Directories Books

if you need it, it's gold.
otherwise, just expensive half-ton of paper.
unfortunately it keeps being updated, so unless it's current, it's useless even if you need it.
electronic versions are a much better deal, plus you save some trees.

As a college counselor in a highly regarded prep school, I use the Fiske Guide heavily. I greatly value the paragraphs of text description of the colleges; while I advise students and their families that they should, ideally, visit colleges and speak with current students and recent alumni, I find that the Fiske Guide descriptions are one more invaluable piece of information among all the resources students can use in making their decisions. I also have an interactive version of the 1996 guide, loaded onto my hard disk from a CD-ROM. I use this constantly, printing out information for one or two schools for my students. I would like to order a more recent version, if one exists, but I have been frustrated in my efforts to learn how to do this!

London, Tokyo, Paris, Sydney, New York, Chicago: around the world exchanges are open and products are being traded. Fitzroy Dearborn Directory of the World's Futures and Options Markets is a country-by-country directory of the exchanges, their contracts, key personnel, history, regulations, and memberships. Also included are descriptions and performance histories of more than 600 futures and options products, and an overview of the futures and options business in more than 25 countries (including information on practice, regulation, and taxation).

This book is a great FM radio station guide. Contains technical info on power, tower height and also info on formats. Why is there no new edition?

This book is the best directory of physicans, hands down! I am a court reporter who needs to locate spellings of doctors on a regular basis. This is a must-have! It is very, very rare that I cannot find a doctor I am looking for in this book. Worth the price!

Peter Genovese, a feature writer for the "Star Ledger" in Newark, the state's largest newspaper, has released the second edition of this excellent guide. Genovese draws on years of experience traveling all over the state, sometimes in the "Star Ledger's" Munchmobile.

The book is divided into the four sections that everyone from New Jersey recognizes: North Jersey, Central Jersey, South Jersey, and the Jersey Shore. Genovese highlights delicious food attractions in each section. There are hundreds of entries, and a few examples have to suffice:

In North Jersey, the Iron Bound "is a paradise for food lovers. It is home to most of the state's best Spanish and Portuguese restaurants, and is also home to Brazilian, Central American and Italian restaurants. You could eat every day for a month here and barely scratch the surface of the foods available."

In Central Jersey, Mr. Tod's Pies in Somerset is a great bakery -- sweet potato, banana cream, Key lime and cherry pies are standouts.

In South Jersey, there's an annual cranberry festival and a fire station holds an annual muskrat dinner, continuing a century long tradition.

Along the Jersey Shore, seafood reigns supreme along the 127 miles of sandy beaches, but there are outstanding Italian sausage and pizza joints as well.

This is a very handy book to carry with you as you travel through the state. You may find you have an hour to spare and immediate access to the largest M&M factory, where a plant tour proved to be a great delight. And, there are hundreds of other possibilities, all described in a warm, even loving, fashion. Very well done indeed.


Robert C. Ross 2008

A lot of research must have been completed to create such a comprehensive work about the topic. Keith Fossey has provided the highschool athlete with a concise work that answers many questions they might have in the scholarship process. A book that can truly pay for itself many, many times over

An unbelievable CD-ROM! Hundreds of large, crisp photos, clip art, TV commercials, a slide show, the "Red Book" statistics and prices and much more is included. The screen saver is worth the price alone. If you like Mustangs, you WILL love this CD.

I have done a thorough revision of this book and found it accurate, updated and very useful for teachers, students, business professionals and others. It will surprise many readers to learn about unsuspected websites and sources of the weirdest information. This book is simply a tool to help us, interested in the Hispanic world, learn, surf and gain access to a huge mine of resources. As happen with other technology books, this one needs to be updated frequently, due to the proliferation of new websites, while other sites are shut down. An overall positive outlook.

Gerhard Lichter, and acclaimed international paleontologist shows how to collect, record, prepare, and display your own discoveries. The tools and methods for extraction and preparation are covered. Very nice photographs from specimens collected around the world. This is a definitive must have for all fossil collector enthusiasts