Authors:Mark J. Power, Kevin Desouza, Carlo Bonifazi,
Publisher: Kogan Page
Keywords: outsourcing, process, successful, implement, handbook
Number of Pages: 222
Published: 2006-02-28
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0749444304
ISBN-13: 9780749444303

Outsourcing is now increasingly used as a competitive weapon in today’s global economy. The Outsourcing Handbook is a step-by-step guide to the whole outsourcing process. It looks at key factors in the success of a project as well as problem areas and potential pitfalls. It provides an objective, repeatable process that allows organizations to maximize returns on outsourcing investments. Unlike most outsourcing books, The Outsourcing Handbook takes a process-oriented, actionable, and structured approach to understanding the intricacies of constructing, managing, and even terminating an o

Authors:Penny Power, Thomas Power, Andy Coote,
Publisher: Ecademy Press Limited
Keywords: vision, twenty, first, century, networking, family, city, one, global, friend
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2006-04-27
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0954509374
ISBN-13: 9780954509378

A Friend in Every City is an inspirational and practical guide to the art and science of networking. This book looks at the forces shaping new ways of working and at how online networks, such as LinkedIn, Open BC, Ryze and Ecademy, are evolving to provide support for them.

Authors:Alistair Croll, Sean Power, Croll Alistair, Power
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Keywords: performance, communities, competitors, visitors, watching, web, monitoring, complete
Number of Pages: 662
Published: 2009-06-29
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0596155131
ISBN-13: 9780596155131

Do you really understand your online presence? Are you confident that visitors can use your website? Do you know their motivations? How do online communities perceive your company? To innovate and adapt your business quickly, you must know the answers to these questions. Complete Web Monitoring demonstrates how to measure every aspect of your web presence -- including analytics, backend performance, usability, communities, customer feedback, and competitive analysis -- whether you’re running an e-commerce site, a community, a media property, or a Software-as-a-Service company. This boo

Author: Tim Power
Publisher: Harper Paperback
Keywords: last
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 1996-12-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 038072846X
ISBN-13: 9780380728466

Enchantingly dark and compellingly real, the World Fantasy Award-winning novel Last Call is a masterpiece of magic realism from critically acclaimed author Tim Powers. Set in the gritty, dazzling underworld known as Las Vegas, Last Call tells the story of a one-eyed professional gambler who discovers that he was not the big winner in a long-ago poker game . . . and now must play for the highest stakes ever as he searches for a way to win back his soul.

Author: Tim Power
Publisher: Ace Trade
Keywords: gates, anubis
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1997-01-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0441004016
ISBN-13: 9780441004010

Author Tim Powers evokes 17th-century England with a combination of meticulously researched historic detail and imaginative flights in this sci-fi tale of time travel. Winner of the 1984 Philip K. Dick Award for best original science fiction paperback, this 1989 edition of the book that took the fantasy world by storm is the first hardcover version to be published in the United States. In his brief introduction, Ramsey Campbell sets The Anubis Gates in an adventure context, citing Powers’s achievement of "extraordinary scenes of underground horror, of comedy both high and grotesque, of b

Author: Jo-Ann Power
Publisher: Pocket
Keywords: treasures
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1996-04-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0671529951
ISBN-13: 9780671529956

Jo-Ann Power’s last exquisitely imagined story, Angel of Midnight, was "beautifully written with incredible warmth and passion," raved bestselling author Heather Graham. Now, against the lavish ballrooms and great estates of Victorian England, Power spins an equally captivating tale of a heartbroken lady torn between mistrust and love. The Cat Catherine "Cat" Farrell stood alone at the altar on he her wedding day. Her beloved Spence had disappeared, leaving her to face the scrutiny of the unsavory London tabloids and the artful snubs of the rigid Proper Set. Only now, a year a

Author: Jim Power
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: minority, respectable
Number of Pages: 164
Published: 2005-11-03
List price: $15.50
ISBN-10: 1420873083
ISBN-13: 9781420873085

The South was not of one accord during the Civil War: some southerners opposed secession; some, after seeing the might and resources of the Union army, faced reality and became unionists; some remained neutral; some joined the Union army, others deserted from the Confederate army. While the number of such was small, it was a respectable minority. Those who were true Confederates were more vociferous and active while those opposed or neutral, of necessity, usually remained quiet and little has been written about this minority, especially in Mississippi. This is a condensed version of the above