A book that is especially nice for beginners.
345922
Easy to follow step by step instructions with great pictures. A must have for the beginning jewelry maker. I love it!
3563627
Overall, this book is very good, which covers many areas in detail, and it is very useful for a beginner.
1360097
I found this book to be very helpful for interested beginners. It offers a lot of basic information and presents it in a clear and precise manner.
330796
I found this book to be a fun read. The authors are clearly passionate about their hobby and write with a style that is engaging, unpretentious and clear. This book is targeted towards beginners who are new to the hobby. I especially enjoyed the front chapters dealing with topics such as observing site etiquette, what to wear and what to bring. The beginner will certainly benefit from reading this and learn not to commit the faux pas of driving up to a star party with headlights blazing. There is also useful and clear introductory information such as finding constellations, star hopping, reading star atlases and observing tips and skills. The authors are clearly very skewed towards Dobsonians and this book reflects this bent. A bulk of the book is devoted to these instruments such as cleaning the mirror, center spotting a mirror, collimation and improving the Dob. This is great if you have one but not too great if you have chosen to start out with an equatorially mounted telescope or a SCT. There is consequently no information on polar alignment and the more rigorous drift alignment. There is also scant/no information on attainable basic astrophotography techniques that are accessible to an amateur with a tracking mount, such as planetary webcaming and guided deep sky photography with a short focal length scope or a mounted 35mm camera. I would encourage those with these pursuits in mind to consider other options besides a Dob before making a choice. All in all, this is a useful book and a welcomed addition to bookstore shelves. There are so many over-colorful over-graphic introductory astronomy books that are of little value to the serious beginner, and thus this book is entirely relevant.
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This book is perfect for beginners, with good illustrations and simple recipes, but the recipes are good enough to satisfy experienced cooks and mother-in-laws alike. Many of the dishes (such as "Creamy Tomato Soup" and "one-Hour Lasagne") have become staples in our household and impress our guests as well.
3983603
A very good book that tells you the basics of the game. It is particularly useful for the absolute beginner.
615130
As a 'newbie' to black smithing, I liked the book A nice introduction to the subject. It fits very well in with my initial projects.
2185908
It is a good book for beginners without electronic background.
2071916
there are some really nice patterns that are easy to make.  A great book for beginners but there are also some nice patterns for more experienced ones - especially if they are looking for a quick baby knit
1993938
I got this book to go with The Craft and I'm glad I did. It's very helpful for beginners.
3263579
If you are starting out, I would recommend it be with this book.
1124146
This lovely book contains fully illustrated instructions on how to make a sampler quilt using twenty quilt blocks, each of which uses a different patchwork technique.

It's an excellent guide for the beginner or for someone who has made a couple of quilts and wants to learn more about different techniques.  The book includes both hand and machine pieced techniques and the gallery photos show pictures of quilts made from beginners in Lynne Edwards's classes.  This is a feature I like because not only does it show what the quilts look like when made by relatively experienced workers, it shows that the quilt can be made by someone who is new to quiltmaking and also gives you some idea of how the blocks look in different colourways.

This is a book that is enjoyable to look at as well as to work from and can be recommended to anyone looking for a clear, comprehensive manual of quiltmaking techniques.
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We have recommended this book to our congregation for use by beginners. Ellen Dugan has not only included a wealth of information regarding plants and gardens, she has also included all the wiccan holidays, suggestions for celebrating at home, color, day-of-the-week and planetary associations and a guide to learning that is easily understood by the beginner.

It is not necessary to read this book cover-to-cover, although that is also enjoyable for people who have the time to do so. The book is very well indexed, and individual subjects can be looked up from the back of the book very easily. The way the book is organized makes it quick and easy to find the basics on most topics of interest to the beginner, and also to well seasoned Pagan worshippers.

Her writing style is entertaining, and her ethics are exemplary. This is a highly recommended book for people just starting out, and a really nice addition to an existing library. I hope that, when members of our congregation go shopping for a basic manual about holidays and practices that can be done easily and safely from home, this is the book they consider bringing home instead of purchasing some of the more difficult or unethical books on the market.
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One thing I really like about this book is the way the examples are done.  Each example is as simple as it can be and still illustrate the point.  No effort is made to make the samples do something functional, which allows the reader to concentrate solely on the concept and not get lost in a complex example.  By keeping to things like very basic classes with only a few member variables, the examples are easy to follow.  This book is a great place to start if you are a beginner.
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This is a great book for a beginner who is motivated to learn.  The book starts out with basic concepts such as the rules of the game, chess notation (it would be better if it used algebraic) ect.

It quickly progresses into tactical themes which will enhance the beginner's pleasure tremendously.

Once the beginner has worked his/her way through tactics the book moves into openings.  Instead of listing pages and pages of notation, the author gives key strategic ideas to opening theory which will help guide one's thoughts on the board.  His emphasis isn't on memorization which makes it easier and more fun.

Endings are also studied in brief but what he includes is well worth focusing on. He provides the framework in which to handle a wide variety of endings.

Some things are a bit dated in his book.  Opening theory has changed some and descriptive notation is out of fashion.  However, a beginner wouldn't even notice these things.  This man really enjoyed the game and his joy rubs off on the reader.

Chess like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.
486695
This is a very nice book for beginners and experts, shows the basics for beginners and some very nice border and other designs for the more advanced. I highly recommend it.
3328314
I bought this for my son who is learning to sew. It's not just dressmaking and since he wants to be a designer, it's a good book. I really suggest it if you are new to sewing, and know how to use your machine. If you have never, ever sewn a thing before, ever, a class would be helpful to start with, but it is a book that a rank beginner can use, along with that class to really up their game and go to advanced beginner. Even as an experienced sewist, I found a dress in there and a project that is easy, but I never puzzled out before, but now want, a headband. I know, a headband sounds silly, but how much elastic, where?  Which fabric? Something useful in this book for recent learner to intermediate and some of the outfits are great, especially for the vertically challenged. Being short, and Tilly is petite, I can envision myself in everything.