Architecture & Design Audiobooks | Non-Fiction

Winning at New Products: Creating Value Through Innovation

For more than two decades, Winning at New Products has served as the bible for product developers everywhere. Robert G. Cooper demonstrates why consistent product development is vital to corporate growth and how to maximize your chances of success. Citing the author's most recent research, Winning at New Products showcases innovative practices by industry leaders to present a field-tested game plan for achieving product leadership. Cooper outlines specific strategies for making sound business decisions at every step-from idea generation to launch. This fully updated and expanded edition is an essential resource for product developers around the world. "This is a must read. There's so much new in this book, from how to generate the breakthrough ideas, picking the winners, and driving them to market successfully."-Philip Kotler, Professor of International Marketing, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management **Contact Customer Service for Additional Material**

Robert G. Cooper (Author), James Edward Thomas (Narrator)

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Lagom

Uncover the secrets of the Swedish philosophy of life called Lagom - meaning 'just enough'. At its core is the idea that we can strike a healthy balance with the world around us without having to make extreme changes, and without denying ourselves anything.This delightful book, written by Niki Brantmark, founder and curator of the award winning interior design blog, My Scandinavian Home, gives a taste of the philosophy behind Lagom and shows how to include some of the principles into our daily lives. Inspirational and fun ideas to help you achieve balance, well being and a more sustainable existence.The book is divided into three sections. Introducing Lagom to your personal life includes ideas for decluttering your home, conscious buying and embracing 'slow design'. At work take time to balance your day with a proper lunchbreak and a gadget free Sabbath, while outdoor staycations in remote settings can offer relaxation you never knew possible!Lagom at home and with our families explains the art of simple pleasures - bring a dish entertaining at home, of shared craft activities with our children and less stressed homework time! And finally there's Lagom in the wider world and the principles of living sustainably - as IKEA have pledged in their Live Lagom campaign -make some small changes like using LED lightbulbs, taking shorter showers and upcycling and you are living a Lagom life,a rewarding but responsible life; not denying yourself or sacrificing what you love, while not taking from the planet more than you need. It's just the right amount!

Niki Brantmark (Author), Ana Clements (Narrator)

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Remodel Without Going Bonkers or Broke

American homeowners know virtually nothing about how to properly remodel despite spending over $300 billion per year doing it! Well, that changes today! With this groundbreaking book, lifelong industry expert Jim Molinelli helps every homeowner master their own remodeling process. From the proper mindset, through preparing a Project Packet, identifying the right design and remodeling professionals to use, and then how to interview and negotiate with the perfect remodeler for your project -- listeners will learn it all. Molinelli, a licensed residential architect, and 24-year veteran remodeler shares his proven step by step method that helps families avoid the three critical mistakes that bring 'horror-story' results and instead achieve remodeling success! The book and audiobook are very light and conversational. Even with a fairly detailed subject matter, the presentation is actually fun and enjoyable. So take a seat and enjoy yourself as you learn how you can Remodel Without Going Bonkers or Broke!

Jim Molinelli (Author), Dalan Decker (Narrator)

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How To Build a Chicken Coop: Your Step By Step Guide To Making a Chicken Coop

If you want to learn how to build a chicken coop, then get 'How To Build a Chicken Coop'. In this step-by-step guide, you will discover the best tips to realistically build a chicken coop without having any experience. - How to build a chicken coop in 3 days. - Discover the simple and easy way to build an attractive chicken coop without spending a lot of money. - No special tools needed. - Step-by-step plan to realistically build a chicken coop while saving money at the same time. - Build your own dream chicken coop at a huge discount price compared to a store bought coop. - Keep your chickens safe, dry, healthy, and strong! - Get the best tips, tricks, and secrets to build a chicken coop over a weekend. HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.

Howexpert (Author), Lenny Bunn (Narrator)

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How To Mehndi: Your Step By Step Guide To Mehndi Designs

If you want to learn how the mehndi designs are created, then you need to check out this 'How To Mehndi' guide. In this step-by-step guide, you will reap the following benefits. - Learn the basics of drawing mehndi. - Discover and learn the various types of mehndi. - Be guided in doing 8 variety of fill-up designs. - Put the 8 fill-up designs to application as part of the main design. - Follow detailed procedure presented on how to do mehndi on the hands. - Get useful tips on how to make finishing touches. - Secrets on how to add extra colors to the design revealed. - Plus learn extra lesson on how to decorate the nails. - Methods on how to prepare the henna to be used included! - And much more. HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.

