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Compared with other kinds of forests, we know little of the synecology of evergreen broad-leaved forests nor of the autecology of individual species. This volume comprises contributions covering South America, New Zealand, Australia, southeastern North America, the Mediterranean and the Middle East, India, parts of Africa, and Japan. Each chapter considers aspects such as the characteristics, functional processes, past, present and potential uses, management, economic and conservation status of these forests.
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A Practical Approach to Strength Training is a response to those seeking a safer, more efficient way to strength train. Matt Brzycki, Coordinator of Health Fitness, Strength and Conditioning Programs at Princeton University, examines all aspects of strength training--including specificity, high intensity training, explosive training and plyometrics, and offers advice on how to organize individual and group strength training programs. Featuring Nautilus, Universal Gym, free weight and manual resistance exercises, this revised edition also includes chapters designed for those teaching strength training courses at the high school and college levels. "A Practical Approach to Strength Training should be a staple for all coaches and athletes. This book deals with the facts and cuts through the myths and misconceptions of strength training." -- John Dunn Strength Coach, San Diego Chargers "A Practical Approach to Strength Training is an excellent book. (Its great value) is found on the chapters on how one actually applies the knowledge in the weight room. This is an extremely valuable book for practitioners in the strength training field." -- Kim Wood Strength Coach Cincinnati Bengals "This book is easy to read, yet loaded with relevant information for any strength coach at any level. It contains all the fundamentals for building a safe, efficient strength training program and belongs on the shelves of anyone who's interested in fitness." -- Shaun Brown Strength and Conditioning Coach University of Kentucky "In addition to providing sound information on sensible strength training, the text is presented in a very practical manner . . . and the emphasis on safety is obvious from start to finish. I am most impressed with the author's commitment to athletes and his willingness to take a stand on controversial subjects." -- Dr. Wayne Wescott National Fitness Advisor YMCA of the USA "Great reading for any teacher or coach. This book provides the most up-to-date conditioning information available." -- Dan Riley Strength Coach Washington Redskins
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Great resource for all levels!.......2007-01-10
This book breaks down strength training with science. There is a lot of rhetoric out there that preach unproven theories. This test cuts through these false ideas and let the exerciser know what is actually necessary.
Jason Rulo CSCS, HFI
Real world strength training for athletes.......2005-10-01
I have been using this training method using free weights, machines and even a BowFlex ever since the first edition came out. IT WORKS!!!!!!! I like the vast use of references because I have a biological sciences background and one MUST back up what one claims with data and/or references.
I played contact sports (football, hockey and lacrosse) and basketball from elementary school, through high school and college and after college. I'm 44 years old and still play competitive basketball in a local men's league with teenagers and twenty-somethings. I am also an assistant football coach (offense/defensive lineman) at the local middle school. I promote this method of weight training, even to the high school coaches. My oldest son has been playing at the middle school level the last two years and will be playing JV football next year. He will begin strength traing after this season and this method WILL be the method for weight training he uses.
Much of the information I received about weight training was gym rat "opinion" or from pansy-assed body-building magazines. This approach gets you in and out of the gym quickly and works QUICKLY and EFFECIENTLY at building strength!! This is very important for student athletes who need to get in and out of the gym and for coaches that need to minimize wasted time in the gym.
This is the ONLY method of weight trainin g I use. I have been using it for years.
A Practical Approach, Like the title says........2004-12-29
This book has been used as a text for Strength and Conditioning courses at the College level and as a CEU course for satisfying Trainers Qualifications. It is also one of the best books out for anyone interested in learning about High Intensity Training. The fact that Mr. Brzycki was a competitive Power Lifter shows he has plenty of experience in more that one way of training, unlike some of the reviewers. In my 47 years of training, competing and Coaching this book for me is a "Practical Approach to Strength Training." If you are interested in Olympic Lifting my advice would be to buy a book that is more geared to the Olympic Lifter.
Okay, but full of bias and errors.......2003-08-01
To begin, Brzycki is not what I'd call "the strength and conditioning coach" at Princeton. His function at Princeton for many years has apparently been primarily in fitness administration and teaching some fitness classes, not the strength and conditioning of athletes. According to one interview, Brzycki hasn't trained athletes on a regular basis for quite some time. According to another interview, Brzycki did not apply his own "practical approach" to his own workouts until after well his days as a competitive powerlifter were over.
