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The supertanker is the image that has come to symbolize America's economic might over the last decade--rock solid and steady. Low inflation, high productivity, and a booming stock market have combined to help create one of the most prosperous periods in American history. But Eamonn Fingleton would argue that this ship is steering the wrong course, and that lurking just below the waterline are some troublesome leaks.
Fingleton argues that American business is sacrificing its once valuable manufacturing base in favor of the new economy, or postindustrialism--an umbrella under which he includes the service, software, information, and entertainment industries, among others. While he writes that he does not seek to dismiss the merits of postindustrialism--although he calls the financial-services industry a "cuckoo in the economy's nest"--Fingleton finds fault with the new economy in three areas: the mix of jobs it produces, its slow income growth, and the fact that postindustrial activities don't export very well. At the same time, he believes that modern manufacturing has become wrongly associated with low-wage or stagnant economies--Japan, in particular, which, he argues, is not the basket case that many believe it to be. At the heart of Fingleton's argument is the idea that postindustrial activities are relatively easy to pursue compared to manufacturing, which requires much more capital and know-how but offers far more upside in the long run. His prescription for revitalizing manufacturing includes boosting savings, directing much of it into industrial investment, and instituting a trade policy designed to allow manufacturing to thrive in the United States.
While Fingleton's dour assessment of the new economy seems overdone, his basic argument about the relative worth of manufacturing is well articulated. In Praise of Hard Industries is a good contrarian read for policymakers, managers, and anyone interested in a different view of both the U.S. and Japanese economies. --Harry C. Edwards
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Challenging conventional wisdom, Eamonn Fingleton argues that manufacturing expertise -- not the new information economy -- is crucial to jobs, exports, and growth. It is universally accepted that the future of the U.S. economy depends on its successful adaptation to a postindustrial, information-based global economy. The same conventional wisdom says that advanced economies should abandon manufacturing in favor of information-driven services such as finance, entertainment, and software. In this surprising and provocative book, the acclaimed financial journalist Eamonn Fingleton demonstrates that by every measure, including high-wage job creation, contribution to national income, and balance of trade, the manufacturing sector outperforms the "new economy." In Praise of Hard Industries argues with compelling logic that America's long-term economic success depends on its strategic advantage as a manufacturer of sophisticated equipment and producer goods.
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A Gaijin that understands.............2006-07-08
This is a good book following the same premises as earlier works. It amazes me the scorn Eamonn has recieved from naive reviewers who clearly have limited knowledge of Japanese business approaches and government practices, let alone U.S. hard industry facts.......The U.S and Japan economic drivers vary greatly as they measure themselves quite differntly despite the attempts of most so called western experts trying to interpret the strengths of the japanese economy....I suppose these reviewers dont consider the growing japan trade deficit a problem either, which by the way is less than China's..The key US/Japan differences: Government models. Advanced manufacturing and a flexible pro-business government were cornerstones for Americas rise to power and leadership...japan is now more effective in these areas than the U.S with respect to sustaining key industries....No nation has ever lead the world w/o a strong manufacturing base, period...we are clearly in decline in this area, and U.S. politicians, business leaders etc., fool the uneducated mainstraim with explainations like wage issues and outsourcing when the failure or political inability to invest in large capital costs for U.S. factories and retooling are of primary issue, which REMOVES the key high wage jobs from our middle class. Many of our industries are now hollowed out with key outsourcing dependencies forcing much smaller margins than our competitors, and weakening any prior political clout...Dont believe me...ask Westinghouse, or any U.S. LCD firm what percentage of the $20B LCD market they own, and what they expect in the future...afterall, Westinghouse developed LCD technology (answer: close to zero)....Advanced Manufacturing prowress has always been an economic weapon. The lack therof has splintered to become larger issues in the economy, and product development areas, as well as national security vulnerabilities..... Alexander Hamilton would role in his grave if he were alive today. And he would certainly work closely with Eamonn to fix our mess if its not too late already..
Fingleton's track record has held up well.......2006-05-18
The two "negative" reviews of this book are peculiar. This is the paperback version of a hardcover book, published with a different title -- not an uncommon practice in publishing. The complaint of the reviewers is that the contents are the same as the hardcover original! Well, yes, that's the point of a reprint.
