Ford Reviews

I think the essential military jeep is a nice starter jeep book if you are interested in the GPW/MB. I own a 42 GPW script and I found it a very good starting point in terms of pictures and reference material. It fills in a lot of the details about jeep production etc. It would be excellent for a plastic modeller as well. If you own a MB/GPW, then you will quickly want to move on to the All-American Wonder series by Ray Crowdery, and Larwrence Nabholtz's self-published book.

Back in early days of the requirements for a four wheel drive vehicle, before the big war....many plans had been submitted. In the end, Bantam,Ford and Willys were tested...Willys came thru and was accepted...Ford was also into the act, under license and both companies went into production, making one of the best known combat seasoned vehicles of the War, The Jeep.This book gives a run down on the design and planning of the Jeep....right up to 1945...It is a worthy book, well illustrated and deserves a place on the coffee table! Howard Ragan, Beaverton Oregon....

Sinclair writes an extremely interesting historical novel about the start of the Ford Automobile Company. The story is told from the perspective of Abner Shutt, one of Ford's first employees. Abner lives in the times where Henry Ford began his auto design humbly in the early 1900's till the mid 30's when Ford was known as the richest man in the world.

The story's focus, however, is on the treatment of the workers. When Ford started his factory, he cared a great deal about his employees, but as time went on he became obsessed with speeding up the manufacturing process and increasing his profits. By streamlining the process and making people work harder, his profits grew while his workers received the same pay. When the workers tried to form unions Ford's "hidden spies" crushed any attempt of congregation, even resorting to violence.

This book was like reading a detailed piece of history. Ford's anti-Semitic feelings are revealed through his little-known Dearborn Chronicle Magazine and how the Klan was active in the Detroit area. Also, Ford company initiatives are accounted for as well (such as moral families received a substantial bonus - if they allowed themselves to be investigated.) The historical scope of the novel is fascinating and I found it compelling, rich, and hard to put down. It is similar to the Sinclair's Jungle (an account on the conditions of the meat packing plants). The book was instrumental in the formation of the United Auto Worker's Union.

Sinclair, known mainly for The Jungle, has created a masterpiece of proletarit literature. As in The Jungle Sinclair uses the guise of a storyteller to warn the working population that where there is a false idol created by gold there is a hell on earth as a result. Sinclair's overriding message is simple: where there is the extremely rich, there is the extremely poor. Unlike Karl Marx or others like Marx, Sinclair doesn't force the message down the readers throats, he slips a little of the message into our drink and before we know it we are inebriated with his viewpoint. The book is about 120 pages but in those short few pages you meet and come to care about characters like Abner Shutt, Tom Shutt, and even the antagonist Henry Ford, the Flivver King himself. Sinclairs greatest gift as a storyteller is his ability to make us empathize, not just sympathize, with the characters. By the end of the story we don't just know what it might have been like to be those people, we know exactly what it was like because for a few moments Sinclair made us become those people. Not only does this book give us tangible characters, it also gives us a tangible atmosphere of early 20th Century America. This book was instrumental in the founding of the union movement that swept America for a very good reason. Read it and find out why it is as important now as it was then. Read it and find a cure for apathy.

Most sections are the same in content, they tell you how to take it out and put it back. None tell you how to check it, or even test the system. The details on replacement are great. I know there are a million ways to test parts, but a general overview of how to test them would be extremely useful. I replaced the sending unit 3x's because I didn't know you COULD test it.

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this book contains information on ford vehicles i didn't even know existed. contains descriptions, history, and black/white photos. would recommend for any ford enthusiast library.

I bought this for my own father in 1982. he was a model 'a' and v8 restorer/enthusiast.....he loved it--! i have since inherited the book. you can dip your toe or swim in this ocean of fascinating ford truck history! model T's, early V-8's, fat-fenered 50's, bronco's, ranchero's.....and even Ute's..... mine IS NOT forsale-- but used and above list price...it is absolutely worth it!

My dear friend from Louisiana sent me this book and I just died laughing. It's such a wonderfully written, adorable book. I highly recommend it!!

This book is definately a reader! Especially for those of us that were raised in the south and are proud of our roots!

