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Continuous improvement has become synonymous with the Six Sigma process, where cost reduction and quality improvement have led to greater market share and profits. Leading organizations in diverse industries have begun to further deploy Six Sigma outside of manufacturing to maximize its benefits. This comprehensive training tool and implementation guide delineates how Six Sigma methods can be applied to processes within numerous functional areas of the organization and in diverse industries to achieve strategic and operational business excellence. It presents step-by-step techniques and flow diagrams for integrating Six Sigma as best practices into business development and management. It provides a seamless integration of Six Sigma statistical methodologies that help businesses execute their strategic plans and track both their short- and long-term strategic progress within various areas of their business. Statistical methods employed in Six Sigma are thoroughly explained and their… Read More

Pages are clear and readable and are in excellent condition; minor wear on the covers and spine; moderate to heavy wear on the dust jacket, but it is holding on fine.

A Bicentennial History of the Middlesex Canal
This book would look like new except the dust jacket has a few creases.
Explore the rich history of the Middlesex Canal with this fascinating book, "The Incredible Ditch". Written by Alan Seaburg, Carl Seaburg, and Thomas Dahill, this hardcover book with dust jacket provides an in-depth look at the Massachusetts waterways and the technology and engineering that went into creating the canal. Published by Miniver Press, Anne, in 1997, this book contains 175 pages of original English language text.Learn about the hydraulics and infrastructure that made the Middlesex Canal a marvel of its time. Discover the impact it had on Massachusetts and the surrounding areas. This book is perfect for history enthusiasts, engineering nerds, and anyone interested in the rich story of American waterways.

The pages are clear and readable and are in excellent condition. There's minor wear on the covers and spine.

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An American reporter of Russian heritage assigned to Soviet-era Moscow might seem to have an edge on his colleagues, but when he's falsely accused of spying, any advantage quickly evaporates..... As a young UPI correspondent in Moscow during the early 1960s, Nicholas Daniloff hoped to jump-start his career in his father's homeland, but he soon learned that the Cold War had its own rules of engagement. In this riveting memoir, he describes the reality of journalism behind the Iron Curtain: how Western reporters banded together to thwart Soviet propagandists, how their "official sources" were almost always controlled by the KGB--and how those sources would sometimes try to turn newsmen into collaborators. Leaving Moscow for Washington in 1965, Daniloff honed his skills at the State Department, then returned to Moscow in 1981 to find a more open society. But when the FBI nabbed a Soviet agent in 1986, Daniloff was arrested in retaliation and thrown into prison as a spy--an… Read More

RARE HARDCOVER!! I would've listed NEW, but the dust jacket has some smudges.

VERY RARE HARDCOVER - Could be mistaken for BRAND NEW (minor wear on the dust jacket).The weapons, presented in this volume, pertain to the slightly known and almost unstudied group, marked by the features of the complicated fate that befell the lands where they originated. In the last millennium B.C. the present-day territory of Bulgaria was inhabited by people known under the generalized name Thracians who, as the 'father of history' Herodotus pointed out, were the most numerous after those of India. The Thracians created a distinctive culture, which bore 'bestial style' features specific of the Scythian peoples, above all characterized by images of fantastic animals. Skillful metallurgists the Thracians left behind them first-class bronze weaponry: spears, swords, armour and decorated umbones. Weapons in the Bulgarian lands have a well marked specificity in decorative respects and partly in technical ones. The weapons, which are presented in this book and which are to be found in the collections of… Read More

The pages are clear and readable. The covers have moderate wear. The pages are mostly clear except, there is some of writing on them.

Through an examination of material and institutional circumstances, through the study of work shop practices and of technical and aesthetic experimentation, this book seeks to give an account of the ways in which Renaissance prints were realized, distributed, acquired, and handled by their public.

U. of Colorado Center for Geographic Education, 1988. Pages are clear and readable, and hardly look read; minor to moderate wear on the covers, which includes a large crease on the front cover - affects the first few pages as well towards the tops; writing on the inside of the front cover; spiral binding is tight and intact. None of these imperfections affect the readability or integrity of the book, so if you don't mind them, then here is a GREAT DEAL!! SAME OR NEXT DAY SHIPPING - TRACKING NUMBER INCLUDED!!! 248 pages. Plastic Comb. Good.

