The title of this book is misleading.
358535
The title of this book is misleading.  Security Mom:  An Unclassified Guide to Protecting Our Homeland and Your Home.  The book covers this subject in only the most cursory way.  It is Juliette Kayyem's memoir.  Although she has had an interesting life, I really wasn't interested in her life.  What I wanted was practical suggestions to increase the security of family.  I can summarize what she said about that subject.  She said we all have to take responsibility for ourselves, and not expect the government to shoulder the entire burden.  I agree.  I was expecting this book to tell me how to do that and it did not.  Overall, if I knew the subject matter covered by her book, I wouldn't have read it.  I finished the book hoping for some useful information and that never came.  Very disappointing.
1489570
I was disappointed by this book because I was misled by the title and the opening statement to think that author would provide some insights into the gender differentiations of the brain.  Instead, this book is *all* about disputing the scientific researches which I already knew though not to the extents of the book.  A more appropriate subtitle might have been "The limitations of scientific research and the flaws of applying the research results for one's political views".

It has been said that it is impossible to understand the brain by a brain.  While we are making small steps in understanding of our brain functions, we should be careful not to draw conclusions beyond what we really know.  To that, this book gives ample examples.
965545
Even the extended title is false marketing. The book contains around 20 short essays on how biology influences our behavior. Only one of the essays deals with testosterone.

The acerbic essays are actually quite interesting to read. Sometimes the author is really too full of himself, but that is more an issue of style. The content of the essays are a little bit over the place so do not expect systematic knowledge. What you get is interesting nuggets of knowledge, for instance how testosterone does not make you more aggressive.

Book is worth three stars, but I deduct one stars for picking such a misleading title. There has to be some punishment for totally false marketing.
553793
I found the book's title was misleading. I expected this to be a cupcake recipe book - C'mon, "Bake Me.. Cupcake Celebration..." There are only 8 (eight) ONLY EIGHT cupcake recipes in the entire 122 page book. The rest of the book is dedicated to different ways to decorate cupcakes. I suppose if that is what you were looking for it might be worthwhile for you to buy, but I was looking for recipes to "BAKE ME" for "CUPCAKES."

The eight recipes included sound intriguing, and I will try some of them, but I wouldn't have invested in this book had I realized it's acutal contents.
3657154
The title of this book is misleading. The author covers mainly handguns with only a  small reference to rifles and shotguns with the advantages and disadvantages. He does not cover the different types of rifles, such as bolt action, lever action, carbines, semi-auto and the advantage and disadvantages of various calibers. Nor does he discuss the various shot guns available as well. I will give him marks for his coverage on marksmanship and ballistics. All the the training drills are all handgun focused. While you can do them with a rifle or a shot gun, different drills are in order for these other weapon platforms. If the author was to retitle and make some changes  and get a little more specific with calibers this could be a good handgun book.
1378184
The summary and the title of this book are misleading. There's nothing in this book that justify the cost of it.
Out of 100+ pages, only 22 pages are actually dedicated to tire compounding. The rest of it is a compilation of references to other books.
In addition, this book contains only general knowledge wildly available.
Definitely not for the expert, not even for the student trying to learn more about rubber technology, tires, or compounding.
522255
The title of the book is a misnomer.  One would think that it was a personalized story of the three officers that served and commanded the PT109.  That's why I bought it in the first place.  But alas, not to be.  The book is not very long - 264 pages.  There are 34 photographs in the centre of the book.  Five of them are of one of the subjects of the title; the PT109 and none of these photos are rare.  And there are another five photos of the other subjects the book, the three commanding officers of the boat.  The other 24 are generic wartime photos of the PT boats.  Right there that will give you an idea to the extent of detail that author devotes to the boat and the officers.  Most of the content focuses on the PT boat battles.  At Guadalcanal some involve the 109 crew, most do not.  And when writing about the battles, the author spends too much time describing the overall strategy involved.  He writes about the Japanese sailors' experiences.  He writes about air battles.  He really doesn't devote a lot of space to the main characters of the book.  I was disappointed.  I truly do admire the men and women who served during WWII.  Their sacrifices were great and many.  But after reading this book, it was plainly obvious that the wartime naval careers of the three men who commanded the PT109 is not extensive enough to fill a book.  So the author included a lot of "fluff" to fill the pages.  I personally found his writing style to be flat and unimaginative.  The book couldn't hold my interest and I found myself skimming ahead very quickly.  There are many, many other PT boat related tomes that have told this story first and so much better.  I hate it when a book's title misleads the reader and this is most certainly the case here.  After I finished reading it, I gave it to the Secondhand Store.  It doesn't belong in my library.
1993639
This is book is not about women that practice Buddhism and their practices. It is just the opinions of a bunch of women who happen to be buddhist. In this sense the title is misleading and the entire book disappointing. I was looking for a book in which women actually discussed their practice and how they experienced meditation and ritual etc. Only later did I see that it was an academic conference at Smith. That explained the the distinctly social, political and academic bent. Although I can appreciate the importance of those dialogues, it seems in today's world most practitioners are far more interested in how people actually practice rather than what people who practice think about the political or social implications of of women practicing. The entire book just feels totally out of touch. Too bad. I will look elsewhere to hear about actual practices and how women experience the actual reality of it.
12708
The title of this book is misleading.  70% of the book covers Excel and how to make Excel integrate into other platforms and applications.  At 190 pages, that means the author spends about 60 pages covering Access (and that's only to cover intuitive tasks accomplished through the user interface).  The examples are mostly Excel VBA code; none of which are particularly new or mind blowing.

