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This superior text on computer security is extremely rich in information, based on experience, and a pleasure to read. In addition, the author is donating part of his royalties from this book to various charities--initially, a foundation that fights child abuse.
Escamilla begins by exploring intrusion prevention systems--firewalls, user authentication routines, and access controls--and telling how to properly set up such systems. He then describes mechanisms that identify and minimize damage caused by electronic break-ins once they occur. The author covers both system-level and network-level intrusion-detection systems, describing tools that attempt to catch not only outsiders who have broken in, but also legitimate system users who are up to no good.
Escamilla details several anti-intruder tools, including packet sniffers and vulnerability scanners. He describes a lot of Unix hacks and tells what you can do to prevent them from taking place on your systems. Other chapters focus on intrusions in Windows NT environments and what to do when your system is under attack. Escamilla closes with references to other sources. --David Wall
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A complete nuts-and-bolts guide to improving network security using today's best intrusion detection products
Firewalls cannot catch all of the hacks coming into your network. To properly safeguard your valuable information resources against attack, you need a full-time watchdog, ever on the alert, to sniff out suspicious behavior on your network. This book gives you the additional ammo you need. Terry Escamilla shows you how to combine and properly deploy today's best intrusion detection products in order to arm your network with a virtually impenetrable line of defense. He provides:
* Assessments of commercially available intrusion detection products: what each can and cannot do to fill the gaps in your network security
* Recommendations for dramatically improving network security using the right combination of intrusion detection products
* The lowdown on identification and authentication, firewalls, and access control
* Detailed comparisons between today's leading intrusion detection product categories
* A practical perspective on how different security products fit together to provide protection for your network
The companion Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/escamilla features: White papers
* Industry news
* Product information
Customer Reviews:
Buy the Northcutt book instead.......2000-01-30
This is just not a useful book. Half of the book is not about intrusion detection at all--it consists of an uninspiring general introduction to computer security.
The author apparently has no actual experience in the subject. It is filled with innaccuracies. Confusing 'hash value' with 'digital signature' is a common rookie mistake, but it is typical of the inexcusable lack of precision in this text.
Besides being misleading, off-subject, and out-of-date, it is deadly boring. If you want a hands-on book, get the Northcutt text. If you want an academic and useful theoretical approach, get Amoroso's book. If you want an introductory text on information security, why would you buy a book on IDS?
It is apparent that Wiley badly wanted to publish a book on intrusion detection, and the author was all too willing to squeeze his existing square peg of a security text into an ill-fitting IDS round hole.
Don't be fooled by the name of the book........1999-10-20
Look for somewhere else if you are serious about network security. The content of the whole book is just too superficial !
Jarringly unfocussed and inaccurate..........1999-08-13
I wanted to like this book, seeing as how I've made intrusion detection an important part of my career (the book spends a few pages discussing a paper I wrote), and there are no good offline resources on the subject. Unfortunately, I found little to appreciate in this book, which could have benefited greatly from better technical editing, a sharper concept of what its audience is, and (unfortunately) a better grounding in the subject matter.
The most important problem with this book will be obvious to most readers. Escamilla doesn't address the subject of intrusion detection until midway through the book, opting instead to fill the first half of the book with background information about computer security. This information is presented poorly (and with glaring inaccuracies). Almost all of it is covered better in other books, which readers unfamiliar with network security will need to buy anyways to make the intrusion detection concepts discussed in the latter half of the book accessible.
Unfortunately, the relevant half of the book isn't much better. A confused mish-mash of technologies are presented under the banner of I-D (I know of very few people in the security industry who consider security scanners to be I-D systems), and the most widely used forms of I-D are given scant coverage.
Worse still, the author profiles real commercial I-D systems (towards the end of the book). Apart from the fact that this information was unsalvageably outdated before the book made it to the press, it's also biased. Descriptions of one system span 3 pages, while another merits a single paragraph. Many important systems (which were widely known at the time of this book's release) are not covered at all. And, predictably, most of the details about the commercial systems covered read like marketing material, with almost no comparisons to the other systems covered.
