Review:An absolute classic. Everything you ever wanted to know about design with human well-being at the core. I continually use it for reference. If only our architects and planners used this as their bible!! Read more

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Review:I ordered this book in september and still didnt recieve it after about a month and a half, i ended up getting my money back and just forgetting about it. It was for my college english class and cost me alot of participation time. I won't order anything from these guys again. Read more

Review:The book came really fast! I loved the delivery speed. The book itself has some great prompts and at a great price. The only thing I was worried about with the package it came in. It was torn so wide the book could of fell out. Other than that, it was good. Read more

Review:Great book that stresses getting out of our comfort zone. He is very specific and offers great tips on surviving many various hostile incidences, both man made and natural. Very practical and useful. Really enjoyed reading it. Read more

Review:My daughter likes these Little Kids First Big Books, including this one. I am giving it an extra star to account for her opinion. As the adult reading the book, I like the photos, but I don't like the disjointed text. It's hard to know what to read when. Read more

Review:If it wasn't for its horribly cheap paper quality, I'd have given a 4 or 5 star review based on its content. It's rough on my fingers every time I turn the page. It not only feels cheap, but also looks cheap. The same review applies for all of her other books, unfortunately - same cheap editor. Read more

Review:Another deep-thinking look at the world that, like "Freakonomics" and "Outliers," make you see familiar parts of your life from a new angle, with a new and (hopefully) improved perspective. My high school students have loved all three books. Read more

Review:The wonderful graphics of this volume do make it entertaining and informative. But note that this is an episodic book, with about 150 historical events, all getting exactly a two-page visual treatment. This cookie-cutter approach can make the events appear to have the same significance, and also there is no connection made between them. Thus "The Napoleonic Wars" follows "The French Revolution" two-pager, treating them as separate occurrences, which they by no means are. To really understand ... Read more

Review:Both thought provoking and interesting. I think the ideas in this book are very well presented and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
It provides perspective to how ideas evolve into things of greatness and how the environments that support these ideas are both a part of nature and also man-made environments. Being able to recognise these aspects of an environment, or lack of is an eye-opener.
I would not hesitate to highly recommend this book. I say, Thank you, to the author for his work in this ar... Read more