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Bestsellers
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Inspired
- How to Create Tech Products Customers Love, Second Edition
- By: Marty Cagan
- Narrated by: Marty Cagan
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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How do today's most successful tech companies - Amazon, Google, Facebook - design, develop, and deploy the products that have earned the love of literally billions of people around the world? Find out....
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Great book, terrible audio wanted to ask a refund
- By Srikanth Ramanujam on 11-15-18
By: Marty Cagan
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Transformed
- Moving to the Product Operating Model
- By: Marty Cagan
- Narrated by: Marty Cagan
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Help transform your business and innovate like the world's top tech companies!
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A must for anyone who wants to Improve their product
- By Tommy Quitt on 09-16-24
By: Marty Cagan
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The Design of Everyday Things
- Revised and Expanded Edition
- By: Don Norman
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The Design of Everyday Things shows that good, usable design is possible....
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Designers Start Here (missing visual references)
- By sammy k on 09-01-19
By: Don Norman
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Toyota Production System
- Beyond Large-Scale Production
- By: Taiichi Ohno, Norman Bodek
- Narrated by: Ralph Lowenstein
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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In this classic text, Taiichi Ohno—inventor of the Toyota Production System and Lean manufacturing—shares the genius that sets him apart as one of the most disciplined and creative thinkers of our time....
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Abridged version
- By Timothy J. Rooney on 06-14-24
By: Taiichi Ohno, and others
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The Box
- How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
- By: Marc Levinson
- Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried 58 shipping containers from Newark to Houston....
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Fascinating Topic sometimes lost in minutiae
- By zombie64 on 07-15-14
By: Marc Levinson
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Monetizing Innovation
- How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price
- By: Madhavan Ramanujam, Georg Tacke
- Narrated by: Darren Stephens
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Surprising rules for successful monetization....
By: Madhavan Ramanujam, and others
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Inspired
- How to Create Tech Products Customers Love, Second Edition
- By: Marty Cagan
- Narrated by: Marty Cagan
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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How do today's most successful tech companies - Amazon, Google, Facebook - design, develop, and deploy the products that have earned the love of literally billions of people around the world? Find out....
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Great book, terrible audio wanted to ask a refund
- By Srikanth Ramanujam on 11-15-18
By: Marty Cagan
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Transformed
- Moving to the Product Operating Model
- By: Marty Cagan
- Narrated by: Marty Cagan
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Help transform your business and innovate like the world's top tech companies!
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A must for anyone who wants to Improve their product
- By Tommy Quitt on 09-16-24
By: Marty Cagan
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The Design of Everyday Things
- Revised and Expanded Edition
- By: Don Norman
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The Design of Everyday Things shows that good, usable design is possible....
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Designers Start Here (missing visual references)
- By sammy k on 09-01-19
By: Don Norman
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Toyota Production System
- Beyond Large-Scale Production
- By: Taiichi Ohno, Norman Bodek
- Narrated by: Ralph Lowenstein
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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In this classic text, Taiichi Ohno—inventor of the Toyota Production System and Lean manufacturing—shares the genius that sets him apart as one of the most disciplined and creative thinkers of our time....
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Abridged version
- By Timothy J. Rooney on 06-14-24
By: Taiichi Ohno, and others
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The Box
- How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
- By: Marc Levinson
- Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried 58 shipping containers from Newark to Houston....
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Fascinating Topic sometimes lost in minutiae
- By zombie64 on 07-15-14
By: Marc Levinson
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Monetizing Innovation
- How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price
- By: Madhavan Ramanujam, Georg Tacke
- Narrated by: Darren Stephens
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Surprising rules for successful monetization....
By: Madhavan Ramanujam, and others
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Creative Selection
- Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
- By: Ken Kocienda
- Narrated by: Ken Kocienda
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Creative Selection recounts the life of one of the few who worked behind the scenes, a highly respected software engineer who worked in the final years of the Steve Jobs era - the Golden Age of Apple....
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Just the 20%
- By matthewolf on 09-20-18
By: Ken Kocienda
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Conquer the Mechanical Aptitude Test: Your Guide to Mastering Mechanical Reasoning and Comprehension
- By: Philip Martin McCaulay
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Conquer the Mechanical Aptitude Test: Your Guide to Mastering Mechanical Reasoning and Comprehension is an essential resource for anyone preparing ...
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Creating a Lean Culture
- Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions
- By: David Mann
- Narrated by: Douglas James
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The audio edition of this Shingo Prize-winning bestseller provides critical insights and approaches to make any lean transformation an ongoing success.
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Lean six sigma knowledge
- By 6699 Unlimited on 08-03-24
By: David Mann
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The Master Algorithm
- How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
- By: Pedro Domingos
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Under the aegis of machine learning in our data-driven machine age, computers are programming themselves and solving an extraordinary range of problems....
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Great book, irritating narration
- By N. G. PEPIN on 09-24-15
By: Pedro Domingos
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The World in a Grain
- The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
- By: Vince Beiser
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The World in a Grain is the compelling true story of the hugely important and diminishing natural resource that grows more essential every day, and of the people who mine it, sell it, build with it - and sometimes, even kill for it....
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History given is only reason it gets 2 stars.
- By Dennis on 07-23-19
By: Vince Beiser
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User Friendly
- How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play
- By: Cliff Kuang, Robert Fabricant
- Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need....
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Underwhelming real life examples
- By Nick on 12-17-20
By: Cliff Kuang, and others
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Stuff Matters
- Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
- By: Mark Miodownik
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In Stuff Matters, Miodownik entertainingly examines the materials he encounters in a typical morning, from the steel in his razor and the graphite in his pencil to the foam in his sneakers and the concrete in a nearby skyscraper....