Although this book is a mess, it's not an unrecoverable one. The authors descriptions of Do-It-Yourself intrusion detection on Unix systems is competant, if not revolutionary, and is almost reminiscent of Cheswick and Bellovin's work in _Firewalls_and_Internet_Security_. A better informed, more coherent second revision of this book would be worth looking at.
Unfortunately, there's very little to recommend this book. A critical and informed reader might get some value out of it, but nothing that couldn't be obtained more easily from the Internet. At its worst, however, this book can be misleading, and is thus an inappropriate introduction to its subject. Overall, a deeply flawed book. Steer clear.
Rambling and fragmented - of little use to novice or expert.......1999-04-16
Computer security is a subject that one either loves or loathes. To the lover, it is a stimulating, intellectual challenge. To the loather, it is based on boring, complicated maths with the sole aim of preventing users doing their job.
In such a world, any author of a book needs to decide whether to write their work at the techies, thus jumping straight in at the deep end, or the novice, offering a gentle primer that attracts the reader into the subject. The very best computer security books (Schneier; Stoll; Garfinkel and Spafford) have clearly attacked one path. The worst have headed off somewhere in between.
Escamilla has chosen the latter - with the usual, dire consequences. Aimed at `any computer literate person' the book is notionally divided into two parts, one to introduce basic concepts of computer security, and another to describe intrusion detection systems. However, neither part meets it aim. The first occupies more than 150 rambling and often inaccurate pages. Moreover, it strays into territory well beyond `any' person. For instance, ten pages are devoted to the Kerberos authentication protocol. Indeed, so long is the `introduction' that the author, almost apologetically, has to keep reminding the user that the book is about intrusion detection.
The second part fares little better. It forages around scanners, network sniffers, covert channels, Unix and NT adminstration, again under the apologetic guise of intrusion detection. Some intrusion detection systems are described - RealSecure, NetRanger and so on - but in a brief and fragmented manner, which offers little in the way of practical, consumer guidance. Possibly the worst aspect of the treatment is that no coverage is given to what a typical audit log looks like - which would at least help justify why intrusion detection systems are needed.
The most useful piece of advice offered in the book is not to consider buying an intrusion detection system if you haven't invested in more basic tools like a firewall. The most useful piece of advice that can be offered about the book is not to consider buying it.
Valuable help to the data security professional........1999-04-08
This is a book with a lot of content, capable to give valuable help to the data security professional. As often happens today, the title is somehow misleading, being in this case reductive in relation with the actual content. In fact, the first of the three parts the book is made of (half of the total 348 pages) is a good recap of traditional protection models. Identification, authentication, access control and auditing are covered, both conceptually and with reference to market available tools. The idea is to let the reader have a sound grasp of traditional devices before showing, in the second and third part, how Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are a complementary must to the traditional protection models. Both UNIX (various flavours) and NT operating systems are taken in account. The second part introduces IDS both working philosophy and practical usage. They are divided in three main categories: vulnerability assessment scanners, system level devices and network sniffers. Also in this case UNIX and NT scenarios are considered and several market leader tools are devised with a certain detail. Integration of IDS with traditional security functions (discussed in part 1) is covered. Despite all your accuracy in deploying a protection system (including IDS), you could be hit! The third part of the book introduces you in the incidents handling phase of the story, giving you advises about what to do and not to do in such not desirable event.
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This introductory text provides undergraduate students with the basics of anatomy, physiology, and the applications of kinesiology. It uses a qualitative approach with an easy-to-follow writing style. Theory is balanced with many sport and real-world applications to promote the integrated nature of kinesiology, including the anatomical and biomechanical concepts. New texts now come packaged with Dynamic Human and PowerWeb: Health & Human Performance!
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I read almost every page!!.......2007-03-08
This book is amazing! I actually wanted to read every page of my assigned reading and it was very easy to understand. The diagrams are only drawings, but they are simple and realistic. The book is outlined very well and I highly recommend it.
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GREAT GUIDE.......2007-05-13
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the best.......2006-03-21
This book has everything you need to know for your national boards. Many tests and review exercises are included. Everyone in my class has purchased this book abd has passed the board with no problems.
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rich book .......2007-07-23
An extremely interesting and rich book of examples, but I have not received the attached cd-rom yet
Where can I download the examples?
