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Comprehensive, readable and written for the student, Haviland/Prins/Walwrath/McBride's market-leading text, CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, is a highly relevant, high-quality teaching tool. The narrative voice of the text has been thoroughly internationalized and the "we:they" Western voice has been replaced with an inclusive one that will resonate with both Western and non-Western students and professors. In addition, gender, ethnicity, and stratification concepts and terminologies have been completely overhauled in accordance with contemporary thinking and the narrative streamlined using more fully developed, balanced, and global examples. In CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, the authors present students with examples of "local responses" to challenging globalization issues, designed to provide students with a "cross-cultural survival guide" for living in the diverse, multicultural world of the 21st century. This edition is a truly exciting and unique examination into the field of cultural anthropology, its insights, its relevance, and the continuing role of cultural survival issues.
Customer Reviews:
Terrible Book!!!.......2007-09-26
I tried to read and like this book; I really did. But after about 1/3 I refused to go on. Nothing truly worthy while is in this book, the writers do nothing but praise anthropology without telling you more about it, and all information is from a naturalistic, relativism, and liberal stand point. Anthropology hinges on the stance taken, and I think these writers would discover much by opening their minds.
anthro text .......2007-05-15
for a text book, this book is ok. It's a bit dry.. and for some unknown reason the words.. "that being said" are in the front of a lot of sentences.. The cd has links to a lot of web sites and what not, I thought it would be more "live" action but it's mostly websites.. book is understandable and basicaly an easy read. There is a very lefty spin on the book. The portrayal of industrialization as evil..and all these "traditional cultures" as the only "good" way to live despite their wars and what not, that's seen as "ok" or conflict resolution, apparently if you go to war nude, it's better than if you're wearing army fatigues..
Poor Excuse for Required Reading.......2007-03-01
Just as with Haviland, et al - Anthropology: The Human Challenge (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac®), there is to much opinion and to little good science.
Certainly a lot of information, but when flavored with such a bias against "Western Civilization" it is 528 pages to be avoided not required reading in an introductory Cultural Antro. course. I hate to use monikers, but this is liberal junk, not a good introduction to the subject of Cultural Antrhopology. One should introduce a science and its methodology to students, not ones personal opinions and possible agendas.
Info wanted.......2006-03-30
What is the CDfor in the 11th edition? I'm interested in the book, but most editions don't diff dramatically, but I do notice the 11th comes with a cd.
I don't know why the other reviews are so critical.......2005-09-16
I bought this because it is needed for my Cultural Anthropology class and it's a pretty smooth read. It has a definate liberal bias but no more than any other college book I've had to buy, if anything it's a bit less liberal bias than some of the books I've had to suffer through.
It's topics are very interesting and in most places the authors at least try to be neutral. The really good part of the book is not the part the instructors normally assign but the stuff in the yellow boxes which are almost like reading stories.
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This book offers a comprehensive and balanced presentation on views of human culture, evolution, and prehistory. The text presents the principles and processes of anthropology, both physical (biological) and cultural, including ethnology, linguistics, and prehistoric archaeology in an integrated, holistic manner. A new framework emphasizing connections (between the subfields of anthropology) and the challenge of global interconnections serves to unify the material. Biocultural connections are also emphasized as the authors integrate contemporary research and ideas from several schools of thought, using a lively writing style to engage students and keep them interested in "real world" anthropology. The first section of the text covers selected aspects of physical anthropology and prehistoric archaeology as they relate to the origin of humanity, the origin of culture, and the development of human biological and cultural diversity. The second section covers the central concepts of cultural anthropology and linguistics, and challenges students to think about the diversity of the human condition and the changes ensuing from a globally connected world. Students are challenged to think about the world around them from the perspective of anthropology, and they are treated to a fascinating examination of the field of cultural anthropology, its findings, and its relevance to the modern world.
Customer Reviews:
Bad Education.......2007-08-27
I agree with most of Mr. Haviland's points of view, but they have no place in a textbook. Beyond the book's ideology, the prose is confused and the book glides from one example to the next with poor transitions and organization. Some parts are physically painstaking to read because the text will be a lighter color in some sections but printed on a similarly colored background. I hope that teachers who genuinely want to foster an interest in the subject of anthropology with new students really listen to their student's reactions and seek a new text. The worst thing that could be said about a textbook can be said about this one - it destroyed all of my interest in the subject.
