Buy a different book instead
593347
I personally feel that there is some evidence of both authors trying to defend against their methods of thinking and modes of investments, basically they were selling their products and promoting themselves in this book. In retrospective, I think Eric Tyson's books on Personal Finance will be much better for the general public which will certainly provide a good start in their long term financial health.
723348
Don't bother with this book. I wanted to like this book,I really did. And after reading most of the reviews on here,I thought it would be worth the 10 bucks. It's really not. The recipe book that came with the baby bullet had better recipes than this...True I mainly looked at the recipes for the 6 month age range,but I glanced at the rest of the book and the recipes didn't seem much better. There aren't enough pictures(I'm a visual person). There's not enough variety,or anything I couldn't find on pinterest. Plus,like many others said,the author's choice of ingredients is questionable. There was not one recipe(from the 6month age group) that I hadn't already made or thought about making yet..ugh
1946526
The book was very obviously written in a language other than English, then sent through a translator.
An example issue: Instead of quotes (to describe quotation) the book uses the word codes.
The author stated that [ ] represent a way to define lists, then shows the use of ( ).
I have programmed for multiple years and picked this up to learn another language.
My advice, avoid this book, especially if you are new to programming, as it will misguide you.
Advice to author: Have a person who is a native English speaker review the book and make corrections to both grammar and word choices and incorrect content, then republish it.
I think once the content is corrected/rewritten the book could be an okay resource
4416948
First off, I've had 6 years of C/C++, Perl, and a Little Oracle experience. After picking up O'Reilly's Learning Perl book, I was more than Dissappointed with this one. The chapters don't seem to follow any logical flow. Way too much concept and overhead for very little gain. They started explaining concepts and in depth details, before covering basic syntax. Most people who pick up these books have a basic understanding of programming, and are more interested in the syntax of a language. Once you know one language (the semantics), most other languages are fairly similar. Yet, the authors of this book wanted to explain inheritance (both Single inheritance and the ability of multiple inheritance via the implements opertor) when they haven't even covered the basic syntax of the language like strings and arrays. This is very illogical. It's almost as if they explained points a, and points F and tried to work their way to the middle.
1754100
Do not waste your money on this book - there are many others out there that are much better.  First, it is NOT an "User's Manual".  It's got a lot of useful info in it, certainly, but a "Manual" it isn't.  Here's why:  Although it has a Table of Contents, almost all of the listings start with one of three words: "What's", "How", or "Using".  You have to read every line to the end to find out what that section of the book is about.  Second, there is no Index.  An Index is usually found at the back of text books, i.e. manuals or instruction books, where keywords are arranged alphabetically with page numbers where those words appear, so that if you want to know about "Lollipops", the Index will tell you every page where "Lollipops" appears.  This book has no Index.  And third, the book is written in dreadful prose, in what I can only call "Adolescent-speak" (my apologies to the middle school, high school and college crowd).  I presume that's supposed to make the book friendlier, but nevertheless a "User's Manual" is surely isn't.
2749559
This book is not 'basic' enough and  is in fact a bit odd and idiosyncratic, and it presumes too much prior knowledge in the reader. I have read scores of these  books over the years, looking for suitable titles for introductory university classes. This is not the book to use. And really, it's simply not very readable. The same critique goes for the other books in this 'basics' series, although they are all written by different people.
354450
I can attest to the fact that this book skips steps. In fact, as the attached picture shows, the very first step on the very first plane starts with a prefolded piece of paper. Yes, this first skipped step is a simple one, however there are much more complicated steps skipped later in the book as well. In addition following the convoluted diagrams, per the supplied legend, in my experience produces structures that look completely different than what's in the book, making this book near useless. I would rate it a 0 out of 5 if I could. What a waste of money.
1420993
After buying this "Adventures Beyond the Body: How to Experience Out-of-Body Travel", I thought I would find a better book about astral projection.  This is another disaster of astral projection book "Astral Dynamics" I mean do these authors knowing astral projection at all.  I am looking for a book to enhance my astral projection skill, after reading all these books, I think I could write a better book better than these authors.  You might ask, what is wrong with this book, "Astral Dynamic"?  First of all, the author is not able to gather his thoughts together, rambling about the same subject over and over again.  Second of all, author wrote nothing related to astral projection, but his own spiritual experiences.

