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Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer. Frommer's. The best trips start here.

Details on the best England and Wales have to offer, from London's palaces and museums to the scenery of Snowdonia National Park.
Outspoken opinions on what's worth your time and what's not.
Exact prices, so you can plan the perfect trip whatever your budget.
Off-the-beaten-path experiences and undiscovered gems, plus new takes on top attractions.

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Despite the weak dollar, Americans continued to travel to England; from 2003 to 2004, North American arrivals increased by 6 percent, with about 4.3 million Americans visiting Great Britain annually.

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Frommer's Guide to England reviewed by Gerd Weithase.......2006-06-21

For the most up-to-date, thorough guide to England, look no further than Frommer's. The guides are updated yearly, so you don't end up at a restaurant or hotel that recently shut down.

The pictures in this book are beautiful, colorful and accompanied by in-depth commentary on what to do and what not to do, what places are worth your time and what places are not. The pictures and commentary really give travelers a good sense of where they're going and what to expect.

Some of reviews tend to be on the opinionated side, so follow your instincts as much as you follow the guide. That's really the only drawback though.

One of the best features of Frommer's is the inclusion of local flavor. Whether it's a local hole-in-the-wall pub or an off-the-beaten-path hike near the coast, Frommer's makes sure to include non-touristy sites and activities to enjoy. We appreciated the guide's depth and commitment to exploration and adventure.

Frommer's Cape Cod, Nantucket & Martha's Vineyard 2006 (Frommer's Complete)

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Frommer's Cape Cod, Nantucket & Martha's Vineyard 2006 (Frommer's Complete)
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Completely updated every year (unlike most of the competition), Frommer’s Cape Cod, Nantucket & Martha’s Vineyard has something for everyone, whether you’re looking for romance or family fun. You’ll find details on the best towns, beaches, whale-watching cruises, bike rides, clam shacks, bird-watching, antique shops, and art galleries. The guide is written by a longtime resident of Cape Cod, who has personally inspected all the B&Bs, inns, cottages, and motels she recommends.

Frommer's London 2006 (Frommer's Complete)

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Frommer's London 2006 is the only guide you'll need to plan the perfect trip to London. We'll show you the city's best, including the world-class theaters and pub scene. You'll get insider tips on shopping on Oxford Street, enjoying an afternoon tea at the Ritz, rowing on the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park, and dining on pheasant at Rules, possibly the city's oldest restaurant.

You'll find candid reviews of a huge selection of accommodations in all price ranges, from chic boutique hotels to homey B&Bs. It's all accompanied by dozens of color maps, the latest trip-planning advice on everything from bargain airfares to rail passes, money-saving tips, and a complete shopper's guide. You'll even get a free color fold-out map and an online directory that makes trip-planning a snap!

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From Big Ben to little-known finds, the best of this favorite European city

With an estimated 26 million visitors in 2003, London remains a top destination for U.S. and European travelers
Provides information on events commemorating the 60th anniversary, in 2005, of the end of World War II

Includes a full-color photo insert and a giant foldout map

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Great overall guide for first-time visitors!.......2007-07-08

We went to London in January 2007. We bought a few London travel-guide-type books but THIS book was the one we kept turning to during our trip. It was easy to use and comprehensive. The maps of the different parts of the city were an excellent tool. We had never been to London before and with this book we felt a little more like we knew what we were doing! I highly recommend this book!

Map seems incomplete . . . . .......2007-05-29

I was really hoping to use the map included in this book during my stay in London. Unfortunately, the area I was staying (near the Marble Arch) was not included in the map, and therefore, was not as useful as I had hoped.

A must have for tourists, but missing some helpful information.......2007-03-28

We went to London in January 2007. I was so glad we bought this book, as we constantly referred to the maps (in the book and the tear-out pocket map). The lists and descriptions of things to do around London were priceless, as were the suggestions. I relied on the maps of the different parts of the city to find our way around to the lesser known places or when we got a little off course. This was my 3rd time visiting London, so I wanted to see a few things that were off the beaten path and not the typical sites to see. The maps and book helped guide us through all the different parts of the city.

The only thing I wish it had were more hotel reviews and restaurant reviews. Fortunately, with the internet, researching those topics is fairly easy. We had free internet access in the hotel we stayed at in Westminster (the City Inn Westminster, I think it was).

