Book Description
Explosions, car wrecks, assassins, escaped murderers, and a kidnapping.arranged marriages can really take their toll on a vampire. First installment in The Guardians' League series (stand-alone novels with shared characters that may be read in any order but work best in the correct order). Witness to a brutal murder, Sian Lazuro didn't count on the killer escaping moments after his conviction. Three years later, she's learned the hard way there's only one person she can trust-herself. When she wakes up in bed with a gorgeous stranger who claims to have saved her life, she's understandably wary. Diego Leonides is like no one she's ever met before. Sensual, mysterious, and clearly delusional, he insists not only is he a vampire, but she's now his eternal mate. Diego never dreamed he'd find his mate by getting hit by her car, and he's no happier about their sudden bonding than she is. The only survivor of a massacre that wiped out his entire Clan, he's spent the last century avoiding taking a mate. Now he finds himself stuck with a woman running from a murderer just as the descendants of the vampire slayers who killed his family arrive in San Francisco to finish the job with him. Arranged marriages are hard enough on a vampire without having to convince his mate that the real bloodthirsty fiends are the mortals. Warning, this title contains the following: explicit sex, violence.
Customer Reviews:
Super Reader.......2007-08-07
A cop has a car accident. She is rescued by--wait for it--a vampire who was a nobleman way back when. How come none of these guys were carpenters?
She isn't happy waking up in a strange bed in her undies. Apparently he is now bnded to her. Love tattoos at first site.
She resists, runs off, gets attacked by vampires of the kind he and his league run around slaying.
Mostly, she spends the book worrying if the clothes he bought her are too tarty and trying to control her hormones.
A pretty pathetic excuse for a cop, this one.
Book One of the Guardians' League.......2007-07-24
Diego was hot, very enjoyable book & I'm looking forward to others in this series.
Romance with a BITE.......2007-05-13
Vampires. YAWN.
....not when penned by Amelia Elias. She takes Bram Stokers' vampire and turns the myth into a leather-wearing, studly Diego....haunted by his past, and terrified of the woman he wakes up handcuffed to!!
How they come together as a couple is a thrill a minute read. Characters are develped deftly, and the reader grows to love them. It's been months since I read the book, and I still smile.
Yes, the sex scenes are explicit, but the love story is better than in the vanilla romance line. SHIVER...I'm considering buying some fangs for my S.O.
Thanks Amelia for the lovely break from reality.
Great new series!.......2007-04-03
I won't write a synopsis of what this book is about since so many others have. I will say that I loved this book. At first, I thought the cover was a little cheesy, but in actuality it turned out to be dead on for the character, Diego. I loved his character. He actually said things I think a real man would say. He was very 21st century. Sian was a dynamite female character. She didn't immediately swoon over the vampire character, Diego. It took her a little while to warm up to him. I will definitely buy the next in the series, Outcast, that will have Eli's story. He reminded me of Ash in Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunter series.
Very good.............2007-03-10
This was a great book, in fact I have ordered Outcast by this author. I loved her style of writing, could not put it down until I finished. Look forward to other books from her.
Book Description
As a manager who wants to attain, maintain, or reclaim a competitive position in the hotly contested and ever-changing marketplace, your goal is clear. Terrified of being the "hunted" -- in peril of being destroyed or devoured by your competitors you want to know how to once again become a "hunter." But the myriad improvement strategies that sound great in theory don't always work in practice, and they don't take into account the realities of your workplace.
Through an unusual and provocative blend of fact and fiction, Jim Swartz puts you inside the transformation process itself - inside the heads of those who, finding themselves among the hunted, realize they must change the fundamental way they do business. He makes it clear why reorganization, decentralization, de-layering, continuous improvement, benchmarking, and participative management are helpful tools but fall short of tackling the real enemy.
In this engaging business novel, you'll travel with Marcus, the "Master Guardian" who has been helping businesses in trouble for 1400 years, as he trains two guardian recruits: Lou, a tough steel company manager long on experience with the old ways, and Laura, a Harvard MBA with a global view and no industrial experience. Come along as they visit great business hunters past and present and become aware of the fatal corporate mindsets, mental models, and measures that doom many companies to a life of retreat and restructuring. By visiting turnaround companies, you'll learn new business process models that dramatically reduced costs, improved performance and product quality, and made these companies the fastest responding suppliers in the world.
Customer Reviews:
An education in basic business and breakthrough solutions.......2004-12-02
Read this on the recommendation of an exceptional Materials Manager. While the format does take a little longer to get to the heart of non-linear solutions, the author provides a sense of what really separates good business practices from poor business practices, exceptional people from average people and the hunters from the hunted. The history that is included puts into perspective not just what you do to improve the business, but how to go about it (or how others have gone about it). Another important piece of information for the reader is that, what have been historic breakthroughs were arrived at through a combination of progressive thinking, and trial and error. It's not because a brilliant light just appeared. Highly recommend this book.
Read this on a recommendation..........2002-05-21
Sound ideas if you don't mind plowing through all of the stuff and fluff. The author spent way too much time trying to make his points compelling by the use of awkward and fanciful historical connections. Oh, and the liberal use of Capitalization To Play An Idea Up As A Fundamental Law Of The Universe gets annoying pretty quick.
I recommend reading "Lean Thinking" instead. You'll get all of the same important concepts without the need for literary corn-husking.
Not just a one-off throw-away.......2001-10-23
Way too much meat for one reading. The idea of the non-linear solution merits right up there as one of the fundamentals of modern world-class manufacturing. The non-linear solution is, among other things, the idea that you can't keep trying to improve a bad system. Fundamental, dramatic change is often necessary to keep from becoming one of the hunted. Do you see your company in any of these stories? Often hunters become hunted and don't know it until it is too late. One of the very best works available today. Read it and study it. The fantasy story that ties the book together is original and well done. As much a page turner as anything by Tom Clancy.
Do you like to hunt, or be hunted?.......2000-09-25
This book is just amazing, since it explains how American companies thought of themselves to be the best of the best, and saw no competition on the asian companies. Later on, in the late seventies and early eighties, american companies began a desperate rush to improve. It is written in a way that may remind you of Ellie GOldratt's "The goal". This book tells you what to do, but not how to, which I found to be one of it's biggest assets, because there is no better way to learn something, than doing it by yourself. It is a must to read by anyone who is on the upper levels of managemnet in a company, it will help you develop a new vision of what is the purpose of having a mangement on an agressive company.
