Alan Robinson: 14 books
Modern Approaches to Manufacturing Improvement
The Shingo System
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Here's the quickest and most inexpensive way to learn about the pioneering work of Shigeo Shingo, co-creator (with Taiichi Ohno) of just-in-time. It's an introductory book containing excerpts of five of his classic books as well as an excellent introduction by Professor Robinson.
by Alan Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Shooting the Sleaze is a comic thriller that tingles the spine while tickling the funny-bone. It sets official state agencies at loggerheads with private sector counter-intelligence, each employing its own little band of killers. These frequently fall over each others feet. Meanwhile, someone is killing...
The Idea-Driven Organization
Unlocking the Power in Bottom-Up Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Too many organizations are overlooking, or even suppressing, their single most powerful source of growth and innovation. And it’s right under their noses. The frontline employees who interact directly with your customers, make your products, and provide your services have unparalleled insights into...
Ideas Are Free
How the Idea Revolution Is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2006
The fact is, because they're the ones actually doing the day-to-day work front-line employees see a great many problems and opportunities that their managers don't. But most organizations do very poorly at tapping into this extraordinary potential source of revenue-enhancing, savings-generating ideas....
Space Science Fiction Super Pack
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2016
'Space Science Fiction' was launched in may of 1952. During it's impressive run it published many of Science Fiction's top writers. Collected here in this massive six hundred-plus page anthology are all of the most important stories that were published during its distinguished run. Included here are:...
Ideas Are Free
How the Idea Revolution Is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2006
A worker in one of Europe's largest wireless communication companies stumbled across an error in his company's billing software, fixed it, and saved the company some $26 million per year. A secretary at Grapevine Canyon Ranch proposed a simple change to the company's website that brought the site...
by Gregory, Daryl; Robinson, Alan
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Genghis Khan was one of the greatest military commanders and leaders in world history. He conquered lands from the Middle East to the Pacific Ocean in a life filled with one military victory after another until his death.This is the story of how a boy named Temujin became that man, the battles that solidified...
Fantastic Stories Present the Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack #1
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Edited by H. L. Gold; ‘Galaxy Science Fiction’ hit the scene in 1950 and quickly became the leading science fiction magazine of its time. Galaxy gave a home to writers that didn't fit into Astounding and F&SF, and readers rejoiced. In this first ‘Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack’ we bring...
by James McKimmey, Jr., H. B. Fyfe
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Worlds of If was a three time winner of the Hugo Award for best science fiction magazine. Worlds of If discovered many talented writers who would go on to dominate genre fiction. This is the third in our Worlds of If series with even more memorable stories from its tremendous run. ‘The Yillian Way’...
by Spider Robinson, James Alan Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2017
Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) is an anthology of hard and soft science fiction stories that best represent a futuristic view of the sciences and how humanity might be affected (for better or worse) by a reliance in all things technological.
The stories contained within the pages of Compostela...
Taking Chances
The Coast after Hurricane Sandy
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Humanity is deeply committed to living along the world’s shores, but a catastrophic storm like Sandy—which took hundreds of lives and caused many billions of dollars in damages—shines a bright light at how costly and vulnerable life on a shoreline can be. Taking Chances offers a wide-ranging...
by Alan David Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Every Child Can Learn
Using learning tools and play to help children with Developmental Delay
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2008
Includes CD-Rom
Based on the authors' own clinical practice and extensive experience in the field, this book is a creative and flexible aid to helping children with learning difficulties.
Their accessible and positive approach, 'Functional Learning', focuses on helping...
by Ellison, Harlan; Robinson, Alan; Snyder III
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Harlan Ellison, one of the Grand Masters of science fiction and a multiple Hugo-, Nebula-, and Edgar Award-winner, returns to his roots with the graphic novel, Phoenix Without Ashes. The year is 2785, and Devon, a farmer banished for challenging his community's Elders, discovers a secret that changes...