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Chapman Piloting: Seamanship & Boat Handling (Chapman Piloting Seamanship and Boat Handling, 63rd Ed)
Published in Hardcover by Sterling Publications (December, 1999)
Authors: Elbert S. Maloney and Charles Frederic Chapman
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Don't Leave Home (or the Dock) Without It!
Our most frequently asked question: "What's the one book you'd recommend for a boater?" Our answer every time: "Chapman's."

Whether you're a new boater just getting started or an old salt needing a little refresher, this is your dependable one-volume reference. When we need material for our "Boating/PWC Basics" course, this is where we go.

The book is continuously updated and fresh, with new information on topics like GPS and how to use it and Digital Selective Calling (DSC) for your marine radio. It continues to present essential and complete information on preparing to get underway, operating and navigating your boat, the practice of good seamanship, docking or mooring your boat, and how to put it away for the winter (which some of us have to do!).

Chapman's has been a fixture in our library (and on our boats) since the 50th edition in 1972. And even though we pay a little more for it now than the $8.95 price in 1972, you'll still find it a great value at Amazon's price shown above.

Our advice: Don't leave home (or the dock) without it.

The Difference is in the Detail
A required book for your nautical bookshelf and worth three times the price. But don't expect to read it in just a few evenings.

The 63rd Edition should tell you something. This is a huge text that has been revised and improved many times. I have three different editions spanning 35 years--including a recent one which had been moderized especially in the area of electronics.

Many people might be daunted by the amount of information in this book. It is presented by topic and not necessarily by the order you should learn this material. If you think of it as a reference and take it one bite at a time, and work your way through the book, you will be a better seaman for it.

The text is suitable for both power boaters and sailors, who own or operate small to large yachts.

Having trouble docking? Confused about anchoring? Buy this book. The explanations for the use of spring lines alone are worth the price of the book, and will help you keep your vessel intact. We don't want to smash the boat up with 50 people watching do we?

This is the first book we recommend to our boating students.
Many nautical books come and go, but Captain Charles Chapman's book has stood the test of time. It's the reference book the U.S. Power Squadron used when I took my first boating course and it now stands dog eared next to the 63rd Edition, but I will never part with it. This is the first book we recommend to all of our boating students...From boating basics through flag etiquette, this book usually has the answer. Whether you're new to boating or a seasoned blue water skipper, this should be part of your nautical library....Captain Sig Trotta

New Pocket Hawaiian Dictionary: With a Concise Grammar and Given Names in Hawaiian
Published in Paperback by University of Hawaii Press (January, 1992)
Authors: Mary Kawena Pukui, Samuel H. Elbert, Esther T. Mookini, and Yu Mapuana Nishizawa
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A great little resource.
This book has around 11,000 words with adequate definitions.

I like the fact that the people that compiled this dictionary included names and even a guide to assist in pronounciation.

This nook is not an exhaustive researh on the Hawaiian language; but will greatly assist in research; Two Bears.

Aloha nui loa (I love you very much).

makamae
this little book is a hidden treasure!I know,for I spent most of my life growing up in the islands.
hawaii is a place unique in the sense that the spirit and the beauty can actually be captured by the words in the language...I highly recomend these priceless pages of fun and enjoyment.if for no other reason than to learn a new word to describe something...the languageis sweet,the words simple,and "the new pocket hawiian dictionary"no ka oi! mahalo to the authors!!!!

Very Nice! Definatly a 5 star!
This book is VERRY nicly written for quick referance, and fits in your pocket. Going to Hawaii? Grap this dictionary. Are you a pure English american hoping to sound parcialy intelegent when a Hawaiian Dairy Queen worker asks, "I luna la i luna, na monu o ka puana?". Or you're a seasoned hawaiian linguist, that forgot how to say "antidisestablishmentterrionism"; you will find this book Quick, Well-thought-out, and not to mention fun.

Babywatching
Published in Hardcover by Crown Pub (April, 1992)
Authors: Desmond Morris, Paula Elbert-Bender, and Paula Elbirt-Bender
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A Compassionate Picture of Our Human Animals
Desmond Morris had a simple way of explaining things ... and presenting scientific evidence to help people understand ourselves. In this book about babies, we develop a compassionate view of the smallest of our species: their needs, their loves, what makes them laugh ... But what you could learn from the book is not just about babies. It is about us, even adults. Think why we laugh, think why we cry. Think what makes us happy. Think what makes us sad. We were all babies once ... and a baby is inside all of us from time to time. Most of Morris's books bring us back down to our awareness of our animal selves ... our innocence, stupidity, disguises, most basic needs and wants. This is just another one. Perfect for the parents who like to understand their babies in "principle", not just in a large set of rules of "dos" and "donts".

