Process Management for the Extended Enterprise

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Process Management, with its key concepts of internal customer and process ownership, is becoming one of the most important competitive weapons for firms and can determine a strategic change in the way business is carried out (Business Process Reengineering - B.P.R.). In this context, the flow of information increases, passes through the internal departments, to then extend beyond the traditional boundaries of the enterprise and form operational and knowledge networks with other business units, selected suppliers and clients, etc. These (internal and external) networks harness the great power offered by Web technologies (Internet, Intranet, Extranet) and create the Extended Enterprise.

This book explores innovative themes that will trace the business paths for many firms in the near future. It is based on research and experience in several major companies, in particular the Snaidero Group (Europe’s leading company in the kitchen sector), with contributions by leading Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) companies.

ZapNote: Business Genetics ZapNote: An Extended Business Process Modeling Specification

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ZapNote: Business Genetics ZapNote: An Extended Business Process Modeling Specification
ZapThink , and Ronald D. Schmelzer
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Even though there are undoubtedly large numbers of business process standards, Business Genetics insists that there are no standards that truly model a business' overall processes. They say the world of business modeling is fairly restricted to implementing confining use cases and specific transaction-oriented business processes. While UML provides a great way to model various processes, it is not a great way to model a business communication process. The goal is that the Extended Business Modeling Language (xBML) will be one of the first formalized frameworks to model a business environment.

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As paradoxical as it sounds, one of the toughest problems facing many of today's most successful companies is success itself. Like living organisms, companies are complex networks of interdependent systems-and unless managers recognize and swiftly implement the changes to those systems required by a sudden surge in demand, a booming business can easily go bust under the strain. Recent history abounds with examples of companies whose overnight success led to morning-after failure because their managers, like most managers, lacked the training or experience needed to manage explosive growth. Yet, surprisingly, until recently there have been few expert guides devoted exclusively to this crucial change management issue.

Managing Explosive Corporate Growth is a practical guide to piloting your company through periods of explosive growth with minimum damage and maximum sustainable profits. Author Steven Bragg explores the reasons why companies succeed or fail to adapt to explosive growth. He identifies the warning signs of impending explosions or declines in sales volume and zeroes in on the key growth issues specific to each functional area of the company-including accounting, auditing, IT, customer service, distribution, engineering, finance, HR, manufacturing, and sales and marketing. He also presents clear-cut guidelines on how to balance the demands of all organizational areas while guaranteeing customer satisfaction.

In addition to proven strategies for planning, financing, and managing explosive growth, he provides you with valuable explosive growth management tools, including checklists of key explosive growth indicators; metrics and reporting systems for controlling cash flow; multioption budgeting systems that address all growth levels; and reporting systems that help you monitor and control rapid expansion.

Managing Explosive Corporate Growth is an indispensable working resource for corporate managers, internal auditors, and entrepreneurs. It will also be of considerable interest to institutional investors who would like to learn the latest techniques for tracking the performance of current or potential investments.

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Not Bad, for a Business Book.......2006-12-09

I read business reports and books all the time for my work, and I am familiar with the mom-and-apple-pie genre of business writing. This is not it.

Bragg does mention bringing in experienced managers to help cope with fast growth (p. 54), but that is just one among a plethora of recommendations, most of which, if common-sensical, are not necessarily obvious. Indeed, I would say Bragg actually eschews "management-speak," as in the following discussion of beginning to delegate authority in a growing company. The parenthesis is his:

" . . . managers should consult with their subordinates before completing their budgets. This is not because management has any need to "empower" employees (one of the more overused and suspect words in the business vocabulary), but because employees are the ones who are now routinely using budget information . . ." (p. 62).

The book covers over a dozen distinct topics (as you can see in the Table of Contents, above), from cash management to outsourcing to distribution and manufacturing to human resources. At the very least it gives you a good framework for thinking about growth issues ("what am I neglecting?"), which, if you think about it, is really all even the best book can do. With all the terrible management/business books that do get written, it would be a shame to write off one like this, which can actually be of some use. Recommended.

A Fine Commentary.......1999-12-18

This is an exceptional book! It covers the impact of fast growth on every single corporate function (even internal auditing, of all things), as well as budgeting, control systems, management, and (of course) cash flow. Am using it now as a guideline for running a small business.

All motherhood and apple pie.......1999-12-14

Here is what you need to know from this book: to grow quickly you have to have a great team that has experience growing quickly! Honestly, that is the main and only point. Don't waste your time or money on this one.

