Books published by McGraw-Hill Education - Europe

Do you want your young child to develop a love of languages? This book introduces kids ages three to six to everyday French vocabulary using the same simple techniques that help children build vocabulary in their native language.

Presents the advanced techniques, productive workouts, and life-transforming personal philosophies of bodybuilding legend Mike Mentzer. This title includes hunger - the code of integrity for displaying a heroic physique, and the science of productive bodybuilding exercise - Mentzer's fail-safe principles for building maximum size and strength.

A venture capitalist and popular radio show host teams up with a New York Times bestselling author to explain how to craft and deliver a winning pitch for any occasion by tapping into the evolutionary power of the human brain

"Toyota Kata gets to the essence of how Toyota manages continuous improvement and human ingenuity, through its improvement kata and coaching kata. Mike Rother explains why typical companies fail to understand the core of lean and make limited progressΓÇöand what it takes to make it a real part of your culture."ΓÇöJeffrey K. Liker, bestselling author of The Toyota Way"[Toyota Kata is] one of the stepping stones that will usher in a new era of management thinking."ΓÇöThe Systems Thinker"How any organization in any industry can progress from old-fashioned management by results to a strikingly different and better way."ΓÇöJames P. Womack, Chairman and Founder, Lean Enterprise Institute"Practicing the improvement kata is perhaps the best way we''ve found so far for actualizing PDCA in an organization."ΓÇöJohn Shook, Chairman and CEO, Lean Enterprise InstituteThis game-changing book puts you behind the curtain at Toyota, providing new insight into the legendary automaker''s management practices and offering practical guidance for leading and developing people in a way that makes the best use of their brainpower.Drawing on six years of research into Toyota''s employee-management routines, Toyota Kata examines and elucidates, for the first time, the company''s organizational routines--called kata--that power its success with continuous improvement and adaptation. The book also reaches beyond Toyota to explain issues of human behavior in organizations and provide specific answers to questions such as:How can we make improvement and adaptation part of everyday work throughout the organization?How can we develop and utilize the capability of everyone in the organization to repeatedly work toward and achieve new levels of performance?How can we give an organization the power to handle dynamic, unpredictable situations and keep satisfying customers? Mike Rother explains how to improve our prevailing management approach through the use of two kata: Improvement Kata--a repeating routine of establishing challenging target conditions, working step-by-step through obstacles, and always learning from the problems we encounter; and Coaching Kata: a pattern of teaching the improvement kata to employees at every level to ensure it motivates their ways of thinking and acting.With clear detail, an abundance of practical examples, and a cohesive explanation from start to finish, Toyota Kata gives executives and managers at any level actionable routines of thought and behavior that produce superior results and sustained competitive advantage.

Offers strategies and wisdom from research and interviews with over 120 real life millionaire real estate investors. This book helps you learn how to develop the mind-set and financial strategies of a millionaire investor. It offers a blend of insights, instruction and inspiration and is intended for both novices and veterans.

The bestselling guide to buying stocks, from the founder of Investor's Business Daily-now completely revised and updated

Reveals the proven, time-tested trading system he used to achieve triple-digit returns for five consecutive years, averaging 220 per cent per year for a 33,500 per cent compounded total return. This title teaches you: how to find the best stocks before they make big price gains; and how to avoid costly mistakes made by most investors.

Title: How to Repair Briggs and Stratton Engines, 4th Ed., Author: Paul Dempsey, Publication Year: 2007-07-16, Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe, Language: eng

Illustrated with motivational photographs, this book shows how excessive training is slowing down your progress. It covers topics such as: the importance of working to the "point of failure"; Mentzer's use of the early Nautilus machines: a "Heavy Duty" seminar; "Most Productive" Routine; and advanced "Heavy Duty" training techniques.

Penetrate the mysteriously powerful problem-solving methods and learn the secret techniques of the worldOs most prestigious business consulting firm, in this insightful how-they-do-it guide by a former McKinsey & Company analyst.

A manual for achieving McKinsey-style solutions and success. It reveals the secrets behind the powerhouse firm's success and discusses how executives from various fields or industry can use those tactics in day-to-day decision-making. It explores how McKinsey tools and techniques can be applied to business problem sin various settings.

A clear, concise guide to Spanish that presents grammar, verbs and vocabulary in order of usefulness, so that students can communicate with confidence almost immediately.

"It takes thousands of hours of sailing to get the kind of knowledge contained in this book." -- from the Foreword by Bruce Schwab The ONLY bible for how to sail your boat fast, safe, and alone Solo sailing is within any sailor's grasp with a little forethought--and this essential guide.Got a 35-foot sailboat? No problem. Is the wind blowing 20 knots? No problem. Are you racing offshore overnight? Even better. Singlehander Andrew Evans learned the hard way how to sail and race alone--with lots of mishaps, including broaches and a near tumbling over a waterfall--and in Singlehanded Sailing he shares the techniques, tips, and tactics he has developed to make his solo sailing adventures safe and enriching.Learn everything you need to know to meet any solo challenge, including:Managing the power consumption aboard a boat to feed the electric autopilotSetting and gybing a spinnakerFinding time to sleepDealing with heavy weather

Helps you discover the power of Kaizen to make lasting and powerful change in your organization. This guide shows you how to: lower costs - by offering little rewards; raise quality - by reducing mistakes; manage difficult people - one step at a time; boost morale and productivity - in five minutes a day; and sell more - in less time.

