Supplies Books

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.

Whether you are a world-class mountain climber, whose life is dependent on the gear you take on your next Himalayan expedition, or an arm-chair historian interested in the fascinating innovations that made the assent of Everest possible - this book is a must read.

Invisible On Everest blends tales of high adventure and tragedy with a thoroughly researched history of the innovations that made mountain climbing, and other adventure sports, a multi-million dollar industry.

Particularly fascinating are the chapters involving women's climbing apparel and widening middle-class participation of mountain climbing throughout the early part of the last century.

I would recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in climbing or in the history early cold-weather explorers and adventurers.

Invisible On Everest is an enjoyable read and a great reference guide to understanding the evolution of cold-weather and high-altitude survival gear. It is fascinating to discover how the right gear makes the difference between success and failure.

My children are learning to play this, ages 8 and 10. It has a nice sound to it and they are enjoying it. It's a great instrument for the novice on instruments and they do play this in the orchestra.

Highly recommended. A thorough and detailed history of atmospheric diving suit technology. Harris covers the subject chronologically, from the earliest efforts to today's JIM and NEWT suits. This study provides a great deal of information not easily obtainable elsewhere. Drawings or photographs are provided for most of the suits discussed. There are few books available on the history of diving technology. Harris has written a fine addition to that short list. A must-have for divers, as well as for anyone interested in underwater technology.

Book Review-Author's Comments January 11, 2000

A September 1994 SBA's Office of Advocacy publication, "The Small Business Advocate," headlined as its lead story on page 1, "Small Business Job Generation: from Revolutionary Idea to Proven Fact," argues that "Small business is now widely regarded as the principal generator of net new employment in the United States." The article goes on to declare, "Small businesses create a vastly disproportionate share of the new jobs in the United States." This Office of Advocacy claim that is based on data for the 1989-91 period is misleading and just not true. My book explores and explodes this myth.

For the period when this claim was made, the Census Bureau data show that all businesses (all sizes) created 679,000 jobs. Small businesses lost or destroyed 192,000 jobs. Large businesses added 802,000 workers. Businesses that were large and became small, and businesses that were small and became large added 69,000. Therefore, the claim cannot legitimately be made that small businesses create all the jobs, when it's obvious that small businesses were destroying jobs.

SBA's Office of Advocacy is perpetrating a political hoax on the American people. Because of our need to work and the psychological benefits that a job provides, the small business job creation argument is emotionally powerful. However, the largest firms, not the smallest, are creating jobs. SBA's Office of Advocacy has been touting the fallacious 1989-91 data figures for years.

How does SBA's Office of Advocacy perpetrate its job-generation hoax? It cleverly applies the regression fallacy by counting its winners and ignoring its losers. Take a more careful look at the data for boundary crossovers.

Previously, I noted that businesses that were large and became small, and businesses that were small and became large added 69,000. However, SBA's Office of Advocacy takes the 192,000 job loss by small firms that remained small and adds 749,000 from the column of firms that were small and became large. For large firms that became small, SBA's Office of Advocacy attributes the 680,000 jobs as losses to large firms. Note: 749,000 less 680,000 = 69,000.

According to Milton Friedman (Journal of Economic Literature, Dec. 1992), and a host of academics, this is fallacious. Also, most college text books warn against the regression fallacy, but SBA's Office of Advocacy deliberately misleads the public by claiming the crossovers are small which they are on net, but it then misuses the gross flow statistics to complete the small business job creation hoax.

Using the Friedman methodology (he suggests that a firm's size classification should be determined by its end period size status) I can report that small businesses lost 872,000 jobs, while large businesses generated 1,551,000 jobs. This finding does not square with SBA's Office of Advocacy claims for the 1989-91 period.

More important, perhaps, is the argument that we should cut or eliminate the capital gains tax, because it will help small businesses, "they create all the jobs." Or we should not raise the minimum wage because it will hurt small businesses, "they create all the jobs." And finally, Americans should not have mandated health insurance, it will hurt small businesses, "they create all the jobs." Currently, a million and a half workers lose their health insurance benefits every year during these boom times. Virtually all those losing their benefits are working in small businesses.

Our democratic political system requires accurate data. This job-generation debate involves the integrity of the Federal statistical system, and affects the well-being of millions of Americans.

OK, of course I say it's a nice collection; I'm the author. :) This combination book/DVD is a selection of our favorite hacks from Hardware Hacking: Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty and Game Console Hacking. If you're curious about modifying hardware and electronic products to do things they weren't intended to do, then this collection is for you. It's a great way to get involved in the hobby without breaking the bank. Cheaper than either of the previously mentioned larger books, only 4 chapters are printed (Tools of the Warranty-Voiding Trade, Electrical Engineering Basics, Operating Systems Overview, and Coding 101) The actual hacks (the rest of the material) is on the included DVD in PDF and HTML format with high-resolution images (most of them in color, as opposed to the black and white of the previous books). Some of the hacks include: Declawing your Cuecat, hacking the Playstation 2, hacking the iPod, modifications for the classic/retro Atari 2600, 5200, 7800, and 8-bit systems, hacking the Xbox, and how to build your own DVR/Home Theater PC. Don't be afraid to modify or hack your hardware - have fun voiding your warranty!