Mike,

Got your book, "The Game Artist's Guide to Maya", for Christmas and have found it a really good read and has sorted out my issues with UV Mapping (could never get my head around it for some reason). I am about finished and only have the particles chapter to read.

Fantastic and Well Done on it. Easy to read and I didn't fall asleep once .

Nitro, the problem with level design is that a book would have to cover multiple game engines and sooooo many different apps.

HL2 - Source
FarCry - FarEngine
Unreal Series - UnrealEd/Unreal Warfare Engine

There are other engines out there to cover platform games, try the following sites for info:

GameStudio
BlitzBasic

Have Fun