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4 | A Great Casual Read for Kids | Our family has read a lot of books like this from Ripley's Believe it or Not, Guiness Books of World Records, National Geographic, etc. These really lock brains into facts about the world around young minds. I don't know that there is any lasting academic gain through these books, but boy do the darndest facts come o... | [] | 1743214243 | 1743214243 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,365,228,099,000 | 1 | false |
5 | A Super Cute Book, with Beautiful Illustrations | ...and my kids 6 and 11 loved it at bedtime reading (and so did dad.) Which says something because that's a big age disparity. The story is cute, and carries a valuable life lesson that our family learned when I was a kid. A pair of hamsters can become a pile of hamsters very quickly.<br /><br />The story is a pretty ... | [] | 0761453571 | 0761453571 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,364,490,038,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Well Written, Great Resource | I have been passively studying for the A+ as I do not need it for my current job, but I am seeing it listed on nearly every new job that is posted these days. So I want to be prepared to take it when the need arises. (Or when I feel confident that I'll pass with flying colors, and just want to get it over with.)<br />... | [] | 0735662681 | 0735662681 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,363,566,892,000 | 12 | false |
3 | Passable Overview | I have to admit this book was a tough read and was not quite what I was expecting. With the subtitle or "A practical guide to a useful, beautiful design," I expected a beautiful book with beautiful examples. The book is pretty Spartan in it's illustrations. There are only a utilitarian figures, wireframes, and graph... | [] | 1119992982 | 1119992982 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,362,424,661,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Wow, A Bachelor's Degree of Typography in a Single Book | OK, maybe not a Bachelor's degree because the book is too practical. But I have never felt so educated about Typography as when I finished this book. And a it is a very much practical education that I have immediately put into use in my webdesign. I have read and reviewed a lot of web books and I often end up feelin... | [] | 1119976871 | 1119976871 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,362,421,280,000 | 2 | false |
4 | An OK Survey of infographics | I was pretty excited about the potential of this book, but by about halfway through it seemed like it was just repeating some fairly obvious points. However I do feel like I gleaned some decent information from the book. Some I would guess are design standards like "SMART" objectives to keep you on track (I actually ... | [] | 0789749491 | 0789749491 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,362,372,982,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Felt Accomplished in just the first fircouple days | I've played around with my old guitar a few times. Often picking up "teach yourself" books and getting a ways before frustrations, pain, and pressures of life force me to put it away. This book has been far more successful then the others. In just the first couple days of sitting down with the book I felt like I was... | [] | 1118115546 | 1118115546 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,362,292,646,000 | 2 | false |
5 | One of the Better A+ Resources I have Seen | I dabbled at getting the A+ certification in the past and have used several interactive and book resources to prepare for it. I have to say the online and interactive resources seemed less effective as far as retention and I have gotten more out of the books. I was originally using [[ASIN:0071701338 CompTIA A+ Certif... | [] | 1118324056 | 1118324056 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,362,052,893,000 | 1 | false |
5 | WOW! This Book Totally Overdelivers on Expectations | I have been toying with the idea of doing a little hobbyest bee keeping and I have developed something of a library of references. Nearly everyone book I have has a building plans section, but none can hold a candle to this book. The Illustrations are nothing short of amazing. I wish the "Look Inside" feature showed... | [] | 1118312945 | 1118312945 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,359,513,723,000 | 14 | false |
4 | A Wonderfully Illustrated Regionalism of a Classic | This was definitely a cute book. I read a lot to my kids so we have read a lot of regionalized fairy tales and this does a fairly good job. It does feel like the author could have pushed the West Texas accent and vocabulary more throughout the narrative, but there is enough to set the location. It is cute that at le... | [] | 0761461280 | 0761461280 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,357,447,531,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Not a Masters Course, but a great introduction to usability | This book was truly eye opening. I was hoping to use it for helping my web design but it has kind of changed my inner dialogue about nearly every designed solution I come across now. At a local Mexican restaurant I look at the three urinals they put in the place of two and see it as a usability issue. Yes there are ... | [] | 1118185471 | 1118185471 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,348,129,075,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Better than I was Expecting | OK, 365 FAQ's about photography. This had all the makings of a bathroom reader. I was expecting entertaining little snippets, maybe some little hints and tips and not much more. Maybe it would be like a daily devotional giving inspiration to try one thing or another. I couldn't imagine any way they could take this b... | [] | 1118277236 | 1118277236 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,348,125,663,000 | 1 | false |
