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Introduction I WANT IT NOW! Analyze Where You Are in Life Discover Your PASSION and Achieve Ultimate Happiness Na’Kisha Crawford, M.Ed INTRODUCTION Iwas once told to jump in there and let it flow when I had something to say that I felt was important, so here it is. I am very passionate about the things that I feel, and I want to share with readers the things that I have learned. Which brings me to the point, why I wrote a book about my experiences and the real life lessons that I have learned. I enjoy sharing with and helping others, and I have always known that my occupation would somehow involve those things. As a young person, most of us have a hard time determining what we are going to be in life, and in fact, we find that a tough decision to make even as mature adults. Our hobbies or the specifics of how we spend our spare time may change in life as we become more experienced, cultured, or knowledgeable, but our passions remain a core part of who we are, of our identity. I have always been passionate about helping others, and this book is an expression of that core passion that makes me who I am. It is my goal to inspire and motivate others. I want people to find what makes them happy in life, to find their passions. Life challenges each of us with experiences and lessons that, if we share them with others, will make the same or like experiences for others just a bit less challenging, a bit less harrowing perhaps. Discovering those things that make you feel good is a learning game, but getting to the point where you can accept both those things that are enjoyable along with those that are not so much fun as a natural part of life is a bigger objective for our learning. Many people believe that life is going to be hard regardless, so when something feels too good, they believe something has to be wrong. The truth of the matter is that life is indeed hard, but the truth is also that time keeps ticking. We can either accept that having hard times means that there is no room for personal growth and development or for improvement in our selves and our lives, or we can seek to find all of the wonderful things in the world that make us happy while learning from our harsher experiences. I share my beliefs and experiences to, hopefully, inspire you. My plan is to offer you some suggestions to get started on working toward your goals, and perhaps to help some of you get back on track and stay there. I want people to identify their professional and personal goals, or to revisit them as the case may be, and to have the confidence to step out on faith and to make changes in their lives. Some of us have become overwhelmed because we have been so busy taking on other people’s problems that we have for- gotten about our goals, for example. For such readers, it is time to figure out how to put yourself back into the equation. Some people wonder if they should take chances now or wait for those life-altering experiences to land in their laps, while many others are working to see how far their chosen careers will take them. Now is the time to evaluate where you are in life, discover what you want and go out and get it. It is time to start working on your personal journey toward ultimate happiness, to put yourself back into the equation, and to seek others who support your interest in personal growth and development. |
The year 2009 promises to bring us some excellent, and even groundbreaking, new reads. Listed below are 30 web design related books from some of the brightest designers and developers in the industry, that will likely be influential must-reads.
Certainly there can’t be any promise that these books will deliver, but it will be worth your while to check them out.
Each book has either a release date or estimated release date listed, however these dates often change due to publishing and other related issues, so please take these dates as approximations only.
This addition to the popular ICONS Web Design series focuses on very carefully crafted navigation systems, where usability and narrative are taken in consideration in the development of the website.
Featuring over 90 projects from more than 20 countries, as well as case studies on outstanding work by the world’s leading studios such as Fahrenheit, Clusta, and Sequence, this collection illustrates the ingenious solutions to one of the most difficult and important aspects of web design.
Released: March 2009
Whether you’re a seasoned search marketer, a paid search advertiser, or a complete novice, this book will help position your business front-and-center when prospects are searching for solutions online.
In simple, non-technical language, renowned search engine marketing expert Heather Lutze reveals how to achieve “findability” through the use of the ideal keywords applied to both pay per click campaigns and organic search optimization. She includes a wealth of creative strategies for keeping campaigns fresh and effective, so that you can re-energize stale Web sites or tweak successful ones to make them even more profitable.
In addition, Lutze explains how to respond to your customers and understand their issues, wants, and needs so that you can more easily turn prospects into customers. Her step-by-step approach, up-to-date research, and warnings about common pitfalls make this the ultimate practical guide to getting your business noticed on the Internet.
