Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 621
EAN num: 9780750653688
ISBN number: 075065368X
Label: Made Simple
Manufacturer: Made Simple
Page Count: 224
Printing Date: January 29, 2002
Publishing house: Made Simple
Sale Popularity Level: 2652646
Studio: Made Simple
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Rated by buyers -
This book is riddled with factual errors, contains irritating ideological bias and is poorly written.
The author gets things wrong, like what the voltage is for AC electricity in the US. And then goes on, in the same chapter, to get wrong the range of human hearing and the range of frequencies used human speech. Not only is it wrong, but it's a digression within a digression within a digression. Why is he talking about this anyway?
Some pages in the very first few chapters are more than half fulled with useless NBs.
One particularly useless page starts meandering around different methods of industrial power generation. The writer then turns even farther afield to mock solar power and call opponents of nuclear power "hysterical" and goes on, in an NB, suggesting that deluded anti-nuke crusaders should protest the sun because it's also nuclear.
Um, right. Then he diverts 90 degrees in another pointless direction.
So the book is insulting me and I'm not learning anything, but given how sloppy the author is with numbers, this is probably a plus, since anything I did learn would probably be incorrect.
However, there might be good uses for this book. If you know somebody that will probably electrocute themselves if they start messing around with electricity, this book would be a great way to discourage them. Similarly, this is a good gift for somebody that you hate. Basically, if you have any wish to see somebody remain ignorant and become discouraged, this is the best book you can get.
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