Not as Helpful as Expected
931251
The information provided in this book is very general.

For instance,how important is research experience, and non-academic activity in admission to each med school? How would each school consider the applicant's score of each subject on the MCAT? These are all informations that you cannot find in this book.

In addition, MSAR does not provide info regarding DO programs.

This book provides even less information than the Guide to Medical Schools, published by Princeton Review, which actually does a very good job compared to the MSAR.

There some other publications that are well-written and contain more useful infos.
4720473
Not as helpful as I thought. It starts off with questions but no study guide to help you go over before sample testing.
4164059
This was the first book I've read by Ms. Beechick, and while I am hopeful for her Ray's Arithmatic Parent Teacher Book, I was not impressed with this one. I think that if I was meeting a parent who either was terrified of teaching their child or a new parent who didn't yet grasp that every moment is a teaching one, I would recommend this. However, I'm the parent who was telling my two month old to 'use his words' lol. So I predominately found this rudimentary and merely an overview of what we've been doing for years. Also, I didn't quite agree with her approach to introducing letters, but each child and each parent is different, so one must allow for that. It seems like a good book, it just wasn't good for us.
881158
I guess I expected too much from this book.  It provides a framework that might be useful for improving on more complex situations, but otherwise it is geared toward some fairly basic situations of most use to young children I'd guess.  I was hoping for more.  I imagine this book is most useful as an introduction to the concepts and it probably does a good job for its intended purpose.  I guess I was looking for something more sophisticated for adults that might work for DIY.  Still it was worthwhile for me as a quick read.  Now I'll have to move on to something like Emily Post.
1996844
As an older person with a limited background using the new devices .I did not find this book very helpful .  I really believe
that a basic user manual explaining the various functions and how to access them would have been more helpful (for me)
Also a simple explaination of the various icons and how to use them would have helped me As an older person new to
technology I did not find this book help me to understand what I am doing, I do not believe I am making full use of this
device. I am starting to believe the story about getting an eight year old to help you if you want to understand what you are
doing.
457213
I didn't think that it helped that much. I could do reviews and find out all of what the book said. A waste of money, basically. Found more info on the web than in this book.
1315781
I was expecting more specific advice in this book.  There were many success stories, but it felt more like advertisements for their websites than actual tools to succeed.  When "success stories" (some of these businesspeople were still working their regular jobs because they couldn't afford to quit yet) were asked for tips they were often very vague such as "be persistent and don't give up".  That doesn't give me the actual steps they took to begin or what very specific things worked and didn't work.  I'm not really sure who this book would benefit.  It's not specific enough to actually implement very much of the info, yet it's not written in an inspiring way either so it's not just a "for fun" read either.  Sorry, I really wanted to like this book and was disappointed.
1914943
I read Chapter 13: How to Understand the People and the Context in Which you will be Working?. I found the chapter to be not as useful as I thought it would be. The first few topics had a lot of examples that seemed like they were added to make the reading more entertaining, but they were confusing and unrelated. One helpful thing in the chapter was a list of links to websites where Graduate School scholarships and other awards could be found.
2033911
I'm a wildlife ecologist, and was hoping this would be more of a field guide, akin to other Natural History Guides in the series. I've found their herp guide to be extremely helpful (although Stebbins is THE expert), but this one was not so useful- more of an angler's guide. Tips on where to fish, lures to use, etc. I am more interested in natural histories and species identification, so this isn't quite what I was looking for. Also doesn't have photos of every species, or even illustrations of some (some species of concern didn't have illustrations, which I found to be quite lacking). I'll be investing in Moyle's "Inland Fishes of California" next, but at least this book is small, so I may throw it in my field bag anyway, in case it proves to be useful at some point.
1580004
When I ordered this book, I expected to learn more about how to retain water in my body and to not become dehydrated. However, I found the book to be little too technical and not so easy for the layperson [me] to comprehend.
It seemed more like a manual for Doctors or Nurses to help their patients. It spoke more on a professional level and I really didn't get a clear picture of the information I was looking for. I did, however get some information, but it left me with more questions.
1736687
I didn't find this book super helpful. It's definitely one of those books where the margins on every page are larger than necessary to make it appear as if there is more content and substance than there is. This book was a disappointment, but it wasn't a terrible book. The information was too basic and didn't offer the kind of plan of action I was expecting.
296432
Thought this would be more enlightening but while well written, not all that helpful. Pretty self-helpy; a lot of stuff I've read about before.
337431
This book has been marginally helpful to me as I research how to build a clay oven. There was some amount of helpful information, but too many times the information was vague even when it comes to how the author built his own oven. For example,

"I'm not a great one for recording measurements (sorry!) but readers of the blog have posted the volumes for ovens they have constructed which I have included below."

"Tip lots of sand onto the brick floor of your oven. I'm not sure how many bags I used but I remember being amazed at how much was neeeded..."

I doubt that you will be able to build your oven without consulting additional resources beyond this book. With no offense to the author intended, I found a simple search on YouTube to be more helpful to me than this book.

There were "pieces" of information that were helpful scattered through the book, which is why I'm able to give this book 3 stars.
356642
It was not as useful as I had hoped. I'm sure it is a very fine dictionary, but I was hoping for something more digitally easy to use.
4413165
The Instructions, which come with the camera are sufficient and the above guide is just too much of re-writing of it. I was expecting more of the recommendations about a more advanced ways of using the camera in various situations. More of an advice about concrete settings, light settings, tricks and definitely things one should avoid taking pictures. Maybe I have chosen a wrong book for what I need.
2783209
Not very helpful. I would choose a different product. Perhaps I expected it to be more comprehensive and that is not what the book is designed for. Read the sample and decide for yourself.
117886
This book is not nearly as helpful for me as its New Testament counterpart (which is wonderful).  This book is for someone with a pretty advanced Hebrew vocabulary, as it only glosses rather uncommon words.  I am still at the level where I look up several words per verse (unless its a very simple verse), and sometimes there is not even one word glossed in a given verse.  Also, unlike the New Testament lexicon, it does not have a list of common vocab for each book.  At least for me, it serves no purpose, because I still end up having to look up most of the words I don't know anyway, so by the time I get to a word that may be in the lexicon I have forgotten that it is even there and end up looking it up in the dictionary anyway.