Not bad, but a little too basic a times
933108
Not bad, but a little too basic a times.  Has some worth while chapters if you are looking to get into beagling.
511617
The author had some really good advises, but tried to cover too much in a small book.  I suppose if you already knew the "basics", then you would find this book helpful.
4632609
This gives you some tips that you might otherwise not already know.  For the most part it is written in everyday language and not a lot of technical words that one wouldn't know.
3804534
It's a bestseller, so of course it's not a bad read. But a lot of the points are really simple, and not too mind-blowing. It's written as if following the tips in this book will completely change your life... Mehhhh. It's a good read, but I wasn't as enthusiastic as its author, Gary Keller.

It covers a lot of really basic things, and gets a little repetitive sometimes.
For example:
X was famous. X's story is blah blah blah. X was famous because he prioritized and focused.
Y was famous. Y's story is blah blah blah. Y was famous because he prioritized and focused.
Z was famous. Z's story is blah blah blah. Z  was famous because he prioritized and focused.
He mentions all the obvious famous people and their stories. Bill Gates. Steve Jobs. Oprah Winfrey. Sam Walton. Geez. Yes, they're famous, and yes they probably prioritized and stuff. But it goes on and on and on. He does have a lot of other points, but by the end I was getting bored. Most of his sentences were words of enthusiasm or repetition rather than new original ideas. And he does have a lot of ideas. Those ideas don't require much explaining though. He probably spends dozens of pages on "focusing" alone. I know that the whole book is about prioritizing, but... geez. A lot of droning on about this whole "ONE Thing" idea. Like I said, it's a great book, but by the end I was getting a little bored.

Some other advice is just really basic, like time management, and putting your time into blocks. Thinking big instead of thinking small. They're all good points, but you could sum of the whole entire book in like, one page with bullets.

And that's how I feel about the book. It's great, but could be condensed into just a page with bullets.

It's like one of those books that's better for skimming rather than deep reading. Just skim the hell out of it, take those "bullet-point ideas" and finish from it.
1474773
Owning a software consulting firm, I am in a better postion than most to start an app business.  There are some helpful tips in here, but you need to gauge them critically.  My feeling on this though, is that the author treats making apps a bit of a get rich scheme, his method is find something simple, make it maybe a hair better, market the heck out of it.  (And spend your time on the beach) There is little "'make a great product' something you are proud of" in there.  I think that like most booms if you were there early, you could put out something rather mediocre, like a flashlight app, and do fine.  But the market has matured and now many apps were made by large teams that are out of scope for the small appreprenuer.  If you want to make something cheap and gimmicky it is likely too late.  If you want to make something great you might be better off with a different book, but it is an easy read with some good insights...
2980713
Barnyard In Your Backyard is a decent introduction to animal husbandry.  It contains enough basic information to get you started with any of the animals covered, but should really be supplemented with a book specific to the animal you are interested in.  The emphasis here was definitely on breadth rather than depth.  That's not necessarily a bad thing.
I did find the layout of the chapters a bit haphazard.  For example, my interest is in ducks and chickens.  When trying to figure out what size of run/pasture and sort of shelter would be required, I really had to carefully read both chapters, start to finish, to find all the relevant tidbits that were scattered throughout.
The later chapters (goats, sheep, and cows) looked to be a bit better organized, but I only scanned them as they weren't in-line with my interests.
The organization and lack of depth doesn't make it a particulaly good reference, but for an introduction to husbandry of several different animals, the authors have succeeded.
2777220
This book is not all that bad. It provides some examples, but in some cases, the examples are not very practical. Without any real world and practical examples, programming can be a bit daunting. The book is a bit outdated now. Fortunately, I understand javascript, but I decided to read this as I am still learning. I skipped over 4 chapters because they are not relevant to web development anymore (such as the frames chapter). I could recommend this book, but for an absolute beginner i recommend head first: javascript. It provides real world examples to work along with that will help you grasp the concept much easier.
985077
The book has LOVELY pictures and explains some tecniques but I wish tha he would have gone a little more in depth and been more specfic... the "instructions" were overly generalized.
I still recomend it though.
2093092
Nothing inherently wrong with it, but it's a little more basic than I had expected. I was looking for something a bit more advanced.
1944678
A little skimpy to be honest, but one or two good elements.
1010680
The concepts presented in this book are fairly simple and quite basic. However I feel there is a lot of excess verbiage in the book which is put there to change the format from a pamphlet to a book. However I do not blame the author. I know textbook companies require authors to periodically rejigger their published works so that they can put out something new at a high price and reduce the worth of previous editions even though the gist of the content remains essentially the same. It is a good book, but if you need it just get through a class in school then buy it used if you can.
2742788
It's a very basic book, but a true novice will garner some info from it.
2691204
There is nothing wrong with this book.  The information inside about scrapbooking is correct and helpful, there are many examples of typical childhood moments that would need layouts, such as first haircuts, holidays, etc, and there are some good timesaving tips and techniques.  I liked that page accents were paired down and kept out of the spotlight so that there was room for the photos and journaling to shine through.

