Lots of good stuff, needs to be more obvious about each model.

Love the book, however the different models are not differentiated well, so you really must read carefully.

the rare repair manual that i got was a big help the pages wasnt bent

I perchased an chilton import repair manual. The first car I worked on was a Honda civic I took down the vid. no.Went to the manual there was no identificatin chart wasnt sher of the year and engine this book is useless I was lucky the owners manual was in the car.All the other manuals I have (american made cars) have a id chart at the first of every section. Why not on the import cars the book is useless.Could some one let chilton know about this error. Thank you Quick

A prior review says "this book is useless." Well, I wouldn't go that far. The problem is that the book covers all models - Civic, Accord, Prelude, CRX - for 6 years. It is not always clear what instructions apply to my car (83 Civic Wagon). Much of the book is filled with boilerplate from the Chilton files. With some experience, the amateur can extrapolate and interpolate to figure out what is needed, but the book is not as good as it ought to be. It is a LOT better than nothing.

Estuve buscando informacion para el Honda Accord 1988 y encontre este libro, es muy bueno y contiene informacion detallada acerca del mantenimiento, aunque la calidad de la impresion no es muy buena, pero lo que importa es la informacion. Es una buena fuente de consulta para los que gustan de meter mano a sus vehiculos...

This fictionalized version of the Cook debacle is exactly what congressman S. D. Fess was talking about in 1915. He said then, before congress "A group of people, some of them innocent and misled and others not classifiable in polite terms, have been busily engaged in trying to filch from Peary the credit due him as discoverer of the North Pole in the interests of Dr. Cook. Most Americans supposed that the Cook issue died a natural death years ago. The time will undoubtedly come when... the activities of this man and the press of the country will ultimately do its part against the circulation of perversions of history with respect to the great feat that Admiral Peary achieved, an honor of which through all future ages no nation can rob us."

Fess would undoubtably kick about in the grave to read this novel! As unbelievable as it seems, some people are still back in 1915 "filching" from Peary. If that is your cup of tea, this is your kind of history-fiction.

Some of the reviews here have been focussing on this book as a "revisionist history" re Peary and Arctic exploration, but that part of this book is secondary. The real focus of the book is Devlin Stead's life and discoveries about his family, whose story changes through several revelations throughout the book (maybe too many times would be one criticism of this book). Generally well-written and a good description of turn of the (20th) century New York and pre-Canada Newfoundland, recommended if you like a good historical read.

Johnston's latest novel is an excellent reconstruction of the era of the great explorers -- with all its back-biting and egotism -- as well as a very fine description of New York as it turns into a world capital. Add to that is usual sensitive account of small town Canada and you get a wide-ranging, subtle and fascinating taleof hope and loss. recommended

Although a fantasy novel can never be described as "unrealistic" without evoking much-deserved laughter, I found that the events in this book/anthology went contrary to the Forgotten Realms genre. The seven sisters seemed to lose the individual personalties and depth of character previously established in other works. Here they were nothing more than the seven sisters, each running around saying "yup, I'm a chosen of Mystra." Further, the events of the book made the characters seem very shallow, two-dimensional and empty. They were more representations of their archetype, not characters. It seemed as if the author was far more interested in writing the book than developing the characters or story. As a big fan of the Forgotten Realms world, I wish that this book had not been written. The author was clearly trying to evoke emotional responses of fear and potential loss (the deaths of the chosen) in inapropriate ways. With or without the power of Mystra, none of the chosen would have lived that long or risen to those levels of power by throwing themselves carelessly into such danger. Mages of such tremendous power and resources would not have come so close to death in that manner. While I have enjoyed many of Ed Greenwood's contributions to the Forgotten Realms universe, this one I consider a dismal failure.

This is really just a novel, in which each of the seven sisters passes on the baton to the next as part of a connected story. The device is a bit thin, but the book is perfectly readable, and fine as light relaxing fiction. I'd like more, as ever. Greenwood isn't a particularly good writer, but the work is edited competently and flows easily enough. It's no worse than the Elminster stories.

The only gripe I had was with the physical format and cost. It's hard to hold so big a volume, and I object to paying extra for something that won't fit on my shelves.

But if you like the Forgotten Realms setting, and have liked other Greenwood novels, I think you'll be happy with this one.

Ed Greenwood gives us the definitive stories to the seven sisters, no matter how differently they are protrayed in other books, after all, Greenwood is the creator of the Forgotten Realms, so there is no arguement there.

The storyline is a complicated and carefully constructed plot, but it is not the essential reading for beginners in the Forgotten Reals world, Greenwood sometimes mentions things that needed to be looked up, and also does not explain other things fully. The scenery changes fast and furious, and this could cause some confusion for the not-so-careful reader, it is a book to be studied over. These are some of the reasons why it is not one of Greenwood's best publications.