Released: March 2009
This book presents a chapter-by-chapter guide through an appropriate User Experience process, as well as provides additional information on the creating SOWs and Proposals, Project Ecosystem, best practices for meetings, and understanding business requirements.
User Experience neophytes and professionals alike should be able to find information relevant to any phase of a project in this book.
Released: March 2009
This book delivers a proactive approach to building an effective Web site that is search engine friendly and will result in better search rankings.
It outlines the steps needed to bridge the gap between a Google search and a Web site, and also improve the users’ experience once they get to the site.
By understanding the wide variety of information-seeking strategies and the individual behaviors associated with them, this book helps information architects, Web designers/developers, SEOs/SEMs, and usability professionals build better interfaces and functionality into Web sites.
Creating a satisfying user experience is the key to maximizing search effectiveness and getting conversions.
Released: March 2009
Designing usable and aesthetically pleasing interfaces is crucial to the success of any application on today’s Web. This book answers critical questions such as:
This book also covers the process of web site design from the discovery phase all the way through production and the development of style guides.
Released: March 2009
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Graphic Design Theory distills modern design thinking into twenty-four essential essays.
It presents ground-breaking, primary texts from the most important historical and contemporary design thinkers—from Aleksandr Rodchenko’s “Who We Are: Manifesto of the Constructivist Group” to Kenya Hara’s “Computer Technology and Design”
This fundamental survey quickly reveals key evolving ideas in the industry, putting them into a rich historical and cultural context.
To Be Released: April 4, 2009
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This breakthrough book offers you a series of best practices for using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, for building sites with Flash that will stand tall in search rankings. You’ll learn how search engines work, what constitutes a search-engine-optimized (SEO) site, and what to watch out for in the way of SEO pitfalls. With this concise book, you will:
The first -and only- book that explains how to optimize Flash content for search engines, Search Engine Optimization for Flash is an invaluable resource if you develop with Flash and want to be sure your audience can easily find your site.
To Be Released: April 6, 2009
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Speaking in Styles targets Web designers, aiming to help them learn the “language” that will be used to take their vision from the static comp to the live Internet.
Many designers think that CSS is code, and that it’s too hard to learn.
Author Jason Teague takes an approach to CSS that breaks it down around common design tasks and helps the reader learn that they already think in styles- they just need to learn to speak the language.
To Be Released: April 7, 2009
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Professional Widgets with CSS, DOM and Ajax is the first guide to building web widgets - tiny applications that can be embedded in a web page or on the desktop and have exploded in popularity in recent months.
Inside, award-winning programmer Rajesh Lal provides readers with a methodology for building widgets using standards like CSS and DOM to create widgets that work anywhere.
Next he guides readers though the creation of widgets using several popular toolkits and frameworks including Yahoo! Widgets, Silverlight with PopFly, Google Web Toolkit, Microsoft Web Gadgets and more.
Professional Widgets with CSS, DOM and Ajax is heavy on step-by step examples enabling readers to get up to speed and begin building widgets quickly and easily.
To Be Released: April 13, 2009
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The next major advance in the Web 3.0 will be built on semantic Web technologies, which will allow data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries.
Written by a team of highly experienced Web developers, this book explains and examines how this powerful new technology can unify and fully leverage the ever-growing data, information, and services that are available on the Internet.
Helpful examples demonstrate how to use the semantic Web to solve practical, real-world problems while you take a look at the set of design principles, collaborative working groups, and technologies that form the semantic Web.
To Be Released: April 13, 2009
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Beginning Joomla! will take the reader step-by-step through the process of building a website with Joomla! 1.5.
From beginning to end, the book will explain a concept and show how that concept relates to the development of an actual sample web site the reader can access online. This book applies each concept to a real-world example every step of the way.
Once a concept is explained in theory, it is then illustrated by showing how one would implement each concept in a real web site.
Topics covered include:
To Be Released: April 13, 2009
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While other Drupal books focus on module development, Front End Drupal is 100% focused on issues of site design, behavior, usability, and management.
