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Lean Project Management Explained , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 46min

The concepts that form the fundamental principles of Lean were initially developed by Taiichi Ohno in the creation of the venerated Toyota Production System (TPS). Ohno employed techniques such as jidoka (intelligent automation), Just-in-Time manufacturing, Kanban (visual ordering systems), kaizen (continuous improvement), and Heijunka (production balancing) to revolutionize production in Toyota's vehicle manufacturing plants. In his book, The Machine that Changed the World, James Womack christened the TPS a Lean system, and the term has since been used to describe any manufacturing or operating system that utilizes a similar methodology. Lean helped Toyota race ahead of GM to take the top-spot in global vehicle manufacture, and it has since laid the foundation for phenomenal success in myriad companies and organizations. Lean is extremely versatile, as can be seen in the profound effect it has had on the success of organizations in wide-ranging sectors of business: from manufacture to government administration. This versatility does not end with the overhaul of company cultures and production systems in different industry sectors. Lean can be adapted and utilized on a much smaller scale: project management. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrea Erickson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/032713/bk_acx0_032713_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Beloved Enemy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1188min

Set against the turbulent backdrop of 12th-century Europe, as two countries compete for world dominion, one woman will take her destiny, and the future of a nation, into her own hands. "Aquitaine is mine. It will never belong to anyone else." With these words, 15-year-old Eleanor seals her fate. Aquitaine is under the French king’s safekeeping, and Eleanor, the Duke of Aquitaine’s eldest daughter, knows she must wed Prince Louis in order to insure the future of her beloved duchy. Fiercely independent, filled with untapped desire, the woman who would be queen must provide Louis VII, her monkish husband, with heirs. But it is young Henry of Anjou who catches Eleanor’s eye - and sets fire to her heart. Ruled by a raging drive to succeed, Henry vows that he will not be cheated of his rightful place on the English throne. Yet the newly christened Duke of Normandy is thoroughly enraptured by the French queen. In Eleanor, Henry knows he has found a woman whose hunger for life and glory matches his own. So begins a passionate love that will span decades and change the course of history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Blumenfeld. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/007531/bk_adbl_007531_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Midnight Palace , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 434min

Calcutta, May 1916. Lieutenant Peake pauses for breath outside the ruins of Jheeter's Gate station knowing that he only has a few hours to live. Inside his overcoat he is sheltering two new-born babies - twins, a boy and a girl. Peake runs at full tilt to the house of Aryami Bose, to whom he entrusts the children. In 1932 we meet the boy, Ben, and his group of friends the night before they are due to leave St Patrick’s orphanage. They have formed The Chowbar Society, a secret society that meets each week in the old ruin they have christened The Midnight Palace. Their final meeting is due that evening but then Aryami Bose turns up at the orphanage with Sheere, Ben's sister, and tells them the story of the parents they never knew. Their father was an engineer and writer who died in tragic circumstances at the inauguration of Jheeter's Gate station. But there is more to this story than meets the eye and they are lured by a shadowy figure from the past into a final showdown in the ruins. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Stevens. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/000412/bk_orio_000412_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Half-Safe: A Story of Love, Obsession, and History's Most Insane Around-the-World Adventure , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 79min

In 1948, a young Australian mining engineer named Ben Carlin set out to do the impossible: circumnavigate the globe, by land and sea, in a single vehicle. The vehicle in question was an amphibious jeep developed by the U.S. Army, which Carlin christened Half-Safe, after a deodorant slogan. It was a mechanical mongrel that was supposed to move with equal ease across land and water but in practice wasn't much good for either one. Undaunted, Carlin and his wife Elinore set off across the Atlantic Ocean with dreams of fame and fortune, and of carving a small notch in history. What happened next is one of the most bizarre, remarkable, and forgotten adventure stories of the 20th century. In Half-Safe, author James Nestor endeavors to uncover Ben Carlin's fate and finds a gripping story of love, danger, and extraordinary perseverance that spans three oceans and five continents. Half-Safe takes us from the eye of an Atlantic Ocean hurricane to the sweltering Sahara to the impenetrable jungles of Southeast Asia - and into the mind of a man who could overcome everything but his own demons. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Nestor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/004536/bk_acx0_004536_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Round Ireland with a Fridge, Hörbuch, Digital, 183min

Have you ever made a drunken bet? Worse, still, have you ever tried to win one? In attempting to hitchhike round Ireland with a fridge, Tony Hawks did both, and his foolhardiness led him to one of the best experiences of his life. Joined by his trusty travelling companion-cum-domestic appliance, he found himself in the midst of a remarkable adventure, at times emotional, at times inspirational, but more often than not, downright silly. Only in the magical land of Ireland could such a notion lead to such fruitful adventure. Here is his record of the unlikely pair's fortunes as they made their way from Dublin to Donegal, from Sligo through Mayo, Galway, Clare, Kerry, Cork, Wexford, Wicklow, and back again to Dublin. In their month of madness, Tony and his fridge met a real prince and a bogus one; they surfed together and entered a bachelor festival; the fridge was christened; and one of the pair had sex without the other knowing. And unexpectedly, the fridge itself became a momentary focus for the people of Ireland. As the days rolled by, the fridge grew into a personality in its own right, developing its own identity and bringing people together wherever it went. Language: English. Narrator: Tony Hawks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/000112/bk_rhuk_000112_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Command Decision: Vatta's War, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 903min

