How To Download Free Engineering Books?

Where can I legally download free Civil Engineering text books?

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  If you are a student registered in a college or university and you have an Athens login ID or your university is a subscriber, then you can download a number of text books on geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, surveying and engineering geology in PDF format from a website known as "Info4Education" - see the related link. Also the US Army Corps of Engineers offers a wide range of their civil and other engineering manuals for free download. Titles from Info4Education are available in the following fields and include: General Civil Engineering: Blake, L. S. (1989). Civil Engineer's Reference Book. Fourth Edition. Oxford, Butterworth-Heinemann. Doran, D. K. (2009) Site Engineers Manual. Second Edition. London, Whittles Publishing. Geotechnical and Engineering Geology: Bell, F.G. (2007). Basic Environmental and Engineering Geology. Dunbeath, Whittles Publishing Limited. Hodgkinson, A. (1989). Foundation design. Oxford, Butterworth-Heinemann. Structural Engineering: Cobb, F. (2009). Structural Engineer's Pocket Book, Second Edition. Amsterdam, Elsevier. Draycott, T. and Bullmen, P. (2009). Structural Elements Design Manual - Working with Eurocodes. Second Edition. Oxford, Elsevier. Hunt, T. (2003). Tony Hunt's Structures Notebook. Second Edition. Oxford, Architectural Press. Surveying: Schofield, W. and Breach, M. (2007). Engineering Surveying. Sixth Edition. Oxford, Butterworth-Heinemann. See the related links for more information. You probably won't get full versions of commercial books legally. However, you can get lots of material about the topic - but not necessarily in the form of complete books. Just do some searching.