The Great Adventure: The University of California Southern Africa Expedition of 1947-1948

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The Great Adventure

In 1947, after four years with the Navy in the South Pacific, Tom Larson returned to the University of California at Berkeley just in time to become a member of the University's Africa Expedition. He was to collect mammal and reptile specimens for The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology of the University.

With Professor Charles Camp, the paleontologist leader of the expedition, they explored Doris Crater in the remote Kaokoveld of Nambia. Then Tom joined Professor Edwin Loeb in Ovamboland where he filmed 115 Kung Bushmen. From there he traveled alone, hunting for specimens at Finkenstein Farm and Omataka Flats in Nambia. He then joined the Camps and Dr. Frank Peabody at the Transvaal caves at Gladysvale, and Bolt Farm. Then it was off to Northern Transvaal, and into Mozambique to collect more specimens. With Dr. Peabody they made excavations for early man at Wunderwek cave in Bechuanaland.

Everyday was a great adventure for the 30 year-old Tom Larson. He is the only survivor of the expedition who wrote a journal.

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best book i have read.......2002-03-22

this book made my love hockey even more and know more about the howe family and there lives and i live in mich and gordie in on of the most see people in ths town and state

Excellent.......1999-01-08

I am not an avid reader, but this book kept me glued to every page. Gordie and Colleen Howe share many interesting stories of not only their life with hockey but also of their family. I recommend this book for everyone, especially hockey fans.

And ...Howe! : An Authorized Autobiography

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And ...Howe! : An Authorized Autobiography
Gordie; Howe, Colleen; Delisle, Tom Howe
Manufacturer: Power Play Pubns Inc
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And ...Howe!: An Authorized Autobiography
Gordie; Howe, Colleen; Delisle, Tom Howe
Manufacturer: Power Play Pubns Inc
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ASIN: B000NQ8DV4

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Recasting Ritual explores how ritualized action diversifies in response to varying cultural, political and physical contexts. The contributors look at how issues such as globalization and technology affect ritual performance and how minorities often utilize performances to affirm their own identities while also speaking to outsiders.

The contributors examine the relationship between ritual meaning and social identity through case studies drawn from the Pacific, Scandinavia, the Mediterranean, Latin America, Indonesia, and East and West Africa. Study of the theoretical underpinnings of social action affirms the independence of anthropology as a discipline from cultural, media and performance studies, according it a distinctive role in elucidating contemporary and emergent human conditions.

Ritual, Performance, Media (A.S.a. Monographs, 35.)

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Ritual, Performance, Media (A.S.a. Monographs, 35.)
Hughes-Freeland
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How can media and performance studies take a place in the discipline of anthropology?
IRitual, Performance, Media demonstrates how individual inventiveness makes society a process of dynamic interaction between creativity and convention. Human beings perform their roles in accordance with the context of the situation--be it in theater, dance, or rites such as spirit invocation or pilgrimages--yet continue to creatively devise ways of extending their engagement with the situation. Case studies of human behavior in relation to contexts in which reality is more than that of everyday routines shows how people continue to actively construct the world in which they live, for the purpose of personal satisfaction and social advantage.

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Entertaining, fun, thought-provoking

Perfect blend of wit and insight

Engaging, stimulating, full of surprises

Stale air

Phonies and Manipulators Beware: Nunberg's Got Your Number!

Going Nucular: Language, Politics. and Culture in Confrontational Times
Geoffrey Nunberg
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Release Date: 2005-06-14

