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Includes everything a Six Sigma facilitator needs to lead Six Sigma training

The Six Sigma Basic Training Kit, complete with facilitator notes, learning exercises, case studies, and more, is a series of training modules for any company that is implementing Six Sigma. It provides everything a trainer needs to take a quality improvement team through the Six Sigma process step by step, from appreciating quality to creating and executing a quality-improvement plan.

Classic, simple processes developed by the world-famous Juran Institute have been turned into easy training modules on how to:

Identify business processes needing improvement
Work as a team on the solution
Track time and cost savings that result from the new process, and more

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expensive & dissapointing.......2003-03-03

I am an ASQ certified Black Belt and a Six Sigma Trainer in Germany. I expected a good help for instruction but I was extremely dissapointed. This Kit contains no cd or disc with powerpoint slides. The contents are very primitive and not very helpful in training any students with a little experience in quality management. The name Six Sigma Training Kit is in my eyes wrong because it contains nearly only basic quality tools found in better publications. This time the name "Juran" doesn't guarantee quality. For 10% of the price buy better Rath&Strong's Pocket Guide!

Perfect for training non-technical students.......2002-08-06

Although the tools are not what one would consider core 6-Sigma tools (i.e., no control charts), this book is still a worthwhile training kit. Its main value is to provide a firm grounding in the basics for non-technical members of an organization that is implementing 6-Sigma. When used for that purpose the book gives the trainer or facilitator a clearly laid out syllabus for teaching what 6-Sigma means and why it's important to organizations from quality and competitive advantage perspectives.

In addition to providing a roadmap for teaching the what's and why's, the syllabus also covers a number of concepts and tools that will prove useful to anyone from admin assistant to line manager, including a good understanding of quality, cause analysis, powerful, but simple, tools (cause and effect, flow and Pareto diagrams and charts).

For the professional trainer or facilitator the book epitomizes what excellent training documentation should look like. The layout makes good use of white space, the writing is clear, and the use of tables and graphics enhance learning.

If you are a trainer or facilitator this book will dramatically shorten course design and provide you with solid training materials. It is not suited for advanced training in 6-Sigma techniques, however, but for the target audience I cited above it's perfect.

Should be called "Six Sigma for Dummies (sans cartoons)".......2002-08-03

Overall, the quality of this book is adequate, provided you aren't expecting a thorough treatment. That, in itself, would've rated it three stars if there wasn't one mitigating factor - in reading this book, one could (easily) assume the Juran Group (or Juran himself) invented Six Sigma, and nothing could be further from the truth. (As best as I know, it was Bob Gavin, in 1988.)

Egoism drops the rating to two stars.

This book is a good basic overview - nothing more. Save yourself the grief (and money!) and buy the Pyzdek book instead.

A positive review with some constructive comments.......2002-03-12

The book is a very good tool to use to teach the basics of Six Sigma. The training guide is exact, clear, and concise as is the participant guide.
It is a BASIC course and as such, it contains no statistical tools.
Now for the bad.
The paper of the manual is very flimsy and apt to tear.
The participant guide section starts with page number 201. I thought perhaps it should start with page 1.
On some of the Participant pages, at the bottom it gives a web address to go to if you would like to download an electronic (MS Word) customizable document. I went there, and could not figure out how to do so.

I think the book is an excellent basic training kit, as advertised, but handle the manual gingerly, the pages more than likely to tear.

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In the years after World War I, Southern farm women found their world changing. A postwar plunge in farm prices stretched into a twenty-year agricultural depression and New Deal programs eventually transformed the economy. Many families left their land to make way for larger commercial farms. New industries and the intervention of big government in once insular communities marked a turning point in the struggle of upcountry women -- forcing new choices and the redefinition of traditional ways of life.

Melissa Walker's All We Knew Was to Farm draws on interviews, archives, and family and government records to reconstruct the conflict between rural women and bewildering and unsettling change. Some women adapted by becoming partners in farm operations, adopting the roles of consumers and homemakers, taking off-farm jobs, or leaving the land. The material lives of rural upcountry women improved dramatically by midcentury -- yet in becoming middle class, Walker concludes, the women found their experiences both broadened and circumscribed.

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Farming and Women.......2007-10-03

Good resource for those interested in the history of women and farming. Provides information during that important time.