Other than that, the characters are fine themselves, although one or two of the Sisters may seem a little "odd" at first (for example, Sylune and the Simbul.), but the reader quickly adopts to the style of the story and is "assimilated" neatly into it, this I have to give Greenwood credit for.

All in all:

Readability: 9 out of 10 Style: 10 out of 10 Storyline: 8 out of 10 (a bit corny in some places)

Holy Blood, Holy Grail set the standard for secret histories, with a combination of humor, odd trivia, and grandeur that gets one addicted to the study. Two follow ups, The Messainic Legacy and The Temple and the Lodge were ever dimmer imitations, but the spark was still there. Real history was told, and explained with a new paradigm.

Other books, like The Tomb of God or Key to the Sacred Pattern try to mathematically prove themselves. Though the geometry is tiring, the improbably coincidences are not.

Then there's books like Holy Grail Across the Atlantic, which twist history, often unintentionally hillariously.

As proof that "Arcadian" literature (the poetic form of which involves a shepherd either romantically or sarcastically making improbable promises to his love) is inspired by a Holy Family, they say that a certain character in the story bought a painting by Pousson, and another by Teniers. Since the Pousson was was an Arcadian scene, by Teniers probably was one two. The author neglects to mention that the same source the Tenier painting was of SAINT ANTHONY THE HERMET, and that the purchaser also ordered one of the crowning of Pope Celestine V.

A hidden message in an supposedly ancient document beings with "Shepherdess, No Temptation, that Pousson, Teniers, hold the key..." the author says. The implications of the message are obvious! But the message actually says

SHEPHERDESS NO TEMPTATION THAT POUSSON TENIERS HOLD THE KEY PEACE 681 BY THE CROSS AND THIS HORSE OF GOD I COMPLETE THIS DAEMON GUARDIAN AT MIDDAY BLUE APPLES

But the author ignores this. (If you're interesteed in this part of the mystery, by Holy Blood Holy Grail instead).

The author claims that a certain document called the "Zeno Narrative" is historically accepted, and that the document refers to the Orkney Islands as "Frisland." This is untrue. The map of Frisland accompanying the document shows a large island with many cities. The same "accepted" narrative tails of how the supposed author sailed to "Icari," the small kingdom the natives say was founed by Daedulus and named after his son. (For more info on this "accepted" theory, read "Phantom Islands of the Atlantic").

Then there's pages 350-351, which show case the author's sloppy style. "Roosevelt's government financed a massive, and unprecedented, construction of interstate highways... Without the network of highways he created, called useless and worse by political opponents at th time, America could never have mobilized its industry and military to cope with World War II." The DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER INTERSTATE HIGHWAY AND NATIONAL DEFENSE PROGRAM was built by President Eisenhower, during his administration, because he was so impressed by how the GERMAN interstate ("autobahn") allowed the GERMANS to mobilize.

"The winning edge [in the race to build the atom bomb] was not the brains... but the vast quantity of electrical power available because of the "make work" project of the TVA. It is no accident Oak Ride was in Tennessee." Oak Ridge built a nuclear reactor. It was not involved in the war effort. The author's thinking of the Manhattan project, which took place in the New Mexico desert.

This is an awful, unfun book. The author is often mean spirited. If you like namecalling, get "Tomb of God." At least that one forces you to learn all about pentagons.

I just finished Michail Bradley's book Holy Grail Across The Atlantic. I found it an enjoyable read, though somewhat sluggish at the end. I do believe that Bradley is on to something. There is enough evidence to demand further investigation. I guess you just can't believe everything you are taught in school. Anyway I have to apply that same skepticism to some of Bradley's assertions. He presents some interpretations that need a leap of faith. In conclusion, I definetly recomend this intriguing work. My views have been broadened and I feel a need to join in the search for the holy grail.

Micheal Bradley has followed the Grail Knights through their disappearance and into their explorations of North America. He has done extensive research and turned up some amazing physical evidence. I would recommend that one read "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" as background for this book as Micheal seems to assume that everyone has read it (as well they should!)

I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in early european visits to North America, Masonic mysteries or the Knights Templar.

I would also recommend any of Mr.Bradleys other books, as he is an accomplished writer and has some very interesting theories

The Haynes book assumes you already know a great deal about your Fiero. If you are looking for locations of differents pieces or sensors you will not find them here. Step by step proceedures for repair or replacement also are incomplete. There are no little hints about what to remove to gain access to hard to reach items on the engine. If you are a mechanic by trade this book will keep you up to date, for a novice, look elsewhere.

