The photos are nice.  But, more details would help.
580450
This book contains tons of high quality, color photos. The photos take up about half the book.  Although the photos are nice and give me a good idea of what I need to do,  I still found myself wanting a more detailed explanation on many of the topics.  I am fairly handy around the house.  Yet, I found myself needing and wanting information that this book did not mention.
In all fairness, if the book went into details on all of the topics,  it would be a foot thick and cost a lot more.
3233187
The book was interesting, but there were almost no photos. I would have liked to see many photos to illustrate the staging tips. Before and after shots would have been a big plus.
811511
High quality photos & good quality paper & printing, but is lacking in some respects: would like to have seen more traditional, and not just high-dollar hot rods.  And, would have liked more info re: the guts and what work was done on the featured cars.  More of a coffee table sort of book.
35777
In my opinion the elevations, floor plans and perspectives are a little bit simple and it lacks of details. Images quality are not the best
2885399
Not terribly helpful. There are some lovely photographs but would not be enough on its own if you are after inspiration
3040029
The book is not well written but it is obvious that the author knows watches.  It would be helpful if the images were color and they had different examples of the pictures instead of just one.  Also, the books aproach to explaining the terminology is good, but I would have like to have a more lamen's explanation of the parts.
1670076
Its a good book for beginners like myself, but I wish it showed more detail photos!
3618141
A book of beautiful photos, but I thought I was going to be reading little excerpts about adventures as well.
4357239
I wish that there where more photographs to detail out what is discussed in the text.  Good source of information.
1313789
I like the book I would have liked more pictures so the I know how it is intended to look.
857574
The photos were great but more photos and less writing would have been better . The condition of the book was okay and the price and shipping were good .
2167068
There are a lot of facts but I was hoping for photos and description. Maybe when my fove year old grandson gets older he may understand it. It is just to advanced for him.
1609366
Lots of photos not so much in the way of descriptive content.  I would have preferred more start up information.
856069
I know I'm not the only person who buys books for the purposes of drawing/painting reference material.  That's why I'm doing this review.

The photographs are okay except they're so dark that it's hard to see a lot of detail.  If I had a scanner, I'd scan them in and try to brighten them up a bit. I don't know how that would work, though.  Maybe someone else would like to try. I think they'd be good photos and just what I was looking for if I could see more detail.

As for the text content of the book, that may be excellent--I don't know.  I just bought the book for the photographs and that's all I'm reviewing.  Started to give it fewer stars but decided that wouldn't be fair.  Won't give it five because the photos are, after all, part of the book.

P.S. Incidentally, if you've looked "inside the book" and you wonder why I think the photos are dark, it's because the ones in the book I received don't look quite the same as on the screen.  I guess it's something to do with the printing process.
1587795
Some really great photos, but a renegade cartoon pic for April doesn't fit into the whole vibe.  That really knocks this down a notch  Most of the pics are really good, but a few are not the best that could have been included.  Nice calendar, but not worth the price.
3514596
There would seem to be some justice to the earlier review. This book obviously is handicapped by the absence of illustrations: some line drawings accompanying each species would greatly enhance the usefulness of this book. The color photographs are few (at most one per species), fairly small and many suffer from a dark background: also they are in a separate part and not near the descriptions. This book is not in the same league as John Laird Farrar's work for northern North America.
Still the pictures are of a pretty good quality. For most species a distribution map is provided. The volume is well-printed. In many respects it complements Harrar&Harrar's "Guide_to_Southern_Trees". Maybe these two together make up a complete book?
PS I don't dare judge the quality of the descriptions, although I do note that the authors refer to "Betula alba" as if it is an extant name, which is a pretty backward thing to do.
4760686
Overall the book gives a small bit of information about Egypt and its ancient civilization.  Most of the book is just a time line of when the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms were in power.  The book does begin to touch on writing on the very last page, but still no information is really given.  I did enjoy the photographs in the book.  There were plenty of pictures, but I would have liked to see descriptions of what the pictures were showing.  There is so much more information that could be included in the book; hieroglyphs, the Nile River, pharaohs, their advances in farming, and mummification to just name a few.

**In full disclosure, I received this product for free or at discounted price. My review and opinions are solely mine based on a truthful and unbiased experience with the product.