In the midst of the Washington DC government district, sits the Cafe Burma, run by a 40-ish man and his 18-year-old daughter, Dewi. Dewi grew up as an American teenager but was also schooled in traditional Burmese values of maintaining the family's honor and obedience to your elders. She yearns to escape the long hours working in the family business to learn a trade at college and raise a family of her own in America. Her boyfriend is reluctant to leave the old neighborhood, yet if she sta...

The intense midsummer sun beat down bright and hot. A long line of one hundred covered wagons stretched down the lonely, rural Midwest highway, slowly moving west. Every wagon is pulled by a pair of massive Belgium draft horses carrying one Amish family from Pennsylvania to new farmland in South Dakota. Twenty-five miles every day, six days per week.The wagons are shepherded west by a small team from by the US Department of Agriculture. Aaron Morgan, the team leader, is an aging Bla...

So you’ve been asked to lead a quality control initiative? Or maybe you’ve been assigned to a quality team. Perhaps you’re a CEO whose main concern is to make your company faster, more efficient, and less expensive. Whatever your role is, quality control is a critical concept in every industry and profession.Quality Control For Dummies is the straightforward, easy guide to improving your company’s quality. It covers all of today’s available options and provides expert tech...