I actually needed a manual for a 1991 Pontiac 6000, but this worked for details on how to replace part of the front suspension for a relative. I thought somehow this was bigger, but is is about 6x9 inches. Make sure that you realize what changed after the 1988 cutoff date for this book. Models after that year had fuel injection, and perhaps computer changes, etc. so getting this book for a later year might not work for you, but it did for me.

As a Diesel Tempo owner, I was disappointed by this book, but am finding it BARELY sufficient for my projects. In order to complete any project, be prepared to read, and reread this book several times just to find all the relevant information for any given job, as it is necessary to be VERY familiar with this book due to the lack of cross referencing. Many of the steps are vague, and indeed some steps are omitted, ie in order to remove the dash, there is no mention made of having to remove much of the trim, or how that would be done, the illustrations neglect to mention SEVERAL screws, with no helpful hints on removal (for instance the three screws on the top of the dash near the bottom of the windshield which must be removed with a flexible shaft extension if you don't feel like removing the windshield), and merely stating "disconnect the electrical connections" doesn't quite cut it, especially for the first timer. The parts lists are also incomplete, and very confusing, as some parts are listed twice (Quick Start System Control Unit - Glow plug with the Mazda part# = Module - Glow plug Control with the Ford part#, or, like the pre-glow and after-glow relays, are listed only as a switch - glow plug (even the main diesel tech at Ford Service Dept. didn't know that they were the same thing). While much is left to guesswork and - because its a Ford - wild and loose imagination, if you are reasonably handy with a wrench, and into spending a few days pondering how to get at this part or wondering if this is the actual part (The name on the Glow plug control module (Ford's listing name) was Q.G.S Controller DC12V, the wiring diagram called it Diesel Control Module, the number stamped on it didn't match the parts list under either aforementioned name (Ford - E4EE 12M092 AA, Mazda - RF10 18 701A), and none of the other little black boxes under the left side of the dash had any relevant numbers on them either...) and you can't find the Haynes for your car, then this book is a necessity (as it is for me), so buy it, and trade the money you saved on the work your doing yourself for the hassle of doing it the Chiltons way. (BTW if anyone has a resistor or a Q.G.S Controller/diesel control module/glow plug control module/Quick Start System Control Unit that works, pls email me!) Oh and save yourself some headaches and don't buy a ford :)

I have a 1991 Toyota Camry DX and got a problem with the Car sterio. With the help of the book and some good tools, I was able to open the sterio and and set the electric connections very effectively. Local car mechanics have said that it would cost me $200 to get the sterio replaced and actually there was only a lose electric connection at the back of the sterio.

I could also fix the car door lock jam with the help of this book. It saved me definitely a few hundred bucks.

I can safely recommend this book for enthusiatic self repairers

I read 'Country of Cold' because I enjoyed the author's south sea travel memoir 'The Water in Between'. I have to say that I was disappointed with this collection of short stories and I felt that my having read his memoir compounded this.

This book is a collection of 'connected' short stories, a description I always find a little worrisome as it usually means a novel that didn't hang together or an author with a limited literary imagination, but as I liked his previous non-fiction book I thought it would be a worthwhile read. Halfway through I had the feeling that this was initially meant to be a novel in that the characters and plots seemed to be recycled throughout the stories. An example of this is that two characters in different stories (Cora and Daphne) both come from the same high-school, go to medical school, then on to work in Montreal before both coming back to Manitoba. (Rarely does any pair- outside of conjoined twins or single fictional characters that have been conveniently split into two- have such identical paths). Another criticism I have is that numerous events presented in Patterson's memoir are recounted and represented now as fiction (Interposition, Starlight, Starbright), and for me, the stories suffered because of it. (This isn't the author's problem of course, but my problem. In a way it's a compliment that Patterson is a more compelling character than any of his fictional creations).