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Sherry Turkle is rapidly becoming the sociologist of the Internet, and that's beginning to seem like a good thing. While her first outing, The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, made groundless assertions and seemed to be carried along more by her affection for certain theories than by a careful look at our current situation, Life on the Screen is a balanced and nuanced look at some of the ways that cyberculture helps us comment upon real life (what the cybercrowd sometimes calls RL). Instead of giving in to any one theory on construction of identity, Turkle looks at the way various netizens have used the Internet, and especially MUDs (Multi-User Dimensions), to learn more about the possibilities available in apprehending the world. One of the most interesting sections deals with gender, a topic prone to rash and partisan pronouncements. Taking as her motto William James's maxim "Philosophy is the art of imagining alternatives," Turkle shows how playing with gender in cyberspace can shape a person's real-life understanding of gender. Especially telling are the examples of the man who finds it easier to be assertive when playing a woman, because he believes male assertiveness is now frowned upon while female assertiveness is considered hip, and the woman who has the opposite response, believing that it is easier to be aggressive when she plays a male, because as a woman she would be considered "bitchy." Without taking sides, Turkle points out how both have expanded their emotional range. Other topics, such as artificial life, receive an equally calm and sage response, and the first-person accounts from many Internet users provide compelling reading and good source material for readers to draw their own conclusions.
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Life on the Screenis a book not about computers, but about people and how computers are causing us to reevaluate our identities in the age of the Internet. We are using life on the screen to engage in new ways of thinking about evolution, relationships, politics, sex, and the self. Life on the Screen traces a set of boundary negotiations, telling the story of the changing impact of the computer on our psychological lives and our evolving ideas about minds, bodies, and machines. What is emerging, Turkle says, is a new sense of identity-- as decentered and multiple. She describes trends in computer design, in artificial intelligence, and in people's experiences of virtual environments that confirm a dramatic shift in our notions of self, other, machine, and world. The computer emerges as an object that brings postmodernism down to earth.
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general comment.......2005-08-26
Turkle's book is one of the first ethnographies published on virtual communities and how we construct and reconstruct our senses of identity through the internet. It is therefore an important starting point for anyone with a general interest in this area research. Since this book was originally published however there has been a significant amount of work done on virtual communities and self-identity on the WWW that differs somewhat from Turkle's. Therefore although I highly recommend the book I also suggest that you take the time to explore this subject area more broadly before drawing any conclusions.
Relevant & Important.......2003-01-03
Turkle's research findings are mind-boggling, exciting, terrifying, and (whether we like what we see or not) revealing. We see, here, glimpses of the future as a place where the real and virtual collide. Where who we are and how we think will differ markedly from all we've taken for granted in the old familiar pre-Info-Age. Anyone who works with children or adolescents of the Info-Age should read this book! I recommend it, along with the more up-to-date work by Don Tapscott.
Lots on Bots.......2002-07-27
This book isn't for the newbie, but if you're already familiar with computers and what's possible on the Internet but haven't yet explored the world of MUDS and the like, this is one of the most informative and fascinating looks at the virtual world that you'll come across. Even more interesting are the questions that Turkle poses regarding self-identity and what the "self" is given the new "non"-environment we call cyberspace. Though offering few answers, the author introduces us to a future world of seemingly infinite possibilities for self-exploration and challenges us to ponder its implications for who we are, how we define ourselves, and how we interact with one another.
Postmodernist vagueries and mostly trivial observations.......2002-04-17
If reading postmodernist types of things turns you on, you'll like this book. The author talks a lot about how computers have moved from "modernist calculation" to "postmodernist simulation." Why there is a need to attach the modernist-postmodernist modifiers to calculation and simulation is never explained, and I suspect it is just done to give the book a tres chic intellectual veneer. As with nearly all authors who use the term, the author does not define "postmodernism" or explain what it has to do with anything in her book. Also a lot of vague talk about how "people didn't used to like to do" such and so a thing with computers but now "people like to do" such and so something other thing with computers a lot more. No data of course, that would offend the postmodernists reading the book. An important - VERY important - topic treated in a shabby manner.
A Disquietingly Personal Book...More than I Expected.......2000-07-20
Turkle does a magnificant job in illustrating the human persona while online. As our culture becomes more and more internet dependent, and it becomes easier to be a "globalized" person, psychological changes are sure to take effect. "Life On the Screen" is illustrated with some wry humor, as well as vivid examples.
