The Content is Clumsy
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If you really want to understand what is written about in this book, you may find that many pages are some combination of poorly researched, poorly written, and poorly edited.

The book has excellent illustrations and covers a number of interesting topics, and I would very much like to enjoy the content, but it has been difficult to read more than a few pages at a time. So many things early on in the book were incorrect or misleading that it became hard not to be defensive and frustrated when the content was accurate but clumsily written.
4579548
As the title says, the content is OK.  It's not groundbreaking material or anything.  It's a standard textbook for a class.  The Kindle version however is not good.  The text doesn't appear like many other books; instead, it looks as if they've taken each individual page and shrunk it.  You can finger swipe (on the iPad anyway) to make it increase or decrease in size, but anyone who has ever read something magnified on a smartphone knows how irritating that can be.  Also, the words/terms that are linked to vocabulary terms in the back are not highlighted in a dark color, but a light blue that is hard to see.  The kindle version definitely needs improvement.
2928525
The quality of this text could be vastly improved simply by removing half the content. The pages are busy in layout and exercises are longer than they need to be to get the teaching point across. For example, an execise will have 11 questions where 5 would have been enough. If you are teaching a class with this text 3 hours a week, it would take several years to finish the book if you do every page. Furthermore, at 131 pages long, the first actual debate activity doesn't appear until page 72- you could teach from this book for a full academic year (and well into another) without actually DEBATING anything.

See the "From the Author" section above for an example of what I mean.

There is good material here, but you have to sift through reams of fluff to get to it. I don't have time for that.
1294378
The content is ok but the grammar and spelling is atrocious. I find myself stumbling over the sentences because I'm trying to correct them so often. Not very impressed.
3780168
To paraphrase another reviewer on here, the author actively makes it more challenging to envision what are very simple concepts. What should be one sentence about a rather intuitive concept, becomes a meandering paragraph. The chapters somehow manage to have little cohesion, and yet include an insane amount of random repetition. This has some of the worst editing I have ever seen in a textbook.
2899709
The format is off. With random number in the text. I think someone copied a web page and just made an ebook out of it.
There are words missing making it hard to read. Go find a better copy.

The content is good, the format is horrible.

Nelson.
3890436
As other reviewers have noted, this book is filled with annotated screen shots.  They probably comprise 60-70% of the page space.

It's just too bad that each line of text is about half a millimeter high and is printed in fuzzy gray text.

I'm sure this would be a great book if it was even remotely close to readable; it gives me a headache just looking at it.

I've never been this disappointed in a technical book before.
2164285
There are many, many clumsy English phrases, as well as, out and out grammatical mistakes.  My Italian isn't good enough to notice a lot of mistakes in the Italian.  I also feel that while someone whose Italian ability is moderate can read this, it isn't really structured in a way that is helpful . . . Not like a good book for a student, where the learner's understanding of the language might be enlarged as one continued to read it.  It feels good to be reading in Italian and to check the English when I don't know a word, but this is mediocre volume.
1716283
Most of this DVD is lecturing and educating.  The actual exercise portion is very small.

Exercises are demonstrated by animation in total silence.  Navigating through this DVD was clumsy, making the whole enterprise very amateurish.
435560
There's a fair bit of content that looks like it's been ripped from Wikipedia pages as well as other very outdated content such as looking up to the left is memory recal, which would imply and mean that all people think and recall things the same way which has now been found to be inherently false.
For me what I haven't been able to get over is the mind numbing number of gramitical errors in this book, and for me grammatical errors include things like missing stops and comas, incorrect use of punctuation and typogragropgy issues such as poor alignment to page, which I would consider the authors fault in most likely using a third party tool to get into the prescribed kindle format.
I have found no less than 37 grammatical errors through this "document", which is almost 1 every second page.
If I had known this before hand I wouldn't have bought it because it shows a sincere lack of professionalism.
I've given it 3 stars simply because I did still learn a few things from it but I'll be haunted by the grammatical issues for weeks to come
4431477
The text isn't "bad," but I would look elsewhere. Sections and exercises are numbered in an uncomfortable way. Important topics and formulae are hidden within dense paragraphs, instead of being visually offset. The overall graphic and textual communication works... barely. There is much room for improvement.
838742
Although the contents are in line with present-day thinking that diets don't work, and that it's much more important to learn to recognize and respond appropriately to hunger and obsess not at all about weight, the poor translation (from Hebrew?) and multiple, serious grammar errors are quite distracting. I found it hard to focus on the important content because of that. I'd happily edit it for free and rewrite it into more proper but colloquial American English, if she would edit my own compatible non-diet primer-in-progress for fall, 2016 publication, Corset Waist Training, A Primer on Easy, Fun and Fashionable Waist Reduction!
1186075
This books does contain some good tips, but the writing style is annoying. Too often Tris Hussey cracks tired jokes that add nothing to his text, but rather detract from it. The material is compartmentalized in such a way that I am convinced it is a compilation of old blog posts. The result is a melange of material, some of which is fairly good, but not really presented efficiently, nor effectively. If you've got the time to dig through the book, go ahead and read it. If you want something more logically and coherently presented, keep looking.
3412852
Book in fine condition but the content is tedious and unbelievable.  Elitist vocabulary,  which means the author's peers would understand the writing, but not the general public (like me)!  The main theme is horizontalism, but  the writer speaks as if above others.  Not horizontal.
1835069
I'm sorry but this is horrible. It's stream of consciousness, horrible grammar, and disorganized. I really wanted to like it but it is useless.
2127413
There appeared to be lots of good information in the book.  However, the authors are guilty of trying to cover too much.

I read a number of chapters of this compilation, but did not finish it.  While each chapter has a theme, I found the content was jammed together in a somewhat incoherent fashion.  There are a number of sub-stories jammed into each chapter, none of which is really treated in full detail.

In particular, I found the transitions between these sub-stories often confusing.  I'd be reading along and suddenly without any sort of indication that there was going to be a complete switch of gears, the chapter text would be talking about something else.  In a few cases not only the transitions between the sub-stories was so sudden and jarring that it wasn't just switching gears (without using the clutch), but more like jumping from one moving vehicle to another.

It's too bad that the material was made inaccessible by the presentation.
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It is becoming more and more apparent that books are not being edited. There are so many misused words such as me when it should be my and misspelled words. Its a bit ridiculous that the author isn't being more careful. The content is good. Please edit your work.