This book gives an excellent overview of the topic, written in an easy understandable way. The authors have researched numerous articles and studies and compiled them into this work. The book also contains a lot of tables and graphs to illustrate the text. The foundations and the scope of target costing are well discussed and a small case study gives an idea how target costing is working in a practice. Moreover, there are a lot of references to literature and some examples from industry discussed. In the appendix there is a very useful collection of tools used in the target costing.

Definition and scope of target costing as explained in the book:

The target costing process is a system of profit planning and cost management that is price led, customer focused, design centred, and cross-functional. The target costing initiates cost management at the earliest stages of product development and applies it throughout the product life cycle by actively involving the entire value chain.

The difference between target costing and cost management is that the latter focuses on reducing the cost when they are already occurring, that means when the product design and the process are already defined. The target costing approach on the other hand helps to identify the allowable cost for a product in the design stage, the cost at the manufacturing stage are therefore known to be achievable and competitive. Further cost improvements are achieved by kaizen costing (continuous improvement).

this book is best for persons to understand the target costing indeeply with plain english. this book is also suitable for cost management in the globe.

This book provided more detail for target costings, more useful everyday, in both practical and theorical case. Moreover, this book use plain english for whoever in the world.

This is a general book that attempts to cover all types of tennis ailments in about 180 pages. Needless to say, if you have a specific problem you'll find it wanting since it will devote only a few pages to your problem.

That said it does do a good job of providing general information and provides excercises to help condition and prevent future injuries. The description of some of the exercises are not too clear and it doesn't really go into specifics on how to do the excercises properly.

I recently came back to tennis after years of not playing. When I played when I was younger, I never had any injuries and never really thought about it. Now, I'm over forty, playing regularly in a tennis league and all of a sudden injuries are here to stay. Reading this book really helped me both with preparing before I play and dealing with those little aches and pains afterward. The book is easy to read and organized so that you can find what you're looking for quickly. Now I spend more time on warming up using exercise suggestions from the book to avoid injury. But, if I do get injured I know I can refer to the Tennis Injury Handbook for good advice to help get me back playing. I recommend this book for all tennis players, especially those weekend warriors and league players who want to stay fit and healthy to keep on playing.

This book covers all the tennis injuries I have ever had, and I have had my share. Very comprehensive. I tried everything for my tennis elbow - the treatment and prevention measures from Dr. Levy completely cured my problems with tennis elbow. The tennis strength, stretching and conditioning excercizes have really helped my game. I have not gotten any new injuries since I implemented the simple prevention excersizes in this book.

It took a while to convince our librarian to buy the book for the collection, but once the book arrived it made the rounds through the staff members before reaching the public shelves. Also, I gave it as a birthday gift to a friend who just bought a motorcycle.

The book is quite a novelty. For someone who enjoys animal behavior, this was an unusual way to learn. For children, not only are the "ewh, gross" splat plates interesting, but Hostetler has included some activites and games to keep them busy.

Dr Hostetler was my biology professor and he told us all he was going to be on the Tonight Show to promote his book...I thought he was joking, but he wasn't! Anyway, I was curious about his book so I got it and read it and it was quite interesting and fun to read. I'm not saying that because he was my instructor. In fact, I didn't do very well in the class...

This is a fun book that is great for kids and adults alike. The author does a great job relating information in a fun way, with all kinds of activities suggested. Even better, the illustrations in the book are unbelievable. A must read!

I'm reading this book mainly because I liked his first book "Your God is too Safe". I'm not sure that this book is as life-changing as the first one but it is quite good. I particularly have liked his discussion of Heaven as our "flag" to stir us to battle. Buchanan encourages us to become so "heavenly minded that we become earthly good." This is a good book for helping you to follow that quote.

Before this, I was unfamiliar with Mark Buchanan's writing. In fact, having received this book as a gift, I took my time getting around to it.

Too bad. Buchanan's writing is smooth and beautiful. He weaves words with rare skill, communicating deep thoughts with sparkling threads of sentences. Quickly, we are wrapping ourselves in these thoughts. He reminds us that heaven is our goal, that we are not intended for ultimate fulfilment on this earth but for a celestial culmination in God's presence.

