This book didn't have the necessary safety measures to save itself...
933361
There was the good (12%), and then there was the bad (88%).

I will try not to spoil it for y'all. It'lll be very hard.

The book centers around a poor, orphaned girl who becomes a rich American's maid, and is now going to board the R.M.S. Titanic (which I am doing extensive research on as of now) and is very excited. She also has to leave behind her friends at the orphanage and her beloved brother. She travels first-class on Titanic, the largest ship in the world (exceeding her sister ship, Olympic, by 4 ft.) After a factually accurate near-collision with liner New York, they set sail. Dinner is all the rage until April 14, 1912, when Titanic strikes an iceberg and sinks. The author manages a little cheesy romance while describing the events leading up to the sinking as sternly (heh) as possibe. It was also really unmoving.
Worth the money? 3%. Tolerable? 75%. A re-reader? 0%.

A book as founderingly sinkable as possible.
4377470
Only in exceptionally rare instances do I not finish a book, and this book was one of them. The Introduction prepared me for a book that would prepare me for extraordinary, but statistically meaningful, survival encounters. Instead it is an unengaging, meandering treatice of meaningless/irrevelant survival stories. The closest information this book provided was how to better prepare yourself to survive an airplane accident, of which you have a 1 out of 60 million chance of encountering. Not very relevant and there's precious little "science" presented that could save your life (per the book's title).
462994
One of the problems in ordering on the web, is that you can't check out the problem before it arrives. This book is much more Physics and Math than I expected, with not much of the biological aspects that I needed. It is a good book in its own right, but not enough of the Biology that I expected.
2048372
The material is by necessity more philosophical than practical, and its workings are unsafe or impractical without special guidance or previous relevant study. I also suspect that key art work has been omitted from this edition.
4025861
I couldn't take this book seriously because it lists vaccination as a way of "preventing SIDS". I'm sorry but there is ZERO evidence to support this. SIDS is not an actual cause of death, it is what they call it when they don't know what caused the baby's death. How can vaccines help prevent something that no one knows what happened in the first place? Furthermore, babies don't just suddenly die because they are not fully vaccinated. Ridiculous!!! If the author lies in the first few chapters of the book, then how do you know that he didn't make other [...]up too?
350773
Dr. Sophia Yin's review details the many problems with this book far better than I can.  Please read it if you haven't already.  Especially concerning is that the book encourages children to hug and to kissing dogs on the face which can easily result in the child being bitten.  It's disappointing that nobody involved in the publishing of this book voiced this concern - or at least they didn't do so loud enough. In any case, continued distribution of this book is irresponsible.
2294432
I am a mother of six children, I read this book with baby number three.  I was scared out of my wits. I didn't need the hassle.  I think that educating your self about chidbirth is a good thing, but, it gets to the point in this book that you are afraid of EVERYTHING. I was worried about every test I didn't have, I was worried about every test I DID have. I think this book should have focused on basic need to know details, especially for first time mothers who really worry to begin with. There is such a thing as too much info to take in and digest.
438383
I think the first thing that grabs people about this book is the terrifying cover image, which is reminiscent of The Ring.  Sophie is a girl who has lost her sister and deals with the aftermath that Nell's death has wrought on her family.  Her mother has spiraled down into alcoholism and she mainly just tries to get through every day.  When Sophie teams up with an acquaintance at school to try to unravel the truth behind Nell's suicide, it looked like this book would become a mystery with paranormal elements.  The setting in a sketchy mental hospital had great potential and this book certainly had its creepy moments.  (Anything involving mirrors always freaks me out.)  However, it never quite became the either a mystery or a convincing paranormal story for me.  There wasn't enough depth of world building to make me care about hat was happening in the book.  It is one thing to keep things a mystery, but it is another to obscure the truth and then reveal it in a way that is entirely too convenient.  That's kind of how I felt about this story.