Awesome, a must have..........2007-03-09

This book is very comprehensive, definately a "Must Have" for your First (or any) trip to London. We just got back and could not have seen everything we wanted to, without it. The Suggested Itineraries section is AWESOME. it gives you a 1, 2 or 3 day turn by turn way to walk through the city to make ensure you get to see everything. You can find lots of this information on Frommer's website too for free, but having the book with you is the only way to go.

Great Planning Book.......2006-08-30

This book showed me a great view of what to do and see in London. I have been slowly planning my trip for awhile and this book is the cornerstone to that planning. The only thing I wish though was that they showed more pictures of the things in the book.

Frommer's Boston 2006 (Frommer's Complete)

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Very helpful for my first and second visits to Boston!

Frommer's Boston 2006 (Frommer's Complete)
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Completely updated every year (unlike most of the competition), Frommer's Boston features gorgeous color photos of the sights and experiences that await you. Our author, a longtime resident of Boston's North End, hits all the highlights, from Fenway Park to the Freedom Trail. She's checked out all the city's best hotels and restaurants in person, and offers authoritative, candid reviews that will help you find the choices that suit your tastes and budget. You'll also get up-to-the-minute coverage of shopping and nightlife; in-depth coverage of Cambridge; detailed walking tours; accurate neighborhood maps; advice on planning a successful family vacation; and side trips to Lexington, Concord, Plymouth, and the North Shore. Frommer's Boston also includes a color fold-out map.

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Very helpful for my first and second visits to Boston!.......2006-12-24

I took my first trip to Boston this summer and this book was very helpful in helping me with restaurants, shopping, sight-seeing and especially transportation. When I went back this past weekend, I brought it with me again. In two trips, I feel like I know the city pretty well. Highly recommend it. It doesn't get a 5 only because I disagree with some of the ratings of restaurants and because I found some places on my own that were not listed in the book. No biggie. I mean, the author couldn't possibly cover every single place in Boston worth seeing.

Frommer's England 2006 AAA Edition (Frommer's Complete)

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Treatment of Error in Second Language Student Writing is the book many writing teachers have long been looking for: a highly accessible and principled approach to the theory and practice of error treatment that can guide pedagogical decision-making.
Unlike a teachers' manual or a handbook that purports to give all the answers needed, Ferris's research-based volume offers a solid scholarly foundation for the practical ideas presented together with an abundance of illustrative sample texts. This book will be a rich resource in language teaching methodology courses, but experienced teachers too will no doubt benefit from the depth and breadth of Ferris's coverage of various error response techniques as well as of the research that motivates those techniques.
Ferris offers a realistic, well-reasoned account of what second language (L2) writing teacher--or teachers with L2 students in their classes--need to know about error and how to put what they know to use. She persuasively addresses the fundamental error treatment questions that plague novice and expert writing specialists alike: What types of errors should teachers respond to? When should we respond to them? What are the most efficacious ways of responding to them? And ultimately, what role should error treatment play in the teaching of the process of writing?

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Finally, a book about L2 writing that we can all understand!.......2002-04-18

The field of SLA, or Second Language Acquisition, is relatively new, but the language teaching profession is not. In the short history of SLA, however, researchers have sought to conduct solid L2 research and analyze the resultant data to give us teachers classroom applications of this research.

Unfortunately, two problems have persisted for TESOL and L2 teachers. The first problem is that, compared to other fields, SLA research has been rather scant. Fortunately, researchers continue to work on this. Some researchers, such as Dana Ferris, have continued to contribute greatly to pedagogy by doing work that has more practical than just theoretical value.

The second problem is that L2 research, even when it does have practical classroom application, is often written in such an unfriendly, unintelligible way that it is of little use to the average classroom teacher, i.e., the person who MOST needs to see the applications of the findings.

Luckily for the thousands of ESL, L2, and Generation 1.5 Writing teachers, Dana Ferris has just released TREATMENT OF ERROR IN SECOND LANGUAGE STUDENT WRITING. What a refreshing work! The author has done a great service to our profession by writing to teachers and not using "researcher-ese." Ferris has managed to present information in readable language for BOTH teachers and researchers. I picked up a copy of this book at a conference, started reading it just prior to boarding my flight home, and managed to read most of the book by the time my plane landed five hours later. It is so rare for a book of facts to be so captivating and informative!

I recommend this book HIGHLY to any teacher of ESL, L2 writing, or even L1 (English) composition.

Sincerely,

Keith Folse
Coordinator, M.A. TESOL Program
University of Central Florida.

