Renowned, bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk takes us behind the scenes of the writing life, with postcards from decades on the road and incredible examination of the power of fiction and the art of storytelling.

In this spellbinding blend of memoir and insight, bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk shares stories and generous advice on what makes writing powerful and what makes for powerful writing.

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Business Accounting and Finance, Fifth Edition, provides a clear, straightforward introduction to key management and financial accounting topics. In this new edition, a wealth of examples and real-life cases from well-known organizations, such as Lloyds, Tesco, Experian and Burberry, bring theory to life and prepare students for a successful career in the workplace.

Wat is er nodig om een werkomgeving te realiseren die mens en organisatie in staat stelt om prettig, effectief en efficiënt te werken? Deze vraag vormde in 2006 het startpunt voor een gezamenlijk initiatief van het Center for People and Buildings en de Rijksgebouwendienst om een eerste werkplekwijzer te publiceren. De publicatie diende als praktische gids en inspiratiebron voor iedereen die op de een of andere manier betrokken is bij het denken over en ontwikkelen van nieuwe werkomgevingen. ...

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Chemical Engineering Design: Principles, Practice and Economics of Plant and Process Design is one of the best-known and most widely adopted texts available for students of chemical engineering. The text deals with the application of chemical engineering principles to the design of chemical processes and equipment. The third edition retains its hallmark features of scope, clarity and practical emphasis, while providing the latest US codes and standards, including API, ASME and ISA design code...

Robotic vision, the combination of robotics and computer vision, involves the application of computer algorithms to data acquired from sensors. The research community has developed a large body of such algorithms but for a newcomer to the field this can be quite daunting. For over 20 years the author has maintained two open-source MATLAB (R) Toolboxes, one for robotics and one for vision.

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LES exercices de grammaire niveau A2 propose :- une démarche d'observation et de découverte de la règle, associée à un entraînement intensif- plus de 500 exercices avec des contenus conformes au référentiel du niveau A1 du Cadre européen commun de référence.Pour chaque chapitre : - des corpus accompagnés d'activités simples pour faire deviner la règle,- des illustrations pour faciliterla compréhension,- des exercices variés, progressifs et contextualisés,- un vocabulaire adap...

Bringing this best-selling textbook right up to date, the new edition uniquely integrates the theories and methods that drive the fields of biology, biotechnology and medicine, comprehensively covering both the techniques students will encounter in lab classes and those that underpin current key advances and discoveries. The contents have been updated to include both traditional and cutting-edge techniques most commonly used in current life science research. Emphasis is placed on understandin...

Organized around 55 specific guidelines, each of which describes a way to write better C++, this book reflects on modern design considerations, including exceptions, design patterns, and multithreading. It also provides guidance on the design of effective classes, functions, templates, and inheritance hierarchies.

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