Cuando La máquina que cambió el mundo se publicó por primera vez, el tamaño de Toyota era la mitad del de General Motors. En la actualidad, Toyota ha superado a GM como el mayor fabricante de automóviles del mundo y es la empresa global de mayor éxito sostenido a lo largo de los últimos cincuenta años. Este clásico de la gestión empresarial fue el primer libro que sacó a la luz el sistema de producción lean de Toyota, que es la base de su éxito duradero. Reeditado actualmente con nuevos pr...

The classic, nationally bestselling book that first articulated the principles of lean production, with a new foreword and afterword by the authors.When The Machine That Changed the World was first published in 1990, Toyota was half the size of General Motors. Twenty years later Toyota passed GM as the world’s largest auto maker. This management classic was the first book to reveal Toyota’s lean production system that is the basis for its enduring success....

Cats are one of the most popular pets in the world and cat owners want advanced veterinary care. There is a growing interest in purebred cats which requires the highest quality reproductive care from the general veterinary practitioners. In Feline Reproduction, all aspects of reproduction in the queen and the tom are presented by a global author team. Beginning with basic anatomy and normal reproduction, this book reviews practical knowledge about feline pregnancy, neonatal care, breeding ...

Dualer Unterricht verschränkt fachliche und entwicklungsbezogene Inhalte miteinander und ist damit unabdingbarer Teil (sonder- und inklusions-)pädagogisch-didaktischer Arbeit. Dieser Band zielt unter Einbezug der relevanten wissenschaftlichen Bezugsdisziplinen auf eine systematische und umfassende Ausarbeitung einer Didaktik dualen Unterrichts, die Fachrichtungen sowie Bildungsorte und -gänge übergreifend Anwendung findet: Die Beiträge thematisieren Herausforderungen dieser doppelten Bildu...

An introduction to the world of quarks and leptons, and of their interactions governed by fundamental symmetries of nature, as well as an introduction to the connection that exists between worlds of the infinitesimally small and the infinitely large.The book begins with a simple presentation of the theoretical framework, the so-called Standard Model, which evolved gradually since the 1960s. The key experiments establishing it as the theory of elementary particle physics, but also i...