If your serious about maintaining your own Explorer or Ranger, this book will frustrate rather than enlighten you. Not much more informative than the owners manual in the glove compartment. I wound up recycling mine. The diagrams and illustrations are inadequate and the instructions come up short. I you really want to maintain your engine and body you're going to have to spring for an OEM Service Manual.

I have been sorely disapointed in the entire series of the Chilton "Total Care " line of books. Many of us who purchase these manuals are familiar whith the much older Chilton manuals and these books are nothing like them. Often the books are under illustrated(or offer generic advice) and frankly do not even describe the same vehicle or it's components. I have been a professional mechanic for many years and cannot recommend this book for anyone who is serious about repairing their own vehicle. It will however suit those wishing merely to change their own oil and filter and perhaps the occasional (gasp) tire. The Haynes manual series is far superior in every resect for the more serious owner. Chilton professioanl products are still good but expensive and not readily available to the consumer.

As in the past, right after purchasing a new vehicle, I went out and bought the Chilton's book to help me out. I was not dissapointed in any of the info given throughout the book. I found all the specs I would need to take care of routine maintenance and some small repairs that I could tackle in the driveway. The non-mechanic can even get an insight into what a professional will be doing when he takes his car in for more extensive repairs. I suggest to anyone who buys a used car to get a Chilton's guide for it!

This is a big DC crossover involving too many different titles. The two volumes attempt to collect stories involving Superman, Wonder Woman, Young Justice, and Impulse. A lot of back story seems missing and the artwork often looks like bad manga. I am really hating these kinds of crossovers, and reading these stories in this GN format is extremely confusing.

One of the staples to Supes personal history is the fact that he's held to standards that other superheroes might not be able to match ... until now. Reading Superman say the words, "I'm going to kill him," is perhaps the most startling revelation in the two-parter trade paperback OUR WORLDS AT WAR. Despite some negative reaction from a large part of the Super-fan base, OWAW is a good read but far from great. It presents a Superman that readers largely haven't seen before, one driven by a passionate instinct for revenge. While the books do possess some continuity issues, there are parts of the story important to our time: acts of terrorism, good surrendering to evil, the loss of life in times of war, etc. However, these two books do suffer from one crucial shortcoming that appears to be a growing trend in crossover / trade paperbacks, and that's the fact that the reader might be told of pivotal events several times from differing perspectives ... once from the Superman installment, once from the Young Justice installment, and once from a Wonder Woman installment. Whereas the end result should be interesting, it's far more confusing here, as some events toward the climax are reviewed slightly out-of-sequence. That said, a Darkseid story is always welcome at my house, and I enjoyed the pure escapism of a reasonably entertaining Superman story for what it was worth.

Would I recommend purchase? Erg. These two books are rather pricey for a story that isn't as tightly woven as it could've been. I would have rather seen the publishers create one volume, with a reasonable price, than two with a slightly higher than necessary pricetag. Damn capitalism. Damn commercialism. If you can get your hands on copies to borrow, I'd take that route first.

I'm giving this 3 stars, but this is a VERY GENEROUS 3 stars. The only reason I'm doing that is because the action is pretty good and there's a lot of it.

What is going on here? I know Superman doesn't quite have the resolve of Batman, but Superman is supposed to be the standard of the DC Universe. The one they turn to when all else fails. So why is he whining so much? Why is he neglecting Lois? Why is he so annoying? Who knows. They don't explain it to us.

It should be noted that there is a lot missing. Most of the DC Universe books touched upon this crossover & they can't all be included. However, that doesn't explain why the plot is so confusing. There are parts that are just cryptic.

There are some genuinely suspenseful parts, the subplot between Lex and his Brainiac'd daughter being the highlight.

Again, there's a lot of pretty good action (including a good slap 'em up between Supes & Darkseid). But what separates the guys who wrote this from the truly great writers is plot. And that is lacking here.

I wasn't impressed with this collection, though I had looked forward to reading it. I think the Goatswood mythos has possibilities, but these stories didn't light me up and slap my emotions and imagination around the way most of the Chaosium fiction series collections do. Chick says you can miss it.

scymanski has an ok story here. price has a good one about the gorgon. that one was very enjoyable, and had some lovely details. otherwise, this was dreary read. so many of these stories were not only badly invented, but seemed so uninspired to. i almost felt sorry for the writers, for making so bad stories. i think this is chaosium's worst.

