Independent Builder: Designing & Building a House Your Own Way (Real Goods Independent Living Books)

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Subtitled "Designing and Building a House Your Own Way," this is the book for anyone thinking about building their own home. It is comprehensive, detailed and covers subjects I have never before seen covered in home building books, like how to make a small house seem bigger, incorporating ergonomics and accessibility, doing your own drawings and scale models, making contracts that work, and working effectively with professional designers and builders. With detailed diagrams and photographs, this is the most thorough overall guide to building your own home I have ever seen (and I've seen a lot!).

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This is a comprehensive manual of design and building methods for owner-builders as well as professional builders and their clients. In addition to presenting specific building techniques, the book explains the design principles and planning processes that underlie all good building, so that readers can develop their own exceptional designs, independently.
The Real Goods Independent Builder develops subjects not covered thoroughly in other books, but critical to success:

Designing small houses that seem big

Understanding innovation

Estimating and controlling costs

Incorporating ergonomics and accessibility

Doing drawings and scale models

Making contracts that work

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The best guide to homebuilding on the market. It Rocks!.......2007-03-31

This is the first book I've found that actually addresses living patterns in home design. The book describes the fact that people can be uncomfortable sitting in a huge living space and actually crave the need for smaller spaces like alcoves. Social behaviours and traffic patterns while entertaining are studied and factually explains what makes a room feel comfortable or homey. With traffic patterns and accessibility as the basis for the design half of the book, Clark provides a solid foundation for design fundementals and the why behind it.

The second half of the book covers home building. A s a complete novice in this area, I can't vouch for the accuracy of the information, but it does seem quite comprehensive in its description, demystifying the building process, and empowering owners to monitor their contractors with an informed eye, while giving insight to the bigger picture and mindset of contractors. I think this understanding will help communication between owners and contractors and make homebuilding a smoother process. Of particular interest, I found the load calculations for foundations fascinating as it wasn't something I had ever considered in home building as it is something the architecht waves his magic pencil to produce.

The book is written in a familiar tone the layperson will relate and understand, and while it doesn't shirk the industry jargon, explainations are forthcoming, making it easy to understand and simple to follow.

I've read quite a few books on home building and have done extensive research on the internet. This book covers design priciples and the why not found elsewhere. I highly recommend this book as the foundation to anyone planning and building their own home.

Really good book.......2006-03-28

I have been researching owner building for almost a year now and this is the first and only book I've found that both had all the information I needed, and presented it in a way that a layman could understand. Five thumbs up.

good reading for the owner-builder.......2005-05-05

For the owner-builder looking to educate her/himself, sifting thru the oceans of books to read is tough. This one is definitely worth the time. Clark takes a no-nonsense, unpretentious approach. The text is easy to read and in plain language that lay people can understand. Focuses mostly on conventional stick-building, but there are lots of great ideas (in the "doing it yourself on a budget" theme) that apply to any building style.

An ACCURATE subtitle: as much about design as about building.......2003-03-22

Sam Clark uses up half the book before he gets into the nitty-gritty of construction methods. This really IS a book about house DESIGN as well as construction. As such, it's an EXCELLENT book for someone who's starting from scratch to create their own house. The approach is extremely methodical, treating mindsets and goals as elements of the design process equal in importance to elevation drawings.

The illustrations bear particular attention. The (black and white) photographs are well composed, and have high contrast to clearly delineate the features that are supposed to be of interest. The line drawings are rather funky looking (in part because Clark appears not to own a ruler), but nevertheless do a very good job of illustrating what the text is talking about. This is the case for three reasons: (1) they were created by the author, who knew EXACTLY what part of the text needed visual aids; (2) their rulerless nature means that Clark can emphasize particular features rather than focus on strict scale drawings; and (3) each one is sized independently to take up as much space as is required to depict the subject matter, without worrying about "wasting" some page area. The end result is that the text and illustrations fit together well to make a unified whole.

