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The first complete guide to Nassau and Suffolk counties. Designed for both residents and visitors, it explores daytime activities and nighttime excitement, plus the best places to stay and eat. From the North Shore and the North Fork, to Jones Beach, Montauk, Fire Island National Seashore, Southampton, Easthampton and the rest of the South Shore. Color photos

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The best hotels, places to eat, shopping and sightseeing, plus walks, fishing, yacht charters and every other activity on Long Island. Detailed background information, such as history, culture and cuisine, as well as all practical details on how to get there, how to get around, what to watch out for. Numerous maps included.

Customer Reviews:

Pack Your Bags and Go to Long Island!.......2004-01-27

Reading a guide book is usually something one does before going to the destinations it describes. Francine Silverman's Long Island Alive! is not only an informative book for prospective Long Island visitors, but it is also an entertaining read for armchair travellers. Silverman writes in a narrative form that makes the reader feel a native Long Islander is showing her around the largest island ajacent to the Continental U.S.

The book is divided into seven geographic headings: Nassau County's North and South Shores, Suffolk County's North and South Shores, Fire Island, and Suffolk County's North and South Forks. Farm markets are listed at the back of the book.

From helpful, child-friendly tips to detailed historical descriptions of various landmarks, the author offers the reader useful and timely information. Each geographic section is divided into helpful subcategories for transportation, lodging, shopping, recreation and restaurants. Above and beyond the traditional guide book, Long Island Alive! has Web site suggestions for the curious reader to learn even more than its numerous pages entail. Silverman includes enough historical background to whet the reader's appetite, all the while making him or her want to learn more by visiting the places described.

Long Island's size is not its only impressive facet: the sheer number of fascinating historical places that Silverman depicts makes the reader want to pack her bags yesterday to experience Long Island first hand. Being a masterful writer, Silverman uses clear language to detail the most intriguing tidbits about the island. She inserts trivia in an appropriate manner between more somber entries such as the Holocaust Memorial of Nassau County. "The giraffe is the symbol of Great Neck - for obvious reasons" follows philanthropic opportunities at the Friends of the Arts which sponsors various music festivals and a children's workshop throughout the year. She captures the history of Long Island while simultaneously emphasizing its contemporary offerings. From Walt Whitman's birthplace to the local bar scene, this guide has it all.

My father recently told me that I am the 12th generation descendant of Robert Jackson, one of the founding proprieters of the Hempstead settlement on Long Island. If I ever make a trip to Long Island to visit my forefathers' birthplace, Long Island Alive! is the first thing I will pack.

Christine Louise Hohlbaum
American author of Diary of a Mother: Parenting Stories and Other Stuff
http://www.diaryofamother.com

Midwest Book Review - THE definitive guide for travelers.......2003-09-20

If Long Island Alive is not the definitve guide book for Long Island travel, I don't know what is. This was my first experience reviewing a travel guide, and it was a delightful surprise. Anything the traveler could possibly want or need to know can be found between these covers.

Of particular interest to me was the Long Island history. Beginning with the ice age - which created the unique topography - to the Native Algonquian Indians, progressing through early Dutch and English settlers, the island's history is fascinating. Ms. Silverman also describes the geology and geography and provides detailed maps. It is a diverse land of pine barrens and beaches, state parks and golf courses, hiking trails and woodlands. I was thinking "Wow!" before I'd finished reading the introduction.

The book is arranged rather handily into distinct areas of Long Island - Nassau County, Suffolk County, and Fire Island. The author then breaks down each area into points of interest and backs up her information with first hand impressions, phone numbers, websites, helpful tips and intriguing tidbits.

Sources of transportation available by car, rail, bus, plane, plus directions are provided. Available lodging and restaurants in each area and price ranges are clearly listed. Whether you are interested in museums, the arts, farmer markets, romantic getaways, cruises, outdoor activities, family fun, or world class night life, that information is listed. There's something of interest for everyone and choices to suit every pocket book. This guide also contains practical information, such as banks, hospitals, veterinary clinics, houses of worship, and which destinations are handicapped accessible. If you're wondering if children or pets are welcome, you'll find that information too.

Long Island Alive is complete with any information the traveler could possibly want to know. And it's entertaining reading to boot. Highest recommendation.

Long Island is Alive and Well!.......2003-06-05

Francine Silverman, where were you when I needed you?

When I was a teenager growing up in Montreal in the 1950s I would look forward to my summers visiting my sister in Long Island, New York.

