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First published in 1936, this work provides a guide to the cruising waters of the New England coast, as well as the Hudson River, Long Island Sound and the coast of New Brunswick. This edition provides up-to-date information such as weather, tides, geography, pump-out stations and historical sites. ... Read more

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I've been using this guide for 30 years
I wouldn't cruise Maine without it. It shouldn't be your only guide as names of stores and such are dated -- but the really great parts are timeless - the same strange current runs past Mt Desert rock and the old fisherman's story about Siasconset Nantucket sinking is still just as wonderful. Read it for the history, the stories, and the character of these special waters.

Disappointed with this guide
The Cruising Guide to the New England Coast: Including the Hudson River, Long Island Sound, and the Coast of New Brunswick, Twelfth Edition

I was really disappointed when we received this book. I'm sure we could have returned it to Amazon, but as we are currently in the Caribbean, returning it would have cost more than the book. So it goes...

This book was originally written in 1937. It is in it's twelfth edition where it says in 1999 they wrote sections on the Hudson River and Cape Cod and some sections of Maine. The few black & white photos in the book look dated.

Sentences like "The latest miracle machine is GPS. If it does what it is said to do, it is a great source of comfort to the navigator" makes me wonder about the other info in this book which, at its best, is 11 years old.

We'll take it with us, but I hope to find something else. I would NOT recommend this book, sorry.

Not what it used to be
Thirty years ago we swore by The Cruising Guide to the New England Coast when we cruised in our Tartan 41. However, technology has increased the ability to receive the latest data. It would be good if the folks who bring us this Cruising Guide would have a web site to give us the latest information on the dredging of channels, great places to buy fish, etc. The book is outdated. However, it was a good read.

all black and white
Maptech is a better quick reference guide and more useful for navigation

Out of Date
While the cover for this book says 'Updated' and is labeled 12th edition, it appears to be a 2002 printing of a 1990 copyrighted texted. It describes the use of GPS briefly and refers to 'when it works, it is okay'. Obviously the comment predates the bombing raids on Bagdad. The description of harbors is little changed from a 1978 printing but having visited some of these harbors in 2004, I found the names, phone numbers and parts of the onshore facilities' descriptions totally out of date. I returned mine...hope you find a more up-to-date reference. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Fuller (born July 29, 1933(1933-07-29)) is an American former television actor and current rancher. In his five decades of television, he's best known for starring roles on the popular 1960s western series Laramie as Jess Harper, and Wagon Train as Cooper Smith, as well as his work for his lead role, Dr. Kelly Brackett, in the popular 1970s medical drama Emergency!, opposite his best friends Julie London and her husband Bobby Troup. An only child, Fuller was born Buddy Lee in Troy, New York, to Betty Simpson, a dance instructor. Prior to Lee's birth, Simpson married Robert Simpson, Sr., a Naval Academy officer. The family moved to Key West, Florida, where Lee took the name of his parents, becoming Robert Simpson, Jr. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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How do disabled students feel about their time at university? What practices and policies work and what challenges do they encounter? How do they view staff and those providing learning support?

This book sets out to show how disabled students experience university life today. The current generation of students is the first to move through university after the enactment of the Disability Discrimination Act, which placed responsibility on universities to create an inclusive environment for disabled students. The research on which the book is based focuses on a selected group of students with a variety of impairments, as they progress through their degree courses. On the way they encounter different styles of teaching and approaches to learning and assessment. The diversity of their views is reflected in the issues they raise: negotiating identities, dealing with transitions, encountering divergent and sometimes confusing teaching and assessment.

Improving Disabled Students’ Learning goes on to ask university staff how they experience these new demands to widen participation and create more inclusive learning climates. It explores their perspectives on their roles in a changing university sector. Offering insights into the workings of universities, as seen by their central participants, its findings will be of great interest to all practitioners who teach and support disabled students, as well as campaigners for an end to discrimination. Crucially, it foregrounds the views of disabled students themselves, giving rise to a complex, contradictory and always fascinating picture of university life from students whose voices are not always heard.

