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- ...tone would have made the world of difference. The book has a comprehensive index and notes section, but these are separate to the text itself, and therefore4 KB (606 words) - 12:14, 14 April 2018
- ...d in further reading below). I also appreciated the detailed footnotes and index. I admit to finding certain sections more absorbing than others due to my n4 KB (565 words) - 11:01, 2 March 2018
- ...ich has already been mentioned. It's all very confusing and as there's no index of place names to guide you it's virtually impossible to know if you've see4 KB (674 words) - 10:54, 14 April 2018
- ...ns that you have to use the index to find the recipe you need. Luckily the index is well compiled and anyway, after a while you will have a rough idea of wh8 KB (1,368 words) - 08:36, 16 September 2020
- ...ith images of the ruins of the more noteworthy places discussed here. The index was very extensive, which will be of interest to scholarly readers. The ton4 KB (638 words) - 13:27, 11 April 2018
- ...between an extremophile and an electron microscope. There's an excellent index too – and the covers have flaps at both ends so that you never lose your3 KB (570 words) - 08:20, 31 March 2024
- ...are there, including the changes introduced in the 2008 code, and the full index. Do remember though that this is not the book to carry round in your bag t3 KB (578 words) - 14:45, 12 April 2018
- ...always?) then I'd have loved to have seen some maps and a table of content/index would have helped - but these are not deal breakers.4 KB (597 words) - 09:55, 24 March 2018
- ...e's information on 'Maintenance and Upgrades' and a very good glossary and index. I have a very slight reservation about the target age group at eight plus4 KB (602 words) - 14:35, 24 March 2018
- ...t have to: this is essentially a reference book. It has a reasonably good index and you can look up the possibilities for whatever is working its way to th4 KB (629 words) - 08:53, 3 April 2024
- ...nday 17 November'' until we arrive at a brief epilogue, the references and index.4 KB (584 words) - 10:28, 13 April 2018
- I've a minor quibble about the book: there's no index. I have an outing planned to the RSPB reserve at [http://www.rspb.org.uk/d4 KB (637 words) - 13:10, 6 April 2018
- ...eadable given the potential dryness of the subject. The footnotes and the index are also well laid out, making further study very simple, should the reader4 KB (721 words) - 09:31, 16 April 2018
- My favourite stat is the Big Mac Index, which looks at the price of a Big Mac in various parts of the world. It m4 KB (622 words) - 08:59, 19 September 2020
- ...e bibliography of sources and further reading. And I was pleased to see an index, which is invaluable for a book of this kind.4 KB (611 words) - 12:05, 29 December 2023
- The book is rounded off with a good glossary and an index. I'd like to thank the publishers for letting Bookbag have a review copy.4 KB (629 words) - 04:33, 1 April 2024
- ...e read. I also appreciated the rigour of a decent bibliography and a good index.4 KB (623 words) - 14:00, 9 April 2018
- I missed that there wasn't an index - it would be a handy way to find a reference you remember but you're not s4 KB (678 words) - 12:59, 13 April 2018
- ...re people by reading excerpts to them. I've only one quibble – there's no index and when I try and find something I inevitable get sidetracked and that's '4 KB (642 words) - 09:17, 3 October 2020
- ...for the intelligent, thinking reader to keep. As there's a comprehensive index it's easy to refer back to questions which interest you.4 KB (628 words) - 13:00, 9 August 2020
- ...for reference at the end of the book and I was delighted to find a usable index. I'd like to thank the publisher for sending a copy of the book to the Boo4 KB (636 words) - 08:33, 28 April 2018
- ...ed. And in keeping with the basic-essays-and-nought-else plan, there is no index, and no list of sources, so the entry, say, on Hitler's medication, needs a4 KB (650 words) - 13:03, 7 October 2020
- ...t put you'll need to know it comes under athletics or to look it up in the index. It's about the disciplines rather than individual events. I've been righ4 KB (697 words) - 15:55, 15 August 2020
- ...says about you. Like all the best books there's a decent bibliography and index.4 KB (669 words) - 11:15, 14 April 2018
- ...s a visible influence on ''Worrying''. It's a book with a bibliography, an index, and footnotes lining the bottom of pages. And it is replete with literary4 KB (674 words) - 09:44, 29 August 2020
- ...wherever s/he may be from now on. It has a beginning, middle and end (and index), and can be counted on for some great, no-nonsense advice.4 KB (634 words) - 08:43, 22 March 2018
