Callister's Materials Science and Engineering, 2ed, w/cd | IM | e Paperback – 1 January 2014

Very helpful for Mechanical students

A must have book for students pursuing Materials Engineering/Science. The content is easy to follow as long as chapters are not skipped. Although the copy I received clearly doesn't look like an original (the content in the discs are colored while in the hardcover it's all grey-scaled even if the subtexts of the illustrations say otherwise). Paper quality can be improved. With the current GSM and thickness, pages are easily foiled and torn.I'd recommend this book for it's content, but if paper quality and authenticity of the product gets you easily riled up, I'll suggest you to look somewhere else.

Very useful and fundamental book. I recommend for the beginners

Good Book

I appreciate and extend my gratitude toward Callister. But I have more to say.The editor of this edition of Callister is called by the name R. Balasubramaniam. With all due respect, I want to state the truth - I think he has ruined Callister's original work by editing it. Several entries in the subject index can't be traced back. Chapters have been shuffled rendering the referral equation numbers and figure numbers useless. This made my self-study really troublesome. I was frustrated to find some equations referenced in the glossary absent on the referred spot. Some really important chapters, from 18 to 23, are present in an enclosed CD which is another bothersome feature of this edition by Balasubramaniam.If any publisher is reading this review, I want you to understand this problem - I request you this - never get your original international edition get edited by Indian specialtist/editors. They ruin it.

Went thoroughly through the book. Best explanation of each topic. Plenty of diagrams. Lucid language. This is best book in the market for materials science and engineering subject.

Book condition is good

Useful for all engineers in understanding concepts of material science, good examples, high level of theory, complicated language but easily understandable, work out examples