yes, this is an excellent book
937857
This is an excellent book.  I first read it nearly 20 years ago and I was blown away by how accurate it was - it described me!  It was so helpful and I go back to it now and then for some reminders.  It really helped me and was my first step toward real growth.
3022316
i am very happy this book,each time i am learning more,more and more.
It's very highly recommend it's  worth awhite every penny spent.
4957520
Excellent, practical, enjoyable. I got this on Kindle Unlimited -- which means I need to return it at some point -- but I plan to read it two or three more times before letting it go. And if you read the book, you will get the irony on my second sentence.
2074699
This is an excellent book...and I have read many over the years. This is well written and easy to read. I recommend this book for anyone at any stage of life. The details within are very helpful - even for the perfect person in your life. I also recommend this for young people. As a teenager or college student, I would have appreciated this. I particularly like the 'inner' work. I will likely re-read this again! Thank you Mr. Zlotoff for sharing this with the world.
3107444
This is, a whole, an excellent book. Much of the material was covered in my graduate work in medical school, so it was, for me, not new. The book was, though, a good refresher. Most people, including me, bought the book to read the material on Intelligent Design. After I read the chapters on ID, I read the rest of the book and found it better than I had expected. The chapters I have concerns over include the chapter on biodiversity and the chapter on cancer (I spent some time doing cancer research at the previous University where I was a faculty). Although the chapter on cancer contains useful information, it is well established that p53 and other tumor suppressor genes, plus oncogenes, do play a role in cancer, although the story may well be more complex than we understand now. Mutated p53 is found in over half of all cancers and we understand in some detail why and the role it plays in cancer. As to the chapter on biodiversity, it is in fact a real concern today (especially for animal lovers such as myself). These chapters should have been more balanced. The chapter on nuclear energy was excellent and could have come, word for word, out of my chemistry textbook, which came to the exact same conclusions: we need to build new nuclear plants now! Likewise, the chapter on hormesis was excellent. The chapter on Aids in Africa was also excellent. I now am skeptical about the claims about a pandemic of Aids in Africa, and understand why the pandemic claim is made. These chapters are not controversial among most informed persons in the field. Nor, in my judgement, are the chapters on ID. I think that reviewers who bring up Dr. Well's putative religion and the statements he made when he was involved in this church as a youth are playing on ignorance of this church and prejudice. Moon was a Presbyterian minister and a Korean, and blended the two, plus he added some new ideas. I do not agree with him on theology, but then I am neither a Korean nor a Presbyterian. Few Americans understand Unification theology, and condemn it without understanding it. The Unificationists today are in the same position as Mormons were a century ago. And Unificationists, I predict, will in time be as respected as Mormons are today (I have studied both in detail and, even though I disagree with them, I understand where they are coming from). I too made some foolish statements as a young man and to dig these up to discredit someone is irresponsible. Attack the ideas, not the person.
50764
This book was recommended to me by a friend, a retired lawyer, just a few years before he died. He was very well-read, moreso than you'd imagine a lawyer to be, and he used to rave about what an incredible book this had been. He was very much an intellectual, and this had been perhaps the most influential book in his intellectual life's journey.

When I finally sat down with it, I understood why. Forgive me for using the word so often, but Kaplan, too, is (was?) an intellectual, and of the very first rank. In this book, he dissects the scientific process, with his focus being on the social sciences. His discussion is general enough that pretty much everything he says applies just as well to the hard sciences, too. The ideas he puts forward can be mind-blowing if you haven't encountered them before; facts do not relate to real quantities because our metrics are all made up, and theories are valued for being useful, not for being true. There is more that he says as well, but it has been some years since I've read the book, and I don't have it available to me right now. (When I saw Amazon had no review for this book, I decided I'd ought to weigh in anyway.)

This book is not light reading. Kaplan is an old master, sharing the wisdom that comes only after a lifetime of work in one's field. Also, he has a vocabulary that could be described as "Buckleyesque", and he doesn't hold back with it. You will want to have a dictionary handy when you read this book. (You're laughing at me now, but wait until you start Chapter 1.)

Did I mention this is an excellent book? It has become one of the most influential works in my own intellectual journey (Up there with Hofstader's "Godel, Escher, Bach" and Miles's "GOD; A Biography"), and I rather wish I could talk with my old friend again, to tell him how much I appreciated his recommendation.

(I'm giving it a star rating only because Amazon requires me to; if you don't want to read something heavy and thoughtful, then you should avoid this book. But for that matter, if you want what's in this book, then you should avoid Shakespeare. Should I give Shakespeare two stars?)
3878392
This is an excellent read! I highly recommend this book!
4863060
The book is most excellent, and I believe should be read by any freshmen entering to take biology, or for that matter any student of biology. It is very well written and provides ample evidence and support for the theories contained within.

