Purchasing Books

If you are thinking of getting a used Dodge Viper, this is the book to have. It has valuable information on all the differences between the various models over the years.

A lot of pictures, I'll give it that. This is the first book I've returned to Amazon, and I'm glad I did.

A lot of pictures that appear to be from owners that post on viperclub.org, where you can learn more than this book offers.

I think maybe if you don't have a clue and don't want to put the effort into the internet this would be just ok, or for a kid who wants pictures.

Huge discovery, tells you what year has ABS, 2001 and on. What year had rt/10. What year had what color. I don't know, maybe I expected a decent read. One night with the pictures and I had all I could take. I paid for the return postage because it was my mistake ordering it and I consider that a cheap price for exit.

By the way, it went down another dollar between ordering it and returning it, 2 weeks. Spend your money if you want but the net offers more data with very little effort and it is grouped for you on the viperalley.com and viperclub.org sites. Just my honest opinion.

This buyer's guide gives great specifics as to what to look for and potential problems specific to each year of Viper since beginning of production in 1992. I have purchased all the other Viper books and this one has been the most useful in searching for a collectible Viper.

Many Viper owners are true "car nuts", knowledgable about every aspect of their vehicles, capable of doing-it-themselves whenever their cars need anything from routine service to major upgrades. And then there are the rest of us. Mr. Liang has written a book for "the rest of us", in language we can readily understand, containing the wisdom he has acquired as a true Viperholic. He tells us what to look for, inside and out, before we take the plunge, with enough information so as not to be taken in by fast-talking, whether by the owner of the car we are considering or a salesperson looking for a nice commission. And then, there's Chapter 8. Paired with the owner's manual, this book becomes the next best thing to having a live-in Viper tech. I LOVE this book--almost as much as I love my Vipers!

I am in the process of decorating my new apartment and thought this book would be a great idea. Not only are the photos of poor quality but the so-called decor is awful. I do not recommend this book for anyone who wishes to decorate stylishly. Also, the book is not that informative about buying on eBay.

I love browsing on eBay, but hadn't thought about using it in my decorating efforts. This book opens your eyes to the wealth of objects (often one-of-a-kind) on the auction site that you can use to transform your home.
For beginning eBay users, the book covers registration and tips for browsing and buying so you get the most for your money. It includes a buyers guide with lists of power sellers and the types of things you can count on them to offer. This is reassuring if you are nervous about making your first purchases.
Anyway, this book is a great alternative to searching flea markets and estate sales looking for great deals for your home.

Just like stumbling across a treasure on ebay, I happened to see this book at a bookstore and immediately took the "buy now" option. I absolutely love this book! It has great photos; they look like real rooms from real homes - not stuffy staged shots. I have bought a few things off of ebay but I really didn't know the extent of the home décor items available. This book list "power sellers" whom have good ratings and sell great home decorating items. This book addresses shipping issues, relevant decorating tips, and do-it-yourself projects. I highly recommend this book.

It was received in good time and in great condition. New as described. I am happy about it.

the example provided for determining the carrying costs for 2 years seem to be over stated. In the example the additonal carrying cost of the items that have not moved in two years seems to include the Item cost for each year twice. It shows $ 4,449 that has accumulated after two years. This is should show $ 2,528. Only the Carrying cost should be added for each year to come to the additional carrying cost. The author seems to have included the cost of the items in each year. This will affect the breakeven days.

This book lives up to its title. It is an easy to read introduction to inventory management. If you are new to the concept or are an empiric manager in the process of formalizing your education, this is a good start. Don't look for in depth information or case studies.

On the recommendations side, the author left the topic of safety and occupational health out of the book. It would be good to include this topic in the following edition.

I am looking to start investing in rental properties and am educating myself about the industry and the process. I bought the book because of the title, and the reviews. I found some answers to my questions - such as how to calculate the cash flow from a potential property. However, the book also leaves me with some questions, such as how do you determine the expenses of a property, do you just guess? I felt that the book gave some very superficial knowledge, and I want something with more depth. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. But overall, the book is decent for someone like me, who don't own any property, and a beginner. It's also funny to read the low prices he was able to put down for properties when I live in Orange County, CA where the median home prices are in the mid-$600K.