The Action Selling Sales Training Book Series (Action Selling Book Series)

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The Action Selling Sales Training Book Series (Action Selling Book Series)
Duane Sparks
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The Action Selling Sales Training and Selling Skills Book Series includes: - Action Selling: How to sell like a professional, even if you think you are one. -Selling Your Price: How to escape the race to the bargain basement - Questions: The Answer to Sales - Masters of Loyalty: How to turn your sales force into a loyalty force The Action Selling Book Series will dramatically improve the sales behavior of your sales force. Action Selling: Are your salespeople "Winging It" during calls? With Action Selling, they`ll learn the Five Critical Sales Skills that really matter and how to follow a proven process that has helped over 300,000 become top selling producers. Selling Your Price: Do your salespeople rely on old habits, manipulative tricks or price concessions to close the sale? With Selling Your Price, salespeople learn how to sell value and protect margins while winning more business. Questions: The Answer to Sales: Do your salespeople depend on the gift of gab to win sales? With Questions, they`ll know how and when to ask the best-questions that lead to gaining commitment. Masters of Loyalty: Do your salespeople sell loyalty? With Masters, they`ll learn how to create real loyalty; loyalty that makes customers stop shopping and be forever deaf to competitor`s appeals.

Financing and Managing Fast-Growth Companies: The Venture Capital Process

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Financing and Managing Fast-Growth Companies: The Venture Capital Process
George Kozmetsky , Micheal D. Gill , and Raymond W. Smilor
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The Information Centre: Managing the Growth of End-user Computing to Corporate Advantage

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The Information Centre: Managing the Growth of End-user Computing to Corporate Advantage
Keith Patching
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Packed With Knowledge!

Managing Corporate Growth
Jordi Canals
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As economic growth in Western countries shows signs of fatigue, companies are battling hard to discover how to generate and sustain corporate growth. The restructuring and reengineering processes of the early 1990s, and the massive lay-offs they brought about, have only given an additional boost to the need for expansion. Corporate efficiency is indispensable, but is not a sufficient condition for corporate survival. Firms need to think about their future growth.

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Packed With Knowledge!.......2001-08-14

While most scholarly studies of business (or any other subject) can be dry and impenetrable, that is not the case with this one. Jordi Canals writes clearly and eloquently about the ups and downs of corporate growth, and includes plenty of case studies that focus on companies around the world. Citing dozens and dozens of studies (listed as references at the end of the book) throughout the text, this economics scholar never descends into the deep, dark pit of deliberately unreadable prose. The author writes that this book is for MBA students, professional managers, and entrepreneurs; we [...] agree, and note that others in business, finance and the media will also enjoy it and benefit from its insights.

The Pursuit of Growth: The Challenges, Opportunities, and Dangers of Managing and Investing in Today's Economy

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The Pursuit of Growth: The Challenges, Opportunities, and Dangers of Managing and Investing in Today's Economy
G. Ray Funkhouser , and Robert R. Rothberg
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Are you ready to grow? Communication strategies for managing growth in a complex and competitive marketplace. (includes related article): An article from: Public Relations Quarterly

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Are you ready to grow? Communication strategies for managing growth in a complex and competitive marketplace. (includes related article): An article from: Public Relations Quarterly
Gary F. Grates
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This digital document is an article from Public Relations Quarterly, published by Public Relations Quarterly on September 22, 1995. The length of the article is 2828 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Many companies are experiencing growth as a result of their restructuring initiatives and corporate renewal efforts. As a result of this growth, these companies are facing new challenges that they have to deal with if they are to succeed in a complex and competitive marketplace. An essential activity that these growth companies must do is to communicate their performance in terms of satisfying new objectives and penetrating new markets. Effective communication helps them to develop and use information for boosting their productivity, searching for immediate customer feedback and fostering innovation and creativity for long-term growth. To assist them in these concerns, many executives are hiring professional PR and communications practitioners who are responsible for developing strategies for communicating with employees, customers, suppliers and shareholders.

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Date: September 22, 1995
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Volume: v40 Issue: n3 Page: p42(5)

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Continuous improvement - managing the risk successfully.: An article from: Canadian Manager

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Continuous improvement - managing the risk successfully.: An article from: Canadian Manager
Lloyd M. Field , and Mary Ann L. Schmidt
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This digital document is an article from Canadian Manager, published by Canadian Institute of Management on December 22, 1993. The length of the article is 1302 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: A company's ability to continuously improve depends on a corporate culture that fosters creativity and action. This entails management's ability to balance risks and innovation, adopt a system of accountability and communicate expectations and goals to employees. It also involves cooperation between departments wherein selected managers and employees perform tasks which are assigned to them and are essential for the completion of a project.

