Oh, how fun and exciting at the same time that you are about to start Catechesis. As a beginner it is more than logical that you walk around with many questions. Catechesis is a Bible study for beginners. For young and old. Easy to use at school, at church, at home with your family. You can also use it in a prayer group, as well as for self-study. The author of this textbook is Brigitte Holband and she wants to pass on the content of the Christian faith in a contemporary way to future generat...

Why is American labour law so different from the law in other states? And can we expect in the nearby future changes in the present state of American Labour Law? This textbook tries to find the answer by exploring the background of labour law, the size, geographical situation, population, culture and economic data of the USA.

A rock-solid pricing policy is the key to profitable growth. Don't let the market determine your prices and make sure that customers are willing to pay what you ask.

Price is the main profit driver. A percent price increase yields much more than a percent cost reduction or a percent volume increase. But how do you know what the right price is? In this book you will discover step by step how to set attractive prices based on the value you provide to your customers. This will give you pricing ...

Many businesses utilize only 50% or less of their growth potential. While ambitious businessleaders strongly believe in their product, they often struggle to come up with the right plan to accelerate growth. In this book, former McDonald's top executive and serial entrepreneur René H. Savelberg reveals his framework for organising and accelerating business growth.

Find out how the companies we know and love, grow their business by thinking and doing things differently. And how you can do th...

Waking up to the idea of a post-growth society, Rotterdam Ripresa presents a city that aims to amend instead of renew, accepting not just the pleasant past, but also the impudent present. To find the new in the old may well be the most sustainable thing of all. Can a city change while remaining the same?

Rotterdam Ripresa adopts an alternative method towards the production of new visions for the city. An urbanism of fragmentary intervention as a cadavre exquis where authorship is deluded rath...

Although we often think of law and the legal system as abstract things, they are not: law is people’s work, made concrete and filled with life by those who draft, interpret, apply, and enforce it, and also by those who reflect on it and teach it. Therefore, how well Indonesia’s legal system works, whether it succeeds in fully implementing the rule of law, and whether it brings justice to Indonesia’s diverse people depends on its jurists, and thereby ultimately on the quality of its lega...

“What exactly is the arranged marriage?” That is the central question that this book evolves around. The author argues that the arranged marriage is often misrepresented in academic literature as it is generally analyzed through a Eurocentric lens. This is not neutral lens. The Eurocentric frame perceives the free-choice marriage system as the ideal. As a result, the arranged marriage is perceived to be a lesser marital tradition, a “marriage of shortcomings”, one that fails to meet t...

This text was presented as inaugural speech, held on the occasion of accepting the chair of Social Resilience and Security with a study focus on Violence and Interventions at Leiden University on May 30, 2022.

The prevalence of the rules and practices on the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments gradually blurs the dividing line between ‘recognition’ and ‘enforcement’.

However, recognition is not an afterthought of enforcement. Recognition of Foreign Judgments explores how the courts in the selected jurisdictions, namely the European Union, England and Wales, and the United States, decide whether and to what extent to grant some preclusive effects to foreign judgments, while giv...

In a globalizing world, national borders are frequently crossed. Moreover, flexibility is a key skill in the knowledge economy of the 21st century. Accordingly, an increasing number of workers can be labelled as ‘highly mobile’, which are persons that combine various forms of work (on-call contracts, employment agency work, platform-work, teleworking etc.) that are carried out in several countries.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of a current and pressing problem for an increasing...