While the book contains some useful information, I don't think there was anything that ...
582430
While the book contains some useful information, I don't think there was anything that you couldn't find for free in articles and blogs about kombucha on the Internet. It's also poorly written, with lots of oddly structured sentences and strange word choices.
3606365
There are some useful things in this book, but the amount of pseudo-scientific "advice" is too much to allow this  book to be taken seriously.
2618454
Had a few bits of useful information but overall not much use to us, as we're not back-packing students. Also, somewhat out of date.
4297907
I've been studying container gardening for awhile, and have been doing it for a few years. So this book, though it does contain some good information, didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. If you are new to container gardening, you will probably get some good info from this one, otherwise, keep looking.
1347111
It's an ok book.  It seems like it's a recap of something OL probably has already in their magazines, but they decided to put it all together and market it as new material..  It does have useful info in general, but doesn't go into too much depth on most of it.  It's a good read and has a lot of useful information you can take into account, but I wouldn't stake my life on it in the event of an occurring disaster, if that's what some buyers are thinking it's for.
1365483
It has some interesting information, but even as a new player, it feels fairly sporadic on the information it gives you.
4499162
Maybe I'm not the best one to review this book as it's the first on the subject I have purchased or read, but after spending time searching the web and reading forums I found this book to be pretty meh. Considering the price and the current level of reviews it felt like a brief overview.

That said it is good information that is well presented and it includes some specifics and details that I haven't found yet by reading the forums. I'm big on using web forums to learn legitimate information about virtually anything but they are rarely good to sit and read in a logical, linear fashion without knowledge gaps. For that reason I suppose a book such as this is still worth buying and reading before you get started.
335900
Just finished the book, and though I managed to root out a few very useful nuggets, I had to plow through a lot of less-interesting stuff to do so.

It's not a bad book, but the title promises a different outcome than the book delivers.

The first half of the book is a history lesson in cartridges and calibers, and I can't find much of interest there in terms of shooting help.

Later, we get a few useful tips, but again, that info is surrounded by so much fluff and a lot of "dumb hunter" anecdotes that I'm not sure it's worth the time.

At one point, Zwoll invest many pages on shooting with a sling - and recommends a specific product - but then misses out; the only published photo shows us how NOT to use a sling, and he didn't bother to publish a photo illustrating the right position.

Something similar occurs when he discusses shooting positions, where - despite the importance of the shooting positions - he blazes through them in a couple pages, and offers few illustrative photos.

The book is an entertaining read, but it's hardly the ultimate "Hunter's Guide to Accurate Shooting."
1006679
Informative book with some good tidbits of advise, however, upon further research I wasn't able to find some of the studies that were supposedly conducted mentioned in the book. There also seems to be a lot of mixed information throughout the book and the message is very repetitive. Over all it was a fair read and I got some useful information from it to add to my daily routine, but not sure I'd recommend this book first to my clients.
1896950
This book does have some good basic information, if you can ignore the odd grammar and vocabulary. It seems as though it may have been poorly translated into English from some other tongue. I was expecting some simple project plans, but although the book does suggest some types of projects that might be good for the beginner, there are no detailed plans or tutorials. The book does give some solid advice for choosing tools and what features to look for in tools, as well as good, basic safety information.
3772406
This has some useful information, but it seems to be primarily written as a vehicle to promote the author's Foundation Management service.  Instead of telling you tips and tricks to make things easier, it seems they purposely try to give you the impression that everything is so complicated that you need to hire them to help you.
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.
4915033
There just isn't 100 pages of material to discuss. They wouldn't publish a 25 page book so the reader has to wade through pages and pages of letters between the two authors. While these letters do contain useful nuggets of information and some insight, it is far from a must-read. The most revealing information comes from interviews with cellist Jane Scarpantoni.

If you are considering this, read&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/See-a-Little-Light-The-Trail-of-Rage-and-Melody/dp/1573449709/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Our-Band-Could-Be-Your-Life-Scenes-from-the-American-Indie-Underground-1981-1991/dp/0316787531/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991</a>&nbsp;first. And you already have&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Workbook-25/dp/B00G5AT27Q/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Workbook 25</a>, right? The liner notes there are pretty detailed.
782317
The book contains some useful information.  There are several scientific studies on vitamin deficiencies that may cause tinnitus along with herbal remedies that may help.  The key to reading this book is to not ignore the blue "helpful tip" boxes.
2263592
Even though this book strikes out at every possible enemy that can provide an explanation for the decline in influence of traditional English literature, it does contain some useful information and makes some thought-provoking points.

For instance, Kernan points out that English literature departments did not exist until the early days of the twentieth century (p. 34).  Twentieth century authors like Kafka, Joyce, Eliot, etc. were taught so as to challenge the complacent minds of middle-class students (p. 60).  However, being taught in college conferred on these works a status that made them guides for behavior rather than stimulation for discussion.  Students unquestioningly accepted the negative attitudes in these authors (p. 61) and the dark view of life they offered.  When the view became even darker and completely irrational and self-destructive in the late twentieth century, the authority conferred by their being taught in college still swayed the students.

What to do about all this is something that eludes Kernan.  He needs information which he, as a retired English professor from Princeton, does not have.  He continues the traditional antipathy to all other fields, particularly the physical and social sciences.  For instance, Kernan equates the relativity of Relativity Theory with the relativity of cultural anthropology (p. 80-81), even citing "uncertainty and probability" as marks of this relativity!  One consequence of this is Kernan's grouping reader-response theories among the bad guys.  "Reader-response or reception aesthetics drain the autonomous work of art of its meaning by relocating the meaning-making power to the eyes of the beholders." (p. 76)  This statement presupposes that a work can have no meaning unless it has the same meaning for every reader, certainly a debatable, not to say dubious point.

So, his book continues to the end as a kind of lament.  He has no solutions to offer.  And indeed, turning back the clock to the mindless Traditionalism of the past is no more a solution than continuing the mindless iconoclasm and interest-group politicking of the present.  For a book that is able to deal with these problems (because the author is not a traditionalist and has a knowledge of other fields), see A Book Worth Reading.  Still, Kernan scores some points against the iconoclasts which could occasion useful debate, but it is unlikely that they will ever read his book.
4421602
I did not find this book particularly helpful. It has a lot of pictures and some useful information, much of which seems arbitrarily placed under a given month, when it could have been placed under any month. This is a nice coffee table album, but not a very practical book. I was hoping that it would include information that a new home owner would need (for example, when to open or close crawl space vents, that kind of thing). The book has a little bit of thins, but it is not well organized, and it is not complete. It leaves an impression similar to that of a pretty magazine.
4069149
Some of the information is beneficial however it most was information that one has learned or read in prior books.