MECHANISMS AND MACHINES‎:‎ KINEMATICS‎,‎ DYNAMICS‎,‎ AND SYNTHESIS has been designed to serve as a core textbook for the mechanisms and machines course‎,‎ targeting junior level mechanical engineering students‎.‎ The book is written with the aim of providing a complete‎,‎ yet concise‎,‎ text that can be covered in a single‎-semester course‎.‎ The primary goal of the text is to introduce students to the synthesis and analysis of planar mechanisms and machines‎,‎ using a method well suited to computer programming‎,‎ known as the Vector Loop Method‎.‎ Author Michael Stanisic‎'‎s approach of teaching synthesis first‎,‎ and then going into analysis‎,‎ will enable students to actually grasp the mathematics behind mechanism design‎.‎ The book uses the vector loop method and kinematic coefficients throughout the text‎,‎ and exhibits a seamless continuity in presentation that is a rare find in engineering texts‎.‎ The multitude of examples in the book cover a large variety of problems and delineate an excellent problem solving methodology‎.‎