The Master Mind of Mars and A Fighting Man of Mars

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Eleven (11) books COMPLETE MARS SET: A Princess of / The Gods of / The Warlord of / Thuvia, Maid of / The Chessmen of / The Master Mind of / A Fighting Man of / Swords of / Synthetic Men of / Llana of Gathol / John Carter of

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Set of all 11 Eleven titles in the Mars Series, as listed. 11 individual paper backs.

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Mars & Man: Are We Alone? (Orbis Enigma)
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This training manual is designed to take a triathlete's cycling performance to the next level. It includes step-by-step guides for setting up the bike for a perfect fit, analyzing strengths and weaknesses, and working out training plans geared toward getting athletes in peak condition for their races. It also provides clear descriptions of core training and flexibility exercises to reach a personal-best performance, as well as calculations to work out the goal events and race-specific limiters.

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NOT WORTH IT AND AMAZON CANNOT GET THIS TITLE.......2007-04-08

Just want to say. Amazon cannot get this book. the 4-6weeks is complete waste of time. I have waited months and motnhs and months. I forked over the $200 for my own copy. Expenisive and all it really is is a dictionary. Don't be fooled by it. It is no different in explanation than a simple dictionary is. All dicionaries (if well made) will group kanji by radicals. Many books for less are more effective.

Heisig vs. Halpern.......2007-03-28

This is a review of the Fourth Edition:

Remembering the Kanji I: A Complete Course on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters Vol. 1 4th Edition,

which has just been reprinted:

Remembering the Kanji: A Complete Course on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters (Manoa)

I have a certain familiarity with the spoken Japanese language but I realized a couple of years ago that if I were ever to develop a useful level of skill at Japanese I would have to learn the written language as well. The Kana are not a problem, no more difficult than learning the Greek alphabet, for example, but the Kanji are another matter. After trying Japanese for Busy People (Kana version) Vol. II and some of the on-line kanji sites, I realized that I would need something a bit more organized and thoughtful if I were ever to learn the Kanji in my lifetime.

First a word about ideographs versus alphabets. Alphabets were originally ideographic symbols that represented meaning as well as sound. Over time the symbols lost the original semantic content and became purely phonetic representations. Kanji retain much of the semantic content alphabets have lost and thereby add great richness, as well as difficulty, to the written languages that use them. As I have progressed through Heisig's book I have come to appreciate the depth of insight the Kanji offer into Japanese culture and the Chinese culture from which so much of it is derived.

James Heisig is a teacher of philosophy and religion living in Japan, and has translated several works of the Kyoto School of Philosophy. His description of how he developed his method of learning the kanji, given in the introduction, is fascinating.

His method is simple, belying its underlying sophistication:

1. First he assigns each character a unique English reading.
2. He then anchors that character in memory with a vivid mnemonic. (After the first 500 characters he leaves it up to the learner to make up the mnemonics.)
3. Lastly, the characters are learned in a specific order that is based on their internal logic.

The sophistication of this method is that it taps into the emotional and associational aspects of learning rather than relying just on the brute force of repetition. Repetition of course has its place, but it is inefficient when used alone.

His mnemonics are sometimes cheesy, sometimes weird, and sometimes quite interesting, illuminating the inner poetry of the characters. For example, Heisig #299 "fall" (Halpern #2318, also "fall") is composed of the radicals "flower", "water", and "each". His mnemonic: "When WATER falls, it splats and splashes; when FLOWER petals fall, they float gently in the breeze. To EACH thing its own way of falling." Another interesting one is Heisig #163 "anxiety" (Halpern #1022 "vexed"), composed of the radicals "fire" and "head": "The existential condition of ANXIETY that arises from the inevitable frustration of our worldly passions is contained in this character. The HEAD is set AFIRE, causing deep torment of spirit (and a whopper of a headache)."

