Identifying Rocks and Minerals: The New Compact Study Guide and Identifier

It's a nice book full of recent illustrations that are very helpful to understand how some rocks or minerals look. It included everything I was looking for except maybe for a few things like clastic rocks. It's a thin book easy to carry around and include things like the hardness of a mineral and what it's use for. Over all, this is a great book for those who are intrested in rocks and minerals with the very basic ideas to get you started. I liked this book and it has done me a great deal even when it's real thin.