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- Carmen Thyssen-Bornemixza Collection Vol 1 & 2
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Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Vol 2
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Alfred Sisley ,
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ASIN: 8496233073
Release Date: 2005-03-15 |
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The private art collection of Mrs. Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza is considered one of the most important in the world. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum has published these two volumes to accompany the permanent exhibition of the International Collection, which includes 345 works of art by Brueghel, de Hooch, Van Goyen, Canaletto, Fragonard, Constable, Corot, Pissarro, Sisley, Degas, Van Gogh, Monet, Gauguin, Braque, Kandinsky, Nolde, Heckel, Hopper, Picasso, Juan Gris and others. Also included in two the volumes is a selection of works of art from a number of important 19th-century American artists such as Head, Bierstadt, Church, and Bricher. Provided here is a fully documented analysis of the collection, including color illustrations and a summary profile for each work of art, as well as research analyses written by 87 international experts and field specialists. There is an introduction to each chapter written by Javier Arnaldo--the publisher of these volumes, and co-curator at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. Volume 1 focuses on art from the 13th to 19th centuries, while Volume 2 looks at art of the 19th and 20th centuries. Combined, these two books feature 960 pages and some 270 beautifully-reproduced full-color images.
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Carmen Thyssen-Bornemixza Collection Vol 1 & 2.......2006-03-09
After seeing the collection in Madrid a study of Vol 1& 2 were rewarding in so far as each work of art (95% plus ) paintings had an essay regarding the work and aspects of the artists life and style. The paintings in the books and collection were perhaps not typical of the artist they are in deed lovely and worth an art lovers time. These are not coffee table books but give one an opportunity to get a good idea of what Western art is. A. Cinelli, M.D.
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- Sisley
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Sisley: Colour Library (Phaidon Colour Library)
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Sisley.......2007-04-12
I bought this book because I needed some color works of Sisley for my art project. I have to admit that some of the pictures were rather small, while others were 2 pages in detail. This book didn't have some of the pictures I wanted to use, but I managed.
For those of you who want to know, this book mainly has landscape.
Siscley.......2000-05-25
This book was incredible! It had all the information my daughter needed for her art project on him. I loved looking through it too. The pictures were outstanding! I HIGHLY reccomend it to any art lover
informative.......2000-03-30
I had to do a report on sisley, and while the book was informative, it was quite lengthly. It did, however, have many good quality pictures. Iwouldn't recommend buying this book unless you really enjoy Sisley, because it took a lot of words to say the little information available on the illusive impressionist.
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An Amazing History.......2007-09-17
This astonishing book should be read by anyone with an interest in the history of lesbians and sexual practices in the United States in the last few decades of the 20th century. While it is about lesbian sex, WHAT is written and illustrated, and HOW it is written, make this book uniquely interesting -- more interesting by far than most similar books published today. The illustrations are breathtakingly explicit -- certainly more graphic than most other publications of the period. The writer is frank, outspoken, detailed to a fault, and very humorous! This must have been a most welcome indepth guide for women-who-love-women living in the 80's who were seeking information on "what to do"! A must-read!
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Is art inextricably tied to where it comes from? Can it break free from its roots--and should it? The 52nd edition of the Michetti Prize, curated by Angela Vettese, asked artists born near the Adriatic Sea, a basin so intimate and small that the conflicts it has witnessed seem absurd, to address these questions and others.
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Bulgarian Folk Costumes
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Bulgarian folk costumes
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Thracians lived in the Balkans over the course of 2,500 years, during which they created their material culture and defined a spiritual image. They emerged in prehistoric times, went through the tribal system and slavery, and disappeared in early feudalism. Thracian existence went through several stages: Thracian, Thracian-Hellenic, Thracian-Macedonian, Thracian-Roman and Thracian-Byzantine, all of them leaving a deep mark in European culture. This book describes the history of Thracian culture and its impact on Bulgarian costumes over the centuries. Documented throughout are vivid, full-page photographs of costumes submitted by five historical/ethnographic museums: Smolian, Haskovo, Plovdiv, Kazanluk, and Kardjaly. Many of these costumes are worn by human models. The colors and weaves of these textiles emerge with wonderful clarity under the artful photography of Velislav Nikolav. Fully researched and produced in Bulgaria, this book is an excellent resource for any person interested in authentic Bulgarian folk costumes. The book measures 11 x 7-3/8 and is printed on high gloss paper in Czech Republic.
