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Can a book be better than a VHS video? In this case, YES!

This book has color photos and informative, educational text. It covers rescue pumpers, squad trucks, ambulances, boats, ships, helicopters, and planes.

The author went out of his way to find photos of unique rescue vehicles such as mini-hovercrafts to what may be the largest ambulance in the world. Also covered and shown is the most sophisticated rescue truck in the nation.

A great reference for the emergency vehicle fan, modeler, or collector.

This book is short but it rules! It's got a full color gallery of rescue trucks, ambulances, planes, helicopters, boats, wreckers, and more. Check it out if u find it.

I took the initiative to buy a book on IC engines to teach myself the fundamentals of how they work. This book explains all of the basic principles involved. The author's writing style is down to earth and remains on an undergraduate level. The book is filled with diagrams for the reader to visualize what is being said. The examples solved in the chapters are helpful in solving most of the problems at the end of each chatper. I haven't read any other books on IC fundamentals so I can't make a comparison, but I don't have any complaints about Mr. Pulkrabek's work.

It's perfect for undergraduate one semester course on internal combustion engines. Theory is straightforward and just adequate - no excess and no scarce. Examples are on modern updated engines, what catches students interest.

This was purchased as a birthday gift for an MG owner. He appeared to be happy with the book. I felt that it was a good history of the MG and covered a long history well, with relatively few pages.

Wonderful book bought for a person who is restoring an older MG. Lots of information and pictures!

My significant other received this book as a gift. He isn't a "book" kind of guy, so at first he was a little taken aback. But it didn't take long for this little gem to suck him in. He is an auto lover and he really enjoyed the entertaining anecdotes and facts about his favorite cars. He was also delighted to find a plethora of fun facts, tales and car models that he wasn't familiar with. There were even a few "Honey! Come check this out!" moments. Overall, this book will get my highest rating for the sheer excitability it created in a non-reader. And I have to admit, the book is sitting on our coffee table and even I have picked it up a time or two and gotten sucked into an interesting little snippet about a subject I usually don't get all that excited about.

Automotive compendiums are a dime a dozen these days. (Actually, they are a bit pricier and even more plentiful, but you get the picture.) Most are textbook dry, rehashing automotive milestones that any self-respecting gearhead can recite quicker than their own phone number. The obligatory first Corvette, Mustang, GTO, blah, blah, blah are often complimented by the usual array of vehicles just odd enough to inspire disdain and disinterest. Then there is "Extreme Cars," a fresh, entertaining book that reads less like an encyclopedia than an automotive insider's list of fun tales to share at a party. It hits myriad key, historically significant production models, race cars, green machines, and military vehicles, contrasted with interesting, often off-beat vehicles and personalities. Presented with prose laced with a dry, knowing wit, it makes for an entertaining read. Where else can you bone up on the history of alternative fuel vehicles, the greatest automotive flops, and the sultan of Brunei's obscene car collection in one volume?

Extreme cars, extreme personalities, extreme "otherwordly" vehicles, and extremely fun. Worth $12? Hell, yeah. I'm ordering a couple as gifts next holiday season.

A picture is worth a thousand words, and the pictures in this book will speak volumes to you if you appreciate the history of farming in America. There is very little text, but the pictures will convey to you quite clearly the signifigance of the F Series tractor in the advancement of farming in the US during the early part of the century.

A picture tells a thousand words, if you have an appreciation for farming history, this book is for you. There is very little text, except a line to tell you what you are looking at and where in the country it was located. Most (90%) of the pictures are "in action" shots of plowing, cultivating, or harvesting. The pictures are large and clear, and capture a special moment in farming history in the US. Enjoy!

The book I ordered was very informative,great coffee table book,good quality,great picture color and context. I highly recommend this to anyone looking for information on these tractors.

I was impressed by the details of early problems and the way solutions to them by the company were presented.

a nice book to have if you love the cars from the 3 movies. theres a lot of pictures of the detailing of each one of the vehicles from the movie. its a good book to look over once in a while, eventually youll get tired of it once youve looked thru it a hundred times, but once in a while youll get that fast and furious bug bite you. especially if you play juiced 2 hot import nights for the xbox 360. youll look over this book and copy out the body kits which is actually in the game.

its a good reference book without too much technical details. although most of the stuff in it actually was stolen from the first two editions. if they release ff4 they'll most likely have all the same pages from this book transfered over. but hey its only $10 bucks on amazon so just buy it anyway. dont take my word for it, check it out on your local borders store first before you buy it here on amazon if youre not convinced. reatil for this is about $30....so dont act a foool!

What holds the Fast & Furious franchise together? The actors have changed, so it can't be that. The stories have a similar theme- racing, so that's a part of it, but not all of it. Why, it's the CARS! Finally, a book has been put out on the cars of Fast & Furious. I love these movies. If you want plain old good guys v bad guys entertainment without a heavy message these movies fit the bill. The producers wisely highlight not only today's rice-rockets used by kids, but spotlight American Muscle, too. What's not to like? This book goes over all the cars of the three movies- and is fairly accurate (I read that the Mustang in the last movie had to have the import motor taken out because it wasn't up to speed, so to speak. This is not mentioned here, and implies the import motor was used). Nice photos, nice descriptions, and a nice addition to my Star Cars Library.

