This book covers all the basics and then some. The photographs are tasteful and excellent; the models are beautiful; and the advice is well-presented.

This book is written in an accessible and practical format. It assumes nothing but at the same time treats the reader as an intelligent participant on the journey to understanding evidence based practice.

It is up to date and I was especially impressed with the web address it gives to ensure the reader is kept abreast of any changes since publication.

It systematically explains the need and use of 'evidence', how to find it (the search advice is comprehensive and includes details such as search terms and the best search engines aswell as web addresses) how to evaluate it and also how to act on it.

All in all this book was great, and I would reccomend it to anyone involved in evidence based healthcare practice as it will guide you through the thorniest problems.

I read this book cover to cover. from the beginning it wasn't grabbing my attention.I was very bored while reading it.It's main focus to me was on older couples, 35 and up, with infertility problems. Completely ignoring the younger reader such as myself. (I'm 24 and have had infertility issues for 4 yrs.)I did like the interviews the author used to express the couples actual feelings, although, my husband and myself didn't seem to relate to a lot of the male perspective and some of the female perspective the author was giving. The title is -Healing the Infertile family:Strengthening your relationship in the search for Parenthood- I don't feel like I learned any new coping techniques,I don't feel any good information on what my husband and myself could do to strengthen our relationship was presented like the title would insinuate. So I rate this book only 2 stars.

This is the best book on infertility and its effects on relationships that I've read (and I've read quite a few). It is written by an anthropologist who has struggled with infertility herself and is based on her research. I never expected to find such words of wisdom in a book like this. Empowering, life-affirming, hopeful, and full of love. Every couple who is experiencing infertility should read it. I would also recommend it to infertility doctors and counselors, and social workers working with adoption.

I am so thankful for Gay Becker and her research. This book is a treasure.

This book is a joke, it shows hundreds of pages of worthless technical information with no reference to any practical modeling. Margaret should read 3d studio workshop by Duane Loose to see how a tutorial should be written. Save your cash.

The title to this review says it all. I basically have had to "teach" myself in order to learn ANYTHING in Rhino. This book (which I recieved as a gift, THANK GOODNESS because if I had paid for it I would have felt the hole in my wallet) starts out ok in the first few chapters but then falls short dramatically of the intended goal. Later on it crudely shows you how to create a poorly designed figure of a boy and a skateboard that's laughably nothing more than just basic shapes slapped together. As for the section on creating a detailed human face/head from a plaster caste, let's be real here - HOW many people actually a)own a Microscribe digitizing tool at home, and b)have the time to smother a friend in Plaster to create a caste for digitizing a face? If this book had been set up properly it would have taught people how to create the face straight in Rhino with Nurbs or whatever else (again I'm lacking the proper terminology since this book has failed to even teach me THAT, so forgive me if I use the wrong terms) like other books teach people in HALF the time it would take to go through the digitizing process which seems more awkward than anything else.

Now I'm giving this book 2 stars but again it's merely because it DID help me get a knowledge of what the tools where for in the tool bars - but rest assured that's NOTHING you couldn't get from the Manuals. In short: The manuals which are vague to begin with (to this DAY I've yet to find someone who can admit to knowing how to apply the UV coordinates and texture map an object in Rhino entirely - and I've even asked this of the PRO's in the forums with no answer) are BETTER than this book and that's not saying much in it's defense.

Sorry to the author but this should have been written better instead of rushed to market. Now if we can get a RHINO BIBLE from the people that brought us the 3DS Max 4 bible...now ya talking!! :)

I think that this book was great help for any beginner. I started with previous of Autocad and 3D Studio Max, so this book was easy to learn from. Easy to follow tutorials helped as well as an understanding of basic design. This book functions twofold as manual and tutorial. To those that wrote reviews saying it was difficult, like anything else in life understanding and knowledge doesn't fall in you laps. Trust me, only a fool with no patience couldn't understand this book. EASY. I look forward to a second edition that deals with more advanced modelling techniques and features of this great program.