Howexpert (Author), Brie Anna Faye (Narrator)

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You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn

Born to a Jewish family in Estonia in 1901 and brought to America in 1906, the architect Louis Kahn grew up in poverty in Philadelphia; by the time of his death in 1974, he was widely recognized as one of the greatest architects of his era. Yet this enormous reputation was based on only a handful of masterpieces, all built during the last fifteen years of his life. Perfectly complementing Nathaniel Kahn's award-winning documentary, My Architect, Wendy Lesser's You Say to Brick is a major exploration of the architect's life and work. Kahn, perhaps more than any other twentieth-century American architect, was a "public" architect. Eschewing the usual corporate skyscrapers, hotels, and condominiums, he focused on medical and educational research facilities, government centers, museums, libraries, parks, religious buildings, and other structures that would serve the public good. Yet this warm, captivating person, beloved by students and admired by colleagues, was also a secretive and mysterious character hiding behind a series of masks.

Wendy Lesser (Author), Will Damron (Narrator)

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How To Make Hemp Jewelry: Your Step by Step Guide to Making Hemp Jewelry

If you want to learn how to make hemp jewelry, then get this How to Make Hemp Jewelry guide now. This is a highly informative step-by-step guide that demonstrates the fundamentals of hemp jewelry-making in a fun and whimsical way. It really connects on a personal level with the listener to give a treasure trove of information where everything is covered: from tools that are needed, to the history of macramé, to choosing beads and hemp to work with. There is even a section dedicated to dying hemp. The main focus is in teaching basic macramé knots, along with other techniques such as braiding and weaving, to give the listener a well-rounded, cognizant base on which to start making jewelry of his or her own. More advanced methods, however, are touched on throughout the guide in ways that can easily be understood by a beginner. Included are several techniques for making adjustable jewelry. You will also find numerous tips from the author on general technique, based on years of experience, in this complete and comprehensive guide for the average beginner of any age. There is something within this audiobook for everyone, whether they have been making jewelry for years or have never made a piece of jewelry in their lives. As you go through the book you will see how easy it is to learn making hemp jewelry step by step. HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.

Howexpert, Tabitha Clark (Author), Kelly Mcgee (Narrator)

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Minimalism: The Less Is More Lifestyle

Happiness and freedom through having less and embracing it. I am a minimalist in a lot of ways, and I think everyone should have at least the basic knowledge of what it contains. It's liberating, destressing, and more efficient to adopt attitudes and habits of minimalism. In this book you will find, among others: How happiness is linked directly to minimalismWays exercise self-control and emotional peace by consuming and cluttering lessWhere minimalism comes from and how it's different from simply being tidyHow minimalism leads to financial freedom and more time and moneyThoughts and messages of living the minimalist lifestyle the right wayAnd much more!

Rita Chester (Author), Tommy Jay (Narrator)

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How To Make Handmade Jewelry: Your Step-By-Step Guide To Making Handmade Jewelry

If you want to learn how to make handmade jewelry, get 'How To Make Handmade Jewelry' written by a person who has real life experience creating many different types of handmade jewelries. Ever wanted to make your own jewelry? Well now you can with this detailed and instructive guide. You’ll amaze your friends and family when you tell them that amazing jewelry piece was made by you. Complete with full color photos the author guides you through step-by-step. Even if you’ve done some jewelry making before this guide is chock full of great information. In this guide you will: - Learn the tools of the trade and the correct and incorrect way to use them. As well as safety precautions you should take when dealing with certain materials or tools. - Learn how to incorporate different materials into your jewelry such as clay, buttons, sequins and chains. - Learn how to make and use your own beading loom. - Learn to bead off the loom using both large and teeny tiny beads. - Make earrings, necklaces, bracelets, anklets, rings, pins, and pendants. The guide is specifically designed so you can jump right in to a specific project or start from the beginning. The author even gives you a list of places to find specific tools and supplies that you may need, as well as tips to help you save money in your jewelry making endeavors. About the Expert Genny Wilson has been making jewelry for about six years and has no plans to stop anytime soon. Originally starting to make a little extra cash at a local festival, she found it so enjoyable she decided to give her creations away as door prizes. “I was immediately hooked.” She says,“From the moment that I finished my first piece there was no going back.” When asked why she loved it so much the hobbyist replied, “I’ve always loved making things, I love the idea of taking a bunch of things and making something. HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z.

