I bought this book for a class and it was very useful. If you are not familiar with phylogenetics, this might be the perfect pick. In the beginning of each chapter the program introduces the important terminology and background, and suggests you the literature for further reading (mostly free available papers). The major part of each chapter consists of a step by step hand on tutorial of the free phylogenetic software MEGA 5.05, which is very powerful and versatile. I really liked this book and learned a lot, thus I can highly recommend it.