Compact Guide to Croatia

Advantages: Compact size and waterproof cover
Disadvantages: Disjointed and hard to find information.

...I am the sort of person who enjoys planning for their holiday. I love researching our destination and I devour as much information as I can before I go as I find that if I am knowledgeable about a place I enjoy myself much more. Embarking on a cruise last year was my idea of heaven as it gave me ample opportunity to research lots of different places. One of our ports of call was Dubrovnik and it soon became apparent that this would be a suitable destination for an independent sightseeing tour. I read quite a bit on the internet but decided that taking a guidebook with us was probably a wise move. My local bookshop only had one book covering Croatia so that?s how I came to purchase the Berlitz Pocket Guide at £4.99. Appearance First impressions of this guidebook were very positive. It is, as the name suggest, compact in...

Meggysmum 15.10.2009 · Read review
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Brilliant Brits Guide!

Advantages: Clearly laid out with really useful information.
Disadvantages: -

...Before I go on holiday I delight in researching where I am going. I love to know lots about my destination and I feel I get a lot more out of my holiday if I am well-informed. My family always tease me about the fact I like to be so ultra organised but really they agree that our holidays are usually interesting and fun as a result. When we decided to visit Orlando several years ago my planning went into overdrive. I thought that it was somewhere we would only visit once and knew I wanted to "do" as much as we could. Little did I know that we would return several times as we love it -but thats another review! I began looking around for a good guide book that particularly focused on the Orlando area. There are several books which cover the whole of Florida but since we had young children we did not want to do much travelling...

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Triangular Guide

Advantages: Detail, Pictures & Diagrams
Disadvantages: Friends kept stealing it

...""Please note - this is a review of the 2003 version of the book and it has been updated and reprinted in 2007."" When it was finally confirmed that I would be spending a few weeks working in India towards the end of 2006, as well as organising injections, anti malarials etc I wanted to get a guide book to plan to get the most out of my weekends. Off I went to my local bookshop and started looking at India guides and I soon realised that there were some that covered the triangle of Cities in Northern India that I would hopefully be able to visit from our base in Noida (in the National Capital Region of Delhi) - Delhi, Agra & Jaipur. I think people have a favourite type of guide book be it Rough Guide, Lonely Planet or others but my favourite is the Eyewitness range which I had used for many years and had been invaluable not just...

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The best revision guides!

Advantages: colourful, brokendown info, helpful diagrams, humour
Disadvantages: not enough info

...When revising a subject or topic it is never easy. The best way to do this is by making it as easy as possible. The C.G.P revision books understand and have made their revision books both easy and practical to use. The C.G.P Company are situated at Newcastle upon Tyne. C.G.P stands for Coordination Group Publication Ltd. The company are widely used in most schools across the UK. This is because the revision guides are so good and have helped many students pass exams. They have excellently made long-winded passages of heavy material into straightforward and readable paragraphs. The company have divided the topics into more easy to digest sections. This makes revision a little easier to cope with. Also helping students divide there revision time up into these sections. The revision guides deliver vital...

emi_angel 17.02.2006 (04.06.2006) · Read review
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Finally, a game guide that you really must buy!

Advantages: Tons of information, Easy to read and find what you need, Factually accurate.
Disadvantages: Some information is repeated, A section on the blocks used in house building would of been nice.

...With MySims being such an open ended game, the Prima guide is not a walkthrough, and is instead an encyclopaedia of the games essences, the different Sims themselves, tasks you ca do for them, the rewards and a list of all the blueprints (I understand this may confuse someone not familiar with MySims but I will assume if you are reading this, you are familiar with the games content) Degree of Information There is a lot of content in the guide, at 175 pages long it is quite thick, but there is a lot of information packed into it. A few pages of introduction and explaining what the game is about there are six major chapters. The first is the intro, the second explains the basics, how to navigate, how to build and paint furniture and explaining the essence types and how to get them. The third chapter describes the Sims you can move...