Book of Opinions not a book of Science.......2007-03-01
The only strebgth of this text is its extensive coverage of the subject, but that is where the kudos end.
As a Paleontologist and Paleoantropologist I find that this is more about citing exampleas and then giving personal opinion, than the facts. I must say I agree with the review of "justice209" (Fargo, ND USA), that "I felt more and more like I was in church and not reading a college textbook." Many Intro courses in Anthropology use this text, probably more for the inclusive CD-ROM and InfoTrac than the text. This text should be supplemental reading for an Intro course, not required reading. I don't know if I would go so far as stating that W.A. Haviland is putting forth a political agenda, but I find this text lacking on scientific, with to many opinions put forth lacking any supportive fact.
Great Intro text........2004-08-26
This is a solid introductory text which competently handles and encyclopedic load of research in a way as to invites the novice to want to learn about human biology, history, culture within the unique naturalistic holism of academic anthropology.
Excerpt: Most anthropology instructors have two goals for their introductory classes: (1) to provide an overview of principles and processes of anthropology and (2) to plant a seed of awareness about human cultural and biological diversity in their students that will continue to grow and to challenge ethnocentrism long past the end of the semester. All eleven editions of Anthropology have tried to support and further these goals.
The majority of our students come to class intrigued with anthropology but with little more than a vague sense of what it is all about. The first and most obvious aim of the text, therefore, is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the discipline-its fundamental principles and key concepts. Drawing from the research and ideas of a number of schools of anthropological thought, this book exposes students to a mix of theoretical perspectives-in human evolution and human ecology, as well as theories about culture such as functionalism, structuralism, cultural materialism, and world systems theory. Such inclusiveness reflects our conviction that different approaches all reveal important insights about human behavior, biology, and beliefs. To employ the tools of a single approach at the expense of all others is to cut oneself off from significant insights.
Insightful and not at all preaching........2004-02-27
I couldn't disagree more with the previous reviewer and felt the need to add my review to explain the absurdity of theirs. This book is very insighful, interesting, and makes perfect sense. Quite a bit of the writers opinions are included, but that is the case with most books on the social sciences. It is almost an unavoidable reality that the author will flavor the text with their own personal experience. The previous reviewer (a mathematician) seems more intent on discrediting Anthropology as a science than presenting the real facts. If one is truly interested in gleaning a generalized view of all the anthropological disciplines from one text, this book comes highly recommended.
If I wanted to be preached at, I'd read a religious text.......2003-11-25
Being a mathematician taking an anthropology course is strange in its own right, but every time I was forced to read Haviland's text I felt more and more like I was in church and not reading a college textbook. In my field, we can either prove or disprove things, and people's opinions are rarely an issue. However, in the so-called social "sciences" this is not the case, and Haviland's book only compounds this problem. This book is absolutely painful to read, since everything is about what Haviland believes to be the "right" theory. Little evidence supporting other theories, no matter how widely-accepted, is presented. Instead, he fills page after page tearing apart other peoples' theories (and particularly enjoys to point out how older theories were flawed, even when it doesn't fit within the flow of the chapter). He often repeats himself to the point of being repetitively redundant. For example, in the early chapters on human origins, he beats to death the idea that differences between humans and other primates are "differences of degree, not kind". One would hope that a typical college freshman could understand this concept after the first ten times they're hit with it, but apparently Haviland disagrees. The book, like all introductory college texts, is full of meaningless photographs and figures. Of particular interest are the bell curve-like figures supposedly showing distributions of characteristics in human ancestors. As a mathematician, I still can't make any sense out of these figures, which don't have any meaningful scale attached and have completely unenlightening captions. Haviland's examples are also quite weak and do little to shore up his arguments. He has a few pet examples (e.g., intersexuals and transexuals in Native American culture) that come up chapter after chapter after chapter without doing one thing to strengthen his arguments. In fact, it seems that most of his examples only exist to further his own political agenda, which I hope he is not trying to hide, for if he is, he has failed miserably. In fact, a reviewer of an earlier edition of this text claimed that reading Haviland's book made her want to go out and change the world. Last time I checked, the point of an introductory anthropology course is to teach students about human culture at all times and in all places (to steal another favorite phrase of these so-called "scientists") and not to point out injustices throughout the history of the world. Another serious problem with this text is that, despite being a tenth edition, it exhibits the total lack of editing that I would expect in a first edition. There are far too many sentences that I read, reread, and then puzzled over how it was supposed to be grammatically correct. Additionally, he "defined" at least one adjective (polytypic) by giving a definition for a noun.