Ah, the warmth of it all. Except...

Except that Buchanan does not only encourage us for the hereafter, he challenges us in the here and now. His threads, so warm and comforting, become earthy and gritty clothing by which we march on into each day with a purpose. This is what makes "Things Unseen" so moving. The book demands that we realign our perspective. Buchanan tears down our facades and tells us to be so earthly minded that we are of some heavenly good.

I was inspired and convicted by the truths in these pages. Heaven is real...What a beautiful sight! And what a source of motivation for our lives here on earth.

This life is only temporary. There is a world beyond it, a better one, called Heaven, which we all long for deep in our spirits. That is the main message of this book.

No matter what faith you adhere to, there is the constant longing for more life, but also the longing to go beyond this one, for something more. We seek miracles and other things in endless quests to discover a piece of that in the here and now. Even as we dread death, we long for it, for passage beyond this life into eternity. With that in mind, we should reguard all that is here as temporary, therefore, both more and less important. It is more important because the things that are good are only momentary and can disappear with no warning, yet less important because they are so. Therefore, the painful, irratating, bad things are to be taken as just a brief trial that is refining us for the Kingdom of God.

Citing both the Bible and popular media, the author clarifies these and other points in an insightful, easy to understand book that will appeal to a broad range of readers. It is comforting, yet thought provoking and should make the essential library shelf of both Christians and philosophers of any faith.

This is a cool adventure with an interesting and original storyline. But it is *so* hard - Level 5-8 playes will cop a caning unless you have 10+ players!

Something horrible is happening in the southern moors - many caravans have vanished entirely, and the few lost survivors tell tales of madness, cannibalistic beasts, and worse. What's going on? Well, let's just say not every vampire is human, and your players will never smirk at lizard men ever again... :) This is one of the most difficult, challenging adventures ever made. The cover says levels 5-7, but I've run this wonderful adventure MANY times with veteran players of level 7-8, and every time, my players get a terrifying workout. You won't believe this one...

Hired by a local noble to combat marauding brigands, adventurers find themselves combatting resurgence of a twisted and powerful empire of lizardmen with daunting powers. Parties must solve riddles, comfort madmen, "hack & slash", and be blessed with good luck to survive a severe test. Dungeon Masters can role-play nobles, dragons, brigands, lizardmen, and various other creatures. DMs will also enjoy the ease of conversion of this "generic" module into any AD&D setting. If you ever see a copy, snap it up post-haste

This book is much more than reflection of the Spandau Ballet years (though their story is very interesting when told here). It's about victory over adversity. It's sometimes funny and often sad. Worthwhile.

I have to admit I'm absolutely addicted to autobiographies, but I never expected anything to be as good as Martin Kemp's True. This book is purely amazing - when you read it you just can't believe this man's gone through all this. It seems more like a novel rather than an autobiography, Martin could have had another career other than an actor and a musician to me. This book honestly makes you appreciate life and cherish what you've got. Anyone, and I honestly mean - anyone, would enjoy this book. I would rate it 10 starts if I could.

I just couldn't put this down. So enlightening to read. From initially finding his first brain tumour to recollecting on his childhood through years of pop stardom in Spandau Ballet. You honestly feel like it could be someone close to you when you read his heart opening account of his fight against finding another tumour. Such a good read. Excellent stuff Martin, now we want the follow up or how about Shirlie doing a book through her eyes. Absolutely great.

For having a basic and shallow understanding about "What the heck is Internet programming?" in general, it might just serve that purpose. But you must ask yourself whether it is what you want... This book will not make you an ActiveX guru, nor an ASP genius, nor a DHTML wiz... but it'll explain what each of them is and how it works in VB6 with some useless examples (that DOES work, for a change with Sams). If you must, have it.

