Supplies Books

After 16 years I am back flying again, and this was my first choice to review instrument training. Kershner is highly recommended by all my pilot friends, instructors, and FBO owners--and with good reason. He is highly readable, humorous, and comprehensive in his approach.

Be careful! Amazon sent me the year old version! Do NOT use it. I got a current version from a pilot shop and sent the old one back. Amazon gave me a full refund.

If you get the correct version it is invaluable! I passed.

This is a must for instrument rating students. All the questions that can be on the FAA test are in the book with the answers and most with explanations. You need a good instrument text to go with this book (Instrument Flying Handbook: 2001 by the FAA and/or Gardner's The Complete Advanced Pilot).

The instrument rating is the hardest rating to earn -- I'm still working on mine. This book helps make the written test easier to conquer.

Instrumentation for the Operating Room: A Photographic Manual (Instrumentation for the Operating Room)

I found this text with interactive cd quiz highly beneficial.
To the point of it being included as a core text in our Introductory Perioperative Program.

I use the images to show the fine details of the instrument tips & specific differences. The quiz was randomly used by the students & new staff when in the Central SAterilising placement & the operating theatre placements.

This interactive learning is essential to the 'digital natives'

Integral Warehouse Management is 252 pages of useful and valuable warehousing perspectives. The author clearly indicates how to move from a "reactive" warehouse operation into the ideal "collaborative" cost savings operations. This is an excellent book for all warehouse operations, integrators, and employees of WMS vendors. It explains the basics well and then rapidly educates one in intermediate and advance issues facing DC managers today.

In addition, Jeroen van den Berg shares many key insights on how to warehouse better. For example of one of these insights - Jeroen boldly discusses task priority logic. An excerpt from the book:

"WMS's typically represent the urgency by a priority number. Some WMS's have fixed priorities, e.g., a replenishment task is always more urgent than a pick task. Other WMS's are able to assign an initial priority to a task and then automatically increase its priority with the course of time. We believe that priorities should relate to the deadlines rather than the start times. Hence, users should be creative and attempt to configure the priority numbers in the WMS so that they are linked to the deadlines."

Bravo! Task priority values should be directly tied to the deadline and not its task age! Very good point. He then charts time-based aging versus deadline-based effectiveness (see pages 171 thru 173).

Besides, defining the basics in detail, the author goes into much appreciated detail on advanced warehousing topics. These include bin locator logic, service level agreements, inventory costing models, labor management systems, dashboards, key performance indicators, workload planning, workload fluctuation, discontinuities in warehousing operations, value added services, procurement, VMI, and much more! An innovative visual wave monitoring is displayed and explained in detail.

Excellent book! It's a book that requires your full attention over a few days of time.

Written by Philip Obal, November 2007, President of IDII. Research & Management Consulting Firm. http://www.idii.com

This book's primary audience consists of SAP consultants and IT business systems analysts, and the ideal secondary audience should consist of business process owners in an R/3 environment, IT managers in all functional areas who are involved with developing, implementing and supporting supply chain and extended logistics solutions.

The theme is logistics management, using SAP, in an extended supply chain or a corporate hub and their vendors. There are three key sub themes in the book: (1) an explanation of the business benefits of extending buyer-seller systems in an extended supply chain (with an emphasis on using the Internet as the communications infrastructure), (2) specifics on how to accomplish this using SAP, and (3) evidence that it can be done.

I like the practical approach taken by the authors - instead of succumbing to the temptation to careen off into blue sky solutions, they stick with what can be done in the here and now. Although it's almost blasphemy to discuss EDI when everyone else seems to be hyping web services and other approaches and solutions that are relatively new, the authors show the strengths and weaknesses of this proven approach. They also discuss the strengths and weaknesses of XML, although ebXML is curiously missing. The reason its absence is so curious is that the EC appears to be wholeheartedly embracing it, and this book has a distinct European bias, especially in the chosen case studies.

More importantly, though, this book goes into the details SAP's internet components and how they relate to other modules that support logistics and supply chain management for an enterprise. The details go well beyond technology - this book gives equal treatment to business and technical issues, and that is one of the reasons why it's so valuable to the primary and secondary audiences I cited above. Although I thought ebXML should have been covered in depth, I found this book to be complete and to realistically cover the topic's key issues.

Bought this book for one of my first college classes. The price of college textbooks is unreal! I find substantial savings when shopping for books on Amazon.

If you want to have a quick reference book rich in logistic quantitative methods, then this book a very good choice. It is concise an easy to read.

This is my best introductory to dc/ac electronics book out there and this beats them all. All of the other books are too complicated and missing quite a few important concepts. This book covers all of the basics and has a very nice approach for learners like me that has difficulty comprehending new material. Nice review and test questions in the back. Only main drawback is price... ouch

This is an excellent book for learning fundemental solid state ideas. Basic power supply and amplifier circuits are presented in a easy to learn manner as well. Also a great reference for the electrical engineer/electronic technician.