This is a textbook I had in school. It is comprehensive but succinct and clearly laid out. It gives clear and simple explanations,with examples. There is a useful summary at the back for easy reference.
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A comprehensive manual covering all aspects of bridge engineering, this is the go-to authority on all aspects of bridge design, construction and management.
ftp.ams.org/pub/tex/doc/amsmath/amsldoc.pdf
If you write or edit maths using LaTeX, you probably need to use the amsmath package. This guide is an invaluable resource. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Atkins-Physical-Chemistry-Peter/dp/0199543372
The copy I have is from 1978 (was my husband's at uni), but it never seems to age. I use it to check points of physical chemistry, of course, and I also find the impeccable typesetting of maths a very useful guide in editing. (If I remember correctly, it was this book that we put under the children's Moses basket mattress if we wanted to raise their heads for easier breathing when they had a cold.) http://www.amazon.co.uk/AMA-Manual-Style-Authors-Editors/dp/0195176332/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1415443330&sr=8-1&keywords=AMA+Manual+of+Style
A journal I was editing for specified that abbreviations listed in the AMA Manual of Style were acceptable, so I figured I'd better buy me a copy. It has lots of useful advice on many technical subjects related to health and medicine, and I am wondering why I didn't buy it before. It also offers helpful tips on US style English, and appears to be well written, with helpful examples and interesting quotations. For editing biology, you'll maybe want to look things up. I still have my university copy of Tortora and Anagnostakos, which our lecturer always referred to as 'Tortora and his Greek brother'.
Long considered the ultimate anatomy textbook, there is an online version of the 1918 edition (which Wikipedia says is in the public domain) at
http://www.bartleby.com/107/ Today, I was editing an article on the subject of writing in plain English. This reminds me that the Plain English Campaign have a collection of guides to help in writing clearly.
http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/free-guides.html http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item1111810/?site_locale=en_GB
Not only is this the style guide for Cambridge University Press, but it is a helpful and comprehensive guide in all matters relevant to copy-editors. It has sections on the art of copy-editing, and instructions on applying a consistent style, with both explanation and examples. For example, today I used it to help format 'short-title' references. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Plain-Words-Ernest-Gowers/dp/0140511997/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368021698&sr=1-1&keywords=the+complete+plain+words+by+sir+ernest+gowers+penguin
This book is an intelligent guide to better writing. I consult it occasionally on points of usage, or to check the correct use of a tricky word. |
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