I have seen many books out on the internet and bookstores about the 'get rich', 'big money' to be made in real estate investing, this book however is not one of them. The author real puts it in barebones, simple terminology and real world examples. The analogoy of real estate investing as a business is great example too.

Would have like more about personal finances and how to really get started, as it relates to credit, pre-approvals and the difference between primary residence and secondary mortgage.

Would strongly recommend adding this book to your library and book of knowledge for learning about REIT.

I found this book to be a practical guide. It outlines a step by step approach to buying a rental property. It has formulas to use for cash flow and even what to do as a landlord.
Best of all it doesn't sugar coat the process like the other books. It gives a fair assessment of that buying and managing a rental property entails.

Great information for the enthusiast or shopper. The rating system for ability to match or beat the market trends is a good indicator of how much flexibility there may be in the price if you're shopping.

Overall, a decent book, but the author seems to go out of his way to emphasize the TR7's troubles. Although it's true that the 7 will not likely be an collector, it is a great value in an open top car, and has always been underrated. That he derides the model is probably not such a bad thing, as this will help keep prices down for those of us "in the know". One aspect he neglects is the ease of converting the TR7 to a TR8 via an engine swap, making the car a poor man's cobra (ok, almost) for the masses. Forget matching-numbers purism in this car, it's for driving. Other than that, his advice on selecting a TR7 is fairly well founded.

A must buy if you are looking to purchase a post-war Triumph. The book really cuts to the chase and tells it up front. It is a good resource for distinguishing the differences in model years and what things to look for in each.

The book is a little hard to take as a Triumph enthusiast when he cuts up certain models. "The TR6... was old when it was new... the design was ancient, the car got lousy gas mileage... it was never bolted together properly" Hey!!! That's my baby.

Just don't let this book scare you away from owning a Triumph altogether. As the author states "All Triumphs are a good value". I personally would just say it with more enthusiasm

The car guide answered most of my questions but not all. It is a help in evaluating cars you might be interested in buying.

Would u save u money u self just go do car reseach online instead much more accurate and share opinion from otheer owner. An dis Free try Edmunds of the best out there for u new car research.

For the great majority of car buyers, this is probably THE BEST resource. Unless you're into super-performance or the finer points of car technology, it's probably the only resource you need.

For any car that you want to check, Consumer Reports tells you clearly what type of car it is and who it's for, how reliable it has been, how satisfied its customers have been, and how much it holds its value. There's also info on performance and various routine "specs," definitely enough for 95% of us. If you're an EXTREME car enthusiast, you may be disappointed; this book isn't like the "harder-core" car publications. But Consumer Reports does an excellent job of including what most of us would want to see -- and can UNDERSTAND! After all, much of the material in the "harder-core" publications is Greek to us, right? And actually some of the technical material in this source is also a little tough-going, but not so much that it's intimidating. I think it's just enough to help us stretch our technical knowledge, without turning our brains to mush.

Consumer Reports is renowned for its "reliability" ratings, and indeed this information is probably the most valuable and most distinctive part of what CR does on cars. And in fact, this aspect should be of interest even to the "enthusiasts," because the harder-core car publications don't have anything like it. The reliability ratings are presented in a form that's easy to learn and easy to grasp at a glance. While a good reliability rating doesn't guarantee that a car will be good, it definitely stacks the deck in your favor.

An aspect of the "reliability" system that Consumer Reports doesn't get enough credit for is how excellent are its criteria for defining and determining reliability. Some other organizations (including very well known ones) use criteria that have little to do with what most of us mean by "reliability" -- their surveys focus mainly on "number of complaints," regardless of how significant the complaints are. For example, complaints about rattles, or radio reception, or about wishing the car had more power, get counted as problems and count against the car. (Often those organizations don't use the word reliability but some other term like "quality," but the media and the public usually don't get the distinction.) Consumer Reports focuses on problems more related to the basic functioning of the car, which is what most of us are more concerned about.

Consumer Reports is also renowned for being perhaps the most objective and neutral evaluator of products, free from influence of manufacturers and other interested parties. From what I've ever been able to tell, the reputation is well deserved.