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Managing continuous improvement and culture change. (part 2): An article from: Modern Casting

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Managing continuous improvement and culture change. (part 2): An article from: Modern Casting
Marietta L. Baba
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This digital document is an article from Modern Casting, published by American Foundrymen's Society, Inc. on June 1, 1993. The length of the article is 882 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Managing continuous improvement and culture change. (part 2)
Author: Marietta L. Baba
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Date: June 1, 1993
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Managing Work-Related Learning for Employee and Organizational Growth.: An article from: SAM Advanced Management Journal

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Managing Work-Related Learning for Employee and Organizational Growth.: An article from: SAM Advanced Management Journal
Dorothy Lang , and Ursula Wittig-Berman
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This digital document is an article from SAM Advanced Management Journal, published by Society for the Advancement of Management on September 30, 2000. The length of the article is 4668 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Colin Tudge overturns the traditional view that farming began in the Middle East 10,000 years ago, quickly led to the Neolithic farming revolution, and ended the hunting-gathering lifestyle. Agriculture in some form had been practiced for thousands of years before that, Tudge argues. Neolithic farming was not the beginning of agriculture but the beginning of agriculture on a large scale, in one place, with refined tools.

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A small book with big ideas........2006-07-21

This slim volume is an installation in the Darwinism Today series, a collection of ruminations on evolutionary topics by smart and creative individuals. Tudge is one such person; his book The Time Before History is an excellent overview of the last five million years of human history, and an essential for the bookshelves of anyone interested in humans and their interactions with the natural world. In 'Neanderthals', we are shown Tudge's fascinating theories on the origin of modern agriculture, delivered in an appetizer-style nibble of 52 (small) pages.

The punchline? Tudge challenges the common assumption that the Agricultural Revolution (and thus the origins of civilization) began 10,000 years ago with the end of the last ice age. Drawing on evolutionary theory to fill the the gaps, he offers a fascinating alternative: namely, that humans have been "hobby farmers" of a sort for thousands of years before the archaeological record reveals systematic, intensive farming. What we know of evolution is drawn largely from fossil data, often spotty at best, and in this same way Tudge reminds us that simply because we cannot find (or notice) the remnants of small-scale early agriculture doesn't mean it doesn't exist. He also points to the fact that, as with evolution, change occurs gradually, and so the seeming explosive burst of agricultural know-how couldn't have come without a gradual, historical context. Tudge defines this "hobby farming" as anything from cutting down the growth around a favored fruit tree to the take-it-or-leave-it approach to animal husbandry still practiced by some African tribes.

Not only is the evidence for early agriculture lacking because of its small scale, but also because most of it would have taken place in the fertile valleys and lowlands now inundated after the rising sea levels following deglaciation. Some of the most enjoyable thought experiments come when Tudge points to the Old Testament of the Bible as a source of ecological memory: namely, that if you trace the rivers of Eden, they converge at a point that is now underwater but was exposed during the Pleistocene.

The fact that Homo sapiens may were likely practicing rudimentary forms of agriculture during the last ice age has several important repercussions, and Tudge explores these with great gusto: First, humans would have been afforded a competitive advantage over the Neanderthals, and this might have contributed to the Neanderthals' extinction. Secondly, humans, faced with an increasing food surplus and the increased scarcity of the megafauna (mammoths, mastodons, and the like), would have been more likely to hunt these large beasts to extinction, as hunting took on less of a subsistence importance and became more of a ritualistic, male dominance-related activity (particularly as the megafauna became rarer).

This book is a fun opportunity to listen to the ruminations of a very well-read and well-educated individual. You could curl up with this little volume and finish it in an hour, but it will keep you thinking long afterwards. I will definitely be investigating the rest of the Darwinism Today series.

~ Jacquelyn Gill

A Very Enlightening Book About the Origins of Modern Civilization - And It's Drawbacks........2006-07-15

Colin Tudge, who documented the first 5 million years of hominds in "Time Before History", has delivered a powerful lecture (presented here in book form as part of the Darwinism Today series) on the origins of agriculture - and thus the origins of modern civilation. His take on early farming were not completely new to me as I have read a few pieces along this line, but it may be new to many who missed the history class in high school or college on this subject (the class that probably didn't exist).

Essentially, Mr. Tudge argues quite convincingly that agriculture didn't just spring up 10,000 years ago in an instant or as a result of a culture who discovered its virtues (of which it had very few at the time), but was practiced as part of a hunter-gatherer lifestyle where plants were harvested as a beneficial and helpful food source and thus become favored by these people.

