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Narcissus in Chains (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 10)

564 reviews
Laurell K. Hamilton

Jove, 2002

Some will love it, others will hate it.
This book continues the evolution (or devolution, depending on your point of view) of the Anita Blake character and the series as a whole. At the beginning of this series, the sex was rated PG, the violence R. As the series has progressed, the violence has remained constant, the sex become more prevalent. In "Blue Moon", the book two before this in the series, I said that the sex had matched the ...

Essentials of Supply Chain Management, 2nd Edition

19 reviews
Michael Hugos

Wiley, 2006

Good "Executive Summary"
One of the best primers I have read so far on SCM. While not a blue-print on how to implment SCM, it really does provide an excellent overview of the benefits of SCM and the steps a company would take to introduce SCM. One of the best sections of the book introduces new trends within SCM. This section alone made the book a good investment. Recommend it for top management looking to get a ...

Designing and Managing the Supply Chain 3e with Student CD
David Simchi-Levi, Philip Kaminsky, ...

McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2007

Designing and Managing the Supply Chain, 3/e provides state-of-the-art models, concepts, and solution methods that are important for the design, control, operation, and management of supply chain systems. In particular, the authors attempt to convey the intuition behind many key supply chain concepts and to provide simple techniques that can be used to analyze various aspects of the supply chain. Topical coverage reflects the authors’ ...

Chain of Blame: How Wall Street Caused the Mortgage and Credit Crisis

15 reviews
Paul Muolo, Mathew Padilla

Wiley, 2008

"Because thats where the money is" - why crooks rob banks
Well written, well researched and has the juicy stuff too. A broker standing on his desk yelling at the loan reviewers to go faster, faster, faster in approving loans (so he can get his commission). Great background on Angelo Mozila, the king of subprime, and a fun story about Lewie Ranieri, whose Texas employees thought they were getting a mob boss instead of a banker. It will make you ...

Logistics & Supply Chain Management: creating value-adding networks (3rd Edition) (Financial Times Series)

12 reviews
Martin Christopher

FT Press, 2005

Easy to read, theorethically strong and practical enough
After reading many books about logistics and supply chain issues, this third edition adds value to the field. The author confirms his visionary approach and provides new thinking on supply chain risk and resilience. Not only agility is now more elaborated and explained as an important logistics strategy together with leaness, but also, hybrid strategies are proposed and practical cases are ...

Critical Chain : A Business Novel

63 reviews
Eliyahu M. Goldratt

North River Press, 1997

Starting Point for TOC Applied to Projects
This book is about applying TOC to project management. After reading this book I understood why TOC for project management is not as straight forward as it might first appear. Not only are projects not repeatable like production assembly lines buts in a multi-project environment you need to take shared resources into account. This is even more difficult when the managers for each project are ...

Supply Chain Management (3rd Edition)

1 review
Sunil Chopra, Peter Meindl

Prentice Hall, 2006

A Brilliant Analysis of Three "Key" Interrelationships
As Sunil Chopra and Peter Meindl explain in their Preface, the purpose of their book is to help those who read it to "develop an understanding of the following key areas and their interrelationships: the strategic role of a supply chain, the key strategic drivers of supply chain performance, and [the] analytical methodologies for supply chain analysis." I think their material will be of greatest ...

Harvard Business Review on Supply Chain Management (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)

4 reviews
Harvard Business School Press

Harvard Business School Press, 2006

Harvard Business Review on Supply Chain Management
I thought the book presented several interesting examples through eight papers covering various supply chain topics. Several of the papers have appendices with very useful information. This is a good book to take on a plane and read on one or two flights. But, subsequent research would be required to obtain the details necessary to actually implement the concepts.

The Speech Chain: The Physics and Biology of Spoken Language

2 reviews
Peter Denes, Elliot Pinson

Worth Publishers, 1993

For language teachers, speech pathologists, linguists ...
... and teachers of the deaf. Both Peter Denes and Elliot Pinson were communications scientists at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey. Dr. Denes was Head of the Speech and Communication Research Department; Dr. Pinson was Head of the Computer Systems Research Department. Very useful material: In its own words, this book is "an explanation of processes involved in spoken communication, from the ...

Purchasing and Supply Chain Management

4 reviews
Robert B. Handfield, Larry C. Giunipero, ...

South-Western College/West, 2008

Great reference work
If you want one book explaining state-of-the-art thinking in procurement, this is the one. It has chapters on every important topic. It's not a book I would choose to read from beginning to end to learn about purchasing (unless I were a University student) but it's a good starting point for looking deeper into many topics.

