This is a book that I read during the internet frenzy and recently revisited.

During the frenzy I thought it did a decent job of defining various roles a product producing or telecom company can have, separating a company to it's functional componenets, and did the usual job of having a company focus on it's core competencies. It only addressed supply chain companies, a card that was overplayed back then, yet a decent area of improvement with the application of the internet.

Yet it seemed like the authors struggled on every page to not say that Cicso is great, all companies should be Cisco, and if you hire them they wil make you into a Cisco by copying what Cicso did, and you'd get a Cisco market multiple. The catch is a variety of factors helped Cisco evolve organically, and a retroactive fit is risky in the sense that it would be artificial and thus unsustainable. Also, the whole think-tank and incubator type centralized company was en-vouge and this book tried to compliment a potential client/company that they could be in that special inner circle. Yet not everyone can be a chef in a time of limited kitchens, busboys, customers, etc. Beyond that, it seemed like the normal strategic rhetoric of putting your company in the middle of some diagram or four box chart, or citing some survey from what is most likely a 24 year old's opinion when faced with a deadline. A final reaction from reading it in 2000 was that it was also free lottery ticket in the sense that the salesmen authors tried to sell a major major overhaul to firms, and as career consultants it would be unlikely that they would be able to implement or take responsibility. But lottery tickets were free back then.

Now that I've revisited the book, I see that it was actually a joke even with the hindsight bias. If a company divests all assets and becomes a brand name, it brings tremendous risk into it's ongoing existance. This is underscored by the fact that all poster child companies mentioned in the book are now either out of business or trading [cheap], with the exception of course with Cisco.

The value in the book now would be similar to the Pets.com puppet, or putting one share of webvan in a picture frame. The catch is that nobody cared about this book back then, so it loses it's nostalgic value.

This book is merely a sales pitch written by PwC executives looking to drum up e-business sales. It is full of "e" cliches and flies in the face of accepted business theories -- such as transaction cost economics. This type of thinking by top PwC partners is clearly the reason why that firm is currently merging with IBM Global Services.

Die Autoren verkaufen alten Wein in neuen Schläuchen. Verschiedenste Managementkonzepte wie das Supply Chain Management oder der Trend zum Outsourcing sind altbekannt. Das einzige, das den bisherigen Trend vorantreibt oder verstärkt ist die technologische Entwicklung, welche die Autoren ebenfalls erwähnen.

Das Buch lässt sich theoretisch auf vier Seiten zusammenfassen. Es werden neue Ausdrücke kreeirt, welche - wenn überhaupt - nur dürftig erklärt werden. Den Diagrammen mangelt es an Aussagekraft, die auch im Text nicht wettgemacht wird. Verschiedenste aneinandergereihte Schlagworte tragen zu einem erschwerten Verständnis bei. Argumentativ befinden sich die Autoren auf tiefem Niveau. Es erstaunt nicht, dass die Autoren dieses Werk in zwei Monaten fertiggestellt hatten. Fazit: Als Anregung in Ordnung, aber sicher nicht kaufenswert.

Total waste of time and money on the buyers behalf. I dont think anything in is eBook worth reading. If you're looking for REAL wholesalers, just remember, they'll require you to have a tax id and they should never charge you any sales tax.

After buying this book I joined the authors membership site and I have to say, it is superb - hundreds of wholesalers, auctions etc listed and a very low price. The ebook is a good starting point, but to take things further the membership site is the way to go. worth a look as this ebook is actually included in the membership site.

Despite the comments below, I actually found this directory very useful. I was completely new to the world of buying and selling and wanted to locate some suppliers from which to buy to start selling on online auctions. I found exactly that in this ebook. If you are realistic about what is actually available out there, then this ebook will be helpful and it is certainly a lot quicker than trying to locate the suppliers yourself using the Internet.

This book suggests it is OK for kids to keep secrets from their parents -- as long as it is with an angel! -- I would prefer a more serious, informative approach to good eating habits.

I chose to buy this book after seeing an article written about the author in the Orange County Register. The author was named the "Next Dr. Seuss" by Barnes and Noble and although her book did not use fake words, it had the same feel! My children love the book because "its fun." and I love the book because it teaches my kids the importance of healthy eating in a fun way.

