The Greek Plant World in Myth, Art and Literature

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Barbados Directions fits neatly in your pocket and won''t weigh you down on a visit to this dazzling island. The guide provides the perfect partner on a visit to Barbados, brimming with ideas for making the most of your time. In the opening "Ideas" section, 28 full-colour spreads cover a wide range of attractions from hidden beaches and outdoor activities to indulgent cocktails and remote sunset look-outs. The "Places" section of the guide gives complete coverage of each area of the island, with opinionated listings picking out the best museums, restaurants, bars, beaches, rum shops, wildlife and craft shops. Throughout the "Places" section there are specially commissioned photos illustrating the listings and maps pin-pointing their location. The entire text of the guide is digitally stored on an e-book CD included with the book. The CD can be read by PCs, Macs and all hand-held devices and contains weblinks to hundreds of sites, from hotels to local tour organisers.

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Tales from Times Past is a collection of stimulating stories mainly from the nineteenth century, with some from the beginning of this century. The stories are interspersed with suggested classroom activities at natural breaks in the narrative. Illustrations at regular intervals set the tone for the tales. The activities encourage students to explore this genre and interpret the texts with personal responses. The selection is both appealing to read and challenging to study. Tales from Times Past features stories from such legendary writers as Edith Wharton, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to name a few.

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Service Management is the best-selling text in this market and includes compelling and current examples from the field of technology. The text has extensive coverage on global operations, and the need for continuous improvement in quality and productivity in the service industry. Service Management also does an excellent job of demonstrating how crucial functional areas of an organization such as marketing, strategic issues, operations and human behavior impact effective service management.

Customer Reviews:

Melhor de melhores..........2004-11-08

O livro do Fitzsimmons é a melhor ferramenta conceptual e practica sobre gerenciamento de serviços. Sem dúvida.
El libro de Fitzsimmons es la mejor herramienta conceptual y práctica sobre gerenciamento de servicios.
O book of Fitzsimmons it's the better conceptual and practical tool about services management I've ever seen.
Jorge P. Aldrovandi
Fortaleza / Ceará / Brasil

I've never read a book that sucks more than this one does.......2003-12-08

Pointless formulas, impossible to find actual definitions, book is full of outdated real world references (ex: referring to online purchasing as a new fangled idea). I've never been so confused by a text in my life. I DO NOT recommend this book. It was a required text for my service management class and NOBODY was happy with the text. It almost annoyingly uses Texas as a reference for nearly all analogies. The only thing good about it was how highly it spoke of Amazon.com!

Its implementable, I used it so much it needed recovering.......1999-07-21

This is not the first services management Text I have read or the First Management text. The imposed shake up in the health professions has created a need to take on new learnings in a discipline I was not used too. However as I read I was able to understand and classify services. The wholistic view given in the first chapters allowed me to define my purpose and mission, define the characteristics and benefits of my service and create a service package. I was able to apply this through the service concept and focus on my delivery system creating a strategic plan centered around my clients. Its chapeters on quality allowed me to understand the concept of quality its content and purpose in respect of my business and implement a quality plan. It shed new light on the interactions between employees, organisations and clients. This allowed me to create strategies to improve employee satisfaction. The chapters on The physical facitity allowed me to redesign the physical environment of my service,improving employee and customer satisfaction. Capacity and demand and the handling of waiting times, is so important and the book takes time on these subjects. Conceptualy I was able to design and develope a service reflecting the type and standard of service I was in. This would not have been possible without the background theory, models and formulae supplied by the authors. They package their message in a form I understood. The models and diagrams are particularly good as are the referencing. Although the case studies weren't that relevant as I had my own organisation to test the readings on I still feel they would be valuable to the aspiring student, and it has changed forever my perception of the service encounter both as supplier and participant. The chapters and pieces on IT were important and its role in customisation of services and identifying added value areas and potential new markets are not to be missed.

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For courses in Operations Management, Management Science/Quantitative Methods.POM-QM for Windows is the most user-friendly Windows software available. This software package features separate modules covering topics in both operations management and management science.

Operations Management and CD-ROM and Additional Problems and Exercises Package, Sixth Edition

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Great Introductory Book
Amazing, most practical book at college education
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Operations Management
Great Book!

Operations Management and CD-ROM and Additional Problems and Exercises Package, Sixth Edition
Jay Heizer , and Barry Render
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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ASIN: 0130782998

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This book provides readers with a state-of-the-art overview of operations management. It shows the fundamental principles of operations and how they relate to effectively producing goods and services. A thorough discussion of service operations recognizes the fact that a dominant proportion of jobs and operations decisions exist in services. Strong global emphasis (includes international, multi-domestic, global, and transnational strategies) demonstrates to readers how world economies tie together. Other chapter topics cover operations and productivity; operations strategy for competitive advantage; operations in a global environment; forecasting; managing quality; statistical process control; 7s: operations technology, the internet, and ERP; human resources and job design; supply chain management; e-commerce and operations management; project management; and maintenance and reliability. For individuals interested in operations management—and the challenges of cultural, ethical, and critical issues in business today.

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Great Introductory Book.......2007-01-14

This is an excellent introductory text for Operations Management(OM). I highly recommend this book if you are starting to learn OM.

Amazing, most practical book at college education.......2006-05-08

I am using this book for my business class. This book will teach you in-depth principles and skills on how you can manage business operations with a lot of mathmatical skills.

I feel that this book is great because it is very well organized and easy for readers to read. It has graphs and visual aids all over and CD materials for students to go through problems.