If you're an instructor, please, please, please stay away from this text. If you're a student, you might want to consider changing sections to one with a different textbook unless your instructor is known for giving good notes, as this text will not hlep you learn and will only make you frustrated.
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Pediatric Bone: Biology & Diseases
Manufacturer: Academic Press
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Pediatric Bone is the first book to be published to deal exclusively with the biology and diseases of bone as they affect children. Rapid advances have been made in our understanding of the mechanisms and factors controlling the growth and development of bone, and these are discussed in detail in this book. Further, the various diseases of bone which are peculiar to children are highlighted and discussed in the light of our current knowledge with regard to the causation, clinical signs and treatment. The book is aimed to provide those clinicians interested in children's diseases and basic scientists with a comprehensive resource covering the various aspects of bone health and disease in children
Key Features
* Deals exclusively with bone development and diseases of children and each chapter written by an
* Fully referenced providing an appendix of usually difficult to find information on the investigation of pediatric bone disease and reference values
* Covers both the physiology of bone and mineral homeostasis in children and diseases in one book
* Includes a CD-ROM of images
Book Description
This book serves as a unique, comprehensive reference guide to digital printing for photography and fine art. It combines a thorough introduction to this expressive medium, instruction in the latest techniques, and a gallery of the best examples of digital art into a one-of-a-kind resource guide. Whether you are a photographer, traditional or digital artist, or printmaker, this book will help you master the techniques unique to the new world of digital printing.
Customer Reviews:
Very Misleading Title.......2007-09-03
Only 25 pages (Chapter 8) out of almost 400 total actually talk about making a print. The technique the author uses is highly based around the trial and error method. A Master printer, in my mind, should be able to hit it on the first print not after experimentation and a lot of testing. If that is not enough to lose interest in this author, there are some serious mistakes in those 25 pages as well. For instance page 268, there is a reference to the Print Space Profile--Same As Source. Anyone who knows how to print, knows that Same As Source is used ONLY to print a Target. I didn't see any reference in the book to a Target. I don't think the author knows what a Target is. This Book is a big disappointment for me. Take out Chapter 8 and come up with a different title.
For all photo printer users.......2007-06-20
This book will help any digital photographer/printer to learn about printing phtographs.
Aged commentary still somewhat useful.......2007-01-04
This book is getting mighty long in the tooth. It addresses inkjet printers from long before they became so good and useful. The approach to CMS, or color management systems, is superficial, and does not even address tools available when the book was written. It completely skips color spaces and the understanding of light and color.
However, it does give a broad beginning approach to understanding color printing. If you are just beginning to learn, this book is a good introduction covering many of the topics you will need an introduction to. Once past the introductory phase of learning, this book is of little value, being to basic in its handling of subjects to really be useful.
Take your digital printing to the next level.......2006-09-06
Mastering Digital Printing is a comprehensive manual/textbook for the professional photographer or artist who demands the knowledge to control every aspect of his/her final output, as well as the printmakers who assist them in this process. From printing techniques, file management, history, paper selection, every aspect of printing is here. The photos and bios of printers, artists, and photographers in their studios is helpful to see the layout of the workspace and creative ways of using the space available. This is the book you need to take your digital printing to the next level.
More about how to spec printing equipment than about making prints.......2006-04-20
This handsome volume badly disappointed me. I think the proper rating for the book is about one and a half stars, but I gave it two out of generosity.
If you don't have a printer and are looking to buy one, it gives a pretty good round-up of the choices, technologies, and papers. The problem with this kind of thing, of course, is that it is necessarily dated--so it can't really serve as a buyer's guide.
If you already have a printer--I have an Epson 4800--and a source of digital images, you won't find much information here about how to make great prints. The only section on the actual print making process shows the dialogs for one printer, probably the author's. Totally unhelpful unless you have that printer (and you've probably already figured out how those dialogs work if you have that printer).
The section on RIP software is way overview, and doesn't provide any decent guidance on how to proceed with it.
I'm not given to writing negative reviews, and I don't often return books (as I am with this one), but in the face of all the positive feedback for this book I feel compelled to provide my opinion. As I said, if you are looking to buy a printer, this might help you understand the basic technology issues (although the models have changed since the book was written). Otherwise, the only use I see for it is as a "gee whiz" coffee table book for would-be digital printers rather than a serious reference manual.
