Award-winning author John Miller's eagerly awaited third novel, Tropical Heat, continues the tradition of page-turning tension and suspense established in his two earlier novels. Tropical Heat is an intricately plotted novel peopled with characters struggling to survive not only a Southern summer heat wave, but also crimes of passion, sexual obsession, and the economic and social upheaval of the mid-1950's. When an army officer is found dead in the small Virginia town of Hopewell, it sets in motion a sequence of events that will forever change the life of Sheriff A. G. Farrell. A. G.'s investigation is hampered from the start by a strangely hostile provost marshal from the murdered captain's base, and by the captain's enigmatic widow, Theresa Fitzgerald, whose beauty, like the terrible heatwave, leaves civilians and soldiers alike gasping for relief. When a thin thread ties together the otherwise unsuspicious deaths of four young women over the past four years, A. G. struggles to retain his sense of objectivity and propriety as sexual tension grows between Theresa and himself, and he must face down the provost marshal whose rush to judgment may get the wrong man hung for murder. As in his two previous novels, which critics compared favorably to the work of such authors as Tim O'Brien, John Sanford, Patricia Cornwell, and James Lee Burke, Miller has created a lead character, Sheriff A. G. Farrell, whose intelligence, independence, and whimsical nature will captivate even the most discriminating and demanding readers. Jacket photography (c) 2001 Hulton Archive Picture Collection & (c) 2001 The Image Ban

Tropical Heat

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Miller, John A.

Mystery

Forge

A practical, applications-rich guide to this new cost management methodology 
Implementing Activity-Based MANAGEMENT In Daily Operations John Miller's lucid presentation of the principles and practice of activity-based management and activity-based costing makes this book required reading for all managers, accountants, and financial officers. Now generally recognized as a more accurate method of determining the relative profitability of various business activities, ABM has become a valuable new tool for management decision making. Miller, whose experience includes the implementation of ABM at Fortune 500 companies, provides step-by-step guidance to its use and benefits: <ul>
<li>Overview of ABM, including basic principles, benefits, uses, various approaches, and implementation models</li> <li>Basic techniques of activity/product costing, with comparisons between traditional methods and ABM</li> <li>Activity analysis—how to define processes, activities, cost-drivers, and goals</li> <li>Data gathering for ABM—collection techniques and interviews</li> <li>Examples of real-life implementation plans and situations, drawn from a variety of organizations</li> <li>Ongoing system requirements, planning, and performance measurement</li> </ul>
Activity-based management and activity-based costing (ABM/ABC) have brought about a sea change in cost management systems. Growing largely out of the work of the Texas-based Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing-International (CAM-I), ABC has, according to BusinessWeek, introduced "new rules for cost management as investment justification, product costing, the total life-cycle costs of products, and how to define better measures of manufacturing performance." Since it was first introduced in 1985, ABM/ABC has evolved considerably and has been applied in service companies, utilities, telecommunications, and government agencies. The use of activity-based management techniques has resulted in a much more accurate determination of the relative profitability of various business activities and, therefore, more profitable management decisions. This clearly written, example-rich book shows managers, accountants, and financial officers how to put activity-based accounting into practice as quickly and efficiently as possible. This book includes ABM Best Practices identified by CAM-I and the American Productivity and Quality Center in a recently completed land-mark study. Implementing Activity-Based Management in Daily Operations provides step-by-step guidance on how to implement ABM at the level of daily process operations, and demonstrates, through numerous detailed examples, its benefits for cost management. Applications to a variety of organizations are covered, including service companies, government agencies, and process industries. Practical linkages between ABM/ABC and Total Quality Management and Business Process Reengineering are explained and illustrated. Implementing Activity-Based Man-agement in Daily Operations covers all aspects of ABM, from activity/product costing, through activity analysis and data gathering, to on-going system requirements and full integration. It is designed for all members of an organization involved in reaping the significant benefits of this new cost management methodology.

Implementing Activity-Based Management in Daily Operations (Nam/Wiley Series in Manufacturing)

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

wiley

When Claude McCutcheon awakens to discover a four-year-old boy in his living room clutching a note from the boy's father, an old buddy from the Vietnam War, he sets out to investigate the disappearance of his friend. Reprint.

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Literature & Fiction

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Claude McCutcheon wakes up one night to find a crying four-year-old boy standing in his living room. In his hand is a note from Jesse Hamilton, an old army buddy of Claudes whom he hasn't seen in 25 years; it reads "This is my son. Take care of him." When Claude sets about finding out what would compel Jesse to leave the boy with him, the trail leads him to a company called Sentinel Microsystems -- and turns deadly.

Pocket Star

Cutdown

In the wake of a radical environmental lawyer's murder, attorney Claude McCutcheon wonders why the only witness claims that he, Claude, is representing him, and becomes involved in an old sheriff's long-buried obsession. Tour.

CUTDOWN

Atria

When Margaret Tikkanen of the Northwestern Pacific Lumber Company calls on Vietnam vet-turned-lawyer Claude McCutcheon with a trumped-up story about buying commercial property, he gets tangled up in a decades-old -- and life-threatening -- conspiracy.

Pocket

When an army officer is found dead in the small Virginia town of Hopewell, the murder sets in motion a sequence of events that will forever change the life of Sheriff A.G. Farrell. A.G.'s investigation is hampered by a strangely hostile provost marshal from the murdered captain's base and by the captain's enigmatic widow, Theresa Fitzgerald, whose beauty, like the terrible heatwave that hangs heavily in the Southern summer air, leaves soldiers and civilians alike gasping for relief. When a thin thread ties together the otherwise unsuspicious deaths of four young women over the past four years, A.G. struggles to retain his sense of objectivity and propriety as sexual tension grows between Theresa and himself, while facing down the provost marshal whose rush to judgement will get the wrong man hung for murder.

Literary

Forge Books

You may think Field of Dreams meets Cocoon, or perhaps, The Natural meets Love Story, some may even say that it's Ball Four clashing with Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time. But, John Miller's Coyote Moon is all of these and more. In a gone-to-seed trailer park on the edge of the Mojave Desert, quantum physics runs headlong into reincarnation as the park's highly eccentric residents sit around in the evenings drinking home-brewed beer and asking themselves: Can a young, previously unheard-of rookie baseball player be the latest in a line of reincarnated spirits leading back to Sir Isaac Newton? And in the clubhouse of the Oakland Athletics, the mysterious athlete in question, Henry Spencer, a young North Carolinian with nothing more than a high school education and a fuzzy memory, tries to reconcile, among other arcane topics, Werner Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle with the somewhat less intellectual world of baseball. Coyote Moon, John Miller's eagerly awaited fourth novel, will have you laughing with delight and wondering to the very end just who the young Henry Spencer really is, and what exactly, links him to the most unusual trailer park in Needles, California.

Coyote Moon

Genre Fiction

When an army officer is found dead in the small Virginia town of Hopewell, the murder sets in motion a sequence of events that will forever change the life of Sheriff A.G. Farrell. A.G.'s investigation is hampered by a strangely hostile provost marshal from the murdered captain's base and by the captain's enigmatic widow, Theresa Fitzgerald, whose beauty, like the terrible heatwave that hangs heavily in the Southern summer air, leaves soldiers and civilians alike gasping for relief. When a thin thread ties together the otherwise unsuspicious deaths of four young women over the past four years, A.G. struggles to retain his sense of objectivity and propriety as sexual tension grows between Theresa and himself, while facing down the provost marshal whose rush to judgement will get the wrong man hung for murder.

Humor & Satire

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Tropical Heat

Implementing Activity-Based Management in Daily Operations (Nam/Wiley Series in Manufacturing)

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