A smart and witty guide to all you want to know about human genetics.

Human genetics is not the playground of science alone. Genetics concerns all of us, for we all have DNA, genes, genomes, and chromosomes. Our genes determine partly our appearance and our behaviour, our talents and our health risks.

The authors of 'The Human Recipe' use humour to explain what we understand about human genetics. With anecdotes and topical examples, they demonstrate how genetics affects our everyday lives. Wh...

Gezond ouder worden, hoe doen mensen dat? Bij Healthy ageing staat het gedrag dat bijdraagt aan een zo gezond mogelijk leven centraal. Het gaat hierbij vooral om het bevorderen van zelfredzaamheid en versterken van gezond gedrag.

Bij professionals is er een groeiende behoefte aan inzichten over gezond ouder worden en aan interventies die dat ondersteunen. Healthy ageing gaat over de vraag hoe gezondheidsprofessionals gedrag kunnen bevorderen dat bijdraagt aan gezond ouder worden. Een belangri...

This unique textbook merges human rights law with its practice, from the courtroom to the battlefield. Human rights are analysed in their particular context, and the authors assess, among other things, the impact of international finance, the role of NGOs, and the protection of rights in times of emergency, including the challenges posed by counter-terrorism. In parallel, a series of interviews with practitioners, case studies and practical applications offer multiple perspectives and challen...

A stimulating new inquiry into the fundamental truth of strategy - its purpose, place, utility, and value. This new study is animated by a startling realization: the concept of strategic victory must be summarily discarded. This is not to say that victory has no place in strategy or strategic planning.

The outcome of battles and campaigns are variables within the strategist's plan, but victory is a concept that has no meaning there. To the tactical and operational planner, wars are indeed won...

Finally, a book that offers a practical yet well-researched guide for practitioners seeking to hone the way they show up in citizen space.

At a time when public trust in institutions is at its lowest, expectations of those institutions to make people well, knowledgeable, and secure are rapidly increasing. These expectations are unrealistic, causing disenchantment and disengagement among citizens and increasing levels of burnout among many professionals. Rekindling Democracy is not just a prac...

Sinds de industriële revolutie werd veel vooruitgang geboekt – denk aan welvaart en geneeskunde. Er zijn redenen om te geloven dat die trend zich door AI zal voortzetten. Toch veroorzaakt AI ook problemen als discriminatie en desinformatie. Minder bekend is dat AI talloze giftige moleculen kan produceren, dat het erg dodelijke virussen kan verspreiden, of dat het een kerncentrale kan platleggen. En wat als er AI komt waarover we geen controle hebben? Volgens Sam Altman van OpenAI en Stephe...

Augusto Boal saw theatre as a mirror to the world, one that we can reach into to change our reality. This book, The Theatre of the Oppressed, is the foundation to 'Forum Theatre', a popular radical form practised across the world. Boal's techniques allowed the people to reclaim theatre, providing forums through which they could imagine and enact social and political change.

Rejecting the Aristotelian ethic, which he believed allowed the State to remain unchallenged, he broke down the wall bet...