Average customer rating:
- So worth your time
- Nice story, but...
- [3.5]--You'll love some passionately and hate others intensely
- terrible writen book and book
- Great continuance of a great series
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The Hunted (A Vampire Huntress Legend)
L. A. Banks
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Book Description
Each millennium brings a new Neteru, a vampire huntress whose mission is to vanquish evil from the world. This millennium's savior has come in the form of Damali Richards, a hip-hop diva with the heart of a warrior and an attitude to match. But a war in Hell has cost Damali both her powers and her past love, Carlos Rivera. Still, Damali can't let her grief stand in her way. Several gruesome deaths, starting with an American research team, have come to Damali's attention in Brazil. The nature of the deaths leads Damali to believe that the killer is anything but human....Unknown to Damali, the life of Master Vampire Carlos Rivera was saved by a most unlikely group: a band of monks also dedicated to fighting the Dark Realm. In exchange, they want Carlos to help stop the inhuman murders plaguing Brazil-and they will use Damali as bait if they have to. Reunited, Damali and Carlos give in to the erotic passion they have fought for so long. Together, they are a powerful force. But Damali has made a terrifying enemy who won't rest until the beautiful Neteru is dead....
Customer Reviews:
So worth your time.......2007-10-07
Where should I start with L.A Banks vampire huntress series, well I must say the Minion was the introduction to the series was not bad,was no page turner same goes for the Awakeing. If these two books won't important to the series I would say skip It. Now the Hunted Is the book you want to read and from there Is where the real action starts you can't finish It fast enough to start the others. These books are so worth your reading time minus the Minion and the Awakeing.
Nice story, but..........2007-07-02
My friend recommended this book to me. I love Vampire tales and I was very excited to find a series written by an Black author. My library didn't have the first two books, so I dove into the "The Hunted."
Well, I'll start off with saying that I didn't finish the book. Here's why:
Even though I enjoyed some of the fight scenes, they seemed sort of unrealistic. I just couldn't get into them and for some reason it seemed as if the author left something out.
I enjoyed reading the story through Carlos' point of view. I found myself skipping over the Huntress' (I can't remember her name. For Shame!) parts of the story. Like some of the other readers, I was a little displeased by the use of slang. It just seemed strained to me. Like the characters were trying so hard to sound real and natural, that the result was completely unnatural and fake. However, from the parts I read, Carlos' part was so much better. Everything from his speech patterned and the general writing seemed much better. I began to wish he was the lead character so I can see how his side of the story ended. But, since I skipped around so much, I just gave up and dropped the book off at the library.
But, I did like some things about the book. I did like how her version of vampire politics and structure. It wasn't my favorite, but it did well for the story.
[3.5]--You'll love some passionately and hate others intensely.......2007-04-04
Again, Ms. Banks has created an outstanding work of fiction. The Hunted is another great installment to this series. A slightly more bulkier novel but it is surprisingly a fast and tense read. Due to real life, I was forced to put the book down, and each time I did--no matter where I had closed the pages--I was left on the edge of a cliff, my attention focused on the next time I would be able to read this book. She is able to bring her own unique spin to the vampire mythos to fruition with "The Hunted."
This book was sexier, darker and grittier; finally allowing the passion between Damali and Carlos to explode in one of the best love scenes I've ever had a chance to read; upping the ante on Carlos' "life" and his deals; exposing more of the Neteru's heritage; and upping the tension between Damali and Carlos, Carlos and his enemies, The guardians and their chosen paths; etc, etc. The Hunted has taken Banks' series to an entirely different level where your emotions will be sure to run like a predator, unless you are dead. Damali is near to coming into her own; in this novel, she being forced to deal with things and situations that she formerly shielded herself from due to certain circumstances. She is all Neteru in this book and I can't wait until I read "The Bitten."
Once again, however, the dialogue is the major sticking point for me. While it's dynamic and true to life, I find it a bit tedious after a while and hard to follow when more than one character is "speaking". To me, there is very little in the way of personalization and uniqueness to the characters with regards to the dialogue.
But, overall, I admire Ms. Banks' contributions to vampire fiction and look forward to many more great books in the Vampire Huntress series.
terrible writen book and book.......2007-03-19
I really was disappointed in this book and author. I nver read L.A. Banks before and thought I give it a try. The cover captured my attention...once again people don't let the cover fool you...thought I learned from prior bad books with nice covers. I DID NOT UNDERSTAND MOST OF THIS BOOK AT ALL. I AM NOT FLUENT IN BLACK SLANG. L.A. BANKS SHOULD OF WRITEN THIS BOOK IN PROPER ENGLISH AND NOT SLANG THEN THE BOOK WOULD OF BEEN OK. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO ANYONE AT ALL. I HAD TO SKIP THROUGHT THE ENTIRE BOOK AND GET THE TORTURE OVER WITH QUICKLY! I WAS SO LOST,I KEPT SAYING TO MYSELF WHAT IS SHE TALKING ABOUT! I DO NOT LIKE TO READ SLANG BOOKS AND WISH BLACK AUTHORS WOULD WRITE GOOD BOOKS IN PROPER ENGLISH AND NOT SLANGGGG! I WILL NEVER READ HER AGAIN. I REALLY TRIED TO AND GAVE HER A CHANCE BUT I JUST COULD NOT UNDERSTAND HER WRITING AND THE WHOLE BOOK. THAT IS IT FOR ME
Great continuance of a great series.......2007-01-05
Of course I love reading "The Hunted" by L.A.Banks over and over again simply for the fact that I love her books. Her Vampire Huntress Legends series is outstanding and I recommend that everyone of every ethnic read these books because they expound on historical facts and symbols of importance that I believe everyone can relate to. If you don't read this book you'll lose out.
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Hunted (Star Wars: Boba Fett, Book 4)
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In the Classic Star Wars movies, Boba Fett works for the legendary Jabba the Hutt, tracking down bounties (including Han Solo). Fans have never known how this partnership began . . . until now. Young Boba Fett has nowhere to go -- and is being hunted for what he knows about the evil Count Dooku. Before Boba's father died, he left instructions for his son to find Jabba the Hutt. Now Boba tracks Jabba down -- and must pass the ultimate test in order to prove he is truly a bounty hunter for the ages.
