Helps readers find out why the trick to outperforming their competition and staying ahead of the curve in a customer-centric business environment is achieving the optimum levels of complexity in their products, services, and operations. This book includes tools that let you quantify and pinpoint com[...]

Shed Revenue-Draining Complexity Costs by Thirty Percent! "This is an ambitious book packed with insight and fresh thinking. Separating good from badcomplexity costs is a critical task facing companies today, and the authors provide a compellingroadmap for solving the problem." Michael B. McCallist[...]

Suitable for course review and the USMLE Step 1, this title asks the right questions so that you can know the right answers. It offers 500 clinical-vignette style questions and answers along with complete explanations of correct and incorrect answers.[...]

Filled with global examples, the new edition of this practical guide offers a full prescription for improving capacity and reducing waste by implementing Lean manufacturing in an enterprise environment. Thoroughly updated with the latest trends and new global case studies, How To Implement Lean Manu[...]

This second edition of "Strategy: Analysis and Practice" provides up-to-date coverage of strategy with an incisive and analytical approach. The author team combines their extensive experience of teaching and consulting in strategy with cutting edge research to form a comprehensive text suitable for [...]

This is a compendium of practical advice and pointers - a unique masterclass in practical product design that bridges the gap between theory and implementation. It is an invaluable companion for circuit designers and practicing electronics engineers - gives best practices, design guidelines and engi[...]

People, not abstract ideas, make history and in this volume A.N. Wilson has pieced together hundreds of different lives to tell a story - one that is still unfinished in our own day. Here are the poor and obscure as well as the lofty and famous - each in the very act of creating the Victorian age.[...]

When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, many proclaimed the start of a new Elizabethan Age. This title takes the reader on a journey, distilling half a century of unprecedented social and political change. It propels you from post-war austerity through the alterations in our social landscape to[...]

I'm Tracy Beaker - have you heard of me? I'm stuck in The Dumping Ground just at the moment, but I'm sure my Mum will come and get me soon. A certain Justine-Hateful-Littlewood has stolen my best friend Louise but I don't let it get me down. I never cry. Ever. This is a story all about me.[...]

Covers the classical methods of statistical analysis. This work is designed to give students an understanding of the purpose of statistical analyses, and to determine the correct type of statistical analyses to be performed in a given situation. It also includes a CD that contains Data sets.[...]

Provides students with a working introduction to statistical methods offering a wide range of applications that emphasize the quantitative skills useful across many academic disciplines. This text takes a classic approach emphasizing concepts and techniques for working out problems and interpreting [...]

The Laboratory Rabbit, Guinea Pig, Hamster, and Other Rodents is a single volume, comprehensive book sanctioned by the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM), covering the rabbit, guinea pig, hamster, gerbil and other rodents often used in research. This well-illustrated reference wo[...]