The strangest part of this book is the author inexplicably puts a half-hearted Excel object model in an Appendix.  But no object model for Access?  Can anyone say filler?  Seems a shame to waste such an interesting topic on this extremely wordy collection of Excel code. The positive: this book is thin enough to fit perfectly under my wobbly desk.
3433509
I do not like the title of this book! "newtonianism for ladies" is the title of a work by the Italian Algoratti. I was hoping to find an English translation of the Algoratti but all that is here is a chapter which briefly discusses Algoratti as a popularizer of the theories of Isaac Newton. Now the subtitle of this book is "the popularization of science in Leipzig", the dominant thought in Liepzig was anti-Newtonian. Under the influence of Christian Wolff there was a tendency to reject the occult forces ( i.e. action at a distance) of Newton in favor of Descartes vortices theory. I am forced to conclude that the title is the publishers attempt to sell the book to feminist scholars. There is nothing particularly feminist about the book. Rather it is a straight forward look into the attempt to popularize science in Leipzig.
3861293
First of all the title of the book is misleading. From Apprentice to Pro? I am not sure what Pro here really means. It's a reasonably done gloss of palm reading. However, its objections to the more antiquated ways of palm-reading (mounts, signs, marks) seem superficial in the light of its own system of naming the fingers. The author's explanation of why the index finger is called the mirror, the middle finger called the wall, the ring finger the peacock and the little finger the antenna is not persuasive? How did he come up with that? It seems wholly arbitrary.

Finally, the book could use a good amount of copy-editing. Filled with typos. More than a simpler explanation of palmistry, it's simplistic. I recommend Nathaniel Altman's book called Palmistry: The Universal Guide. More detailed with better explanations.
277209
First, I know that there have been complaints about the size of the photos, but I believe that they are big enough for most people with average vision.  Second, I want to be very clear that the title of the book is grossly misleading.  These are not, in fact, the Okinawan forms of the kata, nor are they the 'classic' forms.  I lived in Okinawa growing up and have been studying several forms of Okinawan and Chinese martial arts for over twenty years and I can tell you that many of these are not the classic form, nor are they in the Okinawan style.

As Kousaku Yokota states in "Shotokan Mysteries", kokutsu dachi is not an Okinawan stance -- it was created (particularly as presented in the book) by Funakoshi Gichin well into Gichin's stay in Japan.  Chatan Yara no Kushanku, as traditionally taught in Japan, makes use of neko ashi dachi  where the author and images suggest kokutsu dachi; it is the styles that are based on (or have been influenced by) Gichin's modifications that use kokutsu dachi.  I was actually fairly saddened to see that other Shotokan changes made their way into the katas within this book.  That isn't to say that the way Shotokan influenced schools do the kata is 'wrong', simply that you cannot use the words 'Classic Kata of Shorinji Ryu: Okinawan Karate Forms' and use the forms that are more Japanese in nature (or were created to kowtow to Kan Jigor, because neko ashi dachi allows you to easily prevent a Judoka from grabbing you).

I give the book a 3 instead of 2 or 1 because the katas are right (just not 'classic' or 'Okinawan' in form), the pictures are good, the directions are good, and the content is good (if you don't spend your whole time hung up on the content violating the title).  I believe in some latitude in kata for personal understanding or expression because as we develop we learn things, and am also a big fan of the mantra that we are all students.  The book is fine if you want to do these kata in a fashion similar to the Shotokan (and it's descendents) techniques, but not if you want to actually do the kata as they are performed in Okinawa or as they traditionally were.

