This innovative book is a must for those who like to shop in Connecticut. It tells you where to go, how to get there, and what you will find when you arrive. Ms. Habib is truly on to something, and should consider expanding to other areas such as Long Island and New Jersey. After you read this book, you will wonder how you ever went shopping in Fairfield County without it. If you like to shop and cannot live without a Hagstrom Map, then you have to have this book!

This title is currently being revised. While the latest title, the 6th edition, is available at this time, a new, 7th edition will be available in May 2002. These walks are interesting and for the most part easy. More, new walks are being added to the new edition, the best of what is already there will be kept....

If you are history buff, this work tells the story of King Philip's War as no other.

One caveat: As with all histories of the day, it has zero objectivity with regard to the First Nations.

Still, the details this book provides will be found nowhere else.

Reading the accounts in other history books on the era gives you a general idea about particular battles. This book goes into GREAT detail.

It is worth both the price and the wait to have it printed. Superb!

The Smithsonian Natural Guides are my new bibles for travel. Who really cares about those guides for motels, restaurants and cheesy attractions anyhow? These guides take one to the real America behind (and often above) the tourist traps!

Finch and Wallen team up to the best of their expertise with splendid descriptive writing and photography (the latter always a trademark of this series!). Cape Cod, The Berkshires, the Connecticut and Rhode Island Coasts as well as other areas of natural interest are brought right to the reader and make you want to go there immediately and see what you've just read about.

In this book, Taber is successful in taking us through the year one month at a time, season by season. One can imagine themselves living at Stillmeadow in the quiet, country atmosphere.

Throughout the book, Taber muses on different subjects such as wildlife, cooking, bird watching, pets, flower arranging, weather, and other country items of interest.

This is a book for anyone who enjoys living in the country or who desires to live in the country. It is a book to read at leisure so that you can savor it page by page.

As a former country dweller and a now-reluctant city dweller, it brings back many fond memories of my childhood growing up in the country.

I love Gladys Taber's books.

In STILLMEADOW ROAD, Taber diaries life in her Connecticut farmhouse, circa 1960. Perhaps the charm of her books is in the simplicity of the life she describes. Perhaps it's in her delight in words as well as in her existence. Certainly it's in the phrasing she uses, the verbal portraits she paints of her life, her dogs, her friends. Here is warmth and love and charm in print. Here are simple vignettes to warm the reader's heart and challenge her to find the same delight in life wherever she may be.

"We have an appointment with winter," she writes in the beginning, "and we are ready. The wood is stacked with seasoned applewood and maple, the snow shovel leans at the back door, the shelves are jammed with supplies. When the first innocent flakes drift down, we put out more soot and fill the bird feeders. When the snow begins to come in all directions at once and the wind takes on a peculiar lonely cry, we pile more wood on the fire and hang the old iron soup kettle over it, browning the pot roast in diced salt pork and onion. As the blizzard increases, the old house seems to steady herself like a ship against a gale wind. . . Snow piles up against the windowpanes, sifts under the ancient sills, makes heaps of powdered pearl on the ancient oak floors. But the house is snug in the twilight of the snow and we sit by the fire and toast our toes feeling there is much to be said for winter after all."

Appreciation of life flows through these pages, sparkling with common sense and wisdom like wave-caps glistening in the sunlight of wise reasoning.

Of August she writes: "For after the vigorous growth of the spring and summer, nature comes to a pause, and the countryside has a dreamy look. We need to pause, too, in the midst of pickling and canning and freezing, and let the serenity of the season give us tranquility...It is time to sit quietly in the shade of the apple trees...There is more to living than the endless activities we all pursue. Most of us indeed seem to live on a wheel which revolves faster and faster but has no true destination...But since we have just so much time alloted to us, some of it should be spent in reflecting, and some in pursuits which have nothing to do with our daily lives...because life isn't a business; it is a precious gift."

Gladys Taber's legacy is a celebration of life as she chose to live it. Her books are gems of poetic but light prose with depth, perception and feeling. The shallow and pseudo-sophisticated reader may label her "sentimental" but there is nothing idealistic or shallow about her writing. She simply lives and appreciates a simpler life than most choose.

STILLMEADOW is a book you can put away when life interferes with your reading and it's interesting enough to pull you back, eager to take up where you left off.

One of the best ways to win a case before going to trial is using preclusive devices, such as summary judgment.

Freedman discusses the techniques you can use to win your case or narrow your liability before a trial starts. This can mean a huge savings in bringing your case to a satisfying close.

Freedman outlines the major preclusive legal devices, such as summary judgment, and backs up his discussion with support from case law and court opinions. He does not simply present the mechanics of how the various devices work, but also when and how you can increase your chance of winning your case or your motion by using these techniques.

Freedman's introduction gives a basic outline of preclusive device practice, while later chapters cover summary judgment adjudication without a trial in depth with great clarity, precision, and thoughtfulness. Accelerated judgments are touched upon here, but without the same penetrating attention as summary judgment.

Other important devices Freedman covers include discovery (requests for admission which are essential for a summary judgment motion's accompanying statements of fact), release agreements, dismissal and settlement agreements, and bifurcation (trying a case first on the cause of action and then on damages, for instance). Additional chapters cover the preclusive doctrines of res judicata and collateral estoppel.

Freedman presents a well organized, contemporary approach to how summary judgment and preclusive devices are used in courts today. It will come in handy for recent law grads looking to enhance their motion practice or pro se litigants who want to learn how to avoid the cost and hassle of a prolonged trial.

This book tells about some of the ways that government wastes our money and refuses to acknowledge it. Each chapter will raise eyebrows. Some of the things that our government is doing are unbelievable. The book can be read for its entertainment value as well as its revelations: the author's sense of humor is on every page.

Just, simply, a great book. More than just pictures, lots of INFO!!!! high reccomendation

This book is a wonderful review of the history of UConn. Many of the photographs haven't been seen in decades -- some have never been published before. Anyone who attended UConn and anyone who is a Husky fan will love this book.