Doesn't cover the 1987 Somerset well when covering the Body, mostly the door windows and regulators.

No repair information for the 1993-95 olds cutlass supreme convertible and or parts info ie..roof motor, actuator, hinges etc.

I got the 89-98 edition (amazingly Amazon.Com doesn't have the updated edition for sale). It's practically useless for the 98 model because it doesn't list the correct engine power output, nor does it include various 98-up components that aren't found on previous models. Such components include the 4-bar link and watt's linkage in the rear suspension. However, if you have a Crown Vic made between 89-97 then this guide is good. Definitely worth the money if you don't want to shell out major bucks for the factory service guide. However, buyer beware - Chiltons is still Chiltons and it doesn't cover engine and transmission overhauls in enough detail.

Frommer's Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks good overall guide to the area. It's descriptions of the lodging choices and the dining descriptions were very good although it omitted the Geyser Grill in the Old Faithful area. The descriptions of activities in GT were very good, but the descriptions of activities in YNP were lacking. There were some omissions: the Antelope Creek Drainage area and the Brink of the Upper/Lower Falls trails. Some felt the Norris Geyser Basin highly overrated as was the West Thumb Geyser Basin and Osprey Falls. This book is a great starting point but by no means should it be the only book you have. It's perfect for making your dining and lodging choices but suffers in adequately describing activities (for that check out 'An Outdoor Family Guide to Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks' by Lisa Gollin Evans).

The concept of gauge invariance is now ubiquitous in elementary particle physics, and has become very important in pure mathematics also. This book, in spite of its date of publication, could still serve to introduce gauge theories to the beginning student of high energy physics or quantum field theory. It was written shortly after the awarding of the Nobel prizes to Sheldon Glashow, Steven Weinberg, and Abdus Salam for their work on the electroweak interaction (their Nobel lectures are reprinted in the back of the book), but before the discovery of the W and Z bosons in 1982. The book includes a discussion of the work of the author on an SU(2) x U(1) gauge theory with heavy leptons, and its resulting prediction of lepton flavour non-conservation. Due to the recent experimental verification of neutrino mixing, this theory is now vacuous. In addition, the author includes a discussion of the SU(5) theory of grand unification. The experiment limits on proton decay though have caused the SU(5) theory to be discarded. The reader though will find a thorough discussion of the Weinberg-Salam theory as well as an historical overview of the various attempts to understand the weak interaction, such as the current-current Fermi theory and ther resulting conflicts between renormalizability and gauge invariance. A fairly good discussion of the Higgs mechanism is given also. There is no discussion however of supersymmetry. The book has 484 pages but the layout is very sparse, making the reading of it relatively fast. Beginning students of particle physics will no doubt want a more up-to-date book that is more in tune with the present experimental status, but this one could still be used to learn the underlying bread-and-butter topics. Since the book was published many changes have occurred in high energy physics, one of the most significant being the advent of string theories, which began very shortly after the book appeared. Out of string theory grew M-theory and "brane" theories, and these and string theories were constructed to satisfy the need of incorporating gravity into the unification scheme.

"Grand Strand" solidly and thoroughly provides any avid golfer seeking information on all major Myrtle Beach courses with all the vital information they need to begin planning an enjoyable trip to what has colorfully been referred to as "the reddest of golf's red light districts.

With course access and contact information and informative playing tips, all levels of golfer can plan the most important aspects of their trip...the finances and the location of their selected courses to plan their own customized Myrtle Beach experience.

All major courses, from the old venerable standbys like the Dunes Club, Marsh Harbour and Pine Lakes International, to the hot newcomers True Blue and TPC Myrtle Beach, are painstakingly described, often times with a strategic shot-by-shot and amenity-by-amenity description. There is even a detailed map and scorecard from each of the approximately 100 courses analyzed.

While it has all the detail one need's to select the right courses for any customized trip, some treatment should be given to lodging, dining and alternative means of spending a golf widow's time. Also, the British jargon sometimes espoused by the author in his descriptions grows mildly tedious.