Forgotten wisdom
A lot of this book is just ancient wisdom that people have forgotten because they have fallen for the medical model. Since when is birth a medical condition? Since never. A lot of it is just common sense. For example, not one "primitive" society in history ever had women give birth lying on their backs. It's always been squatting, so gravity helps the baby come out. Nature knows what to do. If it didn't we would have died out a long time ago. Morris writes in a casual, easy-to-read, oftentimes humorous style. At times this book is fascinating. It should be read by anyone who's thinking about having a kid.

Best book about the how & why of baby's behaviour
This book is a must for all people who have anything to do with babies. It explains why babies and parents behave the way they do and where this behaviour comes from. Myths like "babies can be trained" are explained and disposed of in a scientific, yet extremely easy to read and often humorous manner.

Read this and you'll know how to respond properly to your baby

Chapman Piloting
Published in Hardcover by Hearst Books (September, 1991)
Author: Elbert Maloney
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Chapman Piloting
Excellent book, the best in its class. It contains all the needed information for safe boating.

Chapman's Piloting
This book is a must for anyone who is seriously thinking about spending time out on the water. There is very detailed information on every aspect of seamanship and boating. Boaters who are just beginning to those who are so called "experts" really must have a copy of this book in their nautical library. I have a very old copy which is well read and tattered and now it is time to buy a newer edition. It is even better than before with updated critical information on all kinds of topics. Anyone interested in boating can spend endless hours just browsing and reading this book. "May the wind always fill your sails!"

The Crazy Ladies
Published in Paperback by New American Library (July, 1984)
Author: Joyce Elbert
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The Crazy Ladies / Sex and the City. same girls, years apart
"THE CRAZY LADIES" is one of my all-time favorite books. For anyone who loves the hit HBO show "Sex and the City", you MUST read this book!

"THE CRAZY LADIES" is the 1970's "prequel" to "Sex and the City", no doubt about it.

This book follows the adventures of four young women who go chasing around Manhattan having one wild sexual adventure after another. Sound familiar? It's hilarious!

This book could only have been written by Candace Bushnell, who wrote "Sex and the City" and who thinks like a man; or this author known as "Joyce Elbert" who no one knows anything about, and who I secretly think must be a man because women just don't write this way!

I can't say anything at all about the storyline, I don't want to spoil this book for anyone by giving away even one teeny little part of the story. Let's just say you'll never eat a hotdog again without thinking about this book and LAUGHING!!!!

(What is a "Norforms" anyway???)

Read, enjoy!

The Best Ladies Book Ever Written.
I first read this book when I was about 13 or 14. I couldn't put it down! At the time, the 24 year age of our first character Simone, a french model, seemed OLD at the time to me...more I won't say, but I will tell you that this book has remained in my collection, though many others have come and gone.............The reason? Simple, it's THAT entertaining. We have four women whose lives are seperate, yet by the end, they're all entwined. The aforementioned Simone, a ditzy fur model, single and looking. Anita her stewardess friend who is single and desperate to be married and pregnant, especially by pilot Jack who uses her when he's so inclined. Beverly, a voluptuous housewife with a closet gay fashion editor husband, Peter. Finally Lou, a writer who works at magazine "The Rag" (nice moniker) with Peter, also single and searching................I have read this book so many times that I remember all this without having read it in a few years. The way Joyce Elbert ties them all together by the end of the book is real writing skill. I bought 5 of her titles used from the marketplace here at Amazon based on the quality of this book, and it's followup "The Return Of The Crazy Ladies", which is the PERFECT sequel. If you want to read the greatest novel for women ever written, without the sugary romance, just romantic angst and humor...try this!

Dutton's Navigation and Piloting
Published in Hardcover by United States Naval Inst. (April, 1985)
Authors: Benjamin Dutton and Elbert S. Maloney
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Not essential to navigation, but most desirable

The essentials to celestial navigation are a sextant, the current nautical almanac, and an accurate timepiece correctible to Greenwich Mean Time (Coordinated Universal Time.)

Given those things and some basic instruments and charts, and of course the requisite knowledge and skills to use them, you can find your way on the trackless oceans of the world.

If you lack the knowledge and skills to use the above instruments and objects, you can learn to use them, with the application of the necessary dilligence and intelligence, in either of two volumes, this one and the 'American Practical Navigator.' The latter comes in two volumes, and is published by the U.S. government (Defense Mapping Agency Hydrographic Center).

Both volumes are used as textbooks by the United States Naval Academy and the United States Power Squadrons, to teach celestial navigation. I am a full certificate member of the latter organization.

I recommend them to you.

Joseph Pierre, N
Author of THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS: Our Journey Through Etermnity

A systematic and complete book about navigation
This book is very complete covering all aspects of navigation from simple pilotage to gyro compass. The approach is always didactic and very complete describing f.i. not less than 4 methods of sight reduction for Astro Navigation. Although written for merchant navy, it is also suitable for small craft navigation.

Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections Gathered During a Life Time of Discriminating Reading for His Own Use
Published in Paperback by Firebird Press (April, 1999)
Author: Elbert Hubbard
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Hubbard Street.
Forty years ago,while walking,in Chicago, I discovered that I had turned on to Hubbard street,and encountered a used book store, tended by a very strange, and extremely hostile couple,who very reluctantly, allowed me to walk out of their store, with an entire shelf of Fra Elberts books,in excellent condition.beautifully bound at his Roycrofters institute, in East Aurora; One of the books was "Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book",and it was worth far more than the price I paid for the entire lot;In fact,one item (About Chief Red Cloud) is priceless; I highly reccomend that everyone buy this book if only for that one essay,and if you can get it along with his "A Message To Garcia"by all means do so. The wisdom in those two items,is sorely needed today.

1923 version of elbert hubbard's scrap book
I was given this book from my mother. My mother got the book from one of my fathers great aunts. It was published in 1923. I have yet to read the entire book after 5 years of owning it. The reason is you have to read certain passages and think of what they really meant.

I actually use this book to relax, when ever times are hard, and i need a change of pace. There are writtings from every great person that wrote or spoke up untill the time Mr. Hubbard died. This is a very inspirational reading. I recommend this book to everyone.

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Western Region
Published in Turtleback by Knopf (June, 1980)
Authors: Elbert L., Jr. Little and Angelo Lomeo
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Nice guide for at home or the field.
This book offers excellent photographs and very extensive information on trees. I use it often and have had great success identifying trees that otherwise I wouldn't know what they were. nicely organized and easy to use. The compact size is awesome for travelling and taking it hiking. Another great Audobon guide.

A comprehensive field guide to the trees of the W. U.S.
This field guide is an excellent field to the trees typically found west of the continental divide of the United States and as far east as the Mississippi River. This guide includes photos and descriptions of the native trees of western North America, as well as common naturalized trees and a number of introduced species. Several rare subtropical species of the Mexican border region have been omitted. The front 1/2 of the book includes 537 photos of leaves and bark, flowers, and cones and fruit. The second 1/2 contains detailed descriptions of the 314 species presented in the front portion of the book. A detailed index including both common and scientific names is found in the rear of the book

Internal Medicine: Handbook for Clinicians
Published in Paperback by Scrub Hill Press, Inc. (15 September, 2000)
Authors: Elbert Huang, Wilson Tang, David Lee, Carey Conley Thompson, and Melissa A. Fischer
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BWH resident opinion
This is the best handbook out there. In the past I have used the MGH manual, Ferri and the Washington manual, as well as one I made myself. There is no question that this is the only book, aside from Sanford, that I use on a daily basis. I use it for calculations, quick reviews, and even for teaching. On more than one occasion I have based a lecture on the format used in this handbook.

An MGH medical resident's perspective
This book is now literally the only book (besides my Palm Pilot) I carry on the wards. It has an amazing wealth of information from ECG criteria for the diagnosis of wide complex tachycardia, to Coumadin dosing algorithms, to guidelines for thyroid nodule evaluations. All guidelines/recomendations are extensively refrenced to the primary literature. Ounce for ounce, the best and most comprehensive medical handbook!

Lighter Coat Pockets...
Ever since I started carrying this book around, I have had no use for all the other cards and books I used to carry. In fact this book and the palm pilot with epocrates are the only things a medical resident should ever need. The information is complete, concise and up to date with full references. The book is well written, perfectly layed out and easy to navigate. And of importance to any housestaff/medical student, it's small and light and fits in any coat pocket...

Chapman Piloting Seamanship and Small Boat Handling
Published in Hardcover by William Morrow (September, 1993)
Author: Elbert S. Maloney
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complete guide to boating
I grew up with Chapman's and I still have it close at hand...the latest edition is exceptional. If you only have one boating book, this is the one you need.

common sense should prevail
I was talking with a cruise ship captain in Key West, and he brought up Chapman's guide to piloting. We were discussing rules of the road, ie, under sail has right of way over ships under power. Being the captain of a large cruise ship, he said, "Ask yourself, is it easier for a sailboat to come about to avoid a collision or is it easier for a large ocean liner to stop before he hits you?" Therein lies the true wisdom of rules of the road: the bigger vessel will win every time. If your boat is easier to handle and can get out of the way sooner, be polite and make the first move long before it becomes an issue. Although Chapman's is the authority on rules of the road, common sense should prevail when rules come in conflict.

An excellent update of a classic reference
The quality of presentation of topics of interest to boaters is excellent. Good illustrations and clear explantions typify this latest edition. The sections on boat handling and navigation alone are well worth the price.

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