The Venetian Hours of Henry James, Whistler, and Sargent

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This beautifully illustrated book is the first to explore the history of Chinese dress and the fascinating ways that Western and Chinese fashion have influenced one another. The authors trace the evolution of Chinese clothing from dragon robes and lotus shoes in the imperial era to such attire as the cheongsam and "Mao suit" that symbolize a modern Chinese identity.

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MIND BLOWING,REVELOUTIONARY AND VERY VERY SEXY.......1999-10-07

China chic is a truly haunting experienc

Smashingly beautiful book. New twist on Chinese fashion........1999-08-05

*China Chic* is a gorgeous yet scholarly study of the interchange between China and the West in terms of fashion. Among the many intriguing points is how women of Chinese ancestry in the West are now influencing fashion design in new, very sophisticated ways. The combined efforts of Valerie Steele, John Major, and others make this book a must-read, just as the exhibit at the Fashion Institute in spring 1999 that this book used as a basis was a must-see for anyone who cares about fashion, culture and dress, or Chinese history.

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China Chic: East Meets West
V Steele
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OSHARY

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This boxed set contains the first volume in seven of mangas most popular adventure series, from the superstars in the field. Akira Toriyama's great quest stories, Dragon Ball and Dragon BallZ, star the monkey-tailed boy Goku, whose quiet life is interrupted when he's enlisted to save the world. Masashi Kishimoto's award-winning Naruto takes readers into the whirlwind of the Ninja Academy with its brutal tests and challenging competitions. Then Eichiro Oda's shonen sensation One Piece features a treasure hunt like no other, triggered by some very strange gum-gum fruit. Hiroyuki Takei's teenage shaman battles ghosts and monsters in Shaman King, while Kazuki Takahashi's mega-hit Yu-Gi-Oh! finds a lonely tenth grader solving a three-thousand year puzzle, hurling him into one bizarre game after another. Finally, there's Yoshihiro Togashi's thriller YuYu Hakusho, about a teenage boy whose good deed turns him into Tokyo's toughest ghost.

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Shonen Jump Series 1 Books.......2007-01-04

This was a gift for our son for Christmas!It was great he has read most all of them and now wants most of the series.

Shonen Jump Manga Magic.......2005-11-09

This is easily the best collection of Americanized manga out. As most know, Shonen Jump was at one time a Japanese exclusive magazine that made its hop across the Pacific in 2003 for American fans to enjoy. Since that moment, it's become the best in manga and now contains a majority of the manga juggernauts.

This collection is a great start for those of you who are interested in reading manga, or for those of you who missed out on some of the earlier issues of Shonen Jump and want to catch up on what's going on. It also has the beginnings to the Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z mangas, which can't be found in Shonen Jump.

Below is a listing of the manga in this box, as well as a small description of each:

(1) Dragon Ball: This is the start of the Dragon Ball world. It explains the origins of Goku and his relationship with the Dragon Balls.

(2) Dragon Ball Z: The beginning of one of the greatest animes ever in its purest form. Unpolluted with minutes-long shouting and infested with excellent action and story, this details the story of Goku as a father and a husband, as well as following some of the other favorites of the Dragon Ball world.

(3) Naruto: Probably the best in Shonen Jump, Naruto is a tale of a boy fox-demon who wants nothing more than to earn his place in the world, and does so by training to become a ninja, despite the mistrust directed at him by some of his teacher and the hatred he receives from his fellow students.

(4) One Piece: A boy eats the mysterious Devil Fruit at a young age, making his body into rubber and also cursing his body: should he ever fall into water, he would sink instantly to the bottom. Despite that, he wants nothing more than to be the pirate king of a world of oceans.

(5) Shaman King: Yoh, a boy who can not only see ghosts but control them, comes to Tokyo to train to become a powerful shaman in the hopes that one day he'll win the title of Shaman King.

(6) Yu-Gi-Oh!: A story of constant morals and themes, it details a young, pint-sized, pointy-haired boy's struggles with a mysterious puzzle/necklace that grants him dark super powers as well as an alter-ego.

