Filled with false information
344387
A friend of mine has this book and it is already wrong a few chapters in. I've not read much, but from this one example I can gather that this was poorly written and god help anyone whose professor requires this book.

The book states clearly, "The actual disk's capacity sometimes is different from the advertised capacity because of bad sectors on the disk."

This is oh so very false.

1K bytes = 1024 Bytes, and 1MB = 1024 KBytes, and that is how it's been from the beginning. However, Hard Drive Manufacturers simply use 1K = 1000, 1M = 1000000, creating about 7% difference between advertised and actual format size.
The system Hard Drive Manufacturers actually use is called binary prefix, as seen here: [...]
as compared to what we are all used to, decimal prefix
[...]

This is actually quite simple, and for the author of this book to say it is because "something partially breaks and kinda messes it up" is wrong. You have to TRY to get something that wrong.

Don't get this book.
2974186
This book utilizes flawed logic and extremely biased studies in an attempt to make a point.
The author lost credibility in the first chapter and things just went downhill from there.
In several places the author references studies commissioned by the RIAA that attempted to calculate the losses due to digital piracy. The studies have been proven time and time again to be greatly exaggerated in favor of the RIAA. At one point in the book the author states that 98% (!) of people are illegally downloading their music.
This author is stuck in the 1980s and needs to realize that not every user on the internet is a mindless nut. Most people are able to determine what is and isn't credible online and I can tell you, this author is not credible.
129046
If the facts don't fit, make up some facts!  This book isn't about militias, it's about white supremecy organizations.  I guess he used the word militia in the title to attract sales of this piece of garbage to bedwetters.  The first chapter is about Randy Weaver (Ruby Ridge) and there's plenty of made up facts in there to get his misconceived point across.  It's all down hill from there.  Anyone who believes the nonsense he spews is many apples short of a full tree.
1374352
This book is shockingly inaccurate. I gave up reading it after finding that 2 of the first 6 articles were just factual nonsense:

- "Do the British Own America?" is based entirely on the Drake Plate, which was shown to be a forgery in the 1970s.

- "A Civil War Story" is a mythical story of the origin of taps, one debunked in the 19th century.

Don't even think about reading this book unless you're willing to follow it up with further internet exploration to separate the facts from the fiction. Obviously the author wasn't.
1355898
wasn't  what I thought it would be, a lot of false readings
2895212
The author's "proof" is flawed at best, and dishonest at worst. On page 25, she states that 60% of "discouraged workers" are men, ya know SOOO much more than the 50% gender different. Whereas the same page (which doesn't include %, but I calculated them she since "forgot" to)  there's 4% of F500 CEOs are female, and less than 25% of Congress are females. Oh and 90%ish of men in prison vs. women, because that's "proof" we've "abandoned" boys in policies. Wonder if she thinks we've abandoned African Americans since they are statistically more in prisons than white men.....DOUBT it since that wouldn't fit her hidden far right agenda. (And I'm conserative on many political view points, so don't say I'm some angry tree-hugger).

The book is riddled with these silly statistics, because the author does no research herself, but rather cherry picks random stats/numbers to "prove" her point. I could go on and on with examples like the first paragraph, so please save your money and even more precious time and don't read this "nonfiction" book.
1741626
The author has made up a story that does not make sense.  This book is a false narrative which can easily be proved to be a fake story.
903430
This book was so full of false information. Seems to me that the writer of this book sole goal here was to jump on the Casey Anthony money wagon will it was still running. Factual Truths in this book are very few if any at all. I would suggest that this Author re watch the trail from start to finish in it's entirety. I would also like to suggest that next time you want to write a book. Please Make sure you have an Idea. of what it is your talking about.
904825
its full of false information. if you start looking up any of his information it is all lies or partial truths.
2705658
The credibility of any reference the book makes to scientific information is questionable.  WebMD and Wikipedia are not good resources.  I don't feel the author is experienced enough (educationally) to make any assumptions on child-rearing or educational support for troubled youth.  I would not recommend this book to anyone.
882682
I was so excited to find this book because it compiled all the programs in detail in one spot...except 90% of the information that I have come across and actually checked on each schools website is wrong. From application deadlines to programs offered I've already gone through a list of 10 schools that I highlighted and all of the information was incorrect!

Not worth the purchase, not the sellers fault but the publishing companies!
4060620
If you have a basic understanding of science, it should be obvious how many "facts" are horribly incorrect in this book. Citations and references that are used are either outdated or quote mined, not to mention that all the arguments presented are easily debunked by using a quick google search.
One notable error would be the "Meister footprint", Hastings claims that this "footprint" is evidence of Intelligent Design, as the rock appears to have a fossilised "footprint" beside a couple of trilobites. Either Hastings failed to research the "footprint" or he chose to remain ignorant in favour of his own religious bias and ignore the actual fact that the print has been proven to be nothing more than geological phenomena.
This is just one out of the many ill-researched claims Hastings presents as fact.
(I will cite Ernest C. Conrad for this one, found in under ten minutes using google. Hastings, take note. [...])
(I will also add that the author's response to negative feedback for his book on this site is extremely unprofessional.)
2682477
This should be titled "The Useless Book Of Often Inaccurate Information".  If you do a quick Google search of some of the "facts" stated herein you'll find some of them anything but factual.