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An American's Perspective
I am also among the first generation of students who entered higher education after disability discrimination laws were enacted. Although I read the book from an American perspective, I also was eager to see this title and it's very important research. I did feel like my own experiences were accurately presented throughout the pages.

So many other 'college and disability' books promote outdated and/or inaccurate advice. They insist that students can only apply to certain campuses.While a college environment legally cannot offer the same accommodations which a k-12 environment provided, it IS important to know the processes for acessing the accommodations which can be provided.

I really appreciated that this book emphasized the necessity of a strong transition program during the high school years. Reflecting on my own experience, I enrolled already self-taught in disability law and understood the importance of self-advocacy to obtaining appropriate services.

But my family and I, for all of these skills, actually did not understand the importance of having crafted a good and achievable transition plan. We inadvertently allowed the school district to merely 'dump' me after I obtained my high school diploma. Learning how to obtain the college (and after) services was/is also a learning experience.

And even though I've fared well in comparison to people with zero understanding of disability laws--these experiences still teach me everything which I legally need to do in order to properly take care of myself and obtain community support services as an adult. We initially did not realize that people would not proactively provide community support services as they previously did.

The book would be a good adition to an academic library. But it could also be a good present for college-bound students with learning disabilities in (yes) both Europe and America. Realizing that they are not the only one who deals with these issues could create a sense of solidarity, encouraging them on with their studies and future success.

And another strength of this book is it addresses the students themselves, assuming that people capable of getting into college are productive and effective citizens. When myself and other students DID encounter discrimination on our college campuses, we successfully organized for effective changes on the college campus, encouraging other students to recognize people with disabilities as their classmates.

There is only one flaw with the book and that is that American voices and the ADA is not included. But this is very insignifigant in comparison. It's a book which one has to read thinking about the overall themes of higher education and people with disabilities ourselves.
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On March 6, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order to close all of the banks in the United States. This bold stroke was intended to halt the mounting bank crisis that had plagued Americans since 1930 and worsened the economic slump. This work argues that this order was an ill-considered overreaction by the new president that did little to end the banks' plight while plunging the country to the lowest depths of the Great Depression. It investigates how after 1929 the deteriorating economy undermined a weakened financial system, pushing many banks to fail. The waves of crashing banks further aggravated political tensions unleashed by the Depression, leading the country to the harrowing denouement of March 1933. ... Read more

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Essential reading
Simply put, this is the most important scholarly work to date on the bank crisis that afflicted the United States during the darkest days of the Great Depression. Exploiting a wealth of primary sources, the author presents a rich and nuanced assessment of the actions taken by the Federal Reserve, the private banking community, the Hoover administration (especially the Reconstruction Finance Corporation), and the incoming Roosevelt administration. The result is a balanced, thoughtful, and fairhanded treatment of a period that has routinely been shoehorned into a stock morality play featuring unscrupulous bankers and meanspirited Republicans versus the political "messiah" who pulled the nation back from the brink of disaster. The story was far more complex than that.

Dr. Fuller's book is, in this reviewer's opinion, essential reading for both scholars and general readers who are interested in the bank crisis of the 1930s, as well as those who want to better understand the bank crisis of the last two years.

Valuable Addition to Studies of the Period
Mr. Fuller's book is a thoroughly detailed and researched account of the banking crisis that affected the banking and financial sectors during the years prior to and including the initial period of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency.It also provides a general introduction to the banking sector in the U.S. and an informed discussion of the banking sector during the 1920s.It appears at a time when the United States is still only beginning to recover from the most serious economic recession since the Great Depression.Citing extensively from periodicals of the time, memoirs, and secondary sources, Fuller makes a case that the difficulties facing the banking sector at the time were made worse by actions by the Federal Reserve and other branches of the government and the policies and actions of FDR upon coming into office, particularly the closing of the banks. While it is up to the reader to determine if the case has been sufficiently made, Mr. Fuller's present strong arguments.