(7) YuYu Hakusho: A juvenile delinquent dies saving a child and finds out that his next was entirely unexpected and therefore gains a chance to come back to life. What he later finds out is coming back to life also makes him a spirit detective.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh.......2005-05-29

this is too awesome.. I think I'm goonna crrry... uhhhhhhhh... huu huu. Okay calm down, you're a pimp, you're a pimp. This is too awesome I'm gonna barf uhhhhhhhhhhhhh... I'm fine.

This is AWSOME!!!!.......2005-03-30

This pack is totaly awsome!If your obsessed about anime than this is the thing for you! I collect and read Shonen Jump magazine, and I kept getting curious about how all the stories had started. So I got this and it answered all my questions.

cool stuff.......2005-01-26

I think that this is one of the best manga/anime comics that I have ever read.

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A strong beginning.
One of the most heart-warming books I've ever read, and it's only the beginning.
YuYu Hakusho delivers
good bye material world.
MY FAVORITE JAPPENEESE COMIC!!!!!!!

YuYu Hakusho, Vol. 1

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In this first volume in one of Japan's most popular graphic novels, it was a typical day for Yusuke - go to school at noon, get kicked out by the teacher, fight with his rival Kuwabara, and head for home in time to wake his mom from her drunken stupor. But when he throws himself in front of a car to save a little kid's life, he becomes Tokyo's toughest teenage ghost! While his childhood friend Keiko grieves over his comatose body, Yusuke has one chance to return to life: raise a "spirit egg" at the behest of the comely Botan (aka Death) and her boss Koenma, lord of the infernal bureaucracy. But the creature that hatches from the spirit egg will be determined by the good or evil in Yusuke's soul - if he's not careful, he could create a monster!

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A strong beginning........2007-03-05

Yoshihiro Togashi, Yuyu Hakusho, vol. 1 (Viz, 1990)

I went the opposite way I normally do with YuYu Hakusho: I caught the first episode of the anime on ColoursTV one night, purely by accident, and was captivated enough to pick up the manga. Now, "picked up the manga" makes it sound like this was a cakewalk. It was not. My library system is of the type who autmatically tosses all graphic novels into the kidlit section, including such toddler-friendly stuff as Preacher, Watchmen, and Hellblazer, so you can imagine how much care they take with the labelling of volumes in the online catalog. (I've been trying to get volume 1 of Love Hina for three years without success.) The first six-- yes, six-- times I ordered this book, I got volume 3. At least they're consistent. I mean, me trying to get my hands on volume 1 of YuYu Hakusho was like Bilbo trying to get Smaug's treasure. Well, without all the adventures. And without Gollum. (Though I sometimes wonder about a few people who work at my branch of the library.) And it took longer. And I hear some of you asking why I didn't just buy it. Come on, I keep getting volume 3 from the library, which is four miles away, I'm gonna trust someone in SEATTLE to come up with the right book? Besides, it's the principle of the thing.

In any case, all that verbiage was there to prompt you to ask me if it was worth it. Go ahead, I'll wait.

...thank you. Yes, yes it was. The story: Yusuke Urameshi is an eighth-grader in Tokyo who spends his time fighting and cutting class. He's bound for hell, until a sudden selfless act saves his soul, but ends his life. Because of the quandary, the afterlife doesn't know what to do with him-- so Koenma, the junior lord of the underworld, offers Yusuke a chance to return to life. With the help of Botan, Yusuke's spirit guide, Yusuke must raise a spirit egg-- and what hatches from that egg will be determined by the good or evil in Yusuke's soul. It's loads of fun, one of the better first issues I've read over the past year or so. *** ½

One of the most heart-warming books I've ever read, and it's only the beginning........2006-03-31

Being a fan of the Yu Yu Hakusho animated series, it was only natural that I started reading the comic series that it was based on. Most animated series in Japan are based off of their comic source, and with that, the animation tends to leave out a few things here and there. I can't say much about that at the moment since I only have the first volume, but mark my words- the Yu Yu Hakusho books are 50 times better than the animated series. This is a series that anyone can get into. It had everything from romance to comedy to action and more, appealing to a wide audience. There aren't that many series I can say that about either, so don't assume I'm one of those people that says that about everything they like. Yu Yu Hakusho had great success for a reason- its spectacular art direction and writing. You'll fall in love with all the characters, and become disappointed when you've reached the end of each book. I know I did. Just tonight, I said "damnit!" to myself when I reached the end, craving more. This is an addictive series, but with a great price, it's one that won't damage your wallet much.

