Activity-Based Management: A Comprehensive Implementation Guide

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Easy Activity-Based Management Implementation. Everyone's touting activity-based management (ABM) as the best costing method for reengineering and TQM inititatives. But where do you begin? Edward Forrest's groundbreaking Activity-Based Management: A Comprehensive Implementation Guide. This exhaustive guide takes you step-by-step through each stage of planning, organizing, implementing, and managing your own ABM program to support continuous improvement, boost profits, and eliminate non-value added activities. You get expert guidance on everything from streamlining data collection and analysis to using the results to boost ROI. You even get all the ready-to-use forms, reports, and procedures you need to facilitate and measure your program's progress.

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Excellent!.......2005-03-12

Seller was very professional and honest. I received the book in perfect conditions and before the estimated time.

activity base management.......2000-02-25

very good and comprehensive book with up to date informatio

Environmental Cost Accounting: An Introduction and Practical Guide (CIMA Research)

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Environmental Cost Accounting: An Introduction and Practical Guide (CIMA Research)
Rupert Howes
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ASIN: 1859715370

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This book provides an introduction to the dynamic subject of corporate environmental accounting. It outlines the business case and rationale for engaging in environmental accounting. It also illustrates how leading UK companies are already adding value and reducing risk through the use of innovative environmental accounting techniques and methodologies.

The second part of the book presents an environmental accounting tool kit which focuses on external cost accounting. The methodology detailed in this section provides a tool to estimate the environmental sustainability of a company's activities and operations.

The methodology presented has been developed by the sustainable development organisation Forum for the Future, a UK registered charity, with support from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).

An introductory guide to environmental accounting
Will help organisations identify and cost their impact on the environment

Cost Accounting: An Introduction to Cost Management

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Cost Accounting: An Introduction to Cost Management
Philip Jagolinzer
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ASIN: 0324015828

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Cost Accounting is a "just the basics" book. It focuses on the role cost accounting plays in cost management systems. The text is designed to be a starting point that covers the essential cost accounting topics (job-order costing, process costing, and standard costing systems, overhead allocation and etc.) while permitting instructors the freedom to emphasize additional material with case work and outside readings.

Cost And Management Accounting: An Introduction

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Cost And Management Accounting: An Introduction
Colin Drury
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Cost and Management Accounting: An Introduction for Students (Accounting and Finance series)

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Cost and Management Accounting: An Introduction for Students (Accounting and Finance series)
Alan V Pizzey
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ASIN: 1853960497

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This book deals comprehensively with the elements of cost accounting, their application to costing methods, and their significance for management through budgetary control, short term decision-making, and capital budgeting. It is an extensive revision of the author’s well-known costing text, and provides the student with a complete introduction to cost accounting.

Relevant exercises are included at the end of each chapter, with solutions at the end of the book. These include many from recent examinations of the major professional accountancy bodies. Teachers are thus able to use their own favourite examples in lecture or class, and to refer students to other exercises for further practice. Students who are unable to attend a regular course will be able to check their work against the solutions. A series of multiple choice questions throughout the book provides a further opportunity for the student to check personal progress.

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The OHP Masters are essential support material for all lecturers adopting the main text.

Introduction to Accountancy and Finance (Institute of Cost and Management Accountants Series)

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Introduction to Accountancy and Finance (Institute of Cost and Management Accountants Series)
Richard J. Briston
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Introduction to Cost and Management Accounting

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Introduction to Cost and Management Accounting
Roger Storey
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Introduction to Cost and Management Accounting (The Heinemann accountancy and administration series)

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Introduction to Cost and Management Accounting (The Heinemann accountancy and administration series)
M. Houlton
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Peanut Butter and Jelly Management: Tales from Parenthood, Lessons for Managers

Manufacturer: Barnes and Noble Books
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This wise, holistic approach, presented with humor and warmth, will give you a new way to look at -- and solve -- the problems of management, and you'll have a good time reading it, too!

Peanut Butter and Jelly Management: Tales from Parenthood Lessons for Managers

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Peanut Butter and Jelly Management: Tales from Parenthood Lessons for Managers
Chris Komisarjevsky , and Reina Komisarjevsky
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ASIN: 0814470629

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Nurture their self-esteem. Help them find and explore opportunities to grow. Present yourself as a positive role model.

Hey, wait a minute--AMACOM is a business book publisher! This sounds likes something from a parenting guide.

