A good book, I've just recently read it for a class I'm taking in religious anthropology at the University of Ottawa. The book gives a good account of the historical European aproach to cannibalism on the West Coast. It is primarily concerned with the findings of ethnographer Franz Boas and it seeks to refute some of the claims made by Arens and his theories on the man-eating myth. The book details the Hamatsa ceremony and talks about the stigma surrounding cannibalism. The book is not an ethnography, but is more of a critical review of other ethnographic and historical accounts. At the end of the book, McDowell writes of how the ideas of the Hamatsa ceremony can serve our Western culture.

You're a Christian with high moral standards, being careful to always try to date nice people and you're even careful around strangers. Think it can't or won't happen to you? Consider that a rape occurs every 6 minutes in the US and a staggering 84 % knew their attacker! This book provides what you need to know about preventing data rape and how to recover if you or a friend have become a victim. This is a small but concise & powerful book that walks you thru the life of a Christian young lady confronted by her boyfriend on a date, to rape. Explains what date rape is & how it can happen to you even though careful, how you can help prevent it, what to do if you are a rape victim and how to recover from it. A good book for every woman, her family & friends, and yes, even her boyfriend, because "Yes, it can happen to you! (Taken from back cover for lack of any other reviews)

This is an awesome book. The authors begin with a few chapters building the scriptural basis for the importance of love. Then they logically build a case that when there is no direct guidance from the scriptures, the loving alternative is the best alternative. The remainder contains a number of specific examples of how to make the right decision in today's ethical delimas, using the biblical principle of love as a basis for the decision. It is a must for all Christians.

As a nurse working in a surgical environment who is concerned about providing holistic patient care I truly appreciated the scope of this text. This text serves two major functions in my opinion. First, it provides nurses without advanced psychiatric/mental health training many useful interventions for mentally ill patients in med/surg settings. These interventions also provide the practicing nurse with a review of the major problems associated with the disease and alert the nurse to relevant concerns patients may have. Secondly, this text provides a framework for medical/surgical nurses to incorporate mental status into daily nursing assessments which usually give scant attention to emotional health. As hospital stays continue to shorten (although with less rapidity than forecasters predicted) and previously hospital-based procedures are converted to outpatient visits, the push is on for shorter overall in-patient stays. A large body of scientific evidence supports the role of emotional health in promoting physical health and overall recovery from invasive procedures. It has become necessary for med/surg nurses to examine the emotional status of patients and intervene to promote faster recovery and successful outcomes. This book is a valuable tool to assist the professional nurse in this endeavor. Unfortunately, the book fails to address many psychosocial implications of medical disorders and surgical procedures. An expansion of this subject might include discussions about the psychosocial effects of specific procedures (angiograms, CABG procedures, hip and other joint replacements). Overall this is a useful reference manual that I recommend for med/surg nurses at all levels.

ACF Competencies for Business and Math Skills, as outlined in the Apprenticeship Operations Manual v1.3 can be met with successful completion of this workbook. Great resources that chefs can use for many years. A few errors found: temperatures need to be updated to agree with ServSafe guidelines and Food Code of 1998.

Sharon McCone, RD ACF Central Arkansas Culinary School of Apprenticeship

Michael McDowell's ghoulish serial soap opera continues as Blackwater makes plans to build a levee to prevent future floods from occurring. Meanwhile more horrible accidents and illnesses plague the Caskey family. Are these tragedies linked to the Caskey's most recent addition, as one family member has come to believe? Recommended.

The AIrcam series offered in both its incarnations (Osprey's Aircam series and ARCO's AIRCO/Aircam series) two volumes about the famous F-86 Sabre, this one is about Aircam No.17 - ARCO/Arcam No.19. You get much for your money: 44 color plus an additional 3 in black-and-white- sideviews by Richard Ward, 5 pages of text -in small font- by Ernest McDowell and the rest of the 50 pages is crammed with black-and-white photographs, with an average of 4 for every page. Every nation using the Sabre up to the early 1970ies gets mentioned, photographed and almost all get sideviewed, I counted 18 different nationalities amongst the sideviews myself. Well worth searching for!

McDowall really makes a good effort in the book by investigating as much as he can in the context. He seems to be more sympathetic to the palestinian view than the Zionist one. He clearly tends to view the Palestinian uprising as a succesful event in the history of Palestinian efforts against Israeli state. He considers the uprising as a revolt of an occupied, colonized third-world people and it is the latest stage of Arab struggle against Zionism and Israel. The major strength of his arguement in this book is his analysis of the present(for the time it was written) and projections for the future. he critically reassesses the prospects for a settlement for the Arab-Israeli conflict. His analysis of taking the conflict as a intra-community instead of intra-state is a good effort. Also the international and super-power aspects are taken by him from a realist perspective. It is not a book which can be rated as perfect but it is good enough for the days it was written. Today in the year 2000 we can say that his predictions are far from reality.

I acquired a copy of this book from 1st Books.com, and I must say it is one of the most comprehensive looks into a troubled mind I have read. This should be required reading for all psychiatrists/psychologists. Excellent read.

There's a lot in this book which the reader will see repeated in other books on prosody -- an introductory chapter dealing with the relations between form and rhythm on one hand and content and meaning on the other; an analysis of the changes between Romantic versification and the modern period, beginning with the work of Dickinson, Hopkins, Hardy, and Whitman; the importance of the Imagists; the opening shots by Pound and Eliot in the Modernist revolution; and a few other topics.

Most of the book is handled very well. It's refreshing to see an analysis of Browning's pentameter style which emphasizes not his "colloquial" approach, as so many others do, but instead lauds the extent to which he moves AWAY from the colloquial style and more toward roughness and jaggedness. The Modern period is handled with finesse as well. The drawbacks to the book, in my opinion, begin with the period closer to the present. Some of the analyses on free verse do not make as much sense as similar analyses in Paul Fussell's "Poetic Meter and Poetic Form," despite the more recent volume's indebtedness to the former. As D. H. Lawrence said, it is no use manufacturing fancy laws for the governing of free verse. Too much weight is given to some poets who are clearly minor, such as Maxine Kumin, and too little to poets whose craftsmanship is unquestioned, such as Robert Lowell. Most oddly, there is no attention given to two of the finer formal craftsmen of recent history, James Merrill and Derek Walcott; these two use free verse but also expand the boundaries of traditional metrical approaches, and their efforts here should not go unnoticed. And I might take issue with the expanded coverage given to the most recent trend in prosody, the New Formalists, simply because, as I noted in my review of "Rebel Angels" for Amazon, they aren't that good and they haven't ADVANCED metrical techniques that much.

Aside from these qualms, "Sound and Form" is a good survey of prosody of the ! last century.