What I found most interesting about the book are the similarities between the banking crisis of that time with the crisis that has affected the financial sector in our own time.Both periods were marked by the greed of some within the financial sector willing, in order to gain greater profits, to take risks that were clearly not sound, others in the sector who followed with speculative gambles for fear of losing business to their competitors, a public often quite willing to be duped, and federal regulators unwilling to take measures to bring the situation under control.Also like today, differences of opinion on how best to address the problems and a Congress overly concerned on the one hand with catering to and pleasing the financial sector and on the other hand mainly interested in looking for ways to score political points. Also remarkable was the extent of opposition to the creation of the FDIC and the guarantee of deposits, a measure that almost everyone today views as a positive measure that has eliminated bank panics, which were a common phenomenon.The Treasury Department, Federal Reserve, and even Roosevelt were all opposed to it.Roosevelt threatened to veto it and only changed his mind when Congress agreed to delay the start of the guarantees until 1934 and enforce strict coverage standards.While there are minor flaws in the book, a typographical error here and there, overall the book is a valuable addition and brings new perspective to the extensive literature on the Great Depression.

An authoritative alternative perspective
An authoritative account of an important period by a respected historian and scholar (Univ of Virginia PhD). This book is notable for it's fresh perspective on events and it's exceptional usage of original sources. Highly recommended ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here.
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British Library

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With an index and a final errata leaf.

London : printed by H. Kent, for the author, 1753. xxxvi,348,[20]p. ; 8° ... Read more

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Chapters: John E. Sweeney, William Henry Jackson, Maureen Stapleton, Shalom Freedman, Robert Fuller, Bill Craver, Douglass Houghton, Herbert J. Sweet, John R. Fellows, Michael R. Mcnulty, Charles R. Boutin, Johnny Evers, Charles Varnum, John Daly, John Rigas, Howard James Hubbard, Cathy Connolly, Thomas Farrell, Russell Wong, Jay Hammond, Michael Wong, Lucius Frederick Hubbard, Laramie Dean, Constantine George Cholakis, James W. Nye, Kate Mullany, Hadden Clark, George R. Davis, Frank S. Black, Jane Mcmanus Storm Cazneau, Thomas Clowes, Samuel Wilson, Matt Murley, Dick Allen, Roy Mcdonald, Clement Moore Butler, Richard Selzer, Guy Hebert, Joseph M. Warren, Edwin P. Mccabe, Mr. Food, Kathleen M. Jimino, Dave Reece, Yvar Mikhashoff, Todd Wilson, E. Harold Cluett, Dave Anderson, Florence Nash, Charles Calvin Bowman, Edward Murphy, Neil Kelleher, Steve Wulf, Martin I. Townsend, John Augustus Griswold, Garnet Baltimore, Dick Halligan, John W. Hogan, Dan Minnehan, Ed Beavens, James Lewis, Ed Wachter, Marcus F. Cummings. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 211. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John E. Sweeney (born August 9, 1955) is a politician from the U.S. state of New York. A Republican, he represented New York's 20th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from January 1999 to January 2007. He was defeated for reelection in November 2006 by Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand. Sweeney was born in Troy, New York. He graduated from Troy's Lansingburgh High School in 1973. He received an associate's degree from Hudson Valley Community College in 1978 and a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and Criminal Justice from the Sage College of Albany in 1981. In 1991, he received a J.D. from Western New England College School of Law. Sweeney was the Executive Director ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Fuller House is a historic colonial house at 3 Burrill Lane in Needham, Massachusetts. The house was built in 1707 and added to the National Historic Register in 1987. Needham is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. A suburb of Boston, its population was 28,911 at the 2000 census. The population as of August 10, 2008 is 31,834. Needham was first settled in 1680 with the purchase of a tract of land measuring 4 miles (6.4 km) by 5 miles (8.0 km) from Chief Nehoiden for the sum of 10 pounds, 40 acres (160,000 m2) of land, and 40 shillings worth of corn. It was officially incorporated in 1711. Originally part of the Dedham Grant, Needham split from Dedham and was named after the village of Needham Market in Suffolk, England, a neighbor of the English town of Dedham. By the 1770s settlers in the western part of the town who had to travel a long distance to the meeting house on what is now Central Avenue sought to form a second parish in the town. ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Robert C(harles) Fuller, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 1851 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Explores the historical link between mind-altering substances and religious experience in the United States