It is too bad I did not have at the time a copy of Francine Silverman's comprehensive travel guide, Long Island Alive. All I ever knew about Long Island were its beaches.
Anyone reading this wonderful guidebook will have to agree that Long Island is not only about beaches- it has a distinct character and soul.

Silverman is a veteran feature writer for newspapers and magazines.
These days Silverman's passion is travel writing. Her first guidebook, Catskills Alive, was very well received, and I am sure Long Island Alive, will be equally successful.

Long Island Alive concentrates on different geographical areas of Long Island: Nassau County' North Shore and South Shores, Suffolk County's North and South Shores,
Fire Island, and Suffolk County's North and South Fork.

Dividing these areas into subsections, Silverman describes their history, geology, geography, wildlife, and environment and also provides us with useful maps.

In addition, the author provides information highlighting the heartbeat of the area with all its activities, attractions, lodging; restaurants, events, festivals and other goodies that make Long Island come alive. There is even an entire section devoted to farm markets.

Scattered throughout the book are sidebars of tidbits of fascinating information.
Did you know that when Dutch explorer Adrian Block sailed around the island in 1614 he named in Lange Eylandt and the name stuck?
Sea turtles and whales occasionally wash up on beaches along the South Shore.
Coyotes, bobcats and black bears that are common to New York State are no longer to be found on Long Island.

Each section also includes a listing of some vital resources: medical facilities, shopping malls and streets, houses of worship, health and beauty clubs, banks, museums, historical societies and tours, bars and clubs, motels, parks, tennis facilities, newspapers, liquor stores, wineries and even animal adoption centers.

As for those of us who are interested in where to dine and stay, considerable space is devoted to the best places to lodge and eat. Where applicable websites are even listed.

Silverman succeeds in evoking Long Island's charm and color, and should prove to be an invaluable asset for travelers to this very interesting area.

This review first appeared on the reviewer's own site
bookpleasures.com

Excellent!.......2003-04-27

We residents of Long Island will be tickled pink with the author's thorough research of Long Island's length and breadth, 100 miles long and 20 miles across at its widest point. It will also provide a sweeping view for the visitor to the island. Before it was named in 1614 by Dutch explorer Adrian Block, our island was home to Indians for thousands of years and Indian names from Amagansett "plenty of good water" to Wyandanch, the chief who befriended the white settlers, are still many across the island.

Silverman's exhaustive investigation of every aspect of Long Island gives the reader a complete picture of every area, covered and explained. From geographical details of its two counties, with Nassau and Suffolk's north and south shores, and latter's north and south forks, all readers' questions are answered, from its largest ethnic group (Italian Americans, 27 percent( to its highest point (Jayne's Hill in Melville at 400 feet above sea level). We are flat!

The author's 10 reasons to visit Long Island (and we should be proud) are 1) 23 state parks and more than 50 county parks; 2) superb restaurants; 3) scenic waterways, 4) gilded-age mansions open to the public; 5) world-class concert halls and arenas; 6) hundreds of miles of white sandy beaches; 7) more than 100 museums; 8) 7,000 structures built prior to the 20th century; 9) unique architecture and 10) animal refuges and preserves. Sounds like something for everyone.

From recreations of all sorts from biking and hiking, horseback riding and fishing to golf, tennis, boating and beaches (the 2,400-acre Jones Beach State Park and famous beach draws six to seven million visitors from around the world each summer). In this, the nation's fourth wealthiest area, residents support 1,196 shopping centers in addition to chain stores, boutiques and shops, found in virtually every town. Long Island is described as a microcosm of New York City, offering something for everyone, from restaurants and late night bars with live music, to celebrated concert halls featuring top names in entertainment, lounges, piano bars, comedy clubs and nightclubs. The book lists festivals, events, medical facilities, houses of worship, etc. in addition to accommodations and restaurants across the county, with price scales for each.

Under Nassau County's North Shore, the reader is afforded an interesting listing and description of specific "Mansions to Museums" - from the Falaise Castle to the Tee Ridder Miniature Museum. Detailed information is given as well for the county's South Shore, before venturing to the less-densely populated Suffolk County.

This lesser-known area of Long Island, its many historic sites from Stony Brook's Grist Mill to its wildlife preserves, its Film and TV Foundation and its many family-fun facilities, music, theatre and art offerings, spas, cruises, all sports, shopping, museums, accommodations, restaurants and more, are presented in detail by the author. From its South Shore's William Floyd 1724 famed Bayard Cutting Arboretum to its picturesque North Fork with its 25 wineries welcoming the public for visits and tasting and farm stands featuring fresh picked crops from the area's vast farmlands are many and popular with natives and tourists alike.