The authors show how to style Drupal sites, make the most of Drupal’s powerful templating system, build sophisticated community sites, streamline site management, and build more portable, flexible themes.
You’ll also gain hands-on experience through several case studies that walk you through site creation and customization from start to finish.
To Be Released: April 20, 2009
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Using clever illustrations, easy-to-follow lists and diagrams, and other friendly touches, Website Owner’s Manual helps readers form a vision for a site, guides them through the process of selecting a web design agency, and gives just enough background to help them make intelligent decisions throughout the development process.
This book provides a jargon-free overview of web design, including accessibility, usability, online marketing, and web development techniques.
Using Website Owner’s Manual, readers master the vocabulary and concepts they need to discuss how a website dovetails with the needs of a business.
This book will help them work confidently with the designers and developers building and maintaining a site so they can concentrate on what your website needs to do.
To Be Released: May, 2009
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The expanded second edition of Dan Cederholm’s best-selling Web Standards Solutions is even better than the first.
This book, like the first edition, is your essential guide to understanding the advantages you can bring to your web pages by implementing web standards and precisely how to apply them.
Web standards such as XHTML and CSS are now fairly well-known technologies, and they will likely be familiar to you, the web designer.
Indeed, they are all around you on the Web. However, within web standards still lies a challenge: while the browser’s support for web standards is steadily increasing, many web developers and designers have yet to discover the real benefits of web standards and respect the need to adhere to them. The second edition:
To Be Released: May 4, 2009
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This book demonstrates how to use jQuery to reduce the amount of code you need to write and reduce the amount of testing that is required.
You’ll see how separation of presentation (CSS), markup (XHTML), and script (JavaScript and Ajax) in web pages is a crucial direction in web development for creating maintainable, accessible, cost-effective web sites.
The featured full-color code syntax highlighting provides you with a visual reinforcement so you can see the various pieces and parts that make up each line and section of code for each language.
To Be Released: May 4, 2009
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Recharge Your Design Batteries will help shock you out of your complacency, inspire you to look in new directions for radical solutions, and invite you to hone entirely new skill sets.
Tactics include: writing must-have lists and storytelling scenarios; compiling visual scrapbooks, drawing in sketchbooks and journaling daily; establishing a blog with a regular creative challenge; launching your own cute product line; collecting color and texture swatches and constructing atmospheric mood boards; experimenting with still and video cameras and recording experiences and environments; sourcing ephemera and found objects from flea-markets to build and display inspirational collections; volunteering and working pro-bono; and taking day trips and longer excursions to discover archival resources
To Be Released: May 12, 2009
This book combines real-world examples, clear explanations, and practical recommendations in an accessible and engaging style that makes it a thorough — and surprisingly readable — must-have for anyone involved in running a website, from web operators to e-business professionals. With Total Web Monitoring, you will:
You can’t fix your mistakes if you don’t know what they are. Learn how to avoid missed opportunities, frustrated users, and spiraling costs with the tools and advice in Total Web Monitoring.
To Be Released: May 15, 2009
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Web Application Architecture provides an in-depth examination of the basic concepts and general principles associated with Web application development, using examples that illustrate specific technologies.
This conceptual knowledge is critical when building and deploying complex systems that are scaleable, extensible, maintainable and reusable.
The book explains the underlying protocols and languages that support Web application development, and delineates the best practices associated with building robust applications.
It describes mechanisms for providing Web access to heterogeneous data sources including relational databases and multimedia.
To Be Released: May 18, 2009
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In Web Anatomy, renowned design researcher Jared Spool, founder of User Interface Engineering, and veteran interaction designer Robert Hoekman, Jr., author of Designing the Obvious and Designing the Moment, introduce a collection of interaction design frameworks and reveal how the psychology behind these standards leads not only to effective designs, but can also serve as the basis for cutting-edge innovations and superior user experiences.