Eisbrecher 11.08.2009 · Read review
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Gears guide

Advantages: Collectible locations
Disadvantages: could spoil the campaign

...Gears of War 2, a great game! The guide also matches up to the game. If you want to get the most out of the game then the guide is the way to go and should be your first port of call. It gives you the locations of all the collectibles on each level on the game. These collectibles are much different to the COG tags in Gears of war 1. For example some of them are newspapers and tend to be quite interesting to read in the war journal, especially if you are enthralled by the series and the story. It may also be noted that it can be very difficult to find all the collectibles without the guide as they are hidden away in dark corners and side rooms etc. that you may not see just playing through the campaign. It also helps with the campaign showing the cover, ammo and weapons you may find as well as a general guide as to how to do the game...

tinytomg 26.01.2009 · Read review
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Guiding Force

Advantages: Lots of info covering many aspects of writing
Disadvantages: It focuses on Australian writers, so some info is irrelevant to UK writers

...If you want to be a writer, you can make the mistake of reading too many 'how to' guides and never get around to actually writing (especially common with wannabe screenwriters, according to books I have!). The Writer's Guide brings you back to basics though and suggests plenty of outlets for your writing, along with many tips and advice. The only downside to this book is that it is written for Australasian writers, so a lot of the information on Australian and New Zealand writers' groups, publishers, agents, etc. doesn't apply to those of us living in the UK. That's a shame, but anybody serious about writing should purchase The Writers' Yearbook (published annually) for practicalities like publisher and agent addresses, so it's not that big a deal. The advice is very general - if you're writing within a specific field, it is...

DoubleFantasy11 12.06.2006 · Read review
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Review of The Wirter's Guide - Irina Dunn

The Zombie Survival Guide - Almost Real

Advantages: Informative, Engrossing, May Save Your Life
Disadvantages: Contradicts Itself On Too Many Occasions

...Now I'm not normally much of a reader, and much prefer a good film rather than a book, however after reading The Zombie Survival Guide I'm willing to give reviewing it a shot. The book basically outlines the precautions necessary to survive and defend against a zombie attack. It explains what a zombie is, how to destroy a zombie, the best weapons to do so and even how to build a fortress to start a new life once the zombies take over the world. Towards the end of the book there are even reported attacks and the accounts of those involved in them. Max Brooks takes a lot from cinema himself, a lot of the ideas in the book are clearly influenced by popular zombie films such as Dawn of the Dead. I found the book to be utterly engrossing and for the first half I was actually debating with myself if zombies were infact real or not, I was...

AndyCreighton 23.05.2009 · Read review
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The Lipizzaner, an Allen Guide

Advantages: Good, useful book
Disadvantages: A little thin, perhaps?

...The Allen Guide to Horse and Pony Breeds is one of the guides that the company publishes for the dedicated horse enthusiast and ride. It is guide number 8 in the series and is entitled The Lipizzaner. The guide is written by Una Harley and is "a full colour guide." Although it is a rather thin book, it is packed with a great deal of information. Probably more than you would get with other books 20 times as thick! It starts with an introduction as to exactly what Lipizzaner horses are, their origins, when they were first bred, who by, and for what reason. (I will not give a history lesson on the breed. For I am reviewing the book, not the breed!) However, the description of the origins of the breed taught me, in a matter of a couple of pages, much more that I ever knew about these stunning white horses and their origins, which...

Martinscholes 26.07.2006 · Read review
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A Comprehensive Guide To Vegas

Advantages: Tells you all about the casinos, museums and what to see and how to do it
Disadvantages: Doesn't list prices despite updates

...the town itself and the desert that surrounds it, all of which makes for interesting reading on that 9 hour flight out there. It is made by a company called Insight Guides who specialise in creating travel guides to various places around the world. The company was founded in 1970 with the first guide created by German Hans Hoefer as he travelled from Europe into Asia. He then went on to produce a number of other guides to the Asian cotenant before moving onto the rest of the world. He then sold his shares in the guides to a German company, who formed the Insight Guides concept, producing 400 different guides in association with The Discovery Channel. The book itself is a pretty comprehensive guide to Vegas. It lists each of the hotels as a paragraph section and where necessary also tells you what there is to see in each hotel. I found...

Andy.mack 14.01.2005 · Read review
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