4 | More of a Glossary of Environmental Science | I had really high hopes for this book. The description described it as a way to help kids digest the concepts. But it looks like the description has been retooled a bit since I received the book. I was hoping for a bunch of interactive exercises to better understand complex concepts in life sciences. I thought it c... | [] | 1118167147 | 1118167147 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,348,124,099,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Great Piece of Writing | Off the bat, I admit I am not a huge fantasy reader, but I read a lot of fiction so I know a good piece of writing when I read it, and this one. Actually I was shocked at how fuly I was drawn into the story. I often dislike science fiction because it reads with too much explanation for alien worlds, but this book seem... | [] | 1612182038 | 1612182038 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,341,377,958,000 | 0 | false |
4 | A Decent Portfolio of Good Design Examples | I recently got [[ASIN:1119977428 The Smashing Idea Book: From Inspiration to Application (Smashing Magazine Book Series)]] and really liked it for spurring creativity, so I figured this book would also be perfect. Perhaps it was because my expectations were raised but I was not as thrilled with this book as I was wit... | [] | 1600610641 | 1600610641 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,341,376,439,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Exaclty the Digital Work Flow Intro I was Looking for. | I'm a semi serious amateur photographer who is thinking about taking it up another notch and trying at some stock photography. The problem - I have been using iPhoto to haphazardly download my images, and a dozen flash cards that may or may not still have downloaded content on them. So I am totally in need of grabbing... | [] | 0470582081 | 0470582081 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,339,356,180,000 | 0 | false |
4 | A Good Primer to the Basics of Wordpress | I while ago I decided to develop a blog and was looking for a reference to get me started. I think I was looking for a little more than this book, but it definitely got me started on the road to learning Wordpress. I installed wordpress easily with the instructions given in chapter 3. I'm not the strongest linux use... | [] | 0470554584 | 0470554584 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,337,240,672,000 | 0 | false |
5 | A Very Decent Guide for First time Visitors | I often get asked for guide book recommendations. Since this full color guide has come out, it has been at or near the top. Frommers has recently added [[ASIN:0470562331 Frommer's Alaska Day by Day (Frommer's Day by Day - Full Size)]] which might be a better guide for an absolute beginner. I also really like [[ASIN:... | [] | 111807470X | 111807470X | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,337,042,489,000 | 18 | false |
3 | Not sure who this one is for, Kind rambling survey | I'm a little lost about how to categorize this book. I'm looking to move into HTML5 web and hybrid app development on a amature level and I have been thinking heavily about moving into mobile website design. This book sounded good, but I was worried about the jQuery and Sench Touch focus. The first few chapters are ... | [] | 024081813X | 024081813X | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,335,249,811,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Another very good memoir of a life spent in pursuit of nature | This book seems to be breaking the series rules a little. To claim the arctic summer and brief fall as autumn did not see quite right. The flash of bright autumn colors last about a weekend in arctic as it moves down in elevation or lattitude so you do have to cheat a little. But the book captures that certain melan... | [] | 0618822216 | 0618822216 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,334,633,227,000 | 0 | false |
5 | There perfect starting point to plan your trip to Alaska | I often get asked for Alaska travel guide book recommendations and I have always recommended [[ASIN:0756661994 Alaska (EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE)]] or [[ASIN:0470638656 Frommer's Alaska 2011 (Frommer's Color Complete)]]. The Frommers is also written by Charles Wohlforth who also wrote Alaska for Dummies which is a fant... | [] | 0470562331 | 0470562331 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,333,097,560,000 | 9 | false |
4 | Very nice guide LITTLE guide to low light photography | I have several books in this series and I appreciate the content of the books. This one is well written and gives a great overview of basic low light photography. I'm especially impressed with the coverage of the post production techniques for adjusting low light images. They discuss the camera settings, concerns an... | [] | 0240820800 | 0240820800 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,331,794,627,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Another Eye Opening Book from Bernd Heinrich - This Time Showing us Nature's Clean Up Crew | Bernd Heinrich has never failed to awe me with his ability to find the beautiful and amazing right under our noses. I have been fortunate enough to read his Bumblebee Economics, Mind of the Raven, Snoring Bird and Winter World books and I am humbled by his ability to see and explore the natural world with an open and ... | [] | 0547752660 | 0547752660 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,331,793,787,000 | 2 | false |
5 | A Very Good Overview of Macro Baiscs | I love the "For Dummies" series ability to take a complete novice from nowhere to being able to speak fairly well on a subject. However there are a couple of caveats, first sometimes they are for really dumb dummies and second, sometimes they are not the most elegantly designed or beautifully illustrated books.<br />... | [] | 0470930632 | 0470930632 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,328,260,466,000 | 3 | false |
4 | Maybe a little too much Dummy, But there is Some decent content | I really like the Dummies series, but this one leans a little too hard in favor of the Dummies. The book literally mentions that access to bathrooms and water fountains may be a concern in pick-up basketball games. In fact, the first few chapters also are a little too dumbed down.<br /><br />However, there is some us... | [] | 1118073746 | 1118073746 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,328,138,387,000 | 1 | false |
