Ergebnis für "Georges" in Technik

Surprising rules for successful monetization. In Monetizing Innovation, the authors at Simon Kucher distil the lessons of thirty years and over 10,000 projects into a practical, nine-step approach. Whether you are a CEO, executive leadership, or part of the team responsible for innovation and new product development, this book is for you, with special sections and summaries to make monetizing innovation part of your company's DNA.

Haben Sie sich schon einmal gefragt, warum Ihr Flugzeugfenster ein kleines Loch hat? Aus welchem Grund sich Ihre Verdauung ausgerechnet in der Luft unangenehm bemerkbar macht? Oder ob Turbulenzen wirklich so gefährlich sind, wie sie sich anfühlen? Wie großartig wäre es, Antworten auf all diese Fragen direkt aus dem Cockpit zu erhalten ... Geht nicht? Geht doch! Der erfahrene Pilot Hans-Georg Rabacher nimmt Sie mit an Bord und bietet spannende Einblicke in die Welt des Fliegens.

Fliegen fasziniert und begeistert die Menschen seit Generationen. Vielleicht gehörst auch du zu denen, die schon immer von einem Job über den Wolken geträumt haben? Aber vielleicht hattest du bislang nicht den Mut, diesen Traum wahrwerden zu lassen? Dann ist dieses Buch für dich: Luftfahrtexperte und Flugpersonalausbilder Hans-Georg Rabacher gibt tiefe Einblicke in die Arbeit als Flugbegleitung, teilt Insiderwissen mit dir und verrät allerlei nützliche Tricks, die dich perfekt auf deine Karriere in der Luft vorbereiten. Also, worauf wartest du noch?

A defense technology expert and military leader reveals the future of robotic warfare, and illuminates the path to navigate the approaching storm of global change.

The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that transformed global trade routes and shaped modern American history, as told by Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master historian David...

As robots are increasingly integrated into modern society—on the battlefield and the road, in business, education, and health—Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times science writer John Markoff searches for an answer to one of the most important questions of our age: will these machines help...

In The Real Business of IT, Richard Hunter and George Westerman reveal that the cost mindset stems from IT leaders' inability to communicate about the business value they create - so CIOs get stuck discussing budgets rather than their contributions to the organization.

From a writer “whose genre-jumping refusal to be pinned down [makes him] an exemplar of our era” (NPR), a new book that confirms his power to astound readers. As a child Geoff Dyer spent long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So the adult Dyer jumped at the chance...

Have you ever asked yourself why airplane windows have a small hole? Why your digestive system makes itself known with particular vigor high up in the air? If turbulence is actually as dangerous as it feels? Wouldn't it be great to have these questions answered by someone who actually sits up front in the cockpit? Impossible? Not anymore! Experienced Pilot Hans-Georg Rabacher takes you on board with him and provides exciting insights into the world of flying.

Just Encase They Think You're Stupid is a fictional easy listen on the real time hot environmental topic of green coatings solutions. It answers how and why potentially hazardous materials such as Asbestos, Lead Based Painted surfaces and other questionable building stock can benefit from the use of high performance, low VOC green coatings. The credible characters in this book explain the historic and present uses of the hazardous materials and discuss the complications associated with their removal.

We prefer not to talk about it, but we should. Disease spread by waste kills more people worldwide every year than any other single cause of death. Even in America, nearly two million people have no access to an indoor toilet. Yet the subject remains unmentionable. Moving from the underground sewers of Paris, London, and New York (an infrastructure disaster waiting to happen) to an Indian slum where ten toilets are shared by 60,000 people, The Big Necessity breaks the silence, revealing everything that matters about how people do - and don't - deal with their own waste.

A deep dive into the race to develop and perfect the driverless car—an innovation that promises to be the most disruptive change to our way of life since the smartphone—by a veteran insider of the automotive and tech worlds In Autonomy, former GM executive and current advisor to the Google...

Final Destination: Disaster informs the public, for the very first time, of what actually precipitated the controversial sale of Eastern Airlines - at one time the second largest airline in the free world - to Frank Lorenzo's Texas Air Corporation, which led to its certain demise. This unbelievable story is written by an 18-year veteran Eastern pilot who was intimately involved in many aspects of the tumultuous events that culminated in the sale.

A four-star general pays tribute to a remarkable man in this biography. Believing that America owes a debt to a great character, a superb aviator, and a devoted citizen that was not paid, General Kenney tells the story of Paul Irvin "Pappy" Gunn with the hope that it will help discharge some of that debt. Gunn, who was known during World War II as an expert in daredevil low-level flying and as a hero and mechanical genius, modified light and medium bombers and transformed them into attack aircraft to hit Japanese targets in New Guinea, the Philippines, and Okinawa.

A year after the disappearance and commencement of the international search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, no sign of the plane has been found - no debris, no bodies, no sign of the much-talked-about black box. Richard Belzer, George Noory, and David Wayne want to know why.

Are you a senior citizen contemplating living the RV life? Have you had the longing to live in the great outdoors, but could never do so before retiring? Does living the RV life call to you, but you feel like you are constricted by your Social Security checks? This bundle contains two audiobooks. Audiobook 1 is: Retire into an RV with Social Security: How to Use Social Security to Live in an RV Full Time; and 2 is: RV Living for Senior Citizens: How to Start and Manage Full Time RV Living as a Retiree over the Age of 60....

"Obéissance et irresponsabilité, voilà les deux Mots Magiques qui ouvriront demain le Paradis de la Civilisation des Machines. La civilisation française, héritière de la civilisation hellénique, a travaillé pendant des siècles pour former des hommes libres, c'est-à-dire pleinement responsables de leurs actes : la France refuse d'entrer dans le Paradis des Robots."

Written by an airline pilot and a clinical psychologist, this combination of practical explanation and self-help techniques is the definitive guide to help nervous passengers overcome their fear of flying. Lighthearted, unpatronising and informative.

In this remarkably prescient audiobook, Gilder predicts how television will merge with other technologies and evolve into the telecomputer, a personal computer adapted for video processing and connected by fiber-optic threads to other personal computers around the world. This interactive system will change how we do business, educate our children, and spend our leisure time. It will imperil all large, centralized organizations, including broadcasting and cable networks, phone companies, government bureaucracies, and multinational corporations.

The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that transformed global trade routes and shaped modern American history, as told by Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master historian David...