A confusing presentation, needs editing.
591121
Full disclosure: I couldn't get more than a handful of chapters into this book (without having to put it away).
I found this book difficult to follow and full of typographical errors, some being contrary to what was meant. Sections felt disjointed and unconnected. Several times I felt I was missing something that was not mentioned.
This book made simple JSON concepts seem more complicated.
The information presented maybe correct but you will have an easier time finding this information piecemeal online.  Perhaps later chapters will be more  beneficial for its referential value.

Honestly, this book could make use of some proper editing.

I wanted to add a review to balance the other two 5 star reviews, of which I disagree with.
967273
It seems disjointed in spots as if editing cut out pieces that would have helped the story make more sense.
71572
Julia Annas is a good writer, and this book definitely has a couple of things going for it; but this Very Short Introduction (VSI) is pretty bad, on the whole.  The organization, on the micro and macro levels, is just a mess.  Thats the first turn-off.  In any particular piece of text, the point she wants to make is not particularly clear, especially with respect to the consideration of how the part functions within the whole.  On large scale, I cant begin to figure the rationale for the construction, and I am not completely sure why the chosen chapter topics should serve as fertile grounds for providing a substantial (i.e., potent for the brevity) introduction to Plato.  The two things I think the book has going for it are: 1) some of the historical contextualization, and 2) the chapter on Love, sex, and gender, which was only 12 of the far too few 91 pages (it is not 120 pages, as the billing says, it is 104 with the index) of thoroughly illustrated text.  On this qualification, of all the books in the VSI series for Oxford Press to commission longer than 100 pages, this should have been the one.  Given my familiarity with topic (but by no means a specialist in it), this text should have been 150 pages.

I would say that the biggest of all the problems with this text is that it just isn't suited for the neophyte: taking for granted my abovementioned familiarity, there were some parts of the text where something said made no sense to me.  I had to refer to the original Platonic dialogue to try to figure out what the author meant.  Another issue is that Platos thought is present (sometimes) from standpoints in which the interpretation is more than controversial, though presented without the slightest indication of this.  (Especially, Unitarian vs. Revisionist understanding of the development of the Platonic texts; see the commentary in Chappells Theaetetus.)

The book would have been much better if it either grouped dialogues by themes, or took elements from dialogues and presented major ideas in that fashion, while still being able to incorporate the context and the one decent chapter already included.

A point on the printing of the book, for those who may be looking to purchase it: numerous copies of this book, I have found, have a printing error in them.  A large swathe of the text in the middle of the book was inverted and inserted into the book upside-down.  Three copies from three different (unrelated, e.g., university and public) libraries contained this binding/printing error.  Be sure to look inside at what you are getting, first.
1734792
Juvenile writing, and unclear context. Very confusing to read.
Sorry but this book needs editing before it is fit to print.
1137788
The book's concept is interesting, and could have resulted in a fascinating book. However, it suffers from two great drawbacks that make the reading experience not very pleasurable.
First of all, the entire text is in dire need of copyediting by a native speaker of English. Almost every sentence in the book shows evidence of a disregard for current English stylistic standards. Just as an example, consider the following beginning of a paragraph: "While we speak of mistakes on public display, consider the clock atop the tower on St. Marien Church..." (meaning, I suppose, something like: "Still on the subject of mistakes on public display, consider the clock atop the tower of St. Marien Church"). The book is literally full of such stylistically awkward formulations. If you're at all sensitive to such issues, the book will cause you considerable discomfort.
Secondly, arrangement and presentation of the examples are in need of editing. Most of the book is arranged according to domains of manthematics (Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry and Probability and Statistics) but the first chapter is a hodge-podge of "Noteworthy mistakes by famous mathematicians". However, even within the individual chapters, the examples are not arranged in a discernibly heuristic or logical order. I would expect a book about mistakes to provide a rationally constructed discussion on the types of mistakes, the source or cause of the mistakes, and how such mistakes can best be avoided, with examples to suit each part of the discussion. Instead, we are presented with a more or less unordered set of anecdotes about mistakes, sometimes with (not very clear) mathematical explanations.
In short, this is a book with a lot of potential, but in need of a firm editorial hand.
I bought this book to my Kindle, without first looking at the offered preview pages. I will try in future to be more patient.
3604611
This book is a mess. Robert Cook has used the archives of Vauxhall Motors and in particular the Vauxhall Motorist, a marketing magazine produced by the company for 40 years, to reconstruct the history of the marque. This was a good idea with a few pitfalls. While the Vauxhall Motorist does provide a detailed history of the evolution of the use of the car, particularly in Britain with the advent of the motorways etc and the demise of train travel, it also provides a rose coloured view of the cars which Vauxhall produced simply because it was designed to promote the marque.  The result is that we get lots of interesting trivia but a very jaundiced view of the company's products.

