If you are a fire truck buff than this is the book for you. It is very informative, and shows some very unique styles of trucks.

I use this book as a text in a university course. It gives a broad-brush approach to introducing the field of transportation and the various modes (planes, trains, trucks, boats). It looks at the field from both a user's and a provider's perspective and has great "real-world" examples and problems. It needs a little updating, especially regarding the regulatory environment which has changed significantly since this edition was published. I chose this book over 3 or 4 others because it is very readable and not too technical. A good introductory text.

Well, i am recently doing my process design for my 4th year chemical eng. thesis .... well this book is quite helpful as a guide to design a process .....

If you ever wanted to know how these trucks looked like since the beggining of the oil industry, and its evolution throughout the years, this book will give you a very clear picture. It has lots of fantastic photos, drawings and other interesting details, but in my opinion it's very short of explicative/support text. Although it's only focused on American oil companies, the book is very good, and I had some great moments with it.

This is one of the best books that I've every used. I had it for 5 years and I use it all the time. it's great for beginnners, and professionals. I own my own video productions company.
I'd recomend it to anyone and everyone!

This book is good, it contains many photos from manufacturers collections, The main problem is that is shares photos from the other books from these authors.

Winnicott's book was difficult for me to get through. With the exception of his case studies, which were somewhat entertaining, it's nothing but monotonous intellectual babble. The title sounds interesting, but the content was not useful to me in the least. There is nothing in this book that would help a typical person to raise an emotionally healthy child. Winnicott is writing for a very select group of people: other psychoanalysts.
Nowadays, the majority of people in our society consider Freud to be a joke. While Winnicott does not agree with Freud about everything, he's Freudian enough for me to have trouble taking him seriously. His work seems old and outdated.
Winnicott writes his theory in a way which makes it sound complex and important. In actuality, it is extremely simple and could be summed up in a few sentences. I'm not going to say anything else about this book because it is not even worth thinking about or remembering.

Winnicott offers a subtle and lovingly careful interpretation of the "transitional space," the intermediary and paradoxical realm between subjective and objective, between childhood and maturity. He also provides some very interesting accounts of how various forms of madness may crystallize out of interpersonal disturbances distorting the transitional area. However, as Winnicott himself notes, he is not an intellectual. His clinical sophistication and insight into life are

unfortunately counterbalanced by his intellectual naivete. For instance, Winnicott's interpretation of childhood experience as essentially solipsistic, and of the blossoming of the self that is supposed to result from a support of this solipsism by the mother (and later the analyst) seem naively Rousseauian and theoretically untenable. (If the infant really starts of as a solipsist, how can the mother ever affect her at all?) Positing a gradual disillusionment, as W does, doesn't help much when his theory is set up in such a way that it does not allow for the perception of objective reality, and thus for the possibility of disillusionment, in the first place. I would suggest that readers read Winnicott lovingly but critically, and would specifically recommend that this book be juxtaposed with Derrida's critiques of Rousseau from _Of Grammatology_, which can be applied to Winnicott almost in toto.

I love fire. I love learning about how to make fires and how some may try to put those fires out. This book provides a glimpse intothe mind of a fire - killer. I create fire because it is a thing of endless beauty and wonder.

This book could have been SO much better if only they had added color pictures, in color it would be at least a 4 star book, but the ONLY color pictures are on the front and back cover. This book does show many different woodies, and brakes them down into chapters from the 1911 to the late 50's, it just doesn't work in black and white. While there may be photos of cars here that are not seen elsewhere, it is no way a detailed study of the art form, which relegates it to the casual read and without the color pictures hides the beauty of the cars.
In fairness the Black & White photos and ads of the very early vehicles are to be expected, but the rest of the photos seem to have been taken in the late 1990's at car shows in Califorina. This only makes the lack of color all the more irritating, and to add insult to injury the captions often describe the color of the cars in detail!
The most attractive feature of woodies are the magnificent color contrasts seen in the wood, and this book shows you none of them. If the publisher ever prints a color version of this book I might buy it again, but I don't recommend it until then.

This book comes with a forward by Neil Postman, who is an excellent, sensitive, and insightful author. Sadly, Wood himself just doesn't measure up to the greatness of Neil Postman. The academic or lay reader would do much better in picking up Postman's own _Technopoly_ and going from there. Finding references in the index to Michael Novak and Peggy Noonan, my initial enthusiasm for the book dropped like a rock. Although he raises a few good points here and there, there are other authors who raise them more coherently and are more free of .... Neil Postman once advocated that critical readers learn to develop an internal "... detector" when they read. Well, my ... detector was going off left and right as I plowed through Wood's text, I'm sad to say. Some authors I'd recommend INSTEAD of Wood include historian David F. Noble, Richard A. Brosio, Noam Chomsky, Kirkpatrick Sale, and especially Theodore Roszack's _The Cult of Information_ which is almost on the same par with Postman's outstanding best work,_Technopoly_.

There is a knee-jerk resistance to socialist, left-progressive critiques and insights about political economy all through out this book, and it maintains what seems to me a shockingly naive & plucky "Libertarian" (e.g. in the political party sense rather than philosophical sense) tone all throughout that is extremely grating. Some of Wood's "suggestions" at the end of the book are praiseworthy, but many of them are completely undermined by some of the other suggestions raised by Wood (a chronic problem of many liberals, which is why I opt for left-radicalism personally). Still other suggestions made by Wood are just plain awful or stupid or both. Wood either has no comprehension of the real nature of power or is very self-deluded about it. Much of the work reads not unlike Walter Lippman from the 1920s, and it's hard to say, reading some passages, if Wood really believes in democracy at all; His mood displays an overall defeatist outlook than one of real moral outrage...there is even a hint of smug elitism in parts of the text. All in all, this is a well meaning but very muddled book and will confuse the lay reader more than help him/her. It's mostly a waste of time. Other authors have said the best of what Wood has to say much better than he.

To be fair, the text IS somewhat dated, too, so Wood's gushing on about "telecommuting" and "distance ed" sound REALLY naive in today's world. These early "promises" of the early 1990s have borne mixed and often rotten fruit in our day. Read David F. Noble's _Digital Diploma Mills_ (2002) for contrast and see what I mean.