For anyone interested in cars, photography, and interesting stories this book is a treasure. Of the several Ferrari books I own this one stands out as both artfully done and a good read.
Well worth the price.

A great book. Maybe I'm just partial because of the vivid five page stretch devoted to the Comp Daytona.

There are lots of Ferrari books out there, good books, filled with well researched bore-n-stroke, nuts-n-bolts facts, but I've always hungered for something a little more subjective, a little more visceral.

With this one you get visceral.

The cover doesn't look very promising, does it? With its distinctly unhistorical 599 and convoluted invocation of "The Ferrari Legend" I was expecting a bland model-by-model, race-by-race statistical history. But John Lamm's discriminating compilation does Ferrari history justice; it is told in first hand accounts by those who, (as honestly stated in the title), "lived the legend."

The number of anecdotes, photos and especially voices contained in here is staggering: you get the ubiquitous Phil Hill, but also Enzo Ferrari's personal secretary Brenda Vernor; you hear Mauro Forghieri's thoughts on Villeneuve; Andretti's on Forghieri; you get Sam Posey describing in detail his 1971 Le Mans drive in a 512M; Surtees talking about Dragoni and team politics; Gurney on going to Italy in `58 to try out for the Ferrari team in front of Mr. Ferrari; Dario Franchitti on why he loves his F40 and F355, not so much the more recent cars.

This is not another competent but impersonal coffee-table book, (Ferrari 1947-1997, Ferrari 60 Years, etc.).

Here's Steve Earle describing his experience as a teenager watching Phil Hill in the glorious 412 MI at Riverside in `58: "...you were standing in the pits, you could hear that car around the whole track...You thought, `Oh my God,! This is the most amazing car in the world.'" Then Earle describes what it was like to OWN this one-off car, and use it at the very first Monterey Historic Races, (which he organized). The book has similar interviews with a number of enthusiasts that really help flesh-out the non-competition aspect of the legend. Everyone from the life-long collector who bought his first Ferrari off the New York Motor Show stand in 1956 to the dude that crashed his Enzo on a public road in Colorado while doing 206 mph gets a chance to tell his tale.

Many of the iconic photos are from the Road & Track archives, which is great for American readers whose first introduction to the marque came via these images; they are reproduced in gorgeous detail far surpassing their news-stand quality. My favorite shot is used as the splash-page that introduces us to the decade of the 70's: Bob Bondurant four-wheel-drifting a 308 at Sears Point --you can even see Bobby's hipster sideburns flaring under the G-load.

Also, the book tastefully avoids over-emphasizing the recent decade of F1 domination. Attention is paid to the latest road cars, like the 599 Fiorano that makes the cover (wouldn't you have preferred to see a Comp Daytona?). But these post-Commendatore chapters are not the main meat of the book. The Schumacher years are dutifully recorded, di Montezemolo speaks, but you can sense the author's disinterest in Schumacher the man, whose words are nowhere to be found. And that's fine by me.

The title is actually a misnomer. This book isn't all about fire pumpers and ladder trucks but also contains great information about Rescue, Support (lighting, air resupply, generators), Airport crash trucks, Tankers, and Command and Control trucks. The last section talks about the colors and "decorative appearance" of trucks in different cities.

I find this book a wonderful all-around reference to the above vehicles. The book contains photos and info on the best of the breed of tankers, support, rescue, etc. The author went to the large cities and basically "peeked into the firehouse" to see what they have and what they used it for.

Methods and procedures are discussed such as how to hook up hoses to hydrants, drive to the scene, and conduct firefighting or rescue operations to name a few.

The author was also there for many major fires and rescue work in several cities so the photos are taken at great "frontline" angles and not behind some crowd. Also, the captions are specific and describes what the photo shows and is about. It's not "Four rescue trucks at a downtown accident," BUT "This is a pretty rare scene where four out of five NYFD rescue trucks show up for the construction accident. You can see the debris lying on the street in the background. One person was killed in this accident."

The best part I find is the explanations. As I read, I have questions which the author seems to predict and answer. Do tankers run to the water source with lights and sirens? Why does some cities run ladders and others towers? Do cities paint their trucks orange? Why don't firemen ride standing on the rear bumper? Why do rural towns have better vehicles than large cities? All these questions the author answered.

Highly recommend for the fire vehicle and modeler fan. A great book to learn both from text, photos, and quotes.

I recommend this book to anyone who even likes fire trucks a little bit. It has over 85 awesome color pics of all different kinds of fire trucks in every color imaginible. I especially enjoyed the section on special units. Also, there are sidebars covering such topics as quints and squad companies. Also, if you like this book, be sure to check out "Fire Trucks In Action" by George Hall- They're both great books!