The characters, all graduates of Dunsmuir High, lack a diversity one expects from a writer of Patterson's skill. They run through the interesting, but fairly narrow permutations of medical school, military service and work in the north of Canada (sometimes all three, a hat-trick scored by the author himself, and expounded upon in his memoir). An odd and recurring manifestation of this was that characters who were doctors or military personnel never had their physical attributes disparagingly described but other characters- a waitress 'with a nose that could split pack ice' (in 'Gabriella: Parts 1 and 2'), a bartender 'with a profile like an engorged chigger' (in 'Les is More') or a disappointing husband 'long since grown fat and white like Oreo cookie filling' (in 'Boatbuilding')- all had a harsher light cast on them. When the protagonist doesn't have the good luck to have lived through what Patterson has, as in the lovesick and obese bartender in 'Les is More', the characterization suffers and in its place we get antics: a barrel is produced and the outsider strapped into to it for a ride over a waterfall. I suppose that's what irked me about the collection; that certain characters were rendered with less dignity (not as less dignified, an important difference) if they fell outside certain boundaries. Patterson seems to save his respect for the ennui of his medical or military officer characters or for the landscape itself; everyone else- like the beach-goers he derides in the title story- has an 'L' firmly tattooed on their forehead:

"It was an astonishing place, and for all the regrettable fashion decisions and aesthetic failings, the scale of the forest still dwarfed the beet-faced people at its southern tip."

A low point is when several Inuit characters wander into Patterson's sights to make cameo appearances in the title story, where they are promptly subjected (in a span of ten pages!) to near-freezing in a blizzard, third degree burns from a tent fire, a botched medical procedure and a suicide by gun shot. I guess they should have joined the military. All of this mayhem is, of course, back-story to make us understand why the story's protagonist, a doctor who has worked in the north, is unable to 'get on' with her life. Poor dear.

Certain stories, like 'The Perseid Shower' are quite good, showing that an exotic locale or a character intoxicated by boredom isn't a necessary feature of his work. The writing is the strongest when Patterson describes places, but even that has its limitations. The arctic is barren and vast and yes, I can imagine people are lonely there, but it doesn't mean that every story needs its mandatory blinding blizzard, dense cloud of mosquitoes, or night of exquisite starlight. We get it.

The collection ends with its weakest story 'Manitoba Avenue', a piecing-together of the various storylines as the characters meet at their class reunion (which is, if possible, more derivative than it sounds).

All of this is a shame because Kevin Patterson is a very good writer who brings a great deal of intelligence into his work, and I had the feeling after finishing the book that I wanted to read more from him, but non-fiction. When he isn't writing about himself or people like him he lapses into disdainful characterization that boarders on arrogance. At least in non-fiction such attitudes (which he has every right to hold) are more honestly expressed.

This book was used as volume one of the Chronicles of Canada series, a thirty-two volume set of short, easy-to-read books pertaining to Canada's history and heritage. The Dawn of Canadian History is intended to set the stage for the series, and discusses in a general sense the primordial beginnings of Canada, theories on how the continent was populated by native peoples, the possible accidental visits by the Vikings, and early explorations by the Europeans. Keep in mind that the book was first published in 1914 and therefore contains much dated information. Leacock's opinions also at times reflect those of his contemporaries and are clearly now not acceptable. All in all, though, an interesting little book, worth reading despite its faults, especially if you're into Leacock and want to experience some of his non-humorous writings.

Colonel Steele, a strict military man, as well as a man of his word, writes his memoirs in much the same way as he lived. His courage and bravery, as well as his honesty, come through just as history has recorded. He did not give praise lightly, nor did he speak ill of anyone without just cause. His word was his bond and not to be broken. A definite insight into the history of that period, as well as into the man himself.

Now available as "Go The Distance", this book contains interesting, but generally depressing, short stories ... far from Kinsella's best, but better than average stories.