All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941.: An article from: Journal of Southern History

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All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941.: An article from: Journal of Southern History
Jeannie M. Whayne
Manufacturer: Southern Historical Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Southern Historical Association on May 1, 2002. The length of the article is 531 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941.
Author: Jeannie M. Whayne
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2002
Publisher: Southern Historical Association
Volume: 68 Issue: 2 Page: 494(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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All We Knew Was To Farm: Rural Women In The Upcountry South. (Book Reviews).(Review): An article from: The Oral History Review

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All We Knew Was To Farm: Rural Women In The Upcountry South. (Book Reviews).(Review): An article from: The Oral History Review
Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater
Manufacturer: Oral History Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008IHDPY
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from The Oral History Review, published by Oral History Association on June 22, 2001. The length of the article is 1065 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: All We Knew Was To Farm: Rural Women In The Upcountry South. (Book Reviews).(Review)
Author: Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater
Publication: The Oral History Review (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2001
Publisher: Oral History Association
Volume: 28 Issue: 2 Page: 147(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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This Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies is a result of the explosive growth of extragalactic astronomy over the last 15 years. With data on more than 23,000 galaxies, it includes all galaxies with apparent diameters larger than one arc minute, magnitudes brighter than about magnitude 15.5, and redshifts not larger than 15,000 km/sec, as well as many other objects of interest. Volume 1 contains the explanations and references; volumes 2 and 3 contain the catalogue proper. The catalogue gives for each galaxy the position, names, type and luminosity class, optical diameters, optical and infrared magnitudes, various color indices, and radial velocities.

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Valley Vistas, in photographs and text.......1999-04-20

Review originally published in Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy 14(1), p. 122, 1999.

The South is rapidly changing. These changes--some for the better, some for the worse--are reflected in many aspects of our collective lives. Today, the South is more integrated racially, economically, and geographically than it was 50 years ago. The region's people are more educated than their parents and grandparents. And though the South still reflects a strong rural influence, there aren't as many family farms as there used to be. The technological revolution that today is transforming virtually every aspect of southern life would have been unimaginable even a few decades ago.

In addition, a far higher percent of women and minorities are now part of the regional labor force, and fewer Southerners live in poverty.

In "The Tennessee Valley: A Photographic Portrait," Robert Kollar and Kelly Leiter document these changes, without railing against or praising them. Kollar and Leiter obviously recognize the special role of custom, continuity, and tradition in the South.

The Tennessee Valley--which includes parts of Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky--is not a monolithic region. Rather it consists of many diverse subregions and a kaleidoscope of geography, people, lifestyles, and eccentricities. Although the book spotlights the effects of widespread industrialization, the authors maintain that the South remains essentially rural.

This book is an eclectic collection of things southern: barbecue restaurants, "See Rock City" signs, used-cow ads, roadside fruit and vegetable stands, Friday night high school football games, homecomings on family burial grounds, courthouse squares, homemade quilts, general stores, and, of course, the requisite number of special dogs and other pets.

Throughout the book's five major divisions--The Valley, The People, The Workplace, The Visitors, and The River--the authors' special fondness for the South shines through. Kollar and Leiter capture ordinary people getting on with their daily lives in a region that is still defining itself.

Leiter, dean emeritus of the College of Communications at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, writes in a style that is informative, spare, direct, and to the point but still conveys Southerners' deep feelings for their home place.

Kollar, chief photographer for the Tennessee Valley Authority, has won many awards for his work. His continuous travels throughout the region for more than two decades have provided him with almost endless special photographic opportunities. This collection of 240 of his color pictures, which convey the special quality and feeling the photographer felt when he took them, complements Leiter's matter-of-fact prose.

Although the quality of the photographs and the writing are excellent, one might wish for more of both. The cutlines could have been expanded to include more text, for example. And the paper quality is not quite adequate to reproduce these high-quality photographs. The authors, however, have done an excellent job of depicting and describing a seven-state area in 128 short pages.

It would be helpful if a volume like this one, examining the region in detail, could be published every decade. To be sure there are dozens of picture books depicting various aspects of the Valley states. Most, however, do little by way of explaining the importance and significance of the photographs. Few of them analyze regional economic, social, cultural, or political trends. The text of this brief work is useful in amplifying data and clarifying some of the subtle and not-so-subtle changes that have transformed the Tennessee Valley in recent years.

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From ESPN, the sports experts, comes the most informative baseball compilation ever created—and the next best thing to watching the home team win!

A baseball lover’s ultimate guide, based on a remarkable database compiled by the award-winning godfather of statistical baseball analysis, Pete Palmer, and edited by respected baseball historian and commentator Gary Gillette. Featuring totally revised and up-to-date statistics, this all-star encyclopedia is the most complete and accurate baseball database ever compiled. Brought to fans at an unbeatable price, it’s brimming with illuminating essays and information. There’s comprehensive year-by-year and team-by-team batting and pitching statistics for all players in major league history; all-time leaders in 150 categories; all-inclusive coverage of career interruptions due to wartime military service; and loads more stats and facts on teams, managers, and ballparks.

