These questions aren't "tricky", they're frustrating, misleading, or don't have enough info to be able to answer!
Often, you are given a list of choices for the answer, but the correct answer is not one of the choices. Other questions are just not directly answered at all.

Example: "What is salty, bitter, sour, & sweet?"
Example: "Approximately how many cells are there in the human body?" My answer: "more than 25?"
Example: "Is light a particle or a wave?" Book answer: "It can be both."
Example: "How much heat is needed to melt dry ice?" Book answer: "Dry ice is not like regular ice, which melts in warm temperatures. The solid state of dry ice converts immediately to vapor and never experiences a state that can be considered a liquid condition"
Example: "What are the two most puzzling things about the planets Venus and Jupiter?" Book answer lists one thing about Venus and another (unrelated) thing about Jupiter!
Example: "Can you name the male animal that bears his offspring prior to birth?" My answer: "Yes."

All in all, an extremely poorly written trivia book.

This is a pretty good bathroom book, though I found that I was staying in the bathroom to try just one or two more questions.

The book is divided into four sections: The Natural World, The Human Body, The Home Planet, and Numbers and Formulas. Since the questions are numbered separately in each section, this makes it a little harder than need be to find the answer. Too, a lot of the questions deal more with nomenclature (what things are called) than concepts and many of them are deliberately misleading (something the author actually brags about in the introduction), with the answer being "none of the above" or something similar, even though that's never given as an option.

The worst fault, though, is the repetition of the urban legend about toilet bowls draining one way in the northern hemisphere and the other way in the southern, which simply isn't true.

Well, enough of the negative comments. On the positive side, the book is indeed entertaining and does a particularly good job of bringing out some of the scientists responsible for various discoveries, something that is too often forgetten amongst the facts themselves. I was occasionally annoyed by the trickier questions but more often was either pleased with being able to come up with the right answer or edified by reading the answer when I didn't know it. Kuttner also does more than just give a simple answer, providing a little bit of background information as well, which I appreciated.

Another book I recommend for the bathroom (not intended as an insult though it may sound that way).

Seeing the book rated for "Accomplished" programmers, I thought this would be a great way to learn Windows programming (since I already knew C++ itself). This is a very thick book that spends fully 1/2 of the volume with a C++ tutorial (well written). Then, suddenly, the example programs become Windows applications without much discussion on **what is going on**. Nothing on Windows specific programming is found until page 629, where a discussion of the Grapics Device Interface ensues. I found the Windows section to be very vauge. If I want to learn how to use the Integrated Development Environment, I can read the User's Guide that came with the compiler. This book might be a good reference for C++, and possibly for some advanced Windows programming concepts, but it is certainly not good for learning Windows programming with the OWL library

The very first program you try to compile and debug tells you that you "Can't debug 16 bit executables." This is because Borland C++ 5 uses the 32 bit debugger as the default. You can compile the example programs and use the 16 bit debugger, but it doesn't allow the ease of use intended for the IDE.

The Doctor takes Jo and Mike Yates for a spin in the TARDIS, aiming for the planet Karfel (which the Doctor and Jo had visited, according to the story 'Timelash') but, given how awful the other story set on Karfel was, end up instead on the planet Nooma. I'm not sure, though, that this destination is any better.

This story is full of strange alien races and serious bodily transformations, especially for one of the regulars. And with any such transformations, the return to normal afterwards is a difficult thing to believe.

The society of Nooma also causes me some difficulty. I have a problem with so many intelligent races evolving side by side, even with the "explanation" that is offered as part of the book's resolution.

Something simpler would have been better. Getting too complex just leads to trouble.

Definitely not the best Doctor Who Missing Adventure, but it's got its good points. The story moves slowly, and there's not much action. The resolution of the chief bad guy's fate is a little bit of a letdown.

If you're a fast reader who doesn't mind a more slow-moving story, go ahead. If not, don't be afraid to skip this one.

The Great War section is quite good but the WW2 section (the majority of the book) is full of errors, from the dates on which the boats were sunk, the positions in which U-boats were sunk, the cause of loss, some commanders names are incorrect.....