More substantively, the author has earned a hearing through his decades-long reporting from Japan and his stubborn, well-documented contrarian outlook. For instance, he shows beyond question that during the long years of Japan's "collapse," its advanced manufacturing sector continued to grow -- in technological sophistication, and in world market share. Judge for yourself after reading, but look past the negative reviews. DISCLOSURE: I am a friend of the author's but am writing because I feel he deserves a hearing.
In Praise of Lefty Big Government Mercantilism .......2005-12-29
Being an engineer in the aerospace industry I was highly interested in this book based on my experiences from the vantage point a "hard industry." I personally believe that it's in our long term interests to maintain a strong manufacturing base because that's the foundation of real wealth, not legal services or newswires. So this book sounded like the perfect source of information to explain our current economic situation, give an assessment of how bad or how good it really is, and suggest ways to improve it. Oh, how very, very wrong I was . . .
This book started off strong, . . . for about four pages. After that a litany of tortured logic, un-sourced assertions, facts taken completely out of context except for the author's subjectively added adjectives, Orwellian double-speak, sleight of hand arguments, flat out ridiculuos statements, contradictory assessments, and even emotional vitriol coalesced not so much into an argument for industry but one for eighteenth century mercantilism with perhaps a sprinkling of far left George Soros on top to serve as an update for the twenty first century.
Even a broken watch is correct twice a day though, so there were some good points in the book which buy it the 2 star rating. These include:
- Manufacturing provides a large source of proprietary knowledge which both improves productivity and serves as a barrier of entry, creating an industry with a large base of high paying jobs, provided it's run right. (A big if.)
- High wage nations can still compete effectively with low wage nations in manufacturing by being capital intensive.
- Americans need to save more and our education system needs to produce more engineers and technically oriented graduates.
- There is some excess in the financial services and managers of publicly traded companies take too short term a view, leading them to sell the company upriver in the long run because of a personal temporary short term gain. (i.e. Enron)
A scholarly, fair, and comprehensive book that focused on the above would be extremely interesting and useful. This is not what you'll get in this book though. Instead you'll get:
A begining section about postindustrialism, things like the internet, information technology, financial services, etc., the things that make the services based economy. In three chapters the author simply sets up straw men by taking the worst examples of post industrial advocates, instead of presenting a comprehensive picture of the post industrial argument. Not being satisfied with this he proceeds to beat the straw men, set them on fire, and piss on the smoldering remains. This is where vitriol even comes out, where he equates the post-industrialists to people incapable of even thinking. If someone has to go to this extreme to make their argument, they probably don't have one. Most telling he leaves the final assessment of the value of the internet to a feminist. To me, this would be like leaving the final assessment of how good a bicycle is to, oh, I don't know, let's say a fish.
A middle section extolls the virtues of manufacturing. This is a bunch of hand picked anectdotal stories and there's no overview of manufacturing in the world or its real impact on economies at large. This is the kind of subject that screams for reams of data, charts of GDP growth over time, pie charts of the breakdown of economies into services, manufacture, agriculture, etc. You will get none of that. There's little value except in reassuring the obvious, high wage nations CAN do manufacturing. Many of these cherry-picked anectdotal examples still don't quite dove-tail with all his claims about manufacturing though! You also know you're being left in the dark with a plethora of CYA disclaimer statments like "while Industry_X has certainly had its share of problems recently . . ." at the begining of a section.
A final section basically amounts to an attack on laissez-faire, free markets, and the concept of free trade. George Soros and a bunch of other lefties, with Pat Buchanan thrown in for "balance", should be listened to instead.
The worst part of this book is the author's lack of an ability to make any sort of coherent argument. Examples of twisted thinking abound:
- A post-industrial "industry" grows five times over in a certain period. The author then goes onto explain how this is not really real growth but something that in reality is bad. Later he proves how great a manufacturing industry is because in the same period it grows a whopping 60%! Self contradictory evaluations of the performance of services vs manufacturing is common and always falls down on the side that the manufacturing industry is far far better than the service industry even when all the standard economic indicators suggest otherwise. The author's challenge to the reader seems to be "who are you going to believe? Me, or your lying eyes?"
- He rips into American post industrial industries as being labor intensive and vulnerable to low wage nations because Americans are no smarter or more creative or more anything than laborers around the world. Later he talks about how great German manufacturing is because Germans are so much more diligent than the rest of the world's workers.
