Great book! Works great with Palm Pilot.

Great book! The pocket-size concept is fantastic.

This book saved my life during my ICU rotation. It is an essential book for the critical care unit. It contains admitting orders and things that you need to think about for all of the common pediatric complaints and it fits easily in a lab coat pocket. I can't live without mine.

Reconcilable Differences: U.S.-French Relations in the New Era by Michael Brenner (Professor of International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh) and Guillaume Parmentier (Professor, University of Paris II and head of the French Center on the United States at the Institut Francais des Relations Internationales, Paris) is an evenhanded look at modern-day international relations between America and France, especially during the past decade. From economic tension, to clashes in NATO, to the dual face-off of superpower vs. multipolarity, Reconcilable Differences succinctly summarizes the highs and lows of the recent international interactions between the two nations and offers a guarded but insightful relationship projection through the near future. Also available in a hardcover edition ... Reconcilable Differences is a welcome and informative contribution to International Studies reading lists and academic reference collections.

Written by Michael Brenner (Professor of Jewish History and Culture, University of Munich, Germany) and deftly translated for an English readership by Shelley L. Frisch, Zionism: A Brief History is a concise yet insightful survey of the movement of Jewish political Zionism, ranging from its variety of ideologies; to the political machinations that fostered the movement to the impact of the Holocaust; as well as the internal and external political problems confronting the State of Israel since its inception. An accessible yet scholarly introduction to the dynamics and repercussions of this movement, and its past and current effects on world history, Zionism: A Brief History is also available and recommended for library collections in a hardcover edition (1558763007, [$$]).

If you're looking for a nice synopsis of places in the bay area - this is the book for you. Just don't expect more than you'd find in the Phone book if you're in the South Bay.

I absolutely dreaded planning my wedding and this book was the only thing that saved my fiance and I from spiraling into madness. We are both from the East Coast, relatively new to the Bay area, and had no family here to help us. Neither one of us had ever been married before or helped plan a wedding. Here Comes the Guide was the single most useful tool for planning our wedding, and is reliable enough that we didn't feel the need to interview a ridiculous number of vendors for each service before choosing one. If a vendor we liked was recommended by the book then we knew they had to be good. Here Comes the Guide is concise, recommends cool traditional and non-traditional reception sites, and provides all of the information you need to plan your own wedding without the help of a wedding planner. The only area which was lacking was limousines and transportation. Pretty much everything else, including bands, calligraphy, invitations, cakes, vendors, tuxedos, reception sites, and florists, was there in abundance.

I was given this book as a gift soon after my engagement. At the time, I hadn't given much thought to where I wanted to hold the event. This book was a great help in finding several locations that were ideal. As the wedding market in Northern CA is rather busy, it was very nice to have several choices so that we could find a venue that was availible on our desired date.

This book contains accurate descriptions of venues, with information pertianing to the size, cost, and other key factors. It also contains less important but still useful information on catering options at each venue, music limitations, and other factors which can help a bride and groom say yea or nea to a location that is still site unseen.

I called over 20 phone numbers in this book and all were up to date and correct. I also found the pricing information almost dead on. The black and white pictures also gave an accurate impression of the venues.

This book was essential to my planning of a wine country wedding and I highly recommend it to anyone that is arranging a wedding in the bay area.

I found the title misleading. The book is extremely useful and very valuable for this: to decide on where to have your wedding reception. That's it. The other "services" categories (flowers, limousines, garments, etc.) are obviously paid advertisements and are very scarce. In our case, we had already decided on a reception site, but bought the book because we needed help with everything else!! What a waste of money!!

While the bulk of the Guide is dedicated to reception site listings, the vendor listings in the back are very helpful. The listings are not mere "paid advertisements." If you read the book, The Guide explains how each vendor undergoes a thorough screening process--something even the most persistent bride likely wouldn't have the time or ability to conduct.

As The Guide states on Page 483, their process "involves interviewing 15-20 other event professionals. We call every single reference and ask about the professionalism, technical competency and service orientation of the advertiser in question. ... Those candidates who received consistent, rave reviews made it into The Guide."

Using The Guide as a starting point (combined with the internet, magazine ads, and friends' recommendations), I conducted exhaustive research of my own of wedding professionals in Los Angeles and beyond. I wound up hiring three vendors who had been featured in the Guide (caterer, band and florist, 11-11-00 wedding). All performed beyond my greatest expectations, and my guests cannot stop raving about the "fabulous," "amazing," and "out of this world" food, music, and flowers. Clearly, The Guide got it right.

So don't be fooled by the relative size of the vendor section compared to pages allotted to reception sites. The vendor section may be small because they are the cream of the crop, thanks to the Guide's legwork.

This has been an invaluable book during my wedding planning. When I got engaged in December 99, a girlfriend suggested that I buy the SoCal edition immediately to start finding reception and ceremony locations. I did buy it, and whipped through the whole book one evening. Sitting there reading, I quickly dismissed reception site after site and determined that the book just couldn't help me. I put it aside.

Then I started actually going out, visiting places, and realizing that it wasn't so easy to find the perfect place! I quickly realized I was going to have to work a lot harder than I thought to mesh the right church location, my number of people, and a convenient indoor reception site. So I came back to the Guide--time and again! Soon I had it dogeared and filled with notes as I reconsidered the options I'd been so quick to skip past earlier. The statistics on each site helped keep me focused and helped me and my fiance consider new places when others fell through, and keep the attributes of each place in mind. The descriptions of the reception sites are detailed, positive and generous-but-not-misleading. We ultimately booked a site listed in the Guide and are thrilled to have found it.

Now that I've moved on to choosing a photographer, I went to the Guide again. First I read through each photographer's profile in the book, then went on the Guide's website! It's so easy to use - - it allows you to jump to photographers' websites and see their portfolios, all without making appointments or driving around! I feel satisifed that I don't need to look beyond the professionals listed in the Guide, since the authors have already done the legwork in finding people with high standards and good customer service.

If you really want to explore all possible options for your ceremony, reception, and event professionals, you will love Here Comes The Guide! The hardcopy book and the website are thorough, pleasant to read, and - - most importantly - - really helpful. My mom keeps saying, "I had no idea it was this complicated to plan a wedding in this day and age!" Here Comes the Guide goes a long way towards relieving the complication!

This book is very informative for residents and students in the ICU. Good book to have in your pocket for quick reference.

There was a lot of good information about where to stay in Hawaii. I found the information about planning a wedding to be a bit sparse. I wish there was more about florists, photographers, etc., and more than just one wedding consultant per island listed.