Chemistry and Technology of Lubricants
Roy M. Mortier, Malcolm F. Fox, Stefan T. Orszulik
This is a nice, brief, inexpensive introduction to the subject, and perhaps excellent for its time (1997). However, there's almost nothing here that's not in a much better, more recent compilation (2005, CRC) on the same subject, edited by LR Rudnick. This later work by CRC, Taylor & Francis, is absolutely the best and most complete that has appeared on the subject of syntheitic lubricants.