For anyone wanting to try to make these more Okinawan/traditional... Kokutsu dachi are peppered throughout the kata presented in the book and should almost always be neko ashi dachi.  The chudan shuto uke would almost always be gedan, not chudan.  Yoko geri keage are often mae geri, but in these kata (which are more advanced kata, so as the author says, you have to already know a version of them to make much use of the book because they were to teach extremely important and difficult techniques that you can't see in the book... like Chatan Yara no Kushanku, which teaches, among other things, the proper method for body shifting) it's not a hard and fast rule -- you just have to know the originals because there are yoko geris in some of the right places and in others it should be mae geri.  In some cases the kata diverge greatly from the classic versions, acting as a blend between the flashy (but less practical) "competition" versions that you see and the classic version (with entire fragments added and subtracted)... you just have to know the classic kata from Okinawa to know when and where this happens (too many instances to enumerate them here).  The general structure is there, but his teacher (Richard Kim) was a member of the DNBK, which explains why these are Japanese versions of the kata.  It was a let-down for me because I was hoping for something that had written instruction with pictures that I could show to students who were trying to learn the kata -- they would practice with me, then have reference material for while they were practising at home... but this is not that because these are not the original forms or even Okinawan in nature.
4761428
Even though this book is a Wall Street Journal bestseller and has been published in 5 languages, I am reluctant to give it 5 stars because, after reading it twice cover to cover, it looks more like a "business checklists" rather than a "millionaire course". Besides, its title in my humble view is false and misleading. It does not contain even one way to become a millionaire. Instead of calling it "365 Ways to Become a Millionaire (Without Being Born One)", it should have been called "365 Ways to Become a More Effective Executive". In any case, Brian Koslow, the author of the book, became a millionaire by the time he reached 31 years old. In this book, he gives 12 guidelines divided into 365 checklists  such as: (1). Confidence and certainty will get you farther than anything else will; (2). You will lose personal power in the present without a clear vision for the future; (3). The best way to negotiate a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it; and (4). The bigger your purpose, the more vitality you will have at the end of the day. I agree with the author that this book will create breakthrough results in all areas of your life and give you the tools you need to achieve your business goals. Dr Jusuf Hariman.
1586663
The title of this book is TOTALLY misleading!
I purchased this book (the kindle edition) because of the positive reviews of MANGO and Lisa Starke that I read here.
I was disappointed from the very beginning: unending minimalist dissections of what pleasure is, many innocuous examples that bring nothing to an understanding of the (supposedly) best things in life nor of what really (in the author's opinion) does or should matter in it.
The book reads as a boring dissertation by a boring or lukewarm professor who seem to be unable or uninterested to teach how, at some point, to make decisions or take any action.
After finishing reading the book, I still have no idea what the "(Philosophy in Action") of the title means... ?
In the end, with the exception of the inevitable death (sooner or later, take your pick), the best thing in life is that nothing really matters: don't get too excited by anything, it is not worthy...

Armando Brons,
Caracas, Venezuela

PS: If you plan to purchase the Kindle edition, beware that while reading through the book, there is no way to go directly to the Table of Content. The shortest way is to go to "The beginning" and then manually search for it.
2738281
I expected a book on listening and the art of conversation. It is instead a textbook for Psychiatrists and the title is derived from the last chapter. Not what I wanted and the title was misleading for me, but probably not if you were a young psychoanalyst in training.
3308625
The problem with buying books online is you can't literally thumb through a book. I would like to propose a new title for this book: "Celebrating the Great GODDESS," because "Earth Mother" is misleading. This book was written primarily for families following the Wiccan path. And the former reviewer who stated this was a good book for those of every faith, including Christians, was misleading. Christians would definitely be turned off at the references to Pagan beliefs and practices. This book tries, but fails to be inclusive. It is "THE way of being," instead of "A way of being." When it refers to "The Ancient Ways," it is talking primarily about Celtic paganism and rarely mentions the many other traditions out there (I actually expected there to be MORE references to Native American traditions, esp. since the imagery on the cover appears to be of Native Americans).  I would recommend this book to Wiccan families and those interested in Celtic Paganism.
1980444
I got this book because I greatly admire Hillary Clinton's leadership and resilience. As the author rightly points out, Hillary has successfully faced overcome innumerable personal and professional challenges, in full view of the world's media.

While the book has interesting insights, it is NOT really about Hillary's leadership secrets. The author makes statements about good attributes for leadership, and then selectively uses examples from HC's life to illustrate them. But most frustratingly, most of the book is devoted to the author's own personal and professional grandstanding. It reads like a "I did this and I did that". References to Hillary are few and far between.

Overall, the material is useful, but the title is highly misleading. It seems like a cynical ploy to use Hillary Clinton's name to advertise and sell her own services as a consultant. An unmistakable message is the implied call to hire the author for your next leadership development exercise.