5 | A Great Book, Full of Heart and Boy Approved Illustrations and Content | I was looking for books to fuel my son's love of reading and I thought this would be a good one. I was a little worried because often books for young boys lean on the gross to keep the young readers engaged, and beans lead to pretty obvious flatulence jokes. But I also thought the illustrations would help pull him th... | [] | 0547550782 | 0547550782 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,328,070,803,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Absolutely Amazing Springboard of Web and Photography Ideas!!! | When I was going to school for graphic arts and working in advertising agencies, I loved the illustration annuals. They were showcases for artists and designers to display their best work and were priceless for inspiring my personal art projects. I thought every high school art teacher should have a library of them fo... | [] | 1119977428 | 1119977428 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,328,069,794,000 | 0 | false |
4 | An Entertaining Coffee Table Book, A So So Reference | I have copies of the author's earlier multimedia bird song books and my kids have spent a lot of time playing with the players and flipping through the pages. When I saw that they had produced a "bible" of bird songs I was was pretty excited.<br /><br />The book itself is impressively huge and heavy. In fact, it is so... | [] | 081187138X | 081187138X | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,324,532,328,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Where Was this Book 10 Years Ago | It took me a while to realize what this book is, it is "HTML and CSS for ADHD, hipster Dummies." And I don't say this as a knock, the dummies books are great for taking someone from complete neophyte to a fully functional novice with a solid foundation. If you were to read and understand this (which is not asking too... | [] | 1118008189 | 1118008189 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,324,528,939,000 | 3 | false |
4 | Some great information crammed into a very small book | [[VIDEOID:7df4af9f322ab66be9930e7e573597d9]] So here is what I'm looking for in a photography field guide - information that helps me when I need it in the field. I have long owned and treasured [[ASIN:0817435425 Art of Bird Photography: The Complete Guide to Professional Field Techniques (Practial Photography Books)]... | [] | 0240817761 | 0240817761 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,322,349,342,000 | 4 | false |
4 | Great exposure to the next level of CSS design | I'm a hack web developer - the kind that lays pages out using nested tables (but I want to change.) So when I read this books overview, with it's 50 pages dedicated to CSS layout, and more on CSS tables, I couldn't wait for it to arrive. But it was not quite what I was expecting.<br /><br />First I should say that I d... | [] | 047068416X | 047068416X | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,302,278,091,000 | 6 | false |
5 | Reading this will help you make more money$$$ | I can help you make an informed decision about buying this book. See what I did there? I gave you a benefits-based grab for attention. Know what I'm talking about? No? Well then this might be just the book for you!<br /><br />But seriously, this was an eye-opening book. I have been dabbling at affiliate sales web ... | [] | 0470616334 | 0470616334 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,302,140,262,000 | 2 | false |
5 | A Wonderfully Designed and Thought-Out Tutorial | This is a very impressive book. Its layout is one of the best I have seen. The examples are real life projects that show the work flow of a real photographer would use in Photoshop. And even better, the author uses screen shots of Photoshop windows to illustrate the processes step by step. One fear of using specif... | [] | 0240815319 | 0240815319 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,301,289,150,000 | 4 | false |
5 | A Surprisingly Suspenseful and Compelling Read. | This is one of those books where we all know the ending, the authors even present the ending up front, but it is still a gripping tale. It is so interspersed with personal stories I became vested in the historic characters, hoping that units can make it to Washington unscathed. Since I was raised in Richmond, VA and ... | [] | 0199759898 | 0199759898 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,299,731,312,000 | 1 | false |
5 | A Great Primer to the Near Time and Present Extinctions, a Must Read for Nature Lovers | I first read about Paul Martin's mega-fauna overkill theory in the mid 90's and it was electric in its elegance. The correlating arrival of humans and mass extinction of large animals is strikingly consistent. Since then his theories and the idea of missing mega-faunal pieces in our landscapes has been handled many ti... | [] | 0195370120 | 0195370120 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,298,909,563,000 | 16 | false |
4 | A Fictionalized but Valuable Account of the Anne Frank Story | This book wonderfully augments the Anne Frank diary by giving another perspective to the events in the Annex. It humanizes the story even more and helps bring the reality to life in the readers mind. However the book is a fictional "best guess" about what is going on in Peter Van Pel's mind during their time in hiding... | [] | 0547501951 | 0547501951 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,297,645,188,000 | 0 | false |
5 | A Fascinating, Eye-Opening Read about an Equally Repulsive and Awe Inspiring Creature | I selected this book for the last thirty pages that delved into the crash of the North American fresh water eel populations. But I ended up loving the book for the first 250 pages of content. I read it in a marathon three days where I just couldn't set it down.<br /><br />That first 90% of the book was a wonderful re... | [] | 0060566116 | 0060566116 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,293,777,011,000 | 0 | false |
