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I found this book to be an excellent resource! It has helped me find many companies in the Denver area that I would like to work for. I also really like the extra details that were provided with most of the companies' description -- like the types of positions they have, and common desired qualifications. It helped me narrow down my list of potential employers.

My only wish is that they update this book soon and release a new Edition! Yet, information from 1999 is still relevant today, for the most part.

While some of the information contained in "How to Make Big Profits Publishing City & Regional Books", can be found in other self-publishing type books, this book provided much more. Regional publications are an untapped resource, and this book tells you how to capitalize on that concept. Our book, "101 Things To Do on the Wisconsin Great River Road" is proof.

Hungry? Seattle offers inside tips on where to go and what to expect. From kid-friendly, entertaining, and hard to find dives, these are the places the locals love and visitors hunt for. A great book for visitors and established residents alike!

Now in a completely updated and expanded fourth edition, Diane Rozario's The Immunization Resource Guide: Where To Find Answers To All Your Questions About Childhood Vaccinations continues to be a complete, single volume reference for parents concerned with providing their children with appropriate medical services. Included are reviews of more than ninety books covering virtually all aspects of childhood immunizations; detailed listings of more than 130 vaccine and health organizations, periodicals, and publishers; coverage of such issues as vaccines and the immune system; international travel; a history of vaccination; how to report vaccine injuries; the DPT vaccine; obtaining legal exemptions; new generation vaccines; and vaccine adverse reactions. The The Immunization Resource Guide is superbly written, outstandingly presented, "parent friendly" compendium of information and resources, and a very highly recommended addition to any family, health clinic, medical center, or community library parenting and health/medicine reference collection.

The author has examined investing from many different angles to provide you with access to helpful investment information that you would probably never find otherwise. When you do searches for investment related sites, you get back thousands of references. Using this guide, you can pick a few outstanding sites in areas you are interested and investigate them to find the one or ones that best fit your needs.

For stocks, this book tells you where to find out about each market in the world, stock picking and trading strategies (including day trading), research and analysis, IPOs, and quotes. A similar level of detail is available for bonds, options, commodities, and mutual funds. Other sections cover important topics like money management (debt, savings, financial planning, tax planning, banking, and insurance), on-line security, and investment clubs.

Each section lists a large number of sites. You can obviously go to all of them if you want to. But for some, a brief summary is provided in the back of the book. These are marked, so you can decide if you want a little more information before going to a site. Probably, though, it would be faster just to go to the site. One of the beauties of this information is that it will save you a lot of clicking, because you get the right page reference for the part of the site that you are interested in. That was really neat!

In all but a few sections, the author has picked out 1-3 as an "Editor's Choice Site" meaning that these are more highly recommended. Many of these are reproduced in the book so you can get a sense of what's there. This can save you futher time.

I spend a lot of time looking at investments on the Internet, but this book introduced me to a large number of helpful sites that I had not been to before. If I make just one invetment better, the price of the book will be a pittance compared to the benefit.

If you are an investment beginner, I recommend that you read books like Rich Dad, Poor Dad; How to Buy Stocks; ChangeWave Investing; and Common Sense about Mutual Funds before using this wonderful guide.

If you are an experienced investor, dive right in. Undoubtedly, there is some part of investing that you are skimping on. With these on-line resources, you can fill in those gaps profitably. My one quibble with the book is that it could have done a little more to make it clearer about which sites are free for which services, and what you have to pay for. In general, this is described, but being a cheap investor (see my review of Scrooge Investing) I just like to use the free resources. So I will spend some time here at sites that cost money, before realizing that I need not return.

Obviously, a book like this will quickly become obsolete, so get it now and use it now!

After you start using this great guide, I suggest that you think about other areas in your life where you may not be fully using on-line resources. How about career planning, job hunting, starting a business, buying items you use everyday, planning trips, getting custom products, and solving problems? You should then find ways to make the Internet help you in those areas as well. Otherwise, the loss is yours! The Internet can provide the basics for developing many 2,000 percent solutions!

Before you read further, let me mention that this guide to locating Internet sites frequently will send you to sites with potentially offensive material. If you use the index in the back of the book before visiting a Web site, you should avoid unpleasant experiences. The index warns about adult content. The details of what is on the site are also spelled out in the index in case the material could be offensive for other reasons.