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The world is full of issues but none so pressing as those faced by a teenager. For proof, look no further than Zits, the timely teenage-focused strip that now appears in more than 1,100 newspapers worldwide.This two-time recipient of the National Cartoonists Society¿s Award for Best Newspaper Comic Strip follows the life of 15-year-old Jeremy Duncan, a kid bursting with questions, concerns, hormones, and insecurities. Cast adrift between the worlds of peer and parent, Jeremy survives by clinging to his sense of humor . . . the universal flotation device of the teenage years.Creators Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman pull all of this eating, dating, driving, and parental angst and energy together in Road Trip! Zits Sketchbook #7. This hilarious collection contains the very popular series of strips that follows Jeremy and his best amigo, Hector, as they actually (okay, and accidentally) get to test-drive their van. Yes, that van on the cover.
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Zits #7.......2006-12-14
This is the best book ever! Laughs are every where and I love it! Jeremy Duncan who is a 15 year old guitarist is trapped by his parents rules (or at least he thinks) and doesn't like it. But when Jeremy takes the wheels off his mom's car and puts them on the 60's van he found in his car and driving it with his amigo Hector? Pick it up to find out!
Growing fun about growing pains.......2004-02-03
At first I did not like this book as much as the 6 before it: too much of been there, done that.
But it stayed on my bookshelf and from time to time I browsed through it. And I found gems of humor and good spirit. Growing fun about growing pains.
And this is exactly what is so special about "Zits". Continue growing, Jeremy!
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The most hilarious book ever!.......2006-05-09
This is what I call a FUNNY book!
Hormones from Hell got me in tears, by laughing so hard while reading it ...
Awesome, easy reading book!
The Beauty of Being a Woman.......2000-03-30
Ms. King doesn't hold back with this humrous look into the real truth of being a woman. From the myths of how wonderful it is to begin menstruating to the beauty of being pregnant,ie, varicose veins, puffy feet, and acne gone rabid! Sometimes we women need to laugh at ourselves in order to get through. I can't wait to read the next installment!
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City of Dreams: The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures
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A Good Hollywood History Book.......2003-06-04
City of Dreams is a great book to read if you want to know more about the history behind Hollywood. From the beginnings of Carl Laemmle in 1906 up to the mid-1990's this book is a very thorough history of Universal Pictures. I especially found the information about the beginning of Universal City very interesting. Anyone interested in the history behind the making of movies, will do well to read this book.
city of dreams.......2000-07-09
a good book if you are into the history of mca and universal. in my opinion, the last mogul is the ultimate, but city of dreams is comprehensive if not somewhat dry in delivery regarding the history of universal pictures, its founders, its plunderers and by the way the films and talent that put them together.
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Between Midnight and Day: The Last Unpublished Blues Archive celebrates the rich heritage of one of America’s greatest cultural legacies, the blues. Dick Waterman has been representing and photographing blues artists for over fifty years and in Between Midnight and Day, he collects these rare images, many previously unseen, and illuminates them with his own first-hand commentary offering his unique perspective as an agent, representative, photographer, and friend to some of the most influential figures in American music. Waterman includes personal recollections and 120 color photographs of blues legends like Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Son House, “Mississippi” John Hurt, Skip James, Janis Joplin, B.B. King, Fred McDowell, Bonnie Raitt, Otis Rush, Roosevelt Sykes, Big Mama Thornton, Sippie Wallace, Muddy Waters, Junior Wells, Bukka White, and Howlin’ Wolf. Contributors include critically acclaimed music biographer Peter Guralnick, Grammy award-winning musician Bonnie Raitt, and author Chris Murray.
