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Plant Design and Piping Layout

These books, or as a minimum part of the book, address equipment arrangement or piping layout for process plants.

• Facility Piping Systems Handbook by Michael Frankel, Mike Frankel
• Process Plant Layout and Piping Design by Ed Bausbacher, Roger Hunt (Contributor)
  This is the book used in the SPED Plant Design and Piping Layout Course.
• Casti Guidebook to Asme B31.3 : Process Piping by Glynn E. Woods
• Piping Handbook by Mohinder L. Nayyar
• Corrosion-resistant Piping Systems by Philip A. Schweitzer
• Innovative Concepts in Power Piping Design by E. Van Stijgeren (Editor)
• Pipeline Design and Installation : Proceedings by Kenneth K. Kienow (Editor)
• Plastic Piping Handbook by David A. Willoughby
• Pocket Guide to Flanges, Fittings, & Piping Data by R. R. Lee
• The Pipe Fitter's and Pipe Welder's Handbook by Thomas W. Frankland, Thomas Franklin
• Valve Handbook by Philip L. Skousen

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Pipe Stress Analysis

The list below sends you to reviews or descriptions of books that are all or in part about Pipe Stress Analysis.

• Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain by Warren C. Young
• Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers (10th Ed) by Eugene A. Avallone (Editor), Theodore, III Baumeister (Editor)

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Employment

This section shows books that give information that is helpful for finding employment or advancing your career.

• Ask the Headhunter: Reinventing the Interview to Get the Job by Nick A. Corcodilos

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Leadership

These books may be useful to those of you who are, or who wish to be, in a Plant Design leadership position.

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People : Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey
• Getting to Yes : Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher, William Ury (Contributor)
• Breaking Free : A Prescription for Personal and Organizational Change by David M. Noer
• The Fifth Discipline : The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge
• Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams, 2nd Ed. by Tom Demarco, Timothy Lister
• The Ropes to Skip and the Ropes to Know : Studies in Organizational Behavior by R. Richard Ritti
• The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management (Fast Forward MBA Series) by Eric Verzuh
• The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership : Follow Them and People Will Follow You by John C. Maxwell
• Bringing Out the Best in People by Aubrey C. Daniels

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Miscellaneous

The books in this category are books of interest that did not fall into one of the categories above.

• The Prize, by Daniel H. Yergin, Joseph Stanislaw
• Titan : The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow (The audio version  with Plimpton reading makes the commute go quickly!)

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