Industrial & Manufacturing

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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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....

In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried 58 shipping containers from Newark to Houston....

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....

Under the aegis of machine learning in our data-driven machine age, computers are programming themselves and solving an extraordinary range of problems....

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....

The audio edition of this Shingo Prize-winning bestseller provides critical insights and approaches to make any lean transformation an ongoing success.

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....

Surprising rules for successful monetization....

"Conquer the CWI Part A Exam: Your Guide to Passing the Certified Welding Inspector Fundamentals Exam" is a comprehensive study guide designed to ...

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....

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....

In Trade-Off, Kevin Maney shows how conflicting forces determine the success, or failure, of new products and services in the marketplace....

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....

"Conquer the CWI Part C Exam: Your Guide to Passing the Certified Welding Inspector Code Book Exam" is an essential study guide designed to help ...

Conquer the Glazier Exam: Your Guide to a Career Installing Glass in Windows, Skylights, and Other Fixtures in Buildings is a comprehensive study ...

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....

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....

A thrilling drama of man versus nature, detailing the fierce, ongoing fight against the mightiest and unlikeliest enemy: rust....

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....

Examines inclined planes, explains their functions, and suggests simple experiments to demonstrate how they work....

I, Wes Sander, will share the secrets of creating knives and swords that are easy to make, yet strong and sharp....

In Sticky, Laurie Winkless explores some of the ways that friction shapes both the manufactured and natural worlds and describes how our understanding of surface science has given us an ability to manipulate stickiness, down to the level of a single atom....

If you want to achieve success in project management, then pay attention...Some projects were always bound to fail. However, that is just a tiny minority. Most projects fail at least partly because of poor project management....