- The only facts he presents - and they are surprisingly thin and overwhelmed by mere assertions - are always modified by his subjective opinion and never put in context. When describing service industries "paltry" $50 million revenues, "only" 60,000 jobs, "disappointing" 24% of revenues from foreign sources is common. But when describing manufacturing "a very high" $6 million revenues, "a good mix" of 1,500 jobs, and similar glowing assessments are inevitable despite the number to follow. A number in and of itself means nothing. The fact the author leaves out any head on, direct comparison between industries is telling.
- Official figures are the ultimate source of information when they agree with what the author believes. When the official figures don't agree with him, he finds some loner who does and then barely explains how this time around the official figures are somehow wrong. When attacking his straw men though, he accuses them of ignoring official figures and quoting some loner.
- Gems of Orwellian double-speak sentences include examples like "Solar is already a fully competitive source of energy in remote areas that do not have grid electricity. (pg. 184)" I.e. it's competitive where there is NO competition! And "Even in Singapore, one of the freest societies in the East, the savings rate was successfully boosted by a system of forced savings . . . (pg. 229)" That's not very free if it's FORCED is it? (His defense of solar is one of the most hilariously pathetic eight pages I've ever read and really is worth the price of the book. He capstones it with the "most encouraging" observation that solar cells have gone from producing one third of the energy used to make them before they wore out - that is consuming more total energy in their manufacture than they eventually make!- to now producing three times as much energy as required to produce them before they wear out. Wow, what an achievement. Any ACTUAL power source converts many thousands of times the energy used to manufacture it before it's internal workings wear out, but whatever . . .)
- Americans are dumb and the only successful American companies basically blundered into monopolies on standards. The American economy, despite the statistics, is in bad shape. The Japanese instead are eight feet tall, can read people's minds and see through lead. The Japanese economy, despite the statistics, is in really great shape. This type of persistently biased characterization makes you question everything he claims, and eliminates any value or truth he might actually have in his arguments. The author basically can't get out of his own way.
- He always attacks opponents of his viewpoint by claiming that they don't put numbers into context, are using twisted logic, making mere assertions instead of quoting facts, etc., apparently oblivious that these are the very same tactics he himself uses!
- He claims Boeing is no longer a good company because 30% of components in a Boeing aircraft are now made abroad vs. 2% in the 1960's. This is actually because foreign manufacturing for those components happens to be better and cheaper. America isn't doing that badly in aerospace by the way. The author fails to mention that 50% of the "European" Airbus is made in America. This is an example of free trade actually distributing production to where it is most efficient.
The list goes on and on to ridiculous proportions. You'd have to buy the book to see them all because there's at least one thing an alert and critical reader can find highly questionable on each page.
All in all, this book was way off the mark and a highly squandered opportunity. It's really a mercantilist argument, and the only common thread that I could see in all the author's cloudy reasoning is that nation's should do everything in their power to export more than they import no matter what. It's NOT, unfortunately, a book about how to revitalize American manufacturing in a globalized world.
This book is a fraud!.......2005-12-07
This book is nothing but a slightly updated re issue of "In Praise of Hard Industries" with an Introduction issued as a paperback. The publishers page even states right at the top quote: "Previously published as In Praise of Hard Industries in 1989 by Houghton Mifflin".
You might want to read this if you haven't read the original, but I find it very deceptive indeed to re issue it with a different name hoping to entice readers of the previous book into thinking they are going to get something other than a few cosmetic changes here and there!
Fingleton is right on target.......2004-12-01
I've lived in Japan for over 5 years and worked in both the manufacturing and sales/marketing side for a technology company. I also speak and read Japanese. I know this culture - particularly the aspect that Japanese are both proud of and recognize as vital to prosperity - manufacturing, or, to include the craft trades, "thing making".
Reading "In Praise of Hard Industries" had me cheering, out loud sometimes. This guy hits it right on the head on every single aspect and effortlessly argues away the myths that Americans like to cling to as the economy falls into ruin - the viability of America's "service economy", superior American creativity, American wealth - all illusions that persist because Americans aren't educated enough or in the right way to be able to see the flimsiness of the financial channel commentators' arguments.