The understanding of this repair manual is fairly easy. The repair proceedures are explained in depth and give a clear understanding. Pictures are also included in the manual to give a clear explaination when complicated proceedures are involved. This manual also includes an updated section where only the 1988 Fiero upgrades were introduced. Overall this manual is easy to understand and follow and is highly recommended for the Do-It-Yourselfer.

Arial's best chapter is the one detailing all the petty, pubescent, "mine is bigger than yours" chicanery that dogged the creation of the North Wall. This is, sadly, an accurate description of a disgusting mentality that plagues Veterans' groups across North America. No government need fear or listen to these characters, who are too busy fighting amongst themselves to make any kind of difference.

Arial also brings to light true heroes like Mike "Iceman" Gillholley, and Ed "Edwardo" Johnson. However, there are some errors.

She writes about the 173rd "Division", the "American" Division, and a Marine "Lieutenant-Corporal." (Should be the 173rd Airborne BRIGADE, the AMERICAL Division and Marine LANCE-Corporal respectively.)

More seriously, she labels as a "benevolent wannabe" a Central America War survivor who has done more than the average Vietnam Vet to advance the Cause in Canada, while inadvertedly promoting one jabroni whose records are completely devoid of any combat action decorations.

Arial did good to write about Veterans when she could have well written about immensely more profitable subjects. However, her investigative techniques need work before she reaches the level of Yves Lavigne and Jug Burkett.

This compelling book brings to light the stories and struggles of some of the 50,000 young Canadians who were recruited to fight in the Vietnam War. The U.S. deliberately recruited them, setting up offices in Plattsburgh and Bellingham near the Canadian border. But the Canadian government doesn't recognize these men as soldiers and hasn't provided any of the support services they should've been getting to cope with what they experienced. Consequently, many have suffered in silence. For some, the pain was too great.

Despite the subject matter, this book is hard to put down. It reads like a long magazine article rather than a book. It also changed the way I perceive the men who fought in the Vietnam War. It seems that many bought into the U.S. and Hollywood propaganda about wars and being a soldier. When you're 18 years old, that can be pretty powerful.

There is some useful info in this book but really you would be far better off buying some of Janet Ruhl's books for example. It is sloppy and poorly organized.The large type used reminds me of when I used double spacing and large fonts to pad term papers (in high school). The 'objected-oriented' methodology is bizarre. Hello ? Who wants to read about data-flow diagrams in a book that purports to help Canadians with consulting in the U.S. ? Several times as I was reading, I found myself thinking that I was about to finally get some meat - only to read that this was outside the scope of the book ! And it took me perhaps an hour to read the whole thing. There are a few useful URLs given but much more than this can be found at many web sites out there. Overall, this book is not worth it !

I found John Wilson's book to be an excellent reference for anyone who is interested in working in the USA in the computer field.

It dealt with negotiating and securing both the actual employment contracts as well as the all important immigration visa's.

With this book I was able to secure a very lucrative contract to work in the US as well as securing the proper visa to do so.

John Wison's book lead me step by step through the immigration process. His book even brought up a few possible 'problem' situations that might occur when crossing the border. As such I was fully prepared when I encounter just such a situation. With the advice from this book I was able to deal with it in a confident manner and as such had no further problems.

Once again, I whole heartedly recommend this book to anyone interested in working in the USA in the computer field.

The storyteller in the The Beauty of the Husband is a woman who may or may not be Anne Carson, recalling a failed marriage with a beating mind. The memories set down here - jolting, raw, journalistic, poetic are bled onto paper to form a succession of 29 highly literate and evocative ink blots. "How sharp the point of this remembrance is" according to Shakespeare. But enough exegesis - put on Piazzolla, read this book and answer for yourself what a lover wants from the beloved. Start with a little beauty and truth...

Anne Carson has written a beautiful book of poems/tangoes that somehow tell the story of a marriage without actually telling a story. We have fully realized moments, conversations (Carson writes amazing poetic conversations, here and in her other works), events -- without all the connections in between. And yet these moments are woven together, internally and from one tango to the next, with language used as the steps of a dance, providing motifs and figures that carry the reader from one page to the next. Dance, games, rules, war, the rules of war, love, beauty, truth, lies and betrayal -- all of these themes run in and out of the complicated pattern of steps. The technique always serves the lyric, however, and we never lose sight of the feelings Carson wishes to evoke. You feel the separate pains of each betrayal (her betrayal of her mother, the not-yet-husband's failure to appear for their wedding, his first infidelity, each subsequent lie), but despite the pain there is no bitterness in this book -- in fact, Carson's final advice is to "hold beauty." Just as you cannot tell the tale of the lover without telling the tale of the beloved (as the final poem ironically suggests), so, perhaps, you cannot have love, beauty and truth without their opposites. Carson, plainly, is on the side of beauty.

