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Review title: Good, but Needs to be Proofread.
Product review: I'm using this book to study for my Ph.D. candidacy exam, and it's extremely useful. It definitely is more theoretical, with general proofs, etc., mainly focusing on elasticity, with some plasticity and fracture mechanics. I would not recommend this book for a civil engineer (you might check out Craig, Mechanics of Materials, for a good intro beam book).The one huge beef I have with this book is the insane amount of typos in it! There's about 1 per page, which is a serious problem. It's a shame, because it otherwise is well done, but hard to trust because of the amount of minor typos that should have been picked up in proofreading. I wonder if the authors were in a hurry, for some reason, to get this one out?
