Great book, but check author's website for a few corrections
587314
I should have given this book five stars because it is such a treasure chest of information and most of it is error free.  The authors also maintain an awesome website with corrections to a few instances where something got missed.  If something doesn't work right in Internet Explorer with the script debugging tool turned on, check the website for updated code.  For example, the overlays respond to clicks with the map event handler.  Only the map should respond to the map click event handler, not the overlays.  It's easy to fix, by testing to see if the overlay exists before executing the click handler on the overlay.  If the overlay exists and the click is on the overlay, it should not execute the map click code.
3995618
This is a great book. The author manages the stories of the five queens (Maud of Norway, Sophie of Greece, Alexandra of Russia, Marie of Romania and Victoria Eugenie of Spain) by intercalating them chronologically. She masterly compares their personalities. But the book has some small historical inexactness whcih I would like to point out:

1)"Eddy struggled for his life. By the morning of 14 January 1982, he was dead from influenza"  (page 41)

The correct year of Eddy's death is 1892 (typing misktake, I supposed)

2)"When Princess Alix of Hesse was five, her paternal grandfather died, making her parents the new reigning Grand Duke and Grand Duchess." (page 7).

Prince Charles of Hesse, Alix's paternal grandfather, was never Grand Duke of Hesse; it was his elder brother Louis who reigned as Grand Duke Louis III. Prince Charles died indeed on March 1977, when Alix was almost five years old, but it was until Louis III's death in June of that same year, when Alix's parents became Grand Duke and Grand Duchess, because the late Grand Duke had no childern of his own.

3)"Nicholas and Alexandra were united in matrimony on 14 November 1894.......  "This was also dear little Maud's birthday" remarked Victoria." (page 56)

Nicholas and Alexandra married indeed on 14 November 1894, but according to the Julian Calendar, in used in Russia before 1918, that  was 12 days behind the Occidental Gregorian Calendar. Maud was born on 26 November of the Gregorian Calendar, equivalent to the Russian 14 November. No explanation is made on this matter and it may cause the reader to be confused. The only reference on this is an (o.s.) in the Dramatis personae list at the beggining of the book, but I think it is not enough.

4)"Ena received the awful news that her favourite brother, Prince Maurice, had been killed in action in France"  (page 228)

Prince Maurice was indeed killed in action during World War I, but not in France but in Ypres, Belgium.

5)"Maurice, Prince of Battenberg (Marquise of Carisbrook), 18,138,228."  (INDEX page 450)

Maurice of Battenberg was not Marquise of Carisbrook, it was his elder brother Alexander who had this title.

6)The author refers to Princess Ingeborg of Denmark (Haakon VII of Norway's sister) as Crown Princess of Sweden.

Princess Ingeborg was never Crown Princess. She was married to Prince Carl, Duke of Vastergotland, younger brother of Crown Prince Gustav (future Gustav V). In 1905, when  Haakon and Maud became sovereigns of Norway, the Crown Princess of Sweden was  therefore Gustav's wife, Princess Victoria of Baden. When Gustav acceded to the throne in 1907, his son and daughter-in-law, Prince Gustav Adolf (future Gusatv VI Adolf) and Princess Margaret of Connaught, became Crown Prince and Princess.
2557483
The information presented in this book is very intriguing and thought provoking. I would very much like to implement the techniques into my own trading, but there are key explanations left out of the discussion. For example, in calculating the QPLs, what planetary geos and helios should be used for any given security? There was supposed to be a CD included with the book to assist with the calculations of the QPLs, but I found no CD. Is this an Amazon error or a publisher (Wiley) error? Also, I'd very much like to contact the author, but there doesn't seem to be any contact information for him. If anyone knows how to contact him, please let me know.

I have given the book only four stars because of the needed explanations and the missing CD; although, I'll bet the CD would go a long way in assisting with my understanding of the calculations and how to use them properly. Overall, the concepts and techniques presented by Mr. Oreste are complex; but, with some key information and a bit of practice, this could easily lead to some very profitable trading.
4449633
A lot has been written and taught to traders about ABC, Gartley, Elliott Wave, and other patterns. Scott Carney develops robust definitions, rules, methods, and applications that seem to coherently bring this broad and often confusing subject area to clarity. I found his books enlightening and helpful. I was displeased by the number of mislabeled charts and typos in Volume 1 and found Volume 2 to be even more prolific in errors. This is too bad and preventable by the author taking time to adequately review his works and seek peer review before sending manuscripts to the publisher. Should the prospective reader want to better his/her understanding of harmonic patterns in trading, this book will help. I urge the trader to read both volumes, however, since the second pulls the information in the first volume together very well and presents some new and very interesting twists and applications.
612824
Great book- watch out for updated versions before buying though; this is the type of resource that needs constant updating
3213327
First off, this is a fantastic book. I used the 1st edition with TFS 2008. This new edition includes great content for the new, completely revamped, build workflow process in TFS 2010.

