Ford Reviews

Although the author presents some interesting (and surprising) statistics in this work, she totally divorces the experience of foreign-born soldiers (and the U.S. Armed Forces' experience with them) during World War I from the profoundly affecting events attending the process of immigration itself--the decision to move, the voyage, the process of settling in the United States, the ethnic enclaves, and the immigrant way of life in the United States. Nor does the author consider, more that superficially, the soldiers' perception of the post-war Red Scare and the 1924 Immigration Acts that essentially stopped immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe. All of these aspects of immigration were life-altering events that shaped the immigrant experience (and, subsequently, immigrants' experiences as soldiers and veterans), but there is little evidence and less consideration of those effects in this work. Decontextualizing the subject of the book results in a work that presents a snapshot of a moment in time--blurred and indistinct, with one figure barely distinguishable from another--but no more than that.

The book reads like a poorly-written, meandering thesis. The author presents essentially no research questions and, therefore, no answers. It is a fairly interesting, easy read (despite the awkward prose and abundance of typographical errors), and deserves some commendation for its documentation of pertinent statistical information; however, if you are looking for a book that takes a long, comprehensive, contextualized view of the immigrant experience during World War I, choose Christopher Sterba's excellent book "Good Americans" instead.

In Americans All, Ford has successfully challenged longstanding assumptions about the immigrant experience during World War I and documented a key aspect of the army's modernization during the war. Nearly half a million foreign-born soldiers of forty-six different nationalities served in the wartime army. With one in five soldiers foreign-born, including many who did not speak English, the army faced a serious challenge training these men for battle. In marked contrast to the conformity demanded of foreign-born civilians on the homefront, Ford's meticulous research in official army records reveals that army officials demonstrated a remarkable sensitivity and respect for Old World cultures when formulating the training and recreational regimes of foreign-born troops. This is a well-written and important book whose blending of military and social history will interest readers interested in the military, the immigrant experience and the First World War.

...and take notice that this book has a total of 352 pages, of which :206 (plus an 18-page introduction) are pure text; 123 are black and white illustrations; and only 8 (eight) color plates, most of well known and widely reproduced artworks by FMB, such as "work", "pretty-baa lambs" and "the last of England". If you are expecting a lavishly illustrated volume, you'll be as disappointed as I am, thus the low rating I have given. It is my personal opinion, and by no means I am judging the essay by Mr. Bendiner, which I have not read; for this you can read the review below.

F.M. Brown is one of the most fascinating, but neglected, artists of the nineteenth century. A book which takes his art seriously is long overdue. While some of the judgements contained here are arguable, there can be no doubt that Bendiner has done Brown justice. His comments are always subtle, alert to the ambiguities and complexities of Brown's approach. Bendiner has chosen to organise the book thematically, dividing it into chapters on Brown's 'Archaism', 'Humour', Realism', 'Aestheticism' and 'Social Conscience'. This approach has its problems, especially as the reader has to piece together Bendiner's thoughts on particular paintings, which may be scattered across the chapters. Sometimes it leads to diffuse commentary on important issues. Nevertheless, the approach has the advantage that Bendiner can emphasise the artistic principles of Brown's work overall - very important in Brown's case as critics have too often dismissed his art as 'illustrative'. Perhaps the best points are made in the opening chapters, that on the 'social conscience' can be weak, especially as it attempts to downplay the influence of Carlyle, a writer whose stylistic methods were very important to Brown - as is now increasingly recognised. The appenices containing Brown's own quirky commentaries on his paintings is a welcome addition to the text.

I found this maunal incomplete, and inaccurate. The wireing diagrams have many errors. Though I have found it useful at times.

I need all information that could be possible about ford mustang 1983 because Ihave an car of it and is damaged in this moment

Does not cover the full sized wagoneers that were produced the same years as some of the tiny little wanabe jeeps. I have an '84 full sized Wagoneer.

It helped me to install a air/idle control valve on a 1987 Dodge Caravan. I did not even know where to find it.

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This book gives you a terific history lesson about the Mustang and all its variants. From 1964 1/2 to 1994 all Mustang's are covered with information on their production, engines, interiors and so forth. It also has terrific color pictures of the cars and pictures of the engines and other parts of the car(s). BUT, this is not a book for any specific type of Mustang(if that is what you want to learn about). This is only to give people a general overview of all Mustangs up to 1995. If you want to learn about Mustangs, I highly recommend this book.

If you are into Ford Mustangs you will love this book. Lots of great looking pictures and dialog about the original pony car. See what made the Mustang the success it was and continues to be.

how the hell do i know if the information this book is what i want? what if this book only gives me the information i already know? meaning, it will only give half of the information, but not enough to finish the job.

This book is much better than Chilton's. Mustang II's are Mustangs too!!!

Just what the title says. I can't believe amazon allowed the first guy's review. He needs to learn how to do research or graduate from high school :)
Another great source for repair info is the yahoo! group- mustangiima. Use a search engine to find it then join up! Many knowledgeable people are on that list. Good luck with your II.

This is the first repair manual I bought to assist me in restoring my '76 Bronco. While it provides an adequate overview of the vehicles it tries to represent, it does not offer enough info to be useful to the more experienced do-it-yourselfer. Additionally, the coverage of pre-'78 trucks is insufficient for a manual that claims to be "Based on a complete teardown and rebuild". The only info that seems to stand out as being particularly useful are the chassis electrical schematics in the back. This manual is fine as a (very) basic reference to keep in the glovebox; however, if you're looking to do something more involved than doing a tuneup or brakes, look for a set of factory service manuals.

