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Architectural Formulas - Pocket Reference, by Robert Brown Butler. McGraw-Hill, New York 2002 (our copy from McGraw-Hill, 82 Waterloo Road, North Ryde 2113). 512 pp., ill., Pbk. Price: $A 74.95.
Raymond Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain, which first appeared in 1938, also published by McGraw-Hill, has been a huge publishing success. I regret to have to say that I do not expect that Butler's Architectural Formulas will imitate it.
It is not really a pocket book: its horizontal dimensions (100 x 159 mm) are fine, but its thickness of 20mm