The one quibble that I have with their car ratings is that they seem perhaps to lean a little too much toward practicality and don't show enough appreciation for certain kinds of upgrades. For example, they tend toward the idea that paying extra for a Mercury Mountaineer over a Ford Explorer is a waste, likewise an Acura over a Honda or a Lexus over a Toyota. But once you realize that apparent bias, you can just take it into account in making your own decisions. And besides, there's a lot to be said for practicality.

If you have never seen or managed a procurement process for resources, this book is a good overview of some of the challenges you may face and processes to follow.

However if you have any experience and are looking for a resource to help you build best practices around Project Procurement I would look for another resource that has more depth.

Quentin Fleming is best known for his expertise and published works in the earned-value project management domain. However, he is also deeply experienced in procurement management, and has an impressive body of published work in that specialty as well. This book evidences his expertise, and is one of the most succinct guides on the subject I've read.

Among the reasons I like this book are:

- excellent material on teaming arrangements and subcontractor management. These areas can make or break an engagement, ruining the reputation of the prime and/or subcontractors. The approaches and advice provided will get you around the pitfalls.

- the chapter on selecting the proper contract type distills information scattered across sources ranging from FAR to niche books and other publications. Having the strengths and weaknesses of all possible contract approaches in one place is reason enough to get this book in my opinion.

- managing procurement risks is given in-depth treatment. Everyone from contracting officers to project managers to functional area experts will get something from the chapter devoted to the topic. The related chapter on legal aspects of project procurement is another strong point of this book.

The book covers the spectrum of procurement, mainly from the customer's perspective, but ample information is given about provider viewpoints. More importantly, this information is consistent with the PMI Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and the six related processes (procurement planning, solicitation planning and solicitation, source selection, contract administration and closeout).

This is more than a glossed-over summary, or for novices - it contains information that even the most seasoned procurement specialist will find useful, and should be in the reference library of every project manager.

Roger H. Mandel, an adjunct professor at SDSU & UCSD, March 5, 2004,

Well arranged with a comprehensive description of what is important. Can be used as a short desk guide for those that are just starting to do procurements. Every Project Managers should have one and read for an overall comprehension of what is important in out sourcing. You will not be confused with many details. This professor recommends this book as a start to understanding project procurement management.

The POM book was a few hours read, not much substance for the practicioner. Lots of theory but not that much on HOW TO DO it. However, there are a few highlights in regards to process automation and standards.

This book should be required reading for anybody interested in supply chain management. An organization's purchase order managemnent system must reflect serious consideration of the "process, technology, and change mangement" issues that are discussed by Sabri, Gupta, and Beitler.

"POM Best Practices" offers advice that new and seasoned purchase order managements can apply immediately. I wish this type of book had been available 20 years ago when I got started.

I recently worked with a client who had purchase order management problems. Implementation of the new purchase order management procedures were extremely difficult. The third part of the book on Change Management (written by Beitler, the change management expert) was very helpful.

I like how these three experts, Sabri (process), Gupta (technology) , and Beitler (change management), collaborated to produce such a valuable reference guide for purchase order management. They talk about state-of-the-art techniques, being used at real-world companies, in an easy-to-read style.

A terrific handbook. It gave me all of the information I needed and in a manner that was easy to understand. Highly recommended. I agree with the reader from New York. Decisions like this require expert advice.

This book is an excellent overview of a complex subject. Written in a clear, straight-forward style, Smith's book can be an indispensible companion to buying a first or last home. I haven't read the House Buying for Dummies book that was mentioned by an earlier reviewer, but, when I'm confronted with the bigeest purchase of my life, I'd rather stick with someone who has a bit more obvious expertise.

Reading this book was much like reading a college textbook. The information therein was helpful, but the style was wordy and technical. The book could have been more concise. As a reference guide, I preferred the book House Buying for Dummies.

Out of all the books I have read on this subject, this is one of the better ones. Unfortunately, there needs to be better books on this subject. There is so much left out of all the books I read, that I still didn't have a high level of confidence in making the purchase, and relied a lot on my previous business experience. However, this book did a good job of getting the process started, and sent me in the right direction. I eventually found a business. Someone needs to write a book on all the details to pay attention to in the acquisition process, and why. It would be a good alternative to the expensive price of paying professionals to educate you.

I found this book very helpful. From a first time business buyer, this book was great. It won't explain how to do every individual thing while searching for a business, but it will point you in the right direction. It was the first book I bought once I started any research, but defenitely not the last.