Customer Reviews:
Can't get enough..........2007-03-24
My 9-year-old can't get enough of this series. These books are well-written and even enjoyable for me when I read aloud to my son.
Boba meets Jabba.......2005-08-30
This book is about Boba and his adventures with Jabba the Hutt!
If you want to read it, I suggest that you read #1 (The Fight to Survive), #2 (Crossfire), and #3 (Maze of Deception) first!
I recommend the whole series!
Hunted: A Clone Wars Novel.......2005-08-16
This was a great novel. I just wish it was longer. This series gave Boba Fett a very nice historical background into his childhood.
Hunted.......2004-07-04
# 4 in the Boba Fett series which features Boba Fetts' first encounter with Jabba the Hutt.
Boba must prove himself worthy to Jabba the Hutt and battle the bounty hunter Durge along the way. In trying to escape Durge he also gets a jetpack.
These books are great for any fan of Bobba Fett regardless of what age group they're inteded for.
If you're a fan and want to know more about Fett start with Fight to Survive.
Nice story about Bobas first meeting with Jabba.......2004-02-09
These stories are written for 8 to 12 year olds, and 50 somethings who are star wars nuts like me. The 3 star is for the genre, as it seems to be of average quality to the other young persons books I have read and enjoyed.
I thought the review from the young man from arlington heights hit all the key points of the story. I worked in palatine for 18 years, keep reading and writing, MTFBWY.
Book Description
Demonstrates that the earliest humans evolved not as hunters but as prey species, based on evidence from fossil and living primates
Although "Man the Hunter" is a popular description of our ancestry, the central importance of hunting is firmly fixed only in the archeological record of relatively recent human history. Man the Hunted argues that primates, including the earliest members of the human family, have evolved not as hunters but as the prey of any number of predators, including wild cats and dogs, hyenas, snakes, crocodiles, and even birds of prey. Eyewitness accounts, data collected by the authors, and the published reports of naturalists establish the astonishing extent to which living monkeys, lemurs, apes, and even humans fall victim to a wide variety of predators, some of which even specialize in the consumption of primates. Additionally, the fossil record demonstrates that primates have been prey for millions of years, a fact that necessarily shaped the evolution of our earliest ancestors in body and behavior. Skillfully combining information from a number of lines of evidence, Man the Hunted casts an entirely new light on the natural history of primates and the evolution of fossil and modern humans.
Customer Reviews:
A New Perspective.......2006-07-19
As with any new or unique perspective on the evolution of humanity, "Man the Hunted" has drawn both praise and damnation. Being informed that your ancestors were little more than snacks for large carnivores may bring some human-centric reviewers down a peg or two and also induce some nasty penmanship.
I like my natural history gritty. How about pp 140 " the crowned hawk-eagle not only has the power and the momentum, the surprise and the speed, but those great talons are used with such exactitude that the heart of the prey is the target ... In one juvenile monkey the heart was triple-pierced from a single deathblow; the talon went in one side of the heart, came out the other side, and- achievable only because of the camber of the eagle's talon- curved back and reentered the heart once again."
This is an engaging and highly readable book, and its premise stands the test. Let's face it, the famous "Taung baby" discovered in 1924 by Raymond Dart was recently proven to have been the prey of a large eagle; there are the typical "can opener" marks of eagle talons on Taung's skull. The only disagreement I would have with the authors is the extent of meat eating and its time interval in our history. Hart and Sussman maintain that "top predator" status was only recently attained by humans; whereas in my opinion brain expansion = meat. The human fossil record is one of exponential brain expansion, and something must have driven that expansion; meat and society.
The authors themselves are extremely fair in their treatment of others who have been critical of their work, and also point out where their own views diverge on aspects of human evolution. There is no apparent political agenda being pushed and the quotes from Robert Ardrey and E. Tylor are placed in a fair and relevant context. There are dozens of attributions and a full bibliography, in response to another review.
Gross incompetence and dishonesty.......2006-03-06
I see from the reviews here that this book has managed to convince people so far. I hope that if I point out their methods here others will be able to see it for what it really is, a political viewpoint that they have dressed up with flim flam and lies.
In my opinion Sussman and Hart are knowingly dishonest and just make stuff up. There is a chance that they are also amazingly incompetent and lacking in any basic knowledge of the topic, but it can be hard to distinguish this from their transparent attempts to cleverly distort reality and the positions of others. At the very least, their motive to even write this book is based on their failure to understand some very basic things about evolution and genetics, and how nature via nurture results in behavior.
Given that Sussman claims to be a primatologist and that he claims to be working on preservation of endangered species in various parts of the world, we might, for example, expect something a bit beyond the following on the topic of the coevolution of predators and prey, "In other words, if prey evolve a new way to elude predators, predators evolve in the direction of overcoming the new strategy. Any major destabilization in the balance of predators and prey comes
about because the prey have evolved some new way to elude predation; the predator then has to counteradapt or give up eating the newly elusive prey (Tylor, E. Primitive Culture, 1871)." (pg. 40)
No, I did not mistype that, they use a book from 1871! By a man that specialized in the topic of primitive religions and who held profoundly racist views that Africans were in the middle between apes and white men. How can this be the best possible source on the topic of the coevolution of predator and prey? Either they are amazingly ignorant, or they set out to find a source that did not contradict their carefully constructed and entirely wrong notions. They count on the reader never looking up what that little number "18" references. Do any of you think that this racist expert in religions that wrote back in 1871 is likely the last word on the coevolution of prey and predators? So ask yourself then, why would they use him? Because their argument fails if they try to use any modern experts in the topic. Using this source is essentially a lie then.
Throughout they make use of devious methods of argumentation as they seeks to pull whatever comes to hand over the reader's eyes. In discussing hunting they admit that hunting is "common" (pg. 23) behavior in primates. This is a huge problem for someone arguing that human behavior and evolution is unrelated to hunting. But then they launch the effort to whitewash this, skipping right along and changing the subject in a way they hope you do not notice.
