This volume provides a history of the computer which now comes properly up to the ubiquitous age, with new chapters that look at globalization, platformitization and regulation, allowing readers to engage with the more recent takeover by computers in their historical perspective. With the growing ubiquity of computers, the subject is one of interest to many students and this will feature in history of science and technology courses, and world history courses as well as ones specifically on co...

Door de toenemende globalisering zijn sociale tolken meer dan ooit belangrijk om de communicatiekloof te dichten. Voor mensen die een beroep doen op sociale tolken in noodsituaties, is hun hulp vaak van levensbelang. Sociale tolken zijn immers een onzichtbare brug tussen het verhaal van de cliënt en de dienstverlening van de hulpverlener. Daarbij is het belangrijk dat de tolk neutraal blijft en de vertaling zo letterlijk mogelijk houdt. In Horen, zien en tolken systematiseert Raïssa De Keys...

New Contemporary Chinese, a complete textbook series, is tailored for adult learners of the Chinese language. The series includes four volumes, with each volume consisting of a Textbook, an Exercise Book and the corresponding Teacher's Book, Supplementary Reading Materials, Testing Materials, Character Writing Workbook, and multimedia teaching resources. Volume 1 and Volume 2 each contains a Character Book. New Contemporary Chinese aims to develop the learners' comprehensive abilities of list...

New Contemporary Chinese, a complete textbook series, is tailored for adult learners of the Chinese language. The series includes four volumes, with each volume consisting of a Textbook, an Exercise Book and the corresponding Teacher's Book, Supplementary Reading Materials, Testing Materials, Character Writing Workbook, and multimedia teaching resources. Volume 1 and Volume 2 each contains a Character Book. New Contemporary Chinese aims to develop the learners' comprehensive abilities of list...

In deze Boom Basics staat het Omgevinsgrecht centraal.

De Boom Basics geven je snel inzicht in een rechtsgebied. Door de duidelijke schema’s, de puntsgewijze uitleg en de sprekende voorbeelden kom je direct tot de kern van de zaak. Perfect voor tentamenvoorbereiding of een snelle opfrissing van je kennis!

De Boom Basics zijn bestemd voor studenten die een juridische opleiding volgen aan een universiteit of hogeschool.

De stad Venetië heeft altijd tot de verbeelding gesproken. Religie,

rechtspraak, literatuur en beeldende kunst van deze lagunestad zijn

gevormd door de culturen uit het oostelijke Middellandse Zeegebied.

Eeuwenlang was de invloed van de Arabische en Byzantijnse rijken

beeldbepalend. Met hun inname van Constantinopel in 1453 maakten

de Osmaanse Turken definitief de dienst uit in de regio. Er ontstond

een haat-liefdeverhouding die zich uitte in talrijke oorlogen, maar

ook bijvoorbeeld in de na...

A treatment of the transport and transfer processes of heat, mass and momentum in terms of their analogy. The processes are described with the help of macro and micro balances which in many cases lead to differential equations. This way, the textbook also prepares for Computational Fluid Dynamics techniques.

The topics of the five chapters of the textbook are: Balances: shape and recipe, mass balance, residence time distribution, energy and heat balances, Bernoulli equation, momentum balances...

Wilkins' Clinical Practice of the Dental Hygienist, Fourteenth Edition progresses through crucial topics in dental hygiene in a straightforward format to ensure students develop the knowledge and skills they need for successful, evidence-based practice in today's rapidly changing oral health care environment. This cornerstone text, used in almost every dental hygiene education program in the country, has been meticulously updated by previous co-authors, Linda Boyd, and Lisa Mallonee to even b...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring We live today in an interconnected world in which ordinary people can became instant online celebrities to millions of fans thousands of miles away, in which religious leaders can influence billions globally, in which humans are altering the climate and environment, in which new infectious diseases spread across continents at lightning speed, and in which complex social forces are increasingly impacted by digital technology. This is global...