The real issue, however, is that the book does not seem to have been properly proof read. Page after page contains grammatical errors, spelling mistakes, changes of tense etc as if notes were simply typed up without re-writing them into proper English. There are many errors in the text too - photos with incorrect captions, mis-information, phrases repeated. This a real botch. The best part of the book is that there are lots of interesting photos.

Maybe Mr Cook could re-issue the book and replace at his cost the draft which this edition represents - the literary version of a recall due to faulty parts in the car industry.  Now that would be fitting, wouldn't it?
499468
Ok but more than a few errors in descriptions/pictures.  Needs a careful edit.
4126882
I started to read this version and found numerous typos in the first pages of the translator's introduction.  The transcription into contemporary typeface flattens the visual appearance of the original.  Check out the first pages before you purchase.  I realize that THE AURORA is a special book; it deserves a better presentation.
1229626
This book is filled with good information, but sadly the presentation is very poor.
For starters, this book is rife with typographical errors, crummy photography and prints, and in some cases, header blocks and graphs filled with Greek characters used by designers as filler text. There are many references to images or diagrams which simply do not exist and poorly captioned tutorials which make following directions nearly impossible.
The book feels like a simple collection of articles ripped from Fine Woodworking magazine with no context or references. It seems that blocks of text were simply cut and pasted with no re-reading for accuracy or quality.
The contents are very comprehensive and with some editorial oversight, this book could be an essential reference guide for woodworkers. As it is now, it's nothing more than a general knowledge anomaly and not worth investing in for the shop.
3704324
The book is difficult to understand if you have no traditional video editing experience.  There is an opportunity for someone to write a more comprehensive manual.
1688203
I can't comment on the whole book because I was unable to continue reading  it.  The English is atrocious and was obviously not edited very well.  The  explanations are haphazard and off the cuff, with no aparent plan for  conveying information.  There may be lots of useful information here, but  the presentation is terrible.
1630064
The instructions are very unclear.  The technical information needs to be described with greater clarity.
2822233
Poor editing, but interesting material.  I had to re-read some sentences many times to capture the meaning.  There are misspelled words and often, the wrong words were actually used. I'm not sure if this was the author's ignorance, the editor's laziness, or mis-translation of some kind, but the result was an interference with my throat chakra!  :-)
892835
The wording is sometimes strange. It's awkwardly organized. I don't know if it helps or not because after reading a couple of chapters l got discouraged of writing and so quit reading it.
2864324
There was no editing and kind of hard to grasp the sentences. Some sentences didn't even make sense. If you are ever in need of editing please feel free to contact me. Keishb1009@gmail.com
2198419
Really needed a lot more editing since English is not the author's native language.  Too much listing of steps without sufficient description of why you're taking those steps - which can be a disaster when processes change with the next release of one of the software packages being used.  With Java ME 8 being so new and there being such a proliferation of Linux distros for the RPI it's likely that the step-by-step, Netbeans-specific instructions are going to break down soon.
3937582
As a Modern Whig, I was very excited when this came out. While the information in it is accurate and its positions are generally 'Whiggish' and centrist, this book needs to be re-edited. In one chapter, it lauds the creation of the FDA, and then in another chapter it lambastes the FDA as being a federal agency with too much power. While believing that the FDA is a good thing in general but has too much control these days is a pretty standard political position,  this book tends to present things more schizophrenic rather than nuanced... This is just one example, there are several times this book does this. There's also lots of typos and text-setting errors that just make this thing look rushed and poorly thought out.

It could be a lot better, I hope there's a second edition.