In other words, Brzycki is a fitness expert, not necessarily a strength expert. In the field of fitness he probably excels. Otherwise, in my opinion, he often tries to force-fit his fitness theories into strength training principles. Fitness goals and strength training goals are not necessarily the same. Brzycki has far less DIRECT experience training strength athletes than many other authors - Dreschler, Poloquin, Kono, Newton, Zatsiorski, for example. Brzycki shows extreme prejudice against Olympic-style weightlifting, for example, a strength and power sport he has never, to my knowledge, either competed in nor coached. Sour grapes, I suspect. Brzycki apparently reads a lot of scientific journals and must be a fast typist, for he publishes books and articles quite often. Apparently he hasn't read the decades of strength training information and scientific analysis gleaned from the detailed training logs of generations of Communist bloc athletes, which Brzycki dismisses in his first chapter as mere "anecdotal evidence."
That said, if your goal is general fitness with an eye towards increasing strength, then you could do a lot worse than this book. There are many approaches towards strength training that work (and some that don't.) Brzycki's approach will work.
BUY IT NOW!!!.......2002-08-25
IF UR INTERESTED IN KNOWING WHY I SHOULD THAT EXERCISE OR IN WHICH WAY -THAT UR TRAINER CANT REALLY ANSWER YOU SOMETIMES- THIS IS THE BOOK. THE ONLY BAD THING IS THAT THEORIES IN THIS BOOK CAN BE CONFUSING IN ORDER FOR U TO MAKE AN EXERCISE PLAN TO USE IN GYM OR UR DIET PLAN.
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Concise, yet sufficiently comprehensive guide to evaluating and developing a personal fitness regimen to suit individual needs and interests.
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Excellent French language resource.......2007-05-24
How much do you know about English language? You may think you know a lot until you start to study a foreign language. This book is very helpful to lay out the grammar of English as you learn the grammar of French.
Must have.......2007-05-13
This book is a must have for any French student who has forgotten all the grade-school English grammar terminology and rules. If you are completely lost when sentence structure is brought up in french class, buy this book. As a first year french student this book has been very useful.
Grammar Guide.......2007-03-29
I really love this book because I do not understand english grammar as well as I would like to. When it comes to learning a different language, it is almost impossible to understand the grammar unless you know the grammar of your own language. I speak french as a second language and I found this book really helpful. I even had someone who speaks spanish borrow this book of the french language and it helped her despite that spanish and french are not entirely the same language despite that they derive from Latin. She ended up getting the Spanish version herself. For a quick refernce I definitely would recommend this book for someone if they were in a pinch.
Helpful grammar book.......2007-03-13
If you are a normal American you know very little about the way a sentence is put together and how to identify the various parts of speech, which makes learning a foreign language very difficult. This book is wonderful at explaining the various parts of speech and sentence structure and comparing them to the equivalents in French. I highly recommend this book for anyone studying French on their own without a textbook - it would also be useful as an accompaniment to a textbook.
French Grammar supplement for beginning French.......2007-02-19
The explanations of grammatical terms are more complete than those in Voila!, the text used in my beginning French class. Morton's explanations help "fill in the blanks" of definitions and sentence constructions. I also use French Grammar Made Easy which has more complete drills than either Morton or Voila!.
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More often than not, we think of a country's history as a narrative, a sequential tale of great people and important events. But sometimes it's more revealing to think of history as a map of the eras, inventions, ideas, and people that have shaped our country for more than five hundred years, from the first visitors to North America's shores to the first years of the 21st century.
Combining the unparalleled cartography and the extraordinary graphic archive of the National Geographic Society, this marvelous volume charts an engrossing web of connections, vividly displayed in a series of concise, self-contained essays and scores of maps that are the heart of a stunning visual chronicle that unfolds our history in a new and fascinating way. Each chapter is introduced by a time line that sets its subjects in context, then dozens of photographs, period maps, and illustrations capture the flavor of life in eras and places as varied as Texas cow towns and Tennessee coal mines, colonial Boston and gold-rush California.
Subject maps trace the great rivers and rough trails settlers followed as they fanned out across an unexplored continent, with a lively text that explains who they were and why they headed West, and are accompanied by a sidebar in which Mark Twain reminisces about life as a Mississippi steamboat pilot. We learn how an 1859 gusher at Titusville, Pennsylvania, led to a nationwide search for "black gold," and how John D. Rockefeller channeled it into Standard Oil. We learn how Eli Whitney's cotton gin, Henry Ford's Model T, and dozens of other inventions transformed our landscape; and we watch as social movements--labor unions, women's suffrage, civil rights--Sstruggle to include the disenfranchised in the American Dream. In these pages we find political battles and military campaigns, immigrants and industrialists, ordinary people and Presidents from George Washington to George W. Bush.
