Subjects:  1. Atlases    2. Atlases - General    3. Maps & Road Atlases    4. Reference    5. Road Atlases    6. Travel - United States    7. United States - Pacific - California    8. United States - West - Pacific (General)   

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The title was great. The rest is just okay.
If you do not have Fiske or Barron's, then get this book. If you get those books or the US News version of the same, forget about this one.
A Must For Anyone Thinking About Attending College
I own this book and I also had the honor of attending a lecture Donald Asher gave in Chicago. This book is for all of students out there who are un-conventional... perfect also for the ones out there who are thinking about going to a non-ivy league school.
Not your average college guide
I knew I had to find a cool college or I'd die of boredom.
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Subjects:  1. Canada    2. College Guides    3. College choice    4. Directories    5. Education    6. Higher    7. Reference    8. United States    9. Universities and colleges   

Subjects:  1. Atlases    2. Atlases - General    3. Maps & Road Atlases    4. Reference    5. Road Atlases    6. Travel - United States    7. United States - Pacific - Oregon    8. United States - West - Pacific (General)   

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Not bad, but...
Overall, this book is one of the better college guides out there - it's well-organized, clean, and very useful for students, parents, and teachers alike, and it's easy to read, and does elicit laughter and chuckles.
Very Good Summaries
I enjoyed browsing this book.My daughter is in the 'what's out there' stage.This book gives a brief, but excellent, overview of the covered colleges.The overview includes key stats and some of the flavor of the schools.I definitely recommend this book as a starting point.
Best brief review in 2 pages for these 361 college , A Must buy
If your a college bound student , and then your looking glass should start with this.
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Subjects:  1. College Guides    2. College choice    3. Directories    4. Education    5. Higher    6. Institutions Of Higher Education    7. Reference    8. Study Aids    9. Test Prep    10. United States    11. Universities and colleges    12. Education / Guidance & Orientation   

Editorial Review

Not just for policy wonks, this is a book every responsible citizen should own. Read more

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GREAT INVALUABLE TOOL FOR WHOSE WHO IN WASHINGTON!
My 1996 edition is so dog-eared, highlighted, and noted that you can tell it's one of my most common reference tools.I use it when politicians are on talk shows, to give me an idea of where they are coming from. It usuallyproves there is a huge media imbalance of views on network television, soI've switched to C-Span. Seeing a voting record clues me in on where aCongressman is likely to stand on an issue, before he opens his mouth. Iuse it for background information, and to send faxes and letters.I use itto keep track of my own Congressmen and to find others who have voted theway I would vote, to contact, if an important issue is pending for a vote.It's only big handicap is a lack of E-Mail addresses.I could do much morewith it, if I had them.I highly recommend this book and am saving for anupdated version.

Brian Wayne Wells, Esquire, reviews Almanac of American Pol.
Since 1971, every two years Michael Barone and Grant Ujifusa (in early editions Douglas Matthews also contributed) have teamed to provide a comprehensive study of the latest Congress just elected the previous November. Read more

Subjects:  1. Almanacs    2. Biography    3. Committees    4. Congress    5. Directories    6. Election districts    7. Government - U.S. Government    8. Non-Classifiable    9. Novelty    10. Politics - Current Events    11. Reference    12. United States    13. United States.   

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A BALANCED PORTRAIT
DORA LIVES is a posthumous biography on Miki Dora, a pioneering surfer from the 1950s and 1960s, and on page 23, it says this about artistic temperament:
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Subjects:  1. Biography / Autobiography    2. Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions    3. Historical - General    4. Photo Techniques    5. Photography    6. Sports - General    7. Water Sports    8. Photography & Photographs   

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unlimited
I explored the guide at a friend's house and was astounded by the number of references available to anyone who wants to know all there is to know. I work at a newspaper, take foreign language classes and am interested in fine arts.... Just to read the titles of websites is fun.

for general purpose online research
Ignore "Complete" in the title. No book can hope to match the breadth of the Web. But Schlein does a commendable job in succinctly describing several hundred websites. The value in this book is in his selection. The websites typically have reliable content and lots of it.
Easiest read reference for online resources
Of the many books I have read and own on this subject, this one flows the best and is the easiest to read.That said, this book does not speak to the technical in terms the hows/whys of resources. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer Books: General    2. Computers    3. Directories    4. Educational Research    5. Information Storage & Retrieval    6. Internet - General    7. Internet addresses    8. Internet searching    9. Online Searching    10. Reference    11. Research    12. Web sites    13. Business & Economics / General   

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Great Resource for Writers of Children's Books
This is well-organized and has all of the information one would need to access publishers. Agents and publicists, as well as writers, need to have this "encyclopedia" of resources. There is a wealth of information needed for sending book proposals and manuscripts.Just excellent!