Genny Wilson, Howexpert (Author), Kelly Mcgee (Narrator)

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Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York

From New York magazine 's architecture critic, a walking and reading guide to New York City a historical, cultural, architectural, and personal approach to seven neighborhoods throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, including six essays that help us understand the evolution of the city For nearly a decade, Pulitzer Prize winning critic Justin Davidson has explained the ever-changing city of New York to his readers at New York magazine, introducing new buildings, interviewing architects, tracking the way the transforming urban landscape shapes who New Yorkers are. Now, his extensive, inspiring knowledge will be available to a wide audience. An insider 's guide to the architecture and planning of New York that includes maps, photographs, and original insights from the men and women who built the city and lived in it its designers, visionaries, artists, writers Magnetic City offers first-time visitors and lifelong residents a new way to see New York. Includes walking tours throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx • the Financial District • the World Trade Center • the Seaport and the Brooklyn waterfront • Chelsea and the High Line • 42nd Street • the Upper West Side • the South Bronx and Sugar Hill Praise for Magnetic City 'An enthralling new book makes clear that I 'm not alone in my home-town infatuation. Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York by New York magazine architecture critic Justin Davidson lends nuance, texture and historical perspective to my impression that New York City has never been so appealing or life-affirming as it is today.' New York Post '[Justin Davidson] combines a keen intelligence, experience, observational skills, expertise (especially but not solely architectural), and an elegant writing style to make this beautifully produced book indispensable.' Booklist (starred review) 'A street-level celebration of New York City in all 'its perpetual complexity and contradiction ' . . . A worthy companion to Alfred Kazin 's A Walker in the City and the American Institute of Architects guides to the architecture of New York as well as a treat for fans of the metropolis.' Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 'Justin Davidson does more than direct our feet to New York 's hidden monuments. He explains the structure of the city with a clarity that would be bracing even for a Gotham habitué, but more than that, he finds the meaning in every building and byway.' Andrew Solomon, National Book Award-winning author of Far from the Tree 'Mr. Davidson 's exceptional knowledge of our beloved city is inspiring. Magnetic City is now my official chaperone.' Patti LuPone 'Justin Davidson has a mind alive to every signal, and his brilliant prose style transmits that electricity in black-and-white type. He is thus born to the task of capturing the chaotic splendor of New York City on the page.' Alex Ross, author of Listen to This 'Justin Davidson 's beautiful tours of New York City invoke and redouble our love of the metropolis. His observations of landmarks, in-between places, and layered histories, delivered by an amazing kindred-spirit of architecture, make us feel like royal presences in the city.' Jerry Saltz, senior art critic, New York 'A fascinating and insightful companion for a walking tour of New York City. . . . A book worthy of the 21st century flaneur!' Daniel Libeskind

Justin Davidson (Author), Eliza Foss, Justin Davidson (Narrator)

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Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives

One of the nation’s chief architecture critics reveals how the environments we build profoundly shape our feelings, memories, and well-being, and argues that we must harness this knowledge to construct a world better suited to human experience. Taking us on a fascinating journey through some of the world’s best and worst landscapes, buildings, and cityscapes, Sarah Williams Goldhagen draws from recent research in cognitive neuroscience and psychology to demonstrate how people’s experiences of the places they build are central to their well-being, their physical health, their communal and social lives, and even their very sense of themselves. From this foundation, Goldhagen presents a powerful case that societies must use this knowledge to rethink what and how they build: the world needs better-designed, healthier environments that address the complex range of human individual and social needs. By 2050 America’s population is projected to increase by nearly seventy million people. This will necessitate a vast amount of new construction—almost all in urban areas—that will dramatically transform our existing landscapes, infrastructure, and urban areas. Going forward, we must do everything we can to prevent the construction of exhausting, overstimulating environments and enervating, understimulating ones. Buildings, landscapes, and cities must both contain and spark associations of natural light, greenery, and other ways of being in landscapes that humans have evolved to need and expect. Fancy exteriors and dramatic forms are never enough, and may not even be necessary; authentic textures and surfaces, and careful, well-executed construction details are just as important. Welcome to Your World is a vital, eye-opening guide to the spaces we inhabit, physically and mentally, and a clarion call to design for human experience.

Sarah Williams Goldhagen (Author), Andrea Gallo (Narrator)

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Castles: Their History and Evolution in Medieval Britain

Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the seventeenth, Marc Morris explores many of the country's most famous castles, as well as some spectacular lesser-known examples. At times this is an epic tale, driven by characters like William the Conqueror, King John, and Edward I, full of sieges and conquest on an awesome scale. But it is also by turns an intimate story of less eminent individuals, whose adventures, struggles, and ambitions were reflected in the fortified residences they constructed. Be it ever so grand or ever so humble, a castle was first and foremost a home. To understand castles-who built them, who lived in them, and why-is to understand the forces that shaped medieval Britain.

Marc Morris (Author), Derek Perkins (Narrator)

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Architecture & Design Audiobooks in Non-Fiction