Its celebrated 32-mile Fire Island with its pencil-thin barrier beach, no more than a half mile wide from ocean to bay, with its 17 communities' 200 families year round are joined by thousands of visitors every summer. No road or cars here and it's reached by ferry.

"Let's not forget the island's famed Hamptons, which the author describes as "like nowhere else on the planet," with celebrities underfoot on the streets, markets, restaurants and shops. Like Long Island's Gold Coast, excess wealth abounds, with real estate up to "$ million a pop." All this plus award-winning beaches, museums, windmills, historic sites, water and land sports and lots of shopping, from surfboard to sand paintings and a wide choice of high-tone fashion; a shopper's paradise even for merely the "window-type." Restaurants, theatre, dancing and live entertainment are available after dark. The road to the Hamptons is a traffic nightmare during summer weekends, with tourists vying for the view of "life among the super rich on America's Riviera."

Easy-to-read maps accompany each area text, excellent advice for additional sources and a helpful index afford readers easy access to Long Island Alive!'s ample array of Long Island information, border-to-border, coast-to-coast...

A marvelous guide.......2003-04-02

Pros
ý In depth information about Long Island
ý Geographic arrangement of chapters is very helpful
ý Excellent descriptions of attractions

Cons ý Maps are very small

The Bottom Line - If you are traveling around Long Island, keep this book in the car. Long Island Alive! packs a lot of information into a portable package. With a cover price of $, you'll get your money's worth.

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ý A travel guide for visitors to Long Island and a resource guide for those who live here.
ý You'll find information about places to stay, restaurants, museums, and historical landmarks.
ý This book also lists houses of worship, parks, movie theaters, animal hospitals and shelters, etc.

Long Island Alive! author Francine Silverman has put together a wonderful resource both for visitors to Long Island and those who live here. You'll find information about museums, dining, houses of worship, animal shelters, shopping, and entertainment. Long Island Alive!, published by Hunter Publishing, Inc., is arranged geographically using the Long Island Expressway as the dividing line between Nassau and Suffolk Counties' North and South Shores. Looking for a museum on the North Shore of Nassau County or somewhere to get a light bite on the South Shore of Suffolk? You'll find it in this book. Do you need to find a farm market? It's in here too. Keep this chubby paperback in your car. You never know when it will come in handy. Dawn Rosenberg McKay -

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Volume One contains outlines and study guides to help you identify, focus, and master the specific topics that need the most work. The innovative outline format, which is supplemented by brief examples and illustrations, stresses important topical areas to study for each part of the exam (Auditing, Business Law and Professional Responsibilities, Accounting and Reporting, and Financial Accounting and Reporting). Volume One provides the most up-to-date coverage available, including AICPA content specification outlines, and covers all four sections of the CPA Exam point by point. Plus, Volume One is full of helpful hints and tips to help you pass the exam. The step-by-step examples help explain the "solutions approach" that is the hallmark of the Wiley CPA Examination Review System.

Featuring a unique modular structure, these CPA study guides divide the CPA exam into 44 manageable study units that makes material easy to read, understand, and remember. These study guides are an essential part any CPA Examination self-study preparation program.

"I just wanted to say thanks for providing the Wiley CPA Examination Review Products. I just used your study guides plus practice software, sat for all four parts of the exam in May 2000, and passed all four on my first try with the following scores: 99, 95, 99, 99. Your books contained 100% of the information on the exam and my high scores reflect the quality of your products. I owe my success to Wiley CPA Review Products - and you can quote that." --Carolyn Bryant, Elijah Watt Sells Award Silver Medal Winner

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Great guideline! don't need any review course.......2001-06-15

I must say that CPA reviews for Wiley is the most comprehensive among Bisk and Lambert. I had studied it and gave me helpful guidence on managing my time within the modules. If you are seriously thinking of taking the exam this year, this is a must buy!

