By Howard Manko
McGraw Hill

This book is considered an engineering bible on soldering materials and processes. It was originally published in 1976 and now sees its fourth release with updates in a number of areas. The text has been updated, but where the changes have been made is not obvious. Much more of the book could have been updated, especially with regard to lead-free soldering and solders, selective soldering, flip chips, ball grid arrays (BGAs) and microBGAs.

If you need a good reference book on soldering, this book is one. However, I don‚t recommend this book if you are considering updating from the last edition. The updates provided don‚t justify an upgrade.