Sometimes doing someonething online makes it seem less "real." For instance, carding something-aka using a fake credit card number-is less 'real' if you do it online, to order something, than it is to waltz into say, BestBuy and using a fake credit card there. Just because you do it in a non-physical area (what is Cyberspace made up of, anyway?) does not mean that it is still not a crime, and that it is still not capable of having reprecussions.
Shirley Turkle captures precisely what someone, as a user and interacter with the internet, thinks, and does while online. She acknowledges the existance of the internet being a place where people are able to forge "cyber-identities"...or get more comfortable being who they are. She also outlines something that is perhaps one of the most secure things about the internet in this day and age-that on the internet, you are anonymous. Therefore, you can do what you wish (good or bad) and you can interact with others via MUDs or the like...or you can decide exactly how people will think of you as.
The internet is a secure medium for an insecure person. It is where many people who feel unaccepted in life go as refuge, to seek friends and partners who are like them, and who understand. This is also recognized in this book.
I highly recommend anyone, either the hacker, or the suit, or the working mother, or the teenager, to pick up this book and just to start reading. It is disturbing, almost, to find that there are so many people who interact with the internet, and so many different things that they do. The globalization that comes along with the net provokes you to start rethinking many things, and questioning many others....The internet, as portrayed in this book, also helps the reader to truly examine themselves as a whole.
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Full of current information, visual spark, and written to encourage behavior change, AN INVITATION TO HEALTH: BRIEF, FOURTH EDITION introduces students to research, information, and recommendations related to health and healthy lifestyles. Praised for its clear and engaging writing style, Dianne Hales' text addresses the issues related to health and wellness that affect college students now as well as the issues that they can face in their future. The "brief" form of the more comprehensive AN INVITATION TO HEALTH, ELEVENTH EDITION, the new FOURTH EDITION of AN INVITATION TO HEALTH: BRIEF continues to emphasize the importance of making healthy choices and covers a broad range of topics and research related to personal health and wellness, from stress on the body to dietary supplements, buying drugs online, binge drinking, quitting smoking, and treating cancer and heart disease. Students are well informed of the latest health guidelines, research, and trends so they can make responsible and informed decisions about their own state of mental, emotional, and physical well being. AN INVITATION TO HEALTH: BRIEF, FOURTH EDITION also comes with a wide-range of teaching and learning resources unlike any other! Besides the exclusive offerings of the CNN® Video Today series and InfoTrac® College Edition, or the extensive PowerPoint and Online teaching support, we offer TestWell, an online assessment tool that allows students to compare their wellness status in relation to the different dimensions of wellness. Each copy of the text also comes packaged with the exciting and interactive PROFILE PLUS CD-ROM, including self-paced, guided activities appropriate for all health students. In addition, we are now offering JoinIn? on TurningPoint® for the growing interest in using Personal Response Systems in the classroom. Whether supporting active learning or active teaching, this text still has it all!
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Deceiving.......2006-11-10
I ininitally ordered this book, becasue my professor indicated that we needed this book which included the clicker and our local bookstore had been out of stock of it for about a month. When I received this book it was missing the clicker and I eventaully had to re-buy the book and the clicker from the local book store because they do not sell the clicker with out the book.
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AN INVITATION TO HEALTH, 10th Edition introduces students to research, information, and recommendations related to health and healthy lifestyles. Reviewed by over 80 instructors, this informative text focuses on change and prevention and supplies students with the lessons they'll need to make responsible healthy decisions in their daily lives.
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Great BOOK!.......2007-01-10
This is a great book for anyone looking to do well in Health classes or someone who just wants to work on their nutrition. Its great because there are all kinds of statistics on body mass index, nutiritonal values and even includes the new food pyramid. It was amazing and I really learned more than I thought I would.
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This was a wonderful sale. I couldn't ask for better communicaiton and delivery. Would definetly buy from this person again. Thanks.
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Finally--the book for every gay man's bedside table.
At last! Answers to the questions you're too embarrassed to ask--but always wanted to know!
Why does it hurt down there? Is it really safe to do that? What does it mean when something looks like this--and how do I make it go away?
