Useless picture book - the cover being the most interesting
342642
Not really a collection of different examples of architecture.  Just a few specific sites are shown.  They are not that different, there are no details, really unhelpful book.
1830493
Boss Models is a classy company and I was expecting this to make a nice reference book for my coffee table but man is the layout artist behind it ever full of himself. It looks kind of like a high school yearbook committee had an opportunity to design an issue of Tiger Beat. There are pages where the photos are all oddly cropped, resized, or aligned to make space for abstract colour blocks, or he'll stack all of the letters in the header on top of each other in one illegible pile, or scatter the letters in the model's name all over the page like some sort of word scramble. The table of contents is arranged alphabetically but the book is not, and only about a third of the pages are numbered, so it takes a whole scavenger hunt to figure out the names of the models on the more illegible pages. All it's missing is glitter glue.
131309
This is one of the worst covers on a book I've ever seen...the content may be sound but the cover doesn't inspire me to open the book...it looks somewhat intimidating and gives the impression that the reader is in store for some kind of boring thesis. A horrible disservice to authors Shipman and Kay, in my opinion.
2624102
Really disappointing as far as layout and design go. It has a nice cover photo so it looks like a "real" cookbook, but it lacks an index, has only a handful of recipes, has small type and seems to have been designed by someone from the typewriter era (recipe names are underlined), no photos aside from the cover, and nowhere does it state which recipe is pictured on the cover -- or is that a stock photo? Annoyingly, the word "keto" is in every recipe name, many of which are unwieldy and just sound weird, such as "3-Cheese Aubergines Spinach Keto Layers" and "Milky Coco-Bacon Keto Muffins." (Aubergines are eggplants, for those not familiar with British English usage.) Some of the recipes use grams, others use ounces, which isn't a problem for me, since I have kitchen scales with both measuring systems, but just be forewarned. No index, as I said, just a table of contents that divides recipes into the categories Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snacks, and Dessert. Within those categories, it's alphabetical, so good luck looking up recipes by ingredient. The entire book is 140 pages; of that, 8 pages are table of contents, and 13 pages are a fluffy, repetitive introduction to the ketogenic diet and pressure cooking. Some of the Instant Pot tips are useful, but mostly this is just filler. Some of the recipes do look like they might be good, but this is where photos would have been useful. I know that makes a book much more expensive, but photos are one of the most important parts of a cookbook for many of us. At least one recipe (Dark Chocolate Butter Cookies -- the only recipe without keto in the name! -- on page 103) has text from a wildly different recipe (Lemon Asparagus Keto Pancetta Cups) transposed to the bottom of this one. So, insufficient copy editing. Also, there is NO explanatory or introductory text for any recipe, just the list of ingredients and instructions. Some cookbooks go too far to the other extreme, but a little explanatory note -- such as why the avocado is steamed in the "Jicama Grapefruit Keto Avocado Toss," instead of raw -- would be useful. No explanation of what "Tinola" means in "Green Papaya Chicken Keto Tinola." Bizarre.
On the plus side, recipes contain macronutrient breakdowns, if that's important to you, and the recipes are definitely geared to the Instant Pot, with specific step-by-step directions. Once I get over being annoyed with the appearance and layout of the cookbook, I may get around to trying some of the recipes.
2010238
I received this book today and I have to say that it's pretty disappointing. First, I was hoping the cover shown was just a temporary placeholder and that there would be something more impressive happening on it. No, there isn't. It's exactly what you see... something that looks like it should be the inner title page. The cover could have and SHOULD have been something more spectacular. Maybe a collage of the 35 years worth of covers. Nothing that thought out happening here though. Second, the "behind-the-scenes coverage" and "trivia" in the book consists of several pages of issue by issue breakdowns thrown into the beginning of the book before you even see a cover. This wouldn't be so terrible if not for the fact that the info for the first issue starts off pretty long and the synopsis of each issue gets shorter and shorter until they're down to a single paragraph or even 1 to 2 sentences, usually consisting simply of a quote from an article in said issue. Now, we get to the cover gallery. The very first image of the very first issue looks TERRIBLE. It looks like they got a tiny low resolution image off the internet and blew it up. Here's another MAJOR issue with the covers... the book itself is about the same height and width as the magazine itself yet the images presented are about the size of a DVD case with at least a full inch white border surrounding each cover. So the focus of the book is 35 years of cover art and the way we celebrate that is to shrink the images down? There's no table of contents in front, so why do we need quarter-sized blood splatters featuring page numbers? The space used for that nonsense could have been used for a larger image. Another image quality issue pops up through out the book, particularly in the images for covers #175 through #182. It looks like they took photos of the covers in a dark room with a flip phone. Any vibrant color that may be on those covers is totally dead.