Fond of using the work of non-scientists from decades ago as whipping posts, here they choose Robert Ardrey, who with typical journalistic license went overboard on his assertions back thirty some years ago. Even still they twist vigorously at what Ardrey wrote. Where Ardrey says that our ancestors were "continuosly dependant on killing to survive" Sussman claims to refute by arguing against a view that "hunting could have been the main food procurement venture for early hominids." This is not what Ardrey asserted at all. Obviously, a food source need not be the main one for it to be critical for survival. Even five or ten percent of a diet can easily make the difference between health and death over a long period of time. Given seasonal changes in plant derived food sources it is also probable that hunting would be a more critical source periodically than it was on average.
It is a basic assumption of biology and evolutionary theory that animals engage in behaviors which increase their fitness, that these behaviors exist because they increased the numbers of descendants of the individuals that had them relative to those that did not and were therefore passed on, they were selected for. Therefore we work with the assumption that if a behavior is common to a whole order, the primates, as they admit hunting is, then it must be important to survival and fitness. Which should just end the debate unless they have some spectacular evidence somehow that hunting is just a random behavior that happens to be universal in primates and every single human culture. Which would make it the only known example and a huge problem for the theory of evolution to explain. They do not offer any such evidence, instead they boldly assert that they have conclusive proof against the theory of "Man the Hunter," which is that our ancestors two million years ago had teeth that were not the teeth of a carnivore. Of course, no one ever said they were. Not Ardrey or anyone else. But they are clearly that of an omnivore, which includes hunting, and which they neglect to mention. This also has to be seen as simply a lie. An effort to convince you of what is not true and to disguise what is true from your view, and to use the reader's lack of knowledge of the topic to do so.
In fact I doubt the word omnivore is in this book anywhere, they live in a world where species either peacefully chew grass until they are eaten, or they eat only meat all the time.
They also seem to avoid the obvious fact that even herbivores can compete over territory and mating with other herbivores in violent conflicts; perhaps they would see two rams butting heads as peacefull? Yet they are undeniably prey animals and do not hunt. So even if we gave them their founding assertions, what they assert follows from them obviously does not.
It is remarkable too that Sussman has such a unique opinion of what others believe. Perhaps this is not surprising given how behind the times his sources are, but still one is puzzled to read, for example, that "Conventional wisdom would picture predators formulaically thinning the size of their prey populations-mountain lions eating just the right number of deer to keep the deer, in turn, from overpopulating." (pg. 39) Perhaps this was the conventional wisdom back in 1871, but as I am not an expert in the history of science I have no idea.
Any vague knowledge of evolution would tell one that each predator looks out for themselves, there is no consideration of the health of the group they prey on. Ideas similar to this one, that individuals in groups would limit the number of their offspring to the ideal number the environment could support, were conclusively dismissed over forty years ago. That hardly makes them or their cousins, as these look to be,"conventional wisdom." Again, this can only be extreme ignorance of the topic or intentional dishonesty.
This was a funny one though, "Should we then not worry that too many chimpanzees might be obliterated by their natural predators? Absolutely not. Any substantive and long-term drop in numbers of prey will arise from a lack of resources." Huh. So all those flightless birds just happened to lack resources at the same time that cats and rats were introduced to their island homes? I suppose that one can argue these were not their natural predators, but species have invaded new habitats millions of times naturally. One gets a picture from this book of a world where species are in some magical stasis, one
would be very shocked to learn that 99% of all species that have
ever existed are now extinct.
Of course the larger assertions are just hilarious, and their books are cooked until they are pure carbon. The idea is that if we can show that our ancestors several million years ago did not hunt, and that instead they were hunted, then somehow magically it follows that human nature is basically good and peacefull and all evil is caused by evil cultures. Which is a
hilarious leap out into mid air, logically. And it means that they fully subscribe to genetic determinism for this purpose. But then they also want to say that even if we did hunt that would not mean we were by nature killers, since that would be genetic determinism; the same thing that they like so much when they make their first argument but which they are adamantly opposed to if it might result in what their politics disagree with.
In fact on page 211 they blatantly admit that their whole book is pointless ["And furthermore, research seems to indicate that the neurophysiology of aggression between species is quite different from the spontaneous violence linked to intraspecific aggression by humans (that is, murder)."], and then they just keep on going anyway. If there is no link in the human mind between murder and hunting, which of course there is not and the whole argument is just absurdly silly from the start, then how does their assertion that we were not hunters two million years ago have any particular import? The lack of citation here is also a fairly common feature of the book, and one that is highly suspect. Who did the research and how can I find it? Is it from 1871?
And of course the whole idea that a species can be characterized by looking at how it's distant ancestors lived is absurd if one does not also look at how it lives now. Sussman and Hart avoid the knowledge that all human societies ever encountered hunt. How does an anthropologist who is a former editor of a major journal avoid this knowledge? It must be simple dishonesty.
We might just as well have a book titled "Whales, the Land
Dwellers." Sure, their distant ancestors lived on land, but
obviously no whales do now. What they ate or were eaten by seems to be a question that few would care the answer to, and I see no reason for more to care what our very distant ancestors ate or were eaten by.
Sure, evolutionary psychology recognizes that there can be behaviors left over from our ancestors. Perhaps we could speculate, for example, that our fondness for petting animals is left over from our ancient bonding by grooming behavior. But given that it is very very likely our ancestors hunted, since they had the teeth for it, it is common (as the authors admit) in primates, and all human societies ever found hunt then I think we need to just admit that we are evolved as hunters. Then we can also get past all these bizarre negative ideas about it too. It does not mean we are violent or aggressive or demonic or emotionless killers. It means we were hungry.
Let me also mention that evolutionary psychology is well aware that humans have adaptations to avoid predators. That extreme fear of snakes is common in humans is frequently given as an example of evolved behaviors, behaviors that have no environmental cues and therefore can be seen as "hardwired." Infants and captive chimps that never had seen snakes before have exhibited this fear, so it does seem that our brains are born with this information and response. But I fail to see how being eaten by a predator changes the character of a person from violent to peaceful. Hitler was a vegetarian, if he had also been eaten by a bear would that indicate that he was by nature peaceful? That his descendants were peaceful? The logic of their argument simply does not exist.
Ian Tattersall contributes a forward in which he heaps scorn on
evolution (and he teaches courses with evolution in the title),
biology, genetics, the lot, and seems to hint that they should be replaced by some vague notions of "emergent events" and also
the "history" of the species. He states, "Clearly the unprecedented qualities of our species are the result of an emergent event, and there is indeed something truly different about the way we Homo Sapiens behave that seems to distinguish us from even our closest ancestors. And as a result, it is evident that we cannot attribute the ways in which we behave directly to our genes or even, more indirectly, to our history, as a bee or an angel fish might much more plausibly do."
