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F'd Companies: Spectacular Dot-Com Flameouts
Philip J. Kaplan Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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The graveyard of dot-com disasters is overflowing with grandiose ideas gone spectacularly bad, and Philip J. Kaplan's F'd Companies offers an unapologetically acerbic opinion on dozens of the most outrageous. Kaplan, a programmer turned consultant whose own online dreams began when he launched a bulletin board system for pirated game software back in 1989, pulls no punches as he bluntly dissects Web failures that remain dazzling for their pretentious plans and audacious executions. There are big names like Webvan ("a classic example of PAYING more for products than they were SELLING them for") and Go.com (a "portal to nowhere"), but most here are less well known despite similarly burning through cash like a cyber-brushfire. In language far more explicit than his softened-for-the-bookstore title, Kaplan skewers the likes of Iam.com (which lost $48 million trying to convince models and actors to post their portfolios on the Net), OnlineChoice.com (which spent $20 million to learn consumers weren't interested in group buys of electricity and other utilities), HeavenlyDoor.com (which sunk $26 million into a site peddling caskets and burial plots), and Eppraisals.com (which dropped $15 million on an effort to sell online evaluations of antiques). The result is consistently profane, frequently hilarious, and usually right on target. --Howard RothmanBook Description
Not long ago, the world was awash with venture capital in search of the next Yahoo! or Amazon.com. No product, no experience, no technology, no business plan -- no problem. You could still get $40 million from investors to start up your dot-com. And you could get people to work around the clock for stock options and the promise of millions. Then, around April 2000, it all came crashing down.
Smart investors, esteemed analysts, and the business press found themselves asking:
F'd Companies captures the waste, greed, and human stupidity of more than 100 dot-com companies. Written in Philip J. Kaplan's popular, cynical style, these profiles are filled with colorful anecdotes, factoids, and information unavailable anywhere else. Together they form a gleeful encyclopedia of how not to run a business. They also capture a truly remarkable period of history.
F'd Companies is required reading for everyone involved in the "new economy" -- assuming your severance check can cover the cost.
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Not long ago, the world was awash with venture capital in search of the next Yahoo! or Amazon.com. No product, no experience, no technology, no business plan -- no problem. You could still get $40 million from investors to start up your dot-com. And you could get people to work around the clock for stock options and the promise of millions. Then, around April 2000, it all came crashing down. Smart investors, esteemed analysts, and the business press found themselves asking: Who knew people wouldn't rush out to trade in their U.S. dollars for a virtual currency called Flooz? Who knew people wouldn't blow all their Flooz on a used car from the guys at iMotors.com? And who needed a used car from iMotors.com when they could just sit at home and have 40-lb. bags of dog food delivered to them by a sock puppet? F'd Companies captures the waste, greed, and human stupidity of more than 100 dot-com companies. Written in Philip J. Kaplan's popular, cynical style, these profiles are filled with colorful anecdotes, factoids, and information unavailable anywhere else. Together they form a gleeful encyclopedia of how not to run a business. They also capture a truly remarkable period of history. F'd Companies is required reading for everyone involved in the ""new economy"" -- assuming your severance check can cover the cost.Customer Reviews:
An extremely guilty pleasure.......2006-08-08
Great Tales of Wasted Millions.......2005-10-24
I like the guy-- he understands/understood the Dot BOMB era.......2005-03-07
Front-line insight, questionable format.......2004-09-22
Excellent!!! Now this is quality entertainment!.......2004-02-26
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F'd Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts
Philip J. Kaplan Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1416577939 |
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Not long ago, the world was awash with venture capital in search of the next Yahoo! or Amazon.com. No product, no experience, no technology, no business plan -- no problem. You could still get $40 million from investors to start up your dot-com. And you could get people to work around the clock for stock options and the promise of millions. Then, around April 2000, it all came crashing down.Smart investors, esteemed analysts, and the business press found themselves asking:
F'd Companies captures the waste, greed, and human stupidity of more than 100 dot-com companies. Written in Philip J. Kaplan's popular, cynical style, these profiles are filled with colorful anecdotes, factoids, and information unavailable anywhere else. Together they form a gleeful encyclopedia of how not to run a business. They also capture a truly remarkable period of history.
F'd Companies is required reading for everyone involved in the "new economy" -- assuming your severance check can cover the cost.
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Work and Unseen Chronic Illness: Silent Voices (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies)
M. Vickers Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0415243475 |
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There are a growing number of working adults affected by chronic health conditions that may be largely invisible to those around them. In this book, the author explores the 'silent' problem of unseen illness at work.
The author employs qualitative research methods to challenge the idea that if you look well, you must be well. While demonstrating the effectiveness of this controversial methodology, she uses it to expose the voices of a group of marginalized workplace actors who have hitherto remained unheard.
