A coming-of-age novel about race, privilege, and the struggle to rise in America, written by a former Obama campaign staffer and propelled by an exuberant, unforgettable narrator. “A riot of language that’s part hip-hop, part nerd boy, and part pure imagination.”—The Boston Globe Boston, 1992. David Greenfeld is one of the few white kids at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Middle School. Everybody clowns him, girls ignore him, and his hippie parents won’t even buy him a pair of Nikes, let alone transfer him to a private school. Unless he tests into the city’s best public high school—which, if practice tests are any indication, isn’t likely—he’ll be friendless for the foreseeable future. Nobody’s more surprised than Dave when Marlon Wellings sticks up for him in the school cafeteria. Mar’s a loner from the public housing project on the corner of Dave’s own gentrifying block, and he confounds Dave’s assumptions about black culture: He’s nerdy and neurotic, a Celtics obsessive whose favorite player is the gawky, white Larry Bird. Before long, Mar’s coming over to Dave’s house every afternoon to watch vintage basketball tapes and plot their hustle to Harvard. But as Dave welcomes his new best friend into his world, he realizes how little he knows about Mar’s. Cracks gradually form in their relationship, and Dave starts to become aware of the breaks he’s been given—and that Mar has not. Infectiously funny about the highs and lows of adolescence, and sharply honest in the face of injustice, Sam Graham-Felsen’s debut is a wildly original take on the American dream. Praise for Green “Prickly and compelling . . . Graham-Felsen lets boys be boys: messy-brained, impulsive, goatish, self-centered, outwardly gutsy but often inwardly terrified.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) “A coming-of-age tale of uncommon sweetness and feeling.”—The New Yorker “A fierce and brilliant book, comic, poignant, perfectly observed, and blazing with all the urgent fears and longings of adolescence.”—Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk “A heartfelt and unassumingly ambitious book.”—Slate

This book has now been completely rewritten and updated, and is no available under the title, "Implementing ERP - the ten point guide to a world class implementation".

A young mouse must prove himself when Thorn Valley needs a hero.

Most companies are disappointed with their ERP system (the commonly accepted figure is 85% or so). They feel that it is not delivering what they had hoped for and been promised, despite a huge investment in time and effort but, in the past, the only source of help was the large consultancies which contributed to the problem. This book changes that. Now there is independent expert advice available and, for the first time, failed and failing ERP systems are not something that we have to live with.

The Citizenship editions of the Understanding People in Society series provide a comprehensive and adaptable programme of study for the relevant 5-14 Environmental Studies Attainment Outcomes, covering all necessary Key Features and Strands. The focus is on social issues such as rights and responsibilities, individual and social needs, conflict and decision-making, and organisations and structures in society. The titles are published in association with UNICEF, to whom a contribution is made for every book sold. The World and You is aimed at P7-S2 and is ideal as an introductory course for modern studies or for personal and social education in the four key areas of Citizenship as identified in the 5-14 document "Education for Citizenship".

This book is filled from cover to cover with experience gleaned from over one hundred successful ERP implementations. It answers questions like, "Why is your implementation team a major threat to success?", "Why should your Master Production Schedule not always be at finished item level?", "How much safety stock should you have, and at what level of the bill of material?", and, "Why should you not worry about accurate purchasing lead times?". Rhe advice given covers everything from system selection through to ensuring that the chosen system continues to be valuable and relevant long after go-live.Read this book, particularly the section on "What goes wrongs?", and you will know more than most consultants.

Many companies benefit from a new ERP system but few get all that they should do from their manufacturing modules, and that's perhaps because few actually expect to gain real benefits there. Even when companies do implement their manufacturing modules, they often don't give them priority and, in consequence, they can fail to realise all of the advantages that they offer. This book was written in the belief that many manufacturing companies can gain measurable benefits from implementing their system's manufacturing modules better.