41 Best Books on Soil Science

“The Nature and Properties of Soils” Book Review: Streamlined to facilitate the student’s understanding on the nature and property of soils, this edition, containing the latest photographs, diagrams, and special “boxes”, techniques and methodologies and new problems, provide a comprehensive treatment on the fundamentals of soil science effectively. It also deals with special topics like Soil Erosion and Its Control, Soil Acidity, Soils and Chemical Pollution, and Organisms and the Ecology of the Soil. This book is designed for undergraduate students of agricultural engineering courses. It will also be of considerable value to students of students pursuing bachelors and masters on the subject of agriculture.

“Text Book of Soil Science” Book Review: This book has been rewritten entirely in order to keep up with the modern and latest developments in the field of agriculture, both in approach and content. The book contains newer illustrations of description and characteristics of brown hill soils under forest, soils under forest, soil taxonomy, land degradation and watershed management in the form of diagrams to make the topic more understandable. Keeping in mind, the latest syllabus of various universities in India, topics like Soil Conservation and Soil Erosion are included in this book and a detailed description is also provided by the author. A large number of solved numerical examples drawn from various university examinations have been given at the end of theoretical part of each chapter.

“Soil Science: An Introduction” Book Review: This book is mainly designed for GATE aspirants and also for those preparing for other competitive examinations as well as engineering students and teachers. It covers the topic of soil science, soils and human society widely. Also Contained in it are exam patterns and latest research results which will give a wider scope for preparation. The book covers various concepts in its subsequent chapters in the form of illustrations, problems, case studies, and tables. Each chapter contains various formulae, laws and important points in order to make the revision easier.

“Fundamentals Of Soil Science” Book Review: This book is targeted for undergraduate level students and the concepts are explained in a simple and concise manner. The points are covered in a logical way, and there are a wide range of solved examples given in the book. It’s main focus lies on Applied problems. Topics like basic soil concepts, significance of soil, soil formation, the physical and chemical properties of soils, and various problems dealing with are dealt in this book. Diagrams provided in this book are clear and error free. There are standard and simple procedure used for deriving solutions and it contains ample number of solved examples. This book is mainly for agricultural students.

“Fundamental Soil Science” Book Review: This textbook deals with the elementary aspects of, with special emphasis on the physical, chemical and biological properties of soils so that the subject is perceived by the student as both a science and an art. The theories and explanations are supported by a large number of solved examples. Additional figures have also been added for the clarity and understanding of the book. Multiple choice questions and other pedagogically arranged questions are also provided to help students assess their subject knowledge. This book is designed primarily as a textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students. It is also useful for undergraduate students of engineering.

Book Review: This book provides a description about the developments made in soil properties that lead to cam clay model and also deals with the fundamentals of soil shearing. The book also explains the basics of geotechnical design thereby helping the engineers to deal with different combinations of effective stress and water content. The book also contains equations that explain the soil behavior and the effort needed to deal with the author.

“Hydrology and Soil Conservation Engineering: Including Watershed Management” Book Review: This book is the comprehensive piece of writing and second edition of the original cover. The book majorly covers topics related to water management, soil and water conservation, precipitation, abstraction losses, stream flow, frequency analysis of hydrologic events, and flood routing. It also highlights issues like soil erosion and states various methods of controlling it in detail. The book also features watershed management techniques. This text will be suitable for both students as well as professionals.

“Soil Engineering” Book Review: The book is an updated and revised piece of work featuring the latest theory and recent developments in soil engineering in theory. The fundamental principles and keys concepts related to soil engineering are clearly presented in this text. The initial chapters of this book cover soil mass, classification of soils, soil structure, soil water, permeability, surface loading, compressibility and consolidation, compaction, shear strength, cohesive soil, and stability of slopes. The remaining chapters feature shallow foundations, deep foundations, pavements, soil stabilization, site investigations, earth dams, stress path method, machine foundations, and laterally loaded piles. The book delicately focuses students, researchers, professionals, engineers in the field of soil engineering.

“Soil Engineering: In Theory and Practice: Selected Topics” Book Review: The book aims in presenting the latest information on fundamental concepts of soil engineering. The chapters of the book are nicely interpreted and cover various topics. The book begins with the description of topics like use of geotextile in railways, geosynthesis in earth, rockfill dams, bearing capacity improvement, geological considerations, soil deposits and characteristics, and support systems. Moving on, chapters based on civil engineering applications, tunneling, underpinning, vibratory compaction, granular piles, stabilization of soil, soil nailing, dispersive soil, and ground improvement are featured. The reinforced and anchored earth techniques used in soil engineering are mentioned in this text. This book is an excellent resource for students and professionals in solid mechanics.

“Soil Engineering in Theory Practice” Book Review: This book demonstrates the principles of soil behavior in geological testing and instrumentation. This new edition has eight newly added chapters. The chapters of this book are based on topics like rock testing for determining its properties, plasticity characteristics, field identification and classification, specific gravity, infiltration, and soil expandilation. The book illustrates the applications of soil engineering in various fields. The book will be beneficial for the students and professionals of civil engineering.

