This exciting new addition to the Alive! series takes you to the cruise ship capital of the world - in style!

"Dawn to Dusk" sections focus on the best daytime delights, such as terrific watersports, sightseeing, golf courses, beaches and fascinating museums. "After Dark" sections take you to the best nightclubs, piano bars, cocktail lounges and beach cookouts. Hundreds of places to stay and eat are profiled in detail, based on repeat visits by the authors. In-margin icons allow you to see at a glance which activities are being discussed.

"This Hunter Travel Guide stimulates readers' senses immediately with its lively description.... Fully indexed, the guide delivers an insider's view to what the authors call 'the most hospitable islands in the world.' Not a typical guide, the book is as much fun as it is resourceful, with a chatty writing style... great suggestions for sites to visit when travelers are in the mood for something unusual or spontaneous." Today's Librarian

Paris Perneter and John Bigley's Nassau & The Best Of The Bahamas Alive! provides all the destination-oriented information needed to make the best of a trip to the Bahamas, from a survey of restaurants and hot fishing holes to best places to stay, shop, and enjoy the variety of the islands. An excellent take-long tote.

Nassau succeeds in presenting a very readable treatment on the causes of color in natural and synthetic materials. He strikes a good balance between technical detail and ease of digestion, and leaves the more complex material for appendices.

The volume is enlightening, informative, fairly complete and enjoyable reading, even for those casually interested in the subject.

Discusses a number of topics in a short and clear way. Of course more topics could be discussed and more in depth, but Nassau does a good job keeping the book small and pleasantly readable. After reading it you will have gained a fair insight in the diversity of colour generation. Photo's could be better.

The book goes through the causes of color in a very well organized manner. The author discusses incandescence, fluorescence, phosphorescence, ligand field theory and all other causes of color. It is written so that any reader with a bachelors degree in chemistry or physics could easily understand it. It contains very informative appendices. I highly recommend the book to science types who are interested in color and its causes.

This is an excellent book. It is the kind of book you will find yourself coming back to for the best, most indepth explanations, and definitive quotes. It is the best and most comprehensive study of the Revolt of the Netherlands that I have yet come across. What's more, it is beautifully written and is a pleasure to read.

C.V. Wedgood is a beautiful writer, combining a novelist's eye for detail and motivation, with an historian's insistence on fact and drawing wise and powerful conclusions. She tells the story of 'William of Nassau, Prince of Orange, called the Silent.'' He was the revolutionary who brought about the independence of The Netherlands not by bold strokes and grandiose words, but by patience, kindness and firmness. Driven out of the Low Countries by an approaching Spanish army, the prince bided his time in Germany for five years, until he could return in strength. And then, mostly by force of his goodness, rallied the Low Countries, most especially the Netherlands, to continue the struggle. Wedgood shows in great detail how William managed a squabbling land of practical burghers, anachronistic nobles, two warring religions and the representatives of countless, towns, cities, provinces and nations. He was a revolutionary, yet a most moderate man. She also details his personal life: the courtship of his four wives, his devotion to his brothers, his generosity tohis subjects, his care of his mother. Her writing, as I said, is beautiful. And she is most wise, as for example when she notes that although events may seem inevitable after the occur, in fact they could have moved otherwise, had not men moved them. William was such a man. Finally, a personal note: If Dame C.V. Wedgood would appreciate learning of a new admirer, please pass along my appreciation for a wonderful book.

I conduct research using color as a variable and have had a very difficult time finding accurate sources of information. This book is not only the most accurate book I've seen on color, it is the ONLY accurate book I've seen. It takes you through the basics of defining color as well as the science behind color.

For anyone on Long Island interested at all in local history, this book is a must-have. A perfect coffe-table conversation-starter, the images and captions contained within this collection are both beautiful in their own right, and stunning when looked at through the portal of 60 to 130 years of hindsight. Includes early LIRR photos, depictions of main streets as they were, and a seizable collection of photos of old mansions and estates, most of which no longer exist. Book consists entirely of photos and their captions. Starts in Port Washinton on the north shore and works though all the historic villiages down to Freeport on the south. While thorough, can't help leaving any reader wanting to see more.

A delightful book that truly captures the feel of the Bahamas in recipies and charming illustrations by well known local artist Elyse Wasile . The conch chowder is just like you would taste in the finest restaurant in Nassau!

Valeria Moseley Moss' book, "Reminiscing" combines a timeless narrative of a long-forgotten era with incredible photographs of those days gone by. The granddaughter of the founder of the oldest newspaper in The Bahamas, Mrs. Moss shows her journalistic training in each of these well-written vignettes that capture the essence of those simpler, more gracious days in the "Isles of June." The text covers the period from 1900 to 1950 and gives us a sharp, clear glimpse through Mrs. Moss' own eyes at the Nassau most of us have only heard about.

Her nephew, Ronald Lighbourn, has illustrated the book with amazing photographs so that we can also see the beauty of the place as Mrs. Moss describes it. Each photograph has a well researched caption of its own that is, in itself, highly informative and evocative, a mini-history lesson for the reader. And the photos are so clear, as if they were taken just yesterday, that I had to keep checking the captions to make sure the dates were really half a century - and more - ago.

The only problem I have encountered with this book is that, when carrying it anywhere, people are likely to take it from you to look at and are very reluctant to give it back.

It is a great read and a must for anyone who wants to learn about the past of this lovely little place called Nassau.

I found this book to be very informative, with reasonably good pictures, although with the info supplied about the Oldenburg Regiment and the pictures it was displaying, I would have preferred to have had a little bit more detail. Over-all this still is a good buy for anybody studying France's allies or for anybody needing info for painting figures as I do.