Nevertheless, this in depth course atlas goes a long way toward further dispelling the myth that Myrtle Beach is a raffish escape for those bargain hunters looking for a "Golfers answer to Las Vegas."

Okay. First off, I have to confess I bought this book by mistake. I was expecting to get a sort of audio guide to the Grand Canyon, so I was pretty disappointed when this turned out not to be the case.

The audiobook instead turned out to be two short stories: the first is, of course, 'The Grand Canyon', and the other is 'At Grandmother's House' (or something like that). 'The Grand Canyon' was a lot more enjoyable and funnier. It was a narrative about the writer's trip to the eponymous canyon and his self-deprecating humour got quite a few chuckles out of me.

'At Grandmother's House' recounts the author's trips to his grandmother's house in the woods when he was young, and concentrates on two incidents in particular, one involving imaginery bogeymen he was afraid of as a boy, and another involving a real bogeyman (well, actually an escaped criminal) hiding out near the house. Not terribly interesting a listen.

As an audiobook, it was pretty good. The reader has a wonderful gravelly voice, and a good sense of deadpan nuance which worked well, especially with the first story's self-deprecating humour.

So, a pretty average couple of stories, one somewhat better than the other, that were fairly entertaining and reasonably competent, but nothing to write home about. Three stars.

My Personal Rating Scale:
5 stars: Engaging, well-written, highly entertaining or informative, thought provoking, pushes the envelope in one or more ways, a classic.
4 stars: Engaging, well-written, highly entertaining or informative. Book that delivers well in terms of its specific genre or type, but does not do more than that.
3 stars: Competent. Does what it sets out to do competently, either on its own terms on within the genre, but is nothing special. May be clichéd but is still entertaining.
2 stars: Fails to deliver in various respects. Significantly clichéd. Writing is poor or pedestrian. Failed to hold my attention.
1 star: Abysmal. Fails in all respects.

I picked up this book when I was going out to see and hike the Grand Canyon. The book is much more interesting in context, i.e. you've seen and undertand the scale and the environment of the Grand Canyon. The book has a series of short vignettes, arranged roughly chronologically, about explorers, miners and assorted neer do wells that really gave life and reality to my experience hiking and exploring the Canyon. Each of the stories is concisely written and illustrated with period photos in B&W.

I suppose Scott Thybony's Havasu Trail Guide told me most of what I needed to know. However, it was very poorly organized. It read like a term paper that was thrown together the night before it was due. Rather than have clear sections such as history, geology, Native Americans, and the trail itself, Mr. Thybony drifts aimlessly back and forth between topics. After I finally finished the book, I still did not feel like the trail had been completely explained. I had to skim back through the book and piece together his information about the trail.

In short, I do not feel confident about my understanding of the Havasu Canyon Trail after reading Scott Thybony's guide.

I had high hopes for this book. The volumes in this series on the origins of cinema, the Twenties and the Forties are very good. This book, however, proved a chore to get through.

The big problem for me was that Balio seemed more interested in the movie companies as organizations and less interested in the films themselves. Compounding this was the fact that he sees the Thirties as a unit, and believes that the division of the decade's films into pre-Code and post-Code, with 1934 as the turning point, is a myth. Thus, to him, the "fallen women" films, Mae West comedies, classic gangster films, and horror films all died out because the public was tired, not because of censorship problems.

Balio sees filmmaking in the Thirties as dominated by the studios and with directors being hired guns. Hence there is no real discussion of any directors. Ernst Lubitsch, Frank Capra and Josef von Sternberg are barely mentioned, except when Balio complains that their films didn't make enough money.

Indeed, he seems to have no view of his own about the films. Instead, he views FILM DAILY and VARIETY as the voice of God. If they put the film on their 10 best list, it is good, and if they didn't, it isn't worth talking about. The idea that some films popular in the Thirties are no longer highly regarded or that some films despised at the time have become viewed as classics seems not to interest him at all.

If someone who had no idea about the history of American film read this book, he would come away thinking that the "Golden Age of Hollywood" was a myth and these films were artifacts not worth seeing.