Customer Reviews

Engineering Geology: An Environmental Approach (2nd Edition)

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This book is well written, covers a wide breadth of information well, and is a valuable reference. It is also has clear, interesting writing. That said, the quality of the typeface, and especially the figures, is so incredibly poor as to render the book painful to read. I can hardly belive how badly executed a modern (1995, 2nd Ed.) volume by a large publisher (Prentice Hall) can be.

A very good book for introductory engineering geology. The author presents the information in an easy to read and understand format. I thoroughly enjoyed the authors use of actual situations and incidents to help the reader understand the concepts, applications and importance of the subject material. I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest of attaining a basic understanding of engineering geology.

I purchased this textbook to use in a college course. The text of the book is good, but the quality of the pictures is completely unacceptable. The photographs are in black and white, and they appear grainy and unclear. Even with the captions, I frequently cannot even tell what the photos are trying to show. I will NOT be keeping this textbook after my course is over.

This book was delivered in due time. However, the binding on this book is terrible and split apart as soon as I opened the book for the first time.

Although the photographs in the paperback version are black and white, this well-written book is a worthwhile purchase.