Very fun "scrap book" from figure skating's greatest! Kristi shares her life from childhood to present. What I really like is how she talks of her Japanese heritage. Very recommended.

I presented Kristi's book to the nine-year-old daughter of a friend of mine, and the look on her face was one of pure joy. Enough said.

The Amber Brown series is good for everyone. I own the entire set, (all six books!) and think a lot about Justin moving away... I've already had a few best friends move away also. Although there are some sad parts, like when Justin threw away the bubble gum ball, it is a hilarious series.

I checked out Amber Brown Is Not A Crayron and read it too my class. They loved all her adventures and some of my students could really relate to Amber Brown. Once I finished the book we discovered she had written more books. I read them each year to my class! I hope Amber Brown continues her adventures.

I have used this book for years as my gardening bible. I have an edition with a foreward signed by James Bush-Brown and Louise Bush-Brown in Ambler Pennsylvania, September 1957. I'm glad to see the book has been updated, but what amazes me is that the older version is still so useful. Just this morning I looked up 'Hyssop' because I planted one in the back of my herb bed. The entry read, "P; 18-24" Seed: medicine, perfume, food -- Sunny; ordinary garden soil, not too rich. Prefers lime." This entry (in Chapter IX, The Herb Garden) told me the plant was a pernnial, would not overshadow my other plants, and would grow well in my herb garden which is laced with lime.

This book is succinct, useful, and too heavy to carry to bed for nighttime reading.

If I were stranded in a strange garden and could pick only one gardening book to take along, this would be the one. It's loaded with detailed information on all aspects of gardening, including photos and suggestions of exactly which species and varieties will work best in which situations. This is such a comprehensive effort that it's now possible to whittle your gardening library down to one volume and still be able to look up an answer to whatever question's bugging you.

This account of efforts to understand and deal with threatened exotic-caused extinctions on Guam is a gem. The paper back's blurbs focus on Jaffe's "ecological detective thriller." But it's the seamlessness of the book's widely-informed joined elements -- including biographical and political sketches of great pith, accessible population biology, and How Modern Science Works to try to save avian species -- that's most compelling. This deftness in weaving many individually fascinating threads recalled for me Neal Ascherson's astonishing "Black Sea."

The paperback's Index lists only passing references to DDT -- on pages 26, 27 and 72. Because the bad guy is not a chemical, not one of our products. No, he's one of us. And after the paucity and untimeliness of the legislative response to the Guamanian situation had sunk into my consciousness, it was ironic that in the end, an air force base on the island established the 50-acre "environmental reclamation experiment" Jaffe hopes could begin to turn it all around. Like the ending of William Golding's little masterpiece, with the navy warship rescuing the tribe of island-stranded boys from themselves.

My God! You won't find any birds singing in this masterpiece! Rachel Carson has nothing on this guy! The DDT chapter broke my heart!!!

The images of the dray horses pulling heavy loads is worth the price of admission for me. This is a great reference for artists who want to create realistic images of animals in motion. It's a fabulous settler of bar room bets. It's a source of animated gifs for web designers (I have the running cat image that's been going around.)

For people who want to understand animals in general, this is a good reference. I never thought that all the ways an animal can go from point A to point B each had a name to it and that a quadruped can have so many ways to move.

Its an interesting historical piece, too. People do not see horses doing useful work any more and it's a reminder that we all had a life before internal combustion. Its an interesting chapter in the history of photography and the history of art, too. (Painting was never the same after people figured out how animals really moved.)