I fail to see how anything in the second sentence follows as a
result of anything in the first, but these people specialize in
grand leaps into the void. I also fail to understand the difference between a species history and it's genetic history, he seems to suggest by this some new means of transmitting inherited traits that is less "direct" than genetic.
There are people who connect various of the following; hunting and murder, murder and war, and hunting and war. Some of these people exist in the area of evolutionary psychology (for example, David Buss) a field the authors oppose. But all of these connections are wrong, and the authors know that, as they say on page 211. The ideas are simply illogical and poorly thought through. It would be possible for a group to hunt and not make war, or make war and not hunt. The fact is that all human groups do make war except for extremely isolated or nomadic ones. The fact is that all human groups hunt. Lacking very strong counter evidence we must start with the assumption that these behaviors have genetic components which contribute to their universality. This does not mean that we cannot choose other behaviors. I am a longtime vegetarian myself. But it does mean that we need to know who we are before we can truly control these choices. We need to stand up and admit that we were born with a predisposition to make war, and then understand what the psychology of that is in our minds so that we can avoid falling into the evolved paterns. Denial will not lead to peace for humans any more than it leads to sobriety for drunks. If you want to see where that path leads, you can start here - http://theroadtopeace.blogspot.com/
I believe it is time to engage in some identity correction. These people are effectively secular creationists. Anti-science and evolution, using many of the same tactics including outright lies, all in support of their decidedly dogmatic beliefs. They are the secular creationists. Denial of the theory of evolution or of human nature will not lead to peace. In fact an unshakeable belief in one's own peacefullnes is a part of what lets us be lead to war so readily, we always think that we are truly acting in self defense. Even the Germans in WWII thought that. It is not determinism to say that we have genes that predispose us to certain behaviors, it is the first step to being able to change those behaviors.
The authors believe that their position must be true because they believe if it is then humans are basically good and peaceful, and they feel themselves to be these. Therefore they try to make this case despite all the evidence and the need to lie to the reader and to themselves. They feel that admitting that humans evolved adaptations for hunting and war would mean that there was no hope. On the contrary. Admitting these truths is our only hope for peace.
pointless exercise.......2006-02-02
After 177 pages of descriptions of predators devouring prey, the author finally reveals that she has no way to connect her thesis (that hominid development was heavily influenced by predation) with what little is actually known about hominids - that they were fully bipedal before there was any great increase in cranial capacity. She refers to our evolution as a "random serendipitous route" and asserts that "we can simply accept that it was a combination of many factors that likely made bipedal locomation advantageous..."
The primary redeeming factor in an otherwise pointless exercise is the chapter "debunking 'man the hunter,'" a long overdue admission by mainstream academics that the savannah theory doesn't square with the fossil record.
Enjoyable, informative view of early man as prey.......2005-12-06
Every few years a new theory of human evolution emerges and its authors gleefully bash all those who came before. This is highly entertaining for the general reader and often very convincing too. In this case physical anthropologist Sussman and his former graduate student, wildlife biologist Hart counter the once vaunted and lately battered "man the hunter" scenario with its opposite: man as prey.
Nobody doubts that early hominids were prey to animals like saber tooth tigers, crocodiles, bears, hyenas and many more. But after reading the first half of "Man the Hunted," you will wonder how those poor hominids ever survived long enough to develop the brains needed to defend themselves and become us. The authors amass lots of fossil data and modern studies of predation to show that primates (including humans) were and still are, prey.
Reading this impressive catalog of dangers, you can't help but think of the defensive abilities other primates have that we lack - chimps are powerfully muscled and agile in trees, monkeys have long useful tails to swing swiftly through forest or jungle, gorillas are large and formidable, and all of them are more threatening as biters.
Hominids, however, with brains not much larger than chimps, had a puny physique (although more powerful than homo sapiens became) no claws or sharp teeth, and they couldn't run very fast on their two legs or swing as easily into the trees. No defenses at all, it appears, except for vigilance and the protection of the group. How did we ever survive?
The authors tackle this question in the second half of the book, approaching evolution from a defensive posture. Bipedalism, for instance. Numerous "models" have been posited to explain why we walk around upright - to free our arms for carrying, to allow scanning of terrain, to make us more energy efficient in terms of foraging for food and heat dissipation, to look larger and more robust to predators and mates. The authors reject all of these as primary causes, but incorporate each as an advantage to a creature already "preadapted," as all primates are, for bipedalism.
First, we came down from the trees, because, living at the edge of the forest, many ground plants were available. Then, "it made life much SAFER to be bipedal." "Bipedalism is only advantageous if you leave the trees and descend to the ground for the majority of your activities, and if you do it BEFORE you have evolved enormous torsos and arms." At this point we could still take refuge in the trees fairly easily, and standing on two feet we could scan more of the area for danger.
In the last chapter they lay out rules for hominid survival which include living in social groups of 25 to 75, using both trees and ground, being able to scatter into smaller groups or come together to mob or intimidate predators, having more than one male in social groups as protection, using males as intimidating-looking (because upright) sentinels, carefully choosing sleeping sights and employing the advantage of intelligence.
"Those were the survival rules and surely our earliest ancestors must have followed them. We can state that with total authority - if they hadn't exhibited the behavior of a hunted species, we wouldn't be here debating our origins."
By this time I was convinced, but I didn't need much convincing. There's a lot of interesting material here - particularly the debunking of the murderous chimp model (which arose out of human interaction on Jane Goodall's Gombe site) a fascinating discussion of fossil teeth and diet, the close examination of the anatomical features of fossils like "Lucy" and others. And, of course, the extensive and detailed descriptions and illustrations of (happily) extinct predators like the bone-crushing dog, which weighed 250 pounds and hunted in packs, the bear-dogs, which could bound like cats and had teeth like wolves and the more familiar hyenas and leopards and lions and tigers.
Their scathing dismissal of "man the hunter" and every scientist who ever touted such a bloodthirsty beast is highly amusing though occasionally shrill and a bit puzzling, since man the mighty hunter has long been cast off his pedestal and forced to share a level playing field with woman the gatherer, for one. Primatologists have long admitted that our ancestors were prey as well and that predation certainly influenced our evolution.
