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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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A comprehensive study of the life and work of the Victorian novelist. Examines in detail his literary style and creative efforts, his place in 19th century letters, and the opinion of him held by his fellow novelists. ILLUS.

THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY:Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. ... Read more

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One of the best bibliogrphies of George Meredith in existence, including variant readings.

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Diana of the Crossways - Complete is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by George Meredith is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of George Meredith then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. ... Read more

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Knowledge is power, and today's age of information calls for new ways of attaining and controlling knowledge. Your business can get an edge over its competitors by being able to find essential information quickly and efficiently. Whether you are an independent entrepreneur or the CEO of a multinational corporation, intelligence gathering will play an increasingly important role in your business's strategic decision-making process.
        The Intelligence Edge provides you with tools honed by the world's premier intelligence-
gathering professionals. The authors show how to use techniques perfected by such organizations as the CIA on how to find and collect, prioritize, and analyze data. They present a comprehensive system of information management that will teach you how to identify and target different sources of information, from the library to the internet to company gossip. Because some information is expensive or difficult to access, you will learn how to use your time and resources in the most efficient way possible. Then, once you have collected the information you need, you will be shown how to use it--what to store, what to discard, what to turn to your advantage. By following these steps, you can learn to compete and prosper in today's knowledge-based business environment.

"The issue is not whether you will engage in business intelligence, but whether you will do it casually or meticulously, ad hoc or systematically. Obviously, we think systematic and meticulous intelligence will make you more money. The choice is yours. But doing intelligence is not a matter of choice. It's what business is all about."
--From the introduction to The Intelligence Edge

hether you work for yourself or for a major multinational corporation, The Intelligence Edge will help you and your company to survive and prosper in today's knowledge-based business environment. Stay ahead of the information wave with:

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n--Methods on how to sort and analyze the information
n--Guides to the best databases, libraries, and on-line servicesAmazon.com Review
The Intelligence Edge: How to Profit in the Information Age is a tightly focused primer that details ways to intelligently and systematically gather the specific type of data that can boost profitability in virtually any company. George Friedman, Meredith Friedman, Colin Chapman, and John S. Baker Jr.--four experts on intelligence-gathering techniques--identify the primary sources for such information and outline an eight-step formula for acquiring, prioritizing, and utilizing it. The Intelligence Edge discusses legal questions that can arise, and possible sources of assistance and tools (including the Net) that will aid in the process. ... Read more

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Outstanding Resource and Reference Book
As an investment banking anaylst, one of my primary jobs is buildfinancial models of the companies we evaluate. One of the most underratedand (in my view) more important element of my work comes when we performdue diligence and understand the soundness of the assumptions we build intoour models. Most analysts (in my experience) are too infatuated with theirsophisticated spreadsheets and believe the sheer complexity of their modelscan compensate for a lack of understanding of the fundamental business theyare set to evaluate.

The book does an outstanding job ofarticulating, at every step, the importance of challenging one'sassumptions and systematically gathering, synthesizing, and =analyzing=information that helps to dig through the colored lenses of wishfulthinking or purely numerical analysis. The occasional injection of humor isquite welcome - in a world of stuffy self-important books on business,here's a piece of work that was written by people who love what they do,and are adept at making you better at what you do as well.

Excellent Book for REAL Practitioners in the Art
I work as a professional performing due diligence for VC firms and client companies in Seattle and Silicon Valley.I have been using many of the techniques for several years that enable me to rapidly assess business opportunities and develop turnaround strategies.I am also a member of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals.

What this book did was enable me to enhance my business process and better articulate this extremely difficult line of work.For example, the business process outlined on page 58 is crucial in that it identifies several "Stop" or check points with clients.Key in this type of consulting, especially where steps you take as a consultant may directly add risk to your client, it is important to know where to draw the line and involve them for a decision.The authors clarify where the key decision points are when it comes to going from passive to semi-active, to active intelligence gathering.Critical, as time is money to you.But!to the client, information - or exposure thereof also means risk that could become your liability.

Consultants in this field are in the knowledge business, and one of the most difficult things to do is get the client to place a value on knowledge or intelligence.The authors, through wit and excellent real-world examples, spell out some of the keys to getting paid!! (pp 67).Naturally, this would go over the head of the casual reader who has never practiced and is looking for a "cook book" approach to due diligence of new business opportunities (i.e. see above commentary from Bogota).

This book is a "how to" book in that the authors have taken the time to clarify and rank several research tools and locations that one might not normally be aware of.This comparison alone is worth the money, as anyone who has used the web for performing research would agree.