Heisig points out that Chinese students learning Japanese have a great advantage because of their knowledge of the Kanji, even though spoken Chinese and Japanese have virtually nothing in common. He adds that Japanese methods of learning the Kanji ignore the internal logic of the characters and rely mostly on brute force repetition. This works reasonably well for Japanese students who are immersed in a Kanji culture, but it is punishing for foreigners. The goal of his method is to bring the English-speaker up to level of the Chinese-speaker who knows the kanji, both beginning to learn Japanese. He feels it is best to first learn a solid English reading for all the most common characters and then to go back later as one learns the spoken Japanese language and pin down the Japanese and Chinese readings.

As I progressed through the book making flash cards according to Heisig's directions, I became curious about the Japanese meaning of the Kanji. After all, if I were going to learn all these characters, I might as well make sure I was learning them in a way that would ultimately be useful. So I ignored Heisig's advice and began to check his English readings with a couple of dictionaries and began finding descrepancies. I eventually decided to be more systematic and purchased NTC's New Japanese-English Character Dictionary edited by Jack Halpern. (Halpern also edited the The Kodansha Kanji Learners Dictionary (Japanese for Busy People), which I think is a more condensed version of the NTC dictionary.)

I started keying Heisig's characters to Halpern's dictionary for future reference, and have tabulated the first 463 of Heisig's readings in this manner, comparing each of them to the "core" meaning given by Halpern. I have divided them into four categories and listed the numbers of characters in each category:

1. Heisig reading identical with Halpern: 203
2. Heisig reading related to Halpern: 243
3. Heisig reading unrelated to Halpern: 10
4. Heisig reading unlisted in Halpern: 17

The "related" meanings are sometimes very close synonyms, sometimes archaic readings, occasionally fairly tangential. Some representative examples with fairly close but not identical meanings:

Heisig #313: "refreshing"...Halpern #521: "cool"
Heisig #434: "vie"..........Halpern #1847: "compete"
Heisig #187: "perfect"......Halpern #2201: "complete"

Some anomalies and curiosities:

Heisig's #460 "plum" is listed by Halpern as #925 "Japanese apricot". Heisig does not list a character for "plum" that corresponds with Halpern's #2398 "plum". However, they both agree on the character for "apricot", Heisig #203, Halpern #2397.

Heisig #208 "town" is the same as Halpern #834 "village", while Halpern #1113 "town" is the same as Heisig #92 "village". My "NOAD" The New Oxford American Dictionary: Book and CD-ROM package (New Look for Oxford Dictionaries)says a "town" is larger than a "village" but smaller than a "city", so Halpern would appear to have the correct English reading for these two characters.

Heisig identifies two very similar characters as unnumbered "primitives" he calls "mending" and "zoo". Halpern doesn't distinguish between the two, gives the reading for the single character as #3480 "animal counter".

Heisig and Halpern are both very intelligent and dedicated individuals who have worked hard to make the Japanese writing system more accessible to English-speakers. They both express the same frustrations with the methods available to them in the 1970's when they were both first struggling with the Japanese language. While Halpern has the advantage of modern linguistics and computer technology, Heisig using his own intuition and the dictionaries available to him at the time has better insight into the actual technique of learning.

What is the upshot of all this? Clearly, however you do it, learning the Kanji takes time. I can't yet read written Japanese, but I know a lot more about the Kanji than I used to. I plan to stick with Heisig since I see little down-side to his method. There is so much more to learning the Kanji than just memorizing a reading that having a firmly anchored English reading, even if it's not a precise one, is better than floating aimlessly in a sea of random symbols. Heisig at least offers a method that pins things down. Halpern's dictionary complements Heisig by giving a translation based on modern linguistics and database analysis. Together they may help me to eventually achieve a minimum level of Japanese literacy. In the meantime, I can at least decipher the meaning of "crazy lunatic" on the Kanji tattoo vending machine in my local supermarket: A "dog" who thinks he's "king".

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Note: The Wikipedia article "Remembering the Kanji I" gives a critique of Heisig's method and several interesting links, including one to a PDF sample of the first 200 of Heisig's kanji readings. The prospective student can use this to try his method out without buying the whole book.

