Objective, critical, optimistic, and with a global focus, this textbook combines international relations theory, history, up-to-date research, and current affairs to give students a comprehensive, unbiased understanding of international politics. It integrates theory and traditional approaches with globalization and research on such topics as terrorism, new economic superpowers, and global communications and social networking to offer unusual breadth and depth for an undergraduate course. The...

For courses in Software Engineering, Software Development, or Object-Oriented Design and Analysis at the Junior/Senior or Graduate level. This text can also be utilized in short technical courses or in short, intensive management courses. Shows students how to use both the principles of software engineering and the practices of various object-oriented tools, processes, and products.

Using a step-by-step case study to illustrate the concepts and topics in each chapter, Bruegge and Dutoit empha...

For an undergraduate introductory level course in humanities. An introduction to the world's major civilizations. This Fourth Edition is an introduction to the world's major civilizations-to their artistic achievements, their history, and their cultures.

Through an integrated approach to the humanities, Arts and Culture offers an opportunity to view works of art, read literature, and listen to music in historical and cultural contexts. In studying the humanities, we focus our attention on wor...

Social media has come to deeply penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define many of our daily habits of communication and creative production. The Culture of Connectivity studies the rise of social media in the first decade of the twenty-first century up until 2012, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major platforms in the context of a rapidly changing ecosystem of connective media. Such history is needed to understand h...

For courses in options, futures, and derivatives.

To be financially literate in today's market, business students must have a solid understanding of derivatives concepts and instruments and the uses of those instruments in corporations. The Third Edition has an accessible mathematical presentation, and more importantly, helps students gain intuition by linking theories and concepts together with an engaging narrative that emphasizes the core economic principles underlying the pricing and use...

In religious studies, theory and method research has long been embroiled in a polarized debate over scientific versus theological perspectives. Ronald L. Grimes shows that this debate has stagnated, due in part to a manner of theorizing too far removed from the study of actual religious practices.

A worthwhile theory, according to Grimes, must be practice-oriented, and practices are most effectively studied by field research methods. The Craft of Ritual Studies melds together a systematic the...

An accessible guide for all teachers and trainee teachers in FE. It considers what is means to teach Higher Education courses in Further Education and how an HE environment can be created in an FE setting.

In dit boek past Eliyahu Goldratt de TOC (Theory Of Constraints)-principes toe op projectmanagement. Hij doet dit in de vorm van een roman, een benaderingswijze die in 'Het doel' al bijzonder effectief bleek. 'De zwakste schakel' is een vlot geschreven business-roman die gaat over hoe projecten succesvol kunnen worden afgerond, binnen de gestelde tijd en het budget en zonder compromissen.

Wie ben je werkelijk? Wat maakt jou uniek? Hoe kun je je leven leiden op een manier die bij jou past? Het Human Design-systeem gaat ervan uit dat je mogelijkheden en grenzen al vastliggen op het moment dat je geboren wordt. Ben je op emoties gericht of handel je juist heel zakelijk? Ben je een ondernemer of kun je beter afwachten tot je ergens voor gevraagd wordt? Wat is jouw unieke rol in het grotere geheel?Aan de hand van je geboortedatum en -tijd geeft het Human Design-systeem je een handl...

Decubitus (doorliggen) vormt een groot probleem binnen de gezondheidszorg. Het komt veel voor, leidt tot veel ongemak en pijn bij de patiënt en tot grote kosten voor de gezondheidszorg. De laatste jaren is de kennis over decubitus fors toegenomen. Het handboek Decubitus te lijf biedt verpleegkundigen een up–to–date overzicht van alle relevante informatie over dit onderwerp.In Decubitus te lijf wordt preventie van decubitus behandeld vanuit de rol van zorgverlener, professional, regisseur...