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Geoffrey Nunberg can make one quite self conscious to write even a simple sentence. And yes, that is a compliment. A regular language commentator on NPR's Fresh Air, Nunberg examines the curious ways in which the modern language expresses far more about history, politics, and culture than most casual English users would ever realize. Going Nucular, besides having one of the more whimsical titles to come along in a while, offers up scores of chapters, each examining specific words, phrases, or verbal tendencies. And while words like "terrorism", "fascism", "appeasement", and "Caucasian" (and even the hapless "like" and "ain't") are tossed about regularly in contemporary usage, achieving an understanding of their origin and evolution can serve to better explain not just the word but the issue to which it is attached. Other language books have become popular among the "grammarati" for their hard line approach but Nunberg seeks to explore and understand rather than to enforce and punish. To that end, he defends "blog" as being a verb and noun that has earned its place in the language; it's very phonetic clunkiness being part of the appeal. And though he can diagram a sentence with the best of them, Nunberg is at his most delightful when shining a harsh lingual light on the ways in which the average person encounters words every day. A stinging and hilarious indictment of TV news' weird obsession with the present tense ("In North Dakota, high winds making life difficult") makes the reader hear the evening news in an entirely new way. Going Nucular is much more than a nudge and a wisecrack to self-appointed word cops, it's an insider's tour of the vernacular by the English teacher you only wish you had. --John Moe

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Now updated: Geoffrey Nunberg's "shrewd" and "valuable" guide to the way we speak and what this tells us about ourselves and the world we live in (Washington Post Book world)

Going Nucular is Geoff Nunberg's brilliant and witty look at what language reveals about our changing attitudes. Nunberg pronounces blog "a syllable whose time has come," and of Google he says: "You don't get to be a verb unless you're doing something right." Above all, he shows how the important issues of our times can be illuminated by the smallest linguistic cues, if you know how to listen for them. Nunberg explains why conservatives use "and" more than liberals do, and why the way the President says "nuclear" is something more than a simple mispronunciation-"a thinko, not a typo." Listening to the rhetoric of "values" in the 2004 presidential campaign, he traces how "a word that ought to be a bland political bromide has turned into a battle cry for both sides." Nunberg has dazzling receptors, perfect acoustics and a deftly elegant style.

Customer Reviews:

Entertaining, fun, thought-provoking.......2006-06-15

After typing the title of this review, I wonderful nervously (tongue partly in cheek) whether the terms "entertaining", "fun", and "thought-provoking" may -- by virtue of their respective trajectories in the venacular -- be laden with nuances of which I am not (at some peril?) aware. No one, with the possible exception of professional linguists, has time to ponder every word he utters or writes. As GN so ably -- and entertainingly(!) -- reminds us, however, we would all be wise to choose our words carefully. It matters deeply whether we invoke language in a vacuum, with no regard for context or history. The indiscriminate application, in private and public discourse, of labels like "fascist" and "genocide", are acute cases in point. I have always considered myself sensitive to language. Reading GN, I am reminded how much more I must study, ponder, and self-reflect before I can really make the claim. The tiny essays in GN are enormous food for thought.

Perfect blend of wit and insight.......2005-02-02

Like with his first book, The Way We Talk Now, this one is filled with the wit, wisdom and a keen eye for the English language that anyone who listens to NRP's Fresh Air has come to expect from Geoffrey Nunberg. Across the range of politics, business, pop culture and technology he not only has an amazing ability to recognize trends in language, place them in their historical contexts and tease profundity out of them. Nunberg does this in recognizing that words are not just tools which we use to chip out some semblance of meaning from life but rather the words we use work on us as well shaping us as we use them to shape our world.

While I very much enjoyed his first book this one seems to be the stronger of the two. In part this may be because Going Necular represents a more mature Nunberg but also because it pulls from a wider range of material than just his Fresh Air commentaries like his first one did.

My only complaint about this book is the dates that are offered for those pieces which were first Fresh Air commentaries are often inconsistent with there actual dates - at first I thought the differences in the dates might be due to the differences in when they were drafted verses when they aired... but this doesn't seem to be the case since sometimes the dates published in Going Necular are before the actual air date and sometimes they are after. This is only annoying because it seems like such an easy to avoid and consistent error - but admittedly that is a small grievance with an otherwise exceptional book.

Engaging, stimulating, full of surprises.......2005-01-18

I don't get the chance to listen to NPR as often as I'd like, so the pieces in this book--a Christmas present--were new to me. Nunberg sneaks up on issues we think we've heard everything about and lights them up in new ways. The pieces, written for radio, are short, compressed, and full of surprises. He's not one of those smug, boring grammar-guru linguists (e.g. "Abusers of the semicolon should be shot on sight!") He uses linguistics as a means to pose deep questions about the world.