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390 stylish and graceful spots of food — breads, fruits, fish, meats, much more — ready to use without statting.

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Biodynamic growers rejoice! The successes of alternative agriculture have seldom been more apparent than in the high, broad acclaim for wines of the Coulée de Serrant vineyards. Joly has tapped the rich bounty nature possesses and profited by it.

Here, you will find agricultural methods that are proven and which offer a radically different approach to the destructive, chemical-dependent practices of modern viticulture. As Frank Prial of The New York Times noted, "[Nicolas Joly's] disciples are legion: winemakers from all over Europe come to sit at his feet. Getting to know a great Loire chenin blanc by starting with Saveunieres is like getting to know music by starting with a late Beethoven quartet."

Learn the best biodynamic methods to grow delicious wines from a master grower. Robert Parker, in his Wine Buyer's Guide, rates Joly as "an exceptional producer. [He] is the godfather of Saveuniere. Connoisseurs have long known the legendary longevity and quality of his Coulée de Serrant vineyard." Create your own legendary vintages drawing on his expertise.

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Expanded Awareness.......2006-12-18

Wow! Through this book, Joly invited me to expand my awareness beyond planting a vine, spraying it with the "right" chemicals, harvesting the fruit and making the wine. He stirred my consciousness to recall and reconnect that which I have chosen to forget about this planet, this ever-changing life of whose whole-ness I am an integral part.

Based on Rudolf Steiner's concepts and research on agriculture, Joly's book introduced me to biodynamic agriculture. As described in Wine from Sky to Earth, biodynamics "is mainly the task of achieving a deeper understanding of the natural system within which a farm or vineyard is located and from which it receives its life forces."

Joly opines, "the key factor in making a good wine is to understand nature and help it - one becomes nature's assistant rather than `a wine maker'." I found my awareness shifting as Joly contends, "it is on the land, in the middle of his vines, that the wine-maker `makes' the wine."

I highly recommend this book to anyone wishing a stronger connectivity to his/her vines and wine.

More on Joly's pseudo science.......2006-11-19

This book is incredibly false in regards to some basic science. The states of matter are NOT Mineral, Liquid, Light (gas) and heat. They are solids, liquids, gases and plasma. This book incorrectly uses the term one sentence after another. Everything is made up on atoms and can be a solid, liquid or gas. Plasma is a little more sophicated. But let's take the 3. Water is a solid when ice, a liquid when at room temperature and gas when it evaporates or become steam with heat. Joly states water is almost mineral as a frozen solid and a "prisoner of matter." Water is matter, that's why they are the states of MATTER.

He says that light is an airy state. Does that mean dark places can not have air. Of course not. He also says with heat matter "disappears." Matter does not disappears it is just not visable to our eyes in some cases. I just can't get over how bad the science is. I don't even think I can trust the editors or publishers because I can't believe they put this out as non-fiction.

beware pseudo-science.......2005-01-11

there is no doubt that the technologies that science has facilitated now pose a great risk to the well being of the planet. there is even less doubt that practitioners of science in its various fields often still have a conquistador-like, and very arrogant approach to the so called natural world. but these are not criticisms against the scientific method which is the very core of science, but against the practitioners of the method and the irresponsible uses of the products of the method. if the humans and other animals are to survive and do so healthily, then the practice of science must change. the method itself, which is simply that hypotheses about the natural world should be verifiable repeatedly through experimentation, should not change. it is a worthy method which by its very logic can not help but to stomp out superstition and pseudo-science. unfortunately superstitions and cultural hot-air are powerful forces, and the scientific method has not been anywhere near successful enough in its endeavors. there is a today a dangerous tendency towards luditism and mysticism as a form of resistance to the perceived threat of "science". this kind of resistance can only FAIL. it will fail because the less one knows about the processes which are currently shaping the world the less one has any real power to change those processes, and the more one will be at the mercy of those who master them.