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I owe Dick Waterman a beer for this.......2005-01-04
As a blues enthusiast, I have always found myself looking for the inside stories, the newly discovered photographs or the alternative recordings of the players that literally changed my life 35 years ago when I was in high school. To find that Dick Waterman was a common link among so many of the greatest blues figures of the last century was a revelation. I knew of his relationship to Son House, and will forever speak his name with reverance for bringing him out of Rochester, NY to record again in the 60's. But all these other guys? Dick Waterman, thank you for putting more flesh on to the legends of so many of these guys, most of whom are now gone. I am grateful.
Windows on the Blues.......2004-01-24
Dick Waterman's photographs are a stunning chronicle of the art and music that are most important to me. Dick calls his photographs products of opportunity and access, but they are far more. I would submit that Dick's "Son House at the Liberty Bell" ranks with the top echelon of 20th century American photographs.
If you have a passing interest in blues or fine photography; you need this book. If you are a fan of the music or the art, you absolutely must have this book.
Indescribably Wonderful.......2004-01-21
There really are no words to fully describe what a treasure this book is--which is entirely appropriate given that Mr. Waterman himself is an American treasure. Whether you are a hardcore blues fan or a casual listener, the photographs in this book will take your breath away. The stories that accompany them strip away the mythology to reveal the humanity beneath, and leave you looking at these legendary artists through fresh and more honest eyes.
I simply can't recommend this book highly enough. Buy a copy for yourself, and then buy as many as you can for your family and friends. You will not be sorry.
a great read not just for the blues geeks.......2003-12-30
An extraordinary read! I feared that this book was receiving so much praise because blues geeks felt that they had to eulogize the talents of this famed sixties blues promoter. No, it's not hype, this book really does hit new highs in great closeup shots and portraits, woven together with rich and personal tales that describe the crossing of Waterman's path with that of many of the greatest blues musicians ever. Some chapters are touched with sadness, such as the exploitation of Arthur Crudup's royalties (only for Waterman to help secure a rich reward for the family estate shortly after Crudup's death). Others are hilarious, such as the exposure of Robert Lockwood as being perhaps the sweariest bluesman ever. I could go on, but readers deserve to discover these stories for themselves. Albeit to say that the human sides of many famous musicians are exposed here, be they glorious or grim or bizarre. The only other blues read that I know of that gets so close up and personal in text and pictures is perhaps Tim Duffy's from the Musicmaker Foundation, entitled: "Musicmakers: portraits and songs from the roots of america". In fact the two books are complementary because whilst Waterman's subjects are by and large towering figures of the blues who have mostly died by now, Tim Duffy's subjects remain somewhat obscure and undiscovered by the main stream but many are still alive and kicking the blues in a neighbourhood near you.
Rush to your book store!!!!.......2003-12-21
Once I started reading this book, putting it down was impossible. Dick Waterman's stories about the various blues musicians were as impressive as the outstanding photos in the book. It felt like I was pulled inside this incredible book and for a moment felt like I personally knew and was living with these people. The believability of this book was truly enhanced by Dick Waterman's honesty. He truly says it as it is. This book is not only interesting for blues officianados, but also for anyone interested in American history, great photography and captivating stories.
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One Table to Rule Them All! The Mother of All Encounter Tables is here! This utility is unlike any before conceived. This is not just a random book of tables, but a well-thought-out dungeon master utility that will make wilderness travel, city streets, and dungeon corridors all more interesting. It contains encounters for each terrain type from mountains to the ocean, in each climate from arctic to tropical, and has separate tables for day and night encounters. Also factored in are relative rarities of individual encounters, with space left for the DM to insert new monsters of his choosing. In addition to encounters with monsters and men, there are tables for unusual weather events, strange occurrences, accidents, and encounters with NPCs. Trade routes and caravans are detailed as well as trolls and dragons. After all, you never know when ants will infest your food, or when the cleric will get struck by lightning!
