Before shelling out good bucks on any book read the book review or comments.
Amazon.com for instance has readers' comments.
The question to be asked whether book or software is do you need it?
The book in question is 128 pages, and quite thin.
One comment was it did not offer anything new.
Bruce Pandolfini does appears in another recent book. "The Art of Learning." He helped train J. Waitzken.