This is a terrific guidebook, but you're missing out on a LOT of updates and additional information by buying this "pocket" edition (the 1st edition published in 1999) instead of the 2nd edition published in 2002. The new version has about twice as many photos, updated maps where things have changed, updates and additional contact information (phone numbers, websites), elevation profile maps, and profiles of people who were some of the "founders" of the hobby of Highpointing (Jack Longacre and Paul Zumwalt).
So do another search for "Highpoint Adventures" and look for the newer version. Or get both (the little one for your backpack and the new one for enjoying a good read & planning your trip).

My wife Chrissy gave me this book as a gift. Since I received it, I am rarely without it. The directions, descriptions, and information provided with regard to the highpoints are excellent. This is my bible to highpointing. The book fits perfectly inside my back pack, and I cannot imagine highpointing without it. My only suggestion for improvement would be the addition of exact latitude/longitude coordinates for each high point.

This handy dandy pocket highpoint book is the best I've seen. I have several highpoint guide books and this is the most accurate. I have climbed 46 highpoints and I am in the process of climbing them again with my family...27 so far. I am using Winger's book on my second climbs. There were times that I noticed I went the wrong way on the first climb, however were very clear with Winger's book. I noticed the directions to the trailheads were very accurate and easy to follow. My kids enjoy reading the little green book...even my 5 year old. There is also so much extra, good to know, information in this book.
It is by far the best guide book for the 50 highpoints that is out there. I highly recommend it...you won't regret it.

I'm an anthropology major in my senior year. One of my classes was Anthropological Theory. This book was the main reading. It is concise. It offers a multitude of anthropological view points that are the foundations of modern anthropological thought.

If anyone is looking to build a library of good scholarly works, this is a great foundation in that it offers many view points that have helped shape modern schoold of thought in many fields.

This is an EXCELLENT book for those struggling with the history of cultural anthropology. I highly recommend it to any cultural anthropology student who wants an easy to read description of the important figures and movements in CA. It really spells it out.

I too finished this book the same day I started it. It was so brilliant I couldn't put it down for a second. It showed me that God can take something seeming very bad and bring people to Him through it. The character Liz really touched me. She was so full of hope and was really into sharing her faith. People really noticed something about her was different. I admire this character the most. I reccomend this book for anyone wanting to read a good book.

This book is awesome! I got it and read it all the first day. I went straight out to get the next book, Breakout, that same day. This book really helped encourage me in my faith, and it was just a great story to read. I really enjoyed how the plot jumped around a lot from future to past, that kind of stuff. I look forward to reading the next ones...

I bought this book on the recommendation of a very senior trader and I am glad I read it. There are many books on Fibonacci, Elliott Wave and Gann techniques. To read and understand them is simple, but to use them in harmony is difficult. This book is very good at simplifying the techniques and making them very readable and user friendly. Though this is not the be all and end all for technical analysis. You must understand other techniques independently. This book is full of examples on using different techniques as well as using them together to generate more reliable buy and sell signals. The book is short on theory but full of good real chart patterns, which are missing in most books

I was impressed by the problem arrangement and the explanations of the various answers. They are clear and, because of the choice in board variations, well illustrate the difference that one line or two stones can make. The visual format is remarkably comfortable. Lots of white space for notes (ferinnstance references to "The Great Joseki Debate" or the "Get Strong" series. A comment on the back says that this will be a dog-eared favorite. yup!

I read the book Breaking Point in one sitting. When you read it, you are constantly wondering what will happen next. I couldn't put it down.

Paul Richmond has trouble making friends in his new school. Then, Charlie Good, the most popular guy at school, takes him in. Suddenly, Paul is accepted, but with a price. Charlie wants him to do all sorts of things that Paul would never have thought of doing . . . stuff like smashing mailboxes and drinking. And then, Charlie wants him to do something much, much bigger.

This book deals with school violence, an important topic facing teenagers. But what I really liked about it is that it shows what high school is really like when you're an outsider. You get to be right inside the character's head and know what he's going through and what could drive him to do something so bad. A lot of people might not like to think that this is what teens are really going through, but it is. I recommend this book. Read it!