Muybridges momumental work photographing animals in all different gates and poses and tests of ability. Using sometimes up to 100 cameras for a single set up to gain what is now the definitive guide for animators in understanding the motion of animals. It all started with a $25,000 bet: Eadweard Muybridge and a friend argued whether all four of the horses hooves leave the ground completely at any point during a gallop. Being funded for the project, Muybridge proved to be the winner in saying that horses do in fact leave the ground for a momentary second in their strides. The book begins with an anlaysis of locomotion, going over the walk, the amble, the trot, the rack (or pace), the canter, the transverse-gallop, the rotary-gallop, and the richochet, along with the leap and buck and kick. There are roughly 4,000 photos in this collection which claims to be the largest collection of animals in motion. It features not only horses but lions, deers, oxen, elephants, birds and kangaroos. From this development, Muybridge not only discovered that horses gallop with no feet touching the ground, but his discovery led to motion pictures, in which his photos is a very crude version of cinema today. Later he designed a viewer called a Zoogyroscope (or Zoopraxiscope) which, similar to a Zoetrope, was a carousel with slits which you look through while it is spinning to give the illusion of motion (or persistence of vision). Today these pictures are looked at for a couple of reasons, mostly as nastolgia for one to have wonder and excitement of this simple cinema, but it also is a great reference for modern animators. In fact, for those looking at animation, I can tell you that if you ask for an application to Walt Disney Animation Studios, they will give you their requirements and texts, this will be on the list. Highly reccomended for the artist, graphic, fine arts or animation or anything else you can dream of.

Beautifully bound with expert craftsmanship, the brown, blank, "Anything Book" makes a lovely addition to any book collection.

The brown cover is a warm and satisfying hue, suitable for placement on virtually any writing desk or in a shoulder bag. At 160 pages, the thickness of the book is ideal for the writer with a lot to say, and has plenty of room for growth for the writer that doesn't. And with dimensions (in inches) of 0.62 x 8.31 x 5.64, it's hard to deny that this book is the perfect size for a wonderful travel journal, or a stay-at-home diary, to rest comfortably on your nightstand.

The pages are of a substantial thickness, so even your heaviest pen's ink won't bleed through. The pleasant girth of the pages also allows for non-stick page turning, and there's plenty of texture, so licking your finger to achieve maximum grip is not necessary.

Also available in black, green and burgundy.

These books are great for writing any thoughts, poems, or stories you want to share. Plus, it gives it a good look. You can even write in pen and it won't bleed through because the pages are very durable. Perfect journals, also. A great gift for anyone who loves to write or sketch!

First off, I'd like to agree with the first reviewer. This is an excellent compilation that stands by itself (although, for an intro class, it definitely requires a "discipline-oriented" text book like Kottak as a guiding force). I would recommend this book highly to my fellow anthros and to general readers alike. What follows is a brief summary of some of my favorite articles in the collection. The selections are all short and well-written, they make interesting and useful points and convey the complexity and utility of anthropology very, very well.

I've been waiting a long time to see Peggy McIntosh's wonderful essay on "White Privilege" in print somewhere. I had the distinct pleasure of hearing her give an oral version of the same talk a number of years ago and am very very pleased to see it published here for the benefit of students. The book is worth the price for that article alone.

However, this is not the only gem in this collection. Phillipe Bourgois' work on crack dealers is introduced here as is Gerald Murray's work on wood farming as a means to encourage re-forestation programs in Haiti. There are also classics such as Richard Lee's story of the !Kung San insulting of his gift of a Christmas ox ("Eating Christmas in the Kalahari") and Laura Bohannon's failure to get Tiv elders to see Hamlet as a story about incest, revenge and justice. Jared Diamond's revisionist view of the advent of agriculture is also here (perhaps an antidote for his more recent "Guns, Germs and Steel" though undoutedly similar in style).

Other personal favorites of mine include Eugene Cooper's discussion of Chinese table manners (also a must for people who want to teach a course on the anthropology of food), Richard Reed's examination of the tension between environmentalists and indigenous communities in Paraguay, Joan Cassels' excellent analysis of surgery as a male-gendered medical speciality and Paul Farmer's and Arthur Kleinman's thoughtful peice on suffering and AIDS in Haiti.

Incidentally, I would thoroughly recommend anything by Paul Farmer to readers interested in social medicine. His scholarship and humanity are both quite phenomenal and totally justify the attention he has recieved due to the MacArthur fellowship.