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Soil Fertility, Second Edition
Boyd Ellis , and Henry Foth Manufacturer: CRC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1566702437 |
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Soils are one of the world's most important resources, and their protection, maintenance, and improvement is critical to the continuance of life on earth. Soil Fertility, Second Edition, offers thorough coverage of the fertility, composition, properties, and management of soils. This book carries on the tradition of excellence established by authors Henry Foth and Boyd Ellis, leading soil scientists whose previous books in this field have become multi-edition classics. The Second Edition of Soil Fertility has been significantly expanded to include more information on mineralogy, while keeping the thorough coverage of essential topics. The book presents soils as dynamic, constantly changing bodies, and relates soil fertility and management to the mineralogy of their origin. Four new chapters offer updated information on soil charge properties, ion adsorption, exchange and fixation, and soil reaction. There is also a far greater emphasis on environmental issues, reflecting the increasing importance of environmental concerns to agronomists and soil scientists today.
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Australian Soil Fertility Manual, Second Edition
Fertilizer Industry Federation of Australia Manufacturer: CSIRO Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0643065172 |
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The Australian Soil Fertility Manual has been prepared to help fertilizer dealers, extension workers, consultants, teachers, farmers, horticulturists, graziers and others concerned with the profitable and environmentally safe use of plant nutrients.The Manual describes the types of agricultural soils, how they are classified and the interaction of soil, water and nutrients. It also provides an insight into how plants utilize nutrients and the role that individual nutrients play in the process of plant growth.
It can be used as a self-study guide, as a supplementary university textbook, for soil fertility workshops or extended short courses about soils and fertilizers.
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Protostellar Discs and Planetary System Formation (Springer Praxis Books / Astronomy and Planetary Sciences)
J. Papaloizou , and C. Terquem Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1852331038 |
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Organelle Genes and Genomes
Nicholas W. Gillham Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0195082478 |
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Chloroplasts and mitochondria contain their own genomes and protein-synthesizing systems, but only a fraction of the genes required for the proper function of these organelles are specified by the genomes. Organelle Genes and Genomes reviews the properties of chloroplast and mitochondrial
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Organelle Genes and Genomes
Nicholas W. Gillham Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OK3EEK |
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Nicholas W. GILLHAM Manufacturer: Oxford University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000ORCUWU |
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The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing
Thomas Mcguane Manufacturer: Vintage ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0679777571 Release Date: 2001-06-26 |
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As adept as Thomas McGuane has been through the years with a rod in his hand, he's even more skillful with his pen. Join the two like tippet to leader, and the result's as irresistible as a Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear in the middle of a Hendrickson hatch.For The Longest Silence, McGuane has trolled his inventory and assembled 33 essays written over three decades. Passionate, meditative, personal, and often very funny, they are filled with fellowship and connected by his love of angling. The title piece, a certified classic in the sporting genre, chronicles his quest for the elusive permit. Since permit is about the hardest fish to catch on a fly, the expected futility of not catching one hooks McGuane's introspection, and he weighs in with trophy prose: "What is emphatic in angling is made so by the long silences--the unproductive periods. For the ardent fisherman, progress is towards the kinds of fishing that are never productive in the sense of the blood riots of the hunting-and-fishing periodicals. Their illusions of continuous action evoke for him, finally, a condition of utter, mortuary boredom."
