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Someone should publish a new one!
I probably shouldn't indulge my mom's preoccupation with her health, but she was using her father's 1947 medical dictionary and I thought she should have better!But a lot has changed since 1982, too; also, at only 215 pages, with large type it doesn't cover much.But it's the only one I could find!Someone should publish a new one for all us aging boomers! ... Read more

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A timely and invaluable guide for the homeowner
Now in an updated and expanded third edition, Richard Hepburn's Understanding And Reducing Your Home Electric Bill continues to be a timely and invaluable guide for the homeowner on keeping their electric bill as minimal as possible. This compendium of practical, applicable, "user friendly" tips, tricks and techniques covers everything from reducing air conditioning costs, heating bills, lighting bills, and high efficiency appliances in terms of their performance/cost ratios. From the kind of light bulbs to use for illumination to the proper sort of water heater to have given a family's needs, Understanding And Reducing Your Home Electric Bill will be a major source of money saving ideas, advice and information that will prove to be one of the most financially rewarding, money saving investments a homeowner can make with rolling blackouts, power shortages and increasing utility prices. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Conservation    2. Costs    3. Do-It-Yourself - Plumbing    4. Dwellings    5. Electric power    6. Electric power consumption    7. Energy conservation    8. General    9. Reference    10. Repair    11. United States    12. Non-Classifiable   

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For tired eyes.
This is a good book for those whose eyes are tired or who have gotten to that magical age where eye muscles require you to use reading glasses.It has the basic roads through the States, the Canadian provinces, and one map for Mexico.But it does not have each and every road: I checked my home area and found all the highways I would advise out-of-state friends to take to get to my hometown.But the local roads to get to my home were not there.Short of topo maps and county road maps, such roads are usually not shown.Also, the tiny, tiny town names that are hard to see on most maps are easily readable: I found a tiny town that is so small that at one time it had only one town sign -- seriously.This is a handy road atlas for most people, but it is large (over a foot long and almost a foot wide).Keep at home or in the back seat.

Don't Be Fooled-- This Is A Tiny Pocket Atlas!
Duh. ...There is a good reason-- it is a tiny, useless pocket atlas offering almost no detail.Unfortunately, the Amazon description (at least at the time I bought the book) did not mention this.Read more

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So many mistakes
This may be the worst road atlas on the market today.There are multiple errors on just about every map.The 2006 edition states that the Westpark Tollway in Houston will open in 2004.It did, but they forgot to update the map.Capitol Reef National Park in Utah has misteriously disappeared.The Big Island of Hawaii is shown with several divided highways (they're actually single lane roads).I could go on and on... ... Read more

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NOT Another ?how to live with a disability? Book . . .
I picked up this book for the first time a few nights ago and was immediately hooked.As a legally blind consumer and as Director of Rehabilitation Services at an agency whose mission is to empower blind and visually impaired individuals, I wasimmediately moved by the significance of Mr. Leibs' work.I read late into the night, and my last thought before drifting off to sleep that night was that I wished that this book had been around 30 years ago -- it would most certainly have saved me and a lot of others who live with severe vision impairment or blindness a whole lot of struggle and grief! Praise for the Field Guide from an 85 year old reader
A volunteer at VISION Community Services, A Division of the Massachusetts Association for the Blind, a lovely 85 year old who is legally blind and severely hearing impaired, mentioned that she was interested in the Guide(as the result of reading a review in our newsletter).I loaned her ourlibrary copy and here's what she had to say: "Spent several hours with theField Guide.Every low vision person should have access to it.One bonusI reaped was a comprehensive description of major suppliers, what theysupply and differences between them.Also, Leibs gave a useful assessmentof assistive devices.This is bewildering to the newcomer to the field. In the end, I copied out several titles of Great Books to improve my mind. Several times I've tried Huckleberry Finn and quit in boredom.On theother hand, the Toni Morrison title caught my attention, I've been meaningto sample her.Don't expect to like it, but I might be surprised." Sheadds that it was also good to know the approximate cost of having a bookreprinted in large print, and the major LP companies.Despite beinglegally blind, her vision is better than her hearing so she reads largeprint books.Her vision loss is due to glaucoma, so she retains somedecent central vision.

Better Than a Compass
This book is the "needle of a compass" for the blind and dyslexic.Kudos to Leibs for providing the best resource guide for the blind and dyslexic I've read!He's not only gathered countless resourcesand provided those in an easy to navigate format, but he's added his ownpersonal struggles and discoveries that finally lead him to experience thesheer joy of reading.I've placed this book in a prominent location in myoffice and will refer to it often as it's truly the work of a researchgenius.Special attention should be paid to the Introduction as Leibstakes you on a poignant journey to his discovery of reading and shares hisexcitement as well as disappointment while uncovering the bliss of reading. Additionally, Leibs provides a "suggested reading" list withcontact information on how and where to acquire these books.Truly, hispassion for reading will no doubt inspire your own, whether you are a fullysighted reader or not.Kudos to Leibs!A gem of a book, and long overdue! ... Read more

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A much needed resource
This work represents one of the first and certainly the most thorough efforts at creating a bibliography of Melungeon related writings. It is an essential resource for all who are interested in learning more about the Melungeons and other mixed ethnic groups in America. ... Read more

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