Stale air.......2004-10-29

I am usually disappointed when the interview part of NPR's Fresh Air show ends and the tail end commentary or review fills out the show's hour...except when Geoffrey Nunberg gives one of his little radio essays on language. For that reason I was eager to read this book, but I was frustrated to find that Going Nucular is simply a collection of those radio essays, with a few newspaper columns thrown in. I had heard most of what I was now reading, and since all of the essays were written since 2001, they were mostly fresh in my mind. Not that they weren't interesting, but they simply weren't new. I suspect other regular Fresh Air listeners will have a similar reaction. After finishing the book I scanned the cover and could not find any indication that the book was a collection of old essays, which I found sort of ironic being that the Nunberg is a communication expert.

Phonies and Manipulators Beware: Nunberg's Got Your Number!.......2004-08-03

The Word Man Cometh! That would have been a better title for this book. Professor Nunberg loves words and loves thinking about what it means when people use certain ones . . . rather than others.

In the last 60 years in the United States, we have seen a substantial increase in the kind of political language that George Orwell satirized in 1984. When it's very overt, we all get the message. When it's a little more subtle, we may be manipulated without realizing it. Professor Nunberg is very sensitive to that problem, and this book will help protect your unconscious mind for unperceived assaults.

Stanford professor of linguistics Dr. Geoffrey Nunberg has taken a number of his "Fresh Air" commentaries and brief articles from leading publications in the last few years, and grouped them into somewhat related areas. He begins with Culture at Large, moves on to War Drums, sidles over to Politics as Usual, looks next at Symbols, before considering Media Words, then lampoons Business Cycles and Tech Talk before finishing with words to help us while we're Watching Our Language.

Foes of President Bush and conservative talk show commentators will probably enjoy the book the most. The title piece looks at the great difficulty the president has in pronouncing "nuclear" when he's referring to atomic issues . . . and takes a sideways swipe at his possible motivations in conceivably making this mistake deliberately.

But the book has more charm than that. In many cases, he shares with us the arrival and departure of various words into common use while giving us a sense of what it all means. An early essay on how "plastics" when from positive to negative is a good example. I was pleased that he also took on the label of "Caucasian" which I have never understood the reason for. In sympathy with the youngsters who compete in spelling bees at the national level, he wonders what it proves that some can and cannot spell words that hardly anyone knows and which don't spell much like they sound. He also has kind words for the use of "ain't" and what purposes it can serve.

Some of the usual targets take their shots too, such as postmodernists.

Business authors, reporters and leaders will probably not stop blushing for two decades from the unerring rapier of commonsense aimed at their inflated use of language.

There's even a nice look at whether and when adverbs make sense to add.

It was with great relief that I found that he isn't all that comfortable with the grammar police, noting how many times the required constructions look, read and sound awful!

I suspect that this would have been a better book if limited to just one area -- like the current presidential campaign . . . but it's more than rewarding as it is. I hope Professor Nunberg will consider creating something special next year to deepen the points he has made here.

Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Confrontational Times

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Geoffrey Nunberg
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The language of politics or the politics of language?(Books)(Book Review): An article from: Campaigns & Elections

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The language of politics or the politics of language?(Books)(Book Review): An article from: Campaigns & Elections
Morgan E. Felchner
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This digital document is an article from Campaigns & Elections, published by Campaigns & Elections, Inc. on August 1, 2004. The length of the article is 380 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The language of politics or the politics of language?(Books)(Book Review)
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Warning: No Dracula

Great Source Book

A Must-Have for all Serious Dark Ages Storytellers

Nice try...

Transylvania by Night (Vampire: The Dark Ages)
Brian Campbell
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Warning: No Dracula.......2006-04-22

This book provides a ton of material about what the various vampire clans of White Wolf's Vampire: The Masquerade RPG were up to in Eastern Europe at just around 1200 AD. Geographically, the countries and regions that we know as Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Transylvania, and Bohemia are covered, and some small amount of their histories (retrofitted to factor in how they were influenced by vampiric machinations) is included. Details about certain major cities such as Prague and Budapest are also presented, along with assorted minor adventure seeds.

