Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that it never dies peacefully. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world.

The "Four Horsemen" of leveling-mass-mobilization warf...

Newly organized and featuring new editors and hundreds of new images, Peters' Atlas of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Seventh Edition, brings you up to date with today's greatest challenges in tropical medicine. Increased global travel, climate change, human conflict, short-term/large-scale human assemblies, potent therapeutic agents, drug resistance, and vaccine misinformation have contributed to a greatly changed landscape in this complex field. This practical, highly visual guide prov...

Business Partner is an eight-level business English course that teaches real-world language and business skills.

- Authentic videos with expert commentary on key business topics.

- Innovative video-based communication skills training.

- Practical training in functional business skills.

- Financial Times content on a wide variety of topics.

- A flexible, modular approach to personalise what students learn.

- Multiple opportunities to work on realistic case studies.

Infecties zijn op de intensive care veelvoorkomend. Patiënten worden met een infectie opgenomen, of kunnen een infectie oplopen op de intensive care. Ernstige sepsis en septische shock zijn belangrijke doodsoorzaken bij intensive care patiënten. Antibiotica zijn effectieve medicijnen indien tijdig toegediend en ook passend bij de bacterie die de infectie veroorzaakt. Infecties - bacteriën - antibiotica zijn dus een drie-eenheid, die voor een effectieve behandeling gedegen kennis behoeft. D...

A synthesis of biomechanics and neural control that draws on recent advances in robotics to address control problems solved by the human sensorimotor system. This book proposes a transdisciplinary approach to investigating human motor control that synthesizes musculoskeletal biomechanics and neural control. The authors argue that this integrated approach-which uses the framework of robotics to understand sensorimotor control problems-offers a more complete and accurate description than either...

"Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown... I want to write the history of that war. A women's history."

In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich set out to write her first book, The Unwomanly Face of War, when she realized that she grew up surrounded by women who had fought in the Second World War but whose stories were absent from official n...

For undergraduate Principles of Marketing courses. Real people making real choices Marketing: Real People, Real Choices is the only text to introduce marketing from the perspective of real people, who make real marketing decisions, at leading companies every day. Timely, relevant, and dynamic, this reader-friendly text shows students how marketing concepts are implemented, and what they really mean in the marketplace.

The 9th Edition presents more information than ever on the core issues ever...

This is the ultimate book on what is now an established methodology in teaching the fundamentals of communication to children and adults who have severe learning difficulties or autism.

Dit boek geeft een actueel en praktisch beeld van gangbare besturingstechnieken en is gebaseerd op de industriële praktijk.

Onderwerpen die aan de orde komen zijn:

- Inleiding in de besturingstechniek.

- Uitvoerorganen.

- Pneumatische en elektrische signaalgevers.

- Pneumatische en elektrische besturingen.

- Logische basisfuncties.

- Elektro-pneumatische en elektro-hydraulische schakelingen.

- PLC-besturingen.

- Volgorde processen.

- Gebruik van een bewegings- en functiediagram.

- Geheugens,...