Book review: Thermal Engineering: Engineering Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer Lin Qiu and Yanhui Feng | Review by Bogdan Hoanca If this book seems a bit out of place to readers of Optica publications, its possible relevance is in a chapter on radiative heat transfer. There are two authors listed, but the acknowledgement is written by an editor, thanking multiple authors, including different authors for the various chapters. The authors claim they had a relatively short writing time and graciously admit that errors are inevitable, but the rather large number of errors present in the book would have easily been spotted by a good editor. Chapters do seem to have been written by different authors, as they have uneven levels of editing and proofreading. There are many misspelled words and grammatical problems, particularly in some of the chapters. The true technical soundness of the book is difficult to evaluate when the writing is so unclear. The nature of the topic requires complex...