There is a ton of profiles on major vampires of the time. Practically every clan is represented (except the Giovanni, since the Cappadocians are still extant at this time, and I don't believe anyone from Toreador or Followers of Set made it in, either). The most famous figure is Lucita of the Lasombra. Vlap Tepes/Dracula does NOT make an appearance, since this is set before his time. Most of the vampires are of the sixth through eighth generations, but there are a handful from the fourth and fifth.

The major focus is on the newly-formed Tremere and especially on the loathsome Tzimisce, including their cultivation of revenant families.

The best feature, to my way of thinking, is that each profile ends with a Destiny section, a "Where are they now?" blurb to tell readers what became of these creatures. A few make it to the 20th Century and beyond. A lot do not, especially the Cappadocians, and some just disappear into legend. I would've liked to have something similar in the "London By Night" book for the Victorian Age setting.

An enjoyable book with a lot of value and fairly good art. It probably would've benefited from more plot hooks, city information, and non-vampire NPCs (the golem-controlling rabbi is one of the few to be described). Worth it, though, for the vampire profiles alone, which are quite detailed.

Great Source Book.......2000-07-27

This is an great source book for anything in the dark ages. It has anything that you will need for any Dark age chronicle you would be running. Has all the important charcters from the Dark ages in it including the stand point of two of the most powerful clans in it.

A Must-Have for all Serious Dark Ages Storytellers.......2000-04-27

Transylvania by Night is a remarkably informative source material for White Wolf's Vampire: the Dark Ages. It indulges the reader in the lifestyle, religion, daily life, and many other factors within Eastern Europe in the Dark Ages. This is a must have for storytellers who wish to set their chronicle in Eastern Europe.

Nice try..........1999-02-01

It is really fascinating, how american people think about our region... I have to tell, that I have some wrong feelings about reading this book, but it is far better that I excepted. In the In-game terms everithing is all right. I find the story quite well. But there is some great problem with the history... If someone is interested in early Hungarian history, I gladly tell to him/her more about it, but just the core: 1) the so-called dako-roman continuity theory - whichis in the book, too - is laughable. The first sign of the "roman" really: vlach people is about the 13th.century in Transylvania. they were sheperds not serfs, and have quite wide liberties. 2) i know, that the ethnical struggle is because of dramatically purposes, but I waited for a short column, which said about the true problem: that there was no "race" "ethnicum" before the 18th. century. Nationalism in hungary was invented by that time. Before that there was a "Hungaro-mind": every people in the country regardless of nation(this word was not exsist), language, religion were the part of the Crown of Hungary. Rivalies were bethween nobles and peasants, or bethween nobles, or bethween different countries, but NOT in bethween "races". this is the inventment of the modern area, and sorrowly it affects most of the people of this region -today... But despite of this the book is really great!

Ps.: If you want to make an other book, which contains hungarian names, please try to find somebody, who can write them right down.:)) Ps2.: Sorry for my wrong English - I know it far to be acceptable in high societies.

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Waste of money

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Fantastic Photoshop Book From O'Reilly

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Photoshop Retouching Cookbook for Digital Photographers: 113 Easy-to-Follow Recipes to Improve Your Photos and Create Special Effects (Cookbooks (O'Reilly))
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With the introduction of affordable and easy-to use digital cameras, people are taking photographs like never before. While the digital medium greatly simplifies the photographic process, it also offers photographers unprecedented opportunities to manipulate their images on their personal computers.

Photoshop Retouching Cookbook for Digital Photographers tells you everything you need to know to use Adobe Photoshop CS2 to adjust, correct, retouch, and manipulate your photographs-without making you first learn everything there is to know about the application. These straightforward, easy-to-follow recipes give you specific directions so you can quickly and easily:

Fix exposure, focus, and color problems
Add special effects like motion blurs, lens effects, and surface textures
Improve portraits by removing red eye, wrinkles, and blemishes
Add and remove objects from photos seamlessly
Use lighting effects to create more dramatic images
Restore faded and damaged photos
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The book tackles each real-life project in full color, with a hands-on approach. The fully illustrated recipes produce reliable and immediate results, and include "at a glance" panels and tip boxes that cover key techniques in detail.