i bought this book for my wife who is a trained viticulturist because i thought that the term biodynamic meant, a holistic agriculture based on organic principles, and the encouragement of a heterogeneous ecosystem with few inputs (fertiliser, hebicide, pesticides, etc) as opposed to a monoculture which is only barely survives on account of constant artificial input from the farmer. to be fair to joly, it does in fact mean these things, however, and note carefully, all of this can be found in what is usually called "organic" agriculture. joly's book, instead of being based on experimental science and reasoning, is based primarily on the work of rudolf steiner. in fact the book is dedicated to steiner, there is an appendix dedicated to him in the back of the book, and even an appendix dedicated solely to rudolf steiner schools! these odd appendices as well as some rather mediaeval comments made by joly led me to do a bit of research online, but before i get to that let me share a quote from the book:

from 'The Four Realms', page 28

"... The answers are primarily connected to an understanding of the four realms which surround us: mineral, vegetable, animal and human ... Above the three realms is man, who stands erect, in vertical, not to be confused with that of the monkey some people claim we are descended from. No, on the contrary, man's ability to stand erect gives him autonomy, permits him to say "I" with complete liberty, and to have a face that is always different. Only the physical aspects justifies a comparison between man and the monkey "molded" into its race. The hypothesis of the miraculous gene, which would have allowed this mutation, remains unsubstantiated. But this analysis reflects the sickness of our era, during which man, no longer understanding the origin of life, prefers to pay attention to it's manifestations. Wisdom would direct us to take the opposite road."

aside from being poorly written, the above passage shows an incredible backwardness in thinking and ignorance of modern genetics. we are told that we should take the "opposite road" than to look at the actual manifestations of physical life. i.e. in order for such an outlandish hypothesis as evolutionary theory to be true it would need to be manifest in a world other than the physical world, and even if such a thing were to be true in the physical world it would need to be explained by a miracle, a "miraculous gene". this kind of thinking pervades the anthroposophical literature which confuses spiritual banter for scientific thinking. (just to be clear on this, i'm no fanatic, i.e. if joly wants to show me in the physical world why evolution is wrong headed i'll be glad to listen, it is after all just a theory, but it is based on the investigation of nature and not on a religious cosmogeny).

furthermore the idea that man stands above the rest of the natural world, distinct from the animal and vegetable "realms" is precisely the cancer of times past which currently afflicts the sciences (agriculture included) today, and which leads to the frightful abuse of technology we now see around us.

because of lack of space i would strongly advise the reader of this review to do a bit of online research on rudolf steiner and the anthroposophist religion. suffice it to say that rudolf steiner believed in atlantis, reincarnation, that white people and christianity represent the spiritual apex of human development, and that science should allow for supernatural revelations as bona fide experimental results, etc etc... another very disquieting fact is that the standards bodies which certify "biodynamic" vineyards and even the steiner schools (the teachers are trained in anthroposphy by reading steiner's works, but the schools are presented to the public as secular) are closely tied to the anthroposophical movement which is, put frankly, a cult.

that the current approach to agriculture is for the most part an interventionist and arrogant one there is no doubt, joly recognizes this and offers some practical advice which brings natural cycles to bear. for instance he talks about the sun, moon and tides. unfortunately these kinds of observations, which seem like common sense to me (after all the moon is a large body with gravitational and electromagnetic effects which can simply not be ignored), for some strange reason would likely be rejected by many scientists. if you can bare to wade through the voodoo there are a few points to ponder in this little volume. there is also some (hearsay) evidence that using so called 'biodynamic' preparations has positive effects on the soil and life of the vineyard, these should also be properly investigated.

the biggest problem that faces humanity today is that there is a great deal of wisdom from times past which is being ignored by a blind and arrogant science. rudolf steiner and the anthroposophical method (if it can be called that) do NOT offer a solution, they can only further muddy the waters. what science needs to do very desperately is to look at ancient agricultural practices, and to do so using the scientific method in order to sort the wheat from the chaff. i doubt very much that rudolf steiner and his ilk are needed as a medium for this endeavor.

unless you are looking for a religious guide to growing grapes, or are just curious to see what 21st century pseudo-science looks like, i would advise looking into books on just plain organic viticulture instead, and going straight to the sources for knowledge of ancient agricultural practices.

Caring for the wine AND the soil.......2000-06-16

This is a great book for both, laymen and wine experts, on biodynamic winemaking. Nicolas Joly explains in a very simple way, why it is worth using all our senses at winemaking. Biodynamics respects nature's peculiarities in a positive sense and thus helps the vine to incorporate these specific characteristics into the wine. The origin of the so called "denominacion d'origine controlee". If all farmers, not only wine growers could respect their most cherrished input, the soil, as biodinamic wine growers do, what a wonderful world this would be! No more instransparent subsidies from States to the agribusinesses, no more hunger, and less diseases in the world.Bravo Nicolas! Welcome good wine, great wine.

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