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A man, a dog, and a fatal obsession ***** To say that David Wallace has been having a run of bad luck is like claiming that the maiden voyage of the Titanic was simply "an unfortunate excursion." The ill-fated American expatriate has lost his wife, his job, and his reputation. Just as it seems that all hope has vanished, he's informed that he is the heir to his great aunt's estate in the bucolic English village of Chambury. Once there, he discovers that his inheritance also includes his late aunt's grieving dog, a vintage typewriter, a mysterious key, and an entanglement in a series of...

On 22 December 1943 the Susan Rae, an American B17 Flying Fortress, is lost. The aircraft is reported to have crashed into the English Channel. There are no survivors and no bodies are recovered. Records of the incident mysteriously go missing. The Susan Rae and its crew vanish, committed to the dustbin of history. On the day the Susan Rae disappears, the English village of Lower Friththingden is the scene of several remarkable events. Two Rolls-Royces are seen parked near the village church. The entourage has paused to listen to the sound of the village children's choir. Overhead a German...

TQM, Reengineering, Theory of Constraints, JIT, Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing . . .

These are just some of the methods that, over the past five decades, have promised to transform any manufacturing firm into a lean, mean, moneymaking machine. While each incorporates certain fundamental truths, strengths, and benefits, they are not panaceas. Nor do they necessarily provide much-needed insight into the science that underlies factory performance.

James Ignizio, Ph.D., an internationally recognized performance optimization expert, believes that only a balanced approach...

Tommi Blake - formerly a detective constable in the idyllic Cotswolds region of England - has decided to return to her beloved village of Chambury after a self-imposed two-year exile in America. She arrives in the midst of an epic storm to find herself stranded, just a few miles from her destination, in the Witherfield Arms Retirement Home. Tommi discovers that not all is as it seems within the Witherfield Arms, nor are all its residents who they claim to be. She quickly finds herself confronted with not just one, but two suspicious deaths ... as well as the one man in the world she isn't, as...

Goal programming is one of the most widely used methodologies in operations research and management science, and encompasses most classes of multiple objective programming models. Ignizio provides a concise and lucid overview of (a) the linear goal programming model, (b) a computationally efficient algorithm for solution, (c) duality and sensitivity analysis and (d) extensions of the methodology to integer as well as non-linear models.