As with most Haynes or Chilton manuals this book does give some useful information, step-by-step descriptions and nice diagrams. However it's sometimes a little vauge in it's descriptions. Also, as an early Bronco owner, this book only covers 1973 and later. This leaves 7 years of earlier production not covered.

Definitely a good reference, but I would also recommend finding an original factory Ford shop manual set. (5 book set usually found at swap meets or specialty automotive literature vendors)

This manual is an absolute essential for anyone who wants to work on an early ford bronco or 70's pick-up. It covers every topic from routine maintenance to engine and body repair. The content is based on a complete tear-down and rebuild of the truck. Although it is very technical subject matter, the wording is relatively simple where possible, and diagrams and photographs are very helpful. Information such as engine specifications and wiring diagrams are provided for individual year models where applicable. It does not discuss restoration explicitely, but the information it contains is as invaluable to the restorer as it is to the amatuer mechanic. In other words, this is truly THE book every early bronco owner should have on his shelf.

Perhaps a better title for this book would have been Meaningless Notes on the Making of Apocalypse Now. The author, who was charged with making a behind the scenes documentary of how the film was made, wastes the reader's time on disjointed anecdotes about her family life during the three plus years it took to complete this film. While the book jacket teases the reader with suggestions of her invaluable insights, the actual text is much more heavily devoted to Ms. Coppola's observations of her children, her husband's (in)fidelity, and what various dinner guests were served while visiting with the Coppola family. We learn much more about how four year old Sofia Coppola spent her days than how Martin Sheen's heart attack impacted the production. Why was Sheen hired to replace Harvey Keitel?...... What about those rumors of animosity between Marlon Brando and Dennis Hopper?...... Why did director Francis Ford Coppola choose to ignore weather experts and watch as the sets were des! troyed by a typhoon? Unfortunately you won't get any answers to those questions in this book. You will however learn in great detail how each of the Copppla clan spend their individual birthdays and how the Phillipines can't compare to California when it comes to health food shops and clothing boutiques. Duh!!! If you are truly interested in learning more about this historic film, I suggest you use your browser in a search of magazine and newspaper archives for appropriate material. Your time will be better spent surfing the net than waiting for Ms. Coppola to tell you why Robert Duvall's character was so hung up on having his Air Cav troopers surf "Charlie's Point."

to balance the reviews i have to add that i really enjoyed the book. i loved the film, the follow up documentry was as impressive (oscar winning i think), and this is a very interesting addition. i must add that one needs to be 'in' with the film making history already (i.e its no introduction to the most infamous 'touch-and-go' film productions) before one could appreciate this. its a well told tale.

I found the book to be very compelling and insightful. It takes a look at what went on behind the scenes of "Apocalypse Now" from the point of view of someone not involved in filmmaking in a direct way.

I found this book extremely disappointing. Not only was it short on facts and technical information, but every question I wanted an answer to was dodged by saying "best left to experts".

I expected something more along the lines of "Tuning BL's A-series engine" by D. Vizard. I could have gotten what little information exists in the book with a few phone calls to local engine tuners.

I bought this book as there were some important questions I needed answering. Namely Head modifications... which to my dismay were sadly missing. The message to the reader was that such modifications should be left to the experts. Pray tell me what was the point of the book?

covers all critical areas for repairing or modifying the Kent motor. Good research. Photographs are excellent.

I bought this book because I wanted to learn VBS to do network administration tasks. Most of the VBS books out there cover topics more relating to web development, so this one sounded more geared toward what I was looking for.

I've found that this book will get someone by, but there has got to be something better out there. The author does a poor job at explaining a lot of the sample code, if at all. Many of the syntaxes that a new VBS programmer will need, are not explained, or explained poorly, leaving the reader with only a slightly better understanding then they started with. There are also references to a CD which isn't included.

The book also includes Javascript as well as VBScript in every example. It forces you to jump around because no one is going to try and learn both languages at the same time. There are also a number of inconsistencies in the examples which I can only assume to be typo's, because they are not explained anywhere, and make no sense. In conclusion, find something better.

I wanted to give this book more than 3 stars, if only to show that the topic wasn't causing me to be prejudiced against it.

Really, I wanted to be able to sit down with book for half an hour and at least have an idea of what Windows shell scripting was about--but it wasn't easy to really wrap my mind around it even after flipping through the chapters, reading the first chapters, looking at the figures and tables, trying to get an idea of an organic framework for scripting.

Instead, I came away with two feelings:

1. Microsoft sure knows how to turn something relatively simple into something that's quite complicated. Shell scripting is pretty straightforward in *nix, and there aren't a ton of switches, buttons, and checkboxes involved with making them run. As far as I can tell, there is a fair amount of that to do with Windows scripts. So I really wouldn't want to have to use Windows shell scripting at all.

2. I wanted the author here to at least give me a sense of what can be done with scripts under Windows. He mentioned a CD with example code on it in the first pages, but there was no other indication of such a CD. So, that's bad editing. But, there also was no overall framework for example scripts throughout the book. I would have preferred to see more examples that build on each other more coherently. And I would have liked to see many of the lists of commands, functions, parameters, and what-have-you segregated from the rest of the text. They're distracting.

Overall, if you must have a book on WSH and Windows shell scripting, I suppose this one might be OK, but the Tim Hill book (which was published in 1998) seems to be, by far, the more popular book. It also seems to be the only other book on Windows scripting, but it also has an average rating of nearly 5 stars from over 30 reviewers, so you might want to check that one out.

I found the book easy to understand. It has tons of examples and was written in a very friendly style. Coverage was split equally between Windows shell scripting and the Windows Script Host. The book might be a little less than heavy weight programmers are looking for but for the rest of us, its right on target. Thanks.......