I'm a beginner I'm still wet behind the ear's. this book has
help me a lot. I didn't know any thing about cp. Boy I was like
up the creek with out a paddle. but I have proggress quite a bit
I would tell any one that if just starting out this is the book
to git. well it was for me. gives a lot of advice so go git it

The book is ideal for newbies who are learning the Internet which is just what the title implies it is. The "hour" vs the traditional chapter is unusual, but the content is appropriate for the newcomer. I reviewed several books before selecting this as the required book for my extension classes on "Internet Fundamentals." My students have found it readable, understandable, comprehensive and reasonably priced. A good choice.

Having recently re-read this book, I find it's explanations of various concepts relatively clear, if a little verbose. The book is 50% of the time quite good at explaining something, and 50% of the time exceedingly dull and tedious, obviously large parts of boilerplate text must have been cutted and pasted into various parts of the text.

What the book does not give you, is an introduction to concurrent programming. This is a pity, because most programmers aren't especially well trained in tackling concurrent programming. The mindset involved is different, and formal proofs suddenly becomes more important than debugging.

To make matters worse, the examples in the book is completely and utterly useless. In the first half of the book, they typically exercise one API function at the time, with 5 lines of comments per api call. In the latter half, sometime, you can see a few API calls in sequence, but none of the examples in the book will help you getting ideas for how to structure a complete multithreaded application.

On the bright side, to someone already knowledgeable about concurrent programming, the discussions in the book of the same issues related to pthreads make it possible to gain a thorough understanding of how to program pthreads safely.

Would I recommend the book? Yes, I am not aware of that many other pthreads books, but this book clearly has a lot of useful content. But it certainly has a split personality. Half the time, targetting the idiot who can't even figure out how to call an api function given the prototype and a description of it's semantics, and half the time giving actual useful information on issues regarding the use of pthreads and its interaction with processes, signals, and other parts of the unix environment.

Best book I've seen on the subject of POSIX thread programming. My only criticism is that the examples are lame. They excercise the API calls described in the preceeding text without adding any helpful context, insight, or details.

The author would have done better to provide one or two fairly complex case studies as examples, with analysis of their design process and tradeoffs. Instead there are small examples of every little detail of the API, that they add nothing of value to the book.

That criticism aside, it is a well-written, useful book, which I highly recommend.

This seems to be the only good book I have come across on the basics of thread programming. Focused on POSIX, comparison is provided between process and threads, which slowly but surely convinces the reader the significance of using threads and also, when to use them. Finally, the best feature I liked was that each topic is discussed and then the use is illustrated by a small independent program (sometimes 'extern' functions have been used which might require use of a previous source code). Overall, best book I have come across for getting introduced to thread programming. If there are even better ones ( beginners level) I am interested to know.

Clifford's book is a well-written and well-organized chronicle of the rise and fall (as of the Kim Young Sam administration) of the Korean economy. The book reads as an economic history, moving rapidly from event to event and personality to personality in the chain of events connecting postwar reconstruction to the beginnings of the 1997 financial crisis. It is definitely an outsider's perspective, however, with little feel for the impact of these events on the average Korean citizen or even the foreign resident in Korea. Caught up in the retelling of the Park Chung Hee regime, the casual reader can easily overlook the fact that the "Businessmen, Bureaucrats and Generals" rode to power on the backs of millions of average, hardworking citizens, and that the intrigues, scandals, frauds and corruption had and continue to have direct effects on the lives of unnamed thousands, many of whom have lost their jobs, homes, and even lives because of the corruption rampant in the ruling class. A sequel, or revision, that chronicles the administration of Kim Dae Jung (1997-2001) would be very welcome from this author because of his attention to detail and forceful writing style, but if you're looking for insight into everyday life in Korea, or the more mundane facets of Korean culture, this is not the book for you.

Mark Clifford is a journalist and "Troubled Tiger" is a highly readable account of South Korea's economy through the 1980s. It is not a particularly analytical nor is it deep in an academic sense, but some of the anecdotal material is simply stunning. The revised edition has an epilogue that in tries to bring the story "up-to-date" but it has a tacked on feel.