This is a good book I found nothing wrong with the world war 1 section but there are some problems with world war 2. Like U67 is not IXB but a IXC. Also a website that i trust alot disagrees with most of the survivors and lost. But overall this a good book. I think maybe Paul Kemp should write second edition.

The desperate need for historical documentation and 'serious' academic thinking on animation has resulted in a lot of unnecessary books (ie. cud).

Wells lamely applies outmoded film theories from the 70s to animation....and they don't fit. In general...his formalist/structuralist approach is weak (just as it was in the 70s) because it fails to situate the films within their specific contexts.

The book is also filled with spelling errors (eg. Norman McClaren!!!).

Avoid.

This is essentially a scholar book for students of art science: lots of texts, few pictures, and in black and white. It contains a good discussion on the origin of animation, and it tries to specify its specific characteristics. It contains many and very diverse examples, but, of course, they work best as such, when one is able to see the mentioned films. I think this book really helps the reader 'understanding' animation (at least it helps to develop an analytical view towards animation as an art form), but I don't think it is suited for the average animation fan.

A well-intentioned but seriously flawed book for the general reader, by a Yugoslav American of unusual background (his parents were both Protestant ministers in Vojvodina). Tries to spread the blame for the war as widely as possible; ends by recommending Western military intervention, against all sides, in order to effect a partition of Bosnia.

This book is somewhat flawed in that the author dwells a little too much on the religious aspect of the wars in the former Yugoslavia. However, he is quite correct in pointing out the culpability of religious leaders among the Serbs, Croats, Bosnian Muslims and others in fomenting mutual intolerance. Another problem is that his conclusions about how to create a lasting solution to the conflicts (massive Western intervention, basically) seem a bit naive given the record of outside involvement (from the UN to NATO). The historical analysis is also a bit weak. More interesting are the author's insights and opinions of the various Yugoslav peoples, because he speaks from the point of view of an insider, i.e. as someone born and raised in Yugoslavia. Thus, readers can get something of an idea of how the various ex-Yugoslav peoples view each other's nationalisms - because Mojzes is equally critical of all nationalisms in the former Yugoslavia. This makes "Yugoslavian Inferno" an interesting supplement to the literature on the former Yugoslavia, despite its obvious flaws.

Anton Chekhov's 7 Short Farces, is a book of seven Russian plays. The first play (The Bear) is his most famous of the plays in this book. It is an entertaining story of a man collecting debts to pay his mortgage. He travels all around, but nobody can or is willing to pay their debts. So at the last house owned by a recently widowed lady refuses to pay they argue and it breaks into chaos. The rest of the plays follow this pattern. They start of with a normal somewhat comical situation that ends up in utter chaos than just ends. Most of the plays have something to do with irony. I think that Chekhov wrote these as a symbol of the Russian government at this time. Its supposed to show how chaotic and ironic Russia's politics are. After the third play this book becomes somewhat tidies. I think it would be more interesting if these were acted like they were intended to be. Individually the plays are interesting, but when read one after another they are boring. Overall I would not suggest these plays to be read but I would suggest them to be acted for a better understanding of Russian literature.

There is good info to be found in this book, but finding it proved to be much of a chore. There are too many other well written Access books out there to recommend this one

I bought Inside COM by Dale Rogerson and this book to learn how to build an ActiveX control that I can embed in the web page. Inside COM is a great book. This one is not. It just never reaches "up" and stays ground. Hundreds of pages are wasted in issues with security and HTML. The only useful information I could get out is from page 131-140 where it explains about building a cabinet file and HTML that embeds the cabinet.

This book is useful from the standpoint that it offers a quick summary of the most imorportant topics in advanced calculus. It reviews elementary calculus from an advanced viewpoint and then covers topics in advanced calculus. The scope is good and enables one to get a feel for most of the topics covered in advanced calculus in a short time. Having said that the examples are riddled with errors. I counted 17 on one page alone. The number of errors in the examples is astounding. I failed to find many solutions without several errors. This threw me at first as i was learning the subject and later as i understood the concepts better became a challenge and way to sharpen my skills as i found the many errors in the problems. This book is not a complete description of the subject and other books on advanced calculus should also be read to get more details on the various subjects covered. It looks like it was thrown together very quickly and I wonder if the errors were by the author or by who transcribed the text. Either way the author should have reviewed it before signing his name to it.