Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Books narrated by Kat Holmes

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results
Skip side bar filters
  • Mismatch

    How Inclusion Shapes Design

    by Kat Holmes ...
    Series series Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life
    How inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work for all.Sometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for left-handed people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that only works for people who read English phrases, have 20/20 vision, and use a credit card. Something as simple as color choices can render a product unusable for millions ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Mismatch

    How Inclusion Shapes Design

    by Kat Holmes ...
    Narrated by Kat Holmes ...
    Series series Design, Technology, Business, Life

    Unabridged

    3 hours 47 min

    Sometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for left-handed people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that only works for people who read English phrases, have 20/20 vision, and use a credit card. These mismatches are the building blocks of exclusion. In Mismatch, Kat Holmes describes how design can lead to exclusion, and how design can also remedy ... Read more

    $19.22 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Changemakers

    How Leaders Can Design Change in an Insanely Complex World

    Today's radically complex problems require people to lead with design.Changemakers is an essential playbook for designers and nondesigners who want to drive change at work, at home, and in their communities. Groundbreaking designers Maria Giudice and Christopher Ireland—armed with insights from some of today's top minds in business, tech, and social justice—offer a pragmatic, people–centered ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Changemakers

    How Leaders Can Design Change in an Insanely Complex World

    Unabridged

    6 hours 42 min

    Today's radically complex problems require people to lead with design.Changemakers is an essential playbook for designers and nondesigners who want to drive change at work, at home, and in their communities. Groundbreaking designers Maria Giudice and Christopher Ireland—armed with insights from some of today's top minds in business, tech, and social justice—offer a pragmatic, people–centered ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reviving Rhetoric Across the Curriculum

    A Guide for Teachers and School Leaders

    A timeless tool for effective communication, civic participation and a means to deciphering the human condition, rhetoric is now enjoying a revival in schools. This book positions rhetoric as an essential component of the curriculum, helping learners to read and think critically, listen actively and speak persuasively. It shows how rhetoric empowers young people with the knowledge and skills to ... Read more

    Free

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Audiobook

    Building For Everyone

    Expand Your Market With Design Practices From Google's Product Inclusion Team

    Narrated by Janina Edwards ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 42 min

    Establishing diverse and inclusive organizations is an economic imperative for every industry. Any business that isn't reaching a diverse market is missing out on enormous revenue potential and the opportunity to build products that suit their users' core needs. The economic "why" has been firmly established, but what about the "how?" How can business leaders adapt to our ever-more-diverse world ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    What Can a Body Do?

    How We Meet the Built World

    by Sara Hendren ...
    Narrated by Sara Hendren ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 12 min

    **Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and LitHubWinner of the 2021 Science in Society Journalism Book PrizeA fascinating and provocative new way of looking at the things we use and the spaces we inhabit, and a call to imagine a better-designed world for us all.**Furniture and tools, kitchens and campuses and city streets—nearly everything human beings make and use is assistive technology, meant ... Read more

    $23.00 CAD

  • Building For Everyone

    Expand Your Market With Design Practices From Google's Product Inclusion Team

    Diversity and Inclusion to build better products from the front lines at GoogleEstablishing diverse and inclusive organizations is an economic imperative for every industry. Any business that isn’t reaching a diverse market is missing out on enormous revenue potential and the opportunity to build products that suit their users' core needs. The economic “why” has been firmly established, but what ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded

    Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter

    Named one of 100 Leadership & Success Books to Read in a Lifetime by Amazon EditorsThe world’s most trusted guide for leaders in transitionTransitions are a critical time for leaders. In fact, most agree that moving into a new role is the biggest challenge a manager will face. While transitions offer a chance to start fresh and make needed changes in an organization, they also place leaders in a ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Virtue Ethics

    Edited by Daniel C. Russell ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Virtue ethics has emerged from a rich history, in which both Aristotle and Aquinas have played an important role, to become one of the fastest-growing fields in contemporary ethics. In this volume of newly commissioned essays, leading moral philosophers offer a comprehensive overview of virtue ethics. They examine the theoretical structure of virtue ethics and its place in contemporary moral ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • Six Simple Rules

    How to Manage Complexity without Getting Complicated

    New tools for managing complexityDoes your organization manage complexity by making things more complicated? If so, you are not alone.According to The Boston Consulting Group’s fascinating Complexity Index, business complexity has increased sixfold during the past sixty years. And, all the while, organizational complicatedness-that is, the number of structures, processes, committees, decision ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Defence Of The School

    A Public Issue

    As a painfully outdated institution the school is accused of: being alienating, closing itself off to society and to the needs of young people; reproducing social inequality and consolidating existing power relations; demotivating youth; showing a lack of effectiveness and having great difficulty with employability. And last but not least, the school is considered redundant: the school, where ... Read more

    Free