I think that when the curtain came down on the good old Soviet Union the author looked around and decided he would make a little money with a book. Unfortunate for him the spy tell all books were coming out of Russia faster then one could count. The author must have then decided well lets milk the JFK assignation market. There are interesting bits about how the KGB worked and what good old Henry did in the USSR, but overall a bit of a dull, less then built up book. The author took a 15 page magazine article and made a 300-page book out of it. If you are interested in this topic go straight to the tour de force of the group - Crossfire by Jim Marrs.

This fascinating account of Oswald's attempt to go to Cuba can be told by no other writer. Oswald went to Mexico City 7 weeks before the JFK assassination and tried to get a visa to go to Cuba. The Cuban Consulate said they could not issue such a visa on such short notice and suggested he go to the Russia Consulate. He did and had an encounter with Comrade Oleg Nechiporenko that explains Oswald's attempts to manipulate authorities. Oswald tried to solve his feelings of insignificance by coaxing Russian authorities to let him have a visa to go to Russia via Cuba and tried to demonstrate his affiliation with communism. He also pulled a gun and explained that he had to carry it because of persecution by the FBI. Nechiporenko recounts Oswald's manipulations, instability, and desperation in a way that no other person has ever done. This book should be re-issued for the general public to understand Oswald.

Very annoying to use because all of the questions are in front of the book and the answers are in the back, so you are constantly flipping back and forth from question to answer.

Titon unquestionably knows his subject matter well, and this does come through in the book. Unfortunately, he drains the topic of all the spontaneity and joy that one associates with music with a pendantic and tendetious approach. His writing style, in my experience, aptly reflects his personality. I once took a college class from him when he served as a visiting professor at Carleton College in Minnesota. This book was a mandatory assignment...more royalties for the professor. If you are prepared to take the subject as seriously as Titon takes himself, this book could be for you. Otherwise, there are surely more accessible and informative works to begin a study of this distinctively American musical form.

I am twelve years old and I liked the technical stuff. It was kind of cool but the kids seemed like they were from the Beaver Cleaver days. They did not seem modern or like my friends. I think my six year old brother would like this book but he can't read well enough to read it.

I expected this book to be an engaging first-person account of a very troubled period of Irish history, the years of the Potato Famine. The diary is seriously flawed by the shortcomings of the author. She is extremely bigoted toward the native Irish, their habits, character and especially their religion. She is a product of her class and time but even so she is difficult to excuse. She devotes a large part of her ramblings to very caustic comments about her friends and social acquaintances which she disects on a regular basis with the precision of a surgeon. Elizabeth Grant Smith was not an evil and unfeeling woman, she did work hard to keep the family lands solvent in difficult times and she does mention the misery of the people and her attempts to help them. But while the Irish starved she always had time and money for the finer things in life, travel and parties figure significantly in her diary even in the depths of the Famine. She seems to know everyone's business a little too well, every neighbor's debt down to the last detail. But most irritating is the Highland Lady's exaggerated sense of self-worth. She is so taken up with social rank, family history, and name dropping that it is difficult to be patient with her. She continually is bemoaning the fact that others are not as right thinking, high-bred, and as good as she. The book is 545 pages in length and the vast majority is filled with this self-indulgent nonsense. If you are extremely patient there are some interesting crumbs of history to glean. If you want the truth about this time in Irish history read "The Great Hunger" by Cecil Woodham-Smith and forget this book.

This book promised a lot on the cover and didn't deliver. Most of the material I already knew, and the rest I could have learned over coffee with an administrator. Nothing was explained in depth; one could probably do better searching for info on the web.

If Christian Science is a declining movement, then why bother to expend ink on the movement? While I appreciated the critical analysis of mind sciences philosophy, I was left wondering if the authors rationalist approach did not also undermine the esoteric and idiosyncratic hermeneutics that charismatic Christians also indulge in. The book is marred by an ugly racist attack on reincarnation- some liberation theologians would argue that Christian dualism has also legitimated environmental carnage and destructive social hierarchies. But why bother to attack a declining philosophical framework anyway?