Wide-ranging, entertaining, and as expansive as America itself, the Historical Atlas of the United States is an important reference and an indispensable guide to the many intertwined paths that have led to the nation we know.
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Historical Maybe, But Not an Atlas.......2006-09-05
I'll chime in with "catu11us" on this on most of the points raised in that review, but I have a few additional cautions for would-be buyers of this one.
My own copy was a gift from a sibling who knows I am always happy to receive and read history books (but not historical fiction). Unfortunately the nature of this book is at odds with its title, as the other reviewers have noted, but I'd go further: it's not a "historical atlas of the United States," it's a collection of USA-Today-simplified encapsulations of American history, with maps (some of them visually superb). This distinction is important because not only are major aspects of the U.S.'s historical development left out (as shown ably by "catu11us"), external affairs of contextually passing relevance, such as the U.S.'s controversial activities in Vietnam and Iraq, are not merely addressed but are given full spreads with *maps.*
With some of these, I find myself thinking the National Geographic should change its name to the National Sociopolitical, because it's not addressing its histories geographically at all and certainly isn't focusing on the nation in question, except in a rather "manifest destiny" sense which I consider abhorrent as well as contrary to impartial documentation of history.
Simplifications of history here often employ the lamentably popular personification style of "news" reporting -- more properly described as "journalism" -- in which, in this context, quotations from individuals' letters or diary entries are provided as being summarily representative of all people of that class at that time. This is a useful tool for historians when they back it up with further perspective but should not be abused this way, with complex and still-debatable viewpoints presented as absolutes.
Physically this book is a lavish treat, at least on a superficial level: the leather cover, the gilt edges and cover titling, the luxurious amount of space given to illustrations, the redrawn maps (although the previous criticism of the stylized pastels is just).... But large type masks small basis, and there's not even a whiff of a bibliography here to substantiate the breezy generalizations these "historical" assessments aspire to.
The issue of Slavery, for example, gets addressed but with throwaway lines such as "Americans joined in the enterprise, trading with African kings for what became more than nine million slaves." Which African kings? Where in Africa? Who has established that this even was the case? And does "Americans" mean "ALL Americans" or just some? Two paragraphs later, the second of those questions is nominally addressed: "Nearly 40 percent came from Angola, with large numbers coming from the Bights of Benin and Biafra and Gold Coast." But that's the end of the study of that question. That there was slavery within Africa itself, that other countries had slave trades, all of this (and other potentially illuminating perspectives) are dropped as if they didn't exist. And what's that tidy percentage assessment based on?
I'm sure that a lot of research and study went into much of this book's contents; it's unfortunate that the study isn't given transparently and with credentials beyond those presumed by the National Geographic Society itself. If you want a detailed Important Points in American History introduction, this is probably very handy, and if you're just trying to understand how the U.S. has evolved to become the thing it is today this will provide perspective and depth as well as personalized story. For anyone interested in History, however, this is something to refer to with knowing caution: there's enough detail and illustration to justify tapping it as a resource, but there are also enough warning flags screaming of "spin" here that it behooves one to handle it with gloved fingers and a hefty shot of guarded skepticism.
Again, I think the National Geographic Society did itself a disservice by not providing a bibliography for this book; without that, it's scarcely credible and invites cynical appraisal -- and it *should* do, because at the other end of the spectrum it's lulling general-public readers into accepting these generalizations as established facts. I appreciate that they have tried to show American history "warts and all," but even that approach is curtailed to such pat simplifications here that one must question not just each conclusion but therefore also the presentation of information purporting to be factual. The National Geographic Society is surely capable of demonstrating its scholarship, but this book makes me wonder about that.
Where are the maps?.......2005-09-02
I won't repeat the criticisms of others. What did National Geographic think they were doing when they published a coffee-table history book under the title of "Atlas"?
Historical it may be, this ain't no atlas........2005-01-01
This atlas hardly does National Geographic credit. Far better is Hammond's American history atlas, a slim 8 ½" x 11" paper- (cardboard-) bound edition. Better than either is the 1966 American Heritage atlas, a splendid maroon slipcased hardbound volume. It features superbly realized maps of all eras. Important wars - especially the Revolution and the Slaveholders' Rebellion ("Civil War") - are illustrated by clear maps as well as panoramic representations of major battles. The maps are accompanied by brief informative texts, rather an innovation for the time. This first-rate production (The American Heritage Pictorial Atlas of United States History) isn't easy to find nowadays.