For anyone doing business in South Korea or thinking about it -- this is a must read. Or even if you are contemplating living there for whatever reason. Mark Clifford writes, in an easy to read style, a very accurate and interesting depiction of the development of South Korea's economy from one of the world's poorest in the 1950's to a fairly advanced successful one in 2000. No other country has achieved the remarkable success of South Korea in such a short time. Clifford writes about who, what and and how they did it -- a tight combination of government, businessmen, and the military -- highly recommended!

With "Hellfire & Brimstone," Volume 4 of the trade paperbacks collecting issues of "Ultimate X-Men" (#21-25) I find myself painfully aware of all the opportunities writer Mark Millar is throwing away in revisiting the secret of the Hellfire Club. Although that is part of the title of this collection, it is but one of several major plot threads running through these issues, including the arrival of Kitty Pryde, the emergence of Phoenix, and the set-up for the next big encounter with the Brotherhood of Mutants and their leader. Obviously one of the rules of thumb in the Ultimate books is that you cannot duplicate the past; there must be all sorts of twists that should resonate those who read the original "Uncanny X-Men" of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby back in the Sixties and the second generation "X-Men" of Chris Claremont and John Byrne. But one of the strengths of the Ultimate series has been that instead of the original one issue/one villain/one fight format they have been providing multi-arc stories that are suited to being collected in these trade paperbacks. The result is the confrontation with Sebastian Shaw and the Hellfire Club is not an epic, but a quickie.

The idea is that after the death of Xavier's son David and the Professor's crisis of confidence over what he has done with Magneto, the X-Men return home to Winchester trying to return to normal and opening their school to students once more. This means the arrival of Kitty Pryde, whose mother most decidedly does not want her mutant daughter running around the world as a superhero (as Cyclops points out at one point, they are all a little scare of Mrs. Pryde), which contrast with Bobby Drake who is out of his coma and being pressured by his parents to support a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Xavier, Inc. But before Kitty's education can proceed Jean Grey's mental barriers start breaking down and she is beset by strange visions of a giant bird composed entirely of flames (Asparagus people of the galaxy beware) and Cyclops and Wolverine are dispatched to the Savage Land to find out what happened to a detachment of Marines sent to ransack Magneto's complex for technology.

There is a lot of juggling of plotlines here and they do not really fit together in a way that the sum is greater than the parts. Shaw's manipulations of Jean seem to be intended as nothing more than a way of invoking the Phoenix without Marvel Girl having to apparently lose her life in the process. I did like the subplot that had the Blob, one of the truly uninspired villains of the original X-Men, pretending to be an anorexic model playing mind games with Hank McCoy on the Internet, especially once the joke turned deadly serious and upped the ante big time. But this time around the Hellfire Club has nothing like the style and flair it exhibited the first time around and there is a sense in which Millar is not really trying to come up with anything comparable. Shaw has sent Phoenix in motion and his deep pockets underwrite the X-Men and that is all there is to it.

Overall, "Hellfire & Brimstone" is the weakest collection of issues to date, and despite the interesting contrast between the artwork of Adam Kubert and Kaare Andrews, the overall effect is that the characters are treading water. Millar and company are setting up a big story with the next collection (which will come in Volume 6 because the next collection is of "Ultimate War" #1-4, where the X-Men take on the Ultimates), and that is going to either make or break this reinterpretation of the Marvel universe. It could go either way.

I really enjoy the Ultimate X-Men books, but I thought this one was the worst so far for two primary reasons:
One Kaare Andrews should stick to doing Disney cartoons and quit the comics buisness. The third and fourth parts to this book look like rejected cells from Atlantis: the Lost Empire.
Two, they try to do too much in the fith section, introducing both the Helfire Club (something I feel the series could probably have done without anyway) and the dark phoenix, as well as ressurecting Magneto all in one issue.
That being said this is still a great comic, infact the whole series is really inspired. I liked the second and fifth books the best (I thought Wolverine switched sides way too fast in the first book and proteus as a plotline is kind of blah).

this is a great buy. This volume shows the apperance of pheonix and shadowcat. it has the return of magneto and the lawsuit of ice-man against the school. Wolverine and cyclops go to the savage land to defeat a killer batch of cyborgs. read this book.