Managing Quality

Managing Quality will help you understand the role of TQM within your organization and how you can best implement it. The authors show you: *how to understand quality management systems, tools and techniques *how to use them *how to assess the cost of quality *how to promote quality amongst your team members *how to lead and motivate your team *how to measure progress towards total quality. It is based upon the Management Charter Initiative's Occupational Standards for Management NVQs and SVQs at Levels 4 & 5. It is particularly suitable also for managers on Certificate and Diploma in Management programmes, including those accredited by BTEC. Shows to understand quality management systems, tools and techniques Assesses the cost of qualityDemonstrates how to promote quality amongst your team members

Business & Money

Wilson, George

MCBRIDE, PHILIP

Bell, Des

Cairns, Nial

Management & Leadership

Taylor&Francis

An historical novel of the 17th Texas Infantry in the Civil War—a regiment in the division known as Walker’s Greyhounds.In mid-1863, Captain Samuel McDowell leads Asa Moody, J.R. Lynch, the Kirksey brothers and the Kelley cousins, along with other Texas volunteers in Company K into Louisiana west of the Mississippi River. Across the river from besieged Vicksburg, they hold the grey line in Plantation Alley and fight the bloody battle at Milliken’s Bend—the first combat for the 17th Texas and the Union Regiments of African Descent who oppose the Texans.During the attack through impenetrable hedgerows and a fierce melee atop a fortified levee, Company K suffers the most casualties among the forty Confederate companies in the battle. Sergeant Sam Samson and hundreds of other just-freed plantation slaves fight hand-to-hand with the Texans. In the face of the Yankee invasion following the surrender of Vicksburg, Louisiana plantation owners drive slaves like cattle to safer territory to the west. George Calhoun, the overseer of Brokenbow Plantation owned by the Strawn family, sells nearly fifty of the Strawn’s people to outlaw slave traders and runs with the money.After Milliken’s Bend, the 17th Texas and Walker’s Greyhounds put dozens of plantations to the torch. Confederate soldiers, just steps ahead of the Union army, destroy the wealth of the Louisiana planters. The Texans defend the land by burning its white gold—cotton—and turning wealthy planters into homeless refugees.The women of the Strawn family, now fleeing to Texas themselves cross paths with Captain McDowell and his Texas soldiers, entangling their fate with the actions of the Texas soldiers. In the spring of 1864, the 17th Texas is part of General Taylor’s army striving to prevent a Union invasion of Texas—the Red River Campaign. Walker’s Greyhounds march hundreds of miles through the Howling Wilderness of Louisiana countering, but always retiring before General Bank’s inexorable advance. In early April, Walker’s Greyhounds and the 17th Texas fight again in the fateful climactic battles at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill.

With Might & Main

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Independently published

Managing Quality will help you understand the role of TQM within your organization and how you can best implement it. The authors show you: *how to understand quality management systems, tools and techniques *how to use them *how to assess the cost of quality *how to promote quality amongst your team members *how to lead and motivate your team *how to measure progress towards total quality. It is based upon the Management Charter Initiative's Occupational Standards for Management NVQs and SVQs at Levels 4 & 5. It is particularly suitable also for managers on Certificate and Diploma in Management programmes, including those accredited by BTEC.

Routledge

The soldiers in Hood’s Texas Brigade who fought at Antietam on September 16 - 17, 1862, described intense and harrowing experiences of the fierce battle in the days, weeks and decades after the battle. Their experiences were written in official reports, diary entries, interviews, newspaper articles, and letters to families at home. These memories provide a fascinating and descriptive account of the battle against the Union Army of the Potomac at Miller’s Cornfield, the Dunker Church and other locations at the battlefield. The 1st Texas Infantry at Miller’s Cornfield would suffer an 82.3 per cent casualty rate and their heroics were written down by the soldiers of the 1st Texas Infantry. All the other regiments of Hood’s Texas Brigade would suffer over a 50 per cent casualty rate at the battle. Included are testimonials of Union soldiers who fought against the soldiers of Hood’s Texas Brigade are included together for the first time in Texans at Antietam: A Terrible Clash of Arms, September 16-17, 1862, by Joseph L. Owen, Philip McBride and Joe Allport.

Texans at Antietam: A Terrible Clash of Arms, September 16-17, 1862

History

Owen, Joe

Allport, Joe

Americas

America Through Time

The story of the Callahan Expedition has slept in a dusty corner of Texas Ranger history for over 160 years . Until now, until this novel—A Different Country Entirely.In 1855, across the southwest edge of Texas, settlers live in daily fear of the savage raids by Apache warriors. After their depredations, the Apaches outrun their pursuers to cross the Rio Grande River to the safe haven of Mexico, where the U.S. Army and the Texas Rangers are forbidden.In October, Captain James Callahan and 115 Rangers ignore the international border to follow the Apache band that killed the young son of a Methodist preacher. Forewarned of the Texan invaders, the Mexican army waits by the Rio Escondido.Undeterred, Callahan’s outnumbered mounted Rangers charge the Mexican cavalry, lances against Colt revolvers. After the bloody clash, pursuers become the prey.Hear the voices of Caroline, a ravaged woman taken by the Apaches; a runaway slave named Thompson; Texas Rangers McKean and Gunn; Mexican Colonel Menchaca; and Captain Callahan himself. Their tale is sometimes brutal, sometimes poignant, and compelling to the last word.

A Different Country Entirely: A Novel of the Texas Rangers' 1855 Raid into Mexico

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Birdbrain

Children's Books

Growing Up & Facts of Life

The Accidental Juror

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

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