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We are pleased to offer a number of fine metallurgical texts through an association with Amazon.com.

Please select any of the books below to place your order, and thank you for supporting ASM International Detroit Chapter.

Classic Metallurgical Texts

• De Re Metallica
• The Pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio : The Classic Sixteenth-Century Treatise on Metals and Metallurgy
• On Divers Arts : The Foremost Medieval Treatise on Painting, Glassmaking, and Metalwork

Future Cities Help

• Engineering the City

Blacksmithing

• New Edge of the Anvil : A Resource Book for the Blacksmith
• The Complete Modern Blacksmith
• Practical Blacksmithing and Metalworking
• The Complete Bladesmith
• Professional Smithing : Traditional Techniques

Historical Perspectives

• Out of the Fiery Furnace : The Impact of Metals on the History of Mankind
• Cleveland iron and steel : background and 19th century history
• History of Metal Mining and Metallurgy : An Annotated Bibliography (Bibliographies of History, Science&Technology Vol 12)
• History of Metallurgy
• Early History of Metallurgy in Europe
• The Prehistory of Metallurgy in the British Isles
• Paths of Fire : An Anthropologist's Inquiry into Western Technology
• The Norton History of Technology
• Made to Measure : New Materials for the 21st Century
• The Substance of Civilization : Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon
• Understanding Materials Science : History, Properties, Applications

James Burke

• The Axemaker's Gift
• Connections
• The Day the Universe Changed
• The Knowledge Web
• The Pinball Effect

Educational Books

• How Steel Is Made (I Wonder)
• Fun With Materials (Simple Science)
• Metals (Everyday Material Science Experiments)

Biographies

• Henry Cort : The Great Finer : Creator of Puddled Iron
• Men of metals : an exciting career among the pathfinders of modern metallurgy
• Sir Henry Bessemer F.R.S. : An Autobiography
• The Innovators : The Engineering Pioneers Who Made America Modern (Wiley Popular Science)

Henry Petroski

• The Pencil : A History of Design and Circumstance
• Design Paradigms : Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering
• Engineers of Dreams : Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America
• Invention by Design : How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing
• Remaking the World : Adventures in Engineering
• The Evolution of Useful Things
• The Book on the Bookshelf

Cool Stuff

• Lost-Wax Casting : A Practitioner's Manual
• Stuff : The Materials the World Is Made of
• Made to Measure : New Materials for the 21st Century
• The Substance of Civilization : Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon
• Molecules at an Exhibition : Portraits of Intriguing Materials in Everyday Life
• Understanding Materials Science : History, Properties, Applications
• Biomimicry : Innovation Inspired by Nature
• Plastic : The Making of a Synthetic Century
• Everyday Science Explained
• Guns, Germs, and Steel; The Fates of Human Societies
• The Story of a Lifetime
• Landmarks in Mechanical Engineering
• The Civilized Engineer
• Controlling Technology : Ethics and the Responsible Engineer
• The Engineer in America : A Historical Anthology from Technology and Culture
• Engineer to Win : The Essential Guide to Racing Car Materials Technology or How to Build
  Winners Which Don't Break
• Flying Buttresses, Entropy, and O-Rings : The World of an Engineer
• Getting Started As a Consulting Engineer
• How to Become a Professional Engineer
• I Want to Be... an Engineer
• The Introspective Engineer
• The Existential Pleasures of Engineering
• You Can Be a Woman Engineer
• The New Science of Strong Materials : Or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor
• Is There an Engineer Inside of You?
• Careers in Engineering
• Airship Technology (Cambridge Aerospace Series , No 10)

Theory of Constraints

• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
• It's Not Luck
• Critical Chain
• The Race
• Goldratt's Theory of Constraints : A Systems Approach to Continuous Improvement
• Introduction to the Theory of Constraints (Toc) Management System
• Theory of Constraints Thinking Processes
• The Constraints Management Handbook

Design Hints

• Newsletters from the Desktop; Designing Effective Publications with Your Computer,2nd ed.
• Roger C. Parker's One-Minute Designer
• Real World Scanning and Halftones
• Real World Photoshop
• Make Your Scanner a Great Design and Production Tool

Leadership

• Five-Star Leadership:  The Art and Strategy of Creating Leaders at Every Level
• Strategic Planning : What Every Manager Must Know
• The Board Member's Guide to Strategic Planning : A Practical Approach to Strengthening Nonprofit Organizations
• Creating and Implementing Your Strategic Plan : A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit Organizations
• The Absolutes of Leadership
• The Leadership Challenge; How to Keep Getting Things Done in a Organizations
• Augustine's Travels : A World-Class Leader Looks at Life, Business, and What It Takes to Succeed at Both
• Augustine's Laws
• Beyond Counterfeit Leadership : How You Can Become a More Authentic Leader
• Volunteer Handbook : How to Organize and Manage a Successful Organization
• Legal Risk Management for Associations : A Legal Compliance Guide for Volunteers and Employees of Trade and Professional Associations
• Volunteer Handbook : How to Organize and Manage a Successful Organization
• Leadership and the Quest for Integrity
• Integrity
• The Art of War
• The Lost Art of War
• The Book of Leadership and Strategy : Lessons of the Chinese Masters
• The Book of Five Rings

Ethics

• The Ethical Imperative : Why Moral Leadership Is Good Business
• The Ethical Process : A Strategy for Making Good Decisions
• Ethics in Organizations
• How Good People Make Tough Choices : Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living
• Civility : Manners, Morals and the Etiquette of Democracy
• Character Is Destiny : The Value of Personal Ethics in Everyday Life
• The Nicomachean Ethics
• Thinking Like an Engineer : Studies in the Ethics of a Profession

Quality

• Juran's Quality Handbook
• In Search of Excellence : Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies
• The Circle of Innovation : You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness
• Making It Happen : Coming to Grips With the Dismal Record of Quality Program Implementation
• Grow to Be Great : Breaking the Downsizing Cycle
• A Passion for Excellence : The Leadership Difference
• Quality Is Free : The Art of Making Quality Certain
• Quality Is Still Free : Making Quality Certain in Uncertain Times
• Quality Without Tears : The Art of Hassle-Free Management

Photography

• The Camera (Ansel Adams Photography, Book 1)
• The Negative (Ansel Adams Photography, Book 2)
• The Print (Ansel Adams Photography, Book 3)

Alexandre Dumas

• The Three Musketeers
• Twenty Years After
• The Vicomte De Bragelonne  
• Louise De LA Valliere
• The Man in the Iron Mask  
• The Count of Monte Cristo 

Horatio Hornblower

• The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower
• The Hornblower Companion
• The Making of C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower
• The Real Hornblower : The Life of Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Alexander Gordon

Engineers as Heroes

• The Seventh Sacrament 
• The Pillars of the Earth 
• Decider
• Engineered for Murder : A Mystery 
• Framework for Death : A Mystery
• The Interceptor
• The Rising: Flight Engineer Vol. 1
• The Privateer: Flight Engineer Vol. 2

Note:  The book selections here are made by the webmaster, and are not to be construed as endorsement of any of these titles (or any opinions expressed within them) by him or ASM International Detroit Chapter.  They have been selected as titles of potential interest to ASM members.

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