The Most Important Tool for the Children's Book Genre
Professionals in the children's book genre have been relying on the yearly Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market for 18 years. This guide covers everything writers and/or illustrators would ever need to find a home for their work.
If you want to write for kids
If you want to write for kids, there's two things you need to do (i.e., other than writing your book!): join SCWBI and get this book. The book is full of great advice and contacts. A must-have for all children's writers. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Authorship    2. Children's literature    3. Composition & Creative Writing - Children's Literature    4. Directories    5. General    6. Language    7. Language Arts & Disciplines    8. Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy    9. Marketing    10. Publishers and publishing    11. Publishing    12. United States    13. English    14. Industrial / Commercial Art & Design    15. Publishing industry    16. Reference works    17. Writing & editing guides   

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The Ultimate Antiques & Collectibles Resource Directory !
This 5th edition, giant volume (over 1 3/4 inches thick, weighing over 4 pounds) is THE collectibles resource guide and the most comprehensive directory available.There are detailed listings of 3,122 categories ofantiques, collectibles and art.Provides more than 18,000 contacts, 4,000clubs and periodicals, 9,640 e-mail addresses, and 7,360 Web sites !!Ahandy user's guide helps you utilize this reference to the fullest. Includes buyers, sellers, appraisers, where to get parts or have repairsdone, where to go to match patterns, and much, much more information.Alibrary of information essential for every serious collector's library. Add it to your library. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Antiques    2. Antiques & Collectibles    3. Antiques / Collectibles    4. Antiques/Collectibles    5. Bibliographies & Indexes    6. Directories    7. Reference - General    8. Reference - Price Guides    9. Antiques & Collectables    10. Bibliographies, catalogues, discographies   

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Great resource!
This is a great resource for the money. I found the reviews of thebusiness schools to be very helpful, and when compared to my other research on the subject to be right on point. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business Education    2. Directories    3. Graduate Departments And Schools    4. Graduate School Guides - General    5. Study Aids    6. Study Guides    7. Test Prep    8. Study Aids / Graduate School Guides   

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She Knows How to Evaluate Schools
You simply don't have time to go around to all the schools your kid might be planning to attend. And if you did, it isn't ckear that you'd know just what questions to ask. Clara Hemphill does know. As the director of Insideschools.org she has spent years analyzing the public school system in NYC. She looks at the schools academically (of course) but also in other aspects such as friendliness, willingness of the teaching staff to work with the kids individually, social development and many more.
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Subjects:  1. Directories    2. Education    3. Education / Teaching    4. Middle school education    5. Middle schools    6. New York    7. New York (State)    8. Reference    9. School choice    10. Secondary    11. Secondary schools   

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Must Have if considering your own foundation
This book comes with a hefty price - I was hesitant.If you are considering the establishment of your own private foundation, this book is a must.It is fairly heavy with the legaleze, but required whenconsidering the thorough discussions of establishing and maintaining afoundation with respect to the applicable IRS tax code.Each topic isdocumented and sample tax forms are illustrated.Highly recommended -needs to be a little more user friendly for the 5th star. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Business/Economics    3. Charitable uses, trusts, and f    4. Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations    5. Foundations (Endowments)    6. Law and legislation    7. Nonprofit Organizations & Charities    8. Nonprofit organizations    9. Philanthropy & Charity    10. Reference - Directories    11. Social Science    12. Tax Law    13. Taxation    14. United States    15. Business & Economics / Nonprofit Organizations & Charities    16. Taxation law    17. USA   

