This was an amazing story, the book had awesome pictures! I really like the book it was just cool. I thought Alex Winters had an amazing adventure, well I read this whole book and it was a great book (diary). This was about a boy who was in sixth grade, his parents and father is a scientist and Alex wanted to be one too.Well, he was on a plane sitting next to the pilot and he was writing in his diary that his grandpa gave him. He was going to the Amazon jungle and it was Christmas! The plane crashed but Alex was alright but the pilot was out cold. He was still breathing! The Yanomami and Alex found each other and brought the pilot to their village and when they got there, there was some big guy ordering them to put him in the hut to lay down. Alex thought he was a chief! I just have to say Alex Winters had an incredible adventure and he did, did a good job on his diary!!

Author Hudson Talbott presented a fascinating talk for families at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County detailing his and co-author Mark Greenberg's journey into the Amazon. His description of their trip, plus the engrossing video of the experience helped explain why Alex Winter's fictional experiences rang so true. Mr. Talbott's respect for the Yanomamis and their world is very evident, both in his presentation and in the book Amazon Diary. All in all, a delightful presentation and a terrific book!- Nancy Fox, Education Division, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

I recently had the pleasure of hosting both Hudson Talbott and Mark Greenberg at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History where they presented a multi-media lecture for children based on their book "Amazon Diary". I was immensely impressed by the book before their visit because of its smooth integration of photographs, drawings and text into an exciting adventure story. Hearing first hand how their real-life adventures in the Amazon were incorporated into the book makes me admire the authors even more. - Jonathan Wilhelm, Director of Family Programming at CMNH

A rollicking footstomping comedy about Rock N' Roll N' Africa. Nick Hornby with a vocabulary, attitude and West African Rhythm.

Great funky footstomping comedy set amidst the African Rock Scene. Nick Hornby with a vocabulary, attitude and West African rhythm.

i found that book is very useful for me. it contains most important things about banking. and i need it.

This book is fantasic! I highly recommend it. It has loads of spectacular color photographs, and the mansions are breath taking. Being someone who has never visisted the area, this book really makes me consider a trip to New York, if only to see these mansions.

Gives McSweeney's a run for thier money. I am now eagerly awaiting works from several of these contributers.

What an awesome book! The Stengler's make it so easy to find a plan that covers diet, homeopathy and exercise tailored just for me. I have found the book very easy to understand and have begun implementing many of their strategies. I DO NOT want to use HRT and I can already begin to see the positive outcomes of natural therapy (especially hot flashes and depression).

I bought this book at a reading that I had attended because of another completely unrelated author (Penrose). Mark Hudson brilliantly read from his book. Yet I still wasn't interested. However, when I approached the table where Penrose and he were standing and signing their book, he started automatically signing one for me. I vaguely tried to tell him I did not want to buy his book but it was too embarassing. One year later I am reading it and find it a very good, intelligent and sensitive book. Too bad it did not receive more publicity

Just like to point out that although this book was not publicised widely it managed to win the most lucrative literary prize on offer at the moment, the AT&T prize, beating Nelson Mandella, and a whole other bunch of literati. His previous book won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Thomas Cook Travel writing award. He has a novel coming out this year.

I'm sorry to say, but I found this book completely boring. Initially, from reviews (other websites), I thought this book would provide an interesting and narrative approach to a subject matter which is hotly debated in Japan, in regards to their origins. But as I read, I could not keep myself from becoming easily destracted and sleepy. This book was written with it's target audience to be graduate students or professors, or something of that sort. Definitely not common folks like me who simply has a personal interest in the subject matter. Don't get me wrong, I am currently in college, and nobody's going to doubt my ability to read and understand English. But there's a difference between normal English, and English which is intended for people who understand big words and hard-to-understand grammar. This book is for the latter group of people.

I cannot judge the content of this book particularly, for I could not get myself to finish it. Or even get halfway for that matter. But academically, it probably holds up in being a book which can be useful. This book is simply not for those of us who doesn't possess an extensive vocabulary, or can tolerate overly analytical literature. Most of the content seems to be nothing but comparisons and contrasts of past and current findings in genetics, anthropology, and archeology.

While it's probably one of the rare books that discusses the origins of Japan, that is also provided in English (most books are never translated or brought outside of Japan), most of you will probably find the text too hard to read and/or follow. Therefore, while somewhat difficult, you should probably find another book which is more interesting and easier to comprehend. This book is just too boring.

Fans of Japanese archaeology and pre-history may like this book. The book covers the conflicting academic accounts of the early migrations of Yayoi and Jomon peoples in pre-historic Japan. If you are very well-versed in these subjects you may well find much to interest you. There is a great deal of commentary of the different academic interpretations of how the Japanese people have come about from different populations that may have entered Japan from the Korea, China, and from the islands to the south.

Having said that, I got completely bogged down in the middle of the book, which gets mired in excessive details and charts referring to various stone implements unearthed and their relation to Yayoi and Jomon culture. Unless you are extremely interested in these things, you can comfortably skip to the final part of the book which actually contains some of the authors own conclusions once he has surveyed dozens of other academics' theories.

This book is certainly to be recommended to the academic but should be avoided by the casual reader interested in Japan. I have yet to finish the book 6 months after purchasing it.

This book is excellent for those who want a survey of Japanese archaeological literature for the Jomon and Yayoi periods. The author reviews the development of archaeological theories in Japan, as well as among the few Western scholars specializing in Japanese prehistory. If you don't know much about Japanese archaeology, and especially if you don't read Japanese and can't go to the primary sources, this book is a great place to start.

Although the title sounds postmodern, in fact this book is cultural-historical in its emphasis. The author advocates a multidisciplinary approach to the question of Japanese ethnogenesis and supports his opinions with an extensive bibliography.

Particularly interesting to me is the way that (according to the author) Japanese archaeological theory has mirrored the nation's recent political history. Too bad archaeologists so often fail to be reflexive about the history of theory in their OWN countries.

the author uses apostrophies in place of quotes which gets incredibly annoying after only a little while, and then the book finally gets interesting, and only a few pages after that it leaves you hanging stupidly. this book wasn't even worth reading.

This is an excellent book. Daniel, born on an island near the reef, never paid much attention to the rumors of ghosts and curses. While snorkeling with a friend, he spots something sparkling under the water. Daniel and Vicky set out treasure hunting. With the help of a trained dolphin they were determined to find the lost treasures and secret behind the Bell Reef Mystery. Read this book!