The Channel Divergences: Deeper Pathways of the Web

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Summary: The Channel Divergences: Deeper Pathways of the Web
Review: I bought The Channel Divergences (Shima & Chace) after reading a review elsewhere and felt I must comment on this book.

This book is full of mistakes, typo's, and inconsistencies. My copy came with a sheet titled "errata" tucked into the inside cover (there's a typo on that sheet too). It listed about 10 major corrections in diagrams of the book. Mind you, this is a revised edition I bought and it still had mistakes.

Then I started reading the book. Mistakes abound. For example, in the footnotes after chapter 8 (pp. 197-200) on Miki Shima's Approach, I found close to 100 mistakes, if not more! I couldn't help but think that if the author's are so careless (or lazy) to run a spellchecker on these pages, did they even bother to check the acupuncture points they listed for use in their method? I have no way to determine if they are correct or not.

I complained to Honora Wolf of Blue Poppy, the publishers of this book, and she told me this book was "the low water mark" in their publishing. However, even she wasn't aware of the footnote mistakes! Honora was very kind though and told me she would send me a corrected version. I expected a new book but what I received was a cheesy patch job on the copy I had bought. ("Tacky" is another good way to describe this copy.) Blue Poppy's solution was to photocopy corrections onto label paper and stick them in the book.

Even though the book has a disclaimer about mistakes and omissions, my personal feeling is that if you are selling a book this bad (and you know it) you need to recall it and replace it with a corrected version. After all, medical practitioners probably are trying the book's advice on their patients. (Hopefully they haven't hurt anyone.) I suspect that those who first bought this book in 2001 when it was first published may not even know there are mistakes in it.

Shame on Dr's Shima and Chace and Blue Poppy for failing to proofread this book. Shame on them even more for still pawning them off at $40 bucks a copy. My illusions of reading a scholarly book was shattered, as was my respect for those involved.

On my scale of one to five this book doesn't even begin to rate.

Rating:
Summary: The Channel Divergences: Deeper Pathways of the Web
Review: I bought The Channel Divergences (Shima & Chace) after reading a review elsewhere and felt I must comment on this book.

This book is full of mistakes, typo's, and inconsistencies. My copy came with a sheet titled "errata" tucked into the inside cover (there's a typo on that sheet too). It listed about 10 major corrections in diagrams of the book. Mind you, this is a revised edition I bought and it still had mistakes.

Then I started reading the book. Mistakes abound. For example, in the footnotes after chapter 8 (pp. 197-200) on Miki Shima's Approach, I found close to 100 mistakes, if not more! I couldn't help but think that if the author's are so careless (or lazy) to run a spellchecker on these pages, did they even bother to check the acupuncture points they listed for use in their method? I have no way to determine if they are correct or not.

I complained to Honora Wolf of Blue Poppy, the publishers of this book, and she told me this book was "the low water mark" in their publishing. However, even she wasn't aware of the footnote mistakes! Honora was very kind though and told me she would send me a corrected version. I expected a new book but what I received was a cheesy patch job on the copy I had bought. ("Tacky" is another good way to describe this copy.) Blue Poppy's solution was to photocopy corrections onto label paper and stick them in the book.

Even though the book has a disclaimer about mistakes and omissions, my personal feeling is that if you are selling a book this bad (and you know it) you need to recall it and replace it with a corrected version. After all, medical practitioners probably are trying the book's advice on their patients. (Hopefully they haven't hurt anyone.) I suspect that those who first bought this book in 2001 when it was first published may not even know there are mistakes in it.

Shame on Dr's Shima and Chace and Blue Poppy for failing to proofread this book. Shame on them even more for still pawning them off at $40 bucks a copy. My illusions of reading a scholarly book was shattered, as was my respect for those involved.

On my scale of one to five this book doesn't even begin to rate.