Ian Guild is well known in the Forfaiting (Amazon, please note, your spelling is incorrect!)arena and this book of his has helped many a practitioner and neophyte alike. Starting from basics, the authors outline the origin of forfaiting, its advantages and drawbacks, the technicalities behind forfaiting quotations, quote comparision. Most interesting of all are the key cases discussed which bring out both the operational as well as legal angles to forfaiting. You do not have to be an expert to understand the subject; Guild and Harris have a gift for simplifying concepts and making them easy to understand. Highly recommended, even though the book is now old.

I use Super Suzy Shopper as my tour book guide and then fit in the museums and free sights in my favorite English towns & London. Her guides are wonderful & updated often if needed. Enjoy a new tour book with none of the boring same old thing. Exciting!

This book was a great guide to shopping London. I wasn't looking for a bargain shopping guide and this certainly isn't that. But if you are, this book may not be for you. Suzy has expensive tastes (like me). I really needed to have some idea where all the interesting boutiques and shopping areas were and this book was exactly what I needed.

This book is proposed for the experienced programmers who are not necessarily familiar with .NET. The book introduces the fundamentals of Web technology in a straightforward and crisp way. This book is also perfect for programmers who have basic knowledge in programming languages such as Visual Basic, C/C++, Jscript and Java, who may or may not have Web programming experience.this book is clearly defined, in-depth, example-rich, provides a hands on guide to Fundamentals of Web Applications Using .NET and XML. Using real-world examples and a detailed case study, this book helps you master the Web Programming using .NET.

This one looks like one...every page has a different outlet, with information like location and telephone, hours, email, a brief description with very personalized comments from the author, directions on how to get there, and lists of manufacturers each outlet carries or does business with. It also has some photos of items you could find there and the great discounts offered. Too bad I don't live in the North Carolina area or I would be off every weekend going to every outlet. It's great for those who really want to save big money on furniture and accessories for the home. The book did mention 3 big warehouses in NC, which I already know about, but offered more info about them than what I already knew. If you plan on getting furniture, get the book, but first check if there is a copy in your local library instead of spending the money on the book. This is a guide you will probably use once every other year, or until you finish furnishing your home.

This book scared the hell out of me. Inside is a web of politics, technology and science (fiction?) of an intricate nature. Futurenet explores the past, drawing links to the present and possibly the future through her meetings with the fathers of the internet and many more great minds. Together, they give us a glimpse of possible futures enlightened by technology or endangered by legistration. Sally Richards weaves all this wonderful material into a fascinating story that will leave you with much thought to process.

James Rieley really understands why people in big companies spend all their time fighting each other instead of fighting the competition. Better yet, he has some good ideas for leaders who want to change that.

For anyone looking to get a great understanding of what eBusiness is really all about this is the book for you. Covering all sorts of different aspects from page design and layout, to webserver setup and dynamic page and content generation you really cant go wrong.

It is full of examples you can use, so that within a couple of hours you can get dynamic access to your information without the need to really tax your mind. Just how it should be! It shows that eBusiness is more than just technology, its about bringing many different processes together. And best of all you get to really make use of your AS/400, although it equally fits any other platform in all the concepts it covers.

Philips Evans and Thomas S. Wurster are vice presidents of the Boston Consulting Group. This article was published in the November-December 1999 issue of the Harvard Business Review.

Initially, electronic commerce has been a landgrab which took speed, a willingness to experiment, and a lot of cyberssavvy. But that phase has ended. However, in the second phase the key players have to defend and capture territory. In this article the authors offer practical advice to each player on competing in this 2nd generation of e-commerce. Companies are forced to focus on strategies to achieve competitive advantage. Success will go to the businesses closest to consumers. Navigation is the battlefield on which competitive advantage will be won or lost. There are three dimensions of navigation: (1) Reach is about access and connection; (2) Affiliation is about whose interests the business represents; and (3) Richness is the depth of the information that a business gives to or collects about its customers. The authors discuss the competition on each of these dimensions. In their opinion, navigators and e-retailers have the natural advantage in reach and affiliation, while traditional product suppliers and retailers have the edge in richness. The authors provide advise from the perspective of a navigator, electronic retailer, incumbent product manufacturer, and incumbent category killer retailer.

Good solid article on the second (latest?) phase of competition in electronic commerce. This article was adapted from the authors' bestseller 'Blown to Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy'. It shows the changes from the orginal landgrabbing strategies to focusing on competitive advantage and proper strategies. Highly recommended. The authors use simple US-English, although with some Internet/e-commerce jargon.

The authors write that "many consumers who are ultracautious about their buying habits seem to be rather casual about their saving and borrowing practices. This carelessness can, of course, cost them far more in the long run than an occasional bad buy." This book covers all consumer issues, including money matters of borrowing and credit, describing all the protections afforded to consumers.
Michael Pellecchia