Were's so far out of the game in manufacturing technology - both in terms of skill and mindset - that I don't know if we can ever get back in. Throw on top of that the skills in market resesarch and product marketing and sales and the prospects look even worse. Japanese companies have honed all these razor sharp and are super competetive. And our measures would certainly be complicated by the fact that the strong penetration of Japanese companies into our country as *employers* brings them strong political influence within our own borders. It's the Trojan Horse! But whatever the measures, we have to start with an honest discussion of the facts - a look in the mirror, a wakeup call. This book, along with Fingleton's others and his website, are just that.
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Beneath the skin of a human being's inner upper arm, some metaphorically minded ancient Greek once observed, lives a little mouse. In Latin, this imagined creature, evident in the bump of the biceps, was called musculus, the origin of our word muscle. It's a staggeringly complex animal, we learn from this vivid exploration of the muscular world--one that requires much care and feeding, and that repays that attention with endless, efficient energy.
Biologist and bioengineer Steven Vogel takes us deep within our bodies, observing humans and other animals at rest and work to show how muscles expand and (sort of) contract, how our proprioceptive system coordinates that motion, how bodily mass relates to metabolism, and many other matters. Muscle is, of course, meat, and Vogel closes his book with a discussion of why meat has so long been prized in the human diet--and why today we can do without it and still keep the motor running.
Vogel's book is a fine example of how complex science can be made comprehensible to nonspecialists--and just the thing for a budding physiologist. --Gregory McNamee
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The story—and the science—of nature's greatest engine.
Whether we blink an eye, lift a finger, throw a spear or a ball, walk, run, or merely breathe, we are using muscle. Although muscles differ little in appearance and performance across the animal kingdom, they accomplish tasks as diverse as making flies fly, rattlesnakes rattle, and squid shoot their tentacles.
Our everyday activities turn on the performance of nature's main engine: we may breathe harder going uphill, but we put more strain on our muscles walking downhill. Those of us who are right-handed can tighten screws and jar lids more forcibly than we can loosen them. Here we're treated to the story of how form and performance make these things happen—how nature does her work.
Steven Vogel is a leader in the great new field of bioengineering, which is rapidly explaining the beauty and efficiency of nature. His talents as both scientist and writer shine in this masterful narrative of biological ingenuity, as he relates the story—and science—of nature's greatest engine.
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Explains complex concepts simply.......2007-09-09
This book introduces a variety of topics related to muscles and the energetics of work including: comparative anatomy, physiology, basic mechanics of simple machines, history of machines that use muscles, etc. The style is engaging, lively, and clear. Many concepts, some of them complex, are described in a way that non-specialists can understand, although, occasionally, the reader may have to work a bit. It helps if you have some previous knowledge of physiology but it isn't absolutely necessary. If you would like to learn about insect muscles, Roman catapults, and row boats, buy this book.
Prime Mover.......2006-07-09
This was a gift for my husband who promptly buried his face in it, leaving it only to eat, sleep, and go to work for the next week. He's been a walking encyclopedia since then with regard to how muscle does the work it was intended for. I believe he even liked this one more than Vogel's "Cats' Paws and Catapults".
Interesting history and natural history of muscle and muscle-powered tools, weapons, and vehicles .......2006-05-02
_Prime Mover: A Natural History of Muscle_ by Steven Vogel is an ambitious work of both natural and human history. The author in this book showed how muscle worked (in general, not just in humans), how humans have used it, and how muscle and muscle-dependent (human and animal) activities, tools, and weapons have shaped world history, culture, and technology.
Understandably, the first section of the book detailed the structure and function of muscle, including how it is constructed down to the molecular level, how it is made to do work, how it is supplied with energy, how it was connected to the rest of the body, and the different types of muscles that exist. Comprising the first six of the book's fifteen chapters, it was an important part, covering not only a lot of biology but also a good deal of physics (indeed physics was quite important in later discussions of how muscle and muscle-dependent technology worked and affected human history).
The first section was very interesting and informative much of the time, covering for instance the differences between twitch muscle fibers and tonic muscle fibers (the former, lighter in color, are great for quick, sharp actions but fatigue easily, the latter darker, contracting more slowly, but able to resist fatigue a great deal better) and how the propriocoptive system works (one of the senses - not unlike seeing or hearing - that encompassed reflexes and quicker-than-thought reactions to such things as hot surfaces and is made up of muscles, tendons, and nerves). As with the rest of the book, this section was well illustrated. Vogel did a pretty good job overall in his coverage of the biology of muscle, keeping it for the most part comprehendible and engaging to the lay person, though I thought it got just a little too detailed and technical for me at times (and one or two parts of it frankly were quite hard to get through).