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Too hard to use........2006-08-23
Hated it. This book was too convoluted to understand well. they made the sections too large. You have to read thru so much material to use in a random encounter that is becomes unusable in a game situation.
Want tables? Look no further.......2006-02-08
This book has tables and tables and more tables. It has a lot of leeway in that a DM can easily replace something on the tables with something of their own invention. Have a favorite monster manual? Insert crearures from it onto the table. Don't have access to some of the creatures listed on a table? Just remove them and replace them with your favorite monsters. This book is more then about monster encounter tables though. Weather, strange occurances, finding some mundane item at the campsite the PC's chose, all can be encounters. Dms will find all kind of things they can use, some things they don't like and can easily be changed, and ways to customize various tables to suit their gaming needs. This book easily gave me dozens of idea's on things to bring into my campaign and that was just after the first reading. I find this book as important to my campaign as the core books and use it in planning every game session now.
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For years, the prevailing wisdom in business was that profitability was a byproduct of market share; get the biggest piece of the market and profit will surely follow. But in the last 10 years, this formula has time and again proved itself wrong. Companies such as DEC, GM, Ford, United Airlines, Kodak, and Sears have all demonstrated that market share does not necessarily lead to profitability.
The Profit Zone looks at how profit happens in today's customer-driven economy. The authors demonstrate why market share often leads to a "no-profit zone" and identify 22 profit models that have helped dozens of companies consistently make money. Included are in-depth looks at companies--Disney, GE, Microsoft, Intel, Charles Schwab--that have successfully redesigned their businesses and dramatically increased the value of their companies. Instead of focusing on market share, these innovators first looked at their customers' needs and how they could profit from fulfilling them. The book considers example after example of how the profit zone works, from Disney's theme parks to Schwab's marketing and selling of mutual funds. The final chapter is a handbook that allows managers to apply the ideas to their own companies. Clearly written and immensely practical, The Profit Zone deserves a place on every manager's bookshelf.
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The book that answers the most fundamental question in business: Where Will I Make a Profit Tomorrow?
Why do some companies create sustained, superior profits year after year? Why are they always far ahead of their competitors in discovering the ever-changing profit zones of their industry? Why do others languish as their traditional way of doing business turns into a no-profit zone?
The Profit Zone provides the answers. It is a brilliant, original, and practical explanation of how and why high profit happens.
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Instructive and Insightful Book that Every Manager Should Read .......2006-10-08
I read lots of business management books every year. This is the most insightful and informmative business managment book that I have read all year if not this entire century. Adrian Slywotzky and David Morrison do an outstanding job demonstrating how management can consistently achieve profitable results, not by trying to outhink the competition, increase productivity, improving marketing strategies, or some other short term strategy, but by developing superior insight into customers' needs and wants and adapting a business strategy that stays ahead of those customers' needs and wants.
Adrian Slywotzky and David Morrison did not write a book that consists of nothing more than theory. They give real-life detailed examples and instructions on how to develop a business strategy based upon a understanding of your customers' values. This book is so insightful and instructive that Slywotzky and Morrison could have sold this book with a money back guarantee promising that a company's profits will increase if managment reads this book and implements the book's instructions. Read this book and pray that your competition never finds out about it.
There is more to running a business than increasing sales.......2005-06-29
From my personal days of retail, our motto was increase sales everything else will follow. Honestly, this is a short sided method of trying to increase profits. Slywotzky has one evaluate where is the market going, who should your customers be, where is the value migrating towards, so you can be more effective in business. Slywotzky presents a very well thought out method of looking at your business or a potential business and asking those probing questions that seperate you from your competitors.
