We used this guide on our recent trip to Maine, from Portland north to Bar Harbor. The suggestions about economical lodging in Bar Harbor alone saved us over $200! We are passingly familiar with all of New England, and we found this guide to be the most useful of the three we had with us (this one, Fodor's, and AAA). I would recommend it alone if you have to choose just one guidebook for your trip.

This book proved itself very useful for out weekend drive up the coast. Naturally, there are many places to stay or dine, but you can't list them all (in this "portable" book). However, we did need to purchase a Maine Highway Map for better directions. I wish I'd gotten the book BEFORE I made Hotel reservations!

Frommer's guidebook provides an excellent overview of the sights to see, things to do, and places to stay in the three Northern New England states of New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine. The overviews are very accurate and provide a good description of the places, making the book an excellent way to decide where to go in the areas, and a good guidebook once you arrive.

The biggest problem with the book is that there is not enough individual descriptions of each area. Chances are most tourists are not visiting several regions in all three states, but are choosing one or two to explore in-depth. For example, I went to Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park in Maine, an area that was given around 20 pages of coverage. Therefore, more research on the specific areas you plan to visit will probably be necessary to help you get the absolute most out of your trip!

I think this is a great reference book. I have had prof. Groover in 3 of my Industrial Engineering classes at Lehigh University. There is not a single semester when I don't go back to use the book as a reference. The book is very easy to read, and to understand.

This kind of focus of Architecture, with so excellent photographys is very good for our job with projecting and building .

I was asked to find the origin of the "square root N plus one" sampling olan for quality control. After a search I found the "book" This book shows how to reduce costs and improve the effectiveness of acceptance sampling. It also gave the answer to the origin of"square root N plus one" some where in the 30ies. It also serves as a basic introduction to acceptance sampling. The book is intended for the practitioner. It avoids complex mathematical formulas. Instead extensive tables and powerful software are provided.

This book focuses on the core methods that are in common use. It also covers such practical issues as how to select samples, form lots, and where to place inspections. Further, the role of acceptance sampling in today's modern world is explored in detail.

This is a compact but detailed guide to surfing in New Zealand. It contains a list of 300+ surfing locations with comments, plus tips for the visitor (local terms, food, accommodation, transport etc.). It's the only recent book of this type as far as I'm aware. Unfortunately the author Wayne died a while back surfing (Bali?) , but his legacy lives on. The publisher appears to have gone out of business so it may be difficult to get copies.

Overall this book describes all of Pennsylvania's hiking trails. Pennsylvania has over three thousand miles of hiking trails, so it is important to find a good book the depicts all of them. It also includes several modern waterproof topographical maps that are very useful with navigation of the trail. Longitude and latitude are availible for compass and navigation headers. However while this book is an excelent guide, it does seem to be never-ending with the trails. There is always one after another. Although this is one of my favority hiking guides. The philosophy of the book states, "The basic goal of this edition is to provide the hiker with a comprehensive list of available hiking areas and trails". This book is still not limited to trails alone, it shows helpful places to camp, and to restock supplies. This book was written with the help of the Keystone Trails Association which is an alliance of Pennsylvania organization's which share the belief of helping hikers. This book is an excelent guide.

O.K., I confess. I was associated with the author at the time of completing this book. A talented travel writer, this was, I think, Wayne Stier's first departure into the world of fiction. As a result, one gets a good feeling of what it's like to travel to Hawaii, specifically "the Big Island", with it's rural atmosphere and cultural differences, along with a story based largely on the other's own personal experiences. From the perspective of an outsider looking in the book portrays the author's own feeling of awkwardness as a "haole" entering a world with many levels of cross-cultural history and identity. The humor in this juxtaposition is unavoidable.

There is enough actual history and information to give the visitor a good introduction to crossing into this world, which still applies today (over ten years after it's publication), and enough of a story to make it entertaining. A good one for the hammock. There is a spiritual level to the story imparted by the "locals" the author meets, the questions he must face that go deeper than the casual tourist perspective, even while it floats lightly on the waves.

A kama'aina (native) might find some faults with the "pidgin" English, which has been simplified for easier reading. I still continue to enjoy re-reading this respectful look into life on the island of Hawaii, portrayed in it's timelessness, dichotomies and surprises. One other problem - it's getting hard to find this self-published book. If you're lucky enough to find a copy it's O.K. to share - but keep one for yourself!

In this book, published in 1992, a group of academics from the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy have written a series of brilliant and provocative essays on the economic foundations of the next security system, that is, of the XXI century. They define three broad scenarios: a) Controlled multilateralism; b) coexistence of blocks; and c) neomercantilism.

So far, it seems that they were right in predicting that the most likely and desirable outcome would be some form of controlled multilateralism. Certainly, it could be said that coexistence of blocks is also a reality, but we are seeing a lot more interrelation between these blocks than what the scenario took into account. Some countries have built institutional bridges across the blocks, like Mexico, which belongs to NAFTA, but also has a Free Trade Agreement with the European Union, several Latin American countries, Israel, and is now negotiating one with Japan, beyond its membership in APEC.

The security system seems to stay also within controlled multilateralism, as actions on the former Yugoslavia and Irak show. Summing up, the book's arguments and points are still relevant to analyze the world's options regarding this new century. The interplay between the economic and the security systems are clearly defined, and the tone of the book is objective, neither overly optimistic nor pessimistic. It's good analysis, even if not each and every detail is still accurate. Recommended for students of very different specialties: international economics, national security, prospective studies, etc.