These authors are extremely biased against traditional research, and they are fine with that. As someone who doesn't really care that much about research, and is only reading this book because it's the text for a mandatory class, I found this book to be rather boring. In fact, the only good parts were when the authors talked trash about traditional researchers and their methods. Which actually happened a lot in this book. Anyway, for people interested in conducting their own action research this book would likely be a useful general guide. For people needing to read this book for a class I strongly suggest saving your money by getting it from your library or through interlibrary loan. ( )