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How do you rate a place?
Some towns seem to have a permanent place on the sweetheart lists of books dedicated to relocation and retirement.It is unusual to see such books without Charlottesville, Virginia, Branson, Missouri or Grand Junction, Colorado and indeed these locales, along with 97 others, fill the pages of AMERICA'S 100 BEST PLACES TO RETIRE.
100 Best Places to Retire
Excellent referral information and explicit for cost, weather, local features, and amenities

Left a little to be desired
This book could have done a little better job in giving information.If you were interested only in the best places to retire in order it is good.However, I would have liked more information than what was given. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Aging - Retirement    2. Directories    3. Family & Relationships / Aging    4. Personal & Practical Guides    5. Reference    6. Reference / Directories    7. Retirement communities    8. Retirement, Places of    9. United States    10. Aging    11. Relocation   

Subjects:  1. College Guides    2. Directories    3. Education    4. General    5. Higher    6. Institutions Of Higher Education    7. International Higher Education    8. Organizations & Institutions    9. Reference    10. Universities and colleges    11. Reference / General    12. Universities / polytechnics   

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The stuff that dreams were made of...
In the brief introduction to this book the editor states, "If there ever was a "Golden Age" of Western Civilization this was surely it. In the following pages one can see both the reflection of yesterday and the seeds of the future, for few things in our culture are able to capture the sense of the times as are the trivial artifacts we give to our children to play with." Well, these were the playthings that the richest nation in human history gave to its children in the Golden Age between 1951 and 1969. The entire world offered their finest toys to America- but none were finer than those made by our own manufacturers (Marx, Ideal, Mattel, Remco, Kenner, Lionel, Gilbert...)
Wonderful But a Bit Pricey
The Big Toy Box at Sears is a compilation from the awesome Sears Wishbook catalogs of the 1950's and 60's covering boys toys.It is one heckuva a trip down memory lane with cap guns, foto-electric football, GI Joe, slot cars and more.
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Subjects:  1. Antiques & Collectibles    2. Antiques & Collectibles / Toys    3. Catalogs    4. Reference    5. Reference / Catalogs    6. Sears, Roebuck and Company    7. Toys   

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A must-have for tobacco card enthuiasts!!
This comprehensive and superbly organized work is richly supplemented with numerous color and B/W photographs.A brief and informative history about various tobacco products/inserts and manufactures is provided.The book is organized principally into two units:N-series for 19th century cards (N1-N694) and T-series for 20th century cards (T1-T177).Each entry includes a brief description of the set and card appearance (front and back).The overwhelming majority of entries include an actual size photograph of a representative card (front and back) and a list of all cards in the set.Comments pertaining to card variations and prices are useful.The edge of each page is labeled with the set number to aid with rapid location of descriptions and card images.The work is peppered throughout with short vignettes and essays (published previously in various trade journals) by Dr. Terry Mitchell about specific sets or card themes.Although this is a soft cover book, the pages are printed on high grade gloss stock paper that tolerates repeated handling.Suprisingly, the book is neither overwhelming or boorish in its presentation.The brief descriptions and inclusion of images for virtually every set are effective strategies and make the book exceptionally user-friendly.No other work to date has done such a masterful job at capturing the variety of subjects, visual appeal, and historical allure of tobacco cards.This book is a must-have item for novice collectors and enthusiasts.

Beautifully done; Notcomplete for all collectors
A beautifully executed publication, however as a collector of Victorian Trade Cards, I was greatly dissapointed NOT to find ANY of the cards in my collection listed.I would have expected at least ONE to have beenreferred to, but the items in the book are mostly geared to the collectorof tobacco insert cards.If this is your thing, this is your book.Forgetit if you are more geared to Tradecard collecting

Informative Book about the History of Tobacco Cards
The book is great historical lesson.Reading about the history of the Tobacco cards has been very informative. The writers have dedicated many hours to thorough research of this topic. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Advertising    2. Advertising cards    3. Antiques & Collectibles    4. Antiques / Collectibles    5. Antiques/Collectibles    6. Catalogs    7. Popular Culture    8. Reference - Price Guides    9. Tobacco    10. Tobacco-Related    11. United States    12. Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter   

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"Graveyards are full of indispensible men."Charles de Gaulle

A must have for the Necro-tourist
While out in California in Jan of this year, I went to the HOllywood Forever cemetery and as the caretakers are not especially civil to tourists looking for celeb graves, this book let me get in, find who i was looking for and get out quickly. The details are concise and accurate. Saved me a lot of time!