Web Anatomy delivers:
To Be Released: May 25, 2009
Eyetracking is a hot new field in user interface design. What better way to explore this growing field than with master usability expert Jakob Nielsen showing the way?
Jakob and his coauthor Kara Pernice train thousands of people each year on Web usability, and in this book they demonstrate what can be learned from users’ eye paths over a broad variety of Web designs.
Readers learn how much a user’s goal or task influences the way they read and traverse a Web site, which parts of a page users attend to first, how readers react to advertising and design elements that look like ads, where people look first for common page elements and navigation, how they respond to text, pictures, and multimedia, and so much more.
With all this data in place, readers come away with practical and effective information about designing their Web sites.
To Be Released: May 25, 2009
Developers don’t get to spend a lot of time thinking about design, but many secretly wish they knew how to make their applications look just a little bit better.
This book takes you on a journey through a web site redesign, where you’ll learn the basic concepts of design, color theory, typography, and accessibility.
You’ll learn how to take a sketch and transform it into a digital mockup in Photoshop, and then finally into a working web page.
You’ll see how to develop logos, icons, and buttons using Illustrator and Photoshop, and then code a web page that will load fast, be easy to maintain, and most of all, be accessible to all audiences.
To Be Released: May 28, 2009
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The Designer’s Guide to Business and Careers is a comprehensive guide to basic business issues for designers in today’s competitive marketplace.
You’ll find information on how to successfully navigate your design career or start your own studio with case studies, tips, examples and exercises.
From choosing a career path to freelancing to striking out on your own, this must-have guide gives you the tools you need to find clients, negotiate prices, understand production basics and stay on top of industry trends.
To Be Released: June 12, 2009
Build Your own Database Driven Web Site Using PHP & MySQL is a practical hands-on guide to learning all the tools, principles and techniques needed to build a fully functional database-driven web site using PHP & MySQL.
This book covers everything from installing PHP & MySQL under Windows, Linux, and Mac through to building a live web-based content management system.
While this is essentially a beginners book, it also covers more advanced topics such as the storage of binary data in MySQL, and cookies and sessions in PHP.
To Be Released: June 15, 2009
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Advanced CSS goes beyond the basics of CSS to give you an expert’s understanding of CSS concepts and practices.
It discusses everything you need to know to work on large-scale projects, such as CSS optimization and techniques for managing complexity.
The book uses real-life examples to help intermediate CSS developers take their CSS skills to the next level and help all Web developers and designers utilize the full power and flexibility of CSS.
To Be Released: June 15, 2009
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Web Content Rx is a hands-on primer that shows anyone–even technical novices–how to write high-quality, keyword-laden, search engine optimized Web content.
Based on the latest research on how people read the Web, it also includes numerous tips, tricks, and techniques on writing a blog, training, and creating an audio or video podcast.
This must-have reference is for anyone working on the Web. Webmasters can avoid losing projects for lack of content. Business people can now create effective, readily understood Web content about their services or products.
eBay sellers can create powerful online advertisements and photograph your products to maximize their appeal. Technical writers, and those who write for industry, will appreciate the extensive safety-related material.
To Be Released: June 20, 2009
This book is the key to delivering useful, usable content to your online audiences, when and where they need it most. It delivers the knowledge to plan for and implement a successful online content strategy It shows which tools are available and how to use them to plan for, create and govern online content.
This is the only book that gives practical advice on staffing and resource allocation for web editorial roles and responsibilities. The Web Content Strategy Handbook can help in delivering useful, usable content to online audiences, when and where they need it most.
Focusing on the user experience as it relates to content strategy, this book defines content strategy, its business value, and why so many web projects implode in the content development phase. It provides simple ways to introduce content strategy into the user experience design process.
Readers get solid, practical advice on staffing and resource allocation for content-related roles and responsibilities and learn about the easy-to-use tools that are necessary to plan for, create, and govern online content.
To Be Released: August 2009
The author, Terry Marks, polls several designers of different age groups and phases in their careers about what they consider “good design.”