However, as a new Kindle user, when I went to purchase the second edition, I ended up with the wrong one. After returning it via the Amazon Kindle return process (which is pretty painless), I was able to get the correct version. I wish Amazon had a better way of classifying/naming their book versions. They should call the Kindle versions "Version 1" and Version 2" to coincide with the book versions. Instead, there is the regular Kindle version (which is the new one!) and the Kindle "November 11, 2009" edition. Hover your mouse cursor over the Kindle links to see which picture appears. If you want the newer edition, be sure to click on the Kindle link with a "2" appearing in the picture of the cover.

As with any IT books for the Kindle, watch for missing content. I've been seeing this problem with a lot of IT books from Amazon. Maybe we need to create a web site called MissingKindleContent.com or a way (unknown to me!) to report Kindle errors to Amazon so they can fix it.

So far, no problems with this book. Big thumbs up!
2655153
I am just beginning to read this.  I am familiar with Dr. Friedemann Schaub and admire the work he does.  I have several of his meditation CDs that are excellent so I was curious about the new and highly recommended book.  The book is well-written so far but early on there was a mistake that wasn't edited out.  There was a list of certain terms and then they were elaborated on in the same chapter.  One of the terms was completely different from the original list so it was confusing.  I knew what he meant but that's something an editor should have caught.  Otherwise, it is well-written.  To be specific:  In Chapter 2, The Principles of Change (p. 18) are listed as "awareness, flexibility, choice, actualization and readjustment."  Then on p. 26, the term is now "INTEGRATION" instead of "readjustment."  It's confusing and there was no errata sheet with the book.  I will continue my reading and provide further review if necessary.  I recommend the book.
796256
I just picked up a copy of this book.  It is full of great illustrations and covers a wide range of techniques - a very useful addition to my library of hundreds of jewelry related books.  I am very happy with my purchase, but am a little concerned that there may be errors, perhaps from a translation.  An example is in the section on patinas (pg48 ff) where he writes about using potassium sulfate for oxidizing silver and copper.  To my knowledge he should be referring to potassium SULFIDE (AKA liver of sulfur, defined in Wikipedia as : "a poorly defined mixture of potassium sulfide, potassium polysulfide, potassium thiosulfate, and probably potassium bisulfide.").
Once you find a repeated error like this, it makes you question other procedures.
Even with the somewhat eclectic selection of processes, I find the book very stimulating for ideas, less so for a "How To".  I look forward to more books by Carles Codina
3653544
I am currently in the middle of reading this book, and so far it is very interesting, very entertaining, and very informative.

But, I must say some of the information in the book is "mixed up" Examples:

* Describing Jean Harlow's movie "Dinner at Eight" the book names off the rest of the cast members as being John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, and Greta Garbo. Although Mr. Barrymore is in "Dinner at Eight" the other two starlets are not. This reader believes the author was confusing "Dinner at Eight" with another great cinematic, star filled feature "Grand Hotel"

* Another Jean Harlow confused fact. The movie in which she plays a bit part to Clara Bow is in the movie "Saturday Night Kid" and not "The Love Parade" The trivia tagged along with that movie is of course referring to a dress that did not fit Miss Bow was given to Jean Harlow to wear by the actress herself.

Good book though, just wish the facts could be right!
2242333
Excellent book, but I have found a few things that I think may be wrong. Rick suggests using the ' quote mark instead of " the old way. I used this when I created my book and now I wonder if it is true. I ordered a copy of my book to preview and when I looked at the copy I found that using the 'NEW' quotation marks did not look right.
From the reading in Rick's book I must have misunderstood because I thought he said if you did not put numbers Createspace would do it for you, but this did not happen.
He said that if you already had your tax information on Kindle that you would not need to submit the Tax info again. Not true. You do need to submit again with Createspace. My book: "Diary of a Backwoods Preacher" has been on Kindle for more than a year so this is where confusion comes for me. I made some subtle changes for Createspace and when I tried to go from Createspace to Kindle I was afraid that the changes might change my Kindle files. When I looked at the file that was changed to Kindle I found that the spacing was off. I am not going to upload to Kindle until I find out what to do. What I really liked was the variety of ways Rick offers for you to understand what to do. He has some great videos that really made it easier to understand. One other thing that I will mention. Rick suggest using FIVERR for creating book covers and for helping convert files. I used one of the Fiverr contractors to adjust my Kindle book cover to Createspace and was satisfied with the quality and price. However; I had to cancel one order that I had when I found someone saying they could convert Word files to PDF for Createspace. This person never responded so I cancelled and decided to follow Rick's formula do it myself. Thanks to Rick's well written text, I now have "Diary of a Backwoods Preacher" available on Amazon as a paperback.
2098767
The photos are quite good, really excellent quality.  Many of them are cropped to show just faces (you can often find the full versions of these photos online).  Even though these cropped pictures are enlarged, they are not grainy in the least.  The detail is lovely.  My only qualm is that some of the 1970s photos have that familiar pink tint to them from age, and I would have liked to see those restored to a more natural color before being included.

