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One of more important anthropologists from twenty century. Turner look for understood the "ritual" in its much perspectives. This book have a series of articles referring to this theme.

The role of culture in human societies is explored through a combination of empirical research and the nimble mind and imaginative powers of the late Victor Turner. This collection will prove especially useful to students of comparative religion, social/cultural anthropology, literature, performance, and the visual arts. Turner's essays are far from dry. They thrill with their ability to combine close observations of the "exotic" beliefs of non-Western peoples and cutting edge insights into more familiar cultural dimensions of everyday life in western Europe and the United States.

There are so many books on dreaming these days, and so much over-hyped new agey fluff. I read this a few years ago and it's one of the most important books on dreaming ever written (I think) and someone should try to do something with it, republish it or introduce it as part of a college course or SOMETHING.

It is a study of dreams submitted by an entire community and they often fit together like pieces of a giant mosaic, showing that we all dream the future, or pieces of it, all the time, only no one takes the time to pay attention much less is there a central authority monitoring them to see what they are saying.

I can't forget the many premonitions of a drowning tragedy that so many people caught glimpses of in their dreams, yet of which no one was really consciously aware. Dreams may be one of the great human potential sources that goes untapped. What if ordinary people learned to dream like shamans? The potential is there.

If you have a serious interest in dreaming (and aren't just browsing for some slick entertainment) you should obtain this (even if it's throught interlibrary loan, like me) and read it.

It really is an unknown classic. The woman who wrote this should be rewarded in some way for a really great contribution to dream literature.

I have to say that this is one of the most amazing books I've ever read. It touches so eloquently on that feeling I think we all have at times that there exists some mysterious, perplexing symmetry or intricate correlations (for lack of a better description)from which our experiences/perception of our world emerge. I had begun keeping a dream journal just about a month before I began Ms. Watkins' book, and yet I'm already amazed at how much knowledge, how much potential understading is at our very fingertips every night, every time we close our eyes. Amazing worlds right there within our very minds to explore, worlds of infinite experience our culture has taught us to ignore. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in dreams, the unknown, or has ever even thought about the nature of our reality, of our experience. I would be very interested to find out if any other such large-scale dream collection/analysis experiements have ever been carried out. I wonder if people are afraid to try for fear of their world turning inside out, for fear of negating everything they've ever believed about the nature of reality.

A comic novel-archaeology text book. This is even better than Death By Theory, his first book that we read semester at UCB. Its funnier and has many more of his strange illustrations.
The subject is archeological field methods and it's set on a historic period site in New Zealand thats staffed by a bunch of weird and wild characters. I'm guessing that its the only archeology methods book that has a Yiddish glossary. Would make a good intro archaeology text.

This is a hilarious intro to archeology novel/text. Just killed me! i would recomend this to anyone who would like a good insight into the process of an archaeological dig.

Recommend you get a copy of this book if you can find it as you will no doubt want to read it again and again. The author gives us a wonderful look at our natural world on a day by day basis. Her lyrical prose is quite captivating. In addition to being a pure pleasure to read, it is just stuffed with great little tidbits of information for any lover of nature. Recommend this one highly.

Anita Nygaard was a good friend of mine. She loved nature and the outdoors, and this is reflected in her book. She describes each day of the calendar year in a very loving, special way. This is a book you will never stop reading. Pick it up any day of the year, and Anita will describe this day to you.

All the way through the regaling that Joseph McCauley works in his tale of Ebbets Field, you have an inkling of the envy you'll eventually feel when you come to finish this really great story of a truly unique time in the history of man -- when one could trust his eight-year-old daughter to her ten-year-old brother and a fistful of change, alone at a double-header in a major league ballpark, surrounded by what had become to them the family of Dose Bums and their fans! I resolved, as I put down this book, that I wished to be 50 years older, when you had a chance to be a member of that great gathering.

McCauley tells the story of more than merely a structure. His is the story of a place and a time when professional ball players talked with you and you talked with them as friends and co-admirers, not combatants; when the players lived in your neighborhood and, at times, even knew you by name; when you heard not only the crack of the bat at the crack of dawn, but often the closing of the bar with some of the team, much later after the game, win of lose. As McCauley tells it, you went to Ebbets not merely to support your Dodgers but 'cause that's what there was to do 'round Brooklyn -- and what there was to do there was lots of fun!

