Question about some "art-of" like books

[corel]

Hi!

I want to buy 3 Books:
a."The art of Beowulf"
b. "Mechanika"
c. "Structura" (Hail sparth! :))

Has anyone ever owned/owns one of those books? is it worth the money?
Especially "Mechanika" - because i understood that you can learn about machinery drawing from it.

Corel.

[Jonas Heirwegh]

Mechanika is more of a how-to book. Done by Doug Chiang so it must be really good.

Take a look at this blog with book reviews, I think you can check out all three books on there.
http://parkablogs.com/content/list-of-art-books-reviewed

If I had to pick one I would go for Mechanika.

[corel]

Yes i think that Mechanika is probably the best choice, but i just want to be sure it actually can teach you something practical. I don't want it to be one of those books that just talk about how much can you do if you only put the time into it, and has great artworks to accompany those bad texts..

[nicehighs]

mechanika IS the shit. All hail post it notes, just buy it. 8.00 on amazon dude. Get the art of monster house.:)