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De: James C. Scott
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Inspired
- How to Create Tech Products Customers Love, Second Edition
- De: Marty Cagan
- Narrado por: Marty Cagan
- Duración: 7 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,645
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,156
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,130
How do today's most successful tech companies - Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Tesla - design, develop, and deploy the products that have earned the love of literally billions of people around the world? Perhaps surprisingly, they do it very differently from the vast majority of tech companies. In Inspired, technology product management thought leader Marty Cagan provides listeners with a master class in how to structure and staff a vibrant and successful product organization and how to discover and deliver technology products that your customers will love.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book, terrible audio wanted to ask a refund
- De Srikanth Ramanujam en 11-15-18
De: Marty Cagan
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Chemistry and Our Universe
- How It All Works
- De: Ron B. Davis, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Ron B. Davis
- Duración: 30 h y 6 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 505
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 399
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 395
Chemistry and Our Universe: How It All Works is your in-depth introduction to this vital field, taught through 60 engaging half-hour lectures that are suitable for any background or none at all. Covering a year’s worth of introductory general chemistry at the college level, plus intriguing topics that are rarely discussed in the classroom, this amazingly comprehensive course requires nothing more advanced than high-school math. Your guide is Professor Ron B. Davis, Jr., a research chemist and award-winning teacher at Georgetown University.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Professor, Hard to Follow.
- De Jen en 05-14-19
De: Ron B. Davis, y otros
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Ranger Confidential
- Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks
- De: Andrea Lankford
- Narrado por: Julia Motyka
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,242
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,107
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,104
The real stories behind the scenery of America’s national parks. For 12 years, Andrea Lankford lived in the biggest, most impressive national parks in the world, working a job she loved. She chaperoned baby sea turtles on their journey to sea. She pursued bad guys on her galloping patrol horse. She jumped into rescue helicopters bound for the heart of the Grand Canyon. She won arguments with bears. She slept with a few too many rattlesnakes. Hell yeah, it was the best job in the world! Fortunately, Andrea survived it.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Depressing from Cover to Cover
- De Drew (@drewsant) en 04-13-15
De: Andrea Lankford
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The Grid
- The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
- De: Gretchen Bakke
- Narrado por: Emily Caudwell
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,302
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,122
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,119
The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with, a jerry-built structure now so rickety and near collapse that a strong wind or a hot day can bring it to a grinding halt. The grid is now under threat from a new source: renewable and variable energy, which puts stress on its logics as much as its components.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A disappointment
- De Ronald en 09-24-16
De: Gretchen Bakke
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Storytelling with Data
- A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
- De: Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
- Narrado por: Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
- Duración: 5 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 416
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 356
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 353
Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story. The lessons in this illuminative text are grounded in theory but made accessible through numerous real-world examples - ready for immediate application to your next graph or presentation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very insightful and actionable
- De Amazon Customer en 04-27-18
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Naked Statistics
- Stripping the Dread from the Data
- De: Charles Wheelan
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,447
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,916
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,901
From batting averages and political polls to game shows and medical research, the real-world application of statistics continues to grow by leaps and bounds. How can we catch schools that cheat on standardized tests? How does Netflix know which movies you'll like? What is causing the rising incidence of autism? As best-selling author Charles Wheelan shows us in Naked Statistics, the right data and a few well-chosen statistical tools can help us answer these questions and more.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Starts well then becomes non-Audible
- De Michael en 09-07-13
De: Charles Wheelan
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Dinosaur in a Haystack
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Total5 out of 5 stars
- Robert
- 08-03-03
Dinosaur in a Haystack:
The unabridged edition is masterpiece of collective leanings, covering a quandary of disciplines. Just to test ones vocabulary is worth this rendition of essays. Dr. Gould has over the years provided provocative and enlighten insights that have affecting our current educational protocol. From Dennis the short starting the ongoing controversy when does the century start, to the swirl of mollusk shells pertaining to publishing technique is just a brief illustration the diversity of this manuscript.
I bought the unabridged edition and plan to periodical listen for one can never absorbed 10 percent of it contents.
I highly recommend this book
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Total1 out of 5 stars
- Dawn
- 03-30-07
disappointment
I've read several Stephen Jay Gould books and loved them all. This one, however, I didn't enjoy at all. It isn't about natural history/science/nature and it's just not nearly as insightful and clever as the others I've read.
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