5 | The Best Graphic Design Book I've Ever Seen | About three quarters of the way through this book I looked at my wife and said "You know the only difference between this book and the graphic arts classes I took in college?" She of course answered "What? you managed to finish the book?" (Yeah, that's the support I get, I did get a degree in another field but that is... | [] | 0240812816 | 0240812816 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,291,824,854,000 | 42 | false |
4 | Great Content, but Field Guide Might be a Misnomer | When I chose this book I was thinking I was going to get a small guide to help me with issues that would come up in the field. What I got was a small book with very small text that covered the entire world of digital imaging from how CMOS and CCD sensors work to post production work flow.. At least I was right on the... | [] | 0240817206 | 0240817206 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,291,740,256,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Complete and Engaging Coverage that Pulls you Along Page after Page | An absolutely great read. This book managed to be complete while not being exhaustive or bogging down. It covered the gamut from anecdote to academic research. I have read a lot of the academic papers and reports he references and I can say from personal experience that he relays the findings very faithfully but in a... | [] | 0547152426 | 0547152426 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,291,654,129,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Good Learning Tool, but could be Great with a little Refining | I think the author has locked onto the perfect format to teach composition. I learned everything I know about composition from peer reviews in graphic arts classes and photography salons. This book uses hundreds of example photographs, one per page with a short critique of what works and what doesn't work in the phot... | [] | 0240815076 | 0240815076 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,291,309,457,000 | 2 | false |
5 | A Beautifully Crafted Graphic Novel and Story | I am amazed at how powerfully a graphic memoir, when done right, can pull you into another's life. Much like [[ASIN:0375714839 The Complete Persepolis]] and [[ASIN:1560978449 Palestine: The Special Edition (Anniversary)]], this book conveys a cultural texture that draws you into the story so well, it gives you a much ... | [] | 0345508726 | 0345508726 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,291,223,876,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Very Informative Book with a Lot of Information that is Glossed Over in the Textbooks | I'm a big fan of the micro-history and loved books like [[ASIN:0140275010 Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World]] and [[ASIN:0142001619 Salt: A World History]]. Often the most entertaining part of these books is how they myopically distort the importance of their subject, but in this case it's hard to und... | [] | 0618574921 | 0618574921 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,291,221,269,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Yes the Japanese were Really that Harsh | This is a wonderfully accurate and researched book which reads with a great sense of authenticity. It shows the brutality of the Japanese Prisoner of War camps and beyond, showing the brutality they also reigned over their own troops and the peoples they conquered in World War II.<br /><br />I am very impressed of the... | [] | 1416590587 | 1416590587 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,287,383,838,000 | 2 | false |
5 | Can Basketball Really Block Everything Out | A long time ago I read the first book of this series. Unfortunately I did not read the second. So I'm going to have to go back and catch up a little. But since I share a dairy background I could not help but start this book when I had it in my hands.<br /><br />This is a very readable story of the drama of growing up.... | [] | 0618959823 | 0618959823 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,287,383,001,000 | 0 | false |
4 | What I Wanted but Probably not Everything I Needed | I've been hearing the gospel of HTML 5 for quite a while and heard how it will kill Flash, be fully multimedia, and revolutionize web design completely. Which is then given the caveat, when it is finally released. Well it HTML 5 has pretty much arrived (except for Microsoft IE.)<br /><br />So I figured it is time to f... | [] | 0240813286 | 0240813286 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,286,388,118,000 | 0 | false |
5 | A Novelization of the life of a Great Man and his Era | The author delivers this biography like a Victorian Romance set against a rich, historic backdrop. Unlike typical biographies, the author rarely, if ever, steps in as narrator, but rather lets the story flow like a work of fiction. This made the story flow wonderfully, but after a while I worried that he might be taki... | [] | 080509282X | 080509282X | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,286,207,961,000 | 24 | false |
4 | If you think you have it bad now, try the 1860's | This book does a very good job of opening ones eyes to the differences in rights African Americans have now compared to the 1860's. Just as it opens the eyes to the main character when she is transported in time from modern projects to the Draft Riots of the Civil War. It was interesting to see that even those who wer... | [] | 0982555059 | 0982555059 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,283,108,424,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Middle-School History Teacher Approved and a Great Read | Well, one caveat for that approval, my wife the history teacher, was offended by the occasional headline "Lies my teacher told me." She would like to point out, teachers don't lie, textbooks lie and bad teachers repeat them. Apparently good teachers find textbooks from three different nations and then discuss the bia... | [] | 0061928224 | 0061928224 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,282,805,936,000 | 66 | false |
