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Title: Soil Mechanics in Engineering Practice by Karl Terzaghi, Ralph B. Peck, Gholamreza Mesri ISBN: 0-471-08658-4 Publisher: Interscience Pub. Date: January, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $110.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Terzaghi says it all...
Comment: you've got to have this book if you are a geotechnical engineer. terzaghi gives examples from actual projects and presents them clearly. there are solutions to geotechnical problems encountered in the field.

Rating: 5
Summary: Karl Terzaghi is loved
Comment: Many have commented on my review below -- most favorably. A few said, it was the second edition of the book they had admired most. Well! that was in 1967. Geotechnical engineering has exploded since then. Today it would be almost impossible for anyone to write a 5-star general purpose book on the subject.

I want to thank you for your kind words and encouragement. I am most grateful.

Rating: 5
Summary: Book of the century
Comment: In India people say there is no building like Tajmahal. In civil engineering, I say there is no book like Soil Mechanics in Engineering Practice. Karl Terzaghi, the father of soil mechanics, had a vision, a vision that he lived by, nurtured and preached. Very few have personified Terzaghi's vision better than co-authors, Peck and Mesri.

Permit me to say, no book in this century has had more influence on the rise of civil engineering than has Soil Mechanics in Engineering Practice. Since its first publication in 1948, the book has guided a multitude around the world, spawned countless other books, and set a stage of research for a geotechnical generation gone by, there is, and yet to come.

The library of a geotechnical engineer cannot be said to be complete without a copy of this book.