He offers a variety of business models as well as profit models. All are valid, and hybirds are suggested, but the point is to know what you are driving towards, and develop your strategy after this. I have read many different business books, and this one has to be one of my favorite. If you enjoyed Built to Last or from Good to Great, you will like the depth this book has to offer.
Moving from product efficiency to customer solutions.......2005-02-09
A company paradigm shift must occur before profits can happen. Management must move away from product-centric thinking and migrate to customer-centric solutions. Re-Inventors know that customer-centric solutions help identify the business design modification and enhancements to invest resource, talent, and raw materials to build. Customer expectations, beliefs, and problems are constantly changing. Companies, who listen to their customers' needs and priorities are more likely to change processes to meet those customer needs.
Traditionally, companies have focused on selling more to anyone willing to buy products and services. The driving belief was growth was a function of capturing larger amounts of market share. This belief is not factually true. Many companies gained significant market share only to discover, they were not growing in profits.
The authors main argument is that market share does not equate always to profits because the customers needs and priorities are changing. This observed fact means companies not responding to the customer needs and priorities will loss market share even if they currently have massive market share. Failure to hear the customer needs and priorities will lead to the lost of profits: IBM (IBM had the market share in mainframes)yet faced decreasing trends in profits. IBM moved towards customer solutions. IBM mainframe business struggled (Read Who said Elephants can't dance) - IBM moved to solutions. IBM profits increased as they responded to the customer not the fact that they acheived market share. Market share is an indicator the company is meeting the customer needs not the reason to meet the customer needs. The egg before the chicken philosophy where meeting the customer needs produces the gold egg of profits.
As with more of the same philosophy so was the advocacy. Companies continued focusing on what they did well and continue tryingtoo sell more of the same without understanding the needs and priorities of the customers; sustaining a false premise that more of an unwanted or unresponsive product will generate high profits. When companies were small, they listen to their customers; when they became a mid size companay, they struck a balance in between the company and the customer; and as a large company they mostly ignored the customer needs and a priorities and focused on company productivity. So the company eventually focused only on increasing efficiency and delivering products with the goal of gaining market share believing revenue would be generated from each unit sold. The internet and high speed communication has changed everthing. Business are becoming more digital and companies are expected to respond to the customers needs and priorities.
The most important question to ask is "How do I get paid?" Without a clear understanding of how profit is generated and how a business must be designed, there will be no profit. Next ask: "Who are my customers? Which customers do I not want?" Next ask: who are my innermost competitors? How are they meeting the needs and priorities of customers and thus taking away business. Who are my external competitors? Competitors that are emerging with disruptive technology that will meet the silent needs of my customers." Last, "What do I need to do to gain dominance in the market space?"
Start by identifying the profit model or models that explain, "How do we make money?"
22 Profit Models
1. Customer Solutions (Invest to know the customer, create a solution, develop the relationship.
2. Product Pyramid (At the base are products and services that are low price and high volume; at the top products and services that are high price and low volume)
3. Multi-Component (Several of the components represent a disproportionate share of the profits)
4. Switchboard (Multiple sellers communicating with multiple buyers. The more buyers and sellers join the great the organization builds on itself.)
5. Time Profit (Takes advantage of uniqueness, profit margins erode as competition seeks to imitate. Time profit companies must take the lead and maintain a "two year" lead over their competitors.) Example: Intel and Microsoft
6. Block Buster profits (Revenue realized is so powerful and fast that in a quick swoop the model pays for development and marketing costs)
7. Multiplier (Strong customer brand.) Example: Disney
8. Entrepreneur Profit (Hierarchical design with multiple subsidiaries to maintain closeness with the customer)
9. Specialization (Specialist are several times more profitable than the generalist. Characterized by lower cost, higher quality, stronger reputation, shorter selling cycles, and better price realization) Example: Home Depot
10. Install Base (Initial product sales or profits are slim and profit is realized on the follow-up products and services) Examples: HP printers and Gillette Razors
11. Defacto Standard (The more players who buy that enter in the system, the more valuable the network) Example: Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and American Airlines
12. Brand (The Company expends significant marketing investment in order to build awareness and is reinforced by customer experience. You know Brand is working when a consumer says, "I won't change because I trust AT&T".
