A volume in the popular Pattern Recognition Series, Practical Hepatic Pathology: A Diagnostic Approach features completely updated and reorganized content, resulting in a truly practical guide to understanding liver pathology. Dr. Romil Saxena presents interpretation of liver biopsies according to a pattern-based approach that begins with recognition of the predominant histological pattern of injury, followed by identification of secondary features and appropriate work-up that lead you away f...

Professional organizations - such as accounting and consulting firms, law firms, and investment banks - are fundamental to the functioning of the global economy. Yet many of the most powerful are notoriously private. This book uncovers the complex, messy, and surprisingly emotional challenges of leading professional organizations - revealing the realities that lies beneath the 'professional' surface which these organizations present to the outside world.

Individual professionals - highly educ...

Computer Vision: Principles, Algorithms, Applications, Learning (previously entitled Computer and Machine Vision) clearly and systematically presents the basic methodology of computer vision, covering the essential elements of the theory while emphasizing algorithmic and practical design constraints. This fully revised fifth edition has brought in more of the concepts and applications of computer vision, making it a very comprehensive and up-to-date text suitable for undergraduate and graduat...

150 inspiring and authentic Italian recipes for meat, poultry, and game - from the world's most trusted authority on Italian cuisine. The Italian approach to cooking with meat is to keep things straightforward and maximize the flavour. This book showcases simple, hearty dishes that are true to this tradition, from chicken cacciatore and braised beef with Barolo to osso buco and Roman lamb.

With more than 150 recipes, most published for the first time in English, it's comprehensive and authori...

An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics is a comprehensive, well-organized and engaging text covering every major area of modern astrophysics, from the solar system and stellar astronomy to galactic and extragalactic astrophysics, and cosmology. Designed to provide students with a working knowledge of modern astrophysics, this textbook is suitable for astronomy and physics majors who have had a first-year introductory physics course with calculus. Featuring a brief summary of the main scientif...

Making a case for a reflexive approach to leadership that is informed by in-depth studies of managers. The book aims to facilitate reflexivity in terms of challenging one's position - understanding of leadership - and considering alternatives.

Including nine new entries, this thoroughly revised edition provides an authoritative account of gender studies, reflecting on the complex and multi-faceted character of the field in a way that is accessible to students across the social sciences and humanities.

Veel close-ups, maar ook dieren in een landschap. Altijd een moment, of eenbeeld waarin voor dat dier iets kenmerkends te zien is. Ingedeeld in 10 themasmet bij elk thema een tekstinleiding.

Rust er op de beleggingsdienstverlener bij niet-particuliere cliënten (zoals semipublieke instellingen en het MKB) een civielrechtelijke zorgplicht? En zo ja, wat is dan de omvang van deze verplichting? De antwoorden op deze vragen volgen na een analyse van zowel de bestaande rechtspraak over de civielrechtelijke zorgplicht van de beleggingsdienstverlener als een analyse van de toezichtrechtelijke zorgplicht (waarin ook de aankomende wijzigingen uit MiFID II zijn verwerkt. Uit de analyse vo...

Regelmatig gaan bedrijven ten onder in de strijd der concurrentie. Faillissement blijkt dan vaak onvermijdelijk. Een curator wordt ingeschakeld om het vanaf daar verder over te nemen. Helaas verloopt deze overname niet altijd op rolletjes, en is fraude een veelvoorkomend probleem. Hier moest wat aan gedaan worden. Eind 2012 werd daarom het wetgevingsprogramma herijking faillissementsrecht geïntroduceerd. Dit programma rust op drie pijlers: modernisering, versterking van het reorganiserend ve...