“I want a bumper sticker: You can have my Baseball Encyclopedia when you tear it from my cold, dead hands.” –Bill James, Author of the Historical Baseball Abstract

“Baseball fans haven’t been able to get this much for so little since baseball cards were a quarter a pack.”—Mat Olkin, writer and editor for USA Today and Sports Weekly

Customer Reviews:

The Bottom line.......2006-11-05

If you are a baseball junkie. A must have for your library

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Created by local writers and photographers, Compass American Guides are the ultimate insider's guides, providing in-depth coverage of the history, culture and character of America's most spectacular destinations. Covering everything there is to see and do as well as choice lodging and dining, these gorgeous full-color guides are perfect for new and longtime residents as well as vacationers who want a deep understanding of the region they're visiting.
Outstanding color photography, plus a wealth of archival imagesTopical essays and literary extractsDetailed color mapsGreat ideas for things to see and doCapsule reviews of hotels and restaurants

Compass American Guides: Virginia, 4th Edition (Compass American Guides)

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Compass Guides are terrific introductions

Compass American Guides: Virginia, 4th Edition (Compass American Guides)
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Manufacturer: Compass America Guides
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1400012414
Release Date: 2003-12-02

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Created by local writers and photographers, Compass American Guides are the ultimate insider's guides, providing in-depth coverage of the history, culture and character of America's most spectacular destinations. Compass Virginia covers everything there is to see and do -- plus gorgeous full-color photographs; a wealth of archival images; topical essays and literary extracts; detailed color maps; and capsule reviews of hotels and restaurants. These insider guides are perfect for new and longtime residents as well as vacationers who want a deep understanding of Virginia.

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Compass Guides are terrific introductions.......2007-07-14

I have several of the Compass Guides, for every state we've visited or lived in. You're not going to find hotel or restaurant guide listings here. What you will find are great color photos and a terrific narrative story. You'll read all the history, learn about the top places to visit. These books are very nice to keep on the bookshelf for others to enjoy for years to come.

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Julian Drew "lives" with his father, his abusive stepmother and her children, but it's not a life anyone would want. He buys his first NB on October 25 at Osco Drug in Tucson. Green spiral. 80 pages. 34 lines per page. He tries to write but his pen won't cooperate. Then he develops a secret code. Mysterious notebooks record his fight for survival and recovery. Gripping and poignant, this story will hook readers from the first page.

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Great!.......2005-06-17

I read this book 2 years ago, and still I can not forget how good it was and how much it helped me understand there are other people out there going through the same things as I do and worse. I am now 14 years old, and couldn't image going through what Julian went through in this book, AFTER the death of my mother.

Although the book was kinda confusing in the beginning, I caught on. Deciphering each and every messaged coated with numbers and codes until I cracked each and everyone one of them and recorgnized them once I spotted them.

Author James M. Deem is without doubt the most amazing author I've ever read books from. Since this book, I look and look for his books and read them and never I repeat NEVER has he let me down. I think that everyone who reads his material should cherish it, and hold on to his thoughts [ they are amazing ] just as I have done, because he's simply...the best. <3 James!

-Ashley

No word Can Fully Describe This Book.......2002-07-03

This book seriously defies the mind. When I picked up this book + read the 1st page I knew that it was going 2 B like no book that I have ever read. I had some knowledge of pager code before hand so it was not as difficult for me as it would B for someone who hadn't. I was intrigued w/ 16 y.o Julian who's life + everything in it couldn't be described as anything but [the underworld]. This book kept me turning page after page determined to find if he gets away 4rm his abusive parents or ever meets this "U" th@ he obsesses himself over.
This book is a puzzle and unraveling it is only half the fun. I recommend this book 2 everyone. I thought it was a great story + if u take the time 2 sit down + read it, I'm sure you will think the same thing 2.

A survival story........2002-05-24

Julian is an abused child. His mother is dead, his demented stepmother starves him and locks him in his room and makes him do all the chores in the house, and his father lets her. The story is told in diary form of Julian's three notebooks, or "Nbs" as he calls them. The notebooks are written in code so that if his father and stepmother should discover them, they would have difficulty reading. The reader also has difficulty at first, as it takes some detective work to decipher the code.

The thing I liked most about the book is Julian's strength of spirit. With the support of his English teacher and a classmate, he is able to get a job, run away, and make a new life for himself. When I looked at James Deem's website, it says the story is based on the author's own experiences. And you can tell. It's really good, though the code can be a bit annoying.

Excellent book!.......2001-11-14

This is a great book!It is written in secret code and is very hard to understand.But it is still an excellent book with a good plot!

Excellent book!.......2001-11-14

This is a great book!It is written in secret code and is very hard to understand.But it is still an excellent book with a good plot!

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3 NBs of Julian Drew
James M. Deem
Manufacturer: Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000U2IZJG

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