The Focal Easy Guide to Combustion 4: For New Users and ... (ISBN 0240520106)

Great wide range manuel:
This is a book for a tekie who wants to understand what options are available in Combustion and how they can be connected together. I am not in the field but am familiar with the terms and techniques used; this book is the best tool I've found for a simple "this is how you make it do this" explanation.

More of an instruction manual, than a how to book:
This book tells you what the various features are, but spends almost no time showing you how to put hem to any real use. I was hoping for a book full of tutorials, instead I got a little orange owner's manual for the software. It tells you how to do a few small excercises here and there, but by and large this is more a collection of features, than it is a book of instructional tutorials.

Great, but as good as identical to the Focal Easy Guide to Discreet combustion 3:
I got this revised Edition from a Library to compare it with it's predecessor which I own, and there are no new chapters at all. Some revisions have been made however. The book has maybe six pages more than the previous edition did. So, if you already own the Focal Easy Guide to Discreet combustion 3 don't buy the revised edition. If you hope to find any insights on new Features of Combustion 4 like Capsules you will be disapointed as there are none. If you don't own the predecessor this book is highly recommended.

Great book but the graphics.................:
Great book, I imagine it would be hard to write any book on such a complex program. My only gripe is the screen shots. Combustion's normal interface is black background with grey text, which is legible on a monitor, but almost unreadable in a book. So, next edition, use a different color scheme please!

Dissappointed:
well, gives basic concepts, a quick read will give you an understanding of the gui, etc,etc...but in the end, online tutorials is the best way to go.. worth reading?...yes worth 18 dollars plus shipping?...NO.