Despite being an essentially dry subject this is a very well written book. I couldn't do a problem involving static bodies and vectorial decomposition to save my life even after having several intro physics classes. But with this book I became quite good at such problems and at geometric visualization with vectors in general. Written in a straightforward manner, the style that engineers like, and not only that it's beautifully illustrated, with full color, complex diagrams for all the example problems which helps to grasp the fundamental aspects of static analysis of structures. ( )

This is a good statics textbook. It has worked examples throughout the book. ( )