Yusuke Urameshi is your typical high school tough-guy. He hates authority, gets into fights with people on a regular basis, and doesn't really care about anyone else. He even lifts up the skirt of a girl that tries to talk to him like a regular person. Needless to say, the guy's not the best out there. His biggest rival is Kuwabara, the leader of a gang that Yusuke always beats down without breaking a sweat, while his other biggest rival would be, collectively, the teachers at his school. One day when walking home, a little boy with a ball bumps into him. Yusuke makes him laugh a few times before leaving. But once he turns his back, the ball rolls out into the street, and the kid goes for it without looking both ways. A Speeding car heads right for him, and Yusuke pushes him out of the way, losing his life to save another. Yusuke dies, and his spirit begins to float. Botan, a cute grim reaper, comes to let him know what's happened, but also that his death wasn't expected. Nope, not even the underworld expected him to save someone else, the bad apple that he is. So there's no room for him at the moment. Instead, Yusuke will have to begin a test in order to return to his body. But he'll have to try his best- his body's about to be cremated, and things aren't looking too good for his mom and Keiko, the girl he picks on while at the same time has a small crush on. Yusuke will also have to help out other people in need, building character and showing us that even the rotten ones have their good side.

Even when we first meet him and see how mean he can be, you can't help but love Yusuke. That sly smirk on his face, combed back hair, arrogant attitude, it all makes for a great character, especially a lead one. In this volume alone, he begins to change drastically when he's sent to help out people in need. The best example being that of a little boy whose old dog is dying. The only thing that keeps the dog alive is knowing that the boy needs him, and the memories they shared together. The boy is picked on at school because he doesn't have any friends aside from the dog, and can't fend for himself. Yusuke, as much as he'd love to pound them, can't do much about it aside from entering the boy's dreams. What he does to boost the boy's courage and make him stronger is so noble, that it's building up tears in my eyes right now. My god was it a mistake to read this one in public. I had to hold back everything by the time this chapter was over. Yu Yu Hakusho is great at covering so many different grounds in one chapter, it's hard to understand without reading it firsthand. Another chapter has Yusuke meeting a fixated ghost- a girl who waited for her boyfriend a year ago, but died before making it to wait for him again. When he does show up, she finds out that he replaced her, and didn't care for her that much to begin with. Leave it to Yusuke to take care of things in his own special way. The other big chapter in this book involves a bitter old man who lost his family to a car accident, including his young grandson. The two of them saved a tanuki a while back, and it's grown up and wants to repay him now. You know, now that I think about it, every story in this book is heartwarming in its own way. Even the ones that focus more on Kuwabara and his gang as they get picked on by a teacher who will make one of them quit their job if they fail a test. As you may or may not know, most Japanese high schools forbid students from getting jobs, as they interfere with studies. But the guy who has one -needs- it to support his family since his mom's sick and doesn't make that much, much less makes it to work every day. Yoshihiro Togashi is excellent at showing both sides of a story- their tough-guy reputation exterior, and their real motives. He also does a fantastic job of drawing characters in a both realistic and comical manner. Yusuke doesn't look like your average Japanese comic character, but at times, he gets the same facial reactions to situations.

Viz did a good job translating this volume. There were only two cases where the text didn't make it on the page (a letter or two getting cut off), and they translated most of the words that usually get printed in Romaji, then have a little * explaining what it is along with the literal translation. Oddly enough though, there are some advertisements in this issue for Togashi's other comic(s) appearing on the same page as the panels for Yu Yu Hakusho. He explains what the other comics he worked on before Yu Yu Hakusho in little breaks at the end of each chapter, which gives us a chance to see what he's like when he's taking a break and just talking to the reader casually.

I really don't see how anyone can hate Yu Yu Hakusho. It has excellent writing, great art direction, a proper translation, and the price is right. That's about all you need when looking for a good comic series to get into. This volume is perfect.