And was there a lot to do! McCauley spins the stories out nearly faster than they can be caught -- of games won and lost, championships had and missed, players coming and going and always remaining memorable, of Holy Name Society gatherings and college football matches and circuses and side shows and hot-dog venders and amateur musicians, and more variants thereon than I had thought possible, finally coming to conclusion 'midst the mess of a demolition derby preceding the demolition ball.

When the grand ole' place finally meets her demise, you lament not only for what was but for all those who partook, as performers whether on the field or in the stands -- and you wish you could've been there, too!

Buy this book, wade through the publisher's abysmal punctuation, and really enjoy the author's great recounting of a place and time to be envied!

Joe McCauley has researched and written a complete history of a storied and revered baseball "shrine," as he calls it. For Brooklyn Dodger fans of an earlier era, this is an invaluable chronology of the ballpark -- and the team -- over 47 unforgettable years.
"Ebbets Field" is written with expertise and affection, unusual qualities found together in a serious history.
The book is easy to read for fans of any age, and will have special impact on all those who are old enough to remember. It is well illustrated with color and b&w photos.
It's a one-of-a-kind treat. Add it to your coffee table, at least!

In preparation for my upcoming trip to The Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tennessee to take photos for an article that I'm writing about these incredible animals, I purchased this book and others by Cynthia Moss. This one will help to make people aware that elephants were not created for human entertainment. The rich among us saw them as the path to greater wealth, and left dead and abused elephants in their wake. The readers of this wonderful book will see elephants as the sensitive, caring, creatures that they are and always have been. We humans could learn much from reading how they bond together and watch over their young and each other. After reading this book, I hope many do as I did. Toss a check in the mail. These people who are helping these elephants are often doing without, to better serve a cause that they're very dedicated to. The many terrific color pictures made this book come alive.
Rick Magers
author/publisher
www.grizzlybookz.com
ancientguy@alltel.net

I have fallen in love with Echo and the EB family. Ely's traumatic first days are unforgettable. I couldn't wait for The Next Generation to come out. I have definitely become an elephant fan.

I like this book a lot as a lowed division physics introduction to electromagnetics. It's quite unique due to the interactive work that the reader is asked to do & to the thoroughness & "spoon feeding" of the subject material. It's clear that a lot of work & careful thought went into the writing of the book which results in a great starter text in what can be a rather difficult subject.

Apparently written by physicists to be used in a physical sciences curriculum, I'm sure anyone majoring in physics would be well served by this work. Speaking from the EE prospective, often it seems the required lower division physics classes include Newton's laws, machines, fluids, gases, heat & light, but a disproportionate small amount of fundamental electrical theory involving the electric & magnetic characteristic of matter. And when they do accent the electrical component, it usually includes delving into circuit analysis & design, which may not be the best way to spend a limited amount of time.

This book, as is stated in the preface "focuses on electric & magnetic interactions on the structure of mater". This is exactly what the EE needs so when they start their EE classes with Ohm's Law, they'll know where it came from. This book works through (with very little math) electric fields, forces & currents in matter, Coulomb' law, electric potential, what is voltage, Gauss's law, magnetic fields, forces & induction, Biot-Savart law, Faraday's law, inductors/capacitors & electromagnetic radiation including a integral set of Maxwell's equations. This is done while always relating back to what really going on inside the conductor regarding to the basic electric & magnetic fields.

Be aware, you are not likely to find a clean transition from this work into your upper division electromagnetic classes. The primary reason for this is the lack of math used here. Also this is a notorious subject for authors using "creative license" to attempt to present their work in a somewhat different form. And in some cases, even renaming classic equations & laws. So if you have been through your calculus including vector analysis & are comfortable with dot/cross products, divergence, gradient, curl, Laplacian, different coordinate systems & the differential form of Maxwell's equations, you may not need this book. But if not, use this work to get clear on the basic interaction of the electric & magnetic fields with mater & don't worry too much about the math now. But be aware, you'll see all this again in quite a different format, and maybe you'll have a better basic understand of what's going on in the circuits.