The Value Profit Chain : Treat Employees Like Customers and Customers Like Employees

3 reviews
James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser, ...

Free Press, 2003

As Good As It Gets
The Value Profit Chain provides tremendous insight into the critical elements of a world class operating strategy. I particularly found Chapters 1 and 2 extremely helpful in providing a framework to think about the details of what is required to support our brand positioning. As they say, God is in the details and this book helped me understand which details matter and which don't. I highly ...

Handcrafting Chain and Bead Jewelry: Techniques for Creating Dimensional Necklaces and Bracelets

21 reviews
Scott David Plumlee

Watson-Guptill, 2006

Outstanding Book!
Now that I own the book, I agree with everyone who gave it a five star rating. I had to laugh at a few of the "not favorable" reviews, because one reviewer had obviously NOT READ the book, how else could she have missed the ring-size charts on page 11. A couple of other reviewers had also obviously not looked at the description of the book. Mr. Plumlee is an expert on ancient chains and in this ...

Chain Mail Jewelry: Contemporary Designs from Classic Techniques

29 reviews
Terry Taylor, Dylon Whyte

Lark Books, 2006

Great Book
I was going to give this book 4 stars, but after thinking about what this book did accomplish in overall developement, I decided to give it 5 stars. The photography was is great. There are step by step instructions. The projects are shown with models and how they can be accessorized with apparel for various occasions, something that other books don't show. The DOWNSIDE of this book, there is ...

Lean Six Sigma for Supply Chain Management

8 reviews
James William Martin

McGraw-Hill Professional, 2006

Lean Six Sigma for Supply Chain Management
This is most definitely a book for Supply Chain and Operations Management practitioners. If the reader is looking for a high level review of the subject matter, I would not recommend this book. This book is a serious, dense study of the material with practical applications and techniques. Of the various industry texts that I have read, this is probably the "slowest read" mostly because ...

Supply Chain Logistics Management

1 review
Donald J. Bowersox, David J. Closs, ...

McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2006

an extremely good teacher on supply chain management
The authors of the book are quite well-known as professors in Michigan Uni.It is one of the best book for a new-comer or student to supply chain field.It owns a lot of industrial insights as supporting cases and also, quite a few other useful data and tables.The theoretic structure of the book is quite fruitful and helpful, especially to whom wanna have a clear and complete picture of the supply ...

Operations Management: Processes and Value Chains, 8th edition

2 reviews
Lee J. Krajewski, Larry P Ritzman, ...

Prentice Hall, 2006

Operations Management
I wish I had known this book was the international version. I was not able to use it for the class.

Supply Chain Management: A Logistics Perspective (with Student CD-ROM)
John J. Coyle, C. John Langley, ...

South-Western College Pub, 2008

The eighth edition continues to refine the focus from logistics to supply chain management. It provides new and updated “Supply Chain Profiles,” vignettes at the beginning of each chapter that introduce students to the chapter’s topics through familiar real-world companies, people, and events. The text demonstrates practical application of supply chain management through new and updated “On the Line” boxed features, which are applied examples ...

Introduction to Operations and Supply Chain Management (2nd Edition)
Cecil Bozarth, Robert B. Handfield

Prentice Hall, 2007

Introduction to Operations and Supply Chain Management, 2/e is the first text to provide an integrated and comprehensive treatment of both operations and supply chain management. In the 2 nd edition, the authors provide deeper coverage of important topics while maintaining a trim, integrated book. It now provides substantial coverage of the major operations management topics and tools, while extending coverage to include core supply chain ...

Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves

33 reviews
Adam Hochschild

Mariner Books, 2006

change is possible
Beginning in 1555 and lasting for 350 years, the British empire bought, sold, and enslaved about 11 million African people. This required some 35,000 voyages along the so-called triangular trade route: buying slaves from African slave traders along the continent's west coast, depositing their human cargo mainly in the Caribbean to work on Britain's sugar plantations but also to ports from Quebec ...

Supply Chain Management Best Practices

3 reviews
David Blanchard

Wiley, 2006

A well written, well documented overview
Dave Blanchard writes in a clear, concise style and supports his points with case histories that relate each point to the real world. The book is divided into three parts to create a process of its own. It leads the reader through supply chains used in different channels, discusses the core questions that must be answered in creating a system and then looks at solutions the best companies use to ...

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