Change is hard for everyone, it's no different in the scientific community, and debate over ideas is a good sign that we are trying to come to a better understanding. Wilson, I believe, makes a very good argument that many instances where kin selection has been applied can very equally be explained by group selection. I would say that Wilson necessarily say, in the book at least, that kin selection is wrong, more specifically he proposes an alternative hypothesis, that can equally be successfully applied to the areas of kin selection, as well as additional areas. Scientists who have spent their live's assuming kin selection to be true will obviously find any idea to the contrary dubious, and as the idea became so entrenched in science, it really is shocking how many people have agreed with Wilson.

Read the book for your self, I believe it makes a persuasive argument, but it doesn't say that it is the final word, decide for yourself. Personally Kin selection never jived with me and felt miss applied to some situations.

Cheers
2143053
First of all, this is an excellent book. The plot is well thought and thought-provoking, the kindle format probably cannot be much better (lacks the table of contents, but no big deal for a novel), the quality and style of the writing is good and an important feature, the ending is well done. It's not necessary to wait for the next installment; this is a complete and very enjoyable book.

The story is not centered on the characters but on the plot itself. Some may find the beginning a bit slow, but keep on and  you'll certainly get hooked soon. However, if you really mind about a precise sci-fi (I don't as far as it is coherent), maybe this is not for you; but I don't think it is so farfetched either...

All in all, you can't go wrong with this one. If you like Sci-Fi, this is a real bargain and a great entertainment option.

Congratulations to the author, Andrew W. Mitchell, and I hope to read other works by him.

PS: And as a bonus, the cover design is simply fantastic!
2447131
I have a research project for which I evaluate about 1000 books a year. This is one of the best books I have encountered. I recommend it to anyone who wants to understand what is happening. It is full of important and useful information and intelligent insights. You may not agree with everything but you should respect the author's effort and integrity. I do. There are few books that make their arguments as well as this one. Some of the points may not be new or original but the author writes well and the book is well organized. In the Epilogue, she makes the hopeful point that people make progress in important social matters when they get to know each other better, That has been my experience. When I have worked with people of different races and ethnic groups, I have found that I forgot those differences and became friends with people that I would not normally have been. We can only hope that the Trump experience teaches people in this country by the negative results of his governance that we need to go the other direction toward less tribalism and more unity.

This is the author's best book. I don't know if this is because she has learned how to do better research and writing or if this subject is more in her field of expertise. Her previous books had problems. Ironically, she has been accused from both sides of bias. I don't think that is her problem, she is not biased but her previous books were not as well thought out as this one is.

Midwest Independent Research, educational websites. Democracy and politics, mwir-democracyandpolitics.blogspot. There are book lists here
1487104
i highly recommend this book as the methods illustrated in here work quite well. however you need to study the book and learn the concepts here. if you put in the time, you will be rewarded ...a winner
2387698
Great book - I love this book - has so much info and ideas.  It is a wealth of info.  Get it, and keep it.
1378189
Despite the fact that I am actually quoted in this book in the "Praise foe other books by Mark G. Sobell" section, it really is a good book! Scratch that, it is a book that I am going to make *sure* makes the rounds through my office.

Here's the trick. There are a million books and websites and such that have some general instruction on generalized shell scripting or particular commands or even topical stuffs. By and large, they are incomplete and usually feature a bunch of theoretical examples like "suppose you want to draw a box with three nested boxes inside..." Those kinds of things really aren't much help to the average guy and that is where this book differs.

This book is chocked full of great command explanations, practical topics and real life examples. Sobell has gone out of his way to present this information not only in an interesting fashion, but a usable one as well, not to mention being very Linux distribution agnostic in the process. For example, he covers both the apt-get and yum utilities. There are even some OS X notes as well.

This is a vast and enormous subject to cover and Sobell does his usual excellent job with it. He starts you out with a little background, moves you into using editors and commands and different shells and even into some interpreted languages, all while guiding you through enough pertinent information to not only perk you interest a little on the subject, but give you a functional, working understanding as well. Great job and this is certainly another book I will be holding on to - at least until the next edition comes out
2190729
This is an excellent book. Initially, I was a bit skeptical when I started the book, especially when I saw the large print on the Kindle, however, as I got into the book, I realized that this is an excellent book indeed.

The book has been written in a very well balanced way. There is no attempt to take sides, but the cold, rational manner in which the arguments have been put forward is excellent. It allows the reader to make an impassioned and objective reading.

 I like the way that each chapter has been formatted, starting with a layman's brief, and steadily getting into more detail.

This is an excellent read, and I hope that Steven Sondegard updates the book regularly.
120826
This is a great book.  The author seems to be extremely honest, reasonable, and  knowledgeable.  You don't often get that combination, so this book is treasure.
3390042
This is a good book with detailed information and excellent illustrations.
3538706
I like this book because it is well written and helpful. The author has put extra efforts in writing such a masterpiece. The quality of material of this book is worth more than its price. Easy to understand content for everyone. From me, I will definitely rate this book and the author's efforts a 5-STAR. I highly recommend this book to everyone.