Anatomy Book Recommendations?

CJE

I'm looking to pick up a couple new anatomy books, and I'd like some recommendations from you guys. I don't have a whole ton of extra $$ to spend, so I wanna get the best bang for the buck basically. From my research, there are 5 or 6 really good anatomy books out there I'm looking at, I'd like to pick up1 or 2 of them at least.

What do you guys think of...

Artistic Anatomy by Dr. Paul Richer
[ame]http://www.amazon.com/Artistic-Anatomy-Practical-Art-Books/dp/0823002977/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269185930&sr=1-1[/ame]

Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist by Stephen Rogers Peck
[ame]http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Human-Anatomy-Artist-Galaxy/dp/0195030958/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269185954&sr=1-1[/ame]

Human Anatomy for Artists by Eliot Goldfinger
[ame]http://www.amazon.com/Human-Anatomy-Artists-Elements-Form/dp/0195052064/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269185972&sr=1-1[/ame]

I'd either to pick up both Artistic Anatomy and Atlas of Human Anatomy OR Human Anatomy by Goldfinger, since it's more $$. I'd consider myself in the intermediate range of anatomy knowledge atm.

East

I got those (except #4 and #6), and they are very good. #3 in particular.
http://www.scott-eaton.com/anatomy-book-reviews-and-recommendations

leslievdb

bridgman`s complete guide to drawing from life

bridgmans structural breakdown of forms is really great to learn from

CJE

I ended up buying Classic human Anatomy

[ame]http://www.amazon.ca/Classic-Human-Anatomy-Function-Movement/dp/0823024156/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269205100&sr=8-1[/ame]

So far it looks like a really great reference, one of the best contemporary art anatomy books I have seen.

Kwramm

[ame]http://www.amazon.ca/Human-Figure-Source-Artists-Designer/dp/9057681293/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269219643&sr=1-1[/ame]

I picked that one up recently at a museum in Vienna and it quickly became my favorite - mostly because it has lots of high quality big pictures and absolutely no text. It also comes with a CD that holds all the pictures from the book, which is also quite handy.

contents: drawings from old masters from various centuries. Human form in poses emphasizing muscles and body shape, but also anatomy (joins, bones, muscles). the drawings are nice and clean and not sketchy, so there's a lot of detail.
Personally I do not mind that some figures are a bit overemphasized (as the amazon critic notes) for artistic effect, but then again michelangelo did the same with his david.
best part of the book: no useless blah blah. just reference

Gardini

[ame]http://www.amazon.ca/Anatomy-Drawing-School-Andras-Szunyoghy/dp/3833125284/ref=sr_1_19?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269239601&sr=1-19[/ame]
I like this one!

Hazardous

Have seen all the ones youve listed man, I like the stephen rogers peck one the most, the way he describes areas, makes it much simpler for me to recall what things look like, such as describing the area under the kneecap ( around top of tibia ) like a 'beard hanging from the kneecap'

I find those little gems of information more valuable than accurate diagrams.