For more detail on the Building part of creating a house, I'd recommend "Do-It-Yourself HOUSEBUILDING" by George Nash. But because Nash's book doesn't come close to Clark's for clarity, I'd first read Clark's book cover-to-cover. Then I'd keep Sam Clark's book open to the same subject area so that you can step back and get a clear overview as you get confused in the details of the Nash book.

Your own way indeed!.......2001-11-30

This tells you how to design a house for you. Not just a house out of a book, but one that takes your living patterns into account. Don't want a formal living room? Don't put one in! Also reminds you if you want to live in the house a long time, to make room for handicapped access that may be needed later. Design your kitchen and baths the way you live! Have fun! ;-)

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Designing the Good Home
Dennis Wedlick
Manufacturer: Collins Design
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Release Date: 2005-05-31

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Following up on the success of the Good Home, Designing the Good Home continues the exploration of the elements that go into the making of a good home. Author Dennis Wedlick looks at the work of three architects whose attention to detail and fine craftsmanship have gained them broad recognition. The architects featured include Peter Bohlin of the Pennsylvania-based firm of Bohlin Cwynski Jackson whose residential work can be found throughout the United States, Hugh Newell Jacobson, a Washington DC based architect known for his classical modern houses that have been featured in shelter magazines throughout the world, and Obie Bowman, a northern-California architect specializing in dwellings that are in close harmony with nature. In the book, Wedlick closely examines four houses from each of the featured architects and describes through photographs, plans, and drawings the essential elements in each of these houses that make them a "good home."

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The only scholarly book in English dedicated to recent European contemporary dance, Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement examines the work of key contemporary choreographers who have transformed the dance scene since the early 1990s in Europe and the US.
Through their vivid and explicit dialogue with performance art, visual arts and critical theory from the past thirty years, this new generation of choreographers challenge our understanding of dance by exhausting the concept of movement. Their work demands to be read as performed extensions of the radical politics implied in performance art, in post-structuralist and critical theory, in post-colonial theory, and in critical race studies.
In this far-ranging and exceptional study, Andre Lepecki brilliantly analyzes the work of the choreographers:
* Jerome Bel (France)
* Juan Dominguez (Spain)
* Trisha Brown (US)
* La Ribot (Spain)
* Xavier Le Roy (France-Germany)
* Vera Mantero (Portugal)
and visual and performance artists:
* Bruce Nauman (US)
* William Pope.L (US).
This book offers a significant and radical revision of the way we think about dance, arguing for the necessity of a renewed engagement between dance studies and experimental artistic and philosophical practices.

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Photographs by Santiago Melazzini.

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Introducing Twig-Lits, A Cartoon Commentree, the unique, witty lexicon created to add firepower to the environmental vocabulary of those who still care enough to protect and preserve what is left of our magnificent planet, for present and future generations of all life forms.

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Twig-Lits is brilliant!.......2006-07-28

The political message was powerful but what impressed me most was the creativity. Each page fits together so perfectly - from the word to the definition to the quotation to the cartoon. And at the same time it all relates to the whole. How clever that the book itself is made from a tree! Also loved the lay-out, graphics and color. Can't wait to see more from this author!

My Life Among the Serial Killers: Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Murderers
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My Life Among the Serial Killers: Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Murderers
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Over the course of twenty-five years, Dr. Helen Morrison has profiled more than eighty serial killers around the world. What she learned about them will shatter every assumption you've ever had about the most notorious criminals known to man. Judging by appearances, Dr. Helen Morrison has an ordinary life in the suburbs of a major city. She has a physician husband, two children, and a thriving psychiatric clinic. But her life is much more than that. She is one of the country's leading experts on serial killers, and has spent as many as four hundred hours alone in a room with depraved murderers, digging deep into killers' psyches in ways no profiler before ever has.

