has the basics you need
596564
has a lot of the basics you need to plumb.  easy to read, well organized and love the plastic coating to keep it from being messed up in the rain or on a construction site
2518745
I needed to have some JAVA background quite unexpectedly for a class. After checking out a number of the intro JAVA books available and being able to "look inside" this one, I decided to go with this one. The author says from the outset that this is appropriate for someone with no prior programming experience and takes you step by step, and I would say, for the most part, he keeps that in mind.
4636823
arrived in a timely manner, just started to read it but is giving me the basics of what i need.
2027704
I used this book to learn the basics of Catia V5. It does the job in a nice fashion.
It covers also some more advanced topics, giving enough information to move to more complete and detailed manuals. It's a no frills book, getting you the right information and hands on exercises.
I recommend it to every beginner who wants to move to an intermediate level.
2330003
Very good coverage of items that beginners such as myself need to know.
Written in plain terms with details.
In the projects section, which I really enjoyed, there were a couple of places that a step in the procedure seemed to be missing.
Overall a good book and I would recommend it.
805988
It is a straight to the point book.  The exercises and associated exercise programmes are for those with a standard of fitness. No fancy equipment needed, no Zen are inner enlightment either. I am following the routine in the book for the past month and I feel it has benefited my fitness. A good buy.
2132347
She tells you how to develop a basic financial plan with lots of specifics, references, and easy-to-understand guidelines.  It's not rocket science.  You may not need a financial planner if you do the exercises in this book, and if you do still need a financial planner you will be prepared to make good use of the planner's time and $fee.
1179466
Good simple basic introductory for beginners. It covered a few basics, a good read nonetheless. I enjoyed it and read it quickly.
1211657
As with another review, this guide could be considered elementary. Having worked with the Raspberry Pi from it's initial sale and having introduced and taught dozens of people about it, I can say the book is clean and complete. It doesn't go too deep, but it doesn't leave anything out. If you were to give this book and a RPi to a person that has little or no computing background, they would be able to get a basic start on using the RPi. If you were to give the book to a person well versed in Linux or computing, they would find it very basic. Essentially, the text is good at what it does, and not much more.
2402082
This book does a great job of covering the basics from the Visual Studio IDE, selling your app, to Blend. There are some very important chapters in here too, eg. Local Storage, Database, Windows Phone Toolkit, etc. It's a good starting point, but the material in this book definitely requires you to look at more information from other sources to get a really good understanding of things.
4228294
Covers the elementary fundamentals of basics very well. You will know enough from this book that you will be able to learn the more advanced practice. Should be a prerequisite to Level 1 training.
4130523
It's solid.  It has a "cookbook" feel to it, which I like.  What I mean by that is that the book dishes out info in a succinct way and covers pretty much what you'd like to know when building an app. Things like, prepping the xml description file, accessing the local file system, connecting to remote data, interacting with the OS. Good stuff.

I don't like how short it is, about 300 pages. The text is big, has lots of pictures (this is good but it inflates the page count), and a few tables that I thought were unnecessary.

If you are competent in Actionscript, but don't know much about AIR, this is great.  I'm an advanced ActionScripter, so this book really just fills in a few holes I had about AIR, and will serve as a good reference when I need to be reminded how to say, move a directory on the users computer or how to set the window chrome of an application.
1153993
This book described everything and explained things pretty well. I think it's a good book for people who want to learn the basics.
1426503
Very useful without too many details, this book covers all the bases and is a good, basic guide. Not to carry with you, as the book is large and heavy.
1389098
Im a beginner when it comes to learning how to code but this book gives you the basics that you need in order to start. It is not hard at all to learn PHP but you do need to get the fundamentals. I would suggest reading this book as well as keeping it handing for reference.
2478304
The book does a fairly good job of covering the basics, which makes it a good place to start for someone without the time and/or money to take a graphic design course. It's no substitute, but if you've got to get started quickly, it can help you avoid some novice mistakes. It suits its stated purpose well.
1978393
Nice simple cheat sheet for Elements and Premier.
You still need a book, but this can speed up the learning process.