I ordered this book for school- it contains good material and has thoughtful questions, but I just didn't think it pulled through in analysis. Maybe some additional "reflection" sections would be good.

In addition to co-authoring the immensely successful "Writing for Change," Ann Watters has pulled through again with her latest effort, "A Guide for Change." This powerfully-written reference has but one purpose: to ensure that today's crop of young idealists has the resources it needs not just to argue about contemporary conditions, but to effect changes in the very infrastructure of our society. "A Guide for Change" is the latest in Watters's series of outstanding textbooks, and is sure to become one of the most popular.

First, the good news: this contains the complete Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy novel, one of the greatest books ever written. Problem is, the photos and art that accompany this particular version only serve to distract the reader and snap him/her out of the fictional dream. Die-hard Adams fans are the only people who will really want this, and then purely as a conversation piece. If you are new to the world of the Guide, you would be better served by getting The Ultimate Hitch-Hiker's Guide, which has the text of this book plus the other four in the series and a short story, and no pictures.

The story :
It's a thursday when the earth get's destroyed to make space
for a new hyperspace highway. The human Arthur Dent and
his friend, Ford Prefect from the Planet Beteigeuze, are
flagged up to the Vogon spaceship. From now on begins a
crazy travel through the Universe (and beyond) ...

Specials about this book:
If you are a real Douglas Adams fan, you MUST own this book.
The whole story is described with funny looking pictures,
and even Adams itself has a guest-role.

WHEN THE TAYLER'S WASHER WAS BLOWN UP BY MR. TAYLER AS A SCIENCE EXPERINCEMENT,STANLEY AND MITCHELL HLEP OUT BY GOING TO THE EERIE LANDOMAT. IT SAYS ON THE RULES DO NOT MIX DIRTIRGENT'S,BUT THEY DO AND SOME OF IT SPILLS ALL OVER STANLEY.NOW THAT STANLEY IS GETING SMALLER BY THE MINITE,MITCHELL NEEDS TO FIND HELP BEFORE STANLEY IS THE SMALLEST KID IN EERIE. I LOVE THIS BOOK BECAUSE IT'S REALY WERID.

The book was really different then the other Eerie Indiana's beacuse the Weirdness is happening to one chartacter and it's Mitchell's job to do something about it. All Eerie Indiana books are weird and it's a series about only two kids noticing it. It's very easy to follow and I'd reccomend it to almost anyone. It's more for 10-12 the 9-12 because it's a bit difficult to understand to younger kids. I would give it 100* if it had that many. It's my favorite series there is. This book in particular is hilarious at the fact where the wierdness comes from.

I enjoyed how varied the selections are on a whole range of topics that appealed to my heart, mind and soul. There were some new concepts, new ideas, as well as the tried-and-true soothing stories for when I just wanted my troubled waters calmed. The short chapters meant I could read two or three a night. My favorite ones are The Caregiver by N. Davison, and Little Vigilance and The Teacher by Ford Boyer. Lisa Payne's Millenial Dance of Death is a beautiful kind of prose poem--very inspiring stuff.

This is a book to peruse in the wee hours, a page or two at a time. The writers use both poetry and prose very well to look at the questions of life we humans dwell on in our innermost souls. The more one reads these essays and poems the nearer the answers float upward. Sometimes even reaching the surface. Listening to the Soul is a book I will turn to often. Ilene Smiddy, DeSoto, Missouri USA

This book was a very easy read. I am a complete beginner when it comes to WSH and VBScripting. I found this book to be a great primer. The only questions the book left me with were the actual syntax of methods, properties, and built in functions. These are important areas, but I feel the book left me with a good overall understanding of the 2 topics. I am not sure I could write my own worth while script yet, but I could definitely read and understand a script already created. Only took 2 days of reading to complete this book and my interest was kept the whole time.

This book is an absolute must for the beginning VBScript programmer. Not only does Ford provide step-by-step direction to scripting, gradually ramping the complexity of the exercises, but he leaves the reader with WORKING scripts in the form of games with foundational concepts applicable to real-world scripting development.

My primary objective was to learn VBScripting basics to support script enhancements for Mercury Interactive's QuickTest Pro tool (that is based in VBScript), and this book well served its purpose.

I highly recommend it to other readers.