A pediatric occupational therapist with a specialty in treating children on the autism spectrum and with sensory disorders presents 101 fun games, activities and adventures that parents and teachers can use to foster behavioral development and improvement in children--all while having tons of fun!

The Missing Link to Toyota-Style Success—LEAN LEADERSHIPWinner of the 2012 Shingo Research and Professional Publications Award“This great book reveals the secret ingredient to lean success: lean leadership. Not only is it a pleasure to read, but it is also deep and enlightening. This book is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in lean: it’s both an eye opener and a game changer.”—Michael Ballé, Ph.D., coauthor of The Gold Mine and The Lean Manager“This will immediately be recognized as the most important book ever published to understand and guide ‘True North Lean’ and the goal of perpetual business excellence.”—Ross E. Robson, President and CEO, DnR Lean, LLC, and the original Director of The Shingo Prize“An excellent book that will shape leadership development for decades to come.”—Karen Martin, Principal, Karen Martin & Associates, and author of The Kaizen Event PlannerAbout the Book:TOYOTA. The name signifies greatness— world-class cars and game-changing business thinking. One key to the Toyota Motor Company’s unprecedented success is its famous production system and its lesser-known product development program. These strategies consider the end user at every turn and have become the model for the global lean business movement.All too often, organizations adopting lean miss the most critical ingredient—lean leadership. Toyota makes enormous investments in carefully selecting and intensively developing leaders who fit its unique philosophy and culture. Thanks to the company’s lean leadership approach, explains Toyota Way author Jeffrey Liker and former Toyota executive Gary Convis, the celebrated carmaker has set into motion a drive for continuous improvement at all levels of its business. This has allowed for:Constant growth: Toyota increased profitability for 58 consecutive years—slowing down only in the face of 2008’s worldwide financial difficulties, the recall crisis, and the worst Japanese earthquake of the century.Unstoppable inventiveness: Toyota’s approach to innovative thinking and problem solving has resulted in top industry ratings and incredible customer satisfaction, while allowing the company to weather these three crises in rapid succession and to come out stronger.Strong branding and respect: Toyota’s reputation was instrumental in the company’s ability to withstand the recalls-driven media storm of 2010. But what looked to some to be a sinking ship is once again running under a full head of steam. Perhaps the Toyota culture had weakened, but lean leadership was the beacon that showed the way back.In fact, writes Liker, the company is “as good and perhaps a better model for lean leadership than it ever has been.” of innovation and growth. Yet, Industry Week reports that just 2 percent of companies using lean processes can likewise claim to have had long-term success. What the other 98 percent lack is unified leadership with a common method and philosophy.If you want to get lean, you have to take it to the leadership level. The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership shows you how.

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Building muscle has never been faster oreasier than with this revolutionary once-a-weektraining program.

Addresses various concerns in the market environment. This title features Tharp's 17-step trading model. It also addresses reward to risk multiples, as well as insightful interviews with top traders, and includes examples and charts.

A resource on art therapy. It features illustrated examples, exercises, and case studies on how art therapy works and how it can be used in health care and mental health counseling. It shows how art therapy can help your patients express and understand emotions, deal with trauma, relieve stress, and manage grief.

Now with a fresh new package and new foreword from Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D to breathe new life to a bestselling classic by Dr. Braiker's 21-Day action plan for curing the disease to please.

Helps you deal with the problems of communicating to a skeptical, media-blitzed public. This book describes a revolutionary approach to creating a "position" in a prospective customer's mind-one that reflects a company's own strengths and weaknesses as well as those of its competitors.

Put into practice today's winning strategy for achieving success in high-end sales!

Explains how your mind influences your performance on the field or on the court as much as your physical skill does, if not more so. Through forty lessons and inspirational anecdotes from prominent athletes, this book helps you learn the same techniques and exercises the author uses to help elite athletes build mental "muscle."

Broken promises, missed deadlines, poor behavior - they don't just make others' lives miserable; they can sap up to 50 percent of organizational performance and account for the vast majority of divorces. This title offers the tools for improving relationships in the workplace and in life and for resolving all these problems - permanently.

He controlled the author's life, distorted her self-image, and tried to physically harm her throughout their long affair. Then, in therapy, she learned to treat her eating disorder (ED) as a relationship, not a condition. In this title, she presents practical exercises to help you break up with your own personal ED.

Considering stress, this text covers the discovery of stress; the dissection of stress; the disease of adaptation; and implications and applications. Annotated references are also included.

Strip-building - assembling a pile of thin wood strips into a functional hull - has been a popular canoe-building method for many years. This title helps construct a finished kayak. It presents plans and measurements for three kayaks: Great Auk, Guillemot, and Guillemot Double.

Offers a step-by-step technique for sparking breakthrough creativity in advertising - or any field.