Exactly. In fact the whole idea behind PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY MANAGEMENT is that being a good manager requires many of the same skills and qualities associated with being a good parent. In the words of the authors (and they should know--they're the proud parents of six children!), "More often than not, if we carefully listen and watch children at home--think about what they do and how we bring them up--we can greatly improve our chances of being successful in leading adults in the workplace."

Does this mean managers should treat employees like unruly rugrats or act overbearingly parental? Not at all. It simply means employees (like kids) benefit from more personal involvement, caring, understanding, and attention.

Using stories from their own lives as parents, the authors demonstrate the important management lessons to be gleaned from parenting--and give readers tips for applying the lessons to the workplace. Whimsical, touching, and heart-warming, but also practical, insightful, and direct, PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY MANAGEMENT offers a fresh, unusual approach to leadership. Maybe father (or mother) really does know best.

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Un True.......2005-09-24

I felt this book was based on a hypothetical family. Just did not seem real.

A Good Read!.......2001-03-15

Chris and Reina Komisarjevsky illustrate effective management techniques using examples based on their toughest leadership experience: raising nine children. They delineate the skills that help children learn how to set goals, share objectives, communicate more effectively, and get along. Each chapter begins with a story about an experience with one of their children, such as buying ice cream or playing sandlot baseball. The stories illustrate management principles and guidelines. These precepts are very familiar, though linking them to child rearing is novel. Thus, the book serves as a nice, short recap of commonly known management and leadership principles, though we at getAbstract suspect that its treatment of the subject matter will probably be of more interest to managers who are parents as well.

A Childish Management Book.......2000-09-28

A marketing high-concept for sure but I found the dynamics of an upsized family irrelevant to downsized corporate structures in this prime example of vanity press.

Wisdom That Sticks to the Roof of Your Mouth.......2000-04-30

The Komisarjevskys have struck a harmonious chord with this little book! The stories of their children are immediately engaging and natural springboards for discussing effective management practices. They teach us with heartwarming sincerity that our children can be wonderful teachers, and that we can become more effective managers, employers, employees and parents by heeding what they have to teach and applying the lessons to our work environments. The authors show that our home lives and its values are really a "precious center" that help us bear the surrounding weight of the world. These lessons lead us to find a better sense of balance between home and work responsibilities, something we are all striving for these days!

This book allows us not just a glimpse into a successful CEO's way of thinking, but a sustained excursion into his practical philosophy of life, which includes working with his wife, Reina, in their teamwork approach to family life.

A Must Read.......2000-04-28

Peanut Butter and Jelly Management is an important and excellent book. Easy to read, it is written by Chris and Reina from real life stories. All of us, drawing on our own experiences, can effectively structure our lives on a daily basis.

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This book is a compilation of "The IGM/Galaxy Connection" conference proceedings and begins by examining the census of baryons in the local universe as a function of the states in which they reside (e.g., galaxies, the Lgammaalpha forest, and the hot intra-group gas) and how each of these components evolves with redshift.

Galaxy formation funnels material into galaxies from the IGM through the galactic halo interface, while internal processes in the galaxies feed material back into the IGM. This book characterizes the halos around galaxies, and discusses the relics of the galaxy formation process from a theoretical perspective, followed by observational and theoretical analysis of the feedback mechanisms.

The cosmic web describes the structure of the mass distribution. It consists of a network of filaments that are detected in absorption line studies as the IGM and of groups/clusters of galaxies which form where the filaments intersect. The final section of the book provides an overview of the cosmic web, including the relationship between the IGM and galaxies in the overdense regions of galaxy groups and clusters.

This book is of interest to astronomers and graduate students studying the census of baryons in the local universe, the intergalactic medium, galaxy halos, galaxy formation and evolution, and large scale structure.

The Igm/Galaxy Connection; the Distribution of Baryons At Z=0.

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The Igm/Galaxy Connection; the Distribution of Baryons At Z=0.
Jessica L. Rosenberg And Mary E. Putman
Manufacturer: Kluwer Academic Pubs.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N63TOU

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In the eighteenth century, chemistry was transformed from an art to a public science. Chemical affinity played an important role in this process as a metaphor, a theory domain, and a subject of investigation. Goethe's Elective Affinities, which was based on the current understanding of chemical affinities, attests to chemistry's presence in the public imagination. In Affinity, That Elusive Dream, Mi Gyung Kim restores chemical affinity to its proper place in historiography and in Enlightenment public culture.

