I have used several differnt travel guide book, and have found the AAA Essential series to be the best. This book is accurate in the best places to see. It also has the things to do to see the local culture, and explains when places are open and closed. It is also lightweight and slim, so it is easy to carry along anywhere.

Essential Paris was with me every moment during the week I toured this incredible city. I found Essential Paris to be ... well ... ESSENTIAL in exploring, searching, viewing, and wandering the rich and varied Parisian landscape. If you're going to Paris, ensure Essential Paris is in your briefcase or backpack.

After the end of the Second World War, a number of African Americans, including many of our most talented intellectuals, decided that America was just not a sufficiently hospitable home. Those who could left for Europe. Many, landed in Paris, which provided a far more civilized society.

Literary giants like James Baldwin, Richard Wright and other intellectuals found a place where their worth was determined by things more significant than skin color. This is the story of their experiences.

Another book worth searching for.

This excellent book fills the gap in autism literature, by providing comprehensive yet easy-to-read explanations of the problems encountered in the autism spectrum and provides specific intervention strategies. It provides an integrated approach to looking at the problems. Treatment strategies address behavioral intervention, sensory integration, neuro-developmental treatment techniques, augmentative communication as well as traditional OT, PT and ST.

It is the first book I have found that tells you what you are seeing, why you see it and what to do about it! The case studies are wonderful and the pictures help clarify the treatment ideas.

This book is a must for anyone working with children in the spectrum of autism. It is critical for all professionals, therapists, teachers, and parents.

Exteriors is Ernaux for Ernaux fans - this is not a narrative but rather a collection of entries regarding every day life observed closely. This is also the first book I read by Ernaux - I was hooked by the writing style. Ernaux has the unusual ability to write prose that appears on the outside to be highly descriptive of the exterior of events. Yet in this careful observation, she portrays a highly interior response to the externals.

The description of the clerk in the shopping mall has remained in my memory for years as has her description of the changing landscape of transit stations. Few authors could make such details interesting, even fewer make them significant. Ernaux succeeds at both.

This map was definitely key in my recent quick trip to Paris. I must warn however, skip the Metro map and pick one up at the a station. The one provided on the map is small and often confusing. The Metro lines on the Eyewitness map are not numbered (only in color) - once you go to connect trains the stations refer to the train numbers. Still, the major streets, monuments, and Metro stops are clearly marked on the Eyewitness map, making it easy to use the street and Metro maps together. The added bonus is that this map is laminated and folds in several different ways - making it easy to pull it out of your bag for quick reference.

"The Fall of Paris, June 1940", by Herbert R. Lottman, sub-titled, "A Dramatic Narrative of the Final Weeks in Paris Before Its Capture by the German Army". HarperCollins, 1992.

This is a lengthy, (410 pages), well written book, describing the last five weeks or so of Paris as a free city before occupation by the German Army. The author, Herbert Lottman, a Native New Yorker, has written on other French subjects, including Marshall Petain, Albert Camus and Flaubert so Lottman is well prepared for this book. Each day from May 9, 1940 to June 23, 1940 is covered in a single chapter. The author did exhaustive research for each chapter. The book is exceedingly complete. After some reading, the reader can be so overwhelmed by the wealth of information that Lottman provides, that the temptation is to sneak ahead to the June 14th Chapter. June 14, 1940, is the day that German troops actually entered Paris.

Lottman brings to life the main actors in the French government, including Premier Paul Reynaud, his ever-interfering mistress, the old general Philippe Petain, and newly promoted general, Charles De Gaulle. By referencing their writings, the author also tells the tales of famous people, such as Jena-Paul Sarte, the philosopher, Maurice Chevalier, the actor, and many different journalists, including William Shirer and Clare Booth Luce. He does not, however, limit the personal reminiscences to the rich and famous, but includes recollections of the common people, including the French sergeant ordered to blow up the Eiffel Tower. Interestingly, one of the more memorable individuals in the book is the American Ambassador to France, William C. Bullitt, a friend of President Franklin Roosevelt. I wonder if H. Lottman chose some of the statements and actions of Ambassador Bullitt to provide a form of comic relief for the serious subject in this serious book.

Even in such a scholarly work, errors creep in. On page 341, he writes, "There were policemen here and their along their way." Clearly, too many possesive "theirs" are present. He wanted, "There were policemen here and there along their way". On page 394, in describing the visit of Adolf Hitler to a conquered Paris, Lottman terms Hitler, "Reichsfuehrer". Hitler was just simply "Der Fuehrer" and it was Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) who had the title of "Reichsfuehrer". Overall, though, the book is well written and complete to the point of exhaustion.

This book is a masterpiece of historical literature and it is a shame that it is not available in print. The tape may be as good though I hope it is not abridged.

Beginning with the Paris exhibition in 1865 the book paints the magnificence of the 2nd Empire under the aegis of that motto "enrichez vous!" - but reveals its crumbling exterior and intrigues. How wonderful Paris has always been and how much blood has also been spilt in it.

The first section deals with the siege of Paris and the second with the commune as an aftermath.

Bismark, German military superiority, eating cats and elephants, the Parisians, balloon messages, the winners and losers, the political upstarts and setting, 20,000 shot like dogs in the end; - facts, opinions, feelings all combined in an impressive array of letters, diary entries, accounts all fused into a coherent and compelling account.

The work could not be put down with lessons for today.

This book is the simplest information about a variety of financial areas. The author uses the scriptures to support the financial principals. Then Mr. Paris teaches us how to do what we are suppose to do. Most books teach us what we need to do the information is out there for us to use. But this book teaches us how to do it not just what to do. I'm a personal financial analyst and I am so impressed with the format of this book I've started to give this book away free to some of my needy clients. Also, I've designed Financial Wisdom Seminars for the Christian community. These seminars are free and educational in nature; free books are given away at the seminars as well. All this has been inspired from this book. Buy it, read it and put it to pracitce. IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE. Thank you H. Lynn Massey

Everyone likes flipping through good photography books but this one you'll have to read. Aside from superb photography, Miller captures the soul of Paris in a way pictures of monuments never can. These Parisians look right into your soul -- and vice versa -- even before you read Miller's commentary. If you love Paris (particularly pre-McDonald's) you have to check out this book. Plus there's Miller's own poignant, amusing, self-revelatory look at an American GI in the postwar City of Light. Life is really about people, not monuments, and Paris is no exception.