Wood Books

WOW! The book's subtitle says it all-these ARE the keys to creating efficiencies in business processes. Michael Wood extends the lessons learned in his first book, The Helix Factor, by providing a working manual, complete with templates and instructions. Using an actual case study, Mr. Wood shows you how to apply the Helix tools to business improvement. This is the only guide I have found that is useful as a field book to facilitating a process improvement project.

The Hexlix Factor II will definitely help you launch projects and ultimately bring them to a successful conclusion. This authoritative guidebook provides all the tools you need to your make business processes more efficient and create a positive impact to your bottom line.

The only thing missing is an electronic version of the templates used in the Helix approach. However, given the fact that they are relatively easy to construct and will provide a valuable learning experience from the reader, their omission does not detract from the importance of the material.

This may be the first "Six Sigma" friendly process improvement methodology HOW TO book on the market. The book walks you through a prescriptive STEP-BY-STEP approach for facilitating the discovery of measurable and mappable business process improvements.

You will never need to ask yourself, "What do I do next?"

Identifying defects, integrating real-time performance feedback functions, conducting cross-functional work sessions and more are all covered in this book. From Kick-Off to Completion, this book has it all. Everything you need to lead, manage and complete breakthrough BPI projects.

If you are using Six Sigma, or any other approach to Business Process Improvement, this book is a MUST READ! I recommend you start with the first book, The Helix Factor - The Key to Streamlining Your Business Processes, by the same author.

The book arrived in good time and as advertised. Very satisfactory purchase.

This quick-reference guide provides helpful answers to the many rules of music notation that are often variable or those situations that create doubt about proper principles of modern usage. The book covers notational rules that are absolute and those that are flexible. Users of computerized music typesetting software will find solutions to problems that the computer may set incorrectly or leave as variable. Even experienced notators will find quick references to those elements that are used infrequently and have escaped the memory. Above all, this concise reference book provides immediate answers without offering readers more than they really want to know.

My daughter loved this book. Once she picked it up she never put it down until she had read the entire thing from cover to cover. If you know anyone with a keen interest in this subject, I highly recommend this book as an addition to their collection on the subject of the Holocaust. It makes a thoughtful gift as well, due to the quality of the binding and the layout of the cover.

Really great book for teaching the Holocaust. I bought this book to add to my Holocaust unit that I teach inthe Spring. It has great information, written so intermediate kids can understand. The pictures are also great.

Return to Stony Clove again. This time Eileen Charbonneau centers around a young girl who searches for her kidnapped friend. The friend is a free black woman who is captured and returned to a life of slavery. Young Lily Woods begins the hunt to rescue her friend. A touching story for all races to show how the underground railroad helped save many.

***Teachers should pay close attention to this one. Perhaps some should consider making it a required read sometime during the school year.***

This book brings the Woods trilogy to a close--one which the reader is reluctant to see! Lily Woods is 15 when she is forced to confront harsh issues diving the country in 1851. When slavecatchers arrive in the community, Lily learns that her family has been involved in the Underground Railroad. Lily decides to risk her own safety in order to help, only to find herself in the middle of a riverboat wreck. Charbonneau deftly adds a touch of the supernatural to this engrossing tale. Honor to the Hills was recently chosen for the prestigious "Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies" list, compiled by The Children's Book Council and the National Council for the Social Studies

Wendy Wood Kwitny's book is moving and beautiful, both her poems and her prose. While writing of the heartbreaking death of her husband Jon, whose cancer was diagnosed shortly after the birth of their second son, she shows how her love as a mother carried her through. The poems document many moods and thoughts, creating depth in just a few words. One poem begins: "In his absence, I have found only absence, not even an inferior him." There is anger too, as in a poem about selling their house that ends, "They would have me believe this house/ means nothing beyond a sum of money and a deal./For them it was quite clear,/ the word widow means a steal." But mostly what you feel reading this book is how the love lasts forever, both the love for her late husband and the love for the sons who don't remember him. And that I found incredibly comforting.