After orchestrating a galaxy-wide failure of the communications network owned and maintained by the powerful ISC corporation, Gammis Turek and his marauders strike swiftly and without mercy. First they shatter Vatta Transport. Then they overrun entire star systems, growing stronger and bolder. No one is safe from the pirate fleet. But while they continue to move forward with their diabolical plan, they have made two critical mistakes.Their first mistake was killing Kylara Vatta's family.Their second mistake was leaving her alive. Now Kylara is going to make them pay. But with a "fleet" consisting of only three ships - including her flagship, the Vanguard, a souped-up merchant cruiser - Kylara needs allies, and fast. Because even though she possesses the same coveted communication technology as the enemy, she has nowhere near their numbers or firepower. Meanwhile, as Kylara's cousin Stella tries to bring together the shattered pieces of the family trading empire, new treachery is unfolding at ISC headquarters, where undercover agent Rafael Dunbarger, estranged son of the corporation's CEO, is trying to learn why the damaged network is not being repaired. What he discovers will send shock waves across the galaxy and crashing into Kylara's newly christened Space Defense Force at the worst possible moment. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cynthia Holloway. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/000891/bk_tant_000891_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A Dog's Gift: The Inspirational Story of Veterans and Children Healed by Man's Best Friend , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 491min

A decade ago former military counterintelligence officer Terry Henry joined his precocious young daughter, Kyria, on a trip to a nursing home in order to allow its residents to play with their family dog, a golden retriever named Riley. Terry was astounded by the transformations that unfolded before his eyes. Soon after, Terry and Kyria started their service dog organization, Paws4people, with the goal of pairing dogs with human beings in need of healing, including traumatized and wounded war veterans and children living with physical, emotional, and intellectual disabilities. In A Dog's Gift, award-winning journalist and author Bob Drury movingly captures the story of a year in the life of Paws4people and the broken bodies and souls the organization mends. The audiobook follows the journey of pups bred by the organization, from their loving if rigorous early training to an emotional event that Terry and Kyria have christened "the bump", where each individual service dog chooses its new owner through an almost mystical connection that ignites the healing process. Incorporating vivid storytelling, insights into canine wisdom, history, science, and moving tales of personal transformation, A Dog's Gift is a story of miracles bound to be embraced by not only the 60 million Americans who own dogs but by anyone with a full heart and a loving soul. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Traber Burns. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/007635/bk_blak_007635_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Memories of the Sapphire: Sapphire Series, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 456min

This is the final installment of the Sapphire series. It continues with personalities introduced in book one, Journey of the Sapphire, and book two, Traces of the Sapphire. The characters are not directly in contact with the legendary Sapphire of Elenora any longer, thus the book title Memories of the Sapphire.The individuals are strangely enough involved in the fledgling coffee industry in some way, shape, or form. But not in the mundane ways one may think.The original navigator for Captain Romel in book two is now the Captain of the ship christened The Royal Court of Italy, now called Elenora in respect to the Sapphire of Elenora.The tale continues with the ultimate revenge scheme to exact justice on those who killed Peter Di'Barichi. But the plan and scheme are deep, and beyond what the young people who befriended Peter could have ever imagined.The third section of the book takes the desert-borne Ragad onto the Sapphire, as the navigator and wife of Captain Najem, on a voyage of bravery and discovery.The final chapter meets up with Bint Eid, renamed Hamea bint Samer by the bin Samer tribe of Saudi Arabia. She is the new head of the POG (Paranormal Operations Group), and although she doesn't experience the frightening encounters in book one and two, she finally has a chance to have friends, although they are few. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Erin Robertson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/225812/bk_acx0_225812_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Snip: A Jack Vu Mystery, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 439min

The female corpse snagged along the Mississippi riverbank wasn’t the only life that washed ashore that year. Throughout the South, Hurricane Katrina had inflicted death and destruction as quickly as a serpent’s strike. In this third Jack Vu mystery, Air Force Investigator Jack Vu finds himself displaced by Katrina, along with countless others. He has lost his home, a boat christened “The Arctic Wing", which had provided him solitude and solace on the water, much like the Mekong Delta of his youth. Forced to now live in an overcrowded barracks, Jack actually looks forward to investigating the apparent suicide of a female Air Force officer in Louisville, Kentucky because it affords him a clean private hotel room. One death soon becomes two, and Vu finds himself partnered with Big Easy cops Dorene Gates and Bruce Hill, one of whom is being held for murder (implicated by a delicate snip of pubic hair) and the other who is “bunking in” with the reluctant investigator. Louisville’s Southern justice and dark past come back to haunt its residents. From a Mississippi riverbank, to historic Churchill Downs, Jack must tread carefully through tainted jockeys, bantering musicians, and even a quirky Elvis impersonator in order to uncover their secrets. Social classes collide, proud residents protect their own, and some secrets are best taken to the grave. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jerry Lyden, Giz Coughlin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/floa/000001/bk_floa_000001_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 911min

A gripping tale of betrayal and counterbetrayal that tells the story of the most enigmatic member of the Cambridge spy ring - Donald Maclean. Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West's greatest secrets. He was also a Russian spy, driven by passionately held beliefs, whose betrayal and defection to Moscow reverberated for decades. Christened ‘Orphan’ by his Russian recruiter, Maclean was the perfect spy and Britain’s most gifted traitor. But as he leaked huge amounts of top-secret intelligence, an international code-breaking operation was rapidly closing in on him. Moments before he was unmasked, Maclean vanished. Drawing on a wealth of previously classified material, Roland Philipps now tells this story for the first time in full. Philipps unravels Maclean’s character and contradictions: a childhood that was simultaneously liberal and austere; a Cambridge education mixing in Communist circles; a polished diplomat with a tendency to wild binges; a marriage complicated by secrets; an accelerated rise through the Foreign Office and, above all, a gift for deception. Taking us back to the golden age of espionage, A Spy Named Orphan reveals the impact of one of the most dangerous and enigmatic Soviet agents of the 20th century, whose actions heightened the tensions of the Cold War. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Keeble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/003990/bk_boli_003990_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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