- ...Dalyell as Thomas Dalyell. On a more positive note, do have a look at the index: I don't think I've ever seen one which made me laugh so much.4 KB (678 words) - 13:01, 2 March 2018
- ...table book at a fraction of the price and with a lot more substance. The index is business like and works well and the list of further reading is very tem4 KB (716 words) - 09:48, 26 February 2018
- ...eir position in scientific classification system). There is a alphabetical index, of course, which is a necessary thing, but I am simply after a more detail4 KB (690 words) - 09:45, 26 February 2018
- ...the time to sit and savour it for long. I would have liked an additional index of entries but it’s not a glaring omission, even if you can’t be sure w4 KB (709 words) - 14:11, 27 February 2018
- ...logy or culture follows at the end of each story whilst a bibliography and index of Gods and characters conclude the book.4 KB (651 words) - 09:41, 2 March 2018
- The book does not have an index, but contains very detailed headings under each chapter title in the conten4 KB (677 words) - 13:50, 8 April 2018
- ...read another one before I put the book down' category. I'd have loved an index as there were a couple of points which I wanted to go back and think about4 KB (721 words) - 12:15, 17 January 2023
- Scholars will wish for a better index, and will query how the royal fringe headband is spelled in two different w4 KB (714 words) - 13:21, 12 April 2018
- ...e and quotation to be worth reading alongside the main text) and a 20 page index. At the same time though, it is an accessible account of women’s higher e4 KB (717 words) - 10:31, 13 April 2018
- ...book to enhance their status down at the Dog and Duck. Despite its useful index, nor do I see it being produced with a triumphant flourish to settle a prot4 KB (667 words) - 08:56, 6 May 2018
- ...w starter, the CEO will definitely need his reading spectacles. There's no index either and when I wanted to quote some advice I found myself having to flic4 KB (778 words) - 11:15, 10 April 2018
- ...ith the support of the glossary at the end of the book. There is also an index of common as well as scientific names.4 KB (666 words) - 08:52, 5 May 2018
- ...Pistoia and the tour was much more relaxing. I was disappointed with the index too. The entry for the Sistine Chapel takes you to Umbria and there's no me4 KB (749 words) - 16:33, 17 August 2021
- ...ew information you don't always remember precise details. You can use the index for this but it's far from foolproof if you want a quick answer. My only o5 KB (813 words) - 10:41, 29 March 2024
- One major improvement on earlier years is the inclusion of an index. Now people can quickly find their favourite question and answer so that t4 KB (684 words) - 12:39, 16 April 2018
- Danes regularly top happiness index lists. They are satisfied with their lives. But why? From Albrechtsen's Ame4 KB (710 words) - 16:22, 7 April 2018
- ...g) is a lack of organisation of its contents. There is no chapter list, no index and very few chapter headings within the narrative. This means that it can4 KB (737 words) - 22:09, 15 February 2018
- The book is divided into six chapters, plus appendices and an index. We start with ''Exploring Nature''. A self-assessment section (as with e5 KB (772 words) - 09:16, 3 April 2024
- ...h will stand a lot of use and there's even a useful glossary and efficient index. I'd like to thank the publishers for sending a copy to the Bookbag.4 KB (763 words) - 11:40, 8 April 2018
- ...start training is here, although not particularly easy to find without an index. I feel it would be difficult to construct an individual programme from the5 KB (718 words) - 10:21, 16 April 2018
- ...d to keep him out of trouble. The beginning of the book is set out in an 'Index', though this doesn't really take us anywhere, it is merely the fragments a5 KB (782 words) - 14:21, 30 March 2018
- .... All this is told in 178 pages (the rest of the book includes sources, an index and six pages of acknowledgements that would not look out of place in an Os4 KB (677 words) - 14:23, 31 August 2020
- ...page or two of notes and bibliography, the whole supplemented by a general index covering the volume in total.4 KB (703 words) - 14:41, 23 March 2018
- ...od-thirsty dinosaur? It's all rounded off with a glossary and an excellent index. For a child who is interested in dinosaurs (and the exceptions seem to be5 KB (824 words) - 08:52, 22 March 2018
- ...s had come out. So you get an introductory letter and interrupting little index card notes from a modern-day editor. You get annotations by the man himsel4 KB (747 words) - 09:25, 16 February 2018
