Ford Reviews

this is a very good book that has tricks of the trade that can be applied to any sohc or dohc motor out there. highly recommended for people that want to save money by not going the route where there is little to gain in terms of reliability or horsepower. straight and to the point.

In the world of uncompromised racing engines, few people outside of the manufacturers have real knowledge- this certainly is the case for Cosworth engine conversions covered in Des Hammill's book. Having spent plenty of money in my own dyno sessions, Mr. Hammill got to the point of real working engine packages nicely with head porting, cam, and carburettor specifics; he could have saved me plenty of time and money in development had I known of his work earlier. What he describes can be extrapolated to other Cosworth conversions including Formula Atlantic (Ford), Cosworth-Vega, and Cosworth-Pontiac engine street/race tunings. It's indeed a rarified atmosphere at this level, only recently broached by Honda with their S2000, and you won't find Steve Jennings writing about his top-flight engine tuning/tricks anywhere! Its a world where 2-valve motor rules-of-thumb and assumptions don't apply: just ask David Vizard. Complaints? I do wish the DOHC section had been more than just a single chapter, but what's there is gold!

Excellent , much usefull information...Not any usefull information for the Greasy Mother crowd...I mean General motors ...

..if you're interested in learning. Buy a good one instead!!

This is and excellent textbook for a automotive student or some one who wants to learn a lot in a hurry. Layout like a textbook, not very entertaining.

I bought this for my son who was trying to solve a problem with his older Lincoln. He's a good mechanic but needed this book to lead him in the right direction. It totally solved his problem and saved him much frustration. He said it was one of the best books he's used.

The illustrations were beautiful, however I was very displeased with the grammar used in this book. Children are like sponges and therefore it's terrible for them to hear grammar such as "we got", "yup" and "tell me 'bout." I also found it unnecessary for one of the child characters in the book to discuss being evicted and her daddy being unable to find them a place to stay. The book states that Christmas is Jesus' birthday, when in fact that is not true. Since this is a book about Jesus, it should not state that one of the characters were "lucky" to have received some money. It should state that the child was "blessed." Finally, I would suggest alternate reading material for a child learning more about Jesus and proper grammar.

Keisha and her younger brother Tony go downtown with the Boys Club to look at the
Christmas decorations in the windows of the downtown stores. During their walk,
Tony asks a lot of questions about Christmas, Jesus, and the meaning behind many holiday
traditions. Keisha, still a child herself, answers the questions as best she can as
the two discuss the true meaning of Christmas.

Ford's illustrations are simply beautiful and are a nice accompaniment to this cute
story. If you are looking for a book that provides an accurate Biblical account of Jesus
and his birth then this is probably not the book for you. But if you are looking for a
feel good story, which highlights the special relationship between siblings and presents
the story of Christmas from a child's point of view, then this book is a worthy addition
to any child's library.

Reviewed by Stacey Seay
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers

Some may not like the grammer and some may not like children's book talking about things like evictions. But this book will open discussions with your child about the true meaning of Christmas when you can discuss the real ways many children have to live. Many families celebrate Christmas as the birth of christ and for those children this book will be a welcome addition.

If you've never read a Ford bio, this is a decent introduction. But the book has three problems. It has very little interpretation and evaluation of the films. Much of the book is about Ford's flaws as a human being, especially his cruelty to the people he worked with. Film by film, he piles up examples of Ford's bad behavior without explaining what all this nastiness has to do with Ford's achievement as an artist. Finally, much of the book's material comes from interviews. In a bibliographical essay, Davis lists all this material. In the text, however, he never makes it clear where he got a particular quote. Davis did quite a few interviews for the book. Those don't need further citation. If you want to track down quotations from other interviews, however, forget it. There's no way of finding out when an interview was given or what the context for the quote is.

Although this book does a reasonable job of delivering the essential information about one of Hollywood's great directors, it spends too much effort attempting to analyze the dark side of John Ford, and too little time dealing with the art he created. The author speculates on Ford's drinking, his sexuality, and his family problems. If you want to know Ford's work, don't buy this book...buy one or two of his movies, instead....or buy Harry Carry Jr's book, or Peter Bogdanovich's book.

I recently read the John Ford biography by Ronald Davis, PhD, and found the book to be well written and very informative. After reading this book, it became quite obvious that Ford had an unhappy personal life. While Ford was in control of his professional life, his personal life was out of control. Ford was a represed man who lived a lie...

I was very eager to receive this book. I follow Ty Ford's reviews in Pro Audio Review and respect his opinions. However, the title of "Advanced Audio Production Techniques" is misleading. The book is anything but advanced. I was deeply disappointed.

The concepts presented in "Advanced Audio Production Techniques" are basic and should have been long mastered by anyone looking to improve his or her audio chops with "advanced" material. The book does make a good primer and covers a broad range of topics. And Ford does an excellent job explaining the basics of compression -- a tricky topic. As a primer, however, $32.95 is entirely too high. For the same price you could get a subscription to Recording magazine, Electronic Musician or EQ, all of which will cover the same territory in more detail over the course of a year.