Mr. Tudge posites that the rise of large scale agriculture was a reaction to the loss of a plentiful lifestyle at the end of the last ice age...a loss that was the result of a changing climate and biozones (the "fertile crescent" was a virtual garden of eden during the last ice age with plenty of food for a society that naturally controlled its population), but was also affected by the continually improving hunting skills of humankind (something also seen as contributing the decline of the large fauna in North America around the same time).

Another fascinating area of this topic is the story of Cain and Abel as an allegory for the expansion of the new agriculturalists and the loss of hunter-gatherers that this caused. Basically, an agricultural lifestyle requires a larger population to support itself, which leads to the need to expand a societies territory, which led to conflict with the outnumbered hunter-gatherers and their destruction. (simplified here, as I suggest everyone read the book)

Another negative side-effect of this new lifestyle was the rise of diseases and plagues in the human civilization due to over-crowded living conditions and a poor diet (yes, the agricultural lifestyle was a poor diet compared to hunting and gathering). A great example of this would be North America, where Europeans came and found hunting and gathering cultures (who also practiced natural agriculture will call it) where bigger, stronger, and free of many of the diseases that plagued Europe (i.e. smallpox, which - along other diseases - may have caused the death of 90% of Native Americans before they even knew of the new immigrants.

I highly recommend that this book for everyone - it should be required reading in high school history. You may not agree with all of the conclusions, but you need to read it to make up your own mind.

A Brilliant Essay on the Origins of Agriculture.......2004-05-18

This brilliant little book contains more interesting ideas in 53 pages than most books on human origins contain in 500. Of course it's not all true, and it's not all original. Tudge's explanation for the origin of serious agriculture - the "pleistocene overkill" in which human hunters rapidly killed off the game and produced a food crisis - probably derives from a very thorough, if much less exciting book, Mark Nathan Cohen's The Food Crisis in Prehistory, published as long ago as 1977. And Tudge's other thesis - that late palaeolithic people engaged in a kind of "hobby agriculture" is perhaps more questionable.

It's certainly true that initial agricultural activity would not have left much trace, so it undoubtedly goes back further than we think. But any thesis about proto-agriculture before the widespread game extinctions has to contend with the fact that the game themselves - and particularly the elephant family - would have made man's first attempts at environmental manipulation quite difficult, simply by trampling over things and eating the "crops". So the great slaughter of the big game had three effects. Firstly it provided a splendid source of food, permitting a great growth in the human population. Secondly, it then used up most of the game, producing an urgent need for new sources of food for the expanded population. Thirdly, by killing off most of the game and scaring away what remained, it made agriculture possible.

But nobody expects Colin Tudge to come up with all the answers. What is wonderful about this book is that it puts forward exciting ideas in an exciting way and provokes thought and discussion. It's just the kind of book we need.

Small, but powerful.......2004-04-19

Tudge challenges the traditional view that agriculture arose suddenly about ten thousand years ago. "Civilisation" is also credited with emerging simultaneously in a mutually reinforcing feedback cycle with surplus crop farming. The evidence supporting this stance comes from archaeological finds in places like the Tigris-Euphrates Valley [Iraq], Jericho [Palestine] and Catul Hayak in Turkey. In these places grain storage facilities bespeak intense cereals agriculture. Surplus grain production and distribution techniques suggest social hierarchy, fluent communication and new approaches to the environment. The standard view stumbles a bit in how knowledge of farming spread to remote places like Central America. It's also silent on why isolated peoples like Aborigines in Australia failed to adopt "domestic" farming methods.

Tudge wants a fresh assessment - starting with a proper definition of "farming". By his definition, "farming" is simply any modification of an environment supporting edible resources. "Modification" ranges from protecting a known resource from predation to diverting water to stimulate growth. There are no "fields" dedicated to crop production - the sites were opportunistic finds. Tudge here raises the point overlooked by most scholars -"farming" began at the end of the last Ice Age. The best crop sites were low-lying stream valleys containing rich soils and available water. As the glaciers melted and sea levels rose, these locations were inundated and lost to research. The Middle Eastern "burst" of agrarian development was due to a dislocated population that had already practiced farming elsewhere. The Tigris-Euphrates was an exile.

Neither, Tudge argues, will we find paddocks for domestic animals in the early locations. In Tudge's view animal domestication began by selecting those animals amenable to human contact. Continuous association evoked genetic changes in these creatures until domestication became the norm. Nor were the keepers of goats, sheep and other small animals necessarily constant in the practice. Tudge notes a South African people who keep goats for some years, then abandon them for a spate of hunting.

