Het handboek ‘Positieve groepsvorming’ is een naslagwerk voor iedereen in het onderwijs die met het werken met groepen meer succes wil behalen. Dat je succes kunt hebben in het werken met groepen, blijkt uit de vele (psychologische) onderzoeken van de afgelopen jaren. Groepsprocessen worden beïnvloed door vele factoren. En bij die factoren gaat het verder dan de vraag welke kinderen je bij elkaar plaatst. Het is zeker niet zo dat je vanzelf een hele lieve groep krijgt, als je dertig hele...

Studie naar hoe IT kan helpen bij lange wachttijden, slechte toegang tot juridische informatie en corruptie.

Wereldwijd klagen gebruikers van het gerecht over lange wachttijden, slechte toegang tot juridische informatie en corruptie. Deze studie onderzoekt hoe IT kan helpen bij deze klachten. Na een overzicht van de bestaande kennis beschrijft Dory Reiling de gang van zaken in de praktijk, gebaseerd op een verscheidenheid van bronnen. Kantoortechnologie heeft tot nu toe vooral een ondersteunen...

A framework for formalizing risk management thinking in today?s complex business environment Security Risk Management Body of Knowledge details the security risk management process in a format that can easily be applied by executive managers and security risk management practitioners. Integrating knowledge, competencies, methodologies, and applications, it demonstrates how to document and incorporate best-practice concepts from a range of complementary disciplines. Developed to align with Int...

At the heart of coordination chemistry lies the coordinate bond, in its simplest sense arising from donation of a pair of electrons from a donor atom to an empty orbital on a central metalloid or metal. Metals overwhelmingly exist as their cations, but these are rarely met ‘naked’ – they are clothed in an array of other atoms, molecules or ions that involve coordinate covalent bonds (hence the name coordination compounds). These metal ion complexes are ubiquitous in nature, and are cent...

The aim of the book is to be a reference book in automotive technology, as far as automotive chassis (i.e. everything that is inside a vehicle except the engine and the body) is concerned. The book is a result of a decade of work heavily sponsored by the FIAT group (who supplied material, together with other automotive companies, and sponsored the work).

The first volume deals with the design of automotive components and the second volume treats the various aspects of the design of a vehicle ...

The Challenge of Change is everyones favorite phrase these days. And for good reason. Never has the need been greater in education for reform that results in both individual and societal benefits." —From the Introduction A cohesive, multi-level approach for sustainable educational reform!With practical insights and critical analysis, this completely revised edition of The Challenge of School Change sheds new light on the widely discussed topic of school change and analyzes the concept ...

Here is an intellectual extravaganza, a dazzling history of the key institutions that have shaped and channeled knowledge in the West from the classical period to the present. Fashioned with elegance and wit, this exhilarating survey carries us through the pivotal points of institutional change and cultural transformation. It is full of memorable characters, from the flamboyant founder of the great library at Alexandria and the arrogant medieval logician Peter Abelard to the dashing global ad...

Want to learn how to create great user experiences on today's Web? In this book, UI experts Bill Scott and Theresa Neil present more than 75 design patterns for building web interfaces that provide rich interaction. Distilled from the authors' years of experience at Sabre, Yahoo!, and Netflix, these best practices are grouped into six key principles to help you take advantage of the web technologies available today. With an entire section devoted to each design principle, Designing Web Interf...

From the authors of Women Don’t Ask, the groundbreaking book that revealed just how much women lose when they avoid negotiation, here is the action plan that women all over the country requested—a guide to negotiating anything effectively using strategies that feel comfortable to you as a woman.

Whether it’s a raise, that overdue promotion, an exciting new assignment, or even extra help around the house, this four-phase program, backed by years of research and practical success, will sh...

Almost everyone has wondered at some time or another why morality requires what it appears to require and how, if at all, it speaks to us. In "Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality, " David Wiggins surveys the answers most commonly proposed for such questions-gathering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians and the post-utilitaritarian thinkers of the twentieth century. The view of morality he then proposes draws not only on Hume but on other sources as diverse as Aristotl...