Most of the rest of the book dealt with a wide variety of tools, weapons, and activities, covering their history, why and how these items and activities developed, what muscles (human or animal as the case may be) were used as well as how they were used, and why they were (as occurred in most cases) eventually replaced with items not as dependent on muscular activity. This to me was the most interesting part of the book, with Vogel providing fascinating insights and perspectives on such items as screw drivers, hammers, axes (fascinating coverage of this topic, as the author discussed among other things how stone axes were used and the how the centers of percussion and gravity and thus the effectiveness of axes were altered by where an ax handle and ax head met, how they were attached, and the materials used in both head and ax), cranks, paddled and rowed ships (the reader learns the advantages and disadvantages of both and why ships that could be both sailed and rowed - as were Viking ships and the galley ships in the Mediterranean- faced unique problems; sailing ships must be ballasted to sail crosswind and that extra weight can complicate rowing and in addition sailing other than downwind generally made ships heel over, something avoided by ships having high sides, a solution that made oar placement problematic), bicycles, human-powered aircraft (a wonderful section), wheelbarrows (I think the reader will find we take for granted their simple but highly effective design), backpacks, monument construction (notably with regards to the Egyptian pyramids and Stonehenge), cutting down trees (the history of the crosscut saw was surprisingly interesting), plows, treadmills, (which were once used in prisons as a means of punishment), chariots, wagons, boomerangs, atlatls, slings, blowguns, crossbows, and trebuchets (the last several items requiring a fair amount of physics).
In addition to an in depth and interesting discussion of the evolution of animal-powered tools and vehicles, Vogel covered at length why certain animals were domesticated and their relative advantages and disadvantages. The historical rivalry between those who favored horses and those who favored oxen merited its own interesting chapter. Overall the coverage of these animals and others dovetailed nicely with discussion on the domestication of animals in Jared Diamond's excellent _Guns, Germs, and Steel_.
The final section dealt with muscle as food, covering what role muscle as food has played in human evolution and in recorded history and what are the advantages and disadvantages of diets rich in muscle and muscle-free. There was even a small section covering human cannibalism, with the author demonstrating that while survival cannibalism and ritual cannibalism certainly existed, it is just not possible for routine nutritional cannibalism to have been at the very least effective and generally even possible at all.
Overall _Prime Mover_ was an interesting book and one that I am glad that I read, good as both a work of human history and natural history.
Fascinating book on the function of muscles in the body.......2003-08-22
This book is written in such an engaging and accessible style, it would be an entertaining read for anyone who enjoys reading about science. Because it is written by a university professor and noted scholar with plenty of documentation, it would also be an excellent textbook for biology classes in secondary schools, colleges or even universities. It has 370 pages and includes a table of contents, plenty of illustrations, a list of references, and useful and informative endnotes.
The author, Steven Vogel, Ph.D., is a professor of biology at Duke University in Durham, NC. Dr. Vogel has won the Irving and Jean Stone Prize for Science Writing for Public Understanding, and I can understand why. He makes very complicated biological processes clear and understandable to a lay audience. He works in the field of biomechanics and has written many other books besides this one for the lay public on science.
I sought out this book due to a personal fascination with the function of muscles in the body as part of a larger research project of mine into chronic health conditions, such as fibromyalgia and entrapped nerves, chronic fatigue syndrome, and the effects of the stress (AKA "fight-flight-freeze" response) on the muscles of the body, which in many cases leads to chronic pain. In the process, I became interested in the function of all muscles throughout the body.
I consider this book an outstanding permanent addition to my scientific reference library and recommend it unreservedly for that purpose to anyone interested in this topic. I have also read and reviewed Vogel's book on the circulatory system, Vital Circuits, and highly recommend it as well.
Kate McMurry
A natural history of tools.......2003-08-06
Well, this isn't a natural history of tools, but it equally well isn't a natural history of muscle. It's both. I came looking for something about muscle, both as a person who generally likes general interest math/science books and as a competitive masters sculler. I lost interest when the tools invaded this book, as I think there's much more to be said about muscle itself, although perhaps my level of interest is not really "general" in this particular case. I wonder if there wouldn't be a wider audience for this book if people understood how important the tools are in the content.