Exposing the depth of two major artists' philosophies, creative visions, stylistic tendencies, and contributions to their craft, this unprecedented comparative analysis synthesizes biographical material, critical interpretation, and selected exemplars of the writers' work. Smith reinterprets their work in a new and fascinating light, presenting Dylan as a songwriter of enigmatic wordplay and Springsteen as the melodramatic narrator of a specific community's life struggles.

Both songwriters have had unique responses to the celebrity singer/songwriter tradition begun by Woody Guthrie. Smith reveals the power of authorship and the creative drive necessary to negotiate an artistic vision through the complicated mechanisms of the world of commercial art. Both have discovered their own means of traveling this difficult terrain, and Smith probes their lives and work to reveal the myriad ways in which two distinct, equally significant artists have learned from and contributed to an ongoing and important… Read More

I would've listed LIKE NEW, but there is minor wear on the dust jacket.

Signed by author; name plate affixed to front end papers; minor wear on the dust jacket

Write Words, Inc., 2008. EXCELLENT CONDITION - would look brand new except for some very minor wear on the front cover. SAME OR NEXT DAY SHIPPING!!! ...... When 16-year-old Teresanna sees her stepfather beat her mother to death, she runs, and runs again, leaving the fearful adolescent behind to become 'Tanya,' a sophisticated and artistic stripper, better known as 'The Lady Tigre.' But inside, she is still a frightened and innocent child, still running from a murderer who knows the only way for him to be safe, is if the witness is dead. Will a long-haired trucker named, Kyle Benton, be a man she can trust, at last? Or will Tanya's fears return to destroy their love?. Paperback. Like New. Book.

Pages are clear and readable and are in EXCELLENT CONDITION; minor wear on the dust jacket.

Helping yourself through the emotional and physical transitions of new motherhood.

This is an ex library book with all the usual markings. The pages are clear and readable and are in excellent condition. There is minor wear on the covers and the spine.

Arguing that photography should be about more than gear, shooting modes, and computer programs, this book highlights methods for creating artistic photographs in the moment a picture is taken, rather than later in the editing process. In stark contrast to the "fix everything in post production" approach dominating modern digital photography, this reference demonstrates a more purposeful approach to shooting each frame—carefully considering the subject's focus and determining the best camera settings, lighting, lens choice, and composition to achieve that objective. Beginning with basic controls that can have a profound effect on your images, such as shutter speed and aperture, it goes on to explore how these settings, along with white balance adjustment, can be used to draw out the artistic value inherent in a scene or subject. In… Read More

Arguing that photography should be about more than gear, shooting modes, and computer programs, this book highlights methods for creating artistic photographs in the moment a picture is taken, rather than later in the editing process. In stark contrast to the "fix everything in post production" approach dominating modern digital photography, this reference demonstrates a more purposeful approach to shooting each frame—carefully considering the subject's focus and determining the best camera settings, lighting, lens choice, and composition to achieve that objective. Beginning with basic controls that can have a profound effect on your images, such as shutter speed and aperture, it goes on to explore how these settings, along with white balance adjustment, can be used to draw out the artistic value inherent in a scene or subject. In addition, a section on selectively and intentionally adding blur effects explains how to create wild effects that cannot be achieved otherwise. Rather than relying on a… Read More

The pages are clear and readable and are in EXCELLENT CONDITION. There is minor wear on the covers and spine.

EX LIBRARY - sticker affixed to front end papers, publisher's sticker affixed to spine area of the dust jacket. This book is in LIKE NEW condition otherwise.

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.: Univ of Minnesota Pr, 1993. RARE HARDCOVER -- EX LIBRARY COPY IN EXCELLENT CONDITION (please see my photo) -- stamps and writing appear on front end papers; library card and writing on rear end papers; pages are clear and readable and hardly look read, if at all; labels affixed to front and rear covers, which are in great shape; binding tight. SAME OR NEXT DAY SHIPPING - DELIVERY CONFIRMATION # INCLUDED!!! ...... Doty, who teaches film and gay and lesbian studies at Lehigh University, is concerned in this volume with uncovering gay/lesbian/bisexual elements in unexpected places in popular culture. He wishes "to challenge the politics of denotation and connotation" in traditional "heterocentric" critical practice. Otherwise "heterocentric texts can contain queer elements, and basically heterosexual, straight-identifying people can experience queer moments," he writes, especially if one understands "queer" as encompassing more than just… Read More

I would've listed LIKE NEW, but there is minor wear on the covers.