The definitive text for your profession?

[LimaDelta]

If you wanted to give a layperson an insight into what you do professionally, to which book would you direct them? Which is the one book which you couldn't have done without while establishing your career?

[DaveTheRave87]

[InitialDave]

Probably an anthology of Dilbert strips.

[Shakermaker]

I've never read it, but

"Excel for Beginners"

[Barchettaman]

“A Bluffer’s Guide to (making it as an) Opera (singer)”

[kurokawa]

I would need a book shelf to do it, but if I have to chose, this one
High-Pressure Shock Compression of Solids

[drmike37]

This is going to hurt, by Adam Kay.

[bingybongy]

Which: Mop and Bucket?

[DIW35]

Red for Danger.

[thainy77]

Probably this, I should get around to reading it at some point!

[RizzoTheRat]

Wikipedia.

[cobra kid]

The A-Z of Laboratory Testing of Railway Fastenings

[bucksmanuk]

There's quite a few, but Roark and Young, Formulas for Stress and Strain is the most heavily thumbed.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Meetings....The Credible Alternative To Work

[Bussolini]

Entry level:



Definitive:

[Triumph Man]

McKay's Building Construction.

That, or the Barry's series of construction text books

[jet_noise]

Horowitz and Hills' the Art of Electronics

So seminal the book even has its own website!

[wolfracesonic]

thainy77 said:

Probably this, I should get around to reading it at some point!

You weren’t working for BP in the Gulf of Mexico a few years back, by any chance, were you?

[FN2TypeR]

The documents that are essentially the Bible's of what we do are API (American Petroleum Institute) 6A (specifications for wellhead and christmas tree equipment) and 17D (design and operation of subsea production systems)

In layman's terms this is the graph that shows how a piece of subsea equipment needs to be pressure tested during something called a PR2 test, there should be a chart with a list that details the lettered sections alongside the graph but I can't find it on google images, duh me

[Prinny]

If nothing else, this book is a guaranteed cure for insomnia!