4 | The Small Business Legal and Tax answers I was looking for | A long time ago I bought a used copy of [[ASIN:0917510283 Small Time Business Operator, 10th Edition: How to Start Your Own Business, Keep Your Books, Pay Your Taxes & Stay Out of Trouble (Small Time Operator)]] to help me flesh out a small business idea. The book was eye opening and made me realize all the nuts and b... | [] | 1413310990 | 1413310990 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,282,629,845,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Perfect Book for Me - A Novice to many of the topics in the book | I was very fortunate to receive a copy of this book. I am a intermediate amateur photographer (ie, I use the histogram to check exposure, often consider aperture and shutterspeed, and understand there is something called digital image workflow,) but I am looking to take my photography to the next looking at upgrading... | [] | 0240521781 | 0240521781 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,282,116,706,000 | 17 | false |
4 | A Page Turning Immigrant Tale | I wish I could give this book 4 and a half stars because it was very good, but not quite book of the year or life changing. It was great at illustrating a historic period that I do not know particularly well. The images of hunger in the old country where people were extending their food with plaster scratched from th... | [] | 1935597027 | 1935597027 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,281,886,302,000 | 0 | false |
5 | A Hopeful Eulogy to our Connection with Nature | This book is far more reflective than I expected. I've read a lot of Pete Dunne's books and his anecdotes and clear, engaging writing style make them great reads . And while this book has the same writing qualities, it has a bittersweet nostalgia and a rather serious theme through a series of otherwise buoyant encount... | [] | 054719563X | 054719563X | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,281,844,728,000 | 2 | false |
5 | An Eye-Opening Look into the Complexity of our Present and Future Fisheries | This book is a brilliant step-back overview of the state of our fisheries. Although I felt like I was pretty knowledgeable on the subject, my eyes have been opened up to deeper level of complexity than I had ever considered. Especially on the economic and market driven side of the issue.<br /><br />Perhaps, the best t... | [] | 1594202567 | 1594202567 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,278,141,685,000 | 12 | false |
5 | Finally a Frommer's Guide that Does the State Justice | I have never had a problem with the written content of the Frommers guides, and Charles P. Wohlforth has a resume that makes him infinitely qualified to write book (I can even forgive that I got food poisoning from one of his recommendations - stuff happens.) But Alaska deserves color photos, lots of them. I have knock... | [] | 0470497734 | 0470497734 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,275,881,031,000 | 3 | false |
5 | A Lyrical, Insightful, and rather Exhaustive Analysis | This is far more than just an animal-eats-man thriller like [[ASIN:0882402323 Alaska Bear Tales]]. It does have a rather small story of a man eating tiger terrorizing a community, but it balloons out, covering all the eddies of history, natural history, economics, and culture that moved the characters to this moment w... | [] | 0307268934 | 0307268934 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,275,798,862,000 | 115 | false |
5 | A Gripping Historical Mystery | The final days of the Romanov family have been exhaustively covered, even to the point that I groaned when I found out that this book was going over it again. But this book ended up being a wonderful surprise which took a very fresh approach to the time period. It wonderfully interweaved the end of the Russian Empire... | [] | 0553807811 | 0553807811 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,275,532,295,000 | 3 | false |
4 | A very good memoir of a life around deer and nature | First I should point out that there are two kinds of animal lovers. First, there are those who love nature as an academic pursuit. They read anything they can about nature, conservation, and ecology. Often they are birdwatchers and day hikers who study population trends and field guides while observing animals in th... | [] | 0061792101 | 0061792101 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,275,193,547,000 | 5 | false |
4 | Not your father's Lonely Planet Guide | Decades ago I got my first Lonely Planet Guide to Southern Africa. I remember tips like going to a certain bar and asking for an individual who could take you into Zambia for a fee. The book had the feel of a fanzine, written by a vagabond elite of backpack travelers for their own. Since then I have gotten their Ala... | [] | 1741799961 | 1741799961 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,272,770,346,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Not the Story You Would Expect It to Be | This book shows the power of not following the standard script in your life. When finding out that her husband was having a relationship crisis, it would have been easier to over react and end the marriage. That is such a typical response that I was amazed when she did not. It went against all expectations when she p... | [] | 0399156658 | 0399156658 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,272,172,465,000 | 1 | false |
5 | A powerful and authentic look into a dark time | World War II and the Holocaust have been covered so extensively in so many formats, and yet there are so many under represented stories. This book takes up one of these side stories, the story Jews in Hungary, that didn't make the textbooks or documentaries. And unlike textbook or documentary coverage, it brings the ... | [] | 1400041163 | 1400041163 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,272,170,781,000 | 396 | false |
5 | One of the Best Books I've Read This Year | I love good historical fiction for the way it brings eras to life. And this is great historical fiction. It creates a vivid picture of the paranoia that encompassed Stalinist Russia. It gave great insight to the relationships of Russia and it's World War II allies, which foreshadows and explains the eventual cold wa... | [] | 0061691216 | 0061691216 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,271,556,063,000 | 0 | false |
