The book takes the subject of implementing a management system to comply with ISO 9000 and makes it easy to understand in common sense business terms. There seems to be a real effort to make ISO 9000 relevant to business improvement. I found the book quite useful and full of helpful hints.

The authors approach to ISO 9000 is very refreshing. The ISO "roadmap" graphically represents how the standard applies to a company and makes good sense.

The implementation approach is clear and really adds value.

This autobiographical and historical look at Schramsberg and its important role as the leader in American Sparkling Wine. It is written by the owners, Jack and Jamie Davies, in a down to earth, easy to undertstand style. Learn about their vision and pioneering determination to do something that had yet to be done in America, to produce Sparkling wine made the traditional way as done in Champagne, France. The book is filled with wonderful stories, delicious recipes and gorgeous photgraphy. Jim Alinder, demonstrates his Ansel Adams prowess with the camera. This tasteful picture book covers all seasons and aspects of the making of great Sparkling wine in both color and black and white photography.

This book is a must have for any coffee table or wine enthusiast.

This coffee-table book actually makes great reading! It has splendid color and duotone pictures of the winery, the caves, the vineyards and the surrounding Napa Valley landscape in all four seasons of the year. In addition to telling how they transformed a mountain-side wilderness back into the Napa Valley's leading producer of fine champagnes (President Nixon took several cases of Schramsberg champagne to China to toast Chou en Lai), the Davies have included excerpts from Robert Louis Stevenson's "Silverado Squatters" describing his visit in its heyday 100 years earlier, and the story of how Jacob Schram, an imigrant German barber, was able to save enough to buy, clear and plant his mountain vineyard and dig the caves that have now been expanded to house more than 2,000,000 bottles fermenting today to become tomorrow's finest champagnes. The chapter with Jamie's collection of special recipes and menus for fine dining make this more than just a book for lovers of fine wine and great photographs!

This is a great book for those interested in go studies. The commentaries are verbose and and very thorough. It contains all the final games in the 1971 Honinbo and all of Ishida's (the winner) games in the tournament.

This book gives heaps of attacking and defending techniques, and also, very importantly, selecting targets for attack. The systematic layout and lucid explanations make this one of the best intermediate level Go books around.

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Some have complained, over the years, that this book was more novel than biography. Okay, then... what a great NOVEL! This was in my elementary school library in Elgin, AZ, and if I'd studied my textbooks like I studied this, I might have been a MONSTER! Connie Roarke made a great book, and I bless her name for it!

BONUS: Read how Davy was a true Small-government conservative in the Jacksonian (read that "Proto-Clintonian") big-government epoch! It's the true hero tale of the book!

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Like Chess, Go is divided into opening, middle, and endgames. Unlike Chess, which is played on a smaller amount of real estate, the early phases of Go are filled with signs and portents, with each player making gestures and claims to not quite specified territory. The game moves from the initial claim and counter-claim to conflict and struggle until territories are defined and lines are drawn. Now comes the endgame, where all the initial positioning and saber rattling comes down-to hand-to-hand reality.

Games are won and lost here. Mistakes have immediate penalties, and a moment's loss of focus can waste a brilliant strategy. Not only must a player have an intuitive sense of tesuji - the right move, but a strong feeling for the flow and scope of the game. The player who can maintain sente, who can remain on the attack the longest has the best chance of winning. Part of this is an understanding of the value of each move. And this requires the ability to fight on many fronts at one time.

Mastering the endgame is often a struggle. Many books have been written to aid the developing player begin to understand the principles involved. One book I found very helpful, and still often go through is a part of the Elementary Go Series, "The Endgame" by Tomoko Ogawa and James Davies. The book introduces the concepts at an easily digestible rate, and provides countless games, examples, and problems to help make it real. All of this in a small format that can almost be tucked in a pocket, to be read as time permits.

Here in the United States, where it is often difficult to get to play enough competitive games, such books are the keys to improving one's game. From the outside the endgame often appears to be the dullest part of the Go game, but it is the most satisfying to master, since it makes one a winner at this complex, deceptive game.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Adolescent Subculture--James A. Davies 2. Adolescence as a Cultural Invention--Ronald L. Koteskey 3. Adolescent Thinking and Understanding--Gary L. Sapp 4. Preadolescence--Jerry Adlridge 5. Adolescents and Religion--Kenneth E. Hyde 6. Communication and Relationships--Blake J. Neff 7. Adolescent Moral Development and Sexuality--Bonnidell Clouse 8. Procedures in the Religious Education of Adolescents--James Michael Lee 9. Activist Youth Ministry--Anthony Campolo and Donald Ratcliff 10. Conducting a Needs Analysis and the Research Process--James F. Engel Contributors Index of Names Index of Subjects

Five years ago, this book taught me to play Go. I have read its 92 pages many times since. Is it a great Go book? For what it is, yes. Consider it the manual that should come with a Go board. It tells you how to play, and gives just enough insite to think, "hey, there's more to this whole Go thing than meets the eye.

I will cherish my copy always.

This is my 2 year old's favorite book. He takes it in the car, to grandma's, to bed, etc. The story is simple but entertaining for toddlers and preschoolers. James the Engine gets into trouble with some naughty freight cars and it's Thomas to the rescue! A classic board book.