Reviews for The Natural History of the Mineral Kingdom,: Relative to the Strata of Coal, Mineral Veins, ...

The average rating for The Natural History of the Mineral Kingdom,: Relative to the Strata of Coal, Mineral Veins, ... based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-04-29 00:00:00 Peter Smith Downgrade the star rating by a half. Note: I read this as a Human Resources Management student - someone coming from a non-business background. The information presented is excellent, and the cases relevant and fresh. Unfortunately, I found the layout to be choppy and distracting; in an effort to make the book interesting, someone (copy editors? authors? publisher?) decided to create a very busy layout, with lots of jumps and breaks, text that appears to go a whole page, with a graphic or textbox in down the middle in places - and really is laid out to have you read halfway down the page, jump to the top of the column at the other side (separated by the textbox of something else in the middle), and then go to the bottom left quarter of the page for the next bit. As a college text, I found it too jumpy, and made things more difficult to follow. A shame, as the content is actually quite good. Fortunately for me, this course grading was fully centered on assignments, not tests - I'm not certain I could have studied well for an exam from this.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-11-04 00:00:00 Tim Brandt A good introduction to the essential components of a business. Very high level, perfect for a beginner like me. Gets pretty dry in the late accounting chapters. I mean, it's a textbook.