4 | A Decent General Guide to Modo and 3D | The one thing that has been missing from my digital resume is 3D graphics. Since I had access to Modo, I though this would be the perfect entry book into the 3D world, and for the most part it is. I worked through some of the examples in the book, trying to replicate what they were doing with my personal ideas and pro... | [] | 0240811992 | 0240811992 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,271,484,175,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Immensely Readable, Wonderful Coverage - The Perfect Primer of the Great War. | This is a surprisingly concise, readable, and enlightening book. My wife is a middle school history teacher and has been looking for a resource like this her whole career. It is perfect for her students, not too dense to get bogged down, but amazingly educational. Now if the authors would take on every other big even... | [] | 0547026862 | 0547026862 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,271,433,267,000 | 12 | false |
5 | I didn't know it, but this is exactly what I needed for step one. | Reading this book, I couldn't help but remember the old Rolling Stones lyrics, "You can't always get what you want...You get what you need." This was not the book I was thinking I was getting at all, but it really was what I really needed.<br /><br />I am hoping to produce a few documentary shorts, and what I was hopi... | [] | 0240810880 | 0240810880 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,266,203,967,000 | 1 | false |
4 | A Story of What Really Makes a Hero | First, if you have ever read Ann Renaldi before, this is classic Renaldi. She runs two story lines, one rooted in historical fact and another that is rooted in a spiritual world. In this case the first story is about a civil war era factory town in the south, and the second is a story of Cherokee spirituality. Other ... | [] | 015206513X | 015206513X | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,263,314,951,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Good Book of Resilient Kids and Kindness from Strangers | This is a nice book similar to [[ASIN:0553494104 Bud, Not Buddy (Readers Circle (Laurel-Leaf))]] or [[ASIN:1416949755 From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler]], where kids take situations into their own hands and use self reliance as well as some help from kind strangers to solve issues. In this case the ... | [] | 141696763X | 141696763X | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,263,314,108,000 | 0 | false |
3 | A Primer for Hiding a Sexual Affair from Your Parents | Unfortunately when this book was listed for 14 to 17 year olds I started to read it through the eyes of the middle school kids my wife teaches history to. My wife and I are avid readers of historic fiction and the idea of a child living in the canal zone during construction sounded like it would have great insights. ... | [] | 0547196008 | 0547196008 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,263,313,186,000 | 3 | false |
3 | Loved the premise, Less in love with the result | My wife and I love historical fiction. We both jumped at this book when we saw it because the premise of a 14 year old boy in World War I sounded perfect. Even, better it seemed to resonate with the idea of child warriors which have sadly become fairly common in our time. However we never seemed to be able to get int... | [] | 0547053428 | 0547053428 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,262,668,364,000 | 0 | false |
4 | My kids enjoy the series | I have to admit I am not in love with this series as much as my kids are. We got the first book in the series, [[ASIN:1416971483 Big Fun! (Adventure of Meno)]], and they read it over and over. In fact, my 8 year old read to my 3 year old over and over, which of course is priceless.<br /><br />It still grates on me to... | [] | 1416971491 | 1416971491 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,261,874,325,000 | 3 | false |
5 | A great juvenile non-fiction version of an eye opening book | I had a paradigm shift when I read [[ASIN:0385513534 The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon]]. I had never imagined that the Amazon could have held such a population or had such a organized society before European contact. It truly changes your image of virgin wilderness. This led to me picking... | [] | 1416949003 | 1416949003 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,261,454,329,000 | 0 | false |
5 | A Great Introduction to Tundra - Kind of a Far Side for Alaska | I originally started picking Tundras up for my oldest son as a gift during my annual Alaskan fishing trips. He ate them up and would pore over them for hours. I was amazed how much he picked up from reading these. He was the only 6 year old I know who made jokes about baleen whales. So you could almost call them edu... | [] | 0740785435 | 0740785435 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,260,087,566,000 | 5 | true |
3 | Our three-year-old loved it, unfortunately to a quick death | I have a Toy Story obsessed three-year-old who was extremely excited to see this arrive in the mail. We spent the better part of two days swapping the cards out, which was a little beyond his coordination level. The 3-D effects are pretty good, but not earth shattering.<br /><br />The unfortunate things about this bo... | [] | 0794419046 | 0794419046 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,260,085,981,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Cute, well illustrated book, Grammatically (and tactfully) Challenged | The best thing about this book is the art work which is bold and clean. Book construction is high quality as well. But I was taken a little back by the words. Apparently Aliens speak much like Tonto or Tarzan, dropping articles like "a" and "the." Not so good for a kid who is forming speech.<br /><br />I originally g... | [] | 1416971483 | 1416971483 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,257,319,712,000 | 6 | false |