13. Specialty (Specialty companies enjoy a higher premium for their products and services until competitors start to imitate. Examples: Merck and 3M
14. Local Leadership (Many businesses and their company economies are totally local. Risk occurs when these companies fail to recognize they are a local business model) Example: Walmart - "Carpet bombing", county by county.
15. Transactional Scale (Transactions go up but the cost to provide the transaction does not go up as quickly.) Example: Morgan Stanley
16. Value Chain (Specific activities pass through a chain of specialist offering value)
17. Cycle Profit (Industries characterized by distinct and powerful cycle. The company can not control the cycle, but it works to maximize its position within the cycles grip. As capacity tightens the companies lead price increases, as capacity loosens, its lag price declines)
18. After-Sales Profit (The company's profit does not direct come from the sale of hte product, but the after sale financing or services of the product) Example is GE capital financing of credit cards, auto loans, and insurance.
19. New Product Profit (As new products are introduced profit margins are high and growth rapid. As the product mature the profit margins fall.)
20. Relative Market Share Profit (Companies with high market share tend to be more profitable. Large companies have price advantages due to manufacturing experiences and volume economies, such as purchasing capability and economies of scale)
21. Experience Curve Profit (Experience drives down the transactional cost)
22. Low Cost Business Design (The company trives on reducing the cost per unit through cumulative experience)
1. Who are my customers?
2. How are their priorities changing?
3. Who should be my customer?
4. How can I add value to the customer?
5. How can I become the customers first choice?
6. What is my profit model?
7. What is my current business design?
8. Who are my real competitors?
9. What is my competitors business design?
10 What is my next business design?
11. What is my strategic control point?
12. What is my company worth?
a. Return on Sales= EBIT/Sales
b. Profit Growth=Projected Earnings growth (value line)
c. Asset Efficiency=(Asset-Cash and Equivalents-Account Payable)/Salesd
d. Market Value=(Shares Outstanding X Share Price)/Sales
e. Strategic Control Index=
(10) Own standard
(9) Manage value chain
(8) String of superpositions
(7) Own customer relationship
(6) Brand copyright
(5) Two year product development lead
(4) One year product development lead
(3) Commodity with 10 to 20 percent cost advantage
(2) Commodity with cost parity
(1) Commodity with cost disadvantage
In the book, the author discussed, Schwabs "OneSource" switchboard model for selling mutual funds: no transaction cost and no front load. The brokerage model eliminated direct customer costs by providing zero transaction cost mutual fund and allowed the customer a cheap introduction to the market. Schwab continued to make available financial advise by agent or 3rd party financial planner and Schwab as a discount broker leveraged the single source for customers to purchase mutual funds, thus reducing confusion cause from massive variety. On the flipside, the mutual fund companies paid Schwab a small commission to list their mutual fund. Schwab provides the customer a single financial report and gains the brand recognition and prestige of the mutual fund company. Furthemore since OneSource is not asset intensive, Schwab does not face excessive risk and smaller profit margins. Schwab is able to defend its position from competition by providing a high volume and low priced commodity and gain more premium fees by offerring financial advise to higher paying customers.
A MUST HAVE!!.......2002-07-17
EXCELLENT BOOK! One of thee best business books. The book is well structured. All the strategic business models are well detailed with real world applications. Clearly illustrates how the most formidable business gurus have used various strategy models to migrate to profitability and isolate competitors. You will go into the realm of overpowering companies such as Microsoft, Intel, Coca Cola, to name a few.
When you have a book that is highlighted and filled with scribbled notes in almost every page than you know you have a winner. Can hardly wait for the next book by these two great authors.
Top.......2002-05-03
Be sure that if you don't like this book, it's not because of the bad contents. Remarkable book, must read.
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