Simply Excellent.......2007-03-25

After living in Japan for one year, I decided to jump in and study Kanji. I had studied Chinese over 25 years ago and still knew SOME (perhaps 20) of the characters, but not many. After getting this book, and starting to study, it became obvious that the method used is so superior to anything I have seen anywhere else, that it must simply be tried to be believed. I was able to write, easily from memory over 2 weeks later, over 75 new Kanji which I only studied for a few hours. The title of the book really does say it all... the secret is in the meaning, and remembering it becaomes easy once you begin to use the technique offered by Heisig.

My friend here in Japan can read well over 1000 Kanji from using this book. Of course the problem is the book is out of circulation... and I only found my in a TINY bookstore in Yokohama... Gambatte finding a new one.

As memory buff..........2007-03-15

This book is worth more than gold. I fancy the idea of learning to speak, read, and write Japanese someday.. but until then I am approaching this book as a memory practitioner than as a linguist. Simply put, not knowing the Kanji makes me feel deficient as a learner of Japanese language.. and I can tell you I quit learning Japanese so many times because every time I study a Japanese book and see those Kanjis it just irritates me.

With the Heisig system I have no reason to doubt that a person with acceptable discipline can acquire these Kanjis within 4-6 month.. even under a month if really disciplined. As a memory practitioner, I will say that the imagery used is just a tool (or "crutch" as someone else put it). With enough repetition one will get to a point where imagery is not necessary. This is a simple truth proven in many different context. In essence, results are same as in the case of those who learn Kanji via repetition of writing.. but the advantage of using Heisig system over repetition [of writing] is, of course, the ability to recite it in your head as you're headed off for sleep or on the road (and repetition in writing requires sitting up straight and.. well for any person you can only sit still for so many hours). And the fault of writing is that if you forget.. that's it. You have to go back to the reference book and look it up. But using Heisig system you can "think" your way back to what that Kanji means until you acquire independence from imagery.. which you will want to develop as you can't afford to spend time thinking about them (too inefficient).

You won't learn how to pronunciate.. you won't learn how to use read these characters in their Japanese equivalents.. in short you won't know the usage of these Kanjis. Once again, this book teaches English speakers how to remember just the Kanjis in English equivalents (which I am sure is bad exercise).. and nothing more (hence my claim of using this book as just memory exercise).

Heisig really deserves a special praise. It takes a lot of time to come up with these imageries... I know because I have applied this technique to other subjects. It's time consuming when we have to come up with it. $42 bucks (as the time of this writing) is really a small price to pay... buy this book if you're looking for a lazy way to learn Kanji. Otherwise... nothing wrong with doing it the old-fashion way of repetition, repetition, repetition.. but if you learn Heisig system you're .25-.5 of your way there into mastering the first 2,000 Kanjis or so.

Good Second Round.......2006-03-21

This is an excellent book for learning the Kanji characters. But I call it a good second round because you should learn Kana first (meaning hiragana and then katakana) and some basic Japanese phrases first, and the book makes much more sense. Read some books on the japanese culture also to learn even more and making it easier (since you will know honorific ideas etc).

The books only downfall is that it takes you a while to realize the characters on impact. I mean you see the symbol then translet it into what it looks like, idetify it, and then understand it, as opposed to just seeing it and knowing it.

To get around the only downfall, buy some books with Japanese writing (ones that Japan would sell to kids and young adults), and read them. The more you read, the more you understand them. You can even import DVD's of english movies you love, and just use the Japanese subtitles! (Requires a different DVD player than the US version). All in all, no better way to learn on your own.

Remembering the Kanji I: A Complete Course on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters Vol. 1 4th Edition

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For students without a kanji-based primary education, this is the only way to go.
Bought it when I was still a naive student of Japanese
Simple is good.
Does only what it claims, not what others want it to do.
Learning Kanji : about as easy as it gets!

