Overpriced for what you get and only valuable to the firms designing highrise and industrial complexes. Find a copy and review for yourself before you buy.

The AIA should be embarrased by their publishing this "book". At less than forty pages of information it hardly qualifies as a book. Note that the information it does contain is fine but it certainly does not deliver good value for the money. The price is outrageous especially when you add amazon.com's fair shipping and handling costs. I expected more from an professional organization like the AIA. Note in the above description it doesn't identify how many pages the book contains as do most amazon.com descriptions (I get junk-mail thicker than this one). I understand that books like this have a limited audience and that the costs of production and distribution are correspondingly high. That being understood, a price under $5.00 would be more appropriate. I regret to say I will be weary of any other publications of the AIA Press.

As a CAD instructor and design professional I've been using the Master CAD Layer Guidelines since 1998. I find it to be a very effective tool for teaching beginning and intermediate CAD users the proper way to use layers for industry. In that regard it is invaluable. However, I am embarrassed by the exorbitant cost of the publication. Originally, I purchased this "pamplet"--which would be a more apt classification at a mere 40 pages--for $19. Over the years little information has changed, but the cost has skyrocketed. I can't imagine why. Excellent resource, terrible value for the money. I recommend an office buying one copy and passing it around, rather than supply everyone a copy. That's what I am reduced to do for my students. I thought AIA promoted well-educated, knowledgeable professionals, but is that at a cost that only the elite can afford? Come on, guys, get with the program.

Using interviews and war diaries, this tells the story of RAF Hornchurch from its establishment in 1915 to the Autumn of 1940. I was disappointed because, while the facts are here, most of the drama is not. Some of the anecdotes are interesting, but much of the book is a rather tedious string of "four planes went out, three came back" passages. These manage to give a sense of the pace of operations, but the effect is still flat. I thought the part on WWI better than WWII (although I'm more interested in the later). Pictures were fair.

We were trying to replace the heater core, the instructions were foggy to say the least. Further repairs or maintenance just as foggy, its a good book if you have a lot of experience with repairing the vehicle and don't need a how to. Amazingly the "Ford Tempo Mercury Topaz 1984-94" book by Mark Christman, which is by the same company, was a lot better for repairs and maintenance. But neither book helped with replacing the heater core, we eventually used other resources for more ideas on how to actually get to the heater core to get it out.

I've used this book for nearly three years now, and keep wondering why I go back to it. (Actually, it's because it's the only Tempo/Topaz book I own.) I have found several major errors in the illustrations, usually due to showing a 2.0 engine setup as a 2.3 or vice versa. Some instructions, like how to change a water pump, are just plain wrong. Electrical schematics, particularly of the instrument cluster are sketchy to the point of being useless when troubleshooting anything other than a hard failure. I suspect that much of the text in this book was a quickie cut-and-paste job of info that pertained to these same components as installed in other Ford products. It really doesn't do justice to the model-specific problems of navigating the limited space of the engine compartment or tracing an intermittent electrical circuit. Proofreading was spotty at best. It's better than doing a repair job blind, but not by much.

Chilton's Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz Repair Manual 1984-94 is not for the average car owner. It is probably not even for the average mechanic. It is written in difficult language and at times seems to display unnecessarily complicated methods of performing simple tasks. From beginning to index it offers low quality information and instruction. There are too many diagrams and not enough photos. The photos available are poor. Overall this book was not very useful to me. I have used the Haynes manual for the same car and found it much more useful.

I had the misfortune of slogging through the first forty pages of this trite and immature piece of writing, before throwing it out. It does a great institution like Harvard a disservice and I can't believe that Harvard would allow its name to be attached to this.

I had the pleasure to read through this book under such a sick title. In short, the book is nothing but a joke made by a self-important person who needs very serious help in his spiritual world. Most of his words echoed how leading firms in Corporate America recruit staff. As a former Harvard Business School graduate, I would say, I am really ashamed of what I have seen daily. And the author clearly wants to make discrimination a religion. If people are no longer legally encouraged to judge by the color of skin, they are now awarded to judge simply by which school they are from. In the eye of some of my colleagues, or maybe the author, a corrupt foreign official who managed to send his son with stolen money to Harvard is clearly a much greater contributor to our society, if compared to a lowly waitor, whose son can only choose to go to a state school because of financial reasons.

Undoubtedly, Harvard is the most successful school in the United States. Yet, how successful? You can list a 1000 examples how Harvard changed this nation. However, those are out of 1,000,000 examples in most of which Harvard failed to do so. Harvard is lucky enough to attract the nation's most brilliant minds into its campus. Quite a few of them become incredibly successful. A lot more get quickly forgotten in this society.

I would like to draw an analogy here. When you are at the foot of a mountain, you feel even the sun was overshadowed by the mountain's great peak. If you stand right on the top of that peak, you might feel frustrated that the mountain does not bring you close enough to the sun while making you feel really cold.

It is hard to imagine that this book will be of much interest to anyone who is unfamiliar with Harvard. For former students the pertinent parts may serve as a mostly boring trip down memory lane. For the real insiders such as professors or administrators or influential alumni it may prove to be more exciting.

After finally finishing the book I can only conclude that a story about Harvard or maybe any academic institution is apt to be uninteresting. I feel the same way about the prospect of reading a history of IBM or Xerox - but someone else may find it thrilling.

This is not a manual, this is just a sampler. There are tapes, but no scientific phonetic notation. Very few words, forms and sentences.

This book, following the modern trend towards "relating to the people" loses all overview of Menander. Upon reading this book, one does not ask himself the age-old question, "Does Menander imitate life, or does life imitate Menander?"

What a joke. This sorry volume is riddled with mistakes of the most laughable sort. The publishers should have spent some time proof reading and correcting its many inaccuracies.