He also insists on a Darwinian perspective on farming and pastoralism's origins. The "sudden" outburst of Middle Eastern agriculture violates the Darwinian process by obscuring earlier evidence. Like any evolutionary process, each step is slow, hesitant and scattered in time and place. Success builds on success until a new pattern is firmly established. Farming and pastoralism emerged in steps, but once established, it became an irreversible process. Agriculture produces not only excess crops, but excess population to consume them. Extra land is needed to supply the new population - and the cycle repeats. This surge in population of modern humans due to agriculture , Tudge contends, was the death knell of the Neanderthals. With Tudge's form of farming originating forty thousand years ago, modern humans outproduced the Neanderthals in both population and resource dominance.

This slim volume proposes many innovative and challenging ideas. Tudge is on solid ground in negating the "abrupt flowering" of modern humans and agriculture in the Middle East. He rightly argues for simpler beginnings of such a complex process. This is an important book in an important series. Tudge's excellent prose skills make this small book a delight to read. [stephen a. haines - Ottawa, Canada]

A gift for the intellect.......2001-05-17

The book barely caught my eye as it is so small, something like 5 X 8 in size and small as in 52 pages. I even wondered how much ionformation could someone share in 52 small pages. First off, this is a small book that is a series of short books by leading experts in evolutionary theory from the Darwin@LSE programme at the London School of Economics.

Having said that, the book has 3 basic Chapters I The Several Faces of Agriculture II The End of the Neanderthals and Pleistocene Overkill and III The Neolithic Revolution.

The authors explain that before about 10,000 years ago there are virtually no signs of plant cultivation or the domestication of animals anywhere in the world. Then archaeologists began to find evidence that there were several sites in the Middle East such as Jericho the West Bank and in Catal Huyuk in Turkey and further east in the Indus Valley of China and some locations in the Americas where plant cultivation or the domestication of animals became the norm.

The subject of horticulture, arable and pastoral farming. And the opinion that the late Paleolithic proto-farmers were not full time farmers. But more of a hobby. And there is a wonderful discussion of how farmers were often seen as put upon and preyed upon types. This is used to suggest that the Cro Magnon and Neanderthals may have had a similar view of each other i.e. bandits.

I learned that the grain found by archaeologists suggests that the grain was grown is a very organized community or sustainable fashion since the seeds/grain was much larger than that grown in the wild. And that palaeontologists emphasize that fossilization is very rare and when a fossil is found of any creature that the chance are that the creature had already been around for a very long time.

The authors also share that hunters and gatherers take from their environment only what their environment happens to produce and if they take to much that the desirable prey species collapse. (page 32) That sustainable farming works because it produces expected crop. That with organized farming techniques populations grew and the chance of mankin ever going back to a simple hunter gatherer mode was gone, since there simply wasn't, isn't enough wild food for the human animal to live on.

There is so much more information in this book that I just do not have the time to share. PLEASE buy it and consider it a gift to you intellect/brain.

Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers (Darwinism Today)

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Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers (Darwinism Today)
Colin Tudge
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interesting, informative, yet overly general read about agriculture.......2007-06-01

The title of this book is misleading: banditry is not really discussed, and Colin Fudge's views aren't radically different from the traditional, conventional folk understanding of early agriculture. What he does is make some interesting insights into humans' (reluctant) shift to agriculture, and plays with the historical timeline a bit. He challenges some assumptions and clarifies the blurry beginnings of human farming. The book is interesting and there are many good points and random facts. It does a good job of creating large brushstrokes painting the picture of early agriculture. However, the language is too general, and due to the book's brevity, I failed to get vivid mental images of what is being described. His argument is valid and clearly expressed, but it lacks support and owes itself, as he admits, to conversations he had with thinkers in the field of ecology-anthropology-archeology-etc. This book is a good starting point for a cursory discussion, but lacks the depth to truly support and capture the point he is trying to make. (As is a problem with much philosophy, the language is too broad and the assertions too sweeping.) It would be interesting to read a text challenging Colin's book.

NEANDERTHALS, BANDITS AND FARMERS. HOW AGRICULTURE REALLY BEGAN

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NEANDERTHALS, BANDITS AND FARMERS. HOW AGRICULTURE REALLY BEGAN
Colin Tudge
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Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers: How Agriculture Really Began (Darwinism Today series)

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Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers: How Agriculture Really Began (Darwinism Today series)
Colin Tudge
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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