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Dispelling myths, answering questions, and stimulating thoughtful avenues for further inquiry, this highly absorbing reference provides a wealth of specific information about over 200 North American Indian groups in Canada and the United States. Readers will easily access important historical and contemporary facts about everything from notable leaders and relations with non-natives to customs, dress, dwellings, weapons, government, and religion. This book is at once exhaustive and captivating, covering myriad aspects of a people spread across a continent. Divided into ten geographic areas for easy reference, this work illustrates each Native American group in careful detail. Listed alphabetically, starting with the tribal name, translation, origin, and definition, each entry includes significant facts about the group's location and population, as well as impressive accounts of the group's history and culture. Bringing entries up-to-date, Barry Pritzker also presents current information on each group's government, economy, legal status, and land holdings. Whether interpreting the term "tribe" (many traditional Native American groups were not tribes at all but more like extended families) or describing how a Shoshone woman served as a guide on the Lewis and Clark expedition, Pritzker always presents the material in a clear and lively manner. In light of past and ongoing injustices and the momentum of Indian and Inuit self-determination movements, an understanding of Native American cultures as well as their contributions to contemporary society becomes increasingly important. A magnificent resource, this book liberally provides the essential information necessary to better grasp the history and cultures of North American Indians.
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Not perfect.......2006-03-29
Overall, a good book, with lots of information. It is heavily slanted in favor of native americans, and includes what I would term disinformation. If you know history, these sentences will stand out.
Could have used some good maps and better images. The photos in the middle of the book are junk, and don't do justice to a vast topic. Could also have done a lot with appendices, which are sorely lacking. I'm an info junkie; i like summarized data in addition to the long read.
Layout of the book is average.
Native American Encyclopedia.......2004-08-14
A good resource book offering specific historical and demographic information about each tribal group of North America, explaining the differences between the diverse cultures clearly and precisely. This would make a good classroom reference for older kids.
Great book of information!.......2002-03-27
Everything you ever wanted to know in one book, incredible! A must for anyone into the Native culture.
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The British Museum Encyclopedia of Native North America
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An authoritative, fully illustrated reference book on the culture and history of the Native peoples of North America, from the 16th century to the present. The book explains ideas, issues, events, and themes in Native American history and culture through the materials, uses, and histories of objects and artifacts made by and related to the indigenous peoples of North America. It includes a wealth of stories, songs, recollections, and first-hand accounts of events from Native American people. With over 300 illustrations, the encyclopedia explores that history from a native perspective.
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The Continuum Encyclopedia of Native Art: Worldview, Symbolism, and Culture in Africa, Oceania, and Native North America
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Every aspect of the career of General George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn is covered here. The people around Custer and his native American counterparts are detailed, as are related military campaigns, battles, historical events, equipment and terminology. There are also entries on Plains Indian culture and customs, artists and artwork, movies and other subjects associated with the battle. Following the entries is a listing of suggested sources for further research.
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This is the best book about Custer I have ever read........1999-10-13
When it comes to Custer one can not read a more up to date book
This is the best Custer book I have ever read.......1999-10-13
When it comes to Custer one can not find a more informative book
THE RESEARCH WAS EXCELLENT, IT IS A GREAT BOOK.......1999-09-17
MR. HATCH HAS DONE EXTENSIVE RESEARCH INTO THE CUSTER SUBJECT. THE PHOTOS WERE GREAT TOO. THIS WAS THE BEST BOOK AVAILABLE FOR MY THESIS.
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The Encyclopedia of Native American Biography: Six Hundred Life Stories of Important People, from Powhatan to Wilma Mankiller
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Much needed and long overdue, this reference work gathers the life stories of more than 600 Native Americans. Many of them, like Tecumseh and Crazy Horse, are familiar; many others, from Abomazine to Honayawas to Zotom, are less well known, and their histories are uniformly fascinating. Among other things, you'll learn that Geronimo was a devoted baseball player; that a thriving Indian slave market existed in Los Angeles after the Civil War; and that Crispus Attucks was not only the first African American to die in the American Revolution but was also the first American Indian to do so, for Attucks's mother was a Massachuset. One test of a good encyclopedia is whether it bears reading from start to finish, and this passes with distinction.
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Native Americans, 2 Volume Set: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture and Peoples
Barry Pritzker
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This book-the first comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the historical atlas-explores the role, development, and nature of this important reference and discusses its impact on the presentation of the past.