From Native Americans' use of tobacco for solemnizing oaths to the spread of New Age religious beliefs in Haight-Ashbury coffeehouses, drugs have been intimately associated with American spirituality. Stairways to Heaven illustrates how such substances as peyote, jimson weed, hallucinogenic mushrooms, LSD, marijuana, wine, and coffee have stimulated ecstatic revelations of spiritual truth and strengthened the social bonds that sustain communities of faith. The book deftly moves from historical examples to an engaging consideration of the legal, ethical, and spiritual controversies that surround drug use in contemporary America. Clearly written and accessible, Stairways to Heaven is a significant scholarly review of the relationship between religion and drugs in America. ... Read more

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Surprisingly comprehensive
In such a short piece (under 200 pages), Robert C. Fuller has managed to cover a lot of ground in his historical study of drug use in the US. Whilst his conception of religious drug use is sometimes quite broad (i.e. wine and coffee), his ideas and arguments are so forcibly put that it is hard to disagree over the many issues he raises. Fuller takes his cue from various fields such as religion, neurology, psychiatry or anthropology and concludes his book by pointing the pros and cons of drug-induced spirituality in a perfectly eloquent and objective way.
The only objection I would raise is against his claim that Huxley, Leary, Alpert, Watts, Smith and Ginsberg were all instructing the masses and were the 'closest thing to shamans that middle-class America ever had'. And further on: 'We can only assume that such proselyting by the likes of Watts, Smith, Ginsberg and Leary prompted others to explore the essential and active ingredients of the mystical experience for themselves' (86). Huxley was against proselyting and thought psychedelics were 'for the best and the brightest', not for the masses. Watts was more on Huxley's side than on Leary's. Huxley, Watts, and Smith were all very enthusiastic about the potential of psychedelics, but when it came to proselyting, Leary, Alpert and Ginsberg were a lot more competent. The only real guru-like figure was Leary.
Apart from a few French words here and there (nothing major, though), his writing is very clear and will appeal to scholars of religious history as well as anybody curious to know more about such a fascinating subject.

"Must" reading for students of religion & drug use.
Stairways To Heaven: Drugs In American Religious History is a unique,seminal work spanning Native Americas' use of tobacco for solemnizing oathsto the spread of New Age religious beliefs in Haight-Ashbury coffeehouses.Robert Fuller presents an important, overlooked aspect of Americanreligious history -- the use of mind-altering substances as an aid tospirituality ranging from peyote, jimson weed, and hallucinogenicmushrooms, to LSD, marijuana, wine, and coffee. Stairways To Heavenexplores many of the questions surrounding the use of drugs in religiouslife including drugs use to induce "authentic" religiousexperience; religious experience as an aberration in brain chemistry; howmuch drug use can be tolerated under the auspices of religious freedom; thelegitimate role of mind-altering substances in the development of maturespirituality. Stairways To Heaven is "must" reading for studentsof spirituality, American religious history, and the ritual use ofmind-altering substances.

An intriguing history.
How have Americans used drugs to establish and forge religious foundations? Stairways to Heaven provides a survey and analysis of the useof mind-altering substances as an aid to spirituality, with chaptersconsidering the foundations of religious experience, the role of drugs increating or altering such experiences, and links between religious freedomand the nation's war on drugs. An intriguing history. ... Read more

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