How to: cosmetic surgery
Exactly as the book is titled- it shows step by step how to do those things. Full color pages, everything is nicely layed out, kinda makes me wonder if they might write books on other topics how much things we could all learn! such as "how to replace your trucks transmission"- or "how to: liver transplants>comprehensive guide"!

Easy to follow- easy to duplicate- if you want easy, this is for you.

A fun guide to Photoshop
I bought this book not because I want to give my friends Photoshop boob jobs or change their hair color -- but because it is an excellent guide to Photoshop’s features, both for beginners and as a reference for more intermediate users.

As people, we are wired to notice facial details. What is the difference between blur and smudge? When would you use the healing brush instead of the patch tool? And what is the good of all of those blending modes? When you see these effects applied to a person’s face, it is very easy to understand the function of Photoshop’s tools, and the sometimes subtle differences between them.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who has found more conventional Photoshop tutorials dauntingly ... boring, or who has found himself saying, "OK, the sponge tool does this -- but what *good* is it?" This book has enabled me to use a much wider range of tools in my own work -- industrial documention -- and so has made me a far more effective Photoshopper. And I have never yet performed Photoshop liposuction.

Basic retouching techniques
Well, as a photo retoucher with some experience on a more advanced intermediate level, there was very little in this book to actaully learn something new or groundbreaking.
How it is layed out and how the examples work is already described by Michal Stukow and I have nothing more to add to that.
In my opinion it seems a bit too "gimmicy" to use for more serious retouching work and some of the operation results are far too exaggerated and obvious to pass as is.
Never the less, as a basic book for starting out with retouching it quickly introduce some of the useful techniques one can refine and take many steps further, but if you are looking for a more comprehensive volume on the subject there are far more better ones.

Learn to Be a Cosmetic Surgeon the Easy Way -
I first came across this book while browsing in a book store, and decided that I had to own it. Since much of my photography centers around people and portraits, this book really concentrates on the many things that you can do to to enhance (or, for some fun do the opposite to) these photos. The explanations are clear and the illustrations make the steps easy to follow. I definitely recommend this book.

Some nice examples for beginers
The book contains several examples of basic correction techniques. The examples are well documented, each example consists of before/after and some itermidiate photos. Apart from the photos the book consits of instruction lines like ’set the brush to ...’ etc. The week point is that there is hardly any deeper explenation of what is going on.

So this is a nice book if you are learning Photoshop and want to see some baisic Photoshop tools in action. But if you are more serious Photoshop user, I recomend Katrin Eismann ’Adobe Photoshop Restoration & Retouching’ which is far more interesting and complete.