Each has selected an existing design piece they feel to be good, based on their personal definition of what “good” is. The author also takes a critical look at the design to determine if it is effective with its target market and interviews the designer of the piece to unlock the concept behind the design.
By taking this backwards approach through design—from completed piece back to conception—readers will discover why the design works and how they can use this information in their own projects.
To Be Released: July 1, 2009
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As a designer, it’s easy to take on a freelance project here and there to expand your creativity and increase your income. But very quickly, such projects begin to have legal and financial ramifications.
Freelance Design in Practice addresses these issues as well as explaining exactly what it takes to create a full-time freelance business.
For both active freelancers and those who aspire to it, Freelance Design in Practice offers insight and advice from working professionals who have successfully jumped the many hurdles on the road to becoming solo practitioners.
To Be Released: July 8, 2009
Beginning Rails 2 is the practical starting point for anyone wanting to learn how to build dynamic web applications using the Rails framework for Ruby.
You’ll learn how all of the components of Rails and Rails 2 fit together and how you can leverage them to create sophisticated web applications with less code and more joy.
This book is particularly well suited to those with little or no experience with web application development, or who have some experience but are new to Rails.
Beginning Rails 2 assumes basic familiarity with web terms and technologies but doesn’t require you to be an expert.
To Be Released: July 13, 2009
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The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks is a compilation of best practice solutions to the most challenging CSS problems.
The third edition of this best-selling book, published in full color, has been completely revised and updated to cover the latest techniques and newer browsers, including Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 8.
It’s the most complete question-and-answer book on CSS, with over 100 tutorials that’ll show you how to gain more control over the appearance of your web page, create sophisticated Web page navigation controls, design for today’s alternative browsing devices including phones and screen readers, and much more.
To Be Released: July 28, 2009
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New books are being announced every week. These below have recently been announced, therefore lack any detailed information about their content, however they too sound promising:
Compiled exclusively for WDD by Michael Shelton. Michael is a web designer and graphic design student who has worked in both web and print for over 4 years.
Do you know of any other books? What kind of books do you wish someone would write (maybe someone will)? Let us know what you think.
Read more...The New Statesman's round up of the best books of 2008 as suggested by critics and contributors including David Marquand, Tahmima Anam, Fatima Bhutto and Anthony Howard
Julian Barnes's Nothing to Be Frightened of (Cape, £16.99) is a nice corrective to the one-note atheism of Dawkins and the rest. It is human, clever and full of doubt: "I don't believe in God, but I miss him . . ." Nicholson Baker's Human Smoke (Simon & Schuster, £20) makes you challenge all you thought you knew about Churchill, and about war. The book I have carried with me all year, though, is Mick Imlah's The Lost Leader (Faber & Faber, £9.99). Imlah's poetry is that rare combination of erudition and conversation: perfectly crafted lines from the heart. The collection dwells on the idea of Scotland, of how where we come from shapes where we end up; it contains memorable meditations on a nation's heroes, never forgetting that it is the local and particular which stays with us. Imlah's voice holds all the histories together, easy as a ballad, forever crackling with one-liners.
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard (Granta, £12) is not a self-help book for lazy book reviewers, but an entertaining essay on literature, anxiety and the canon, and the eighth instalment in the author's "Paradoxes" series. Bayard is the kind of French academic who is more interested in how we can change Proust than in how Proust can change us. He also knows who killed Agatha Christie's Roger Ackroyd and who was really killed in The Hound of the Baskervilles. Someone should translate and publish the whole series in time for next Christmas. Beautiful Image by Marcel Aymé (Pushkin Press, £12) is a novel about a man who finds one day that he has a different face. It is less unsettling than Kafka, but its combination of charm and creepiness is pleasantly disorientating. More
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Dengan nama yang begitu mulia, jutaan bibir setiap hari mengucapkannya, jutaan jantung setiap saat berdenyut, berulang kali. Bibir dan jantung yang bergerak dan berdenyut sejak seribu tiga ratus limapuluh tahun. Dengan nama yang begitu mulia, berjuta bibir akan terus mengucapkan, berjuta jantung akan terus berdenyut, sampai akhir zaman
Pada setiap hari di kala fajar menyingsing, lingkaran-lingkaran putih di ufuk sana mulai nampak hendak menghalau kegelapan malam, ketika itu seorang muazzin bangkit, berseru kepada setiap makhluk insani, bahwa bangun bersembahyang lebih baik daripada terus tidur. Ia mengajak mereka bersujud kepada Allah, membaca selawat buat Rasulullah. Continue....
