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With The Essential Deming, Fordham University professor and Deming expert Joyce Orsini draws on a wealth of previously unavailable material to present the legendary thinker's most important management principles in one indispensable volume. The book is filled with articles, papers, lectures, and notes touching on a wide range of topics, but which focus on Deming's overriding message: Quality and operations are all about systems, not individual performance; the system has to be designed so that the worker can perform well.

Lean UX has become the preferred approach to interaction design, tailor-made for today’s agile teams. In the second edition of this award-winning book, leading advocates Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden expand on the valuable Lean UX principles, tactics, and techniques covered in the first edition to share how product teams can easily incorporate design, experimentation, iteration, and continuous learning from real users into their Agile process.

More than just a book on how to retire extremely early by spending less and earning more while investing in a few funds and hoping they go up in the long run. Written for those wanting a deep and detailed understanding of the strategies and building blocks required to design and live an interesting life independent of the winds of the economy. An information-dense study of economic resilience and how to thrive in an increasingly fragile job- and consumer-oriented world hitting its limits.

This is the tale of two incredible people - one who knows he is incredible and the other who learns to be incredible. Set in 1960 in the UK south-coast resort of Brighton, self-styled guru and magus Hugo Rune rescues a young man from drowning and persuades him to become his assistant and partner in solving 12 mysteries. Rizla (for such is the young man’s assumed name) agrees to help as he has lost his memory and has nowhere else to go. There then follows 12 of the most baffling, surreal, exciting, head-scratching and downright far-fetched mysteries ever written....

Negative Self-Talk and How to Change It is an immediately helpful, life-changing handbook of how to deal with negative self-talk - for yourself, or anyone in your life. Shad Helmstetter, PhD, the best-selling author of more than 20 books, is the leading authority in the field of self-talk today. In this book written for today’s listener, Dr. Helmstetter gives you all of the important information you need to change negative self-talk forever, in a short, easy-listening, and condensed format.

Each of us is programmed from birth on, and as much as 75 percent or more of our programming may be negative or working against us. In this newly updated and revised audiobook edition, Shad Helmstetter shows the listener how to erase and replace past mental programs with healthy, new programs that can be positively life-changing. Considered by many to be one of the most important and helpful personal growth books ever written.

The best-selling Option Volatility & Pricing has made Sheldon Natenberg a widely recognized authority in the option industry. Clear, concise, and comprehensive, the second edition of Option Volatility & Pricing is sure to be an important addition to every option trader's library - as invaluable as Natenberg's acclaimed seminars at the world's largest derivatives exchanges and trading firms.

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.

In The Power of Neuroplasticity, Shad Helmstetter, PhD, presents the scientific discovery that the thoughts we think physically rewire and reshape our brains and change our lives. Dr. Helmstetter shows how to use the latest research from the field of neuroscience to wire your brain to change attitudes, overcome negativity, improve health and fitness, reach personal goals, increase mental sharpness and clarity, improve usable IQ, super-charge your thinking, and reshape your life, all with neuroscience on your side.

Lean UX is synonymous with modern product design and development. In the third edition of this award-winning book, authors Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden help you focus on the product experience rather than deliverables. You'll learn tactics for integrating user experience design, product discovery, agile methods, and product management. And you'll discover how to drive your design in short, iterative cycles to assess what works best for businesses and users. Lean UX guides you through this change - for the better.

This book is intended for the clinical researcher who is interested in designing a clinical trial and developing a protocol. It is also of value to researchers and practitioners who must critically evaluate the literature of published clinical trials and assess the merits of each trial and the implications for the care and treatment of patients. The authors use numerous examples of published clinical trials to illustrate the fundamentals.

Confessions of a Real Estate Entrepreneur is for the individual who is ready to get serious about investing. Not a rah-rah or get-rich-quick book, this book is for someone who is prepared to think about what he or she wants to accomplish. James Randel provides the how and why.

