[.ca] Introduction To The Thermodynamics Of Materials (ISBN 1560324325)

best materials thermo book available....:
Gaskell is a critical component to the library of any Materials Scientist. Study it once, study it twice, and then pull it off the shelf often during your professional career. A solid professor can highlight the most critical components of the text.

Worthless Text:
This author chooses to word each meaninful passage quite cryptically. What could have been expressed clearly and concisely, Gaskell stretches into infinately long and redundant passages. Also the numerical examples give little if any insight into how to solve real life problems, or any problems within the text. This book would serve better purpose as kindling.

This is a new edition:
First, who is Robert R. Rice? As I understand it, Dr. Gaskell, wrote the book himself - Robert Rice is a non-entity. Second, all of the reviews for this edition ( the fourth) refer to the third edition. All of the errors found in the third edition have been corrected in the fourth edition.

His other thermo books are bad, so is this one:
Like others have said before me, thermodynamics is hard enough without Gaskell's weak attempts to make it even harder. He has the ability to make the difficult the uncomprehendable. I wouldn't use any of his books if they were given to me.

God Save Us if this is as good as we can expect!:
One must read each chapter of Gaskell's book at least three times to start understanding his meaning. He buries important concepts under piles of meaningless detail. His excruciating legalistic prose makes it very difficult to understand the key concepts and their application. The examples don't have answers in my edition. This book is brutal.