Yeah I have looked over a very good set of tutorials by Ratner:
http://www.free3dtutorials.com/modeling/maya/modeling-a-female-torso-tutorial.php
http://www.free3dtutorials.com/modeling/maya/modeling-the-female-arm-tutorial.php?page=1
http://www.free3dtutorials.com/modeling/maya/modeling-a-female-head-tutorial.php

He's also got a couple of male figure tuts there as well but I can't locate them (might not be under the Maya tuts, I dunno).  Unfortunately these are a lot more procedural "do exactly this, and you will end up with this finished mesh" - is there discussion of theory in the book and practical applications, not so much a micromanaged and very direct procedure?

I should point out, if I rig this model in Poser it will be a long way off, I am really a lot more interested in rigging her in Cinema (tons more power and rigging tools aren't so ancient).

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