YuYu Hakusho delivers.......2006-01-03

i had only read RK at this point but i saw this manga at the store and i read the description of it. I liked the Shonen Jump novels ever since i started to read RK ( of which I have vols 1-7 and the RK
Profiles book). It seemed interesting and when i started to read it, i read it all that same day. It left me wanting more, i need to get vol 2 soon....i have fallen in love ith YUYU hakasho,

good bye material world........2005-10-03

i first saw yuyu hakusho in shonen jump.i thought i would give it a try and it is one good manga.its about yusuke urameshi that saves a little kid from a car acident.BUT he riskes his own life for the boy ,but lucky him a spirit tells him if he can do an sertan amount of good deeds he will be returend to his body.the reason i gave it 4 stars is because it dose contain sewering.thankyou for reading my review ^_^.

MY FAVORITE JAPPENEESE COMIC!!!!!!!.......2005-07-10

YU YU HAKUSHO IS MY ALL TIME FAVORITE COMIC!IT IS NEAT, AND NO INNAPROPRIATE STUFF. BUY IT!

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Seeing is Believing is a provocative, shrewd, witty look at the Hollywood fifties movies we all love-or love to hate-and the thousand subtle ways they reflect the political tensions of the decade. Peter Biskind, former executive editor of Premiere, is one of our most astute cultural critics. Here he concentrates on the films everybody saw but nobody really looked at--classics like Giant, On the Waterfront, Rebel Without a Cause, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers-and shows us how movies that appear to be politically innocent in fact carry an ideological burden. As we see organization men and rugged individualists, housewives and career women, cops and doctors, teen angels and teenage werewolves fight it out across the screen from suburbia to the farthest reaches of the cosmos, we understand that we have been watching one long dispute about how to be a man, a woman, an American--the conflicts of the period in action. A work of brilliant analysis and meticulous conception, Seeing Is Believing offers fascinating insights into how to read films of any era.

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A Different Look at Movies from the '50's.......2000-12-24

Peter Biskind uses "Seeeing is Believing" to look back at films from the 1950's from a socio-political perspective. Using terms such as corporate liberals to define characters in films, and classifying films as either right-wing or left-wing biased, Biskind dissects several well-known films, and more than a few not well-known, from the early Cold War era based on uncommon film criticsm methods. The book is not for the typical movie fan, but for readers with more intellectual pursuits in mind.

Biskind often reads too much into the films he analyzes to substantiate his points, and will quote dialogue out of context from a film under discussion, or from other films of the time. It is doubtful that the producer, director, or writer of a science fiction film like "Them" imagined their science fiction action adventure about giant ants taking over the world to be as complex as Biskind makes it out to be. It is rare that giant ant films are analyzed in the same book as such 1950's classics as "On The Waterfront" and "Rebel Without a Cause." Knowing the Hollywood studio assembly line structure of time, and the large number of contract employees who provided input into any one film, it is difficult to believe that the large number of disparate films analyzed in the book would follow the same general set of character and plot rules as Biskind imagines.

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The Great Jazz Pianists: Speaking of Their Lives and Music (Da Capo Paperback)
Len Lyons , and Leonard S. Lyons
Manufacturer: Da Capo
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Speaking of Pianists
Abram Chasins
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Abram Chasins
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Exceptional Insight Into Great Pianists Of The 20th Century

Speaking of pianists
Abram Chasins
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Exceptional Insight Into Great Pianists Of The 20th Century.......1998-12-04

Abram Chasins holds a unique place in American musical history. As a pianist, author and music critique, he grew up in the heyday when pianists of world renown were performing in Carnagie Hall in New York. This book documents his friendship with the great pianists of the day...Josef Hofmann, Leopold Godovsky, Josef Levinne, Rachmaninoff, Rubinstein and even the young Horowitz to name a few. His writing is eloquent. His insights, unique. A book you will reread many times.

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Abram CHASINS
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The Great jazz pianists: Speaking of their lives and music

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Len Lyons
Manufacturer: Da Capo
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Speaking of Pianists...
Abram CHASINS
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Good material, unforgivable errors!

Good Gift?

Tactical Mistakes

Publishing Mistakes of a Serious Nature otherwise a reasonably good book

If it weren't for one oversight...

303 Tricky Chess Tactics
Fred Wilson , and Bruce Albertson
Manufacturer: Cardoza
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Good material, unforgivable errors!.......2007-09-23

This is a good book for training tactics. The posistions are clear and instructive, and organised by themes so each theme is trained separately. This also means the tacticts are easier to spot and the book will be better suited for beginners/intermediate rather than experts.

