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Biological Anthropology - The Natural History of Humankind

Biological Anthropology : The Natural History of Humankind...
Prentice Hall :: Social Science & Anthropology & General :: Textbooks :: Sociology :: Social Science :: Physical anthropology :: Anthropology - Physical :: Anthropology - General :: :: Biological Anthropology - The Natural History of Humankind

 

Biology - A Guide to the Natural World 3rd Edition

5 stars (Biology -- A Guide to the Natural World) - I found this book to much easier to read and understand from all the previous textbooks assigned to biology courses. The graphics and tables and examples are completely explained. The format asks questions and answers them in a simple, easily understandable text -- not like the mumbo jumbo that a person would have to read over and over to finally understand its meaning. ...
Prentice Hall :: Science & Biology :: Science&Mathematics :: Science :: Life Sciences - Biology - General :: Biology (General) :: Biology :: David Krogh :: :: Biology - A Guide to the Natural World (3rd Edition)

 

Scrawny to Brawny - The Complete Guide to Building Muscle the Natural Way

3 stars (Just Another Rip Off) - I found this book to be just another hype to get your bucks, it does not contain anything out of the ordinary regarding muscle building, I found it very disappointing. I'm glad I purchased it on Amazon.com with a discount. 4 stars (Some new information for the long limbed) - I've been trying to gain weight for 15+ years but with little real success. I've read alot and I'm constantly in the gym. Most of the information in the book is not new; eat alot and lift heavy during short intense workouts. What I did find new was the biometrics and assessments portion of the book. It gave new insight into proper body mechanics for the ectomorph. There was a few pearls of wisdom in the nutrition section. I've put on 10lbs after 6 weeks even without following the nutrition plan exactly. I would definitely reccommend the book to a novice to intermediate level hardgainer, it will save them from wasting alot of time listening to mesomorph advice on how to train. 2 stars (Ectomorphs Only) - With all the complimentary reviews you'd think that this book was a godsend. Certainly there are good things about the book: its discussion of biomechanics and kinesiology, good demo photos, nutrition discussion, and friendly writing style. Here's the caveat: although the description of the book is for "hardgainer's (although they eschew the term, they prefer the term "hypertrophy challenged" in their first chapter), AND they say that there is a difference between a hardgainer and an ectomorph, the rest of the book addresses the ectomorph. BUT what if you are a short skinny guy? You may feel a bit left out when every other paragraph laments the ectomorphic challenges of long bones, height, longer radius, kinesiology of those INCREDIBLY long legs that never tire and how easy it is to lift for short guys. What if you are just a shrimp? ...
Rodale Books :: Sports & Recreation & Bodybuilding & Weight Training :: Nutrition :: Muscle strength :: Health&Fitness :: Health & Fitness :: Handbooks :: manuals :: et :: Scrawny to Brawny - The Complete Guide to Building Muscle the Natural Way

 

The Natural

5 stars (The Game Beyond the Game) - I just re-read Malmud's truly great first novel, The Natural . I had first read it over 20 years ago. It was more moving to me now -- having experienced both success and failure in my life. It is a book about baseball and it captures the best elements of the game (I grew up loving and playing baseball both in NY and Denver) and Mickey Mantle was my boyhood hero, much like Superman -- the comic book hero. Compulsive baseball statiticians with no real appreciation of genuinely fine literature may grow impatient with some seeming discrepencies. However, the larger picture is that through poetic metaphor and very real tough dialogue Malamud captures the glory and the anguish of the elusive American dream. 2 stars (The Movie may be corny, but it's better than this) - I knew before beginning that Malamud's book was substantially different from the great film made from it. Specifically, I was aware that at the end Roy Hobbs would strike out instead of hitting that mammouth home run to win the pennant. I was, however, prepared to read the book, which I fully expected to enjoy. I was wrong. For one thing, and this I think should be obvious to any baseball fan of merit, it seems as though Mr.Malamud has decided to use flowery prose about mountains, women, and railroads to cover up a distinct lack of knowledge regarding the sport of baseball. At one point he refers to Pop Fisher having played for the Sox in the World Series "about forty years ago. It was the first series they'd been in in twenty years. Even if the book took place in 1952, the year it was published, that series sixty years ago would have been in 1892, eleven years before the first World Series. Another World Series is described as having pitted the Sox against the A's, when both of those teams were in the American League! There is much more to find disagreeable in this book, such as the illogicality of the plot. We go right from Hobbs being shot to 15 years la...
Farrar- Straus and Giroux :: Fiction & Literary :: Literature- Classics :: Literary :: Fiction - General :: Fiction :: Baseball stories :: Baseball players :: Baseball - General :: Kevin Baker :: B :: The Natural