The real brilliance in this book is subtle.By connecting the examples, you learn how to ask questions and iden! tify with what is important in doing intelligence research.! Again, for anyone who has gone in circles with clients who "don't know what they don't know", or worse yet, don't know how to value knowledge - this is critical to delivering fast, and minimizing your exposure.

Frankly, the Bogota guy didn't get it and has probably never performed true business intelligence.I agree that the coverage of the Internet web search engines, which used the example of finding information on pagers, is old news.The chapter's purpose was to show how more advanced tools outside of the Internet, such as Nexis, are preferred substitutes.That point was clearly made.However, this example was only used among 10 pages of chapter 5 (which was taken up with images of why the web doesn't work).The other 257 pp of this book are the meat.

My hats off to the authors for delivering a humorous text based on real-world wisdom that cuts through a very gray area that is as difficult to perform, as it is to explain.

This is a ridiculous, trivial book.
In this book, one can learn that:The internet started as a Defense Department project in the 80's p. 120The proper way to search for pager manufacturing in internet web search engines is just to mention "pager", and not worry at all about other key words or symbols.p. 124That, according to an intelligence project, pager repair could be a great business.p.139I was lead to believe by a book review that this book would give me a great deal of information about passive intelligence gathering.It does not live up to its promise, and lacks credibility for so many factual (1,1969 2, +pager +manufacture + industry +trends ) and analytical (3 I threw my cell phone away, and got another for free)errors.What a shame. ... Read more

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Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Complete is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by George Meredith is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of George Meredith then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. ... Read more

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The Invisible Conflict
The other review here has to do with this particular Kindle edition (there are several Kindle editions available for this title), which was free to download, and to which I only referred as a secondary text for the purpose of highlighting and notes, for which the lately revised Kindle software is excellent.The primary text I used was a - also free to download - digitally scanned book from Google Books which is much warmer and easier to read, but which doesn't have the editing capabilities of the Kindle edition.These are simply pointers to those readers considering different editions which to download.The review shall be of the book itself.

And what a rum book it is!Let's just get the main point out of the way: to wit, that the modern reader will find reading this book an ordeal in itself, so full it is of caricatures and outmoded dialects.But yet, the book - despite the ultimate tragedy it narrates - is essentially a farce, poking fun at the entire human condition from first page to last.I can quite see why the book was banned from most libraries upon its publication.It's a very droll experience for the reader to find himself taken a bit aback by very detailed descriptions of the demimonde due to having put oneself into what I suppose we should call "19th Century novel mode."One simply doesn't expect it!

What is this book about?The essential framework is that of a baronet who attempts to mould his son's upbringing by using a pseudo-scientific "System" which is really nothing more than a book of his own ad hoc aphorisms.The reader can readily see how rich a ground such an outline provides for tilling the fruits of misconceived systems as well as the imperfections in human nature, especially when the two collide, which collision could be said to be the subject of the book.

But, one more thing, George Meredith was also a - much better, in my opinion - poet, and some of his descriptive, detailed scenes remind one of nothing so much as Proust, in which the smallest things are seen to have significance.I'll leave the prospective reader with one exemplary sentence:

"At present, I am aware, an audience impatient for blood and glory scorns the stress I am putting on incidents so minute, a picture so little imposing.An audience will come to whom it will be given to see the elementary machinery at work: who, as it were, from some slight hint of the straws, will feel the winds of March when they do not blow.To them nothing will be trivial, seeing that they will have in their eyes the invisible conflict going on all around us, whose features a nod, a smile, a laugh of ours perpetually changes.And they will perceive, moreover, that in real life all hangs together: the train is laid in the lifting of an eyebrow, that bursts upon the field of thousands.They will see the links of things as they pass, and wonder not, as foolish people now do, that this great matter came out of that small one."

Terrible edition - do not purchase
I purchased this book for schoolwork, thinking a new edition would be better than an old one.This was a mistake.

This edition of the book is terrible.There are frequent spelling errors, and the book does not mention which original edition of the work it is using, so I could not compare it to the copies my classmates had.In addition, it looks sloppy.The Table of Contents looks as though it was hastily typed on a typewriter, and the chapters do not bear their titles in the text, which obscures the author's intentional transitions.

Do not buy this edition of the book.It is not worth any money. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: London, Constable; Publication date: 1919; Subjects: Biography; Novelists, English; 19th century; Meredith, George; Authors, English; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 30; Original Publisher: A. Constable; Publication date: 1898; Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary; History / General; Literary Collections / General; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; ... Read more

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Assured of worthiness we do not dread Competitors; we rather give them hail And greeting in the lists where we may fail: Must, if we bear an aim beyond the head! My betters are my masters: purely fed ... Read more