Great book!!!
This book is very well researched and written.I like the format: a brief history of the person and then how he/she died and where is buried.I read for 20 minutes every night before going to sleep.Very good work and a great reading.Kudos to the author for his comments on the killer of Medgar Evers. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Celebrities    3. Cemeteries    4. General    5. Guidebooks    6. Museums, Tours, Points of Interest    7. Reference    8. Tombs    9. Travel    10. United States - General    11. Cultural studies    12. Dictionaries of biography (Who's Who)    13. Performing Arts    14. Places & peoples: general interest    15. Travel / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest    16. USA   

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Big and Beautiful
This book is the companion to a multi-year exhibition of (mostly) paintings at Davis Museum at Wellesley College. Most of the works are from the Renaissance, with a smattering of Medieval images and some recent. There are a series of essays included, most of which will not be electrifying to any beginning bible studies student. In fact, the lack of biblical scholarship in the discussion of Mary is quite startling.
Clear, assessible, and rich
I truly enjoyed this tour through Wellesley's collection of Marian art.
An excellent overview
For me the real beauty of this book was not the illustrated catalogue of images in the Wellesley College collection, it was the excellent essay by Melissa Katz.Robert Orsi's essay was superb as usual, but rather short, and the other essays are so short (2 pages each) as to be almost unmentionable.Katz on the other hand takes her readers on a historical tour of Marian imagery that is also thematically related to the hours of her devotion.In this way, her essay is not only an overview of Marian imagery, but it is also an overview of the history of the Roman Catholic church, an overview of Marian devotional practices, and the social forces in Europe which shaped these two phenomena.My only criticism of her essay, which might be more accurately a criticism of the Wellesley College collection, is that there is very little information on Marian imagery and devotion outside of Europe. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Art    2. Art & Art Instruction    3. Blessed Virgin, Saint    4. Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum    5. Davis Museum and Cultural Center    6. Exhibitions    7. Individual Artist    8. Mary,    9. Massachusetts    10. Subjects & Themes - Religious    11. Wellesley    12. Art & Architecture | History    13. Art / Religious    14. Exhibition catalogues and specific collections    15. Religious subjects depicted in art    16. Saints & hagiography   

Subjects:  1. Directories    2. Ngos (Non-Governmental Organizations)    3. Political Advocacy    4. Politics / Current Events    5. Reference   

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Transformational College Experiences
Loren's book is a fantastic review of what lies beyond the Ivy League.As a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School, I utilized my education to author The Interview Survival Kit and I have nothing but praise for what my undergrad and graduate experiences provided me.However, college applicants should know that finding the right college is about much more than finding the right "name" - many schools will provide students with powerful, transformational experiences that encourage personal, academic and professional growth.A fantastic book.

Nothing much changes
As an independent college consultant, I am always looking for books that I can recommend. This is certainly a good source for identifying some good colleges that may not come to the attention of those obsessed with college rankings. My only qualm is there is almost nothing new in the text from earlier editions. For example, look at the write up for the first college listed, Allegheny College, and you will see little that has changed from the 1996 edition. Yes, there are a few more buildings on campus, but not much else is new. Even the quote attributed to chemistry professor, Ed Walsh, hasn't changed. If considering this book, go to a used book store and pick one up for 50 cents. Why pay for a new copy when most of the material is 10 years old!

Loren Pope was Right!!!
After a personal large university experience back in the 60's, I knew that that was not what I wanted for my children.We found Mr. Pope's book and the lights came on.Not only did we use the book, but with some diligent work were able to arrange personal counseling sessions with Mr. Pope for both my son and daughter.
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Subjects:  1. College Guides    2. College choice    3. Directories    4. Education    5. Higher    6. Institutions Of Higher Education    7. Reference    8. School environment    9. United States    10. Universities and colleges    11. Education / Organizations & Institutions