This book addresses these issues in a forthright, helpful manner. Perry Sensei has put together a collection of text, diagrams and photographs that illustrate the common ways that even seemingly simple moves can be executed in a fashion that can cause injury.

This information is totally applicable across the divisional lines of modern martial arts. His Shotokan background speaks as strongly to my Tae Kwon Do training as to his own discipline. I highly recommend this work.

This book is well worth the time.

The book contains a tremendous amount of detail; so much so, in fact, that there are often times when I wish I could just get to the simple equation or concept I am looking for without so much supplementary content. But this is a great problem to have, when I think back to another inventory book which thought that the statement "safety stocks should be calculated so that adequate coverage is given to demand while not incurring too much investment" was enough detail on that topic.

This book has two types of content: field content and consulting content. I have literally used its field content on several occassions during detailed project work (I am a professional supply chain consultant) to develop and calibrate forecasting models, help develop an MRP table and fields, calculate stocking levels, etc. I have used the consulting content to discuss the higher-level topics of inventory strategies, management capabilities and integrated planning with my clients. One client even bought the book himself after reading it over my shoulder. Both of these content types are found throughout the book, and its up to the reader to pick and choose what is relevant to his/her needs.

I highly, highly recommend this book to the supply chain / inventory specialist. Its both a great primer on material management fundamentals and a repository of leading edge thinking. Its scope is broad-based, so you may find other books that are deeper in a specific area (service parts, for example), but I challenge the reader to find another book both so broad and deep and rich enough in all inventory-related areas.

WHAT I LIKED THE MOST ABOUT THE BOOK:

- Includes practical tips and checklists.

- Lots of code lists, blueprints and the like.

- Practical and implementation concerns from start to end.

- Nice motivating introduction.

WHAT I DONT LIKE ABOUT THE BOOK:

- Includes a couple naive theoretical issues (useless)

- It's too much specific to Prolog+ programming language, though this is a high-level, easy to grasp language.

OVERALL: A VERY GOOD book for those who are familiar with Computer Vision (academic) and are trying to understand the problems of Machine Vision (engineering), written by someone who obviously understands both worlds deeply.