Customer Review: Richard Rayner's "Associates" is a detailed, well researched, compilation of letters, news articles and historical references to describe an era that made the American west that developed into the modern Silicon Valley. The parallels of Silicon Valley's boom and bust and sometimes unscrupulous... more info
Customer Review: This is obviously a story worth telling, with interesting characters and an international backdrop. Instead we get an unenlightening narrative that relies almost completely on silly generalizations and anecdotal quotes that are meant to pass as meaningful analysis. Boeing is "arrogant", but then... more info
Customer Review: I purchased this book because I am interested in starting my own Freight Brokerage Business. In order to start your own brokerage company you "must" already know how to broker freight. What I am looking for is detailed information about where to start and everything that is needed to startup. This... more info
Customer Review: As an aviation professor, I wanted a book that offered a comprehensive but relatively basic overview to the many aspects of airport management. Airport Planning & Management is an easy read and its format makes it easy to refer back to areas of the book for review. It has a good balance of... more info
Customer Review: My wife and I have cruised a lot on many different cruise lines over the years. Our first cruise was on one of the first ships Carnival deployed, the Carnivale. To have seen this industry from the earlier years to what it has become is well chronicled by the author. If you want to learn how an... more info
Customer Review: Purchased this book for instruction in entry level Transportation Course, to which it seems basically well suited. The book however suffers from chronic poor editing of the charts and graphs, poor layout of some charts, such as the motor carrier unit cost chart, and the chart detailing the... more info
Customer Review: Penn Central. To this day, the name of this corporation sends shudders through the world of finance. When it went bankrupt in June of 1970, it was the largest bankruptcy in United States history, and it held that title for the next thirty-one years. (It took the collapse of Enron in 2001 to supplant... more info
Customer Review: Siobhan Creaton, the former Finance Correspondent of the Irish Times newspaper, did a stellar job in writing this book. Very well researched, detailed and fast paced, this story is about the bumpy but enormously successful journey of an Irish low-budget, cut-throat airline who beat the odds to... more info
Customer Review: David Neeleman may have recently been removed from the CEO position at JetBlue and the company are going thorugh a few problems. Companies go through phases and this book shows you how Neeleman created JetBlue and the team of people behind it. The message that comes across is that to succeed you... more info
Customer Review: The other review for this item appears to be for a book by the same or similar title and not these CDs. The CDs are excellent and answer a range of questions from what is a freight brokerage business to pricing services. There is a fair amount of basic business information on here but before you... more info