- ...rthy or the frightening – there's the quirky too. The Economist's Big Mac index has a serious side as there's a suggestion that the countries with the lowe5 KB (738 words) - 10:46, 10 April 2018
- ...e looking for in a book. You actually had to thumb your way through this ''index'' malarkey. Who knew!10 KB (1,781 words) - 11:21, 21 November 2012
- ...want to, review the references. On the plus side, there is an impressive index.5 KB (767 words) - 09:56, 13 April 2018
- ...ranian… the roll call of the citizens' birth countries reads like an atlas index. Now imagine these cultures, living alongside each other in cramped condit4 KB (748 words) - 15:24, 30 March 2018
- ...going for you. It's unashamedly academic with more than a hundred pages of index, bibliographic notes and sources. Stylistically, Peter Gay sits somewhere b5 KB (804 words) - 13:32, 6 April 2018
- ...y the book hasn't been as well-used as it might have been. There is a good index but when you're looking for inspiration that's not necessarily your first p5 KB (840 words) - 13:47, 10 April 2018
- ...e produced, a glossary of people, places and other wartime phrases, and an index which includes place names, so I can look up all seven references to Stoke5 KB (742 words) - 13:31, 12 April 2018
- ...namely the bizarre use of three fonts where one would do, and the lack of index, and the scroll option would let you bypass the fact that Wheeler has an in5 KB (800 words) - 11:23, 12 March 2018
- ...gives rather more than you expect too. There's the luxury of an excellent index (increasingly rare even in good books, these days), a glossary which rightl5 KB (807 words) - 08:25, 29 April 2018
- ...''Quality Comics''. This book can be had up for not including a creator's index, but we soon learn the threat implied by the name Bill Woolfolk, or one of5 KB (784 words) - 12:42, 21 August 2020
- ...a section given over to it. Instead you have to know where to look in the index and even then you won't be able to locate all the references. In an otherw5 KB (873 words) - 15:16, 3 February 2023
- ...t. The majority are not signed though each artist is credited in the front index and a short biography is included at the back. There are a good number of n4 KB (783 words) - 10:26, 3 March 2018
- ...nd Gisele. Being a "proper", factual, researched book, there is a thorough index at the back and though a younger me might have gone straight for "sex" to s5 KB (922 words) - 10:10, 11 May 2018
- ...n the novelised approach, it almost seems silly to have a bibliography and index – when of anything I would have liked a map or two, of Lithuania, and not5 KB (822 words) - 10:02, 13 April 2018
- ...e proper content, there are more than 30 at the end for these notes and an index, worth bearing in mind if you’re coming to the finish and expecting to ha5 KB (939 words) - 08:47, 10 April 2018
- ...sm – with all the names mentioned, I felt the book could have done with an index. But it certainly didn't spoil my enjoyment of a very engrossing read.4 KB (772 words) - 10:29, 1 March 2018
- ...aste amongst us. It probably couldn't be improved, unless it lost the A-Z index (silly in an A-Z book), or listed all the American-only Eggs too - but that5 KB (826 words) - 12:55, 11 April 2018
- ...ather than loved this book and it was things like the seemingly incomplete index that contributed to this.5 KB (876 words) - 11:52, 14 April 2018
- ...is small, not even 150 pages of text, and more like 100 if you exclude the index, references and acknowledgements so perhaps it's unsurprising that it had t5 KB (820 words) - 08:16, 19 September 2020
- ...e of the more (or less) obscure references in the adverts. There's even an index with some erudite entries. Every sexual preference seems to be catered for5 KB (824 words) - 09:28, 6 March 2018
- ...and it's easy to find the fact that you want afterwards. I'd have loved an index, but that's me being picky and rather lazy. You want advice on sex, love an5 KB (938 words) - 12:24, 16 April 2018
- ...Bearing that in mind, this volume would be improved by the provision of an index for reference purposes. I did enjoy the extracts from BFR's works, the nume5 KB (834 words) - 14:55, 8 April 2018
- ...akes some navigation. I for one was grateful for the Commemorative Design Index at the front, an A-Z listing of all subjects since 1953. If you want to kn5 KB (764 words) - 14:10, 30 August 2020
- ...al reader in mind. There are no illustrations, lists of dates, or even an index which surely limits its use as a work of historical reference. As backgrou5 KB (808 words) - 08:09, 12 April 2018
- ...gh notes on each chapter, a biographical appendix , a glossary and general index, making this book very useful for future research.5 KB (787 words) - 08:30, 12 April 2018
