Automotive Nonfiction

This Learn is Your Car Spanish comes with 9 CDs(3 per level) as well as 3 mini-books(1 per level) with all of the lessons in the exact order in the books as they are played on the CDs. This makes for an easy follow. Seeing as the description...
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From all the rave reviews, I thought this would be a great product but I was really disappointed.

Each lesson is just words repeated in English then in Spanish. First a woman says a word in English then a man repeats the word in Spanish. They...
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I tried to use this while at work. I figured I'd just listen to the CDs over and over and eventually learn some Spanish. I was realistic about it. I didn't expect to learn it over night but rather over a few months. It was impossible for me to...
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I'm an intermediate French student and decided to buy this 3-Level package in order to have a comprehensive audio package. The bonus 3 CD book "Secrets of Learning a Foreign Language" is a great way to start your study and has alot of very...
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We bought this CD because we spend most of our time driving around in the car, and other products require that you follow along in a book. We found that some of the words were outdated (saying "garcon" for waiter, other books said whatever you...
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This has been a good refresher of the French lessons I took years ago. One complaint, though. The second CD in the third level of the course is a copy of the third CD for that level, with the 2 of 3 label.
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Tim Harford's "The Undercover Economist" is in many ways a return to the fundamentals of economics. In recent years, the field of economics has seen a growing influence of quantitative modeling and econometrics, to the extent that the medium has...
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There have already some good reviews that have pointed out some good points of the book. I want to mention some of his points that I disagreed with.

One problem I had was when he talked about how sweatshops are good because the...
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Tim Harford is a sharp-minded columnist for the Financial Times, one who spends most of his time applying the laws of economics to everyday problems. His book, "The Undercover Economist", is a natural progression from his FT column: each chapter...
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The Toyota way, written by Jeff Liker, a coauthor of this book, was great as a look into the softer side of the Toyota philosophy and culture. This book fills in the gaps on technical support and is organized in a manner where a chapter can...
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I think this book, similar to Dr. Liker's The Toyota Way, misleads the reader into believing that if the reader employs these principles and programs, that their enterprise/business will be successful like Toyota. Why? The authors fail to inform...
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I bought this great book along with Egans Leanings 2. Both books are great for a quick 'shot in the arm' of gearhead wonderland. Cotter has compiled this wonderful selection of stories and presented it in a very tasteful package. High quality...
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I'm disappointed in this book, especially for the price, oh sure it's nice quality paper and photographs,but the subject matter is primarily foreign cars, and the stories are just, ok, not really that interesting.You can get better stories out of...
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Good book for the waiting room of an upscale independent auto repair shop or the "reading room" in you own home; i.e. circumstances where you don't expect to read a book cover to cover. Some of the vignettes are very well written. Some are not....
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The 5th Edition has more pictures and part breakdowns.
From simple routine maintance to the serious biker who would like to know if there chain is worn and stretched and needs replaced.
This book gives a very detailed breakdown of what...
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Pretty lame if you are planning to actually work on your bike opposed to reading about or thinking about doing it. Covers a lot of things in poor detail, so little detail that you could not do it with this book alone. Example: want to install...
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Save your money and buy Zinn's books.
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Racers who want to climb the sport's greasy pole need the basics: skill, will, energy, luck, focus, money and opportunity. Comparable skills are vital in every phase of racing --machine choice, tuning, tire selection, maintenance, logistics,...
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This was a birthday gift for my brother...a lover of Corvettes, old and new!
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This book absolutely enthralls you and throws light on every aspect of the world we inhabit. A very good initiation into economic reasoning for everyone....what I liked most about the book though was the copious examples drawn from everyday life...
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Harford claims it is nearly impossible to buy a decent used car. He also claims that there is no way for sellers of good cars to "prove" their car is a good one.

I have found this not to be true at all. If you are buying in a non-snow...
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I found this book to be an excellent explination of all facets of the automobile. Even very difficult subjects such as how limited slip differentials work or how the various components of a suspension act together were very clearly explained....
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The author is an owner and operator of a tutoring center. He is not an expert in auto mechanics. As he points out on the back cover the pictures and the concepts were for teenage boys and the accompanying graphics are of poor quality.
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This book contains very basic material on the operation of the car; it appears to be a decent read for teenagers looking to grasp the basic; but the more mature readers will find this very shallow. The text contains the fundaments of auto...
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This book tells it all. From the first chapter on the basics of the internal combustion engine all the way through the details of brake systems and suspensions. Mr. Zimmerman's knowledge of his field is apparent in the way he presents the...
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I must say that I was disappointed at the misleading title of this book. I thought that it was more about maintenance issues, but instead it tries to cover the basics of "how a motorcycle works". I can think of MUCH better books on this topic,...
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While the author clearly knows what he is talking about he isn't great at making things clear, especially to the total beginner like myself.

Diagrams and pictures are dotted haphazardly around the book, often 2-3 pages before or after the...
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