Here is a practical book and good overview of a highly adaptable machining technology, its limitations and capabilities edited by Jun Wang, an accomplished researcher with considerable reputation in abrasives technology and abrasive waterjet in particular. This book brings together scientific and practical approaches to understanding abrasive waterjet applications for both advanced and conventional materials. In this book you will find mathematics for engineers and tool designers as well as a discussion of what works and what does not work that a manager or shop foreman could easily understand. Typical is a discussion of striations, a characteristic familiar to anyone who has handled a piece of material with a contour cut by waterjet. Wang discusses opinions about causes of striations and studies that support one viewpoint or another as well as what it means in practical applications. For a small company working with a waterjet system, this is an easy-to-read source that will help to understand the characteristics of an abrasive waterjet, one of the fasting growing machining technologies in manufacturing. As a technical publication Mr. Wang book is a reasonably priced publication with ample references for those who want to explore waterjet machining in depth.