By all rights I should have given this book one star for plagiarism; chunks of information from both Rich Wiseman's Solitary Star and Diamond: A Biography by Grossman et al. are used in this book.  Entire swaths of Wiseman's book are used almost verbatim, especially during the chapter dealing with Neil's divorce from Jaye and marriage to Marcia.  Reading this book immediately after Solitary Star makes this issue blindingly obvious.  This book takes so much from other sources that it even repeats their errors, except for one curious change:  The dates are not the same.  Since this book very clearly used Solitary Star and Diamond: A Biography as sources, and given that plenty of these dates are easily verifiable (the dates he appeared on The Clay Cole Show, the date of his second marriage, his son's birth, etc.) there is no reason for the dates to be wrong, but they are consistently wrong to the point of distraction.  Also, Diamond: A Biography mistakenly claims that the spinal tumor Diamond suffered from in 1979 was cancerous, so this book simply repeats the error because no one involved bothered to check sources.  (A quick look at an easily-available People article from 1982 would have cleared the mistake up.)

Everything is given a ridiculously positive spin, often done deliberately to counter what has been written in previous books, and usually overdone with flowery rhetoric such as "blissful" and "flawless," "awe-inspiring" and "the most wonderful thing" punctuated with just a few too many exclamation points to be taken seriously.

Ultimately, for a coffee table book there are too few photos, and for a true biography there are too many mistakes.  I can't really recommend this book.
3835596
Overall, it's a pretty good book. My only complaint is a fairly major one: his assertion in the beginning that Anglicanism rejected apostolic succession is false. Not only is it false, the Anglican Communion's adherence to apostolic succession is well know. This may sound like I'm nitpicking, but if he can't get this one well known fact correct, I'm forced to question the rest of his conclusions.

EDIT: I was too harsh in my original review and rating of three stars. There is a valid case to be made for and against apostolic succession in the Anglican Communion, and more research is needed on my part. I've decided to change my rating to five stars because, while I may not necessarily agree with the author on that one point, each of his other arguments are sound and should be judged on their own merits.
413407
I recently purchased this book to add to my mushroom hunting library. Overall, it's a nice book. The pictures are quite nice and the descriptions are good. I do like how the author includes recommended storage methods for each species.

There are only two flaws that stick out to me, one minor and one major. The minor flaw to me is that since the author is apparently from the United Kingdom, some of the mushroom names are listed with that influence. The major flaw I found in my quick perusal happens on page 58 of the book. Within the description for the Velvet Foot (Flammulina velutipes) a caption for a picture of said mushroom states that this mushroom is "difficult to confuse with anything else because of the unusual season of growth..." during the late fall and winter. This bit of advice can get a person killed, because the Deadly Galerina (Galerina autumnalis) is known to fruit on the same wood and sometimes within a cluster of the Velvet Foot. It also has a very similar general look as well.

Overall, I liked the book, but such an error which has a fatal potential is unacceptable.
2484664
Book is well-researched; contains enormous amount of information about obscure and not-so obscure blues musicians.  I bought the book in hopes of finding out more about rock and roll.  Also, one GLARING error that set my teeth on edge - the author perpetuates the myth, the lie, that Jeff Porcaro's death was cocaine-related.  If there is a second edition, the editors need to know that the author put the information backwards.  An early rumour said that cocaine contributed to Jeff's early death at age 38.  This was not true.  Autopsy revealed that he had premature hardening of the arteries; the fumes from the pesticide he was using in his back yard was too strong for his system to handle; his heart simply gave out.  Tragic enough that he is dead - I sincerely hope that the details of his cause of death are put in order so that no further readers are led to believe this vicious lie.
2387594
This is a very good book overall, although there are many many typos. It's almost like the book wasn't edited at all. This shouldn't be a deal breaker as long as you're already somewhat familiar with HTML, as it's pretty obvious what the mistakes are, but it is definitely something to be aware of.

That said the content of the book is great. As with most technical books there are sections that could be better, but I think the choices of what to include and what to leave out were completely on the mark, and most of the chapters are superbly written.

The one thing that I don't like the book is that it doesn't go into how HTML is actually used in practice much at all. For example it goes over the 20 different ways that you could do a layout, but it neglects to mention that pretty much everyone actually does it in one of maybe three or four different ways, and for very good reason. So even after you read this book you're still going to need to look at the Mozilla Development Network, A List Apart, Stack Overflow, etc. However, despite these flaws I still think this is a great book overall and is definitely worth reading.
1373050
I like the tack the authors have chosen (or maybe it's imposed upon O'Reilly's "In a Nutshell" series).  All the info about XML and associated technologies is there but it cuts to chase. Lean and mean, but with enough examples--which is so important! I must say I've learned much about XML reading this book and use it as a desktop reference (as it was meant to be).
The bad news as other reviewers have pointed out is that the 1st ed. is littered with typos and errors. Sadly some of them are in the code examples. I'm frowning because I actually copied an error thinking that it was the proper syntax.
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The second edition is forthcoming, June 2002 according to O'Reilly. Hope the authors have a much cleaner text this time. May I suggest going for this new edition instead?
3510778
The book was a very easy read and the advice is really good.  The only thing that keeps me from giving it five stars is that some of the advice seems to contradict other parts in the book, especially if you watch some of the episodes of Dog Whisperer that mirror the chapters in the book.  So basically it's a great resource, but don't end your research here.