Honestly, I took a look at it in Barnes and Noble, and I wasn't very impressed. It seemed like a rehash of what you can find in the user manual. It is definitely a beginner's guide. As a beginner, it may serve your purposes, but if you have a copy of the manual, you may want to just stick with that, and use the plethora of tutorials available on this site to get better. Now this is just something I heard, but I consider the source pretty good, so I will share it here. There is supposedly a Poser book in the works, by a prominent member of the community. If this is the case, then it will be worth the wait. And sorry, as far as I know, Dr. Geep is not writing a book. But I wish he would! Speaking of Dr. Geep. Go to Poser Backroom. (Also available up on this page under the forum banner.) On the right, you will see a Tutorial button. Click that, and then in the middle, click on the link for Dr. Geep's Lab. He is a wonderful tutorial writer, and there are a ton of them to look at.