By: Mark Miodownik
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Modern Manufacturing: The Complete Series
- Best Practices, Real-World Stories & Game-Changing Processes
- By: Michelle Segrest
- Narrated by: Ruthanne Reid
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Take a tour with the author inside more than 30 world-class facilities to experience the most remarkable innovations and highly sophisticated robotics and automation in action. Capture a front-row seat to top-brand, big-budget manufacturing in action with complex machines....
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Informative
- By Amazon Customer on 09-02-24
By: Michelle Segrest
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The Revenge of Analog
- Real Things and Why They Matter
- By: David Sax
- Narrated by: David Sax
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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One of Michiko Kakutani's (New York Times) top 10 books of 2016. A funny thing happened on the way to the digital utopia. We've begun to fall back in love with the very analog goods and ideas the tech gurus insisted that we no longer needed....
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Late to the party and heavily padded.
- By Phil Queeg on 12-25-16
By: David Sax
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AIQ
- How People and Machines Are Smarter Together
- By: Nick Polson, James Scott
- Narrated by: Nick Polson, Walter Dixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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From two cutting-edge data scientists comes a fascinating audiobook that helps listeners understand how intelligent machines are changing the world and how we can use this knowledge to make better decisions in our own lives....
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Good to begin with, not enough information about AI
- By RealTruth on 06-29-18
By: Nick Polson, and others
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Elevating Construction Project Teams
- Building The Team to Run Your Production System
- By: Jason Schroeder
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Leaders on projects should be the chief people officers (CPO) of their teams. This position does a less physical work and more mentoring of others ...
By: Jason Schroeder
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Conquer the HVAC Exam: Your Guide to Success in Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning
- By: Philip Martin McCaulay
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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"Conquer the HVAC Exam: Your Guide to Success in Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning" is a comprehensive study guide tailored for aspiring ...
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America's Assembly Line
- By: David E Nye
- Narrated by: Kevin Moriarty
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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The mechanized assembly line was invented in 1913 and has been in continuous operation ever since. It is the most familiar form of mass production....
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Great book, no matter how the narrator sounds.
- By Raymond Bing on 03-01-23
By: David E Nye
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The Laws of Simplicity
- Design, Technology, Business, Life
- By: John Maeda
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Finally, we are learning that simplicity equals sanity. We’re rebelling against technology that’s too complicated, DVD players with too many menus, and software accompanied by 75-megabyte “read me” manuals....
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Get past the start and be impressed
- By Alex Z on 12-11-17
By: John Maeda
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CWI Part A Exam
- Complete Review for the Welding Fundamentals and Practice Questions for Certified Welding Inspectors
- By: Mike L. Turner
- Narrated by: Tom Brooks
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Whether you're an aspiring or experienced welding professional, this comprehensive guide covers every critical aspect of the CWI Part A exam.
By: Mike L. Turner
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Jony Ive
- The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
- By: Leander Kahney
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The best-selling author of Inside Steve's Brain profiles Apple's legendary chief designer, Jonathan Ive....
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Was hoping to get to know the man behind the name.
- By Idan B. on 06-15-14
By: Leander Kahney
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Rust
- The Longest War
- By: Jonathan Waldman
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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A thrilling drama of man versus nature, detailing the fierce, ongoing fight against the mightiest and unlikeliest enemy: rust....
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Almost too geeky for geeks
- By Norman B. Bernstein on 03-26-15
By: Jonathan Waldman
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Makers
- The New Industrial Revolution
- By: Chris Anderson
- Narrated by: René Ruiz
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Wired magazine editor and best-selling author Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution....
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Good basic information, but not a lot of good info
- By Tarik Y. on 11-30-12
By: Chris Anderson
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The Reassembler
- By: James May
- Narrated by: James May
- Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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From the humble garden lawnmower to the ear-splitting electric guitar, James May returns with a typically wacky account of what makes these great machines work, one piece at a time....
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I just like hearing this audio book. play it a lot
- By PJC on 08-22-19
By: James May
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Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes
- By: Julie Michelle Klinger
- Narrated by: Steve Rausch
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Rare Earth Frontiers is a work of human geography that serves to demystify the powerful elements that make possible the miniaturization of electronics, green energy and medical technologies, and essential telecommunications and defense systems....
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This is not about rare earth's
- By MNDLBRT on 04-03-21
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Lean Six Sigma
- The Ultimate Guide to Lean Six Sigma, Lean Enterprise, and Lean Manufacturing, with Tools Included for Increased Efficiency and Higher Customer Satisfaction
- By: James Edge
- Narrated by: Sam Slydell
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Organizations face rising costs and increasing competition every day. With Lean Six Sigma, you can combat these problems and grow your business.
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no narrator can make this story interesting
- By Mats Bengtsson on 01-12-19
By: James Edge
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My Robot Gets Me
- How Social Design Can Make New Products More Human
- By: Carla Diana
- Narrated by: Justis Bolding
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Think how commonplace it is now for people to ask Siri for the weather forecast, deploy Roomba to clean their homes, or summon Alexa to turn on the lights. But the reality is, these first-generation "smart" products aren't very smart - yet....
By: Carla Diana
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Just Culture
- Restoring Trust and Accountability in Your Organization, Third Edition
- By: Sidney Dekker
- Narrated by: Sidney Dekker
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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A just culture is a culture of trust, learning, and accountability. This third edition offers new material on restorative justice and ideas about why your people may be breaking rules....
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culture influence on investigations
- By safa on 09-04-18
By: Sidney Dekker
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The Design of Future Things
- By: Donald A. Norman
- Narrated by: Bill Quinn
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Design of Future Things, best-selling author Donald A. Norman presents a revealing examination of smart technology, from smooth-talking GPS units to cantankerous refrigerators....
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The design of future cars - a view from 2007
- By Lieberoth on 01-17-14
By: Donald A. Norman