Multiple Shingo Award-winning management and operations expert Jeffrey K. Liker provides a deep dive into Toyota's world-changing processes, showing how you can learn from it to develop your own improvement program that fits your conditions. Thanks in large part to this book, managers across the globe are creating workforces and systems that produce the highest-quality products and services, establish and retain customer loyalty, and drive business profitability and sustainability. Now, Li...

"An absolutely brutal novella that had me squirming in my chair." - Hunter Shea, author of We Are Always WatchingHow far would you go for revenge?When a six-year-old girl is abused and left for dead by a pedophile known only as the "Rabbit Man" due to the claw marks left on her body, police follow every lead but reach only dead ends.Hungry for justice, her grieving father abandons wife and child on a harrowing journey deep undercover into M...

Orcs and elves come streaming out of portals. People lose their grip and are transformed into afflicted. If this is a zombie apocalypse, it's a pretty weird one.The rules are simple: kill an orc or anything else—gain life energy, reducing your chances of becoming a walking corpse. But fail—and become a zombie, AKA an afflicted.Oh well . . . I wanted the system to come—now I got it. I ended up with a sweet specialty, too! Let the games begin!

My name is Alan Ashe, Third Sergeant, Fleet Marines, attached to CST-148 (Cyborg Support Team 148).... I was born on Sept. 2, 2324, in Washington State, Earth.... I died on Jan. 28, 2351, on the planet Insubri in the Pegasus Spur.... I was reborn on Feb. 17, 2351, at the Combined Allied Hospital at Cygnus Station on the planet Manados.When Alan Ashe died and his sur...

I'm just a plug-and-play, Brain-in-a-Box undercover operative . . . and the best line of defense Humanity has to offer.For as long as I last. I'm The Last Cyborg.Fleet Marine Sergeant Alan Ashe thought his Cyborg life was over after his last assignment. After all, he helped Humanity win the war against the Azincor. How about a little time off to savor the moment?But, NO! It seems the powers-that-be ...

"Get to the choppa!"Welcome to the movie Predator . . . Adam Cain style!When the hunter becomes the hunted . . . and then back again. Adam Cain is getting too old for this shit.Sure, he only looks to be around thirty, but this is his second lifetime, and he's getting a little tired of always having to kick alien ass. Besi...

Marc Wilson is not giving up. He is determined to turn around the struggling family company and keep it, despite his father's decision to sell. The problem is that they are late on more and more projects and their customers won't tolerate it anymore. Marc is looking everywhere for a solution, when in one of his MBA classes he comes across a unique approach that views operations in terms of flow.The concept of flow is straightforward. It's easy to visualize the stream of projects go...

You’ve never heard of Roman Ganzha. But if you lived or worked in America between 1997 and 2016, there’s a good chance he stole from you.The Spider King is the never-before-told true story of a Ukrainian child prodigy who became one of the most dangerous cybercriminals and real-world operators in modern history. By age twelve, Roman Ganzha was hacking government systems. By his twenties, he was earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a week for the Russia...

Becoming Clark Rockefeller delves into the life of a young immigrant entangled in a multi-generational murder investigation ensnaring some of the wealthiest Americans. Posing as bogus aristocrat Clark Rockefeller, he duped the affluent, leaving a trail of deception and national headlines in his wake.Yet the story would grow even more sinister. In 1985, Linda Sohus, a talented, outgoing artist, and her husband John, a computer geek with dreams of space, mysteriously vanishe...

In this advisedly optimistic book, Rewiring Democracy, security technologist Bruce Schneier and data scientist Nathan Sanders cut through the AI hype and examine the myriad ways that AI is transforming every aspect of democracy—for both good and ill.The authors describe how the sophistication of AI will fulfill demands from lawmakers for more complex legislation, reducing deference to the executive branch and altering the balance of power between lawmakers and administrato...

Virginia loves her new life in Montana. That's about to change.James Devery has fallen in love with his boss's wife, the glamorous Mrs. Eastman. He dreams about her. He writes about her. He wants to be with her forever.But that won't be easy. Because James is just a young builder's apprentice, hired to work on the Eastmans' enormous mansion.On the surface, it seems James doesn't stand a chance. And yet . . . he suspects Mrs. Eastman isn't entirely h...

This is the movie Con-Air in Space . . . as only Adam Cain can live it.He's simply hitching a ride aboard a Unidor Prisoner Transport when everything goes to Hell.Now it's Adam Cain against . . . everyone. Too bad for . . . everyone.Adam Cain—AKA: The Human for Hire—has a simple assignment: Ride along with a starship full of hardened criminals being transferred to Tactori for disposition of their cases....