Behold the Rolling Stones: run-ins with the law, chart-topping successes, and now the World's Greatest Continually Operating Rock and Roll Band. 50 Licks tells the story of the Stones, right from its very origins. On July 12, 1962, London's Marquee Club debuted a new act, a blues-inflected rock band named after a Muddy Waters song-the Rolling Stones. They were a hard-edged band with a flair for the dramatic, styling themselves as the devil's answer to the sainted Beatles.

Classic Speeches: 1940-1987 is a collection of the most famous speeches of all time from political figures, such as Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr and John F Kennedy.

Etwas hat überlebt - Duke Anson ist zurück. Der gesuchte Verbrecher findet Unterschlupf bei Eileen und Willie Fawkes, die in Colorado eine Kfz-Werkstatt betreiben. Duke bandelt mit Eileen an, ohne zu ahnen, dass sie ihn für ihre Pläne missbraucht. Eines Tages ist Willie tot. Duke und Eileen beschließen, seine Leiche verschwinden zu lassen, um den Mord zu vertuschen. Doch damit begehen sie einen verhängnisvollen Fehler, denn schon bald tauchen auf dem Grundstück der Fawkes zwei zwielichtige Männer auf, die sich in auffälliger Weise für den Toten interessieren.

Dracula tritt eine bedeutende Reise in seine Heimat an, wo er sich seiner eigenen Vergangenheit stellen muss. Die Karpaten, düster und voller Gefahren. Diese Erfahrungen müssen auch seine Verfolger machen. Professor van Helsing und Mina Harker setzen alles daran, das Ziel vor ihrem Erzfeind zu erreichen. Doch Draculas Einfluss ist groß, und so setzt er gefährliche Gegner auf die beiden an. Es entspinnt sich ein dramatisches Wettrennen, das schließlich am Borgo-Pass endet. Dort, wo einst alles seinen Anfang nahm.

Moriarty ist von dem Wunsch beseelt, sein Leben zu ändern und einem alten Rivalen den Kampf anzusagen. Doch ist dieser Plan mit großen Gefahren verbunden, denn bei seinem Gegner handelt es sich um niemand Geringeren als den Grafen Dracula. Mittels eines ausgeklügelten Plans gelingt es Moriarty, den Anführer des Zirkels der Sieben in seine alte Heimat, nach Transsylvanien, zu locken. Alles läuft auf eine letzte große Auseinandersetzung hinaus.

Der alte Lord Manderville liegt im Sterben. Kaum jemand weiß, dass er der Nachfahre einer berüchtigten Geheimgesellschaft war. Er übergibt zur Überraschung aller sein Erbe an seine Tochter Rebecca. Sehr zum Missfallen seines Sohnes Christopher, der das Erbe für sich allein beansprucht. Im Hause der Mandervilles geschieht kurz darauf ein entsetzliches Verbrechen. Rebecca Manderville nimmt Kontakt zu Dracula auf. Sie will in den Zirkel der Sieben aufgenommen werden. Doch niemand hat offenbar mit der Heimtücke ihres gefährlichen Bruders gerechnet.

An der Westküste Kanadas wird ein Mädchen an den Strand gespült, eingeschlossen in einen Eisklotz und doch lebendig! Professor Callahan, der ungewöhnliche Phänomene erforscht, findet die Fremde, die ihr Gedächtnis verloren hat. Er ahnt, dass es sich bei der jungen Frau um ein Meta-Wesen mit verborgenen Fähigkeiten handelt, die gegen die Mächte der Finsternis gekämpft hat. Es ist Faith van Helsing und sie ist zurück!

Oscar Wilde und Mycroft Holmes haben mit der Unterstützung ihrer Mitstreiter einen wichtigen Sieg gegen den Zirkel der Sieben erzielt. Doch die Freude darüber währt nicht lange, denn kurz darauf ist Mycroft Holmes verschwunden. Alles deutet darauf hin, dass er von Dracula entführt wurde. Die Spuren führen zu einem einsamen Haus auf der französischen Seite des Ärmelkanals.