How much can one kid suffer before he lashes out? And who will be there when he finally breaks? Read Alex Flinn's Breaking Point to learn the truth about Paul Richmond, one of "those kids"---you know, the kind you see profiled on CNN after the latest school disaster. Flinn shows us Paul *before* the disaster, when he is still a shy, likable kid longing for a friend. Is it Paul's fault that the friend he finds is so very evil? Flinn explores this question and more in this entertaining and insightful page-turner.

I've read several young adult novels that deal with school violence and this is really the first one that I feel truly delves into the mind of one of the perpetrators in a realistic way. Paul Richmond could be someone we know, he could be us. Flinn has the courage to remind us that violence doesn't happen in a vacuum, that all of us have a Breaking Point and that many times, our smaller cruelties may be pushing someone else to their Breaking Point. As we follow Paul through his downward spiral we are forced to look at these issues in our own homes and classrooms and wonder, who we know, who is at the edge, who is ready to break. This is a must read for kids and for teachers, too.

This book is an excellent text on which to base an upper level undergraduate introduction to the history of anthropological theory, although most teachers will want to supplement it with additional readings. The introductory chapter essays provide interesting and helpful biographical data on each author, as well as material historically situating the textual excerpts offered. While the selections are generally well-chosen as to importance, brevity and ease of reading, some do not necessarily represent an author's best or most important work (e.g. the selection offered for A.L. Kroeber). The text covers basic trends in anthropological theory up to about the 1970's, and includes many historically significant authors who might otherwise be "written out" in favor of more recent theoretical stars. While I would not recommend this as the *only* reading for a theory class, it does a great job of introducing students to the history of anthropological theory, while leaving the teacher room to decide how and where to supplement it with additional (or more recent) readings.

This book is an insightful compilation of all the groundbreaking researchers in Anthropology. By reading this book, one gains a comprehensive understanding of the evolution of anthropological theory and praxis. This book contains valuable biographical information as well as selected works from each of the persons profiled. It is a must read for anyone interested in the world of anthropology.

This book was at best mediocre. I would not recommend it to anyone who is looking for genuine help with anger. Some sections were decent, but overall I would not purchase this book. There were too many weak sections that sounded like mumbo jumbo.

As a cab driver I found this very illuminating, I understand my self as well as my passangers much better. I understand my rage and predjudices.

this book made me almost fall out of my chair laughing. i would have gave it 5 stars but it didn't have much substance. but it was hilarious.

this book is very hilarious, many teenagers would enjoy reading it, the common sense of the book is that Ivan Zellner is forced to move to Nevada because of his dad's job.. it continues with his friends and how they get together. Its a great book i would rate it as a 5 star but it doesnt make sense in some places.

As a Battletech fan of more than six to seven years, I have seen many books written by many authors. This one though, is by far the worst i have ever seen before. Gressman has consistently disappointed me with his poor, immature writing style. Not only is his style that bad, his editors are possibly even worse. I apologize for the harshness of my criticism but as a high school freelance writer, even I could write better than this.

In DaggerPoint, the dialogue is poorly written and very melodramatic. The action is short and exaggerated. Seeing Colonel Paul Calvin in an 80 ton Victor go toe to toe with a 100 ton Atlas and Calvin coming out virtually unscathed is very unrealistic. Gressman tries way too hard to make the HORRORS of WAR so TERRIBLE and so VERY CHEESY (sarcasm). He tries to show it with the most melodramatic of scenes and disgustingly sappy display of dialogue and imagery. I've written things at 3am better than that. Christ, Gressman needs to either go back to high school level creative writing or get a job elsewhere cuz his writing is poisoning the minds of young readers.

New reader of the Battletech series. A decent book, the story was pretty good until it got near the end. The mech battles toward the begining started to get less descriptive and some enemy commanders seemed to become invincible. The commander's mech in the last battle would take loads of damage and knock the other ones out with a couple shots.

This is a good book but probably not the best in the world.

Personally I enjoyed this novel, that is until I got to the end. It was too quick and rushed. The story ending itself was confusing and plain stupid. The ELH were sent to Milos to take the world for a further staging ground inro the Capellan Confed. but at the end of the novel General Edwin was forced to give up the now taken planet because Arden Sortek said so, and would not send in the rest of the Brigade to help. Put simply, there was no point to the raid at all. They got there took the planet, defended, lost many troops and the left leaving behind proberly a Battlion or too destroyed units. Still. up until that point it was a good book with Mr Gressmen, improving his writing style amazingly well.