In My Life Among the Serial Killers, Dr. Morrison relates how she profiled the Mad Biter, Richard Otto Macek, who chewed on his victims' body parts, stalked Dr. Morrison, then believed she was his wife. She did the last interview with Ed Gein, who was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. John Wayne Gacy, the clown-obsessed killer of young men, sent her crazed Christmas cards and gave her his paintings as presents. Then there was Atlanta child killer Wayne Williams; rapist turned murderer Bobby Joe Long; England's Fred and Rosemary West, who killed girls and women in their "House of Horrors"; and Brazil's deadliest killer of children, Marcelo Costa de Andrade.

Dr. Morrison has received hundreds of letters from killers, read their diaries and journals, evaluated crime scenes, testified at their trials, and studied photos of the gruesome carnage. She has interviewed the families of the victims -- and the spouses and parents of the killers -- to gain a deeper understanding of the killer's environment and the public persona he adopts. She has also studied serial killers throughout history and shows how this is not a recent phenomenon with psychological autopsies of the fifteenth-century French war hero Gilles de Rais, the sixteenth-century Hungarian Countess Bathory, H. H. Holmes of the late ninteenth century, and Albert Fish of the Roaring Twenties.

Through it all, Dr. Morrison has been on a mission to discover the reasons why serial killers are compelled to murder, how they choose their victims, and what we can do to prevent their crimes in the future. Her provocative conclusions will stun you.

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For most of her professional life as a forensic psychiatrist with a law degree, Dr. Helen Morrison has been on a mission to discover (or at least lay the groundwork to discover) the reasons why serial killers are compelled to murder. Many law enforcement officials say they have become hardened to killings. This is something Dr. Morrison will not allow herself to do. "It won't work if I treat a murder as through it is anything routine. I have to keep my emotions completely open in order to advance my theories and help eradicate the phenomenon of serial killing," says Dr. Morrison.

This will be a one-of-a-kind memoir by a female forensic psychiatrist who has profiled 80 seial killers in nearly thirty years of work. Some of her profiling-with killers including Richard Macek (known as the Mad Biter), Ed Gein (the inspiration for Hitchcock's Psycho), John Wayne Gacy (upon whom she performed an autopsy as well), Wayne Williams and others-involved 400 hours of interviews. (In fact, she was first to profile serial killers using methods of forensic psychiatry.) She will also provide "psychological autopsies"of serial killers throughout history, from the 15th century through today, demonstrating that this is not a recent phenomenon and these cases help us better understand the serial killers of today.

Dr. Morrison will write the stories of her work with these killers as she takes us inside the interview rooms and pushes the killers until they break and reveal their true natures. She takes us out into the field and into the crime scenes as she struggles to profile a killer. The dramatic stories also provide her with the opportunity to explain her theories as to why they do what they do (and it's not, she says, because they were abused as children). While she's not an FBI agent, she has been hired to work on a number of their cases, as well as with other state and city organizations.

At the end of the day, she goes home to her husband and two children in a quiet suburb of Chicago. Neither her children or her neighbors know what she does.

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Disappointing.......2007-07-02

Too much time glorifying the gory details of the crimes, and little time spent developing a scientific theorem. I quit reading it half way through when it became clear that it was not going to get any better.

Wonderfully informative.......2007-02-19

This book shatters the myths popular culture has ingrained into public perception of serial killers. It is closer to a work of scholarship than horror stories presented for your titilation, but if you want to understand one of the least understood criminal types in existence, you will find a wealth of information and personal anecdotes from a highly intelligent writer who has had a lifetime of contact with the world's most notorious killers. Further, it's all presented in accessible, enjoyable writing and well structured, contrary to the negative review, whose problems with the work I don't quite understand. There are many surprises here, one of them (for me) the insight that serial killers are anything but the sophisticated supervillains Hanibal Lecter would have us believe. Be warned, much of what you'll find here is shocking and may disturb your sleep - but if you want to understand the threat and nature of serial killers, this is by far the best source I've encountered on the subject. Congratulations to the author - a fine book on an important subject.

Drones on and on.......2007-02-02

Disjointed and unorganized, this book was torture to read. Morrison's anthology is more of a loose collection of garrulous reminiscences of Morrison's contact with various serial killers.

