Ruth Benedict Boeken

The essential, cut-to-the-chase handbook to the Pacific Crest Trail, based on the comprehensive Wilderness Press guidebooks to the PCT, has been completely updated. Packed with trail-tested features, it’s useful both on and off the trail, covering pre-trip planning for resupply stops, how to set daily on-the-trail mileage goals by knowing trail gradient and the locations of campsites, water sources, and facilities, and how to easily calculate distances between any two points on the trail, and how to planning both north-bound and south-bound hiking trips.

A timeless source of wisdom for people looking to lead a life of simplicity, purpose, and serenity.

For more than a generation, this pioneering book has been an indispensable introduction to the field of anthropology. Here, in her study of three sharply contrasting cultures, Benedict puts forward her famous thesis that a people's culture is an integrated whole, a "personality writ large." Includes a preface from Margaret Mead.

Essential reading for anyone interested in Japanese culture, this unsurpassed masterwork opens an intriguing window on Japan. Benedict’s World War II–era study paints an illuminating contrast between the culture of Japan and that of the United States. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword is a revealing look at how and why our cultures differ, making it the perfect introduction to Japanese history and customs.

Vzory kultúry sú dielom pre tých, ktorí chcú spoznať tajomstvo kultúrnej antropológie. Autorka vo svojej práci nachádza abstraktný jednotiaci rámec každej kultúry na úrovni subjektívneho myslenia vo vzoroch správania jej nositeľov. Svojím dielom významne prispela k udomácneniu antropologického chápania kultúry a ponúkla svoju predstavu o kultúre ako integrovanom celku.