The Internet is the ultimate insurance for free speech. What someone says may not be right, or it may not be nice, but they can express their views on their own Web site. This book plays a valuable role in highlighting Web sites that would otherwise probably not be found by too many, as they are normally buried at the bottom of search engine lists or missed altogether.

If you have a long and abiding interest in some of the on-going scandals and conspiracy theories, this book will be valuable to you. Ordinarily, if you are like me, you would not stop to think about searching for new material on these subjects. As a writer, I will often use this book in the future to locate fresh material about perspectives on current issues and debates.

I think many people will also use it effectively for entertainment purposes. If you have 10 minutes to spare, this book can quickly get you into the middle of some fascinating material. I urge you to look in on subjects that might not normally interest you (as long as they do not offend you). You may be pleasantly surprised by the new questions and facts you learn, and the perspectives you gain about human nature.

Part One of the book is organized by topic to help you locate what might generally be available. Part Two is the index to let you know more about the appropriateness of going to the site. If you are adventurous, you can just go directly to the site.

Part One begins with a "Tabloid!" section on favorite tabloid subjects like JonBenet Ramsey, OJ, Dr. Kevorkian, Tonya Harding, talk shows, and other sites that appeal to the senses (death, obsessions, sex, and shock).

The "Conspiracies" look at health (AIDS), science (killer bees), domination plots (assassinations, Jihads, and media), destruction (airline disasters), and various other types of conspiracies (ecology, economic, and terrorism).

"Your Tax Dollars at Work" looks at the CIA, FBI, other Federal agents, military, NASA, and state and local government officials. You also get material on foreign governments like Cuba, Colombia, and the Iran-Contra Affair.

The "Politics in the Spotlight" has lots on the presidents, especially JFK and Bill Clinton, as well as assorted other politicians.

"Cults & Religion" predictably gets you to Heaven's Gate, Jonestown, and various other groups.

Many of the hot current topics are covered in "Advocates, Issues & Answers" including abortion, animal rights, "the end is near", militias, and on-line rights.

Naturally, there's a whole section on "UFOs."

"Legends on Earth: Reality or Hoax?" covers Bigfoot, Yeti, the Loch Ness monster, vampires, and wee folk.

"It Happened Here -- Infamous Places" shows Columbine High School, the Oklahoma City bombing, Waco, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Easter Island, and the Bermuda Triangle.

"That's Entertainment" gets you to sites about actors, actresses, and singers (alive and deceased).

"Royalty" is the predictable crew . . . with Donald Trump added.

"Crime Time" looks at Amy Fisher, Lorena and John Wayne Bobbitt, kidnapping, Charles Manson, the Menendez brothers, and the Mafia.

If you are like me, some of these subjects are ones that you already know more about than you want to. But the list has probably tickled a fancy or two. Even if you don't get the book, you can always do an Internet search based on realizing that there is material in these topic areas.

But the book can be helpful in making you ready for the unexpected as well. One site offers material on 60 conspiracies to steal elections from the past. Do you suppose anyone might be thinking about that subject now? Perhaps there will have to be 61 soon.

Enjoy this book within the limits of your own taste and good judgment!

While there is no single model for business incubators, in most cases the concept goes beyond the simple provision of a shared office or workspace facility for small business clients. The hallmark of any effective business incubator programme should be its focus on the added value that it brings to small business 'tenants' in terms of strengthened business skills; access to business services; improved operating environment; an opportunities for business networking, etc. to nurture early-stage small businesses, increasing their prospect for business survival and growth, compared with the situation outside the incubator.

In this book, Colin Barrow, the Head of the Enterprise Group at Cranfeild University School of Management, and Director of the Business Growth and Development Programme in the UK, gives very deep analysis of business incubators and gives the large list of incubators throughout the globe. The main questions of these book are "how business incubators work and does it work at all", "why there is a need for incubators", "what is the history of incubators and where we are now", "who goes in for incubation", "is incubation right for you", "how long should a tenant stay inside the incubator", and so on.

The case studies in this book are mostly based on e-business and software companies. I would also have recommended his book "How to Survive E-Business Downturn" in addition to this book.

Hmmm. where to start. Endless resources and contacts make this book the single best investment I've made to spread my music to radio, 'Zines, mp3stations and the like. The only downfall is, while it saves you ALOT of legwork (and guesswork), it only lists the URL's of each entry. Ya gotta score the contact names and email addresses on your own...and a few of the links are now defunct.A form to order a free update is included, though, so ya really can't go wrong.