Once I realized that the format of the book was uncompromising and admittedly uncreative, I found little motivation to continue past page 250 or so. What little insight there is to be gained, is to be received well before that point.

Moreover, Morrison drones on and on and on and on, interspersing her analyses and WAY too much personal information between characterizations. This is a very long and tedious read after page 250, and I feel a little bit stiffed.

This isn't a book so much as a reference manual, and should be treated as such. However, with no index to speak of, its use as such would be unnecessarily tedious. **/*****.

Substance Poorly Presented.......2006-10-18

This book offers real insights into the minds of serial killers, what motivates them, what triggers them, and how they see themselves. There are some nuggets here that may help law enforcement officials identify or profile serial killers, if they can overlook the irritating arrogance and perceived self-importance of the presentation.

The book is not well written, despite being authored by a highly educated medical doctor who teamed with a talented writer. It's natural to ask why is this so. Is it possible the arrogance that flows through the book carried through the writing process, that the writer was forced to be merely a scrivener. The book has that sort of feel to it, and if so, that's a shame. Because there is substance to this book. It's just too much a shame one has to wade through so much of the how great I am packaging to get to it.

Boring, boring, boring.......2006-09-06

I'm glad I checked this out from the library. Awful book. Terribly written by an arrogant "doctor"--boy, did she ever love throwing that 'achievement' around. The book made no sense whatsoever, wandered around the map, and she denigrated every professional involved in the serial killer business (except herself of course)! Please don't waste your money!

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My Life Among the Serial Killers: Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Murderers
Goldberg, Helen, Harold Morrison
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My Life Among the Serial Killers: Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Murderers
Helen Morrison
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The number of computers in schools more than doubled during the 1990s, while government and corporate initiatives to wire schools for Net access has been aggressive. But how are computers affecting the way children experience school? The Child and the Machine offers one possible answer to that question. Authors Alison Armstrong and Charles Casement argue that "computers put our children's education at risk" by diverting funds from art, music, and other programs. What Armstrong lacks in scholarly or professional accreditation she makes up for in tenacity. A concerned mom's polemic, The Child and the Machine meets Armstrong's laudable goal of providing a framework for a "long overdue public discussion" about computers in elementary schools. Chapters about keyboarding, reading on-screen, using word-processor programs, and playing computer games are spiked with useful tidbits of educational theory. The importance of physical stimulation in children's learning is uppermost for Armstrong. Despite the computer's much-vaunted capacity to retrieve pages of information about ladybugs, for example, it is an inadequate substitute for holding the real thing in the palm of your hand. What's missing from Armstrong's account is sufficient attention to the role of parenting. Computers may indeed be a bland experiential diet for hungry young minds, but Armstrong's worry that computers are ruining children's appetite for other kinds of activity is unsupported. Still, The Child and the Machine views with healthy skepticism the benefits of the influx of computers in the elementary school classroom and will sharpen one's thinking on this vital subject. --Kathi Inman Berens

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The United States spends $6.5 billion on educational technology (1998Ã¢Â€Â“99), yet children's educational performance remains stagnant. The Child and the Machine shows how our rush to use computers has led to the most expensive and least helpful revolution in the history of education.

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A must-read for anyone who cares about kids.......2001-11-02

It is all too easy for those of us with serious concerns about the every-growing power of computers in our children's lives to be shouted down with unreasining cries of 'Luddite!'. Fortunately this book has now come along to strike back on our behalf. It is well-researched, well-argued, and written in simple, clear English, and the concerns raised by the authors about computer overuse mirror what I have witnessed happening in the classroom over the last decade. It's comforting to know that I'm not just imagining it. I use and enjoy computers, both at home and in my work as a teacher, but they are only one tool among many. For me, perhaps the most interesting and important chapter was that on the role of the arts in education, and how this vital component was being squeezed of funding in order to provide more (in my view and the view of the authors, unnecessary) technology. Occasionally the authors go overboard in their criticisms of computer use, particularly in the chapter on knowledge, but they're definitely going in the right direction and should be congratulated for opening up a reasoned dialogue on this question, which is surely one of the seminal issues of our times. Please read it.