I only have a couple of quibbles with this book and even these are not so much criticisms as comments for the unwary: Jennifer Laab's peice on corporate anthropologists seems to have been written for a corporate audience as a selling point for anthropology. As such it plays up the notion of anthropologists as service providers for corporate interests in a way which is a little frown-inducing for an academician such as myself. Not because I don't approve of anthropology in the private sector, but because the peice itself seems to argue that anthropology is merely a set of techniques that can be workshopped (like team-building exercises)to busy executives for the greater good of the company. Again, this is a VERY worthwhile point to debate, but not one that easily stands without comment. Secondly, the article by Wade Davis (he of "Serpent and the Rainbow" fame), while again discussion-worthy, seems a little superficial, dated in language and probably replaceable (Robert Voeks'recently-published "Sacred Leaves of Candomble" is one alternative that springs to mind). Lastly, I would like to plead for the inclusion of a selection on tatooing or bodily adornment of some sort in any future editions. This is a topic of enduring interest among students and would definitely be an asset to such a nicely-balanced and valuable collection.

When I took a sophomore level anthropology class at my University, Applying Anthropology was required as a secondary reading text, in addition to Kottak's Anthropology (7th edition). Applying Anthropology contains 52 articles in the categories of Biological Anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, Culture and Communication, Culture and Food, Culture and Race, Economy and Business, Gender and Socialization, Politics & Law & Warfare, and Social & Cultural Change. Instead of being a textbook that was something I just read for the class that required it, it turned out to be a book that I would have bought for my own personal purposes. Also, in addition to enjoying reading it, I learned a lot about anthropology. One of my favorite articles discusses what may have happened on Easter Island that resulted in the demise of an entire culture. All in all, Applying Anthropology provides an interesting approach to learning a lot about culture worldwide.

There's nothing like a guide that gives you interesting info that other guides don't: helpful restaurant reviews and guides to ethnic (and non-ethnic) neighborhoods, parking info, funny comments about our favorite city and its mayor, and general how-to-survive-in-Providence tidbits. Especially good for prospective Brown students. The bible for Brown students regarding restaurants, transportation, and everything else. If you are going to Providence for anything (to live, to visit) buy this book. It;s fun just to read, too... a great way to procrastinate.

This guidebook provides great restaurant reviews and hordes of information about the city. It may lack information about surrounding New England but for the short or long trip to Providence, this book will serve all of your needs. For the person interested in Brown University, this is ideal, providing info about student activities. With Providence coming out of its shell and this the only guidebook I could find, I highly recommend it.

This is an interesting book with chapters interleaved with thoery and real life cases studies. Doctor Thomas Mc Pherson explain the causes of the arthritis and it's mode of treatement. He also talks about the actual research approches of the treatement of the disease. His approch is different. If we summarize, arthritis is an infection related disease, that can be cured by a simple antibiotic (monocyclin) a derivative of tetracyclin. Both antibiotics can be used for the treatment. He explains that a common bacteria (mycoplasm) that live in everybody may outgrow normal levels and trigger immune reaction that is misinterpreted as an autoimmune disease. He give also many evidences for its theory. During his years of pratice doctor Thomas McPherson Brown cured thousands of patients of this terrible disease.

I wanted to submit this review because we convinced an arthritis specialist to apply this approch to a relative at an advanced stage of arthritis. This relative was illed since many years. Within an year the disease completly disappear from the body of this person. Blood tests show today that there is no more arthritis.

Many interests are reluctant to caution this approch. In some way this an ideal disease for a pharmaceutics company. A disease that is considered uncurable, and for which you are condamned to take forever drugs that are more expensive as the disease progress. Many searchers who investigate the autoimmune theory and worked in that direction for years are reluctant to consider that there is a such easy solution to this problem.

I would heartily recommend this book to anyone who has this disease.