Chances are you never learned anything about gay intimacy from your parents, your school, or your family physician. Here, at last, is reliable, comprehensive information on a wide spectrum of gay medical concerns, written by an eminent surgeon and recognized authority on gay health issues.
With up-to-date facts, interviews, and case studies from the author's practice,
The Ins and Outs of Gay Sex goes far beyond HIV concerns, combining a complete education about the safe and pleasurable practices of male-male sexuality with a comprehensive medical volume.
Here are the facts about what you need to know to keep your sex life hot and healthy, including:
The rules of safe anorectal stimulation.
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Viral and nonviral STDs-don't wake up with an unpleasant surprise!
Treatments for impotence and other sexual dysfunctions.
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Drugs...relationships...doctors (how to find the right one for you), and much more.
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Ignorance is bliss, but knowledge is power........2006-07-28
Yes this book makes us confront our own rationilaztions and justifactions for not engaging in safe sex, or engaging in promiscious sex with strangers. The facts are facts, regardless of what you want to believe, and Dr. Goldstone lays all the cards on the table and lets y ou make the decisions from there. He is a gay doctor, so these same issues which he talks about are physical conditions that he himself has to avoid inh is own personal life. I bought this book for my own edification and plan on donating it to my Universitiy's GLBT student services library so others can have insight into the heatlth risks associated with gay sex. The book made me take my own sexual practices into perspective, both past and future, and allowed me to make more intellgient decisions on how to proceed. He make sit very clear that HIV/AIDS is not the only STD out there that can have a very damaging effect, and he also discusses many other health issues and illnesses that can affect men. He also discusses sex, and how to use lubricants and condoms and how to position yourself for penetration, so this is a great device for the inexperienced young men trying their sexuality out for the first time. Dr. Goldstone is 100% pro gay, he is gay himself, but that does not mean we can deny the truth of our biological bodies and the physical conditions that can come upon them. Read this book with a grain of salt, and use it to better protect yourself, thats what it's intention is for. He also adds vignettes to the chapters previous to you reading them to give you a perspective of where he is coming from, and also has a great sense of humor, although it is a bit corny. I wish more MDs would realize we need some humor in order to rest our minds during a physical examination. He also makes it very clear that you should be completely upfront with your physician about being gay and the sexual acts you perform, otherwise most straight physicians in particular could easily over look your symptoms as being something else entirely.
Informative and fun.......2002-07-02
All things considered, I expected this to be a somewhat dull read, a little too technical because it was penned by an MD. I couldn't have been more wrong. Not only is this book very informative and up to date, but it's written in a hugely entertaining and, yes, erotic, style. Sex manuals are very helpful when you have a date, but sometimes they can also be good company on those lonely nights when you don't have a man. This book is one of the best gay sex manauls available.
What you need to know - and probably more than you want to.........2002-03-27
The guy's a doctor -- so, with excrutiating fascination and enthusiastic detail he spells it all out. I agree that it is enough to put you off sex entirely, but sometimes what you need to know is more than what you want to know. It's damn tough being the grownup sometimes....
(...) is a much better general guide.......2001-12-01
Since 'In's and Out's'' is one of the best selling guides online currently I probably would have just purchased it had I not taken a 'browsing' trip to a local bookstore. It's an extremely detailed compendium of VD's and skin conditions including illustrations of various lesions for easy identification. Now, other manuals (gay, straight or whatever) have a chapter for these things too but this book spends an inordinate amount of time on them at the expense of other areas which is why I think some other reviewers here note that the book at times seems to be more about the (un)joy of gay sex than the joy of. I certainly find it hard to imagine a 'straight' sex guide of this brevity spending such large chunks of space on VD's at the expense of, well, sex. There's certainly little that really conveys the 'Joy of Sex' here or any spiritual, holistic aspects of it. The book appears to have been written with the promiscuous person in mind (and I don't mean to be in any way judgementmal here), recommending scrubbing oneself down in the shower after each sexual 'encounter' (not too romantic) and pretty much treating VD's as a fact of life that you probably WILL encounter. It's also full of a lot of comments from the author based upon personal sentiments (such as that it's terrible for men to go out with facial stubble cause it's 'rough') that would have been better left out since not everyone share's Goldstone's taste.