“Soil Engineering” Book Review: The book is an updated and revised piece of work featuring latest theory and recent developments in cutting edge aspects of sustainable soil engineering. The initial chapters in this book cover topics like soil compaction, soil density increases, soil disturbance and soil fragmentation, soil tillage machineries, and optimization of tillage tools. The remaining chapters describe topics like soil traffic and traction, use of robotics in agriculture and controlled traffic farming, mechanical weed control, and characterization of soil variability in detail. This book will be an asset for the students studying about soil.

“Soil Engineering: Testing Design and Remediation” Book Review: This book is an excellent resource for students and professionals related to soil engineering. It provides easy-to-grab knowledge to the readers. The book is designed to focus on important topics like the principle of soil testing, design, and remediation techniques. The chapters describe types of soils along with the numerous technologies designed to improve their quality, texture and fertility. The methodologies and techniques featured in this book are necessary for soil conservation. The book focuses on how engineering principles are changing the way of analyzation and utilization of soil.

“Soil Engineering: Testing Design and Remediation” Book Review: This book is an excellent resource for students and professionals related to soil engineering. It provides easy-to-grab knowledge to the readers. The book is designed to focus on important topics like the principle of soil testing, design, and remediation techniques. The chapters describe types of soils along with the numerous technologies designed to improve their quality, texture and fertility. The methodologies and techniques featured in this book are necessary for soil conservation. The book focuses on how engineering principles are changing the way of analyzation and utilization of soil.

“Vibrations of Soils and Foundations” Book Review: The book is an updated and revised piece of work featuring latest theory and recent developments in soil mechanics and foundations. The chapters cover various topics like design criteria and motions, vibratory motion, vector representation of vibratory motion, and single degree of freedom system. The book provides information on behavior of dynamically loaded soil, vibrations of foundations, isolation of foundations, laboratory measurements, and design procedure. The chapters present a variety of vastly improved techniques for field and laboratory determination along with the methods for field testing and soil prototypes. The book will be an asset for civil engineers and architects.

Book Review: This book covers various concepts related to vibration theory and provides an introduction to many powerful and modern computational techniques. The book also describes the normal mode method that is used mainly for linear multi degree and infinite degrees of freedom systems along with many numerical methods that approach the nonlinear systems. The book also contains a separate chapter on finite element method that demonstrates how continuous system is used for analysis simplification.

“Soil Dynamics and Machine Foundations” Book Review: The book aims in covering all the major aspects and concepts of soil dynamics and machine foundation. The book covers various applications of reinforced soil under gravity and boundary forces. The chapters in the book describe topics like basic mechanism, strength characteristics, frictional characteristics, reinforced soil wall and reinforced backfills, foundation of reinforced soil, and randomly distributed reinforced soil. The book also offers various concepts in advance learning. This book is an excellent resource for students and professionals in civil, structural, and geotechnical engineering.

“Soil Formation and Soil Moisture Dynamics in Agriculture Fields” Book Review: The book is an updated and revised piece of work featuring latest theory and recent developments in soil mechanics. It presents a conceptual model for soil formation in order to display a link between soil hydrology and plant response. The chapters of this book are detailed and contain a vast theory on topics like dynamics in agricultural fields and dynamic process oriented models. The book focuses on sustainable production and will be a great source of learning for the students and professionals of geotechnical engineering.

“An Introduction to Soil Dynamics” Book Review: The book is a balanced piece of text, presenting both theoretical as well as practical concepts of soil dynamics. It clearly explains the fundamental principles and key concepts of soil dynamics. The chapters of this book contain full derivation of analytical solutions and state the main parts of computer programs that are used to calculate numerical data. The topics like wave propagation in saturated compressible porous media, approximate analysis of the generation of Rayleigh waves, soil layers to earthquakes in the deep rock, propagation of Love waves, line loads, strip loads, and moving loads are thoroughly explained. The book will be suitable for the students and professionals of soil dynamics at civil engineering, geophysics, and earthquake engineering departments.

“Practical Soil Dynamics: Case Studies in Earthquake and Geotechnical Engineering” Book Review: The book focuses on presenting the latest information on practical approaches for dealing with the problem sets in realistic situations on soil dynamics. The book fills the gap between engineering codes and standards related to soil dynamics in earthquake engineering. It describes various important topics like main ground motion sources and properties, typical ground motions, recording, ground investigations and testing, soil properties used in simple analyses in detail. The chapters based on fast sliding in non-liquefied soil, flow of liquefied sandy soil, massive retaining walls, and slender retaining walls are included in this text. This book is an excellent resource for students and professionals in civil and geotechnical engineering.