If either of these two armies interests you, this book is a must have. The color plates are excellent, and so are the army and uniform descriptions. A must have for wargamers and enthusiasts alike.

I've read this book and i'm a little bit disturbed by this book. I'm a twelve year old boy with severe peanut allergies. I'll admit i was a little bit of an outkast, but not because of my allergy! and i think that every peanut-allergic [allergic to anything for that matter] kindergartener has thought about eating or trying to eat peanuts. and this book ENCOURAGES it! i think that's a little dumb. thank you for your time.

This book really helped our son. I was so glad to find it given his allergy and he easily related to the child in the book. The story describes a realistic situation of a kid taking a dare and the consequences that could result. What was really great about it is that we were able to use the story as a good starting point to talk with our son about well intentioned, or not, friends and adults and what he can and should do in different situations. (It is amazing how many times we've encountered people that think, "Just one little peanut can't hurt.") We ended up giving a copy to our son's teacher who used it in his classroom.

I thought this book was great. Children could relate to the story and most of all this story reminds me how I found out my daughter was allergic to peanut butter. She was 5, when her class made bird feeders. That day our lives changed, just like Sam's did.

Two decades ago, I read Susan Isaacs's wonderful "Compromising Positions". I fell in love with the saucy and witty Judith Singer, amateur sleuth and canny critic of the Long Island social scene.

Judith is back. Two years widowed, she has a doctorate in history and she teaches at St. Elizabeth's College. Her kids are grown and gone. She has a little time on her hands. So what would be a good use of her spare time? Isn't it obvious? She should investigate another Long Island murder, of course!

It seems that a young wife and mother named Courtney Logan has mysteriously disappeared and Judith, who had no personal contact with the victim, has appointed herself unofficial sleuth to find out what really happened to Courtney. Judith has the help of "Fancy Phil Lowenstein," erstwhile mobster and father-in-law of Courtney.

To complicate matters, Judith still holds a torch for Nelson Sharpe, the hunky cop whom she had fallen in love with so many years ago. He reappears in her life and, lo and behold, the spark is still there.

"Long Time No See" is a delightful souffle. Isaacs knows the Long Island social scene. Her hilarious observations on interior decorating, fashion, child-rearing and infidelity, Long-Island style, are sharply satirical. She makes the most of her motley group of characters, from Courtney's female associates, to Fancy Phil (who is constantly weighed down with tasteless gold jewelry), to Courtney herself, a beautiful cipher with a mysterious hidden life.

It is great fun to be in Judith's company. She is self-effacing, insatiably curious, nosy and always lively. Isaacs inserts some poignant observations about the loneliness of widowhood. It seems that Judith misses her late husband, even though her marriage had long since become stale. I enjoyed the interplay between Judith and the love of her life, Nelson. Will they be able to pick up where they left off?

A weakness in the novel is Isaac's handling of the mystery of Courtney's disappearance. Judith wears herself out questioning dozens of people at length and it gets a little tedious after a while. Why would these people be so forthcoming to a total stranger without any credentials?

In addition, the ending of the novel is formulaic and way over the top. The solution to the mystery makes little sense. However, in spite of these flaws, this book will be a huge success and I recommend it. Light mysteries with protagonists as delightful as Judith Singer do not come along very often.

Judith Singer, housewife/detective is now twenty years older. Her husband, the egocentric Bob has been dead for two years, a half day after running the NY marathon in just over 4 hrs. She is teaching history at a small catholic college and seems depressed bored and lonely. Then, just like twenty years ago, a headline catches her eye. A woman in her community of Shorehaven has disappeared without a trace. She finds it interesting, but does nothing until a body is found in the woman's swimming pool months later. Presumably, the body is that of Courtney Logan. Judith rather impulsively offers her services as a researcher to the grieving husband, and is rebuffed at the door. Shortly thereafter, his father, organized crime figure, Fancy Phil Lowenstein, shows up in her garage and asks for her help in solving the crime. This brings Nelson Sharpe, now in Special Investigations, back into her life and her investigation.

All of the old characters from Compromising Positions are back, twenty years older. I was interested to find out how they all changed. The mystery in this book was much better than the last, and that one was very good. It was an excellent Long Island suburban mystery.

one more time.

Isaacs is a first rate contemporary novelist. She combines the elements of mystery with strong, contemporary characters, primarily women. Dialogue is crisp and honest, supporting characters fit the lifestyle of the heroine, and the story moves along so fast that you are disappointed you finished it so quickly! All of her heroines are feisty yet vulnerable, with an "everywoman" style, and generally a little "long of tooth".

Judith Singer is no exception. Isaacs' first heroine, of "Compromising Positions" fame, is back some 20 years after she stumbled into her first murder and her first love affair. Played by Susan Sarandon(a perfect choice), in the movie of the same name, Judith is even more fascinating once her children are grown, her ambitions in the field of history fulfilled by her Phd., and her memories of Nelson Sharpe, the police lieutenant who won her heart 20 years ago.

Judith is urged to investigate a disappearance that looks like a murder by the father-in-law of the missing woman. "Fancy Phil" is a colorful, Jewish, "retired" mob man; good for many laughs and observations in the book. Judith's ability to spot the trend of "coldness" that runs in the life history of the missing woman
leads her to be able to solve the case, while assisting the police and fulfilling her obligation to Phil. Courtney, the missing/murdered heroine, is well drawn as a female who wants it all, and stops at nothing whenever she hits a brick wall, to proceed in another direction, no matter who she hurts. A great
villain and foil for the likeable Judith - another great read by Isaacs, my favorite author in today's fiction.

Enjoy, and read all the Isaacs novels, you will find a treasure trove of witty characters and tales!