How the Maya Built Their World: Energetics and Ancient Architecture Book

While the title is promising, this dry stick of a book fails to deliver on it. First it only covers dwellings, forget any temples or other types of building. Second, the actual buildings are not covered in any detail, just a couple of grainy black and white photos and a couple of so-so line drawings. Actual construction methods are covered in only the most generic of terms and not illustrated. And while it's interesting to know how long it took to build a house and the health advantages of stone versus earth, you have to wade through a pile of the worst kind of academic verbage to find it out.

Of use to only a very small audience.