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Learn the Six Key Steps to Skiing Perfection!
Harald Harb, inventor of the Primary Movement Teaching System, has already helped thousands of professional and recreational skiers achieve ski mastery. Now, Harald reveals the basic lessons that will give you immediate mprovements –at any level!
This easy-to-use yet powerful program is proven to create success on the slopes, whether you are a coach, racer, recreational skier, or just starting out. With in-depth descriptions, clear, detailed photos, and its accompanying instructional DVD, these techniques and exercises will benefit all skiers.
Harald Harb’s Essentials of Skiing will show you how to:
• Perfectly coordinate your upper and lower body movements
• Increase your balancing ability
• Expertly control speed, carving arcs, flexing and tipping, poles, and much, much more
Whether you have never strapped on a pair of skis or hit the slopes every weekend, Harald Harb’s Essentials of Skiing is your guarantee of skiing success.
Customer Reviews:
Best skiing technique reference ever produced.......2007-09-23
Best skiing technique reference ever produced. Using these efficient techniques will enable me to ski to an old age.
For the technical and recreational skier.......2007-09-23
Whether you ski 7 days or 100 annually, this is the book for you. Considering what I have spent in group and private lessons at top-of-the-line ski schools this book and his others are a real deal. Plus you can read them again for free unlike ski school. When you feel the powerful improvements in your skiing, you will want to attend the ski clinics offered throughout ski season. I have no financial benefit from pushing the Harb methods, rather I am trying to save anyone who will listen the time, money, and frustration of trying to improve their skiing any other way.
Revolutionary Skiing Concepts.......2007-04-12
Learn the essential moves you'll need to become a more efficient skier. The concepts in this advanced guide can be applied to skiing in all conditions.
More Revolutionary than Georges Joubert.......2007-01-22
This book and Harld Harbs earlier Books "Anyone Can be an Expert Skier I & II" are more Revolutionary than Georges Joubert and Jean Vaurnet's book "Ski the New French Way" was in the 1960's. They finally abandon Hans Schneider's "Arlberg Technique" which has been the foundation of American Ski teaching since the 1930"s. This book is by far the best explanation and understanding of the Essential Movements of efficient skiing to date. It takes a different approach by breaking skiing down by the movements, isolating and identifying them on one hand and then showing how they integrate with each other on the other hand. This is an advanced book that addresses the movements of efficient carved turn skiing almost exclusively, that one can take and apply to skiing in all conditions. It builds on the foundation of the earlier books by Harald Harb, "Anyone Can Be and Expert Skier I & II". Since I am already familiar with those books it is not clear to me how well "The Essentials of Skiing" will be understood by readers who are not familiar with those earlier books. I would suggest those previous 2 books be read also to get a complete understanding. They also address less advanced skiing, with a progression to advanced skiing and skiing in different conditions.
The Best Skiing Instruction Book, Bar None!!!.......2007-01-04
I have all of Harald Harb's books on skiing. I discovered them 5 years ago. I immeditely knew that he was teaching something different. I bought his first two books (anyone can be an expert 1 and 2) and now I have this book. In my opinion, this is the best manual on how to ski ever written. It is a treatise on how to carve and on how to ski effectively and effortlessly in all conditions. The book focuses on 5 fundamental movements in skiing which Harald calls the essentals. Each one is discussed in detail and each chapter contains specific drills that will enable the reader to perform each essential correctly. Because of this, the book is of equal value to both beginners and advanced skiers.
In my opinion, these are the tools that every skier needs and without them improvement in skiing can be hard fought. This is not traditional ski instruction!!
As with any sport or disciplne, practice makes permanent!! This book give you the the movements to practice that all great skiers use. If you have skied for years yet still have a stem in steeper or more difficult terrain, this book will rid you of it forever. If you want to ski like the best skiers and racers, parallel in all terrain, in all snow conditions, buy this book. It will give you the fundamentals to make you as good a skier as you want to be.
I highly reccommend this book!!!