The Chemical Revolution is usually associated with Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, who introduced a modern nomenclature and a definitive text. Kim argues that chemical affinity was erased from historical memory by Lavoisier's omission of it from his textbook. She examines the work of many less famous French chemists (including physicians, apothecaries, metallurgists, philosophical chemists, and industrial chemists) to explore the institutional context of chemical instruction and research, the social stratification that shaped theoretical discourse, and the crucial shifts in analytic methods. Apothecaries and metallurgists, she shows, shaped the main theory domains through their innovative approach to analysis. Academicians and philosophical chemists brought about two transformative theoretical moments through their efforts to create a rational discourse of chemistry in tune with the reigning natural philosophy.

The topics discussed include the corpuscular (Cartesian) model in French chemistry in the early 1700s, the stabilization of the theory domains of composition and affinity, the reconstruction of French theoretical discourse in the middle of the eighteenth century, the Newtonian languages that plagued the domain of affinity just before the Chemical Revolution, Guyton de Morveau's program of affinity chemistry, Lavoisier's reconstruction of the theory domains of chemistry, and Berthollet's path as an affinity chemist.

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Historical presentation at its finest!.......2007-03-01

Words cannot even explain how excellent this book is. Quoting right off the bat from Goethe's famed Elective Affinities, page one, this exquisite book flows onward throughout history like a gently French stream, meandering to its delightful conclusion.

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A single, comprehensive resource for researchers, scientists, and students in environmental microbiology
In recent years, the field of environmental microbiology has taken on new importance. But even with a wealth of new research and new interest in the subject, there has never been a single resource to which professionals and students could turn for reliable, detailed coverage of the field. This six-volume set serves as a comprehensive look at the field complete with the latest cutting-edge research. The Encyclopedia of Environmental Microbiology provides, in one source, all the information researchers and scientists need for this rapidly growing field. It covers the full range of topics, from aquatic microbiology and environmental biotechnology, to public health and water treatment microbiology. Features include:

Approximately 350 articles provide A-Z coverage of the entire field of environmental microbiology and all important topics
Extensive cross-referencing, bibliographies, and a complex index
Illustrated with photographs, tables, and line drawings

Encyclopedia of Microbiology Volume 1 A-c (VOLUME 1 A-C)

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Encyclopedia of Microbiology Volume 1 A-c (VOLUME 1 A-C)

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Encyclopedia of Microbiology, 1

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The First Edition of the Encyclopedia of Microbiology was hailed by leading scientists and researchers around the world as "excellent," "outstanding," and "impressive." This Second Edition will serve as an up-to-date version of this reference which has been useful to academic, industrial, and personal libraries for years. The Encyclopedia of Microbiology, Second Edition both challenges and stimulates the reader, and illustrates the importance of microbiology, a field that cannot be over emphasized in this booming biotechnology age.

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* Completely redesigned and revised approach with 65% new material
* Contains approximately 300 articles, 1000 illustrations, and 400 tables
* New design includes thematic table of contents, combined glossary of terms, and appendix
* Provides color plate sections in each volume
* 17 subject areas, including exciting coverage of microbes in extreme environments and microbes in emerging infections

Encyclopedia Of Food Microbiology - Vol 2

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Encyclopedia Of Food Microbiology - Vol 2
Robinson
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Encyclopedia of Microbiology, 1
Joshua S. Lederberg
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Returning from a Kenyan safari in 1932, Ernest Hemingway quickly devised a literary trophy to add to his stash of buffalo hides and rhino horns. To this day, Green Hills of Africa seems an almost perverse paean to the thrills of bloodshed, in which the author cuts one notch after another in his gun barrel and declares, "I did not mind killing anything." Four years later, however, Hemingway came up with a more accomplished spin on his African experiences--a pair of them, in fact, which he collected with eight other tales in The Snows of Kilimanjaro. The title story is a meditation on corruption and mortality, two subjects that were already beginning to preoccupy the 37-year-old author. As the protagonist perishes of gangrene out in the bush, he recognizes his own failure of nerve as a writer:

Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.

