Books, Nonfiction, Automotive, Foreign

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David Joseph Schwartz
Pensar en grande: la magia del éxito (Think Big: The Magic of Success, Spanish Edition)
by Giron Books (Paperback)

One of the world's foremost authorities on motivation, Schwartz shows how thinking big can bring big results. Learn how to set high goals and exceed them in a big way with this easy, step-by-step approach.

Jeffrey Liker
The Toyota Way
by McGraw-Hill (Hardcover)

How to speed up business processes, improve quality, and cut costs in any industry In factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors. The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the management principles and business philosophy behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality and reliability. Complete with profiles of organizations that have successfully adopted Toyota's principles, this book shows managers in every industry how to improve business processes by: Eliminating wasted time and resources Building quality into workplace systems Finding low-cost but reliable alternatives to expensive new technology Producing in small quantities Turning every employee into a qualitycontrol inspector

Henry N. Raymond
Spanish Complete: The Complete Language Course : 3 Level Set (Learn in Your Car) (Spanish Edition)
by Penton Overseas (CD)

Listeners learn pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar of a new language without the need of a textbook. Convenient to use while driving, working out... or anywhere! Includes zippered CD wallet carrying case.

Editors of Car and Driver
Dream Cars Page-A-Day Calendar 2009 (Colour Page a Day Calendars)
by Workman Publishing Company (Calendar)

So many cars, so little time. From the knowledgeable and passionate editors at Car and Driver magazine, Dream Cars is the calendar that gives car guys a new ride to fantasize about, every day. Take a spin in an outrageously finned '59 Cadillac convertible. A smokin' custom Ferrari Enzo that cost a cool $4 million. A sweet 1948 Porsche 356 roadster. Plus Mazda's flowing Nagare concept, a hydrogen-powered luxury sedan from BMW, a 1928 Alfa Romeo 6C 1500S still in racing condition, weekend quizzes, lore, trivia, and more. Can you feel the speed?

Behind the Wheel
Behind the Wheel - Spanish 1
by Behind the Wheel (CD) (Release Date: 2008-09-16)

Behind the Wheel Spanish Level 1 covers beginning to intermediate level Spanish, providing a flexible, solid and universal foundation in speaking, understanding, and creatively expressing yourself in Spanish. The program features an English speaking instructor to guide you through the lessons and two native Latin American Spanish speakers to aid with your pronunciation. Includes a companion book to reinforce and enhance the audio experience.

Christian Aubert
SmartFrench Audio CDs Beginner Level
by SmartFrench (CD)

With these Audio CDs you will work on natural conversations with our unique Active Sensory ComprehensionTM method. You will learn your new language both effectively and efficiently. You will develop your listening skills. For reference, we give you a booklet with the transcripts and the translations, with our color-coding system to help you pronounce the words and sentences the way you will hear them pronounced in real life conversations. This step by step approach to the language will help you understand French, like no other method, early in your studies. If you enter a conversation in French without any training to listen to it, you will not be able to get what is coming back to you. On the other hand, even if you feel hesitant to speak French, you can have a conversation saying yes or no , as long as you understand the other person. With these CDs you will start to understand and speak the language as spoken in the real world. If you are a true beginner, you might want to ...

Henry N. Raymond
French: The Complete Language Course (Learn in Your Car) (French Edition)
by Penton Overseas (CD)

Listeners learn pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar of a new language without the need of a textbook. Convenient to use while driving, working out... or anywhere! Includes zippered CD wallet carrying case.

Jeffrey Liker, David Meier
The Toyota Way Fieldbook
by McGraw-Hill (Paperback)

The Toyota Way Fieldbook is a companion to the international bestseller The Toyota Way. The Toyota Way Fieldbook builds on the philosophical aspects of Toyota’s operating systems by detailing the concepts and providing practical examples for application that leaders need to bring Toyota’s success-proven practices to life in any organization. The Toyota Way Fieldbook will help other companies learn from Toyota and develop systems that fit their unique cultures. The book begins with a review of the principles of the Toyota Way through the 4Ps model—Philosophy, Processes, People and Partners, and Problem Solving. Readers looking to learn from Toyota’s lean systems will be provided with the inside knowledge they need to: • Define the companies purpose and develop a long-term philosophy • Create value streams with connected flow, standardized work, and level production • Build a culture to stop and fix problems • Develop leaders who promote and support the ...

Christian Aubert
SmartFrench Audio CDs Intermediate/Advanced
by SmartFrench (CD)

Most people learn to speak french but not how to speak it. At the intermediate level, they still have difficulties to understand the language and they cannot be understood. These Audio CDs will develop your listening skills at the same time as you progress in your learning. If these CDs are too difficult for you, you need the Beginner level. Maybe you are an intermediate at speaking french but still a beginner at listening to it. If you still need basic tips, you might want to try our SmartFrench, Introduction to French course. And if you just want to say travel sentences, you can use our SmartFrench for Travelers book and downloads. With this program you will understand French and you will be understood. It's the best choice you can make to achieve fluency fast.

James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, Daniel Roos
The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production-- Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry
by Free Press (Paperback)

When The Machine That Changed the World was first published in 1990, Toyota was half the size of General Motors. Today Toyota is passing GM as the world's largest auto maker and is the most consistently successful global enterprise of the past fifty years. This management classic was the first book to reveal Toyota's lean production system that is the basis for its enduring success.Now reissued with a new Foreword and Afterword, Machine contrasts two fundamentally different business systems -- lean versus mass, two very different ways of thinking about how humans work together to create value. Based on the largest and most thorough study ever undertaken of any industry -- MIT's five-year, fourteen-country International Motor Vehicle Program -- this book describes the entire managerial system of lean production.Nearly twenty years ago, Womack, Jones, and Roos provided a comprehensive description of the entire lean system. They exhaustively documented its advantages over the mass ...

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