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Frightening reading.......2001-09-28
As a run-of-the-mill, college educated individual without a high level of medical knowledge, I found this book to be at best, scary. I am certain that the author is not being the least bit homophobic, and I can't imagine any reason for him to be unreasonably alarmist about the dangers of gay sex or sex in general. But as a previous reviewer noted, the book's context does seem to run to the negative, and I wouldn't be too surprised if a lot of readers are completely turned off to gay sex by this book. Perhaps a book shouldn't be judged for not couching it's topics gently, but, I think a better effort could have made to make this book less frightening. Apparently, here is the blunt, in-your-face, truth, and it's not pretty.
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Written by a leading scholar of public information systems, Public Information Technology and E-Governance is a comprehensive, well-balanced and up-to-date resource on public information technology and e-government. Based on thousands of academic and practitioner studies and reports, this book provides policy information on e-democracy, access issues, privacy, security, regulatory, enforcement and taxation issues, as well as management information on business plans, public-private partnerships, strategic planning, project management, implementation factors, and evaluation. An excellent text or reference, this book features several chapter case studies, a glossary, discussion questions, and chapter summaries to maximize comprehension of the subject.
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Great book and good delivery.......2007-02-18
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Produced by the award-winning maranGraphics Group, Maran Illustrated Guide to Weight Training is a valuable resource for all readers, regardless of age or fitness level. Clear, step-by-step instructions walk you through each exercise from beginning to end, while photographs and illustrations show you the targeted muscles for each exercise and how to help prevent injury. Thorough topic introductions and useful tips provide additional information and advice to enhance your weight training experience and help meet your individual needs. Maran Illustrated Guide to Weight Training is packed with information useful to those who are just beginning to make weight training a part of their health regime. For those who have been weight training for some time, the book is ideal as a refresher course on proper form and will present new exercises that even experienced weight trainers can add to their routines.
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Great book - approved by my physical therapist.......2007-08-05
I had a shoulder injury and toward the end of physical therapy, we moved to strengthening exercises/weight lifting. I am a person that likes pictures (as opposed to words) and this book provides good pictures of how each exercise should be done. It also shows you how NOT to do them. It shows what muscles are affected by each exercise, plus a section on stretching. My PT was very impressed by it and started thumbing through it and said he was going to buy it to show patients in the future.
Great Starter book!.......2007-07-02
I picked this book randomly and it turned out to be a great book to start out with. I tried going to the gym before I got this book and the weights scared me. The next day I bought the book and took 2-3 days to read through the entire thing and everything made sense. I also saw the correct way to do each routine. One of the best things it did was lay out all the different types of routines you can do, whether it be full body, or focusing on one or two muscles per workout. I highly recommend this book!
great book for beginners.......2005-11-09
I bought this book when I decided to start weight training. I had never done any weight training before so I needed a book that covered the basics. Maran Illustrated has proven a great choice.
The range of exercises is from easy to advanced so that you do not need to buy another book after you have learned the basics and are ready for something more challenging.
The photographs and explanations of each exercise are very clear and easy to follow. As the previous reveiwer has mentioned, there are also photographs of what NOT to do, which is important for everybody and for beginners - essential.
The book is suitable for those who go to a gym and for those who prefer to exercise at home. It also explains the advantages of both, home and gym.
It offers a range of exercises one can do while travelling.
I recommend this book to anybody who would like to start weight training; the book will also be useful for those who know the basics already.
Finally! Weight training for the *real* person..........2005-06-18
I'm really getting addicted to these Maran Illustrated titles. I received a copy of Maran Illustrated Weight Training, and this is one of those fitness books that speaks to the "normal" person...