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Short on insight, long on useless detail.......2007-01-11
I read a lot on cartography, particularly cartographic history, and I was excited to get this book. Unfortunately it was very disappointing. It has masses of carto-bibliographical detail, not put to much use in supporting a broader argument. And it is very short on any insight or analysis beyond the most superficial and obvious. Historical maps reflect the concerns and attitudes of the times and cultures in which they were produced - I didn't need to wade through this book to know that. This book could be useful for reference, but it won't deepen your understanding.
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Title: Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past.(Review) (book review)
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Do more guns mean less crime? Is AIDS caused by something other than HIV? Does our solar system have two suns? These are three of the "crazy" (some might say crackpot) ideas that physicist Robert Ehrlich explores in Nine Crazy Ideas in Science. But Ehrlich's crusade isn't to overturn established scientific thinking. His mission is to teach and promote the scientific method: techniques used to examine new ideas to see if they explain our world better than current theories do.
Ehrlich's oddball and hot-button topics keep the discussion exciting and fun. But he also points out:
Many ideas in science seemed crazy at one time but are now reported as being settled ... as in the case of plate tectonics, which grew out of an earlier "crazy" theory of continental drift.
Some of the crazy ideas relate to our lives: AIDS, gun control, sun and radiation exposure. Others are further out there, such as the double sun theory and the possibility of time travel. For each, Ehrlich scrutinizes who the idea's proponents are and what their agendas might be. He looks for internal consistency, misapplication of statistics, how open the proponents are with their data and methods, and more.
His conclusions are sometimes surprising, even to Ehrlich, who admits that his feelings about gun control changed after completing his research. Another startling finding comes in the chapter that digs into the theory that oil, coal, and gas have abiogenic origins--that they are not created from decayed vegetable matter, but were part of the Earth's original composition. A fringe, unorthodox notion, certainly. Still, substantial evidence supports the theory, and Ehrlich finds that a chemical origin for hydrocarbons better explains the observed facts.
Nine Crazy Ideas in Science makes several eccentric scientific theories accessible to general readers and, more important, it teaches methods of evaluating new ideas so we can decide for ourselves whether or not they make sense. --J.B. Peck
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AIDS is not caused by HIV. Coal and oil are not fossil fuels. Radiation exposure is good for you. Distributing more guns reduces crime. These ideas make headlines, but most educated people scoff at them. Yet some of science's most important concepts-from gravity to evolution-have surfaced from the pool of crazy ideas. In fact, a good part of science is distinguishing between useful crazy ideas and those that are just plain nutty. In this book, a well-known physicist with an affinity for odd ideas applies his open mind to nine controversial propositions on topical subjects. Some, it turns out, are considerably lower on the cuckoo scale than others.
Robert Ehrlich evaluates, for the general reader or student, nine seemingly far-out propositions culled from physics, biology, and social science. In the process, he demonstrates in easy-to-understand terms how to weigh an argument, judge someone's use of statistics, identify underlying assumptions, and ferret out secret agendas. His conclusions are sometimes surprising. For instance, he finds that while HIV does cause AIDS and the universe almost certainly started with a big bang, our solar system could have two suns, faster-than-light particles might exist, and time travel can't be ruled out as mere science fiction.
Anyone interested in unorthodox ideas will get a kick out of this book. And, as a fun way of learning how to think like a scientist, it has enormous educational value. Of course, only time will tell whether any of these nine ideas will be the next continental drift--the now orthodox account of the Earth's geology that was for years just a crazy idea.
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Ehrlich trips over himself........2007-06-07
Joel Kauffman's review is as close an honest reality check you can get for the contents of this book.
I was skeptical about many of Ehrlich's own skepticism. When he appraoched and debated John Lott, I knew that Ehrlich's prose was more about convincong himself that his own sacred cows are beyond reproach. Lott dismantled most of Ehrlich's criticism to the degree that left Ehrlich stnading there in his tidy whities.
This is not to say that a good share of what Ehrlich writes about here has underpinnings but even John Stossel knows better than to make some of the mistakes Ehrlich makes.
Nut cracker.......2006-11-24
Sometimes, not often, crazy scientific theories turn out to be right. Alfred Wegener's 1912 theory of continental drift is one famous example.
Of the nine current crazy theories analyzed by physicist Robert Ehrlich, he judges three to be strong candidates -- he awards them zero "cuckoos."
It would spoil the fun to say which three, but the nine are: more guns mean less crime; AIDS is not caused by HIV; sun exposure is beneficial; low doses of nuclear radiation are beneficial; the solar system has two suns; oil, coal, and gas have abiogenic origins; time travel is possible; faster-than-light particles exist; and there was no Big Bang.
Ehrlich, a writer of gratifying clarity, says he tries to distinguish between crazy theories and nutty ones. The nutty ones are either unscientific (because they are untestable) or violate basic physical laws that are very firmly confirmed, like conservation of energy.