This book has the best theoretical explainations for almost everytin regarding current, charge and magnetism. It goes to the very deep of what happens inside the wire when current flows throug it. U should have it !

I wonder why people in US are not familiar with this book. This book is great, full of examples. It is translated to my language "Farsi" and almost all the students In Iran are using it as their best reference book. I like it so much. I have the Farsi one but i just purchased the English version to prepare myself in English.

Most people don't know this book exists, and I wish I had known about it when I was an undergraduate, but at least I have it in my library now! I originally tracked down a used copy of this out of print book because the author (Nayfeh) happened to be the professor of the electrodynamics class I took in grad school. Copies of this book can be difficult to find, but are well worth the effort.

The book is a treasure trove of solved elecrodynamics problems. It has 300 worked examples, and half of the problems have answers to them in the back of the book. The book also covers some subjects that are neglected in Griffiths, such as magnetic scalar potential (something Griffiths makes no use of, but can be a real life saver), and magnetic circuits.

All in all I'd say that this book is slightly more rigorous than Griffiths, but nowhere near the level of the infamous Jackson's textbook.

Out of all the textbooks I've bought over the years this one was by far one of the best purchases I've made. It was worth every dollar I paid for it. Nayfeh told us that he and his coauthor were working on a new edition, I wish they hurry up and get it to the printing press.

What a fascinating theory: that electrodynamic fields can indicate moods and other psychological characteristics. A most interesting application of this theory was for birth control: the data showed that, through non-instrusive methods, one can determine exact moments of ovulation.

Why hasn't anybody followed up on this theory? I'd love to see data developed by more recent experiments using the most modern equipment.

For those interested in EMF, and this should be just about everyone interested in the dynamics of life processes, this is the bible of electrodynamic theory and the history of EMF discoveries, the main original researchers (Harold S. Burr- 1889-1973, Dr. Leonard J. Ravitz, and F.S.C. Northrop- 1893-1992) and a in-depth catalog of EMF applications. "Life is organized around electricity" and this is the focus of the research and discoveries.

The studies showed that EMF affects all living entities with influences stretching all the way from Earth and into the far reaches of the solar system and with EMF detection devices, weather can be forecasted: earthquakes, hurricanes, rain, etc., and as accurately as animals can "feel" their approach along with detectable influences of the moon and sun and beyond; women's monthly cycles and ovulation; cancer detection; agricultural crops, esp., seeds can be analyzed for their vitality, etc.

These studies have influenced research in just about all disciplines: the EMF influence and it's importance cannot be understated. In their book, "The Secret Life of Plants", authors Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, used data from the original EMF studies and cited Ravitz's work.

The book is technical but approachable to those familiar with EMF studies. One won't loose anything by passing over some of the more dense language, the importance of EMF phenomenon is easily harvested and digestible.

Yes, this is the result of a research by Gerald Holton, the great science historian from Harvard. This is the latest rendition of the famous Abraham-Becker, which, in turn, descended from the text by Foppl, where Einstein scribbled his doubts. A great book for anyone, though. Crisp, conceptually very sound. Great discussion, and elegant use of the Helmholtz theorem on vector fields ("if you know the Div and the Curl, you know everything"). Very good treatment of relativistic electromagnetism, perhaps the best, very concrete and tied to experiments. Becker was a great science writer. In this Dover edition you get the bonus of Becker's lectures on Quantum Mechanics, very valuable by themselves. I love this book, and have taught from it many times.

In my opinion, this is one of the best books ever written on the electromagnetic theory and on the theoretical and experimental basis of the special theory of realtivity. The part on the quantum theory mantains the same high standard of the first part, which derives from the well known "Theorie der Electrizitat".

The interplay between theory and experiment, the clarity of the mathematical proofs, even the simple drawings that help in understanding some mathematical points, are at the highest level. This is one of the unfrequent cases in which the notion of "classical" applies in a full fashion. I would recommend this book to all those who wish to undertake, at a University level, the study of the fundamentals of theoretical physics.