Contents:
Section 1 - Weight Training Basics: Weight Training Basics
Section 2 - Work Your Upper Body: Work Your Chest; Work Your Shoulders; Work Your Back; Work Your Triceps; Work Your Biceps and Wrists; Work Your Abdominals
Section 3 - Work Your Lower Body: Work Your Legs; Work Your Buttocks; Work Your Calves
Section 4 - Using An Exercise Ball And Tubing; Using an Exercise Ball; Using Exercise Tubing
Section 5 - Design A Weight Routine: Design a Weight Routine
Section 6 - Stretching: Stretching
Section 7 - Cardiovascular Training And Nutrition: Cardiovascular Training; Nutrition; Index
Although my current fitness and weight level wouldn't necessarily show it, I've spent a lot of time in the gym doing weight training. I even considered competitive bodybuilding for awhile, and I was familiar with that entire scene and lifestyle. So while I'm fine with a weight training book by a current Mr. Olympia, the person trying to get started for the first time can easily be intimidated by that. Hyper-muscular individuals enhanced by various "substances" aren't realistic for 99% of the population, and it sets some pretty false expectations. Fortunately, there are alternatives, and this book is one of them.
The Maran Illustrated approach to a book involves a graphically appealing format with an abundance of photos to illustrate points. No endless pages of "text only" here. Each exercise that's illustrated follows pretty much the same format. A photo of the starting/ending position, a photo of the middle position, a picture of the muscles targeted by the exercise, and most importantly, a photo of what you *don't* do when performing the exercise. I can't tell you how many times I've had to bite my tongue when watching others in the gym, knowing that their particular motion on a given exercise makes it either useless or dangerous. This emphasis on what to do and what *not* to do isn't normally covered in other books. In fact, I don't think I've seen any other book show that level of responsibility. I'd commend it for that alone.
But we're not done yet. The material in the first section is stuff that I'd like to get all gym attendees to memorize. They cover the basics on equipment, how to choose a gym, why weight training is good for you, etc. But they also devote some time to etiquette. Etiquette! That's another hot button for me. I don't want to listen to you scream while you crank out that last rep. I don't want to use the bench that's still covered in your sweat. And I *really* don't want to wait to work in while you're reading the paper between sets. If I could staple this section to the forehead of a few individuals, I'd be a happy man.
Do I like this book? Yeah, I like it a lot. The models illustrating the exercises are normal-looking, fit individuals. The information is technically sound, and effort is made to make sure you're doing things right. They even cover fitness balls and exercise tubing, which I normally dismiss in my mind as gimmicks. But I had to rethink those attitudes after covering that area.
Bottom line: This would be the first book I'd recommend in nearly all cases if someone was getting ready to take up weight training. Great job!
Maran's Illustrated Weight Training Pumps Out Good Info!.......2005-06-11
Over the years I have read a number of books on weight training. Most give you a routine, tell you how buff you are gonna look and toss in a picture or too. And they assume you know alot including proper form and what the heck the exercise is doing for your body.
Maran's Illustrated Weight Training is different. This book will give you a firm grounding in weight training. It covers everything so you will have a solid foundation to train for best results.
The book begins with something that is often missed in others - a picture of the human body with the muscles labeled. It is hard to work your "latissimus dorsi" or your "gluteu minimus" terms I have heard video instructors shout out, when you don't have a clue what they are. Marans gives you a clearly labeled front and rear view human body illustration.
Next the book makes the case for working out at home or at the gym. If you opt to set up a home gym you will learn what to look for in barbells, a bench, rack etc. If you opt to go to a gym you will learn what to look for before signing on the dotted line.
The book also covers gym etiquette (something you wish that sweaty man next to you who never wipes down the bench would read), proper clothing, and more.
Next comes the meat of the book. In great detail Marans describes how to work each part of your body. For your triceps for example Maran describes the bench dip, tricep kickback, triceps pushdown, barbell triceps press, dumbbell overhead extension, lying barbell extension and triceps extension machine. For each exercise you will learn what it does for your body, what muscles it works, and the do's and don'ts of performing it. Each excerise also includes lots of full color photographs.
Tons of exercises are covered for upper and lower body - from chest to back to buttocks to calves. There is also a section on using an exercise ball and using tubing.
I know a girl (ok it was me) who did ab work for several months with no results because she was doing the exercises wrong..too bad I didn't have this book then.
The book also includes information on how to design a weight routine, stretching (crucial for best results and to prevent injury), cardiovascular training and nutrition.
The softcover, oversized 300+ page book is beautifully laid out and designed. Full color photographs and easy to read text.
Super book for those starting out, on their way or the seasoned pro seeking that extra information. Maran scores a winner with this book!
Lee Mellott
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