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- An Eye Full From Ward
- Gigantic and comprehensive
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The Wonderful World of Bill Ward, King of the Glamour Girls (Various)
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Bill Ward's long, prolific pin-up career began during World War II when he created a curvy distraction named Torchy for his fellow soldiers. His taste for impossibly buxom blondes—teetering on stiletto heels, legs encased in black nylon, torsos packed into satin gowns—precisely suited Amerca's collective postwar sex fantasy, and the late 50s men's magazine boom made him the most popular girlie artist in the country. Through the 1960s, 70s, 80, and 90s, Ward broadened his range to embrace a variety of fetish subjects, but he never varied from his template of the Ultimate Woman—except to make her breasts a little bigger, her heels a little higher, or the satin and leather encasing her a little glossier. The art of Bill Ward (1918-1998) has become so rare and collectible that photographer and veteran TASCHEN editor Eric Kroll has had to trawl through archives across America to assemble this broad selection of Ward's very best work. Drawn from over 600 illustrations! and interviews with family, friends, employers, and even some of the women who inspired him, this 352-page, meticulously researched book is the definitive tribute to the great Bill Ward and the perfect companion piece, in size and scope, to TASCHEN's The Art Of Eric Stanton.
Customer Reviews:
An Eye Full From Ward.......2007-05-23
Titilating stuff from the master of the Conte crayon bound in spectacular fashion inside this huge tome. The book is dazzlingly thorough in its collection of archive material charting the career of Ward with in depth and informative writing.
The artwork is displayed in its most suitable form, I recently bought a pocket sized collection of Ward's work and it is practically useless in comparison to this full size collection. Having the pictures displayed at this large scale allows you to see just how he worked and just how fluid and confident an artist he was.
A must for pin-up fans or alternatively anyone who wants to show off with their taste in giant books.
Gigantic and comprehensive.......2007-04-27
This is, to borrow from its title, a wonderful book. The huge (13 3/4" x 10 1/2" )tome contains nearly 400 pages, printed on nicely textured photos, crammed with trilingual text and hundreds of illustrations, many of them in full-page size, both in color and black-and-white (actually sepia). As the other reviewer has noted, there isn't any overlap between this book and _The Glamour Girls of Bill Ward_, so you can safely get both of them to have an excellent, wide-ranging collection of Ward's work. As with the other work, the core of this book is the middle section containing nearly 200 drawings from Ward's glory days between 1947 and 1967, featuring the voluptuous, gorgeously dressed glamour girls that he's most famous for. The book contains extensive samples from his early work (featuring his well-known "good girl art" character Torchy) and his later, more explicitly sexual projects, but the reader can easily see that Ward's heart and enthusiasm belonged to his beloved glamour girls; the later nude cartoons are as skillfully executed as his classic cartoons, but in my own opinion, lack much of the spirit that animated his great 1950's and 1960's works (indeed, Ward was known to admit that he did much of the later work strictly for the money, particularly the BDSM drawings which form a big part of his later oeuvre). Again, it was the Ekbergesque glamour girls that he loved drawing best, and the reader gets a thoroughly satisfactory helping of them here. Expensive (though not as much so as the out-of-print hardback edition of _Glamour Girls_), but very much worth the money. Strongly recommended.
Bill's doxy.......2006-08-15
It's unfortunate that Bill Ward's most well known pin-up work appeared in down-market, scruffy, digest-sized magazines because it meant that he was not considered with the big names like Varga, Petty or Elvgren and many others who created 'painted ladies'. This huge book (check out the dimensions, above especially the thickness: two inches) will most likely become the standard reference to his work though.
The book divides his career into three sections; the early years show work for various comic book publishers and his Torchy title where you can clearly see the origins of his later glamour style. The second section has 180 of his Conte crayon cartoons for Abe Goodman's various Humorama digest-size titles and this is the art that Ward is famous for.
Between 1947 and 1967 he claims to have drawn more than seven thousand of these sexy females and despite the large number they are each worth serious money to collectors. These drawings are one, two or four to a page and printed in sepia with white highlights. Another book of his work 'The Glamour Girls of Bill Ward' (ISBN 1560975318) has about 116 Conte drawings all one to a page and nicely doesn't seem to have any pictures duplicated with this Kroll book. If you can take your eyes of the dames you'll notice how Ward used embossed wallpaper samples to create curtains, cushions and sometimes filmy negligees by putting the sample under his drawing paper and rubbing the Conte crayon across the relevant area.
The third section of the book covers work after Humorama and here I think his style lacks the creativity of the Conte work. There are plenty of examples of paperback covers, color cartoons, comics, covers to porno magazines and a real surprise, the 1954 Lili St. Cyr lingerie catalog where Ward created precise model drawings with Lili's face on each.
At the front of the book Eric Kroll writes a fascinating fifty-page introduction with many quotes from the artist and illustrated with plenty of artwork and photos, in this beautifully designed and printed book devoted to the glamour work of Bill Ward.