In "The Beauty of the Husband," Carson continues her exploration-- begun in her 1986 book, "Eros the Bittersweet"--of how love, beauty, knowledge and pain intersect. This project continued through "Glass, Irony, and God," and "Plainwater." "Beauty" can only be understood in that context; those who take "Autobiography of Red" to be her most representative or best work are missing the point, as are those who want to find in Carson a "poet." She is not a poet, and will inevitably disappoint those who expect her to be. She is really a phenomenologist. Her language only *sounds* poetic, because she is forcing language to a new task, namely to bring you into direct contact with a phenomenon--the pain beauty inflicts. In this very specific sense, Carson is a Platonist. Plato took Beauty to be irretrievably lost to us in this life, but desperately remembered and wanted. Beauty causes pain because it at the same time attracts and thwarts me. Anne Carson dealt with this anguish theoretically in "Eros;" "Beauty" is one more variation on that theme, where "the Husband" is the narrator's loved reminder of true Beauty. His beauty makes her want to know him (sweet), but he always spins out of her grasp (bitter). That is the *fact* of love: to read this book is to taste it on your own mind's tongue.

I bought this book and I am having a hard time with it. I have been an extract brewer for 15 years. I'm responding to "sioux181" when he says "Give a guy a break!", give the brewer a break. I bought the ingredients for two of the recipes in this book and when I started making them, I realized that the conversions he made from mini-mash to extract were incorrect and I had to guess at what to do. How can I give the author a break? I will admit that mistakes happen, but you sound like you must be the author because any homebrewer would be very upset with incorrect information on brewing a beer. Both the errors that were pointed out previously are pretty obvious. However, I don't think the author spent the time to correctly convert to extract. For the Immortale recipe I start with 3 gallons of water for the specialty grains, he tells us to omit some ingredients, then follow the mini-mash recipe. It wasn't until I started that I looked at the mini-mash recipe and it said to sparge with 4 1/2 gallons of water. I have never brewed an extract beer using a 7 1/2 gallon boil (for a 5 gallon batch). The other recipe I made was Whale Tale Brown Ale, with his recipe I would end up with a 5 gallon boil. If I wanted to do a 5 gallon boil, I would switch to all-grain. It is obvious that the conversions are incorrect. Every recipe is like this. I have to guess at how much water to use for the specialty grains and sparging. Also, among various other small but important pieces that are essential to brewing, he has completely forgotten about adding Irish Moss.

While there are mistakes in this book (as there are in Clone Brews and Beer Captured), overall this is a worthwhile book-all the recipes I have made from this book have turned out well.

Much of the criticism of this book seems overdone. Beerman11, for instance, says that the extract version of the Immortales recipe asks you to continue the recipe with mini-mash recipe, and that this would require boiling 7.5 gallons. In my copy, the extract recipe asks you to use the mini-mash recipe after the boil--which would result in a boil of 3 gallons.

Admittedly, some of the criticism is fair. The book does not suggest lowering the amount of hops for the all-grain recipes, which is odd. I could not find the barleywine error mentioned elsewhere (although I'm not a big barleywine fan); it is possible mistakes in the first edition were corrected. On the other hand, Russell did actually include lagering in his recipes, which the Szamatulski's did not in Clone Brews (and included only in the Helpful Hints section in Beer Captured, their latest book).

Frankly, I suspect many of the problems with this book are a result of the publishing format, which applies to both of the Szamatulski's books as well. The short, one-page recipe format doesn't leave enough room to discuss technique and other issues involved with making the beer, and I think a lot of useful information is left out. However, I can get this information elsewhere.

Overall, I liked this book better than the original Clone Brews and almost as much as Beer Captured.

I'm glad I read my copy of North American Clone Brews before reading the reviews in this column. Give a guy a break! The book is fine. It does what it purports in a concise and readable manner. So, yes, "White Plains", Mr Russell's book contains a typo. Obviously he did not mean to mash (by my calculations) 16.75 lbs grain in 2.5 gallons of water. Mistakes happen. As to reduce the bittering in a full boil: to many variables affect hop utilization (at best 30%) to worry about this. Keep it simple. Relax, don't worry...."White Plains" and his admirer from Texas clearly have some axe to grind. Odd that with all the "many errors" in the book both 'reviewers' point out the same two-and both got the weight wrong. The variety and scope of this book alone justify its purchase. Having examined the quality of the recipes, I plan to do my brewing this season exclusively from North American Clone Brews.