However, the one thing you would expect from such a book is give you correct anwers. Unfortunately, a few errors have slipped through in the answers section, where it sometimes fail to give you the best continuation for either one or both sides (and mine is even a "second edition"). It's unforgivable when I have to enter the positions into my computer to get the right answers and the optimal continuation. You'd buy this kind of book so you'd be able to train chess WITHOUT your computer, I would think! At least one star of the rating because of that.

In addition, I'd like to see some more explaination to some of the answers, not just a continuation, given the fact this book will be most suited for beginners/intermediate. Nevertheless, most of the answers are pretty well explained.

Good Gift?.......2007-09-03

As others have noted, this is a basic book about the most fundamental of chess competencies, tactics. It occurs to me that it would be a good gift book for a beginning/intermediate player who's working to improve. (And if you happen to be the someone, it's inexpensive enough to indulge without guilt!)

Other reviewers noted a printing error that omitted of a number of solutions, but that appears to have been corrected in the second edition.

Tactical Mistakes.......2007-03-27

First off this is a good book on tactical puzzles. The bad side is there are a few or more mistakes in the answers. If you have a chess program that can analyze the diagram's then you will find the best answers. A couple of the diagrams were printed wrong. I give it a 3 for average. If it didn't have the printing errors and the errors in a few of the answers I would give it a 5 star rating.

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Publishing Mistakes of a Serious Nature otherwise a reasonably good book.......2006-08-12

Can you immagine? Answers missing to problems at the end of this book. Maybe, since mine is a used copy the have corrected this? Well just one star away for this.
The problems presented are good (for those with answers!). They range from easy to inbetween in hardness to solve. 303 is not really a lot compared to "One Thousand and One Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations", "Combination Challenge" and lacks actual explanations found in "Winning Chess Traps for Juniors". All of which stand hand over heals better in particular with answers missing. Would like to see "NEW CORRECTED EDITION" in print then I will add a star (assuming the mistakes are fixed).

If it weren't for one oversight..........2005-03-19

This is a simple book. It presents tactical themes and some exercises for you to work out spotting tactics and executing calculations to win (or draw.)

I agree with another reviewer in stating that a tactics book should not say what's the theme and let the reader identify it him/herself.

I would normally give this book 5 starts but problem 101 is wrong as the authors missed the simple 1...Qf6+ 2.f6 Qxf6#

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Bruce Alberston
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An "objective, unbiased way to define supply chain management"

Supply Chain Excellence

A good book for me as a reference

The Path to Supply Chain Excellence

SCOR methodology explained

Supply Chain Excellence: A Handbook for Dramatic Improvement Using the SCOR Model
Peter Bolstorff , and Robert Rosenbaum
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The Supply Chain Council (SCC) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing best practices in supply chain management. But until now, there have been no books available based on these preferred techniques. Supply Chain Excellence gives professionals implementing new supply chain projects a clear, step-by-step guide to adopting the accepted and proven methodologies developed by the SCC. This book uses the council's Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) Model, showing readers how they can:

* align strategy, material, workflow and information * conduct the proper competitive analysis to define business opportunity * establish the metrics that will determine the project's level of success * gain internal support by educating employees and executives

Using a unique SCOR Project Roadmap, Supply Chain Excellence is an instruction manual for achieving supply chain success.

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An "objective, unbiased way to define supply chain management".......2007-06-06

SCOR is an acronym for the Supply Chain Operations Reference business model that was developed by the Supply Chain Council. (For more information about SCC, please visit http://www.supply-chain.org/index.ww.) In this volume, Peter Bolstorff and Robert Rosenbaum explain what the SCOR model is, how to use it most effectively, and why it can help any organization (regardless of size or nature) to improve its supply chain management. When reading this volume, it is important to keep in mind that effective management of any supply chain model depends upon active and collaborative engagement in the process by (literally) everyone involved, at all levels and in all areas of the given enterprise.

Many readers will especially appreciate the format that Bolstorff and Robert Rosenbaum selected within which to present their material. After two introductory chapters in which they discuss the supply chain operations reference model and then suggest how to build organizational support for supply chain improvement, they focus on the implementation of a four-phase process during a recommended seventeen-week timeframe and devote a separate chapter to each of the seventeen weeks.