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Separated from the mainland of Africa for 160 million years, Madagascar has evolved an incredible wealth of biodiversity, with thousands of species that can be found nowhere else on earth. For instance, of its estimated 12,000 plant species, nearly 10,000 are unique to Madagascar. Malagasy animals are just as spectacular, from its almost forty currently recognized species of lemurs—a primate group found only here—to the numerous species of tiny dwarf chameleons. With astounding frequency scientists discover a previously unknown species in Madagascar—and at almost the same rate another natural area of habitat is degraded or destroyed, a combination that recently led conservation organizations to name Madagascar one of the most important and threatened conservation priorities on the planet.
The Natural History of Madagascar provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date synthesis available of this island nation's priceless biological treasures. Contributions by nearly three hundred world-renowned experts cover the history of scientific exploration in Madagascar, its geology and soils, climate, forest ecology, human ecology, marine and coastal ecosystems, plants, invertebrates, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Detailed discussions of conservation efforts in Madagascar highlight several successful park reserve programs that could serve as models for other areas. Beautifully illustrated throughout, the book includes over one hundred color illustrations, with fifty color photos by nature photographer Harald Schütz, as well as more than three hundred black-and-white photographs and line drawings.
The Natural History of Madagascar will be the invaluable reference for anyone interested in the Malagasy environment, from biologists and conservationists to policymakers and ecotourists.
“For those who are serious about getting to know this fascinating island, there is no better resource.”—Tim Flannery, Nature
“A magnificent overview of one of the strangest and most glorious chunks of the planet.”—Adrian Barnett, New Scientist
“A scientific milestone and by far the largest synthesis of tropical biology research ever.”—Science
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The Natural History of Madagascar. Goodman & Bensted eds........2007-06-26
This weighty volume is an edited collection of scientific papers about the natural history of the island of Madagascar- how Madagascar came to be separated from Africa; its fossil record and relationship to existing forms of plant and animal life, most specifically the unique lemurs; its landforms, climatic, and biological zones, etc. Having just returned from two week visit there, in three different areas of country, I can say that I wish I had read more of this book beforehand! I found the parts of Chapter 2 dealing with why Madagascar has such a unique collection of endemic plants and animals especially enlightening and surprising. I happen to be a marine biologist/ecologist professionally and was not put off by the specialized technical terms used by paleontologists, botanists, geologists, and so forth, but I don't think a well read lay reader will be much troubled by them either. This volume is not a guide book, however, but it is amply illustrated to demonstrate particular points. I doubt there is another single source of so much state of the art information about this extraordinary island.
Book Description
Achieve Your Skiing Potential with Legendary Ski Instructor Harald Harb.
All it takes to be an expert skier are the correct movements and the right equipment. Join Harald Harb as he helps you learn these movements and to pick the equipment that's right for you.
Anyone Can Be an Expert Skier 1 features Harald Harb's truly innovative Primary Movements Teaching System (PMTS) that is a complete teaching system suitable for beginners and experts. Whatever your current ability level, you'll learn expert technique, and you'll learn to recognize and avoid the dead-end movements that keep you stalled at the intermediate level.
Now with a 45 minute bonus instructional DVD, in no time you will be mastering the slopes with Anyone Can Be an Expert Skier 1. 100 b/w photos, DVD.
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A whole new way to learn to ski. NO DORKY WEDGE TO UN-LEARN.......2007-04-08
Ugly cover. Great book.
Be sure to get the video, too.
Tested 7 years.......2006-12-24
I participated at list 1 camp every year (some years 2 camps) and private lessons with HH and his team for last 7 years
I literally learned to ski from Harald and Diana (I started skiing 1999 spring)
Info contained in this book and exercises described have been tested on me
and me alike. They do work and work brilliantly!
If you still don't have a book please buy and buy more than one give support to Harb Ski Systems . They priced this book way low! In my opinion it worth at least $4200
I got 4...
Slava G.
Great tutorial book.......2006-11-16
This book has what you need to make progress as a skier. The photo sequences are highlighted to point out the objective. Any individual lesson or exercise can be used independently - so you can pick one as a refresher to practice on. The lessons are well sequenced with accurate and detailed descriptions of exercises. The book is readable and coherent.