For my taste, however, the page designs were a little on the oversimplified side, and that's saying a lot considering that I usually define myself as a Simple-style scrapbooker.  Maybe it all comes down to something as basic as color choices/preferences:  this author does seem to prefer beiges and browns, often in the same layouts, while I like a more sharply contrasting, graphic look with richer and bolder colors for an album about children.  Then, too, I think some of the photos looked a little too "lost" on the pages - perhaps matting would have benefited them.  Karen's very basic style is a little too basic for me.

Recommended for beginning croppers and people who like *very*simple scrapbooking.

-Andrea, aka Merribelle
4199089
Not bad, but not great either- if you have been trading for any length of time, you have seen this before. The basic concept is that no matter what system or method you trade, wait until what the author calls a triad forms before entering a trade. A triad is basically a candlestick pattern involving (looking to go long) the second candle having a lower high and low than the 1st, and the third stick then having a higher high than the second. The opposite is true for a short.

It's not the worst idea to wait for this type of confirmation before entering a trade, but it's not anything new either. The book does contain some useful tidbits of info- for example, he recommends that traders and investors familiarize themselves with Austrian economic theories, as knowing the Austrian Business Cycle Theory will enable people to see bubbles forming while others are intoxicated with the madness of the crowd. This is solid advice, and the little nuggets of good info like this are the reason that I gave this book any stars at all.

Again, this book is not terrible-but not great either. It does contain some useful info, but most traders will be familiar with the technical analysis tools presented here. The other little bits of info make this book worth reading (although only marginally so), but if you are looking for a book to drastically improve your trading, I would look elseware.
4146325
A quick read that has some useful nuggets in it - tends to be more basic though. Maybe as a starting point for some since it introduces several useful topics that you can then research into depending on your life circumstances or situation.
3373776
This book can help a novice acquire a basic understanding of the Captivate 5 interface, but it lacks depth, could use a more task-oriented focus and detail, and ought to include something useful about producing SCORM/AICC output. I noticed quite a few typographic errors--too many for a technical reference.

The book focuses too much on describing the interface and explaining the obvious and not enough on how to perform the range of tasks that a user might want to accomplish within the most common contexts. For instance, the authors advocate using click boxes for quizzes, but they don't go into any detail about the settings you might want to use with the click boxes and why. Also, very little is said about creating and using multiple backgrounds for a slide program for repeated screens such as section openers, summary screens, quiz question graphic templates.

This is probably beyond the scope of the book, but it would have been helpful to have a series of scenarios like a software simulation, a step-by-step slide show that doesn't use the playbar, creating a quiz, and so forth. Also, it might have been good to take some typical pages and decompose them by discussing settings for the page and the objects on the page.

I purchased it in hopes that I could get some help with SCORM settings and output, but there was almost nothing. There wasn't even a SCORM entry in the Index. I think that a lot of people who use an application like Captivate are going to be using it on an LMS and need help with SCORM.

Overall, the book is adequate but could be much better. I have actually recommended it to a colleague as an overview of Captivate 5, but I don't feel it's really in a league with other books at this price range.
2388603
An ok book if you want to learn just the basics has some meditations and a lot of information for beginners