Amazon.com description: Product Description: Intensive research in metal cutting in the past twenty years has revolutionized the science and practice of machining - from the development of sophisticated cutting tool materials to progress in machining design and processes to advances in control technology. This text and reference offers detailed, up-to-date coverage of all of these areas, including such major developments as numerical control, computer-aided manufacture and non- conventional machining. Full chapters are devoted to machine tool vibration, surface integrity and machining economics, which have taken on added importance as machining speed and capabilities continue to increase. Included are well designed illustrations that clarify concepts, and data that professionals in the field will find particularly useful.