There are a few of defenders of Professional Ski Instructors of America (PSIA) and other ski instruction books that have posted here and given what I think are unfair low ratings. I think they are somewhat narrow in their criticism. They seem to focus on the fact that he is not preaching the "approved" PSIA method. So what? Is there only one way to teach someone how to ski?
I personally used this book and advanced my ski skill and confidence in a few weeks, after having stagnated for a couple of years. I had taken numerous lessons from PSIA intructors and progress was slow. My opinion is that most self-motivated skiers could benefit from the lessons in this book (at a low price). Give it an honest try and then go pay $75 for a PSIA "approved" lesson and see which one gave you more insight and advancement. Oh my, Mr. Harb challenged the Ski Instructors PSIA church!
For us (ahem!) seasoned skiers.......2006-04-08
I've been skiing for over thirty years so I know everything right? Ha! My first time on modern shaped skis was pretty well...interesting.
I would strongly recommend this to anyone particularly those of us who have to "unlearn" some of the things we've become accustomed to doing in order to get the most out of modern skis. At the very least, we won't be giving our kids outdated advice!
Awesome ski instruction system.......2006-03-22
I have experienced first hand instruction with this system. I have also taken the PSIA lessons offered at many ski areas. If you don't want to be stuck in the wedge forever then have a look at this. Harald Harb's PMTS is a systematic approach that will get you skiing better than 90% of the people you see skiing on any given day. Don't beleive the hype about out of the mainstream. They have something here. Believe it, this system works. If you want to carve and rip this is it!
Book Description
Comprehensive, readable and written for the student, Haviland/Prins/Walwrath's market-leading text, CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, is a highly relevant, high-quality teaching tool now available in a low price format. The narrative voice of the text has been thoroughly internationalized and the "we:they" Western voice has been replaced with an inclusive one that will resonate with both Western and non-Western students and professors. In addition, gender, ethnicity, and stratification concepts and terminologies have been completely overhauled in accordance with contemporary thinking and the narrative streamlined using more fully developed, balanced, and global examples. In CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, the authors present students with examples of "local responses" to challenging globalization issues, designed to provide students with a "cross-cultural survival guide" for living in the diverse, multicultural world of the 21st century. This edition is a truly exciting and unique examination into the field of cultural anthropology, its insights, its relevance, and the continuing role of cultural survival issues.
Customer Reviews:
Yet another textbook.......2007-02-17
Easy to ready and get a good overall idea of major concepts about cultural anthopology. However, I noticed subleties of the author's personal biases on certain aspects. But overall, it's fine.
readable textbook.......2007-02-03
I don't know about the rest of you but reading college textbooks put me to sleep. This textbook is not like the rest. I was able to get a lot of reading done without fighting back the urge to sleep. The presentation is such that it's inviting and even enjoyable to read the book. Some students in my class complained that some of the content was too graphic (some nudity and [..], as well as content related to sexuality - roles and practices) but then they were not anthropology students and were only taking the class to obtain a required credit. The colors throughout the book are inviting and easy on the eyes, the chapters open with a brief summary drawing attention to key points, there are a lot of full color pictures to complement the content, chapters include mini-bios of noted anthropologists, chapters also include "visual counter-points" to illustrate how practices are different or the same from one culture to another, "anthropology applied" sections that provide further details on specific areas of anthropology, and original studies that illustrate a specific issue from the chapter. Each chapter also ends with the longer summary.
I also appreciate the lower cost of the loose-leaf version.
The book came with a CD-ROM and online access but I did not use either very much.
Book Description
This Thomson Advantage book offers a comprehensive and balanced presentation on views of human culture, evolution, and prehistory at a price sensitive to a student's budget. The text presents the principles and processes of anthropology, both physical (biological) and cultural, including ethnology, linguistics, and prehistoric archaeology in an integrated, holistic manner. A new framework emphasizing connections (between the subfields of anthropology) and the challenge of global interconnections serves to unify the material. Biocultural connections are also emphasized as the authors integrate contemporary research and ideas from several schools of thought, using a lively writing style to engage students and keep them interested in "real world" anthropology. The first section of the text covers selected aspects of physical anthropology and prehistoric archaeology as they relate to the origin of humanity, the origin of culture, and the development of human biological and cultural diversity. The second section covers the central concepts of cultural anthropology and linguistics, and challenges students to think about the diversity of the human condition and the changes ensuing from a globally connected world. Students are challenged to think about the world around them from the perspective of anthropology, and they are treated to a fascinating examination of the field of cultural anthropology, its findings, and its relevance to the modern world.
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