The difference here is the degree of emphasis Hart and Sussman place on predation as an evolutionary catalyst and the extent of their research on predation. Their book is readable and innovative, with provocative arguments on subjects from the role of "original sin" in scientific theory to comparing the ubiquitous presence of dancing as well as violence in all human cultures.
Thoroughly annotated, with a lengthy bibliography and a good index, this is a fine addition to the growing body of well-written and entertaining books on human origins.
--Portsmouth Herald
Interesting, thought provoking, but opportunity missed.......2005-12-02
Were the ancestors of humans ever part of "the circle of life" as described by Mufasa in The Lion King? Do the eagle talon marks on the fossilized skull of the 2 million year old Taung child represent an oddity or hint at the norm? Why did Robert Ardrey push so strongly for a "Man the hunter" explanation of hominid evolution? Are current studies of chimpanzees representative of the way Homo habilis or H. erectus interacted with their environment and their potential predators?
Donna Hart and Robert Sussman tackle these issues in Man The Hunted: Primates, Predators, and Human Evolution. They are not the first to suggest that early humans sometimes ended in the belly of the beast (remember the opening scene in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey). They are not the first to suggest that humans are still preyed upon by large carnivores (as in David Quammen's Monster of God). They are one of the first to lay out a thoughtful argument for professionals and laypeople alike that humans are what they are because of predation, and not in spite of it.
I agree with Hart and Sussman that early humans were shaped by the coevolutionary dance always occurring between predators and prey, and that, for reasons that are still unclear, this idea of "man the hunted" has lost in both popular and scientific circles to a "man the hunter" model to explain human evolution. They lay out the evidence for 1) early humans as prey in a predator-rich environment (fossil evidence), and 2) modern primates as prey in today's human modified world (who eats living primates).
Hart and Sussman do go off on some tangents that I found puzzling and irritating. They obviously have problems with Richard Dawkin's "selfish gene" theory, and they are not fans of E. O. Wilson's sociobiology synthesis (although it seemed they only read the last chapter in his book). They didn't reference the interesting book by David Baron, The Beast in the Garden, on mountain lion predation on humans. And they missed a wonderful opportunity to focus on the "so what" question. If modern humans truly were shaped by predation, what can this knowledge tell us about ourselves? Randolph Nesse and George C. Williams take this route in their book, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine. What can we understand about ourselves in light of the revelation that humans spent most of their existence foraging for food and avoiding becoming food? How does that relate to our interactions with each other, other animals, the wilderness, open space, caves, pet cats and dogs, parasites, and on, and on?
I enjoyed the book. It is readable, interesting, and well referenced. Hart and Sussman have opened a door. They are inviting us in to think about who we really are, and why.
Book Description
Erotic Romance burned in Adobe PDF and Ms Reader for your convenience.
"Trackers" - J.W. McKenna: Anthropology graduate student Amy Dellacroix is kidnapped by a group of wealthy men who like to hunt for sport...the naked prey they hunt is women.
"Besieged" - Jaid Black: While studying the indigenous people of Alaska for her anthropology dissertation, Peggy Brannigan is hunted down and kidnapped in the arctic by a mysterious Nordic male determined to keep her as a breeding mate.
Customer Reviews:
almost worthless... but not quite.......2007-09-28
Trapped: The story was not offensive so much as stupid. The one great selling point is that it's short. So the tedium of it doesn't last long. It's sold as erotica so you can't go into thinking it's going to be PC but come on.... We're paying good money to read your work at least put a little effort in it. A few naughty words do not an erotic romance make. What is erotic about a woman being chased by 2 old men, one with gray pubic hair (AHHHHH) and the other with low self-esteem, 1geek, 1psycho football player that date rape counselors have made a career from, the hunter from Jumanji, and a morally corrupt ethically challenged playboy. One wonders where was the partridge in the pear tree? The prize, if the boys win, is them taking turns raping her and then shaving her pubic area. ????? LOL!!!! Oh excuse me "taking her pelt". Talk about a nightmare, not so much an erotic fantasy. Give J. W. McKenna a shot of therapy and keep it coming! This is going to be a hard case.
Clearly anyone can see this is a heartwarming "true love" story. The reader figures that out right away when they read about the "hero" is one of the 6 potential rapists who paid to be in the game knowing the rules beforehand. Ummm, don't you just want to take him home to momma? That is a man to be pround of. And gosh, in the end does a girl really care if there are rapists out there kidnapping another woman if you're in love and happy? Heck no! It's every girl for herself!
And ahhh they want to have babies... it's so sweet really. Just like at the end of Natural Born Killers when you see Mallory Knox, Juliette Lewis' character has been breeding. You KNOW you want this couple to have offspring! Just like Ward and June Cleaver. They are going to be perfect parents. Well I hope they have girls so they can replenish the men's needs for victims with a capital V! Oh wait, their children will have money. Damn the luck, they are never going to be kidnapped and raped. Only poor women that don't matter socially will get that privilege.
Nice way to finish that story hon, really good job. Don't you love it when a writer ties up all the loose ends? Yeah me too... but apparently this might be a new concept to McKenna. The reader has to do more than suspend your sense of reality for this. But the biggest crime is there was nothing hot about this story it was sold as erotica and it was boring. The sex was the definition of dull.
And a side note: For those readers who might have non-consensual sex fantasies don't get excited... literally DON'T get excited and don't be fooled. This story doesn't deliver on any level, guilty pleasure or otherwise.
Besieged: This is the better story of the two but Jaid Black seems to be a bit of a one trick pony. I've only read a few her books and she seems totally obsessed with capture, humiliation, and Stockholm syndrome which is fine if that's what you are into. But every story? And the editor's claim that this is a prequel to the Death Row series? What is that about?
Besieged is a short story where the hero is one of those underground Viking type men she's written about before and the woman is supposedly intelligent or whatever but I have a hard time buying it. She's really unbelievably submissive and in the way that no one can really respect. Basically she realizes there is no reason to fight, falls in love, starts pumping out babies. Wow. Every woman's dream. Or Jaid Black's since it's the theme of every book I've read of her's so far.