A much better bet is Hank Linderman's "Hot Tips for the Home Recording Studio." It also is a book about the basics and presents itself that way. And, frankly, it far exceeds its stated "Home Studio" focus. The material covered is applicable even to professional recording situations. Linderman goes into sufficient detail about the equipment, processes and specific techniques of recording. "Hot Tips" is an invaluable resource that I return to frequently just to brush up.

This book has most of the basic information you really need to get from "clueless" to "have a clue." It's written in simple English and will set you on the road to being able to make sense out of audio whether you're in a basement or getting started as a professional. It's also very helpful to people in radio who produce spots and promos.

I thought this book was awful. It offers very little original thought, and is full of wrongheaded and muddled thinking. I persisted through a fair bit of silliness, but I ultimately gave up after a chapter allegedly written by a mathematicatian got some basic combinatorics all wrong.

It probably deserves 1 star, but I've given it 2 out of respect for the fact that they've attempted to tackle such a difficult subject in the first place.

This edited volume contains articles from the Workshop on Human & Machine Cognition in 1991. I got this book while preparing an upper-division interdisciplinary course on Models of Mind. I liked the overall slant of the collection better than many of the other volumes I considered (e.g., Mind Design II, Haugeland; Philosophy of AI, Boden (one of the contributors to this volume)). Although the workshop happened in 1991, the papers are ostensibly more closely dated to the book's publication (1995). My complaint about the book (which applies to all the other books I've evaluated) is that it lacks the focus of laying out the philosophical issues related to mind and then considering computational models with repsect to those issues. That is not to say the individual papers do not address issues of Philosophy of Mind and proceed appropriately from there -- simply as an edited collection, it lacked the focus that would make it a good text for the seminar course I'm designing. There's much here to stimulate thinking and discussion.

The book was poorly written.The model building idea was half-baked. The book is a dissappointment.

This book has all sorts of information I had not see before - for example the important African-American entrepreneur in old San Francisco, Leidersdorf, is buried at Mission Dolores in San Francisco. This book has very helpful background information for students for each mission. The model section has layouts for all of the missions and ideas for making a model which come from actual models created by a parent, using styrofoam.

Purchased for my hubby who is restoring a '55 ford truck, he wasn't too thrilled with the lack of info. in it. Unless you just want to buy it to say you have it, thats fine, but for a help in restoring of caring for a auto, its not worth it.

I have this book in my personal reference library. It is an outstanding compilation of Vehicle Information Data. The information contained in this reference is the most complete source found in a single book. Extremely unique vehicles are not covered in detail, however about 98% of what's out there is satisfactorily covered. You can't go wrong with this source if your looking to decode your trucks production information.

if you have a older ford truck pass this book up. no info worth
reading here for my 1965. example no 4x4 breakdown for the 65
hayes book is much better

So I'm covered in mud and (ouch) gravel--funny how those sharp stones can really stick to your skin. Anyway, I'm trying to resurect a half-dead 1965 Ford Pick up by myself, with very few tools. I'm what I'd consider mildly mechanically competent, but with the time honored tradition of Chilton Manuals I've managed to work on my own cars with very good results. For older vehicles you'll also want to get the original manual (usually not too hard to find.)Chances are if you're looking at this book you're already comfortable working on your own vehicle, but on the off chance that you're a novice, consider this. Getting comfortable with working on your own vehicle and getting to know your vehicle is the best thing you can do. It saves you money in the long run and you'll feel empowered when you gap your own spark plugs for the first time. Seriously, with this book anyone should feel comfortable taking a look under the hood of their vehicle and doing a little work.

First, let me put it straight - I do not know Sanskrit. That is the reason I buy grammar books. I want to learn something from them. But I am really not prepared to meditate an hour or so upon a two-sentence paragraph trying to divine what does it mean.

Let us look at Page 43, Conjugation, § 57. Preliminary remarks, II, which is supposed to explain Sanskrit moods and tenses:
"The moods are: indicative, optative, imperative; only the present has three moods, the remaining tenses only the indicative; the infrequent precative is, however, a kind of aorist optative. The tenses are: present and imperfect, which form the present system with opt. and pres.imp., future, the rare conditional, aorist, perfect."

Precative? aorist optative? pres.imp.? And it gets worse and worse. I may be really stupid but from this paragraph I would not have learnt that Sanskrit has ten tenses. Or is it too much to expect to learn Sanskrit from books? It is certainly too much to expect that from this book.

The classic Sanskrit grammar is, of course, Whitney. It, however, includes Vedic Sanskrit and very rare forms. Jan Gonda provides a basic, understandable grammar that covers everything a first year student needs to know. His straight-forward style also makes this volume useful for Indo-European historical linguistics classes where the intent is to understand the basic structures of the "Indo" branch. In short, I recommend this highly as a starting point.