Ms. Kwitny's first book gives the reader an extraordinary view of one woman's striking emotional journey. Her poetry and prose keeps the reader totally engaged and involved long after putting her book down. I expect to read Ms. Kwitny's work over and over.

While this book centers around Tiger Woods and is filled with interesting facts about his career and success, the focus is about achieving a life balance and focusing on your own success--not the prize. Easy to read with a relaxed prose, the author is clearly in his "zone." Buy it and be encouraged in your own life.

This book was an interesting departure from the many other Tiger books that are biographical based. I really enjoyed the practical tips at the end of each chapter that I could implement into my own life using Tiger's example. As Tiger continues to dominate golf, the important questions and comments in the book will arouse more and more interest. I agree with the author's premise that he is the greatest athlete of all time, and offers tremendously valuable lessons for all of us in daily life.

Great story and beautiful artwork, my kids really liked it. Better for 7-9 year old range.

We loved this book! We've been fans of Rebecca Walsh's illustration since her first book, The Well at the End of the World, another story of discovery and new horizons, themes which are well matched to her orderly, lush style. We enjoy good children's book illustration a lot in our household, and I think Rebecca Walsh is doing some of the best work of the moment. The spiky tangle and high-key color of her previous work has been subdued to some degree in How the Tiny People Grew Tall, which is predominantly a work of sumptuous, subtle images. This is very sophisticated artwork. Ms. Walsh has a knack for moving the story with a hum of visual activity, or bringing it to a pause, the intricacies of her detail established in quiet, absorbing compositions. The plates with this quietude are my favorites- the Tiny People greeting a turtle who looks like an extension of the landscape in his relative immensity; or the color-suffused field of flowers he carries them through; or the gentle bear, in another adept manipulation of scale, peering down at the protagonists through a frame of velvety tulip blossoms. These images are exquisite; they have a hush which is irresistable. How the Tiny People Grew Tall came out last October, I hope we don't have to wait long for a new book by this remarkable new talent!

This is an excellent book for anyone who is interested in carving or collecting wildfowl carvings. The book arrived within a few days and it was neatly and safely packaged to prevent damage. The book exceeded my expectations.

I bought this book as a gift for my father, who has been carving decoys for many years and taking classes with some of the local experts around the Chesapeake Bay area. When he brought the book to class the instructor had to borrow it for a week to read! It is not necessarily a book for beginners, but if you are serious about the craft, it is a top notch reference book.

I've had this book for over a year and used it as the basis for a number of toys I've created. The instuctions are clear and concise. The plans are easy to follow and include scaled drawings for each toy. The author also includes a very useful discussion of materials and finishes appropriate for building children's toys and design ideas for building your own animated creations. These sections alone justify the purchase of the book. Be aware that most of the designs in the book are copyrighted and if you wish to build them for commercial purposes you will need to contact the author. My favorite plan is for a very simple to make wooden rattle based on a traditional folk art design (this is not copyrighted). I've built six rattles and presented them as gifts to new parents and have been delighted to see how much infants love to play with them. This is a great source for wooden toy makers.

Whenever I am looking to make a toy for someone, this book is invariably the first one I always reach for. The plans have heaps of detail and processes for making the toys are very well thought out. These toys are not only animated, but appear to be alive, David has put a lot of effort into making these toys realistic and the movement fun for children (and lots of us not so young). As an added bonus to heaps of great plans, David has gone to great pains to talk about the processes behind designing and building a good toy, this books is worth it for this alone.

Brother Woods' book is an invaluable guide on how to get the most out of the New Testament by looking at the original language. Every Bible student should have this easy-to-read and easy-to-follow volume in their library to get the most out of the Word. Even if you know absolutely nothing of the Greek language, brother Woods' book will help you. A very inexpensive price for such a rich work.

If you know absolutely nothing of the Greek language, brother Woods' book is a great place to start. He starts with the explanation of why this is important to students of the Word, and then methodically explains how to use the Greek language in your study. Highly recommended!