Barry Huggins, the author of Photoshop Retouching Cookbook for Digital Photographers, has created the only recipe-format manual on photographic retouching targeted specifically to digital photographers. Founder of a highly successful multimedia training and consulting company, Huggins is uniquely qualified to deliver step-by-step instruction in digital retouching methodology, with easy-to-follow recipes that address specific problems and teach "best practices" techniques. This is his fifth book on digital imaging and graphics software.

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Waste of money.......2007-04-04

There are many web sites with better information. Take a look on them.

if you already have photoshop training... look to better books.......2007-03-04

The book is ok for what it is. One to two pages of how to do different tecniques to your photos...but if you have any training in basic photoshop you will know most of this stuff. Changing contrast? Making a picture dark enough to look like it is at night? Using layers to import one picture into another and masking out other parts? Using the clone tool to copy from one area and cover up another area? getting rid of red eye using the 'red eye tool'? Very simplistic stuff...and I am only a novice at photoshop. They do cover a section on using raw pictures from your digital camera... I think that covers about 10 pages. For the cost you could find great books on using photography and photoshop. Although visually filled with information with big pictures and small amounts of print...it is great in that area of display...but for the money I would suggest you get "Photoshop CS2 - One On One" by Deke (it will teach you all these tecniques (and comes with a CD of the artwork so you can work with what you are learning) plus teach you how to use PhotoShop. If you want to get a good book on Photo Retouching with Photoshop... I would reccomend "Commercial Photoshop Retouching - In the Studio" by Glenn Honiball. He has been doing Phtoo Retouching for 20+ years and teaches you to use tried but true tecniques that moset every professional uses without all the bells and whistles (you can use just about any photoshop program for these) These two books are a better bang for your buck.

Fantastic Photoshop Book From O'Reilly.......2006-08-15

O'Reilly hits another ball out of the park with this solid Photoshop book. I love the layout and paper chosen with this serious and the tutorials and examples are just as good!!

Employing a slick design, great writing, and nice, tight size, this book is useful for Photoshop users of all levels who want to learn how to take their images and photographs taken and make them shine!!

If you are a photographer on the level of a newbie/amateur or a seasoned pro, I highly recommend this guide so that you can learn how to make your pictures all the better for any purpose.

Wonderful book and easy to recommend!

***** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Ok, but I expect better from O'reilly.......2005-12-28

Its often been said that there are several ways to do the same thing in photoshop. This book just gives you a few ways of doing them. My biggest complaint is that it appears noone proofed the photos. Some photo are of poor quality on 1 page and then fine on another. Another photo of showing a whitening effect shows someone with pink teeth. O'reilly is the best usually when it comes to IT books but this effort is subpar.

This is the book I've been waiting for!.......2005-12-05

At last! This is the book I've been waiting for! I've been on the hunt for a book that goes over practical photo editing with Photoshop-you know, how to alter colors, fix over/under exposure, remove distractions, etc. Most books I've come across are either designed for the Photoshop professional (meaning they leave out all the steps between A and Z), or they're too basic. This book is it-a step-by-step guide to Photoshop editing for the casual Photoshop user.

The author does an excellent job in identifying all the Photoshop tools you should be familiar with right off the bat. This introductory material is a great crash-course in Photoshop tools. This basic material forms a foundation for successfully understanding the rest of the book's material.

While there are tools and editing methods the author did not identify, I felt satisfied that the most important tools were not only identified but demonstrated in action. In my own photo editing attempts, I felt like I should be using certain tools, but didn't know how. Using some very illustrative photographs, the author works his way through using the curves tool, the levels tool, masks, layers, etc. The author provides the reader with the tools s/he needs to successfully complete the most common photo editing assignments.

I would highly recommend this book for digital photographers. Huggins' book is now the favorite among my digital photography books.

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