'Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The TimesA band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'.

Het werkboek Keukenassistent behoort tot de vernieuwde methode voor SVH Keukenassistent (KAS). Deze methode bestaat uit een the­o­rieboek, een werk­boek, een set instructiekaarten en instructiefilms in de online leeromgeving. Het werkboek geeft een helder overzicht van de te leren praktijkhandelingen en is een echt oefen-boek. Het bevat verschillende vragen en opdrachten waarbij op een speelse manier wordt gekeken of de stof uit het theorieboek wordt begrepen. De vragen in het werkboek vol...

Wat is de rol van verhalen in organisaties? Welke verschillende werkelijkheden nemen we waar? Hoe ontdekken we veelal onbewuste patronen in organisaties? Hoe kunnen we deze patronen benutten en veranderen? In Hun zien het verkeerd reflecteert Steven de Groot op de rol van verhalen in organisaties aan de hand van acht alledaagse situaties zoals een vergadering, een ICT-implementatie of de eeuwige ambities van de afdeling P&O. Om vervolgens stil te staan bij de mechanismen en patronen die deze ...

The study of Islamic philosophy has entered a new and exciting phase in the last few years. Both the received canon of Islamic philosophers and the narrative of the course of Islamic philosophy are in the process of being radically questioned and revised. Most twentieth-century Western scholarship on Arabic or Islamic philosophy has focused on the period from the ninth century to the twelfth.

It is a measure of the transformation that is currently underway in thefield that, unlike other refer...

The Social Contract, originally published as On the Social Contract; or, Principles of Political Rights by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is a 1762 book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society, which he had already identified in his Discourse on Inequality (1754). The Social Contract helped inspire political reforms or revolutions in Europe, especially in France. The Social Contract argued against the idea tha...

For one-semester courses in human anatomy. A functional approach to human anatomy Human Anatomy, the #1 best-selling textbook for the human anatomy course, is widely regarded as the most readable and visually accessible book on the market. Using a functional anatomy theme, the text presents human anatomy as a well-illustrated "story" with the right amount of detail that learners can understand at an introductory level.

Analogies and comparative descriptions make anatomical structures more mem...

Develop your understanding of how to use similar steps in your problem-solving approaches For courses in calculus-based physics. University Physics with Modern Physics, 15th edition, now in SI Units, is known for its clear and accessible approach to physics. With its step-by-step guidance and variety of problem types, the textbook will help you solve the most complex problems in physics.

This edition draws on insights from several users to help you see patterns and make connections between pr...

This textbook covers the entire Business Process Management (BPM) lifecycle, from process identification to process monitoring, covering along the way process modelling, analysis, redesign and automation. Concepts, methods and tools from business management, computer science and industrial engineering are blended into one comprehensive and inter-disciplinary approach. The presentation is illustrated using the BPMN industry standard defined by the Object Management Group and widely endorsed by...

If you're one of the many developers uncertain about concurrent and multithreaded development, this practical cookbook will change your mind. With more than 75 code-rich recipes, author Stephen Cleary demonstrates parallel processing and asynchronous programming techniques, using libraries and language features in .NET and C#.