TOTAL WASTE OF MONEY, DON'T BUY IT.
3742193
When I ordered this book I expected more in the way of guitar parts, I was very wrong. The actual guitar melodies and chords are few and far between. This book mainly focuses on the vocal parts. Usually the only guitar parts are just intros. I was really expecting so much more out of this book that just following the vocal notes. If you are looking for guitar parts, this book is the wrong place to look. You are better off buying the guitar books and transposing.

BUT there was another huge error in the book that shows how little effort was put into the making of this book. The tenor saxophone's written range goes from a Bb below that staff to around an F# above the staff (depending on the instrument and player skill), this book had multiple instances of notes such as A and F below the staff appearing in the music. This just shows that Cherry Lane probably took the clarinet version of this book, changed the instrument name on the cover, and sold it as a tenor sax book. When I am playing tenor sax music, I expect the music to be written for a tenor sax! This is absolutely ridiculous and I expected much more from such a big company.
2260167
the way the authors explain things is so dry to read. I would definitely not recommend this book if you want to actually learn some stuff out of this book. The problems at the end of each chapter are not coherent to the text because the statues used the in the problem vary greatly. And there is no note or solution at the end of this book. Good luck figuring the problems out yourself.
2553734
This is a really bad book.  The author and or editor needs to spend more time refining this book.  Rrpeated same sentences on the same page on more than one occasion, felt like a was reading a fill in the blank kids story about gardening. Totally 73 pages all the information in this book is easily gathered on the Internet in just over an hour worth of reading.

Then, didn't seem like she had any real experience,  say things like, "below is a list if herbs and microgreens and what they may need to grow healthy." Using the word may is why she seems to have little personal experience.

In the herbs section each herb is said to be marketable, but no information is given as to wholesale or retail price per oz or lb.  No statistics about how much a grower or the author may earn per plant or per square foot or per hour.

Finally, in the Microgreens chapter she list sprouts.  Well sprouts are not microgreens.  Sprouts are not planted in soil, sprouts are harvested in 3-5 days instead of 10-12 days.

Stopped wasting my time in the middle of chapter 3 about microgreens. Please don't waste yours.
2075681
Even though the shawls and projects in this book are attractive, had I seen the book at a bookstore and thumbed through it first, I would never have purchased it.  The reason:  I do not like or buy books which only have charts for stitch patterns and the author is too lazy to write out the pattern instructions.  Instructions for stitch patterns should include both, written and chart.  If you like charts, then this book will be fine for you.  However, if you are like me and hate charts, then don't bother with this book.  I hate charts and will only follow written instructions.  So as far as I'm concerned, this book is worthless.
I recently purchased another book of shawl patterns in which the author did include both forms of instructions.  The book is "Sock Yarn Shawls: 15 Lacy Knitted Shawl Patterns."  I suggest to Lisa Shroyer, author of this "Free-Spirit Shawls" to take note and if she ever writes another book to do her homework and not be lazy.  That is the only excuse for not writing out the patterns.  I do not recommend this book unless you like to read complicated charts.
1022229
After reading some of her online blogs, I should have known better than to buy this book. This book really is just a catalogue of her blogs. I guess I was expecting there might be supplements (actual exercises) in the book. I am not a fan of the scattered writing, which reads like someone with ADHD who loves the sound of her fingers hitting the keyboard. I have no reason to doubt her expertise or the value of her methods (she came highly recommended by two friends who attested to the success of those methods). But when it comes to this particular book,  I didn't find much value or entertainment. There are only passing references to her exercises, with repeated suggestion to buy her DVDs. So my advice, skip this book, unless of course you know and love her writing style. I had the same experience with her Foot Pain Relief book. 2 hrs of reading blah blah to get to the 7 or so exercises which are briefly described. Going to give a DVD a try, and hope it won't be strike 3.
4954448
I found this book less than useless. I speak several languages and I was a German translator in the US Army, so I learn languages easily. This book proved itself to be a waste of money soon after I opened the front cover. It begins with a discussion of the basic elements of a sentence, and then, with absolutely no discussion of verbs, their tenses or their conjugation, gives exercises in conjugation. The disorganization and stupidity of this book move forward at full pace, leading only to frustration. Don't buy this book!
1915242
If I had seen this book in a book store I would not have bought it.  I found nothing useful in this book that I could not have found with a quick google search.  I find the title "beginner to pro" laughable.  Where does the PRO section start?
This book could be slightly useful to a total raspberry pi beginner that knows nothing about electronics at all.  The writing is totally unorganized and random.  The book read like a very long run on sentence.  Didn't feel like it was step by step to me.  The huge font was more of a page filler than useful information.  Of the 90 pages, 20 are blank.  Every paragraph contains way too much white space.  This book could have been written in 40 pages.
Title should have been "intro to the Raspberry pi 3 for dummies"
2906098
This is by and large the worst book I've ever purchased for learning a new language and / or programming utility.  I sorely regret buying this book, and wish I had searched a bit more thoroughly for a book that is better suited to helping me learn how to work with my data in R.