In the story, at least, the hero gets some points for stoic acceptance, as well as an epiphanic vision of Kilimanjaro's summit, "wide as all the world, great, high, and unbelievably white in the sun." (The movie version is another matter: Gregory Peck makes it back to the hospital, loses a leg, and is a better person for it.) But Hemingway's other great white hunter, in "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," is granted a less dignified exit. This time the issue is cowardice, another of Papa's bugaboos: poor Francis is too wimpy to face down a wounded lion, let alone satisfy his treacherous wife in bed. Yet he does manage a last-minute triumph before dying--an absolute assertion of courage--which makes the title a hair less ironic than it initially seems. No wonder these are two of the highest-caliber (so to speak) tales in the Hemingway canon. --Bob Brandeis

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The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. Selected from Winner Take

Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection includes "The Killers," the first of Hemingway's mature stories to be accepted by an American periodical; the autobiographical "Fathers and Sons," which alludes, for the first time in Hemingway's career, to his father's suicide; "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," a "brilliant fusion of personal observation, heresay, and invention," wrote Hemingway's biographer, Carlos Baker; and the title story itself, of which Hemingway said: "I put all the true stuff in," with enough material, he boasted, to fill four novels. Beautiful in their simplicity, startling in their originality, and unsurpassed in their craftsmanship, the stories in this volume highlight one of America's master storytellers at the top of his form.

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The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection includes "The Killers," the first of Hemingway's mature stories to be accepted by an American periodical; the autobiographical "Fathers and Sons," which alludes, for the first time in Hemingway's career, to his father's suicide; "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," a ""brilliant fusion of personal observation, hearsay and invention,"" wrote Hemingway's biographer, Carlos Baker; and the title story itself, of which Hemingway said: "I put all the true stuff in," with enough material, he boasted, to fill four novels. Beautiful in their simplicity, startling in their originality, and unsurpassed in their craftsmanship, the stories in this volume highlight one of America's master storytellers at the top of his form.

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Great Stories.......2007-08-24

This is a good collection of some of Hemmingway's short stories. They are all brilliant. It is Hemmingway though so you wouldn't expect any less. Excellent reading.

Hemingway at his best and otherwise.......2007-05-16

There are two exceptional stories in this volume: The Snows of Kilimanjaro and The Short Happy Life of Francis Mccomber. Both of these stories satisfied my need for other places and experiences while exploring the familiar ground of long term, mildly satisfactory relationships. The other stories are hit and miss, but still they are Hemingway's and so, if you like his work as I do, they hit the mark more often than they fall short.

Papa's Life Shines through his Work.......2007-01-23

If, ever, you have wanted to travel along with Papa (Hemingway) along his many travels and adventures, this collection of stories is the ideal way to rest your soles in his footsteps.

"Kilimanjaro" in particular, transports you to a bygone era of safaris not with telephoto lenses, but with long rifle barrels. Primarily, though, it is an introspective look at one's life and the worth that one ascribes to his experiences while he is ready to close his eyes for the final time.

Hemingway captures the moment when a dying man's recollections either turn into regrets or points of pride and self actualization.

A Good Collection.......2006-04-23

I read this book many, many years ago and it is still fresh in my mind. Hemingway is an essential writer. If you haven't read this book, you should do so as soon as possible.

Sort stories - about as good as they can get!.......2005-10-22

I am usually not a short story aficionado, but I love Ernest Hemingway, so I had to read these. Also, Hemingway thought that his story "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" was about as good as anything he had written. And he, of course was right. This story on its own has about everything anyone could ask for when reading a tale. The emotions and character portrayal are remarkable considering that Hemingway put them within the confines of a short story. The best thing about anything that Hemingway writes though is that his stories are based on his actual experiences. And his "bare bones" method of storytelling cuts through everything and gets right to the meat of any of his issues. The stories in this collection are a bit graphic because there are quite a few about big game hunting and also about rum running in the gulf between Cuba and Florida, but they are each masterpieces in their own right. I for one want to read everything Hemingway ever wrote. To my way of thinking he is one of the best English-speaking writers we have ever had.

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories (Scribner Library, SL32)

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The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories (Scribner Library, SL32)

Manufacturer: Charles Scribner's Sons
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10 stories by Hemingway. Includes "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place", "The Killers", "Fathers and Sons", and more. SBN684-71807-3

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Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
Ernest Hemingway
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories (The Scribner Library)

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The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories (The Scribner Library)

Manufacturer: Charles Scribner's Sons
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

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The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
Ernest Hemingway
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8 Different Titles: The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories, to Have and Have Not, Winner Take Nothing, a Farewell to Arms, Death in the Afternoon, Green Hills of Afternoon, for Whom the Bell Tolls, the Old Man and the Sea

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8 Different Titles: The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories, to Have and Have Not, Winner Take Nothing, a Farewell to Arms, Death in the Afternoon, Green Hills of Afternoon, for Whom the Bell Tolls, the Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
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Snows of Kilimanjaro & Other Stories
Ernest Hemingway
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THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO and Other Stories
Ernest Hemingway
Manufacturer: Penguin
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Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
Ernest Hemingway
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

Manufacturer: Easton Press
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Binding: Leather Bound

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As part of a top-secret initiative called Third Echelon, National Security Agency special operative Sam Fisher has been given license to spy, steal, destroy, and assassinate to protect America. And he does...