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Radar for Mariners.......2007-03-08
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Easy read.......2006-11-04
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Radar for the masses.......2006-02-23
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Radar and collision;: A handbook for mariners
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David Burch
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Book Description
This book is a comprehensive guide to the International Phonetic Alphabet, widely used for over a century to transcribe the sounds of languages. The Handbook is in three parts: Part I contains an introduction to phonetic description and exemplification of the use of phonetic symbols; Part II consists of twenty-nine "Illustrations" of the application of the International Phonetic Alphabet to a range of languages; and Part III covers speech pathology, computer codings, and the history of the IPA. This is an essential reference work for phoneticians and linguists more generally.
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"Introduction to Phonetics".......2007-05-07
I have taken up linguistics as a hobby and I am finding the IPA Handbook a very useful guide to the phonetic alphabet and phonetic transcription. The best part is a phonetic guide to 28 languages such as Cantonese, American English and Arabic. The sound examples can be downloaded and the IPA charts are included in a form that allows easy duplication and enlargement. There is a succinct introduction to phonetics and phonology. All in all this would probably be a handy reference for people on any level.
Tells one a lot of what a linguist would know already.......2004-10-10
HANDBOOK OF THE IPA is a guide to the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet, the standard manner of transcribing speech in all of the world's languages. This is not a textbook of phonetics, one is expected to already know something of the subject, and definitions of phonetic terminology are given only to clarify certain aspects of the alphabet. There are also no criticisms of the IPA; the handbook aims to be entirely practical and avoid theoretical matters.
The opening section of the book introduces the symbols of the IPA and gives some example transcriptions of individual words from various languages. The bulk of the book is dedicated to transcriptions of a translated text in the IPA and twenty-nine languages in all are represented, though unfortunately most are Indo-European. American English is used instead of Received Pronunciation, which I felt would have been more appropriate.
The work has five appendicies. The first, "Principles of the International Phonetic Association", is really a discussion of the principles of the alphabet and does not mention other aspects of the association's work. The second is an explanation of computer coding of IPA symbols. Much space is dedicated to SGML entities, but this can be seen as historically superseded with the inclusion of the IPA within the Unicode Standard. The third appendix discusses the ExtIPA extentions to the IPA, which I found most interesting. These extensions, intended for the transcription of disordered speech, is one aspect of the IPA which one will not normally encounter in linguistics textbooks. The fourth appendix discusses the history and work of the International Phonetic Association, giving the by-laws and information on how to join.
The most useful, and really the only vital portion of the Handbook comes at the end in the fifth appendix: the four reference charts of the IPA. These are set up in such a fashion to explain the IPA in themselves.
The HANDBOOK will probably be of limited use to most linguists unless they have a particular love for the IPA. The charts in the back of the book are vital, but they are also provided gratis by the assocation. So, since the book tells the linguist what he has already been trained in through other materials, it is difficult to recommend the HANDBOOK.
A MUST HAVE.......2003-08-16
Personally I think that this is a MUST HAVE BOOK for any linguist, or self-proclaimed linguists and linguist-wannabes.
I have used this book many times as an excellent reference on many occasions while attaining my Bachelor's degree in Linguistics. Now, a year later, I still see myself referring back to it for helpful information.
One need not be a linguist to enjoy it, but I highly recommend it as it would significantly aid in ones better understanding if one were to know what a voiceless velar fricative is, per example.
What you'd expect.......2003-04-23
This book is exactly what one would expect it to be: a thorough explanation of the International Phonetic Alphabet. It has a beginning section on the description of consonant and vowel sounds and thier places of articulation. The best part about the book is it analyzes the phonetic alphabet of most of the world's languages including many lesser used ones such as Bulgarian, Catalan, and Igbo, for example. The back has a description of each of the symbols so one can figure out what sound an unfamiliar symbol represents. This is a good reference book for all linguistics.
Great reference for the IPA.......2002-07-23
This is a really nifty little book. It outlines the nature and history of the International Phonetic Alphabet, provides extremely useful, compact charts of IPA phonetic symbols, and illustrates the use of the IPA by giving descriptions of the sound systems of a wide variety of languages. I was pleasantly surprised by the eclectic choice of example languages (e.g. Amharic, Galician, Catalan, Tukang Besi). If you're at all interested in linguistics or just curious about languages in general, this is a great find at a great price.
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