This compact book contains the best buying advice from "Consumer Reports" along with expert strategies for finding many products at the best prices. Includes advice for shopping online, by mail order, or in stores; lab test results; and a preview of the 2001 model-year vehicles.

"Consumer Reports Used Car Buying Guide" gives shoppers comprehensive advice on more than 200 models, including reliability histories for 1992-1999 models of cars, SUVs, minivans, and pickup trucks. 225+ photos & charts.

Would you like to give your loved ones the most precious gift imaginable, but don’t even want to think about planning your own funeral? Do you find wills, trusts, and life insurance nearly as daunting as death itself? Are you too busy living to think about dying? If so, this book is for you. In Forever After, Paul James and Judith Hayes share personal experiences and insights in a light, sometimes humorous, manner in order to make funeral planning and death—which we all avoid thinking about, even though the death rate remains 100%—approachable, to stress the importance of advance directives, wills, and funeral planning, and to motivate you to plan ahead for your own passing. Forever After provides an easy-to-read, step-by-step approach that offers you practical knowledge, checklists, and fill-in-the blank forms to guide you in preparing for the inevitable. Forever After encourages you to plan today for your passing, so your loved ones aren’t forced to make agonizing and costly decisions when they are most vulnerable. A preplanned passing is your most precious gift.

The Dean of American Rock Critics tackles the decade when music exploded. The '90s saw more albums produced and distributed than any other decade. It was a fertile era for new genres, from alt-rock to Afropop, hip hop to techno. Rock critic Robert Christgau's obsessive ear and authoritative pen have covered it all-over 3,800 albums graded and classified, from A+s to his celebrated turkeys and duds. A rich appendix section ensures that nothing's been left out-from "subjects for further research" to "everything rocks but nothing ever dies." Christgau's Consumer Guide is essential reading and reference for any dedicated listener.

This updated guide for 2003 will help readers shop smart with ratings of desktops, laptops, PDAs, monitors, printers, scanners, camcorders, digital cameras, CD players/recorders, MP3 players, cell phones and more.

This specialty buying guide presents easy-to-use historical profiles of some 200 models--cars, trucks, minivans, sport utility vehicles--giving readers a comprehensive view of each model as a used car.