5 | Equal Parts Bill Bryson Travelogue and Obscure Ornithological Obsession | This book proves that it is all about the journey and not just reaching the destination. You will learn surprisingly little about Labrador Ducks in this book (possibly because there is surprisingly little known about them,) but you will learn a lot about rail travel in Europe, how to navigate foreign cities on intuiti... | [] | 1439102473 | 1439102473 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,255,449,604,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Informative, Passionate, and a Little Manic | You could probably use his book alone to diagnose Jeff Corwin with ADHD. It is takes a bit to keep up as he leaps from topic to topic over the course of a couple of paragraphs. But what shines through is a man with such a deep passion that he is just exploding with information and stories he wants to share. You can ... | [] | 1605298476 | 1605298476 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,255,448,184,000 | 0 | false |
4 | A good historic fiction for younger readers, a litle less than I was hoping for though | I got this book wondering how the story could be pieced together from bits of poetry. I envisioned something close to pointillism in art, but the poetry is actually quite narrative, almost too narrative. The story line is pretty straight-forward and the verse is pretty close to prose.<br /><br />The story is clean an... | [] | 0547046847 | 0547046847 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,255,445,748,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Dense, Academic, Relegated to Reference | I read a lot of history and was excited to read about a time period I am not overly familiar with. I can't really say anything bad about this book. The parts I read were good, but it is so dense and so academic it has a slight sedative effect on me. I put the review off for this book because I kept thinking I would g... | [] | 0195039149 | 0195039149 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,253,405,358,000 | 3 | false |
2 | High Hopes, Good Start, but Characters Drug the Book Down | I was very high on this book at the start, however as I read, it fell more and more out of my favor. The historical stories and war time fiction were strong, but her characters are so weak, that I almost stopped reading it halfway through. I ended up hating Bess and I doubt that was the author's intent. Her selfishne... | [] | 1401340970 | 1401340970 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,253,404,760,000 | 7 | false |
5 | A Great General Guide to the Parks, Thinking of Going? Get this Book! | I would highly recommend this book to anyone thinking about visiting the Yellowstone/Teton area. It is visually arresting and great for flipping through and getting ideas. If you can get past the photos, the writing is just as good as the visuals. I ended up reading it cover to cover (sometimes skimming food and lodgi... | [] | 1400019354 | 1400019354 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,253,400,459,000 | 3 | false |
5 | Better than the test preps I remember | Maybe the bar has been raised since the last time I studied for a certification test (think windows 95) but the quality of the writing and editing is much higher than anything I remember. I was only able to locate a few typos and only two that were in test questions and only one of those changed the answer.<br /><br /... | [] | 0470427477 | 0470427477 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,248,594,404,000 | 0 | false |
5 | A Haunting Read | Paul Griner brings to light, in terrible detail, the 1918 British blockade of Germany after the war itself was over. The question of who are the bad guys and who is responsible really for the evil is gripping. Add a romance and it creates a dynamic that can not be put down.<br /><br />The book captivates with its spy ... | [] | 0547055226 | 0547055226 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,248,593,998,000 | 1 | false |
4 | It did what I was hoping for | Ok, here is the dilemma I was in - I have a 60 year old father in another state and needs to be able to touch up photos. Since I am in IT, he calls me to do tasks like rotating photos. He is not computer savvy and keeps getting out-dated, garage-sale, photo programs for his PC which I have no idea how to use.<br /><br... | [] | 0470410914 | 0470410914 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,248,591,366,000 | 0 | false |
4 | A Good Overview of a Great Man | I've read a lot of Alaska mountaineering books and stories over the years, and this book stands with the best for readability and holding interest. And since there are no modern climbing books that fail to mention Washburn's accomplishments, I was happy to get my hands on a new biography about the legendary climber. He... | [] | 0061560944 | 0061560944 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,246,684,366,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Another Winner from Lynne Jonell | This is just an awesome book. If you loved [[ASIN:0312384602 Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat]] you will love Zoom.<br /><br />It is so well crafted and written that once I started, I felt as if the book was singing to me a bit like a siren's leading me through the pages. It was impossible to put down and I lost ... | [] | 0805088563 | 0805088563 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,246,683,539,000 | 0 | false |
4 | I was hoping for some project management tips and a little cheerleading - I got a dose of reality | I was looking for a book that would help me lay out a course toward achieving a fairly reasonable dream. What I got was a book that had me look very realistically at that dream and see how likely it was that I would achieve it. I turned out alright, but I have to admit I have a few questions that I could not answer as... | [] | 0785214127 | 0785214127 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,242,885,247,000 | 0 | false |
4 | A Decent Comic that held our kids attention and seemed to have taught him a little | Our household has a seven-year-old and a history teacher in it, so this book seemed like a perfect combination for us - a historical fiction comic book. And for the most part it was successful. My son sat down and read it without stopping, very much engrossed in it. Then later on a walk he mentioned a few things he h... | [] | 1599903717 | 1599903717 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,241,937,469,000 | 0 | false |
