religious history as suspect. What he retains is the most important part in the real world - its ethical tradition. Although I find it difficult to understand how one can continue practicing traditional faith once the stories, miracles and history are removed, it is certaintly their right to do so without being insulted or savaged. Altogether a very good read.
Adjudicating points of contention.......2007-03-02
In a previous book, Can a Darwinian Be a Christian? (2001), Michael Ruse reconciled the ways of Christianity to the fact of evolution. He did so by allowing for a largely symbolic reading of the Bible and by defining Christianity as a system of belief about matters beyond the reach of Darwinism, such as our having souls and being made in the image of God and being given heavenly or hellish eternal life in realms not subject to biological evolution.
Here Ruse adjudicates various disputes between Darwinism and its critics and among Darwinians themselves on such matters as natural selection (especially this), punctuated equilibrium, group selection, drift, reductionism, etc. Unfortunately I don't think he adds much that is new to the discussion, and his torturously "correct" navigation between believers and non-believers left this reader annoyed. Spill the beans! For example, state it clearly: Christianity that relies on a literal interpretation of the Bible is incompatible with Darwinism. Period. Add: Those who appreciate the fact of biological evolution cannot accept that man was made in a Christian God's image or that a personal God is, and has been, shaping events on this planet.
Ruse writes from the point of view of a historian of evolutionary science and as someone sympathetic with what I might call progressive Christianity, a Christianity that knows that the world was not made in six days and that the earth has been around for a few billion years and that God does not have a belly button or even an alimentary canal or a need for either. Ruse is an expert on Darwinism and its contemptuous history and he understands the major issues very well. He is the kind of writer who bends over backwards to be fair to his opposition, such as creationists and Intelligent Designers, as well as atheists like Richard Dawkins or agnostics like Stephen Jay Gould. He is also the kind of writer who equivocates a lot, whose instincts are to find common ground and to further responsible and honorable dialogue, which is the strength of this book.
He begins with a chapter demonstrating the Charles Darwin really does deserve the credit he gets for being the first to understand natural selection, which is the very heart and soul of evolutionary theory. He goes on to argue for "The Fact of Evolution" (the title of Chapter Two) while giving a hearing to creationist/ID people like Alvin Plantinga and Michael Behe. He follows with a discussion of the some of the problems surrounding "The Origin of Life" (Chapter Three). He ends the book with chapters ten, eleven and twelve on "Philosophy," "Literature," and "Religion." There is some interesting material on the epistemological ramifications of biological evolution and whether we can construct some sort of morality from Darwin's blueprint. (No!) He analyses Ian McEwan's contemporary novel, Enduring Love (1997) in terms of its relationship to Darwinism, and he dregs up some raucous anti-Darwinian quotes from George Bernard Shaw and recalls Samuel Butler's Erewhon (1872) amid a gloss about the differences between machines and organisms. In-between there is some interesting pro and con about familiar issues within evolutionary theory.
Ruse's style is a little long-winded and (typical of philosophers) weighted down with careful qualification--yet, at the same time, he is capable of wit and sharp expression. This is the sort of book that will appeal to those readers with philosophic, literary and historical inclinations. This is not a book for biological scientists or for those looking for cutting edge discussions of problems in evolutionary theory.
Three things:
(1) I am not enamored of the term "Darwinism" as a synonym for biological evolution. It is too restrictive both in terms of the ideas and manifestations of evolution, but also in terms of the historical record.
(2) While Ruse understands that the facts about our biological nature revealed by evolutionary biology do not necessarily support any kind of "ought" about how we should behave, he doesn't seem to realize (see pages189-193) that we can understand and forgive on a biological level while on a societal level we must throw the violent criminals into jail. There is no "very fine line" between knowledge of our biology and our ethics, and "Darwinian approaches to humankind certainly" do not "cross that line." (p. 193) "What is" is one thing. "What should be" is another. People crossing that blunt and clearly marked line do so on their own.
(3) Little light and certainly no resolution are brought to bear on the problem of evil and free will that Ruse addresses beginning on page 284. He brings the matter up because some people think that seeing the world from the view of biological evolution somehow supports evil in the world and argues against free will. The problem of evil is the result of the belief in a personal God who is all powerful and at the same time all compassionate and has nothing to do with biological evolution. Furthermore, the question of whether we have free will or whether it is just an illusion we cannot help but believe, is a philosophical problem and not a scientific one.
Postdarwinism and its discontents.......2007-01-22
It has been a vintage year for Darwin books, the second for Mr. Ruse. The more there are, the less they seem to convince. Besieged by Intelligent Design, the cadre of obsessives plying Darwin's theory must be meaning to lay down the paradigm boundaries once and for all for a confused and, unfortunately, thoroughly hoodwinked public simultaneously tempted by the opposite oversimplifications of the design argument and its minions. Ruse's book is exceptionally clear, and that's a problem, the weakness of the theory of natural selection stands out all the more. No amount of official material defending Darwin will finally convince the world, to the frustration of the hard-core 'contented' Darwin true believers. The question has gone on too long, and we really don't need anymore books defending Darwin at this point. The jig is up if fundamentalist Christians, in the midst of their incompetence and rival obsessions, nonetheless can see through a theory when the best scientists aren't able to do this. Part of the problem is that the domination of Darwin's theory is so entrenched that public discussion is essentially bogus, leaving the reigning paradigm to coast in an atmosphere of overconfidence. We need someone in the field, it might have been Ruse, to say 'enough's enough' and simply expose the false certitude of Darwinian theory at the point where it is being used to construct a metaphysical worldview to be imposed on the public with a dogmatism hidden behind scientism. Stemming the tide of the inexorable coming of Postdarwinism is impossible in the end, and better that scientists do the job, since the Bible Belt appears ready otherwise to do it for them.
It Won't Convince Those Who Simply Refuse to Consider.......2006-11-14
The current issue of Newsweek magazine ways that about have of the people in the United States believes that the universe is 6000 years old. That fossils like the dinosaurs were put there just to test one's beliefs, that the light coming from distant galaxies is somehow being created while it's on its way here, that there is no need to conserve energy because the selected few are going to be taken up bo heaven by Jesus sometime in the next fifty years or so while the rest of the population of the earth dies.
If someone actually believes these things as a matter of faith with no room for questioning, there is little that any book can do to change their minds.
On the other hand, this is the most complete analysis of the arguments against Darwin and evolution that I have ever seen. And with each argument the author clearly points out that experimental evidence is against such an argument. To anyone with an open mind who is interested in what the evidence shows, this is a supurb book. It basically takes one argument against Darwin per chapter and discusses it completely. If anything, he leans almost to far in accepting the arguments. Still at the end, he explains the best thinking that scientists backed up with experimental evidence have to justify evolution.
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Title: But Is It Good for the Conservatives? Darwinism and its discontents.
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