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Just love Splinter Cell...........2007-07-20

I am a big fan of Splinter Cell. I have all the xbox games, so I decided to buy the books to see if there were any differences. I think I love the book just as much as I do the games.
So if you are a Splinter Cell fan, I highly recommend reading the books too. They will keep you on the edge of your seat until the last page.

Get it!.......2007-03-10

If you like TC novels then this is a great book to have.

Love the character, but get a lobotomy before reading.......2006-12-29

I have played all of the Splinter Cell video games and I enjoy the series very much. I bought the third book, Checkmate, in an airport with fairly low expectations. It was well written enough, particularly because I like the genre and the Sam Fisher character. I read the reviews for the first two books and I ignored the bad ones. I cannot believe that these books made it to print. The writing appears to have been done by a high school student or a non-native english speaker. There obviously was no editor assigned to the project. I lost count of the number of times words were used incorrectly or gratuitously.(My favorite, is when a "hidden surveillance team" was inserted -- as opposed to what, a "visible" surveillance team?) Worst of all, in these books Sam Fisher is a total moron. I won't put spoilers in here, but there are instances where someone is very obviously bad or try to kill Sam and after it would be paintfully obvious to anyone, he would say "I'm beginning to get the feeling that they are aiming for me" or "I'm starting to think this guy might be not be on our side". At the end of one of the books, he does something so stupid and amateurish that you won't believe it. And, if only a handful of people know about Third Echelon, why do I lose count of the number of people who know? Perhaps it is my ignorance, but do covert operatives take Army flights out of Dulles? Wouldn't he know he needed the access code in the many hours before he got to the facility he was infilitrating? If the facility was abandoned, why would they send him and not the FBI? These books have more holes than swiss cheese. My wife couldn't believe that insisted on finishing the books, but I was invested and wanted to know the resolution. Perhaps the practice of writing made the third one better or maybe they found an editor. But owners of the first two books should be issued a refund.

Need new antagonist.......2006-12-27

Second installment of Splinter Cell series. Has more character development but still quick interesting read. Should stop picking on Middle East countries and find another target to demonize...

Amazing Book!.......2006-12-20

This book was simply amazing. Most people say that you have to read the first one in order to understand this one, but really, there's nothing from the first book that occurs in the second book. It's basically about Sam's new missions and what he's doing now. There is no back track, just to clerify it. The book is about Sam chasing down Russian terrorists wanting to nuke L.A., but thats all you need to know with giving it away...
I love how detailed this book is about Sam's life in and outside of his job. He has a hard time getting close to people because he is reluctant about spilling his secret of being a NSA agent. His gadgets are SOO AWESOME. They are everything from a super futuristic gun down to his Five-seveN pistol. I actually haven't read the other books but I was so into this book that I am planning on getting them all in including the one that just came out. I hated to read until I found this book. It's really one of those "can't put down" books and hearing it from me is a BIG DEAL. For some of you though, it might not be the book for you because you have to be interested in spying and yes, there is some killing in here too,(you didn't expect a guy with guns not to kill anyone did you?).
The only problem I had with this book is that the author really went back and forth between Sam and the bad guys WAY too much. One chapter would be Sam on a mission and the next one would be the Russians. There were just too many point of views going around and I had a hard time keeping up with it some of the time. Otherwise I really reccommend this book and even if you're not interested in the stuff I just said I think you should still give it a shot. There are also a games of
Splinter Cell :Pandora Tomorrow, Chaos Theory and Double Agent. (I have all of them). I hope you find this helpful and if you read it, I hope you enjoy!

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda

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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda
Tom,Michaels, David Clancy
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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Series: Splinter Cell, Operation Barracuda, Checkmate (Set of 3)

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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Series: Splinter Cell, Operation Barracuda, Checkmate (Set of 3)
Tom Clancy , and David Michaels
Manufacturer: Berkley
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