The books in the for Mere Mortals® Series are not designed to address all the intricacies of a technology, but instead focus on providing core, foundational knowledge in an easy to understand manner that will properly ground you in the topic. This practical approach provides you with a smooth learning curve and helps you immediately begin to solve your real world problems. It also prepares you for more advanced treatments of the subject matter should you decide to pursue them.

The for Mere Mortals books can serve as solid reference material for those of you with more experience. The software-independent approach taken in some of the books teaches the concepts in such a way that you can apply them to whatever particular application or system you may need to use.