Wiley Cpa Examination Review 1997-1998: Problems and Solutions (24th ed, Vol 2 (2nd of a 2 Vol Set))

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ad hoc to Volume 1
Do you want to pass the CPA Exam - Use this book

Wiley Cpa Examination Review 1997-1998: Problems and Solutions (24th ed, Vol 2 (2nd of a 2 Vol Set))
Patrick R. Delaney
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Wiley CPA Examination Review, Volume 1, Outlines and Study Guidelines, 30th Edition, 2003-2004

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Volume Two provided CPA candidates with problems and solutions for all four CPA Exam sections (Auditing, Business Law and Professional Responsibilities, Accounting and Reporting, and Financial Accounting and Reporting). There are over 2,800 multiple choice practice questions and solutions. In addition to providing a detailed explanation of the correct answer, the reasons why certain answers are incorrect is also explained. As an added benefit, multiple choice questions are grouped into the rationale topical categories within modules for easy cross-referencing. Plus, there are over 150 essay questions, problems and OOAFs with unofficial AICPA answers and valuable author commentary. Volume Two provides the most comprehensive source of CPA examination questions. The questions come from previous exams, author generated questions, as well as sample and released questions from the AICPA.

The Wiley CPA Examination Review Study Guides have been the profession's trusted tutor for over 25 years and are the most widely used CPA exam review resource worldwide. Published every May, the two-volume set arms readers with detailed outlines and study guidelines, plus skill-building problems and solutions, that help them to identify, focus on, and master the specific topics that need the most work. Featuring a unique modular structure, these CPA study guides divide the CPA exam into 44 manageable study units that makes material easy to read, understand, and remember. These study guides are an essential part any CPA Examination self-study preparation program.

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ad hoc to Volume 1.......2001-06-15

This is a compliment as Volume 1. You must thoroughly practise the exam questions before you go for the exam. Prior task for going to the exam is to practise the questions..!

Do you want to pass the CPA Exam - Use this book.......2000-05-10

Using this book along with Volume I of the same series, will greatly improve you scores on the CPA Exam. These were the only tools I used and I passed on my 2nd time. This is a wonderful resource. Good luck to all striving CPA's.

Wiley Cpa Examination Review 1998: Auditing (Annual)

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Good book for review purposes

Wiley Cpa Examination Review 1998: Auditing (Annual)
Patrick R. Delaney
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Helping candidates pass the CPA exam for more than 25 years!

The most effective system available to prepare for the CPA exam
Up-to-the-minute coverage
All current AICPA content requirements in accounting and reporting
Unique modular format helps you zero in on areas that need work, organize your study program, and concentrate your efforts
Over 600 multiple-choice questions and their solutions in each of the four volumes
Covers all new question forms and formats, including MC, OOAF, and essay questions
Complete sample exam in accounting and reporting
Guidelines, pointers, and tips on how to build knowledge in a logical and reinforcing way

Other titles in the WILEY CPA EXAMINATION REVIEW 1999 FOUR-VOLUME SET:

Auditing
Business Law and Professional Responsibilities
Financial Accounting and Reporting: Business Enterprises

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The Wiley CPA Examination Review, 25th Edition, Two-Volume Set

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Accounting and Reporting: Taxation, Managerial, Governmental, and Not-for-Profit Organizations 3.0
Auditing 3.0
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Financial Accounting and Reporting: Business Enterprises 3.0

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Accounting and Reporting: Taxation, Managerial, Governmental, and Not-for-Profit Organizations
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The Wiley CPA Examination Review Focus Notes

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Business Law
Financial Accounting

PATRICK R. DELANEY, PhD, CPA, is the Arthur Andersen LLP Alumni Professor of Accountancy at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of bestselling books, audiotapes, and software in the WILEY CPA EXAMINATION REVIEW SYSTEM and a coauthor of Wiley GAAP 99: Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

Customer Reviews:

Good book for review purposes.......1999-11-03

I have gotten a lot of use from this book in regards to reviewing information for the exam. However, I spent 2 and 1/2 hours taking the practice exam in the back of the book only to discover that the multiple choice answers are not published. How frustrating!

Wiley Cpa Examination Review, 1998-1999: Outlines and Study Guides (25th Edition. Vol 1 of a 2 Vol Set)

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Most exemplary

Wiley Cpa Examination Review, 1998-1999: Outlines and Study Guides (25th Edition. Vol 1 of a 2 Vol Set)
Patrick R. Delaney
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Binding: Paperback

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Volume 1: Covers all four sections of the CPA Examination point by point. * Stresses important topical areas to study for each part. * Helps establish a self-study preparation program Divides exam into 44 manageable study units. * Provides an outline format supplemented by brief examples and illustrations. * Makes material easy to read, understand, and remember. * Gears coverage to the AICPA content specification outlines effective with the May 1998 exam. * Explains step-by-step examples of the solutions approach.

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Most exemplary.......2000-01-27

This book was really good. It really helped me become an CPa. Now, I am a CPA. Thanks to this book.