“Rainwater Harvesting and Soil Water Conservation Technique” Book Review: This book is a teaching aid as well as a practical guide for undergraduate students pursuing bsc or for engineering students having a paper in their course syllabus. Several important concepts such as successful interventions of improved indigenous rainwater harvesting/soil water conservation technologies such as tassa, stone rows and half-moon are covered extensively by the author in this textbook.

“Soil Water and Agronomic Productivity (Advances in Soil Science)” Book Review : This book provides enough coverage, up to point solutions as well as sufficient exercises for the readers desiring to gain maximum knowledge after the completion of the book. Provided in the book are chapters on management of surface runoff, groundwater, irrigation, and soil water etc. Other important topics covered in the book include theory of improving soil water availability, enhancing water use efficiency etc. Plethora of solved examples are included in every chapter of the book. Advanced concepts like soil water and agronomic productivity are also covered extensively in the book. Students pursuing BA and B. Com courses(Pass and Honours) as well as post graduate students of Arts and Commerce can benefit from the book. Students preparing for various competitive examinations may also find it beneficial.

“Objectives in Soil and Water Conservation Engineering” by Pawan Jeet Prem Book Review:
This book is planned to be utilized by understudies of Soil and Water Conservation Engineering, Land and Water Management Engineering, Irrigation and Drainage Engineering/Irrigation and Water Management Engineering and farming designing/rural understudies of various schools of Indian Universities. The reason for the book is to cause understudies to dominate in various tests like Agricultural Research Service (ARS), National Eligibility Test (NET), PhD placement test of various Agricultural Universities and so forth Parts have been recognized by the ARS design. Some helpful data with respect to SI units, estimations, numerical conditions, related recipes, diverse dimensionless numbers and so on have been incorporated for prepared reference for clients of this book. Hardly any inquiries from instrumentation and fundamental arithmetic which are being asked in IARI PhD Exam have likewise been remembered for different sections.The book is valuable for JRF, SRF, NET, ARS, IARI Ph.D., State Exams. and so on.

“Productive Soils: The Fundamentals of Successful Soil Management and Profitable Crop Production” Book Review: This book is a properly analyzed study of the type of soils and how to manage these different types for a profitable crop production. The various techniques and methods discussed in the book are based on real-world practices that are employed to manage the soil in the best way possible. The students get to know how these methods help in a better soil management to reap the best results. This successful soil management in turn helps in increased success in crop production and thus more income. The methods are discussed with the help of pictures that provide an application based understanding of the subject. The book is useful for anyone engaged in the business of agriculture and interested in the field.

“Soil Genesis and Classification” Book Review: This book presents a detailed explanation on soil formation and classification. It includes information about multiple soil profiles in detail. This book also includes information on new classification systems and emerging technologies in the field of geology. It covers bearing capacity of soils and settlement of shallow foundations ·This book can be used by students of soil science as a textbook. Professional communities can also use this book as a reference.

“The Chemistry of Soils” Book Review: This book deals with the physical-chemistry approach of soil chemistry. This book offers major significance of soil chemistry in connection with global climate change. It includes the interaction between organic carbon and soil. It also includes the process by which organic carbon is sequestered by soil and prevention of the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Thus, the book provides a discussion of soil chemistry in its environmental and biogeochemical contexts.

“Geology Underfoot in Death Valley and Owens Valley” Book Review: This book deals with the geology of the Eastern California region between Mt. Whitney and Death Valley. The book unveils the geological feature of this land. It contains information about Racetrack playa. It also covers the earth-sculpturing role of volcanoes and earthquakes. Mainly lava columns at Devils Postpile and fault scarps that shape a golf course are covered. The book also focuses on processes of boulders shattered by salt crystals and rocks blasted by windblown sand.

“Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology” Book Review: This book deals with the introduction to physical geology. It covers the foundational physical geology principles. The concepts are explained in simple terms with instructive illustrations. The book is based on up to date technical surveys. It also covers the latest trends in the field mainly in the dynamic area of plate tectonics. Also it contains information about the stability of Earth retaining structures. This book can be used as reference by students of geology.

“Soil Mechanics and Foundations” Book Review: This book deals with the concepts of soil mechanics and foundations of soil chemistry. The book contains basic concepts and fundamental principles in the context of basic mechanics, physics and mathematics. The book is filled with hints and examples for clear understanding. This book also includes a CD-ROM that offers visual experience. The book covers geological characteristics of soils and soils investigation, physical soil parameters and one-dimensional flow of water through soils. Stresses, strains and elastic deformations of soils and shear strength of soils are also included.

“The Soil, Its Nature, Relations, and Fundamental Principles of Management” Book Review: This book is a properly analyzed study of the type of soils and how to manage these different types for a profitable crop production. The various techniques and methods discussed in the book are based on real-world practices that are employed to manage the soil in the best way possible. The students get to know how these methods help in a better soil management to reap the best results. This successful soil management in turn helps in increased success in crop production and thus more income. The methods are discussed with the help of pictures that provide an application based understanding of the subject. The book is useful for anyone engaged in the business of agriculture and interested in the field.