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This book is an excellent handbook for the contractor and construction professional. It clearly cuts through a lot of the hype that comes from the hardware and software sales departments and tells you what you need to know. The authors have spent a lot of time reviewing various software from every angle. They tell you what it can do and what it cannot do. The book covers software for CAD, specifications, estimating, scheduling, accounting, job costing, preparation of forms and contact management. In some cases the authors tell you a few things that the software vendors don't want you to know. Don't expect to read this from cover to cover. This is a book that you will use as a reference. It is especially good for the contractor who is just getting into computers or for the person that needs to get more out of the computer. Submitted by: Stanley Strychaz, West Hills, C

This is a great cookbook. A friend of mine introduced em to some of the recipes. They are easy and quick to prepare.

Now in a newly updated twelfth edition, Corporate Foundation Profiles is a solid, comprehensive, reliable resource filled with a wealth of descriptive information and facts about philanthropic foundations across America. Corporate Foundation Profiles includes extensive and detailed lists of each foundation's purpose, background, staff, extensive analysis and charts concerning its grants, contact information, and much more, Corporate Foundation Profiles is a superb, comprehensive, unparalleled reference and an essential addition to the fund raising resource information collections of non-profit organization and community library reference collections.

The Corporate Report Fact Book contains information about a number of publically held, privately held, and non-profit companies in the upper Midwest. It provides detailed information about the companies, and about over six hundred individual business leaders in the region. This book is an excellent resource for would-be employees or investors.

It provides address (both physical and online) for the companies, as well as details about revenue, number of employees, type of business and financial information such as balance sheets for publically held companies. The information is also available online, though in not quite such detail.

The 1999 version is very easy to use, and changes made in the 2000 edition make it even easier. Information is clearly documented (so it's easy to tell what you're looking for and at.) It gives all sorts of detailed stock and financial information for publically-owned companies, and is therefore an excellent resource for investors. The information about kind of industry and other details are great for prospective employers. I can see it alos being very useful to companies or businesspeople wishing to make contacts with companies in a given industry.

An unbelievable CD-ROM! Almost a thousand large, crisp photos, TV commercials, the "Black Book" statistics and much more is included. The screen saver is worth the price alone. If you like Corvette, you WILL love this CD.

This book guided us through our honeymoon trip to the south of England excellently. Not the book if you're expecting 4-star "American-style" hotels, but the perfect book if you're looking for local character and charm. Descriptions are extremely accurate (rare for a guidebook). Drawings of each lodging site were helpful when somewhat lost

Now in its second edition, Counties USA: A Directory Of United States Counties is a solid and accessibly organized reference that presents basic facts concerning each county in America, including a brief description, historical origin of the county's name, its area, population, median age, income figures, unemployment figures, median home value, median travel time to work, and more. Counties USA is commended for governmental, corporate, academic, and community library reference collections as being a truly first-rate resource as a quick and easy reference.

Courierspeak is a multi-lingual phrase book for art handlers, curators, and couriers accompanying art across international boundaries. It's written by experts who have encountered every imaginable circumstance, accident, and catastrophe. The comic illustrations, featuring very funny frogs, are a delightful accompaniment to its useful text. A Michelin style format makes it easy to pack. This book would also make an unusual gift as a reference book for lovers of language. Smithsonian has done a public service by publishing a useful phrasebook for an admittedly slim market.

If you had been a rake in 18th century London, you would have been very familiar with a guidebook called _Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies_. It was issued first in 1757 and continued for almost forty years a bestseller. It was a bit expensive, two shillings and sixpence, which was about what you could rent a room for. It was a guide to the prostitutes available around Covent Garden, their attractions, their talents, and, in some cases, their demerits. The authorship of the _List_ was attributed to "Harris", of course, but Hallie Rubenhold, a teacher of history, is the first to uncover the full story of the _List_'s production. In _The Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack & the Extraordinary Story of Harris's List_ (Tempus Publishing), Rubenhold has not only told the story of the List and given full depictions of the three main characters involved in its production, but has also given a social history of the London of the time. It is a raucous picture, funny and sad by turns. If you appreciate the work of Hogarth, many of whose pictures are included here, you will find this a fascinating account.

Harris was not the author of the notorious book; he wasn't even Harris. He was John Harrison, who was a waiter at the Shakespear's Head tavern, a boisterous retreat especially for the theatrical set. Harris was a clever man who might have been a banker but for his low birth. He said, "I saw great room for an amendment in the profession of pimping," and worked out solutions to such problems of supplying new whores into the system. He called himself the Pimp General of All England, and few would have disagreed. He had an army of over 400 prostitutes, and was a well-known figure in the town, so including his name on the _List_ was a perfect selling point for it, but he wasn't the author. That honor, Rubenhold discovered, goes to a fascinating Irishman, Samuel Derrick. He ran away to London with aspirations to become a poet and a member of Dr. Johnson's set, and indeed became acquainted with Johnson, Boswell, and the rest. His real talents lay not in poetry but in whoring and in hack writing. It was he who produced the lists, and probably paid Harrison for the use of his assumed name in the title. The profits from the _List_ were the making of him, and he wound up surprisingly respectable. He was able to bequeath the profits of the _List_ to Charlotte Hayes, with whom he had had a fond relationship as customer, lover, and friend. She became landed gentry, although she never really left the business. Inspired by French examples, she became a mistress of high-class brothels mockingly known as nunneries. Even in comfortable widowhood and retirement, Hayes could not completely leave her background, and was sought out to help arrange assignations. This is a big story, and Rubenhold has wisely not restricted it to the lists themselves. She does, of course, include samples of what the _List_ had to say, showing that Derrick's prose was not only a precise, witty, and useful guide, but was material for fantasy that could be enjoyed as anyone can enjoy a catalogue without buying from it. Here you can find, for example, Miss Loveborn, of Number 32 George Street, who delighted in birching her customers, and it is revealed that the shop from which she bought her birchen brooms was so pleased with her custom, it granted her discounts on tea and coffee as well. There are scores of others.

The three main characters here all fared reasonably well from their trades, but Rubenhold quite rightly describes the less salubrious and cheerful parts of being a prostitute of the times. There were diseases, and cures for the diseases that were sometimes worse. There were unwanted pregnancies and distasteful ways of dealing with them. There was rape, and there was the threat of prison, though this was often for debt rather than moral crimes. Rubenhold's description of life in the Fleet Prison is unforgettable. After Harris, Derrick, and Hayes bowed off the stage, society became more prudish and the _List_ was legally closed down. It was great while it lasted, and it was the making of the pimp, the hack, and the whore, chronicled in a vastly entertaining and revealing work of history.

This book is an invaluable data resource. It describes the details of new corporate organizations in growth states; such as, Washington, Montana, Colorado, Utah and Idaho. The largest land area is in Alaska and Texas. The largest plots of government owned land are in Alaska, Nevada and California. The pupil to teacher
ratio is most favorable in Utah, Arizona, Oregon , Nevada, Michigan, Idaho and Florida. This volume is packed with important statistical data which may prove to be very helpful in personal
financial and relocation planning. The acquisition is perfect for
a constituency of librarians, students , builders and family
planners.