I like JB books in spite of myself because I see she has talent and a rich imagination. Her books will turn you on, not this story perhaps but some of her others. So as far as erotica is concerned, give her a shot. I'm going to keep reading her in hopes that she develops her talent and gives us a different story.
So JB story is the better of two mediocre stories. Get this used or maybe electronic but not worth the paperback print price.
The Hunted Trackers and Besieged.......2007-01-16
I really enjoyed this book. It defintely has a primal edge. The thought that we as women are prey. Spicy. Defintely not the norm.
AWSOME!!!.......2006-04-07
Let me just say that I loved this book. I really enjoyed the cahse.
Trackers by J.W McKenna-Amy was kidnapped and forced to play the game.And what is the game? The game of being hunted by 6 men while your naked.But when Amy wins the hunters ask for a rematch, and Amy changes the rules. That they have to hunt her naked too. And her ally was Mr. Green(Jake).
Besieged by Jaid Black- This is a prequal story. It was just ok for me. I didn't really like it so I hope that the rest of the series is better than this one.
As you can see my preference was W.J. McKenna's story and not Jaid Blcak's. I would have purchased this book just for that story.
One great and one realy good story.......2005-11-01
"Trackers" - J.W. McKenna: 5 Stars! Amy Dellacroix is kidnapped to be hunted by a group of men who have paid good money for the privledge. If they catch her she gets $2,000 and a gang bang, if shey gets to saftey (a booth arangement) she gets $50,000. The first things that happen is while she starts on foot and unarmed (the men have a couple of tranqlulizer guns, 2 bolo guns and 2 net guns to use as well as golf carts-naturaly she is naked-she gets a gun and a golf card by out witting and out toughing the guys. This is harlious as it is what would happen with any samart woman with some intellegence and spirit when hunted by some rather dim guys.
They ask for a rematch with a $100,000 at stake but insted of getting shared if she loses the winer takes all. The change in the rules is't entirely thought through and one of the contestnts teams up with her. The results are suprising and she wins more then just the contest.
Good plot, good characters, lots of laughs.
"Besieged" - Jaid Black: 3 stars better than average for the genre. Peggy gets captured by a left over Viking that somehow got to Alaska and is part of one of 4 communites living in caves. This is pretty ridiculious to say the least. Good characters and some plot. Particularly good trick is used to get the captued woemen to go along with the program.
Not the best from Ms Black!.......2004-12-27
"The Hunted" is a two-story collection depicting two capture stories for your delectation.
The first, by JW McKenna, disappointed me greatly. I didn't like her hero/heroine by the end of the story. The plot, which revolved around a members-only woman hunt, completely withers into bits by the end. Amy, the grad student who has been stolen away, loses all of my sympathy when she embarks on a badly smiplistic romp with Jake, a guy who has paid for the privilege of sex with a woman - willing or not. The sex was Harlequin simple with a few coarse words. The assault on my morals was even worse - if you think that rapists should be punished, and that a woman should care if she's almost raped, then don't read this.
Now, Ms Jaid...my favorite...she let me down!!! The second story is about the capture of Peggy by a secretive hunter. It's pretty choppily formed and filled in with many instances of sex-after-coercion. The characters are likeable, but the heroine drops the ball and decides to happily pump out babes to please her MAN!!!! in lieu of a satisfying career in her own terms. Sigh. No good. Also? The premise that this is a Death Row prequel? Oh, just drop it. There is practically no connection between this and that venerable series.
I'm giving this three stars just because Ms. Jaid is involved. It's not as fulfilling as other Ellora's Cave offerings.
Book Description
For business executives, complexity and uncertainty often characterizes the competitive landscape and strategic choices surrounding technology and innovation. In this fascinating and enjoyable new read, e-business expert Dave Rochlin dispels many of the myths, and outlines the primary factors which determine why some firms thrive while others flop in adopting or introducing new technology. Drawing from his exhaustive research as well as his personal experiences as consultant, executive, and educator, Rochlin delivers practical advice to give readers a thorough understanding of the complex high-tech environment. He also provides numerous examples from other prominent experts in the field, enabling readers to learn from the mistakes and successes of those who have blazed the high-tech trail before them. Offering a holistic view of innovation, technology, and competitive strategy, this unique book blends contemporary and classical research theory, a historical perspective, and the current best practices from industry.
Customer Reviews:
Keep This One Handy .......2006-03-29
This book made my list of "books to keep around." The book is about making smart strategic business decisions when faced with technology choices, and gives you background on the key variables to consider. These include where standards are going, how industries evolve, likely responses by competitors, how consumers behave, and whether you create or lose leverage by innovating.
Since this book is written for MBA students, it deals with some fairly complex material in a compact way. The good news though is that Rochlin uses very easy to understand language, clear examples, and some interesting interviews to make this very readable.
Nothing unusual.......2006-03-01
Its a decent book which more or less reflects what Jack Welch and the other Corporate Strategy guru's have often spoken.
Surprisingly interesting and useful .......2005-08-03
I read and was impressed with "Platform Strategy" by Gawer and Cusumano, and found both represented well in this book (as were many other better known thought leaders.) The book uses numerous viewpoints to demonstrate and support the author's ideas on how to compete in technology markets, with some heavy doses of reality for those who have a romantic notion of life in high tech.
The evolution of competition over the lifecycle of a technology struck a chord, and the variety of examples - including discussions of nuclear power, hybrid cars, and blackberrys made for a compelling read. I also liked the interviews with venture capitalist Randy Komisar and Tivo inventor Jim Barton. It gets slightly too academic at points, but overall is one of the more useful strategy books I have read in a while.
Average customer rating:
- AWSOME BOOK!
- Fake ID
- EXCELLENT
- Author should fire his editor
- Suspensefully delicious
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Fake ID (Hunted)
Walter Sorrells
Manufacturer: Dutton Juvenile
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0525475141 |
Book Description
Sixteen-year-old Chastity and her mother have been on the run since Chass was a baby, assuming new identities in every town. She doesn't know why they are running, who her father is, or even her real name. On the night of Chass's sixteenth birthday, her mother disappears. Police find her abandoned car, blood matching her DNA, and a purse containing six ID cards. Chass doesn't believe her mother is dead, only that she had to run again. If Chastity doesn't find her mother in six days, she'll be put into foster care—that is, if she isn't murdered first.