DK's acclaimed DK Biography series tackles two of history's most colorful figures in Harry Houdini and Albert Einstein. Perfect for book reports or summer reading, the DK Biography series brings a new clarity and narrative voice to history's most colorful figures. More..... Ron and Hermione Make BBC Radio One Top Movie Couples List
Update: Thanks to the many readers who let us know that an actual list of Top Five Movie Couples released on BBC Radio One by host James King making mention of Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) should read as follows:
5. Jennifer Lopez and George Clooney in "Out of Sight"
4. Emma Watson and Rupert Grint in "Harry Potter"
3. Julia Roberts and Richard Gere in "Continued...
Kisah tentang seorang gadis petani yang menjejakkan kakinya di atas tandu emas dengan menjadi selir terakhir sang shogun. Ia berusaha menemukan jati dirinya di tengah intrik serta persaingan di istana para perempuan di kastel Edo, rumah dari 3000 perempuan dan hanya seorang laki-laki�sang shogun muda. [baca lebih lengkap]
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Mei, karakter dalam novel ini adalah detektif partikelir, satu jenis pekerjaan yang tak jamak dijumpai di Cina Daratan. Mei mempunyai sekretaris pria, yang juga jarang terjadi di negara paternalistik ini. Hilangnya "Mata Giok" membuka mata tentang Peristiwa Tiannamen dan sebuah nilai keluarga Cina pada masa lalu. Diane menuturkan dengan kata yang indah dan sederhana, tetapi novel ini menjadi yang tak biasa - karena diilatar belakangi Peristiwa Tiananmen, situasi politik Cina, dan Maoisme. [baca lebih lengkap]
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My favorite new nonfiction book this year is Tulia, by Nate Blakeslee. It's the story of the wrongful prosecution of 47 residents of the town of Tulia, Tex.—38 of them black—based on the made-up testimony of one rogue cop. Some of the defendants got virtual life sentences before the case unraveled. Blakeslee broke the story for the Texas Observer. His book has movie deal written all over it. There's a rich and unlikely mix of characters—devious bad guys, likable victims, and valiant lawyer-heroes who wield their briefcases to save the day. It all makes for a satisfying tale about fighting the good fight.
The best book of "recent history" this year is Restless Giant: The United States From Watergate to Bush v. Gore, by James T. Patterson. After his 1996 Bancroft Prize-winning tour de force Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974, what does the Brown University historian do for an encore? Turn out an equally readable, smart, and fair-minded history of the last century's final quarter. A book like Restless Giant must be impossibly hard to write, since you need to keep in focus both yesterday's news, which lies so close to our present gaze, and events that have already receded into the historical distance. Patterson pulls it off—and in the process mounts a quietly persuasive defense of the "right revolution" that he argues has been central to American politics and society in recent times. more..........
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Prospect Heights, Illinois USA: Waveland Press, Inc.. 1985. S Soft Cover. Very Good. Originally written at a time when living anthropology was beginning to be recognized as a discipline (focusing on living history rather than being limited to past ages and cultures), the descibes the evolving relationship of a Depression era female scientist and a desert tribal woman near the Arizona-Mexico border. Illustrated in black and white. The book is in very good condition, looks and feels about new, with extremely mild surface rubbing, sound text block, very clean pages with no names or other markings.