Not only have I read this book, I have used its remedy. In July, 1996 I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease, then later with rheumatoid arthritis. I was treated for Lyme Disease for about 45 days (which has similar symptoms). Then my husband found The Arthritis Breakthrough book at our local Waldenbooks. Once I read the book, it was just a matter of finding someone who would try the treatment according to the book. I couldn't believe how difficult this was! Rheumatologists are not conditioned to think "cure", they think "symptomatic". Therefore, even though the treatment is so low risk, nobody I called wanted to listen. Depending on the severity of the disease, the book recommends a beginning low dose of minocycline and anti-inflammatory. Since I was diagnosed early, I began 50mg, 3X per week and and anti-inflammatory daily. After 3 mos., I discontinued the anti-inflammatory and began taking Aleve as I needed it. Over the span of the last 18 mos., the minocyline has been increased gradually to the dose I take now of 200mg, 4X a week. I expect to be cured by this November. Before this book, I could barely walk. Now I am back to a normal life of golf, gardening, swimming, etc. If I could give this book 10 stars, it certainly deserves it! It has changed my life.

Brown hopes you take his word at face value, because if you check his sources you will find that his work is misleading. Brown raises age-old arguments -- all of which have been disproven many times over. There is nothing new or original in this book.

Michael Brown has written another classical and powerful defense of Christianity/Messianic Judaism in this third volume. While Brown planned for this to be the last installment, he actually divided the remaining topics of Messianic prophecy, objections to the New Testament, and objections from the Jewish Traditions into two separate volumes. Presumably, the latter two in the above list will be contained in volume 4. However, Messianic prophecy probably warranted a separate volume as Brown undertook painstaking analyses of many of the prominent Biblical passages widely attributed by Christians to be fulfilled in Jesus of Nazareth. This includes 13 sections devoted to Isaiah 53, 3 sections to Daniel 9:24-27, 2 sections to Psalm 22, and single sections on Psalm 2, Psalm 16, Psalm 40, Psalm 45, Haggai 2, and Zechariah 12:10. There is also a beginning section on prophecies, symbols, and types of the Messiah in the Torah(first 5 books of the Old Testament) as well as several accessory sections on topics such as "provable prophecies" that Jesus has fulfilled or is fulfilling. Brown has debated many prominent rabbis and anti-missionaries and thus is familiar with most, or perhaps all, objections widely used against Messianic prophetic fulfillment in Jesus Christ.

Brown establishes the Messianic veracity of such passages mentioned by examining, when applicable and/or necessary, the Biblical Hebrew along with contextual and grammatical considerations of the passages in question, and utilizing early Rabbinical sources which corroborate the Christian Messianic application of certain Biblical passages. Most importantly, Brown demonstrates that the New Testament writers' exegeses of the Old Testament were perfectly acceptable in terms of methodology. Meanwhile, Brown provides scholarly answers to common objections to the various prophecies.

This is definitely a must-read for those interested in examining whether or not the Christian assertion of Messianic prophetic fulfillment in Jesus Christ can withstand scrutiny, especially when viewed in light of the historical Jewish understanding of such texts as well as proper studies in Hebrew linguistics and ancient Biblical exegeses performed by the Jewish sages.

Dr. Michael Brown, a Messianic Jew, has really done his
homework and it shows. In this, the third and final volume
in a series, he demonstrates excellent arguements to the
effect that MANY orthodox/Jewish attempts to "read Jesus
entirely out of the Hebrew Bible and prophets" is full of
many prejudicial and highly biased, even spurious arguements.

This is not at all light reading, but it is well worth
the effort to understand the Christian/Messianic JEWISH
view on Yeshua [or Yahshua] as the promised and prophesied
Messiah/Savior and Deliverer. The evidence compiled here
from many Hebrew sources is really very impressive. No serious
Bible student or apologist should be without all three of
these excellent volumes. I would not hesitate to give it
the very highest rating. Don't miss this one.
Pastor Len Hummel