Simply Google the title and author, check out the Amazon reviews, and make a decision on whether or not to buy. Surely, in this day and age, any potential purchaser would choose the cheap, fast option. Who are the potential readers of such a publication? (I can't, for the life of me think that anyone would waste their time or money on purchasing, let alone reading it). Why would anyone publish a book detailing reviews of an earlier book? More curiously, who would buy such a book? It is little wonder that this was published at the author’s own expense. Why is there a need for the follow up publication? The term ‘vanity publication’ could have been coined specifically to describe this book. Several of the more detailed reviews outline the original book’s structure in considerable detail. To be fair, it would appear that the majority of the reviews are favourable, but not all the reviews are in English. The Role of Mathematics on Human Structure: As The World Reviews, the book currently under review, reproduces 33 reviews of his earlier publication and presents them to the reader. The use of words by the publishing industry to describe various types of books was briefly touched on in two of the authors earlier publishing industr. iScribe helps you to write on a normal paper in the natural form of the writing. The Role of Mathematics on Human Structure was apparently a book that considered the application of mathematical methods to aid more precise surgery, and produce better surgical outcomes, particularly in the orthopaedic population. iScribe, The perfect companion for your online teaching. Let me be clear: the author’s initial publication is not the book that is now under review. I was in fact, being asked to review a book of reviews, which had been published, at his own expense, by the author himself. Imagine my surprise to find that the book is in fact, a summary of the reviews of the author’s 2003 publication ‘The Role of Mathematics on Human Structure’. When asked to review this publication, I expected a book about the mathematics and biomechanics relating to Human Anatomy. Generally though, such publications are books without commercial appeal and have little or no intrinsic merit. On occasion, such books may have some merit, perhaps overlooked by sales-hungry literary agents and publishers. Over the past few years, I have been asked to review quite a number of books and manuscripts but none as unusual as The Role of Mathematics on Human Structure: As The World Reviews.Ī publishing house uses the term “vanity publication” to describe books that are not commissioned, but instead, the author will pay for the printing of the manuscript.
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