Based on research conducted in more than seventy countries over a forty-year span,Cultures and Organizations examines what drives people apart-when cooperationis so clearly in everyone's interest. With major new contributions from MichaelMinkov's analysis of data from the World Values Survey, as well as an account ofthe evolution of cultures by Gert Jan Hofstede.

Operations may not run the world, but it makes the world run! To truly understand the way a business operates, you need to get your hands dirty -- that's how you get to appreciate what's actually happening within an organization. Looking inside for the answers is what Operations Management is all about. Learn from world-leading experts Nigel Slack, Alistair Brandon-Jones and Nicola Burgess and benefit from their wealth of experience helping improve businesses of all shapes and sizes.

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Develop your strategic thinking, tackle real-world challenges and develop the skills to think and behave like a manager. With over a million copies sold worldwide, Exploring Strategy by Whittington, Angwin, Regner, Johnson, and Scholes is the essential introduction to strategy for managers of today and tomorrow, tackling the hottest and most up-to-date issues regarding the operation of organisations. The latest 13th edition is renewed and revised according to the latest developments in the fi...

The derivation of structural information from spectroscopic data is now an integral part of organic chemistry courses at all Universities. A critical part of any such course is a suitable set of problems to develop the students' understanding of how organic structures are determined from spectra. The book builds on the very successful teaching philosophy of learning by hands-on problem solving; carefully graded examples build confidence and develop and consolidate a student's understanding of...

This concise book contains all you'll ever need to know about perspective drawing. In twenty masterfully organized chapters, from simple to complex, the author explains the basics and not-so-basics of perspective drawing. He includes suggestions on how to make your drawings a lot simpler, drawing methods for observation and space division, a "Remember" section at the end of each chapter in which he summarizes the most important information and principles presented in that chapter, and a "Prob...

Starting with the basics of game creation and a look at the artistic skills necessary to get started, this title offers key roles for creators - from concept artists to character animators to marketing artists and beyond. It also features interviews with video game art professionals who've worked for top gaming companies.

In How to Become a Video Game Artist, veteran video game designer Sam R. Kennedy provides the inside track on everything you need to forge a career in the world of video gam...

For the calculus-based General Physics course primarily taken by engineers and science majors (including physics majors). This long-awaited and extensive revision maintains Giancoli's reputation for creating carefully crafted, highly accurate and precise physics texts. Physics for Scientists and Engineers combines outstanding pedagogy with a clear and direct narrative and applications that draw the student into the physics.

The new edition also features an unrivaled suite of media and on-line...

- De aanpak Design Thinking vertaald naar een eenvoudig toepasbaar model;

- bevat een uitgebreid deel over tooling en gereedschap;

- duidelijke koppeling tussen de theorie en de designpraktijk.

Hedendaagse organisaties zien zich geconfronteerd met complexe problemen en vraagstukken die niet langer eenduidig en eenvoudig te definiëren zijn. Bij het adequaat inspelen op deze maatschappelijke vraagstukken komt de creatieve oplossingsstrategie die Design Thinking biedt goed van pas. Dit boek ont...

- Al jaren een toonaangevend studieboek binnen het hoger juridisch onderwijs;

- toegankelijk geschreven en voorzien van vele aansprekende praktijkvoorbeelden;

- bevat duidelijke schema’s, margewoorden en samenvattingen.

Basisboek Recht zet de belangrijkste rechtsgebieden en beginselen van het Nederlands recht voor je uiteen. Het duidelijke taalgebruik, de aansprekende praktische voorbeelden en verhelderende rechterlijke uitspraken maken het boek uitermate toegankelijk.

Het boek is uitermate...

- Totaalbeeld van de wereld van financieel management en investerings- en projectanalyse;

- integrale behandeling van het vakgebied;

- centrale aspecten: waarderen, financieren en risicobeheer.

Grote investeringsprojecten worden steeds complexer en internationaler. De risicoprofielen wisselen voortdurend en er zijn veel verschillende stakeholders. Met Financieel management en Financiering krijgen studenten een totaalbeeld van de wereld van financieel management en investerings- en projectanal...