Informative but not helpful
355352
This book has some interesting information about how the Parkinson's brain works. However, it doesn't really tell you how to cope with these behaviors, which is what the title led me to believe. I am a caregiver to my husband with the disease so was hoping for more.
Expensive book for a little information.
502604
After reading nearly all of this book I can tell you that this text is in fact helpful, however its the information quality that worries me.  The 1000+ pages in this book provide the reader with a great breath of info, but with that said the depth of that information is about as deep as a shower.  It has vision but lacks insight; has quantity but the discussion lacks quality.

While the book covers every relevant topic regarding restaurants, if fails to offer any insight into how a restauranteur thought process actually goes and lacks the critical thinking I was hoping for.  In the end it is basically a series of lists.  It can be summed up as a series of things a restauranteur can do for his business... with no thought really given as to whether or not a restauranteur should do them.  Also this textbook is more boring than most you've probably read as it lacks: Q & A, relevant stories or examples, graphical data, and other common textbook features that make reading more interesting.

This post is not meant to come across as negative because this book is overall very helpful.  However you should know before you purchase this book that: much of the information is obvious and common sensical, Atlantic-pub treats this book as an infomercial for a myriad of products it sells, it also tries to sell other company's products on page after page, and finally if you incorporated every one of the million suggestions in this book I suspect you'd end up either broke and or just plain annoyed with all the unnecessary additions to your business.

Summary: Helpful in that it covers all the topics that you need to know, but frustrating in that 90% of the time it is overly simplistic.  Pros include: Quantity of topics covered, helpful forms, and case studies.  Cons include: uninsightful, tons of advertisements, and more dry than any textbook I've read.
1142208
I bought this book hoping for detailed information to help me better understand possible courses of treatment for my recent diagnosis of having PCOS.  I found some information in the book to be helpful, but I was largely disappointed.  To me, the book spent way too much time talking about possible symptoms and various ways doctors reach a diagnosis or what you might have if it isn't PCOS.  If you are spending the money to buy a book about PCOS then odds are you already know you have it.  At least 1/3 of the book was about diet and exercise.  While I realize this is important for treatment of PCOS, I was looking for a medically informative book, not a diet book.  There was only one chapter really on the medical treatment (i.e. Metformin and Clomid) of PCOS and the author basically just talked about the course of treatment he puts his patients on rather than giving me the depth of information I was looking for. Like I said, there was some information I found helpful so I am glad I bought the book, but I really wish there had been more about medical treatment and less about diagnosis and diet.
469643
I have to say that the book was somewhat a disappointment. I grew up on a farm and while some of the information is useful, there is much more that is irrelevant and likely damaging to any novice desiring a garden. One can find more pertinent information just searching on line for free. For instance, there is no information about container sizes, companion planting (carrots love tomatoes), or how to sprout seeds or watering or sowing time for that matter. There were a lot of grammar and spelling errors too. My advice is to look elsewhere is my advice.
Product received in exchange for testing and unbiased review.
4218443
Not much help for a serious researcher. Someone who desires some information (nutrition, exercise, etc.) to assist him in the battle against addiction may gain some value from this book. This book was barely OK for me.
457213
I didn't think that it helped that much. I could do reviews and find out all of what the book said. A waste of money, basically. Found more info on the web than in this book.
2789985
This book is very informative, however, it leaves a lot to be desired.  It mentions diet and lifestyle changes that one can implement, including one that seems to be invented by the author, but then does not go into detail (???).
2250521
I purchased this book based on the recomendation of a reviewer.  This book contained interesting views and information, but found it not to be my cup of tea, so to speak.  I learned very little from reading it.
1785424
The author did a great job making the information accessible and understandable, but the information itself was regurgitated. I think it fell far short of what it claimed to cover.
1328905
This was a free book, but it was so "duh!" to me that I didn't find it helpful at all. I suppose it's a great book for cavemen or those who have NO common sense and realize it's nice to say "please, thank you". I do think our society is forgetting manners more and more but this book doesn't really offer advice or any helpful tools. It goes over all the manners we should teach our kids and that WE ROLE MODEL these to teach. That's it...there's no other helpful advice to teach them other than to role model.
988712
A quick read- good information but not comprehensive enough for me as I was looking for more info and less entertainment.
4469491
This book is not all that infomative.  Maybe I knew more about the subject than I realized but there was not much new information in this book.
1859075
Though there are many helpful and informative bits of information and practical advice to be found in pregnancy, some of the health and diet info is quite outdated. Also, the chapter titled "discomforts and health variations" includes many of the the herbs or bits of advice that are warned against in other parts of the book....this is confusing as the book is specifically for pregnancy and could be dangerous to someone not taking the time to make sure these things are not contraindicated even though they are in the same book! Overall it could be a helpful basic guide, but I hope to find a more scholarly book to consult in the future.
3098853
As someone who has spent over a year researching fertility I did not find any new or helpful information. I guess this would be a good starter book. There are some good facts.
1315781
I was expecting more specific advice in this book.  There were many success stories, but it felt more like advertisements for their websites than actual tools to succeed.  When "success stories" (some of these businesspeople were still working their regular jobs because they couldn't afford to quit yet) were asked for tips they were often very vague such as "be persistent and don't give up".  That doesn't give me the actual steps they took to begin or what very specific things worked and didn't work.  I'm not really sure who this book would benefit.  It's not specific enough to actually implement very much of the info, yet it's not written in an inspiring way either so it's not just a "for fun" read either.  Sorry, I really wanted to like this book and was disappointed.
4474845
This book has not given me any new information, everything I read was something I already knew.

It may be helpful to someone who doesn't have the time to go on the internet and gather free information.
108173
I LOVED Baby 411.  I found it to be to so helpful that I was relieved when I discovered that the authors had written a follow-up guide and I wouldn't have to continue this uncertain path of parenthood without them.  Unfortunately the book falls short of their first.  Perhaps the first guide is so well constructed I learned how to understand my child - if that's the case it's a real tribute to the authors.  But I haven't found as much helpful information in this edition.  Even the environmental hazards section with occasional good advice doesn't explain why and how things are dangerous (so my toddler shouldn't be nearby when I dry my hair - but will she be forever scarred if she occasionally is?).  It's worth a perusal but there are much better books out there with medical and developmental information for this age group.