From the start, the author very quickly skims over many key topics without really going into detail on how to use them.  Worse yet, he introduces functions and topics in command examples and formulas without explaining how they work until later in the chapter / book (and without a reference to the function).  For example he uses 'tapply' on page 21 before explaining what it does (that doesn't happen until page 42), and there were several others that had me scratching my head.  I could use the help function in R to see what the function does, but the help in R is completely cryptic to me and not terribly useful. The point of buying this book was to (hopefully) get a better idea of how these functions work and how to use them.

Understandably so, the author often imports datasets in order to show how to perform specific tasks.  However, there is no obvious indication on where one can find these data, and there's no way to learn the material without actively following along.  I did end up finding the datasets online after Google searching for them (the author apparently has a website with most (but not all!) of these data), and later on I ended up finding a note in the Acknowledgements section stating where the data is.  Why is this not indicated in the "Getting Started" chapter in the "How to use this book" section?  Further, not all of the data is located on his website, and I've come across several examples of missing datasets.  As an example, I skipped ahead to the Classic Tests chapter to see what was going on there, and the first dataset referenced is called 'classic.txt', which is nowhere to be found.  Guess I'll skip over that section without dissecting how the author is performing his analysis!  One other piece of advice for anyone looking for these data: download all of the individual files rather than the .zip file linked.  The zip file does not contain all of the individual files!

All of the author's material is strictly Windows based.  There are no indications of comparable commands for Linux (and I'll assume this also holds true for Mac users).  For example, the author occasionally uses the 'windows' command to scale a plot window.  However, that is not a valid command in the Linux installation of R, and after searching for a while, I was able to find the equivalent command so that I can follow along again (it's 'X11()' by the way).  Most of the other programming books I have read take into consideration that a user will be working on one of the big three operating systems and help guide you with the appropriate commands when it's relevant.

Overall it seems the author is more concerned with teaching statistics than how to use R and how to import, manipulate, and manage the data in R.  I was hoping to learn more about actually using the language and learning how to work with my own datasets.  But in the end (well not quite the end yet, I've only gotten to chapter 6 so far), I really don't have much of a better understanding than before I started of how factors, level, and vectors work, how to transform my data from a table (like generated from Excel or a Perl script) to R in order to work with it, and how to graphically represent these data the way I want.  Amongst the missing data, the typos and bad commands, the only surface skimmed details of functions and commands, and mono-OS minded operations in the book, I'm still quite lost and don't expect to get a whole lot out of this book for the price.  My money would definitely have been better spent elsewhere.
4740085
Another book that is not worth the paper it is printed on.