- ...nto, whether you are interested in plants, folklore or social history. The index is excellent and there is a long list of references for the reader to follo5 KB (857 words) - 08:32, 27 September 2020
- ...s, bibliography (usefully divided into fiction, non-fiction and films) and index – but found that each chapter can be read, to some extent, as a separate5 KB (800 words) - 11:26, 26 September 2020
- ...logically set out with précised recaps at the end of each and an itemised index at the back of the book. We're guided through cheery, undumbed-down tutori5 KB (830 words) - 11:31, 4 September 2022
- ...his sidekick, DS Heather Jenkins recognises the series as potentially the index number for a birth or death certificate and calls in a genealogist, Nigel B5 KB (925 words) - 13:29, 18 February 2018
- ...already. But do you know what really disappointed me? Looking through the index I found an entry for ''Yorkshire Picnic'' with a page number for what seeme5 KB (875 words) - 12:24, 10 April 2018
- ...r movement history. The book includes twenty-six pages of footnotes and an index for the benefit of anyone using it for academic study or research, or who j5 KB (846 words) - 09:25, 21 August 2020
- ...look at all the references in the way I did. There is a very comprehensive index. More interestingly for the general reader, there are 16 pages of black and5 KB (895 words) - 09:11, 15 August 2020
- ...raphy of 78 rpm discs and LPs. One minor criticism I would make is of the index, with some names omitted, and also the rather old-fashioned principle of no5 KB (832 words) - 09:01, 18 September 2020
- ...or even three completely different things. And all the while there is no index, nor complete referencing, nor notes.5 KB (915 words) - 09:26, 9 April 2018
- ...hich seems to be increasingly a sign of the times today, is the lack of an index – a little surprising, given the attention to detail shown in the bibliog5 KB (898 words) - 10:34, 13 April 2018
- ...or those studying or doing research, there is a comprehensive and detailed index.6 KB (998 words) - 11:14, 12 April 2018
- Praise is also due to the excellent index which is usefully split into 'subjects', 'names' and 'wines'. However, even6 KB (953 words) - 12:03, 15 April 2018
- ...attempt to cover the man’s life and times in great depth, and it lacks an index, but it tells the basic facts in around 200 crisp pages and provides a usef5 KB (918 words) - 14:12, 9 April 2018
- ...oved as a work of reference had either a timeline of cases mentioned or an index been added. I also have some reservations about the magazine-style layout,5 KB (891 words) - 13:02, 16 April 2018
- ...ting everything, I feel that a book this size would have benefited from an index and discography, at least of UK releases. Nevertheless, I found it an engr5 KB (858 words) - 15:21, 3 September 2020
- ...cookbooks have a 'lived-in' look. Talking of the cover, the flaps are the index, which is a very clever idea. But it's not the book you want to know about6 KB (997 words) - 11:24, 8 April 2018
- ...whose surname starts with M (and therefore presumably starts the famous M index which would go on to include Moriarty and Moran), but the ending is the kin5 KB (887 words) - 08:21, 7 August 2020
- ...ilmography or list of TV and theatre appearances, there is a comprehensive index – which is more than can be said for certain other recent titles in this6 KB (994 words) - 07:52, 17 September 2020
- ...f the people caught up in the war. There are several pages of endnotes, an index and a bibliographical notes with several suggestions for further reading, w6 KB (942 words) - 11:23, 28 February 2018
- ...hies published today it is good to note that a comprehensive bibliography, index and reference notes are provided at the end.5 KB (912 words) - 09:31, 19 August 2020
- ...ant to use it as a reference book after you've bought a dog the lack of an index will make it a time-consuming task.6 KB (1,075 words) - 11:03, 14 April 2018
- ...ood volume to dip into and keep as a work of reference. The comprehensive index makes sure it will serve the latter function as well as being a very worthw5 KB (829 words) - 12:51, 11 April 2018
- The Greatest Escape: How one French community saved thousands of lives from the Nazis by Peter Grose...ession that he's gone for overkill on minutiae – that, despite the lack of index, this book is trying to be the authoritative, most heavily-detailed and aca6 KB (963 words) - 11:24, 12 April 2018
- The Commemorative Design Index at the front is a boon as ever, saving us the time of leafing through every5 KB (890 words) - 10:29, 27 February 2018