By learning this book, readers can not only gain the knowledge on business operation, but they can also have actual skills in operation management.

Buy this book if you are interested in this subject.

Review.......2006-03-19

The book came on time in good condition. The price was rather high but the convience of having it delevered to my door the next day was worth the extra cost.

Operations Management.......2005-09-24

We did not receive the book as quickly as we had hoped. I did have to return the book and had no problems with at at all. And a refund was issued promptly.

Great Book!.......2001-11-03

Very good book. You learn and understand the basics of operations management very fast. Also very usefull book on advanced level.

Operations Management and CD-ROM Package (6th Edition)

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very good
Operations Management: Processes and Value Chains by Lee J. Krajewski [Hardcover]
Wrong book?!
mental tools to help tame complexity
6th Edition Lacking

Operations Management and CD-ROM Package (6th Edition)
Lee J. Krajewski
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ASIN: 0131396102

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This highly respected book presents strategic and managerial issues in order to emphasize that the decisions made by operations managers should be consistent with a corporate strategy shared by managers in all functional areas. It presents the operations tools and techniques for solving problems in the context of achieving a firm's overall goals and strategies, and provides a balanced treatment of manufacturing and services throughout. The book blends the latest in strategic issues with proven analytic techniques, and offers a wealth of interesting examples to engage readers and bring Operations Management to life. This sixth addition adds an increased emphasis on processes, to provide linkage between operational issues, as well as new problem-solving software and a website with innovative Internet resources. Other coverage includes operations as a competitive weapon, operations strategy, managing technology, total quality management, statistical process control, capacity, location, layout, supply-chain management, forecasting, inventory management, aggregate planning, resource planning, lean systems, and scheduling. For operations managers in a variety of fields.

Customer Reviews:

very good.......2005-10-02

The item was sent quickly and in good condition. I am happy with the service.

Operations Management: Processes and Value Chains by Lee J. Krajewski [Hardcover] .......2005-09-22

Quality book, received in a timely manner.

Wrong book?!.......2005-09-02

I bought 0131436643 book(7th Edition). but you send me the book of 0130348341(4th Edition) which is wrong. I need to refund.Please tell me how to refund and send me the correct book. thank you

mental tools to help tame complexity.......2003-07-12

I used this book during my MBA studies. It was okay, but I found it got a little detailed and too wordy at times. A more succinct writing style may have helped. Otherwise, the coverage was top-notch, since I really liked the material. The various inventory, forecasting and queuing models were nicely presented, as was linear programming. This book makes you appreciate how complex things are in the real world. Further, it offers you some mental tools to help tame that complexity, like SPC, six-sigma indices, and decision tree analysis.

The companion disk had some very useful things on it: MS Project, a simulation program, and a process-mapping program. I did not use the author's Excel program, though, as we were forced to develop our own during the class.

6th Edition Lacking.......2003-05-07

We used this book for an MBA course and found it to have numerous errors throughout. Additionally, many of the sections are written to an audience of imbeciles, as the concepts of "repeatability" and "globalization" are explained in extreme detail. The text needs to be updated, especially the section on ERP (no longer in infancy stage). Nothing against Coach K, but the editors for this book have dropped the ball.

Operations Management Interactive Cd Plus Palm Qm Windows Package With Cd-rom

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Operations Management Interactive Cd Plus Palm Qm Windows Package With Cd-rom
Jay Heizer
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0130668478

Production/Operations Management: With Standard Cd-Rom Package (Irwin/Mcgraw-Hill Series Operations and Decision Sciences)

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Get ready for frustration...
Very Good book for Business Mngt. Students

Production/Operations Management: With Standard Cd-Rom Package (Irwin/Mcgraw-Hill Series Operations and Decision Sciences)
William J. Stevenson
Manufacturer: Richard D Irwin
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ASIN: 0256248664

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Get ready for frustration..........2006-06-29

I just finished suffering through this book in order to get my degree and all I can say is... Holy heck, it stinks! It has a gazillion examples, but nothing is properly explained.

One example is the terrible chapter on inventory management. The text is fairly logical and straight-forward, but then it comes time to run some actual numbers and it all just stops. How helpful is it to get all these complex formulas to solve the problem, but instead of showing how to "populate" the formulas with numbers derived from a real situation he author consistently gives himself the data right off the bat, like "Q = 250". So instead of explaining that, hey, the "Q" in the formula in this particular context is pulled from THAT part of the question, and it is completely different from the "Q" in that was featured in the formulas in the LAST chapter, it's all trial-and-error until you figure it out yourself.

Then, at the end of the chapters, you get all kinds of problems to solve to make sure you got it. But of course, THEN you don't get a set of neat values to just plop into the formulas. In fairness, you get most correct answers in the back of the book so you have a clue of what you SHOULD end up with once you've cracked the code. Except, of course, that a good 10% of the answers are WRONG! It sounds like a punch line to a bad joke, doesn't it? I suspect they were rushed getting the sixth edition out the door and simply ran the fifth edition answers by accident; how else can you account for stuff like a question about amount of lead time for reorders to be: ".8869" or a question about utilization ratios to be "31 bags".

Bottom line: if your professor starts talking about using this book for your course, run for the exits or get ready for lots of joyful hair-pulling.

Very Good book for Business Mngt. Students.......1999-12-09

The book is well organized but it is very expensive. There are a lot of examples and explanations included.

Service Management - Operations, Strategy, And Information Technology With Student Cd-rom Mandatory Package

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Service Management - Operations, Strategy, And Information Technology With Student Cd-rom Mandatory Package
Fitzsimmons
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OFKM0Y

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