This is a book about college kids working at a resort in the 50's. They have a few goals: loafing on the job; getting drunk and having sex. This is it. The whole story. I managed to get to page 190 before I gave up. Not only is the story forgettable, characters enter in conversations without prior introduction. Then there are proof reading errors. As an avid book reader, I am willing to give any book a chance. Since I did, you don't have to waste your time.

Summer at the Resort is a time capsule. It preserves the peculiar hunger and greed, self consciousness and doubt of a generation poised on the edge of the Korean War, other Communist threats , and patriotic paranoia. As the young characters cycle between labor and lust in the resort world, they play out the dispair, cynicism, and fear that were gripping the larger socity.

In response to these stressful times, many young men who felt they would become involved in the war tried to live their lives to the fullest. The characters of this novel by their actions reflect not only the wild behavior of the era's young men and women, but that mind-set that gripped the nation. The author captures the inexperience, frustration, and awkwardness of young men suddenly exposed-as staff members at a summer resort-to more drinking and wild living that they had ever imagined. They soon learn that the resort's sex ratio of four women to each man doesn't always work in their favor, and thus their nightly search for pleasure is often aimless and unrewarding.

Like all the early books in this series, this was a superb commentary when it first appeared (in 1910; the 2nd edition of 1930 has a new, very long, introduction but is otherwise unrevised) but is now quite elderly. Most of the historical background is obsolete and best ignored. It adopts an extremely critical stance, much of which is discredited and even quaint. However, the book is not yet worthless, because it has a still unrivalled analysis of the Hebrew grammar and an extensive treatment of textual variants from the Septuagint and elsewhere. Don't throw it away, but supplement it with a couple of newer works, such as the three volume magnum opus of Westermann.

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I am currently enrolled In a distanced learning college and was sent this book.The book Is hard to figure out and the problems give you no pretense on who to solve them go with a different book.

This text isn't awful, but it does jump into things a bit quickly for someone who hasn't taken algebra for about a decade. If you need to use this text as part of a college program, I definitely recommend "Forgotten Algebra", ISBN 0812019423 as a refresher (or suppliment) before tackling this text. It will be well worth the extra [money] spent!

College Algebra is well written. The concepts of algebra are thoroughly explained and illustrated with examples. Answers to half the problems are included in the back of the book.

I was hoping this would be the sequel to the awesome beginners asp database book by John Kauffman. It was not even close. This book trys to cover so many platforms that it ends up not covering anything very well. The examples are terrible and confusion will set in after the second chapter. I have found that with Wrox books, if there is more than one person on the cover, then it will stink up the place.

My favorites were Section 5,7 and 8. The case studies were okay. Good cover on MTS and Novell Directory Services with ASP.

As a reviewer for this book I have read the book from cover to cover. The strong point about this book is that it covers many different aspects of data access. If you are somewhat new to ASP this book will show the ropes on ADO, XML and how to mix data from many different sources. If you are an experienced developer this book covers many areas that will interest you - data warehousing, the use of several different DB other than the very familiar SQL Server and non-realtional data sources. I have taken my copy of this book to work and everyone wants to borrow it.

The manual goes into too much detail about repairs that a typical consumer would never attempt at home and provides almost no detail about routine maintenance. I bought this manual and kept in my garage for reference and tried to use it yesterday to guide me through flushing my cooling system. I could not locate the radiator drain plug. There is no index item for "radiator" if you can believe that. But, I did find "cooling system." Now, this is verbatim from the manual: "2. Place a fluid catch pan under the radiator, open the radiator drain valve and drain the coolant from the system." There is no diagram or narrative overview explaining the cooling system components. There is nothing showing the location of the drain plug! This is typical of this manual. Want another example? Here is everything on removing the thermostat: "3. If using a flushing solution, remove the thermostat. Reinstall the thermostat housing." Again, no location and no diagram. Yet, if I wanted to fix a "crankshaft damper," the manual has a 14 step procedure and a nice diagram.

I have a 1995 Cadillac Deville which keeps stalling on me. I discovered it had no spark, so it wasn't a fuel problem. I have brought it to 5 garages and no one can figure it out. Every time I get it to the garage, it will run fine. I am a college student who inheritted a nice vehicle. I can't find a book anywhere that will show me anything electrical in it

I have used many Chilton repair manuals in the past. I need one now for my 1994 Cadillac concour. I have an oil leak around the oil pan. I need to have a manual that show's how to remove the oil pan.