Squirrels can't get rabies?  Nope.  Any mammal can, according to the CDC.  Squirrels don't often contract it, but they could.

Mozart wrote "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" when he was five?  Nope.  When he was 25 he composed a number of variations on the already existing and very popular tune.

Attila the Hun was a dwarf?  Nope.  He was short, as many steppe horseman of his age werebut not a dwarf.

Kamuela Searle was killed on the set by an elephant during the filming of "Tarzan"?  Nope.  He had an accident, finished the film, went on to make one more film with Cecio B. DeMille, and then retired from acting.  He died of cancer three years later.

A can of Diet Coke will float and a can of regular Coke will sink?  Let me go to the fridge and try that in the sink.  Nope!  They both float!

The origin of the word "news" comes from newspapers stories taking stories from everywhere, North, East, West and Southand using the first letter of each direction to derive "news"?  Nope.  It's a totally false and bogus etymology.  "News" is plural of "new".  It was derived from the Middle English "newes", and parallels the German "neues" and the French "nouvelle".  This is probably the silliest thing I found in this book.

There is no such thing as a blue food, and even blueberries are purple?  Nope.  Arguably there is blue corn.  True or not he stole that line from comedian George Carlin.

There are true facts in the book (and facts can be either true or false), but without taking the time a person can't know what is fact and what is bogus.  I think it's safe to say that a significant percentage of the facts presented are bogus.  I get the impression the author just cruised the net for whatever he could find that was interesting and stuck into this book.  He didn't check for accuracy at all.

The problem I have with books like this is that people often cite such stuffno matter how silly.  I read books like this because I want to be entertained and illumined with truthnot B.S.

 It can't be trusted.  The only reason I finished it was I wanted to blast it apart in a review.  It's terrible.
1306801
I picked up this book in hopes of gaining more information on the world of JKR's imagination. What I found was a gross abundance of speculation and inaccurate information. For starters, the author stipulates that transfiguring ones self into an animal is more versitile and useful then becoming an animagus and yet fails to discuss how said person would return to their original selves since they would be an animal. She goes on to discuss the characters known to the world as of book 5 yet leaves out Remus Lupin and actually states that Sirius was probably a slytherin (JKR has stated that he and the rest of the marauders were all griffindor), the entire Prewett family was killed by Voldemort or on his orders (Molly Weasley is a Prewett), "there is much debate on James' death all we know for certain is he died after Lily." While we can put the last statement down as a possible mistake due to the flawed copy of GoF that was released and later corrected and re-released, the rest of the book cannot be dismissed as easily. Most of the information given in this book is presented as undeniable fact yet there is no reference to where she gets her information from.  If your looking for real verified information on the world of Harry Potter, you'd be much better served by visiting the Harry Potter Lexicon on the web then throwing your money away on this book.
1894093
Terrible book, filled with outright false information and the silliest Nazi propaganda.
Get a book by Steven Zaloga, not this trash.
2334239
I don't think the author has tried Keto before or written a paper before, and should not be writing a book, particularly not on this topic.  The information about a Ketogenic diet is incorrect and had contradictory information.  For example, it said to eat lean meats (low fat), but then said fat should be 75% of the diet.  It also said you should eat bread, pasta and rice, which is certainly not Ketogenic.  People reading this book could become very confused and make critical errors in the diet.  The quality of the writing was very poor and had way too many typos to be considered publishable.  The sentences also lacked punctuation.  I teach college classes and would give this paper a D at best.  I also like to see references for claims, such as the claims for curing cancer, Alzheimer's Disease, etc.  It needed to be backed up with references or other identifiable information on where to find these claims substantiated.  Wikipedia is more informative and accurate than this book.
3496641
Based in the title and notes and what I know about current hospital procedures' effects on moms and babies, I wanted to love and recommend this book. I can't.

I wanted this to be a list of research on the harm done by routine hospital procedures with notations that I could recommend to other people in the birthing community. It Isn't.

This book is a compilation of data which was gathered to support the author's assertion that certain religious groups/bloodlines are trying to control the rest of the population via their stranglehold on the hospital system. If you have read anything about the eugenics movements of the 1940s you have already read the information presented in this book. I cannot recommend this book to anyone other than as a study on how 'quantifiable data' can be presented in such a way as to make the assertions of the presenter appear valid.

Edit for clarification: A large percentage of the 'quantifiable data' was, in fact, not quantifiable at all, but links to blog posts and websites containing people's opinions, including the author's blog. Even when I was in high school quoting one's own self was not considered a valid source. I put 'quantifiable data' in quotes for a reason.

I am attaching a quick shot from the page on circumcision - the author and I agree it is a practice that should be left in the history books - we will have to agree to disagree on the why.

I am returning the book.