Wiley Cpa Examination Review: 1997-1998 (24th ed. 2 Vol Set)

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Wiley Cpa Examination Review: 1997-1998 (24th ed. 2 Vol Set)
Patrick R. Delaney
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Wiley Cpa Examination Review: 1998-1999 (25th Edition. 2 Vol Set)

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Very Complete. Good Book.
Time Management
Anyone using this volume set pass the exam?
Excellent test questions, average module outlines.
Tremendous Help

Wiley Cpa Examination Review: 1998-1999 (25th Edition. 2 Vol Set)
Patrick R. Delaney
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Binding: Paperback

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Published annually in December, this comprehensive four-volume study guide for the Certified Public Accountant's (CPA) Exam arms readers with detailed outlines and study guidelines, plus skill-building problems and solutions, that help them to identify, focus on, and master the specific topics that need the most work. Many of the practice questions are taken from previous exams, and care was taken to ensure that they cover all the information candidates need to master in order to pass the Uniform CPA Examination.

Featuring a unique modular structure, these CPA study guides review materials and combine over 230 AICPA content specifications into a series of forty-four related modules. By combining and relating topics, the books help build knowledge in a logical, self-reinforcing way, so as to foster a level of understanding beyond that achieved through rote memorization.

Each of our four volume set is devoted to a specific section of the CPA Examination, so you can study one section at a time of just choose a section that you need extra help in.

Financial Accounting and Reporting
Business Law And Professional Responsibilities
Auditing
Accounting & Reporting

O. Ray Whittington, PhD, CPA, CMA, CIA, is the Ledger and Quill Director of the School of Accountancy at DePaul University. He is also the author of Audit Sampling: An Introduction to Statistical Sampling in Auditing, Fifth Edition, available from Wiley.

Patrick R. Delaney, PhD, CPA, was the Department Chair at Northern Illinois University. He spent nearly three decades as a respected colleague of John Wiley & Sons and author of the Wiley CPA Exam Review and coauthored Wiley GAAP: Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

Customer Reviews:

Very Complete. Good Book........2003-02-07

Thanks to Wiley's CPA review, I passed ARE 85, FARE 84 and Audit 79, first try. (Failed on Business Law 72 but that was more due to lackluster studying than to the quality of the study material!)

The books are very complete albeit somewhat slightly confusing at first. All aspects of the CPA program are covered, and, if you study these books thoroughly (material + multiple choice), you have a very good chance of passing the exam at the first try.

Make sure you understand the structure and the way each book is organized before you dig into it. I found the overall organization of the books to be confusing at first, and the content quality is definitely not constant from one book/one chapter to the other, which is why I would give a 4-star rating instead of a 5.

Also, I would highly recommend the Wiley's CPA Preparation Software. It speeds up your preparation greatly, and is a good way of avoiding the inevitable and endless page-flipping of book study.

Good luck!

Time Management.......2002-10-27

It is very important to have time management will preparing for the CPA exam.
This 4 volumes set is much better than the other 2 volume set although they both contain the same material, this one has it in a more well organized way where the questions follow the outlines, some people might find it not that helpful but it really is.
In general the both sets are easy to use and handle, the advices are very much helpful, and the material is right to the point a thing that really saves your time.
As an advice you have to go through this set at least three times; the first time (2-3 hrs/day): Read then answer the questions try to do so within 3 months (prepare notecards and don't put any marks with the questions); the second time(2-3 hrs/day): Answer then read topics on your mistakes and review your notecards on othr subjects within 2 months; the third time (5-7 hrs/day): complete a whole module daily (order is not important but might be good) you have to pass all modules 90% at least. One last time is a 4-days approach where you go through a whole section every day.

Anyone using this volume set pass the exam?.......2002-09-29

Did anyone using these books from "Wiley" pass the CPA test? If so, how good are they in preparing you for the exam? There are very few reviews here and its hard to tell if these books are any good.

Excellent test questions, average module outlines........2002-08-14

I find the test questions and explainations after each module are authentic and very helpful in understanding the concepts. However the module outlines are not so well written. I wonder if other buyers have same feeling.

Tremendous Help.......2002-06-05

Used the Delaney books along with a review course. Superior additional material for what was not covered in the review. No surprises when I sat the CPA exam. Pasted first time.

Wiley Cpa Examination Review, 1998-1999: Problems and Solutions (25th Edition. Vol 2 of a 2 Volume Set)

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Wiley Cpa Examination Review, 1998-1999: Problems and Solutions (25th Edition. Vol 2 of a 2 Volume Set)
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