Customer Reviews:
AWSOME BOOK!.......2007-05-14
The two books in the series are great! Its about this girl and her mom moving from place to place. Read it if you a fan of suspenfull mysteries. Trust me and a bunch of other readers: THIS BOOKS ROCKS.
Fake ID.......2007-01-12
I loved this. It was fast-paced, suspenseful, and really interesting. You just want to know what happens next! I was so shocked, and yet strangely it felt like it was so obvious all along. I cannot wait to read the sequal!!! This was really exciting.
EXCELLENT.......2006-12-29
Purchased this book and the second one (Club Dread) for my thirteen year old daughter as a Christmas gift. She LOVED them both. Said they were the best books she has read all year. Haven't seen her this enthused about a book since Harry Potter a few years back.
Author should fire his editor.......2006-11-25
On one hand, this was a great book! I love this genre and I couldn't put the book down! A true page turner! An easy and fast read!! I imagine everyone who loves mysteries would enjoy reading this book! Creative and original!
However, there were unfortunate distractions that totally undid the enjoyability. I've never read a book with so many flaws in continuity and character. For example, the lead character, a budding musician, distinctly has to leave her prized guitar behind in a car used to kidnap her. Yet, her guitar is with her when next she needs it. Impossible. Then, in one paragraph, she is riding in a convertible Mustang and on the same page, just a couple of paragraphs later, the same Mustang is said to have a "sun roof." Again, impossible. In another section, a teacher tackles the lead character in the school library in order to get her to turn off her cell phone. That is implausible. Besides these and other obvious flaws, all characters except the lead are stereotypical, totally predictable, and one dimensional.
At the end of the book, the bad guys survive what should have killed them. This felt like a weak, obvious gimmick to get a second book going for the character where she must face these bad guys again. Why?
I don't know whether these are problems because the author has a poor editor, or because the author is cranking out books too fast to stay on top and keep the plot details tight and consistant. [On his Web site, the author says that he wrote 4 or maybe 5 books last year...he can't really remember which because he's writing so much he can't keep track.] The author obviously CAN concoct a GREAT plot (an EXCELLENT plot) and tell a great story (an AWESOME story) that keeps readers' attention. There is no excuse for the flaws.
Suspensefully delicious.......2006-07-21
I have to say I just read this book last night (yes I read it in a day) & I thought it was AMAZING!! I love mysteries especially when they're so good you can't put them down & this was definetly one of those books, You should definetly read this book if you get the chance!
Average customer rating:
- a book you can be proud to own
- a piece of history
- A ragged edge through the consciousness
- This book is mind-blowing and raw with emotion...just amazing
- Just what I expected ... only better!
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Run With the Hunted: Charles Bukowski Reader, A
Charles Bukowski
Manufacturer: Ecco
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Book Description
The best of Bukowski's novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes harrowing, invariably exhilarating reading experience. A must for this counterculture idol's legion of fans.
Customer Reviews:
a book you can be proud to own.......2007-09-27
i gave this book as a gift once. to like a book enough to give it as a gift.. now that's something. if you appreciate being told the way it really is, you'll love bukowski.
a piece of history.......2007-03-29
The recording quality may not be absolutely perfect but the item captures Bukowski as he was, and adds significantly to the image one gets about his personality and his views from reading his, frequently repetitive books.
A ragged edge through the consciousness.......2006-11-03
Bukowski is merciless. He can be quite cruel. He is a neutron bomb who destroys fantasy and make believe and leaves behind empty unadorned buildings. Like really rough scotch or bourbon, he can only be read in doses. In fact, his writing is an acquired taste. If don't want to see into the core reality of life, do not buy, let alone read his books. But if you are into honesty and courage and already know that no good deed ever goes unpunished, please enjoy. Bukowski's works are an affirmation of reality. Hobbes would love him. Ohm.
This book is mind-blowing and raw with emotion...just amazing.......2006-10-27
Some one gave this book to me to read highschool and the second I started reading it I was addicted. Now I'm in my late 20's and had to have it again.
Charles Bukowski takes you a trip that you soon won't forget. You will travel through a timeline that will have you anticipating what's next. The raw expression of life as depicted in his book made me want to become a writer.
Not only does he write a mean story he also has section filled with his poems, also amazing. You will not be dissapointed.
Just what I expected ... only better!.......2005-09-25
This double CD is a total joy! Quintessential Bukowski - there's nothing like hearing poems read by the author, I think, especially with him.
There's two CD's, poems interspersed with conversations with the people doing the recording. The only drawback could be that all of the recordings were done in a room with only a few people there, so there's an odd lack of feeling, the buzz you normally get in a live recording. Bukowski was also almost reluctant at times to read, but at the same time, the stillness in the background frames his voice and the work perfectly somehow. He warms up as it goes on, and as they have a few more drinks, and even reads a short story, which is brilliant.
There's some great photos of him in the booklet; no printed poems, but the sound quality is excellent, so you can hear every word.
If you're a fan, get it! If you want an introduction to Bukowski, get it!
Book Description
While all hunters dream of chasing trophy bucks high up on the sides of remote mountains, far from other hunters, the reality is that most serious hunters are chasing stressed-out, pressured deer in crowded areas, and the deer know they're on the run.
But the word "pressure" doesn't just mean the presence of other hunters, it also covers the problems of hunting in less rural areas, special "limited-entry" hunts, and hunting deer who are in turn being hunted by natural predators like wolves and coyotes.
In thoughtful, clearly written chapters, SCOTT BESTUL surveys what experts can tell us about how deer react in high-pressure situations, how hunters need to adapt to the pressure hunt, why scouting is even more important in the high-pressure environment, and how to recognize travel corridors and study aerial maps. He looks at tactics for stands and stalking in heavily hunted areas. And he explains the best techniques for organizing drives and pushes, and looks at new approaches to bowhunting, particularly in special short-duration hunts, public areas, and metro zones.
The world of hunting has changed tremendously in the last twenty years, and HUNTING PRESSURED WHITETAILS may well be the deer-hunting handbook of the next twenty.
Customer Reviews:
this book is ok.......2007-03-24
This book is pretty well rounded covering both gun and bow. Mixes in some science and good technique covering most topics. I have 60+ books on Whitetail hunting probably half have the same basic content this book falls in with that group altough its better then most.
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