Good book the class is going well. Amazon was a terrible retailer. They totally screwed me. I paid for overnight shipping and they lost my book in a warehouse in NV. I was forced to purchase the book from another retailer, so I did not miss too much homework. Furthermore their customer service personnel could barely speak English, and at times were rude. I will definitely use Amazon in the future only as a LAST RESULT.

Never received my order. I waited 3 weeks and then I found out that it was sent to the wrong address. They did send a refund for the order. They should have notified me sooner when they realized the mistake.

I don't care very much for this textbook because of how confusing some of the problems are due to misleading figures. The book itself has been around for over fifty years and they still haven't worked out all the bugs... what kind of message is that conveying from the publishers? A bad one...

This book is great for self learning!, most of the theorems are explained in a very good way (a little too good and normally a little to hard to understand the first time) the examples are clear and the exercises are neither easy nor difficult (well some of them are difficult, but not all of them).
I already had 2 teachers that told me they learned from this book... it's true that almost all the material is the same, but nevertheless it's a great book to get yourself started in Statics... way better than Hibbeler.
The contents of this book are worth every penny, it's almost like having a private tutor.
And remember it's engineering you'll have to do some WORK to master all the subjects.

shipping was done fast and delivered in expected condition. Book has all the necessary textual and visual components that make learning the material easy.

I used this book in my Statics class in 1977 when it was in its third edition, and now my stepson is using the eighth edition in his statics class. The book was excellent almost to the point of self-teaching the subject then, and it looks like little has changed. There are still plenty of example problems, plenty of end of chapter exercises, and solutions to the vast majority of problems are in the back of the book. In the case of computer exercises, the solutions are at a special website provided by the authors. The figures are very clear and well-labeled and help illustrate the points the author is trying to make in the book. You could probably teach yourself statics using this book if you had some prior exposure to mechanics in a first semester college Physics class and with a little help from a Schaum's outline on the subject, which is always a good idea.

So why am I only giving this book three stars? I give five stars for the quality of the text and I deliver one star for the unnecessary eighth edition, thus averaging to three stars. The seventh edition was only published less than two years ago, and the new price of this book, which all current students are going to have to pay, is outrageous. Of course, this is getting to be the same old song with all successful textbook series. Rearrange a few words here and a few problems there, issue a new edition, and take all the reasonably priced used books out of circulation. This might be warranted with books on computer technology where there is rapid constant change. However, ask yourself, how much has the physics of loads on physical systems in static equilibrium changed since 2005? If you want a good statics book for self-study, get an older edition of this same book and save yourself some money. If you are a student I guess you are stuck. By the way, my third edition (I still have it and use it) cost seventeen dollars in 1977. Compared to the new edition, which is no better and no worse, the price has gone up eight times. I'm no economist but my guess is this far outpaces the rate of inflation for the last thirty years.