OR WHY COMPUTERS MAKE OLD-STYLE EDUCATORS FEEL INADEQUATE.......2001-07-24

We can presume this book's intended audience is the legion of teachers and education bureaucrats who cringe every time they hear the phrase "computers in the classroom".

Their biggest dilemma and their most justifiable concern are the expense of the hardware and the short-life of your typical PC. Educational dollars are finite and mistakes can be expensive. The big bonus though, is that as computers have become more powerful, they are at the same rate becoming cheaper.

Alison Armstrong and Charles Casement in their book make a fundamental mistake in their approach to the impact of computers on children's education. They focus predominantly on the hardware and human interface issue. Surely the power and impact of IT is not all about the box that sit on our desks but instead it is the world of knowledge and the creative tools that brings value, pleasure and rewards to all of us.

Since this book must have been written for an audience of educators, academics and "concerned parents", it sensibly provides us with a comprehensive set of footnotes and bibliography. Unfortunately, the index is useless. I thought I'd check out references to Yahoo! There are two, the second being on page 200. Nowhere is Yahoo mentioned on that page. Similarly references to Nicholas Negroponte. We found a couple of references to his "Being Digital" when reading the book, but the writers casually dismiss his ideas in a few lines . Whoever indexed their book should polish up their search tools since the index often leads us nowhere.

When you consider Yahoo searches are damned by the authors, and considered to be such a difficult and confusing task for a child, imagine how a serious reader of their book feels when references to Yahoo in their own index lead you astray.

[The writers] still see knowledge as a Cartesian world of library shelves and card index files. The new technology and its impact on education are not simple computer aided instruction tools or smartish auxiliary teachers. Instead, they offer a gateway into a whole new world. Cyberspace is all about a network of relationships; not a series of neatly catalogued and cross-referenced facts and figures.

The authors remind me of the guys who walked in front of the first steam locos waving a red flag. This time round its the youngsters who are driving the trains ( and designing and building them) , and its the parents and teachers who are cowering in fear of the new technology.

This book relies mainly on anecdotal accounts when developing their arguments about the dangers of computers in the classroom. There is very little objective statistics or fact-based research in this book. All this book succeeds in doing is reinforcing the prejudices of the anti-computer lobby. Its Canadian origins shine through with its none too subtle references to the tainted world of American commercialism.

To be more credible the writers could have broadened their field of research to the Scandinavians (particularly the Finnish) who are leaders in the application of IT in education.

Since the topic of this book deals with such an important area for all of us it is disappointing to see it treated in such a shallow and one-dimensional manner.

Thoughtful Critique of Computers in Education.......2000-12-22

This is not another Luddite style, hysterically pitched, attack on computers. Armstrong and Casement present a well-reasoned and well-researched assessment of the shortcomings of computer eduction for children. They point out many attributes of software design and computer network systems that work to the disadvantage of some children in certain cases, most children in others. For instance, the very nature of the Internet, with all of its built-in "hyerlink" capability, will give only the most intensely focused pupils a fair shot at genuine learning. The rest? Prone to the distraction and ease of "point and click" motions, they are likely to follow tangential digressions and drift more and more away from the topic at hand. They wil also encounter a high number of non-educational messages, intending to sell and promote consumption of products. The majority of "educational" software is described as heavily influenced by the video and computer game design mentality. Pupils quickly learn how to master the "object" of the "game" and score points, but often with only superficial understanding of concepts. Most persuasive, however, may be the authors' argument that learning about the world must involve going out and experiencing it in numerous ways. Sitting in front of a monitor is a very narrowly defined kind of "experience." All elementary teachers, and indeed all parents of young children, should give this book a very open-minded examination. Those whose kids read books, attend concerts, ask questions of other people, and get involved in conversations, will feel they are on the right track after following the authors' arguments.