I was expecting this book to be scary, but I just found it to be more puzzling.  The set-up for the situation that Sophie finds herself in was too vague to give me a sense of what to be afraid of, exactly.  Sophie's own development into someone who also hears voices seemed to distract from what I thought was the focus of the book, which was finding out what exactly happened to her sister.  Pair that with a lukewarm love interest and an out-of-place former friend of Nell's who hold all of the answers and it became a book that just didn't work for me.  It was not without its moments and I did like the interaction between Sophie and her mother, who is still grieving, but the book just didn't come together for me, in the end.
3035520
What would you do to save yourself, your family, and others?
The lack of development of one character, Lorccan, weighs this story down.

I received a copy of this book through the Kindle Scout program.
3494177
Includes a lot of the known details surrounding the Fukushima triple meltdowns caused by the March 2011 earthquake & tsunami of the Northeastern coast of Japan. Still, there remain many questions regarding the condition of the 3 reactor cores that cannot be answered due to the high levels of radioactivity that prevent detailed forensic investigation. The accident response of the Japanese Gov't and Tepco were disappointing, to say the least, is well documented in the book. This book usefully describes how the American Nuclear Regulatory Commission's pro-nuke industry bias (regulatory-capture) and slow-rolling implementation of new safety regulations based on lessons-learned from Fukushima should worry Americans who complacently believe the NRC is looking after the public safety. The NRC has steadfastly maintained over the years that the type of accident that occurred in Japan was just so improbable, it would never happen. After finishing the book, one has the feeling that a Fukushima class accident (Level-7) could happen here in the U.S. too, notwithstanding the NRC' s pseudo-authoritative risk assessments.  We've just been lucky ... so far.
475900
If you don't feel compelled to take some kind of action to better protect and prepare your family after reading this then you likely never will.
4768626
I returned this book for a few reasons. First, I already have a Gray's Anatomy. Second, I'm a fairly conservative teacher, mixed levels of students, and I want to decrease risk of injury for my students and I didn't find help in doing so in this book. This book shows poses that are very intense that I just don't promote with my students because of the risk of injury. Many of the photos also show necks cranked back, which in my humble and non-expert opinion, are simply unnecessary risks for short or long-term practices. In this day and age, why promote poses that risk damage to the neck or spine? For example, if a book demonstrates a full wheel pose, how about highlighting the risks and offering other alternatives? Certainly, many people like this book and I respect the author. It just wasn't what I was looking for.
3044487
A little added personal protection needed these days.
548622
Writing is kind of sketchy, but subject is fascinating. Apparently staff of institutions for the criminally insane have no professional protection. They protect themselves as best they can, resulting in sometimes severe injuries to themselves. Inmates have rights equivalent to civilian patients. Can verbally threaten staff with little consequence. Apparently system of incarceration for the criminally insane (yes, including murderers) is completely broken and ineffective. That this book has not caused major and deep investigation and exposure by journalists and governmental authorities is mind boggling.
1476783
I was so disappointed with this purchase. The knives were left outside of their bags and one nearly fell on my hand. The plastic holder was also broken when I received it. But what bothered me wasn't the cracked materials: it was the safety hazard that I could have suffered from a serious injury. There was a knife sticking out of the box when I carried it. Riciulous.
2648351
A somewhat dry accounting, using newspaper clippings whenever available, of mishaps that casual (and quite often very experienced)hikers encounter in what commonly is believed to be safe National Parks. A very quick education in being prepared for the underestimated dangers of dehydration, hypothermia, and heat stress.  It is not quite as good as "Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon"or "Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park", both of which manage to get the message of being careful across in a much more narrative style. If you enjoy "Weather stories" on TV, these will all make for fascinating reading.

PS In the Oregon reference I am talking about the death of CNET editor James Kim, who left the relative safety of his car trying to get help for his family, and the three climbers on Mt Hood that perished shortly after. You will learn of countless expeditions that people insisted on undertaking because they were already there, even though the weather has changed drastically.
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There are a couple of things in this book that are NOT true, one of them being that Trevor Rees-Jones was NOT wearing a seatbelt at the time of the car crash.  (It's in the book he wrote.)  So I'm not sure how much of this book is truth or speculation.