It may not matter much, in daily life, whether the Universe started in a Big Bang or not, but some of the crazy theories have obvious everyday implications, like the one that says sunshine is good for you.
We are bombarded constantly with "scientific" ideas that are not supposed to be crazy but may, in fact, be bogus. The techniques Ehrlich uses to examine these nine far-out ideas are meant to be guides to "how you can sort out the more promising ideas without having to rely on the opinions of experts," equally useful in judging mainstream claims.
In perhaps the only bland statement in the book, he says, "in such areas as the environment and human health, the political biases of proposers may play a large role in how honestly they deal with a controversial idea." No kidding.
A great many of the conundrums presented by these nine crazy ideas concern making sense of statistics, and misrepresented or misunderstood statistics are probably the biggest source of confusion in hot-topic science issues, from global warming to threats to health.
"The human mind has a wonderful ability to see regularities in numerical data, even when none really exist," writes Ehrlich, a professor at George Mason University whose other popularizing books include "Why Toast Lands Jelly-side Down" and "Turning the World Inside Out and 174 Other Simple Physics Demonstrations."
Although "the great majority of strange ideas that are testable are simply wrong," Ehrlich says, "a few might even be true."
There are enough out there that he says he is considering a sequel, "More Crazy Ideas in Science That Might Be True," and he's looking for nominations. (He did write a sequel, "8 Preposterous Propositions," see my review.)
It's a bold physicist who solicits theories -- most have more crank letters than they want -- but Ehrlich's e-mail is rehrlich@gmu.edu.
A work out for your head.......2006-05-12
Science is about busting dogmas. Even scientific dogmas. Ehrlich gives us a mind expanding Cook's Tour into a dozen or so controversial corners of modern scientific debate. He outlines the wacky ideas that might be true, but probably aren't. In other words, he's telling us to "watch this space." Fun, lively, informative. What more could you ask for?
Cheap and sometimes fun........2006-04-12
I read this book here in Brazil.In this book, the author discuss about many subjects.Every subject has a chapter in this book.This book is short, concise and sometimes is fun to read.
The problems of this book are basically two:
1-Some subjects aren't importants.To example, why to talk about two suns in Solar Sistem, whyle not writing a word about coal, natural gas, oil X nuclear energy?
2-Has not enough words about the origins of oil and natural gas.This is the most important chapter of the book.And after all, hasn't enough details about the subject.
The crazy idea of today can be the fact of tomorrow.......2005-01-23
Science is an area where the crazy idea of today can become the fundamental fact of tomorrow. However, not all of them make it to that exalted level, as some crazy ideas never rise higher than that. In this book, Ehrlich examines nine ideas currently considered to be on the fringe of science. He begins by setting down some criteria for consideration.
*) The idea must be verifiable. For example, the premise that the Earth was created by God in six days but made to appear as if it was billions of years old is not verifiable.
*) The idea must be championed by a respected scientist. No idea put forward by a self-educated person was considered.
He examines each of the following positions:
*) More guns means less crime (3 cuckoos).
*) AIDS is not caused by the HIV virus (3 cuckoos).
*) Sun exposure is beneficial (0 cuckoos).
*) Low doses of radiation are beneficial (1 cuckoo).
*) The solar system has two suns (2 cuckoos).
*) Oil, coal and gas have abiogenic origins (0 cuckoos).
*) Time travel is possible (2 cuckoos).
*) Faster-than-light particles exist (0 cuckoos).
*) There was no big bang origin of the universe (3 cuckoos).
After presenting the current state of evidence both for and against the idea, he assigns it a number of cuckoos from zero through four. Zero cuckoos means he considers it possible, one means that it is probably not true, but there is no convincing evidence against it, two means very likely not true, three means most certainly not true and four means certainly false. Ehrlich's discussions are also a lesson in how science is performed. The rules and techniques that are used to test new scientific ideas are described. As he points out several times, data is often ambiguous and it often takes years of collection and analysis to remove the uncertainty. Non-scientists often have the misconception that scientific proof is certain, when in fact it is not. The explanations are written at a level where the amount of technical knowledge needed to understand the ideas is kept to a minimum.
Science progresses in many ways. In some areas, it is a steady progression of better data gathered over many years, where theories are worked out to the next decimal place. In others, new data require a modification of the theories, but in some cases, radical new ideas are announced and meet with a great deal of entrenched skepticism. Most of those ideas go nowhere, but some turn out to be true. That is one of the most fascinating aspects of science and Ehrlich succeeds in capturing some of the charm by describing his opinion of nine of those radical ideas.
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World Plant Conservation Bibliography
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