Remembering the Kanji I: A Complete Course on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters Vol. 1 4th Edition
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The aim of this book is to provide the student of Japanese with a simple method for correlating the writing and the meaning of Japanese characters in such a way as to make them both easy to remember. It is intended not only for the beginner, but also for the more advanced student looking for some relief from the constant frustration of how to write the kanji and some way to systematize what he or she already knows. The author begins with writing because--contrary to first impressions--it is in fact the simpler of the two. He abandons the traditional method of ordering the kanji according to their frequency of use and organizes them according to their component parts or "primitive elements." Assigning each of these parts a distinct meaning with its own distinct image, the student is led to harness the powers of "imaginative memory" to learn the various combinations that result. In addition, each kanji is given its own key word to represent the meaning, or one of the principal meanings, of that character. These key words provide the setting for a particular kanji's "story," whose protagonists are the primitive elements.

In this way, students are able to complete in a few short months a task that would otherwise take years. Armed with the same skills as Chinese or Korean students, who know the meaning and writing of the kanji but not their pronunciation in Japanese, they are now in a much better position to learn to read (which is treated in a separate volume).

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For students without a kanji-based primary education, this is the only way to go........2007-10-15

Several reviewers have downgraded this book because it wasn't what they expected. You should know up front: the book teaches nothing beyond the kanji. You will not learn a single Japanese word from this book. This is the book's strength! With a little exertion of the imagination, you learn the Japanese characters in a rational way, through a technique called "component-analysis." That is, Mr. Heisig has broken the characters down into elements that combine with each other to produce more complicated characters.

Heisig's motto is "Divide and conquer." He isn't kidding. If you manage to get through this book--and I grant that it is not easy, just easier than the way the average Japanese child does it!--you will have overcome the greatest obstacle to fluency in Japanese. The grammar is not complicated and the vocabulary no harder than that of any other language. It is the task of learning about 2000 intricate ideographs that defeats most students.

Don't take my word for it: go to a website called "Reviewing the Kanji" and see for yourself. Check out another site called "Kanjiclinic." The book has strong partisans because it works.

Finally, while some students have had remarkable success, learning all 1945 kanji in as short a time as three months, don't be afraid to take your time. Consider: if it takes you 4 years to complete this book, learning 1-3 kanji a day in your spare time, you will have completed the task in less than half the time it takes a Japanese child, studying an hour or two every school day.

Bought it when I was still a naive student of Japanese.......2007-09-28

Do not recommend this book for anyone. Although it may work for you to remember how to write the Kanji, you are learning the least useful aspect. The meanings you associate with the Kanji are often completely disconnected from what the Kanji really means. You see, you make up stuff in your own mind to help you remember. Although it can work, it just leads to "brute-forcing" the Kanji into your head as characters disconnected from the Japanese language. Then, you'll have to learn the actual meaning of the Kanji (yeah, that English meaning you applied in Book 1 is just what you use for yourself, it isn't really what the Kanji means).

You could easily confuse yourself to a point where you have to "re-learn" the Kanji all over again. Don't do it, don't make the mistake of falling for the scam of learning all of the 1945 Kanji in 6 months, or whatever they say. The only way to truly learn them is to go over and over them. Using mnemonics that have no connection to the meaning of the Kanji (in English) is a waste of your time: your brain will be stuck using English to try to discern the meaning of Japanese, and this is just plain bad.

Bought when I was still a naive student of Japanese. Ditched it when I matured a bit, and became an opponent of the flawed system when I became more of an advanced learner.

Simple is good........2007-09-12

This book takes your from simple to difficult. It is the easy way to start learning kanji.

Does only what it claims, not what others want it to do........2007-09-03

This book (RTK1) is not about learning Japanese, it's about learning kanji. Kanji characters are not an alphabet, they are pictographs where each (usually) represents a single idea. Compare it to how "!" means Exclamation and "?" means Question yet neither appear in the English alphabet. I would dare say these represent a kanji concept. I say this as you'll read complaints that this book does not teach Japanese pronunciations or compounds. It is not meant to do that any more than it would present Chinese or Korean pronunciations of the exact same kanji.

RTK1 teaches you a single English (for Spanish, French or German, he offers similar books in those languages) meaning called a "keyword" for each kanji presented. Since a majority of kanji are made up of smaller kanji (called primitives in the book), Heisig organizes the book by primitives. This simple idea allows a simple build up of stories to connect the keywords to the primitives. Since there are a smaller number of primitives (themselves sometimes made up of easier primitives), you quickly know how to write the kanji correctly no matter the complexity (a feet many native to kanji learning cannot claim expertise in).