Computers harm kids.......2000-06-28

This is a timely appraisal of the role of computers in childhood education.The authors question the hype surrounding the use of computers by young children.Parents are pressured to put their children on the computer bandwagon with fears that they will be "left behind".(It's perfectly sane to be left behind collective delusion.)The authors are not anti-computer, but they put forward cogent reasons why young children are harmed by computers.A central point is that computers offer very limited experiences.They offer little more than rote learning and visual stimulation of dubious value.The young child needs a variety of experiences that the computer just cannot give, such as interaction with other people and with living, stimulating environments.Computers deny the development of the imagination, language skills, and experiences of relating.Child development is thus diminished by the computer.The authors also mention physical harm caused by computers, such as RSI, poor posture, back strain, "Sega thumb," eye fatigue and headaches.Young children are more prone to these problems.This is a carefully researched book which wants to see the real needs of children met.It is a much needed antidote to current computer hype.

Computers harm kids.......2000-06-28

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A riveting, pulse–pounding history of SEALs special operations in the words of the heroes who lived it.

The U.S. Navy SEALs have long been considered among the finest, most courageous and professional soldiers in American military history– an elite fighting force trained as parachutists, frogmen, demolition experts and guerrilla warriors, and ready for combat on the Sea, Air and Land. Born out of a proud naval tradition dating back to World War II, the first SEAL teams were commissioned in the early 1960s. Vietnam was their proving ground.

In this remarkable volume, fifteen former SEALs share their vivid, first–person remembrances of action in Vietnam– brutal, honest and thrilling stories of covert missions and ferocious firefights, of red–hot chopper insertions and extractions, revealing astonishing truths that will only add strength to the SEAL legend.

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Great book to accompany SEAL military histories.......2003-11-08

The great thing about this oral history is that you get a personal feel for the characters as they talk about their experiences. The wide range of experiences are reflected in the wide range of personalities that the history is drawn from. The accounts are honest and sincere. Each account begins with a brief editorial introduction and summary of a different aspect of the SEALs unit formation and operational history in Viet Nam. This helps the reader to understand the subject as a broad total of experiences rather than just a bundle of yarns slapped together. The editor did a great job of putting the accounts in an informative sequence which gave this reviewer a greater background understanding of the following accounts as I progressed through the book.
I bought my copy during a visit to the SEAL/ UDT Museum in Fort Pierce, Florida and I strongly recommend other interested military buffs to buy this book and check out the museum. Well worth it.

Couldn't put this one down.......2001-08-07

This was a great book!! I started it on a Friday & was finished by Sunday. 15 great stories told by the men who lived it. A must read if you enjoy SEAL books.

Famous "Survivor" included in book.......2000-08-29

I haven't read this book, but I did notice that the first chapter is devoted to Rudy of "Survivor" fame, who holds the record for longest service in naval special warfare.

Great Book about SEALS in the Vietnam War.......1999-07-27

This is a great book about 15 SEALS and their experiences from training to the Vietnam war and life in the teams. It is interesting to read about the different personalities of this elite group and the things that make them alike. Highly recommended.

Good content, good first hand experiences with the teams........1999-06-04

A good book, it gives examples of the many jobs a team member performs to contribute to the success of all of hte teams.

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Hunters and Shooters An Oral History of the U.S. Navy SEALs in Vietnam
Bill (Editor) Fawcett
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Hunters and Shooters: An Oral History of the U.S. Navy Seals in Vietnam.
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HUNTERS AND SHOOTERS: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE U.S NAVY SEALS IN VIETNAM.
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To date, the notion of repatriation has been formulated as a highly polarized debate with museums, archaeologists, and anthropologists on one side, and Native Americans on the other. This volume offers both a retrospective and a prospective look at the topic of repatriation. By juxtaposing the divergent views of native peoples, anthropologists, museum professionals, and members of the legal profession, it illustrates the complexity of the repatriation issue.

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