All in all, this book is a HUGE letdown. I mean, I totally dig the heart behind the project but the execution is downright pathetic, especially for a $50 book! If this were being sold in brick and mortar stores, it's the type of book you'd wait a few months until you saw it on the discount book racks for $19.98. Even then, it would seem a bit high priced for what you're getting.
678492
Pretty cover, but if you are interested in the original "On The Stowage of Ships And Their Cargoes", don't buy this photocopied edition. This is a very much shortened book, comprising only 172 pages of the over 800 page original. This wouldn't be so bad, if one were interested only in the actual loading of ships. But in addition to the severely shortened version of a delightfully descriptive and anecdotal book, there are totally useless pages wherein the photocopier copies his hands, but not the pages (pages 34 and 96-97)

If you enjoy gazing at some unknown man's fumble fingers, then by all means, have at it. But personally I will continue to search for a copy of the full original, without a stranger's hand in the matter.
1093139
I was so attracted by the cover that I bought the book. The interior is not up to the level of the cover. The material seems scanned and not as crisp as it could be. It is entirely in black-and-white. It's a nice idea that it comes with a CD of the images...except....they are pdf files and not even scanned at high resolution. Someone messed up with this book because the authors are usually outstanding.
4169443
This is a picture book.  It has recipes in it, but the pictures seem to be where most of the effort went in.  As a cookbook, it's pretty much a failure.

I counted 49 recipes, plus one page that lists pantry items.  And each recipe comes with a stupidly large, gaudy, and rather unimaginative picture of it on the opposite page.  If this was a cookbook, the focus would have been on recipes.

What few recipes there are seem to be well written.  In fact, if they had made this as a cookbook instead of a picture book (or perhaps its a coffee table book) I'd probably like it a lot more, though it would be painfully short because of how few recipes there are.  I would also have liked this book more if they had made this book in a less absurd form factor (I doubt that is the proper publishing term, but it's the term I know).
2393276
So, this was interesting. It's just pictures of a coloring book so that you can see what the pages inside the coloring book will look like before you buy the coloring book. I don't really understand why the "preview" function wouldn't be good enough on the actual coloring book listing... downloading the preview into my Kindle app is kind of silly, somewhat confusing at first, and then takes up useless space, because once you've looked at the pictures you choose to purchase the actual, physical coloring book or not... the preview becomes pointless. I would not pay money for this.
That being said, the pictures are cute. My 3 year old would enjoy the coloring book I think.
2418855
Most (maybe 90%) of the images are just a bunch of magazine cover scans and the whole thing feels really thrown together. There is certainly not 1000 unique images. I caught several identical images repeating pages apart as if they publisher was trying to make the collection of images appear larger and the reader would be too stupid to notice... there is some interesting images in the book and the nostalgia factor but over all I would not have bought this if I had seen it in person at a book stoor before ordering it from Amazon.
709559
The Illustrations are blurry and pixilated and the cover is cheaply made.
996571
First, don't let the cover deceive you. The cover indicated to me that this would be a fun book about TV with insights from Socrates, Aristotle and that group thrown in. Instead, this book is incredibly boring, because it is a book about Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, Descartres and that group with a little TV thrown in. I don't even know why any TV was thrown in because there seemed to be no tie-in, except artificially-- which I think might have been a ploy to sell the book. I bought it. But I was under the impression that it was going to be interesting and a book I would want to read. If I wanted to read Karl Marx (yep, he's in there, too) I could have found a more interesting book than this.
3597068
The best part of this book is the cover.  The projects inside are amateurish and not at all like the cover project.  I'm sorry I purchased it.
2598648
Yes, this is a guide to minerals in North America. But on the cover, it promises the reader "where to look" and if by "where," the writer means geographically (as I assumed), this book absolutely does not contain this information. The pictures are nice to look at, but as a pocket guide, I can't fathom how this would help the amateur collector or hobbyist. Not recommended.
4451223
First of all, this is not a book (i. e. it doesnt contain any useful text) but simply a photo album of different designers frills. A better title for this book may be Encyclopedia of donts in signage and wayfinding design or Signage and wayfinding hall of shame or How to make signage text illegible, icons incomprehensible and wayfinding impossible. The goal of designers in this book is to stop a visitor at their chef-doeuvre, make him wonder up? down? left? right? and finally force him to make a wrong decision where to move next. The only possible use of this album is to educate signage and wayfinding students about wrong design and what to avoid in their work.
2189983
Unformtunately I must give this book an F.  The only decent drawing in it is the eye on the cover.  It's a shame to spend $13.00 on an entirely useless item. I have a Fine Arts degree and own a large collection of art books, most  of them books on drawing. This is by far the worst drawing tutorial effort I have every ecountered.  It gives me no pleasure to be so blunt, but people should  know what they're getting for their money.<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/You-Can-Draw-in-30-Days-The-Fun-Easy-Way-to-Learn-to-Draw-in-One-Month-or-Less/dp/0738212415/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">You Can Draw in 30 Days: The Fun, Easy Way to Learn to Draw in One Month or Less</a>
121698
The best part about the book are the illustrations. In fact that is really all there is inside the book. I wish that there was some order to the book (alphabetical or families of animals) but it is put together very randomly. Also there is no actual information about the animals other than their names and a poem (sometimes very abstract). I would have checked this out at the library instead of buying it had I known all of this. My kids are 2,3, and 4 years old and this book does not hold their interest. If it wasn't part of their Sonlight curriculum we would have shelved it by now.