As the workbook for use with the new second edition of Minna no Nihongo, the vocabulary and practice exercises have been changed to meet revisions to the main text. On page 2 of each chapter, there are now review questions and comprehensive review question sections after so many chapters. The book can be used for homework, reviewing or placement tests.

This is a translation of Patocka's final work in which he treats prehistory through the concepts of Husserl and Heidegger. He believes the technological society to be decadent, and in the 20th century, war has become the basic reality which prevails through apparent "peace".

Working memory is currently a 'hot' topic in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Because of their radically different scopes and emphases, however, comparing different models and theories and understanding how they relate to one another has been a difficult task. This volume offers a much-needed forum for systematically comparing and contrasting existing models of working memory.

It does so by asking each contributor to address the same comprehensive set of important theoretical questions ...

The popularity of such books as Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club, and Kathryn Harrison's controversial The Kiss, has led columnists to call ours "the age of memoir." And while some critics have derided the explosion of memoir as exhibitionistic and self-aggrandizing, literary theorists are now beginning to look seriously at this profusion of autobiographical literature. Informed by literary, scientific, and experiential concerns, How Our Lives Become Stories enhance...

Het herstel van het gewone leven is een handreiking aan dagelijkse opvoeders – ouders, onderwijsgevenden, groepsleiders, gezinsverzorgenden en hun begeleiders – bij problematische opvoedingssituaties. Het opvoedingsproces kan door allerlei oorzaken schijnbaar hopeloos vastlopen. Zo vast dat er maar één uitweg mogelijk lijkt: het toepassen van specialistische therapieën en technieken – met alle kostbare moeite, tijd en geld die daarmee gemoeid zijn. Soms is dat inderdaad onvermijdelij...

Much more important, these simple maps - often drawn on scrap paper - showed where steps could be eliminated, flows smoothed, and pull systems introduced in order to create a truly lean value stream for each product family.

In 1998 John teamed with Mike Rother of the University of Michigan to write down Toyota's mapping methodology for the first time in Learning to See. This simple tool makes it possible for you to see through the clutter of a complex plant. You'll soon be able to identify al...

In de 17e eeuw ontwikkelden de wiskunde en de natuurkunde zich hand in hand; hierbij was het wiskundige werk veelal meetkundig, later ontstond de differentiaal- en integraalrekening. In de 19e eeuw werd als zuiver wiskundige bezigheid de meetkunde van gekromde ruimten opgezet: krommen, oppervlakken en meer in het algemeen variëteiten. Dit wordt gezien als variatie op de klassieke Euclidische meetkunde. Het is een van de succesverhalen van de wiskunde dat in het begin van de 20e eeuw blek dat...