The National Geographic Society atlas isn't worth taking up shelf space, much less throwing money at. Allegedly an atlas, it has few maps - only a piddly 81 in 240 pages. By comparison, the American Heritage atlas has 424 smaller pages (including text) and 278 maps.
The maps themselves are minimally useful. That illustrating the Slaveholders' Rebellion, for instance, shows the Unorganized Territory (now Oklahoma) and the New Mexico Territory (now Arizona and New Mexico) as loyal. In fact, for much or most of the war, they were held by rebel forces in whole or part. The progress of the war is shown only by lines indicating major campaigns. These give no feeling of the development of the war nor the gradual defeat of the Southern treason.
Another problem endemic to these maps is poor use of color. The book uses mostly pastels, often almost indistinguishable colors, making its maps weak in impact and difficult to read.
There are no maps covering the North American colonial system in the 17th Century. New Netherlands, New Sweden, the New England Federation, Plymouth Colony, and others have disappeared. Coverage for 1700-1800 is spotty at best. Coverage here of World War I and the rise of the Bolshevik empire contains no hint of the American military intervention at Arkhangel'sk and in Siberia. The growth of the U.S. colonial empire in the Pacific (and elsewhere) receives no coverage, although some U.S. colonies appear on some maps. Et cetera.
The choice of textual sections is puzzling. Many are relevant to an atlas, even if nobody bothered to do a map. But others ... well, take a gander at some of the titles: ** Capturing America on Film ** Pictures That Talk ** The Superheroes: Comic Books Take Flight (!!!) ** Integrating Sports ** The Small Screen ** The Internet Takes Off ** Relevant as these may be to an appreciation of American history, their relevance to a Historical Atlas is dubious, to say the least.
This atlas has only 1 map showing Presidential election returns (for 2000). The Hammond atlas rejoices in a complete set from 1790. National Geographic provides an index all of 2 (two!) pages short. American Heritage's index comes to 54!
If you want a GOOD atlas of U.S. history, get the latest edition of the Hammond. That also has a few maps relating to Latin American and Canadian history. The highly useful American Heritage is no doubt available if you can locate one. The new National Geographic entry isn't worth a well-worn farthing, much less what you're actually expected to pay.
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The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and National Identity (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)
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The rapid rise in popularity of maps and geography handbooks in the eighteenth century ushered in a new geographic literacy among nonelite Americans. In a pathbreaking and richly illustrated examination of this transformation, Martin Bruckner argues that geographic literacy as it was played out in popular literary genres--written, for example, by William Byrd, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Royall Tyler, Charles Brockden Brown, Meriwether Lewis, and William Clark--significantly influenced identity formation in America from the 1680s to the 1820s.
Drawing on historical geography, cartography, literary history, and material culture, Bruckner recovers a vibrant culture of geography consisting of property plats and surveying manuals, decorative wall maps and school geographies, the nation's first atlases, and sentimental objects such as needlework samplers. By showing how this geographic revolution affected the production of literature, Bruckner demonstrates that the internalization of geography as a kind of language helped shape the literary construction of the modern American subject. Empirically rich and provocative in its readings, The Geographic Revolution in Early America proposes a new, geographical basis for Anglo-Americans' understanding of their character and its expression in pedagogical and literary terms.
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The Nation's story comes alive.......2001-11-08
This book is stunning! Hundreds of color photos and illustrations, 140,000 words of text, 380 maps, 80 graphs, a 4,000 item index and its big size (18.5 by 12.25 inches) makes this history in awesome detail.
Each spread has a theme with a short introduction and the rest of the space devoted to maps, photos and well-wriiten captions, some of the spreads also have a time-line section across the bottom.
I found it interesting that the authors wanted this to be accessible history, part of the spread on the auto industry has eleven photos showing the development of tail fins from 1948 to 1964. The spread on printing and advertising includes six pictures showing the changing face of Betty Crocker. Want to know more? Turn to the bibliography in the back and each spread is numbered and relevant books listed.
A clever idea is the inclusion of a piece of acetate with the US printed in four sizes, lay this over the maps in the book in the same four sizes and it avoids having to print each State's name and boundary on every map and getting it confused with what the map is explaining. BTW: if you are buying this book used make sure the acetate is included.
I used to design publications and I can appreciate the incredible amount of thought and creativity that went into this amazing book.
The National Geographic donated 35,000 copies to schools across America and I cannot think of a better way to follow the Nation's story than this book.
Wowzers!.......1999-06-22
This fantastically illustrated historical atlas really impressed me. It is perfect for those who enjoy a more pictoral/graphical/map-oriented view of history. I highly recommend it!
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