While the subject of German immigration to Canada has been anything but neglected by historians, this book's uniqueness lies in its attention to how the phenomenon was supported or resisted by various parties in both countries. In Canada, the struggle was largely between a strong anti-German sentiment (stemming from WW I and Allied propaganda) and the desire of Canadian transportation companies to improve their revenue intake. In Germany, it was a question of whether the cause of Deutschtum ("Germandom") would be better served by keeping Germans in the homeland to help the economy recover from the War or by allowing some to emigrate and strengthen the Canadian portion of worldwide Deutschtum. Subsidiary to this was the question of whether Germans emigrating to Canada would, in fact, support the cause or would instead assimilate into Canada's English-speaking culture. Concentrating as he does on the DIA and the VDA, two of Germany's major organizations involved in matters of Germans outside of Germany, Grams adopts a wise and useful course.

Grams, a native of Saskatchewan, appears to be a very earnest and meticulous researcher, and the book is valuable for leading the reader, through its nearly 1700 footnotes, to a vast array of archival materials. Its shortcomings, and they are fairly serious, lie in the realm of organization and the use of the English language. It suffers a good deal from repetition, but even more so from grammatical, syntactical and stylistic errors. This may have something to do with its being a dissertation for a German university (Marburg), plus a woeful lack of editing before it went to print. Whatever the cause, keeping one's mind on the subject matter and off the mistakes requires a bit of an effort, reducing it from a four-star book to three stars. All in all, however, the effort is worth it.

Fay provides a good orientation within his subject matter for the reader and new student. Selecting from published materials he presents a chronology of the growth of the institutional Catholic presence in Canada by assessing, analyzing and interpreting of information in an ecclesiastical framework. He says that "many colleagues and students have let me know that an outline history of the Canadian Catholicism is needed now" (p.ix). The title, A History of Canadian Catholics, however, led me to expect a disclosure of some personal thoughts or motivations of the individuals who have left their mark on Canadian Catholic Church history. Rather, I discovered their views to have been presented through an ecclesiastical filter. To my mind, the book could have been entitled, An Ecclesiastical History of Catholics in Canada, since it is the corporate identity that provides the threat that links his subject matter. Fay has made choices in presenting his material and has remained faithful to his theme. He has chosen to cite individuals whose contributions or comments impinge directly on a corporate influence of the Church. His book does meet a current need in understanding Canadian Catholicism and I will recommend it to students I teach.

Joining the ranks of Michael Innes, Amanda Cross, and many, many other writers of academic murder mysteries, Nora Kelly offers this first look at historian and unwitting sleuth, Gillian Adams, who returns to her alma mater of Cambridge while on sabbatical from her position at the University of the Pacific Northwest in Vancouver (She is half Canadian, half American.). The title _In The Shadow of Kings_ is ambiguous: it refers first of all to the literal shadows of King's College, where the much esteemed but little adored historian Alistair Greenwood is murdered, awkwardly and publicly, at Gillian's guest lecture. Gillian assists her boyfriend, a Scotland Yard detective, in solving the murder, while she simultaneously confronts her ambivalent feelings toward the relationship and fears that her old college chums may be implicated.

First of all, the strength of the novel is in Kelly's style. She writes beautifully, almost poetically, as she lovingly describes the hallowed halls of Cambridge through the eyes of one who returns after a long absence. The dialogue is natural and yet full of subtexts. And she knows when to use humor (a must in academic mysteries, I think) and when to pull the plug on Gillian's sentimental journeys.

Unfortunately, Kelly does not lavish the same attention to her plot, an unforgivable lapse in a mystery. The novel's solution is unsatisfactory, even disappointing, and the motives of one character (the colorful Fiona Clay) are never really explained. Moreover, the old ploy of pairing up the amateur sleuth romantically with a cop is handled badly here, with too much of Edward without Gillian. The reader starts to wonder who, after all, is the protagonist.

The most interesting theme in _In the Shadow of Kings_ is that history is both alluring and an embarrassment. This idea aligns nicely with Gillian's real (however tiresome) struggles with career and personal life, with modernism and tradition.