As been said in other reviews, you can test this book out for free on the first 250 kanji characters. A simple google search can bring it up. If you really see the use, then buy the book.

To further help you along as ultimately the book was designed for you to learn Japanese eventually, google "Reviewing the Kanji" which is a website that incorporates RTK1 in a useful online flash card set-up. That site will offer forums to further assist learning Japanese.

Bottom line, this book is meant to give you an quick and rough knowledge in your NATIVE LANGUAGE of 2000 kanji that appear on the Japanese Joyo list. The author offers an outstanding Try Before You Buy online file to help you decide. There's an online presence that compliments the use of this book. There's plenty of personel testimony that claims success. With that, please make an informed choice.

PS: I'm upto 1000 Kanji learned with 600 being learned in the last 7 weeks. It's probably above average for speed, but without this book I may have been stuck at 50 Kanji that I might mistake for others.

Learning Kanji : about as easy as it gets!.......2007-07-30

Given that I have rated this book with 5 stars, you may be surprised to learn that I personally didn't use it to learn the Kanji - I learned the Kanji (or hanzi - Han/Chinese characters) when I was learning mandarin, and I learned them without the benefit of mnemonics. Instead, I was forced to write them over and over again by my unsmiling/uncompromising teachers in Taipei :)

But, having had a good look through this book, I really wish I had had it (or the apparently forthcoming, 'Remembering the Hanzi' by the same author) when I was learning the Kanji.

So, do yourself a favour, get this book and learn the Kanji using mnemonics. Unless, that is, you would like to learn them all just by writing them over and over and over and over and over and over ... (you get the message!).

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The Fresh Voices series was inspired by a writing contest of the same name that identified high school writers interested in composing book-length works for young adults. Working with a professional editor, the young authors spent the summer learning about the book industry and meeting journalists while writing their individual books, both fiction and nonfiction. The four titles in this series represent the first four winners of the contest.

A high school student's search for identity unfolds in the backdrop of the chaos and tragedy of 9/11 in this honest and heartfelt novel by a recent high school graduate. Love, faith, animosity, and friendship struggle for balance as protagonist Justin Baker works through the 13 seminal days of his senior year. Already ensconced in a sometimes-bewildering life of high school intrigue, nocturnal pranks, and chance encounters with Vanilla Ice, the tragedy of 2001 informs Justin's rite of passage into adulthood, inspiring him to discover himself and the purpose of society. Written as a series of journal entries, teenagers will be moved by the intimacy of the language and the unique vividness of 9/11 as it is experienced though the eyes of a 17-year-old.

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A Good Read.......2005-10-11

My fifteen-year-old son read Baker's Dozen on the ride home from Maryland today. As we rode along, whenever I tried to engage him in conversation, he politely asked when he could get back to reading. In part that's a clever way of ignoring his dad, but during the ride he laughed out loud in several places, and during the part about the wooden sword fight and deer-head stabbing, his expression was one of amazement .. he was truly caught up in the story the whole time he was reading it. He gives it a B to B+, and would recommend it to others. He said that while it probably wouldn't interest an old fellow like me, it was good for his age range. I call it high praise when the reader's face shows a wide range of emotions, as his did during the ride. Clearly, this book is a good read.

If you have to own . . ........2005-07-30

one book make it Baker's Dozen. If you have to own two books make it Baker's Dozen and a Bible.

High School Memories.......2005-06-15

Joshua really brings to life 13 days of High School for those who forgot what it was like and for those who need reminding. This book shows what it was like any ordinary day in the life of a busy high school student starting two weeks before 9/11 and ending the day after the towers fell. This book is written as a journal, therefore it is life as seen through the eyes of an informed, albeit confused high school student.

Instant Classic.......2005-05-22

Moorhead, at the ripe age of 20 manages to seamlessly blend the timeless memories of highschool with the time-changing massacre that is 9/11. This young author is here to stay.

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