5 | A Wonderfully Surprising Read with a Great Ending | Five stars! Wow what an engaging story. I could not put it down. The kids had to take care of themselves, the dishes piled up and the laundry stayed where it was. I could not put this book down. It was such a fascinating look into a futuristic society built on the fear and destruction of the one we currently inhab... | [] | 0547225490 | 0547225490 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,240,510,612,000 | 1 | false |
3 | A Book that Didn't Live up to its Cover | I am not sure what William Weir's history teachers were teaching him but there was nothing all that startling in what his book had to say. Many of his topics like the Jesse James Gang, the Earp Gang and John Dillinger are not in history books anyway. They are part of a pop history, but I guess not the biggest history ... | [] | 1592333362 | 1592333362 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,239,777,729,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Ann Brashares does it again. | I loved [[ASIN:0553494791 Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Sisterhood of Traveling Pants, Book 1)]]...seriously ...four girls one pair of pants and she makes it work. Her 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows is a little less miracle and a whole lot more about the work it takes to keep a friendship and family together, Fa... | [] | 0385736762 | 0385736762 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,239,777,076,000 | 0 | false |
5 | The Best Book I have Read this Year | Kate Morton has written a gem of a book. I was completely taken in by this story, the fairytales, the mystery, the different time periods and the locations of Australia and England. What a fabulous book. If you loved the [[ASIN:0743298039 The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel]] and have been waiting for that pure joy of read... | [] | 1416550542 | 1416550542 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,239,776,712,000 | 7 | false |
5 | Amazing, Compelling Book with a Surprisingly Satisfying Finish | This was one of those books that I could not put down. Any time I find myself awake at 3AM, unable to put a book down and go to bed, I know I have a winner. The author does a great job of intertwining the stories of Fawcett's Amazonian expeditions, earlier historic explorations and rescue attempts, as well as the aut... | [] | 0385513534 | 0385513534 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,236,121,387,000 | 2 | false |
4 | An Good Starting Point, Lacks a Little Depth. | This is a decent little book, but since it covers the entire state, it<br />needs to stick to the main attractions and does not got too deep into<br />any location. There will be just a couple of recommendations for<br />restaurants for example, and attractions like Gatorland are missing from<br />the Orlando coverage... | [] | 0470518642 | 0470518642 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,233,815,784,000 | 1 | false |
5 | More than I expected a great resource explaining copyrights | I originally picked up this book because I thought it would be a good resource to help me find royalty free images for a website I was putting together. I was expecting long lists of websites that I probably could have found by googling, but was too lazy to track down. But I got something completely different.<br /><b... | [] | 1413308589 | 1413308589 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,231,549,559,000 | 1 | false |
5 | The Most Complete Book for Fishing Kodiak | I got Bernard Rosenberg's first book [[ASIN:1571882979 Alaska Fishing on a Budget: A First-Timer's Guide to Organizing and Planning an Economy Salmon Fishing Trip to the Last Frontier]] after my third DIY fishing trip to the Kenai Peninsula. Wish I could have gotten it earlier because we made a lot of the same mistake... | [] | 0977741400 | 0977741400 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,231,549,468,000 | 1 | true |
5 | A Surprisingly Nice Catalog of Ecological Causes | This proved to be kind of an unusual book. The basic design and the premise of asking 100 conservation groups to name their candidate species who most needs protective action resulted in what kind of looks and reads like a 100 page brochure. It kind of feels like a bound advertising insert from Audubon magazine.<br /... | [] | 1845250583 | 1845250583 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,231,219,816,000 | 1 | true |
4 | An Interesting Pop Historical Read | This is a book you can sit down and read for mild, non-fiction entertainment. I was kind expecting a book with obscure stories that I had not heard about, but what it ended up being was a kind of overview of fairly well known historical "failures." I'm not complaining it was still entertaining and somewhat educational... | [] | 1592332994 | 1592332994 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,231,217,637,000 | 7 | false |
4 | A Patchwork History filling in the times from Columbus to the Revolution | It is nice to see a book that covers what American history text books usually gloss over. We don't hear much between the discovery of North America until the American Revolution, at best we get Pilgrims, Jamestown, and then the Boston Tea Party. This book points out that there was a lot going on during these years an... | [] | 1592333028 | 1592333028 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,228,809,509,000 | 4 | false |
4 | A gripping but violent novel | As a word of warning: My wife and I are huge fans of historical fiction. She grabbed this one off my reading stack before I could get to it and returned it shortly after saying that it was too graphically violent for her. After reading the book, I can see her point. So be careful if you are not into violence.<br />... | [] | 1416561390 | 1416561390 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,228,548,115,000 | 0 | false |
5 | A Great Collection of Templates for your Movie Project | I'm impressed with the basic idea behind this book, it is simple, focused, and opens the door to creativity. The author takes a focused look at camera shot solutions pros have used to convey the story to the viewer. It would make brilliant text for an intro film class because it makes you concentrate on how you are t... | [] | 1932907513 | 1932907513 | AGLQQCIS5V6EGUCS5SSNHWZHQM6Q | 1,227,730,764,000 | 25 | false |
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