Nice pictures, poor text
593574
I just set up this monitor and find that it's not quite as good as I'd hoped.  The overall size is so large that the individual pixels are noticeable.  So, for any area of light background, a grid of tiny black dots is apparent and in all cases details are slightly ragged.  For most work that will not be a problem.  However, when working with Microsoft Word 2013 at maximum resolution and the Word default font of Calibri 11, text is certainly not as crisp as my older Dell laptop.  Since much of my work involves text editing, that is a disappointment.  I suspect this monitor will cause eye strain if used for long periods.
359068
This is an attractive coffee table book. It is not as informative as I had hoped, though.  The text is poorly written and just doesn't get into the depth I was looking for.
766326
As per my subject...Great photos, but the commentary leaves a lot
to be desired. In my humble opinion, this book should be passed up, and the money saved put into a better book.
4858697
Nice book, though physically smaller than I thought it would be. Trying to use the exquisite photos as reference is difficult and even a magnifying glass isn't that helpful. Its a real shame, the writing is nothing new or earth shattering - so the photos are what would have really made this an amazing book - if it had been twice the physical size.
2207811
This could have been a very good book. There are some great photos. Houses I haven't seen in other books. But. . .
There are some great captions that are poorly represented by the photos. Some of the photos are so poorly laid-out that it is hard to tell it is supposed to be two separate photos. House drawings that don't show features mentioned in the description -- where is the other bathroom that was mentioned?
If you want to use this as a guide for designing a natural home, choose another book.
3007162
The pictures themselves are awesome, no doubt!!

But the pictures looks like either from low-resolution source or with low printing quality. A little bit disappointed.
629983
This book has some absolutely beautiful pictures of birds. If this was a bird photography book it would be fine. Unfortunately, it's not.

Just as other reviewers have found the text and pictures do not match. A specific example would be a page of text about ostriches followed by a picture of flamingos. I would estimate that nearly half the text/picture pages do not match. Because of this reason I will not be reading to my children so as to not confuse them. The publisher really needs to edit this book. It really should be relatively easy to do. Just some rearranging of pages. Until they do that I would not recommend this book.

I received this book at a discount for my honest review.
41516
The pictures in this book are lovely images.  However, there are no data explaining
exposure, composition etc.  The message is more faith base with scriptures:  for which
I find pleasing because of my own faith.  This book and their other publications would
be great in printed form so as to put on a coffee table for anyone interested.  But, if
you're looking for a book giving you insight into how the pictures were taken and the
though behind them, I can't recommend this book. But, if you're interested in a Christian
theme with images that compliment the messages, then this is a first class book.
2651149
The electronic book is very good, but quality of images is extremely poor. The symbols within the figures cannot be viewed even after enlarging the image. The authors should be kind enough to offer an update. Current images standards falls below IEEE recommended standards for publications.
1161572
Text almost illegible. Image looks like it was taken off of a 48x48 pixel master file.
4388037
great pictures, poor bookbinding  ---[i knew it ahead of time ] sometimes repetitive essays , good chronology
2765457
Decent images of Leonardo's works but the text is poorly written although reasonably accurate. 2 stars for the text and 4 stars for the images
628153
I'll give 3 stars to this book for the hidden gems in it, and for the expansive collection of photographs. However, National Geographic seems to have chosen quantity over quality. I was genuinely surprised at the lack of pictures even worth being denoted 'good'. Some of them looked like the sort of thing the average person takes on a short vacation.
Most photos in it are across both pages, and the large size makes almost every picture look grainy. It also makes the book seem like there are more pictures than there really are. The truly wonderful photos are pretty much all ones we've seen printed elsewhere, multiple times, like a humpback whale with seabirds about it by Flip Nicklin. I've even seen that one used in advertisements.
Don't waste your money or time buying this book; there are others of much better quality and lower pricing. In short they are NOT the "Greatest" photographs.
922358
The photographs of Audrey Hepburn are (of course) beautiful, but the text accompanying them lacks both beauty and integrity. Factual errors appear from beginning to end - starting with Audrey's birthname and ending with her burial site (she was born Audrey Kathleen Ruston, not Edda Hepburn, and buried in the cemetery in the Swiss town where she lived, not on her own property there - see son Sean Ferrer's book for accurate facts). The sad facts of Audrey Hepburn's life were also exaggerated in the text, as if her charm and elegance are not interesting enough. By all accounts, people who knew Audrey, however, never had a negative word to speak of her. While the photographs in this book do justice for Audrey Hepburn's beauty, the inaccurate and poorly written text is disappointing.
1932117
The book has nice pictures which is helpful and it is also quite helpful in that they are listed by the color of the flower.  It shows both the latin and common names, too.  However, there is limited information about each plant and I must go through each one to find out which ones are in my zone.  It ends up eliminating quite a few of the entries.  Also, the way the pages are set up you can't quickly determine which picture goes with which text.
2799838
The information contained in this book is excellent. The pictures are wonderful to look at. However, there are a lot of grammatical errors within the text, which dimishes the book overall. I don't like being distracted while i am reading because commas are left out, hyphens are misused, words running together, using terminology like "much married", just to name a few. The editors/proof readers have done an injustice to the authors. Kensington books are expensive, which is fine because the content is good quality, but not when there are so many errors.
312017
I wanted to like this book more than I actually liked it. The photography is excellent, but the text is full of grammatical and other errors to the point that it really distracts from the whole. It really feels either there was no editor, or a poor one.

The information provided on those species included (not all are, even some regularly seen local specialties are lacking) is sparse is not always helpful in identification or finding of the birds. In fact beyond some quick ID helps in the photo captions there isn't much by way of identification. The text style is casual, which would be great if it were more informative.

I am not sure what I expected from the ABA, but I expected more than this, I guess. This "field guide" is not something I'll be carrying in the field for sure, but the completist guide collector should probably own it..