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This book is an easy to use reference guide. I am a stockbroker in the N.Y. metro area, and the Strathmore publication has given me a now indespensible tool for generating new clients. I look forward to next years edition.

I found many interesting people in the publication. For one I found a very prominent Dr. who wrote an extensive book about prostate cancer. It was a wealth of information on the latest research on the subject.

This book is the centerpiece of the Princeton career center. We get ALOT of use out of it.

I'm a writing tutor at the University of Illinois -- and one of my students recently showed me a copy of this book. It's a really good job. The writing flowed nicely and it was quite interesting.

This book is worthwhile and inspirational reading for the news research pros and for the "news junkies" of the world. Paula Hane has done an impressive job interviewing stellar news researchers and investigative journalists. These two professional groups (news librarians and reporters) may not share identical strategies or resources, but their common goal is shared: to get the information first and to get it right. The experiences offered in this book are worth telling and retelling. I enthusiastically recommend "Super Searchers in the News" for the perfectionistic research pros and for those who are simply fascinated with the endless challenge of tracking down data on deadline. J-School students as well as library/information science students could profit from these true life stories. It should be required reading.

What a lovely surprise this book turned out to be!

Those of us who work in news research might fancy we know the implications of Internet research in our newsrooms, but absorbing the ideas of "the best in the business" helps to fill out the larger picture. Super Searchers in the News is a quick read and contains a few useful gems. The surprise was a higher degree of insight than you might expect from the format.

The interview format is not one I usually find very useful but Paula Hane got a lot from her subjects. Her writing is good and she lets the voice of her subjects be heard. There is an interesting mix of professional news researchers and journalists each with a point of view and something valuable to say.

There are plenty of ideas in this book that range far outside news research:

Nora Paul-"...there is a new job for the news researcher and an evaluator and qualifier of sources", "...a coordinator of the group effort to make collective intelligence available to everyone".

C.B. Hayden "The Intranet is the main focus of our activity. On-demand research is still our biggest product".

The diminishing reliance on commercial vendors and the implications that has in news libraries and newsrooms.

The growing training and teaching aspects of news researchers.

This book shaped my thinking about the kind of library I run and the tools and techniques I use to manage our research service. As a result we are more focused on the Intranet as a research platform and the growing importance of news researchers.

I highly recommend this book.

Super Searchers On Mergers & Acquisitions reveals the online search services and tools used by leading researchers, who regularly use the Internet to uncover critical details on companies and industries. The focus on mergers and acquisitions and how to acquire the details about growth-oriented companies will please any business owner, broker, appraiser or business buyer.

Jan Tudor is simply the best guide avaliable for climbing the summit of M&A research on-line or off. A professional researcher's professional her stellar reputation in the industry has insured a host of illustrative interviews, techniques, and fine honed observations from across the M&A landscape.

Now that the book is out of print, you can still get the Swimmer's guide information on a CD-rom for Windows 95 called the Swimmer's Guide Off-line.

This book contains thousands of locations for lap swimming in the US. It is a great travel companion for the traveling business man or the person on vaction. The book is great for finding pools on the road and staying in shape while traveling.

Now in its updated and expanded edition, The Telecommunications Illustrated Dictionary compiled by Julie K. Petersen is a straightforward and comprehensive reference featuring brief yet informative entries defining common terms in the telecommunications industry, from "aircraft earth station" and "backhaul broadcasting" to "high/low tariff", "rural service area", "wire speed" and much more. Informative appendices and a comprehensive index round out the clear and easy-to-understand information artfully organized in The Telecommunications Illustrated Dictionary. A concise, fact-filled, 1073-page reference, recommended for telecommunications students and professionals alike, The Telecommunications Industry Illustrated Dictionary is an invaluable and highly recommended addition to academic and professional library reference collections.

The content appears to be accurate and useful. It is presented in a format that is clear and easy to read.

It is the best dictionary of its type that I have seen.

Being new to the bay area need not be daunting anymore. With this book in hand, you can go anywhere you want. All you need is an address. And since the map is in separate A4 size pages, it is very easy to look at different sections at the same time. No need to fold and unfold, no need to be worried about its getting torn.

The maps also have a lookup based on the house numbers. It will be the best investment you will have made in a long long time.

If you live in the Bay Area, the Thomas Bros. map book "Metropolitan Bay Area" is the one volume to keep by your side. It covers just about every single town and street between San Jose and the North Bay. If you're among the terminally lost, this is the book to have...forget those map web sites!

It is true that the Thomas Guide is the most conclusive map book around! I recently purchased the 2001 LA/Orange Thomas Guide, as well as many others, at the Thomas Brothers store in San Francisco on Jackson and Columbus. They had every Thomas Guide known to man, and wall maps to accompany them!

The Thomas Guide is the definitive map for anyone who needs to find addresses quickly and easily in the Los Angeles area. It lists every street imaginible, even tiny ones like the one near where I live that doesn't even have a street sign, yet Thomas Guide knows its name.

Streets are indexed by street name, making them easy to find in the grid-like maps on each page. There is even a handy zip code listing. Great for sales people and the like who need to find their way through unfamiliar territory quickly and easily. I'd be lost without my Thomas Guide.

These Thomas Guides are the absolute benchmark in major city navigational tools. The next best thing to GPS. The King, Pierce, Snohomish edition is no exception. A must for anyone living in or traveling often to the Seattle area. This book is over 45 dollars at Barnes & Nobels, and at Border's bookstores. The book is very sturdy and extremely detailed. It also comes with a CD-rom so you can access all of the maps and look up addresses on your computer. Amazon.com is definitely the only place you need to look if you're shopping for a Thomas Guide (or anything else for that matter). I live in the state of Washington so the standard (free!) shipping was virtually next day guaranteed.

I purchased this map because we were moving to the Seattle area. Since I had never been to Seattle before, it was a much needed resource.

The map is spiral bound which helps prevent the pages from tearing out, especially when they get a lot of use.

The guide is separated by county, which at first can be confusing if you don't know which county you are in. Still, it has been a wonderful resource and has prevented me from getting lost more than once.

I highly recommend this street guide/directory.

I have absolutely zero natural sense of direction so this guide is perfect in its level of detail. It seems to cover every inch of Portland, including a full street index in the back that makes it easy to locate an address.

I have purchased the Thomas Guides for Portland for the last several years and have found them to be an absolutely indespensible navigational aid. Every street in the metro area and surrounding suburbs is detailed within this guide. Its comprehensive detail and ease of use make it a real help. If you have to drive in Portland even occassionally I cannot recommend strongly enough that you buy this guide.