A product can be manufactured in many ways, but most designers know a handful of techniques only. With specially commissioned diagrams, case studies and photographs of the manufacturing process, Making It uses contemporary design as a vehicle to describe over 120 production processes. Each process is also evaluated in terms of sustainability and its effects on the environment.

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After all, you know what a rhetorical question is, don't you?In this updated edition of his classic guide, Sam Leith traces the art of argument from ancient Greece down to its many modern mutations. He introduces verbal villains from Hitler to Donald ...

Management accounting has been the basic toolbox in business administration for decades. Today it is an integral part of all curricula in business education and no student can afford not to be familiar with its basic concepts and instruments.

l'Italia dal fascismo ad oggi: percorsi paralleli nella storia, nella letteratura e nel cinema è un testo scolastico nuovo nel suo approccio pedagogico agli studi culturali e complesso nella sua articolazione interdisciplinare in cui storia politica e sociale, saggistica, narrativa e cinema, raccontano ottantacinque anni di cultura italiana. Ricca ed originale è la selezione di fotografie storiche e manifesti politici di tutti i periodi che illustrano con efficacia iconografica le varie ide...

Everyone might have an idea about what constitutes a stable personality, but actually defining it is difficult. The same applies to the concept of a stable ship. Nevertheless, the term ‘stability’ is still applied to all types of vessels in many regulations.

Stability affects the safety of the ship and its crew, as well as the environment. Therefore, it is essential that each crew member understands the meaning of stability, irrespective of their position or which type of ship they are wo...

Van Meta profesional is ook een digitale versie verkrijgbaar, van het libro del alumno en libro de ejercicios samen. Deze licentie is online en offline te gebruiken, op verschillende apparaten.

De licentie biedt het gehele libro del alumno en libro de ejercicios, voorzien van audiolinks, een zoek- en bladerfunctie, een zoomfunctie, een markeerfunctie en de mogelijkheid om notities te maken en op te slaan.

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