Phase I: Discover the Opportunity (Week One)
Phase II: Analyze Basis of Competition (Weeks Two-Four)
Phase III: Design Material Flow (Weeks Five-Eleven)
Phase IV: Work and Information Flow Analysis and Design (Weeks Twelve-Seventeen)

Bolstorff and Rosenbaum then provide six appendices which facilitate review of the key points later: SCOR Model Overview, Fowler's Business Context Summary, Fowler's Supply Chain Improvement Project Charter, Partial List of SCOR Model Leading Practices (Sorted by Business Area), SCOR Version 5.0 Quick Reference Guide, and SCOR and Six Sigma DMAIC [i.e. Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control].

Note: Fowlers, Inc. is a billion-dollar conglomerate with worldwide leadership in three businesses: food processing, optical technology products, and business services. "Fundamental to the success is the Fowlers mission to continually exceed customer expectations. The company and its employees believe that if they go beyond what customers require, those customers will return again and again."

For me, some of the most valuable material in this book is provided in Chapter 17 (Week Fifteen) when Bolstorff and Rosenbaum explain how to determine how the given business should work by reviewing the Sample SCOR Level 3 Baseline Blueprint (see Table 16-3 on Page 181), adjusting SCOR Level Three processes between "swim lanes" (i.e. dividers used to organize and separate process steps by groups, organizations or roles; used to delineate ownership of the processes), incorporating transaction language for the specific technology application that will be used, conducting logical business transaction tests, and calculating productivity improvements based on the changes.

This is by no means an "easy read" and will be especially challenging to those who have only limited (if any) prior experience with the design and implementation of a large organization's supply chain for. Credit Bolstorff and Rosenbaum with making brilliant use of an extended case study of Fowlers. I certainly appreciated this approach because it enabled me to gain a much better understanding of how the exemplary organization navigated its way through the eight steps of the SCOR project lifecycle which begins with educating everyone within the given enterprise about supply chain improvement to gain their support and concludes with implementing whatever changes (i.e. improvements) may be necessary to achieve sustainable competitive advantage.

Those who share my high regard for this volume may also be interested in Thomas Stallkamp's SCORE! in which he explains how (then) Chrysler Motors used a proprietary goal and measurement system (Supplier Cost Reduction Effort) in the 1990s. At that time, Stallkamp was responsible for Chrysler's procurement and supply activities. "Although it took some time to get started, by 1992, the SCORE approach had been incorporated into a supply-management philosophy called the Extended Enterprise of the firm. Because their destiny and fortunes were directly linked to Chrysler's, the idea was to build a virtual team atmosphere in which all parties focused on reducing the cost of developing and producing vehicles. The construction supply-side suggestions worked to reduce both the supplier's costs and those of Chrysler." In this book, Stallkamp traces with meticulous the process by which SCORE was formulated and then implemented as a proprietary goal and measurement system.

Supply Chain Excellence.......2007-01-11

Definitely a very good overview of the SCOR model (Supply Chain Chain Operations Reference). I have used this book as a base reference for Kaizen processes I have championed, with SCOR as a structural foundation.

My only reservation is that the book reviews how the overall process works from a project perspective without digging into the metrics. An experienced practitioner can get around this through experience and other resources however it would have been nice to have. To offset this the auther goes into the "whys" and the "whats" instead of the "hows" and does an extremely good job at his targeted subject material.

I would most definitely purchase and use this book again, and recommend it to others looking to use SCOR processes to improve their balanced scorecards.

A good book for me as a reference.......2007-01-10

This book is available for me as a reference in my task as senior purchasing to conduct best parctical of supply chain

The Path to Supply Chain Excellence.......2006-11-02

I highly recommend this book for any business that is in the process or is preparing for a BHAG. Peter Bolstorff provides the practitioner with detailed project roadmaps while addressing the challenges and process of change within a Supply Chain. By following the details within his book your company will increase customer satisfaction, profits and achieve excellence.

SCOR methodology explained.......2006-05-23

This book does a decent job of explaining SCOR methodology to the novices. Please do not expect to immideately start using the SCOR model after reading this book - that needs a lot of experience and judgement. Besides the slightly dry writing style, I do not have quibbles with the style. On the content side - I do believe the title promises more that what it will deliver to most people.

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