That's McGuane on angling in a nutshell; he knows the real action is internal. Whether he's casting for salmon in Russia ("Fly-Fishing the Evil Empire"), bonefish in the Florida Keys ("Close to the Bone"), or trout in Ireland ("Back in Ireland"), the catch is secondary to the pursuit, and the pursuit has as much to do with making sense of self and the universe as it does with anything aswim in a river. "When you get to the water you will be renewed," he assures. "Leave as much behind as possible. Those motives to screw your boss or employees, cheat on your spouse, rob the state, or humiliate your companions will not serve you well if you expect to be restored in the eyes of God, fish, and the river, which will reward you with hollow waste if you don't behave. You may be cursed. You may be shriven. You may be drowned. At the very least, you may snap off your fly in the bushes." McGuane clearly wades in with honest intentions; in The Longest Silence he casts cleanly to his target again and again. --Jeff Silverman
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From the highly acclaimed author of Ninety-Two in the Shade and Nothing but Blue Skies comes this collection of breathtakingly exquisite essays borne of a lifetime spent fishing.Customer Reviews:
smooth and satisfying.......2003-12-31
One of the best about the silence and joy of fly fishig.......2002-01-18
The examined life (and fly fishing, too)........2001-11-06
Finally, words to describe the fishing landscape.......2001-08-16
The Reel Thing.......2001-05-19
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THE LONGEST SILENCE - A LIFE IN FISHING
Manufacturer: Alfred A. Knopf ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000GQWCJ0 |
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The Longest Silence - A Life In Fishing
Thomas Mcguane Manufacturer: Vintage Books / Random House ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000RIZ0HS |
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The Complete Kit to Selling Your Own Home: Smart, Fast and for Top Dollar (Complete Kit to Selling Your Own Home)
Joseph P. Diblasi Manufacturer: Sphinx Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1572483539 |
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5 stars? Are the other reviewers nuts?.......2006-11-12
excellent resource!!!.......2006-01-31
The best tool to sell your house.......2004-10-03
Worth its Weight in Gold!.......2004-07-11
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PDR for Herbal Medicines, Third Edition
Manufacturer: Thomson Healthcare ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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ASIN: 1563635127 |
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Interest in and usage of herbal preparations as alternatives to pharmaceuticals has exploded in recent years. Having a complete herbal reference on hand is now absolutely necessary for doctors and other healers when a patient wants to add herbs--let's say St. John's wort--to his drug regimen. Should the patient stop taking the Paxil he's been on for depression, and if so, how long must he wait before he can start taking the St. Johns wort, and what's the recommended dosage?The PDR for Herbal Medicines will go a long way towards answering such questions. The physician in this case would learn, after consulting the PDR, that "St. John's wort taken concomitantly with an SSRI ... may lead to an increased effect and possible toxicity 'serotonin syndrome', e.g., sweating, tremor, flushing, confusion and agitation." The same physician will also learn that the German Federal Health Authority's Commission E, which has studied the effects of hundreds of herbs, approved St. John's wort for depressive moods, among other conditions.
For more information, the physician can read about the trade names, descriptions of all the medicinal parts of the plant, actions and pharmacology (including the compounds and their effects, with citations), the results of clinical trials, contraindications, precautions and adverse reactions (photosensitization is a biggie for St. John's wort), dosage information, and a complete list of literature citations.
The second edition of this mammoth guide includes over 100 entries more than the first, bringing the total to more than 700. Additions include a selection of Asian herbs, such as Buplerum Chinese (also known as Chinese thoroughwax), which is used in Chinese medicine as an anti-inflammatory, and homeopathic preparations; a directory of manufacturers (with Internet addresses when available), a safety guide (don't use kava kava while nursing), and more. There's even a section that lists unproven uses for each herb. But make no mistake: this is a mainstream reference that relies on scientific proof above all. Therefore, this is not a guide for everyone, but for scientific and medical reference, it's a helpful and comprehensive resource, and even those who push the herbal envelope will find much valuable information here. --Stefanie Durbin
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New, Expanded, Improved, ComprehensiveBuilding on its best-selling predecessors, the new PDR for Herbal Medicines, Third Edition has left no resource unturned to bring together the latest scientific data in the most comprehensive herbal reference compiled.
The third edition goes far beyond the original source, adding a new section on Nutritional Supplements and new information aimed at greatly enhancing patient management by medical practitioners. All monographs have been updated to include recent scientific findings on efficacy, safety and potential interactions; clinical trials (including abstracts); case reports; and meta-analysis results. This new information has resulted in greatly expanded Effects, Contraindications, Precautions and Adverse Reactions, and Dosage sections of each monograph.
>Indexed by common name
>Asian, Indian and Homeopathic Herbs Index
>Safety Guide
>Daily dosage information for unprocessed herbs and commercially available brand name products >Manufacturers' Index, including name, address, contact information and product list
>Trade names of available products added to each monograph
>Expanded Drug/Herb Interaction Guide
>Therapeutic Category Index
>Clinical Management of Interactions
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The "Other" drugs.......2007-09-06
Pdr for Herbal Medicines (Physician's Desk Reference (Pdr) for Herbal Medicines).......2007-05-15
Excellent reference for herbal medicines.......2006-01-08
A thorough and useful reference.......2005-02-19
Buyers beware on this one........2004-02-04
Andrew Bentley (Alfalfa and Buckwheat) aptly pointed out that info is left out and it says some data is not available, but it is.
Jerry Cott in his review points out their report on St. John's Wort. Do you really think this was not done on purpose? Imagine the dollars lost if people stopped taking the drugs that this herb will sometimes help.
Be sure to read what the pharmacist said. I applaud you as your lively hood depends on this type of manipulation of the truth.
Buyers beware on this one if you want the truth.
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Pdr for Herbal Medicines, Third Edition
Joerg; Economics, Medical; Reference, Pdr Physicians Desk Gruenwald Manufacturer: Thomson Healthcare ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000LZOV9K |
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