* 'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. 'The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality...' * With the same disarming force,...

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY#11 in the New York Times '100 Best Books of the 21st Century'A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, Oscar's sweet but disastrously overweight.

Vele tinten grijs brengt in kaart hoe de wereld van ouderen, zorgprofessionals, zorgmanagers en beleidsmakers wordt bezien als wij een sociale gedragstheorie hanteren. Het belangrijkste argument is dat we in een samenleving waar individualisme en het denken in entiteiten (zoals markt, instelling, beleid, technologie) hoogtij viert, veronachtzamen dat mensen meestal met elkaar samenwerken of zich verbinden. Door interactie en communicatie krijgt de wereld en onze identiteit betekenis. Als gevo...

With this dictionary students learn the most important collocations they need to know. The dictionary also guides them to the right word combination for their context. The CD-ROM includes the complete dictionary and practice exercises.

The word combinations are based on analysis of the Oxford English Corpus, a collection of three billion words of text from the English-speaking world that show the words that really do go together.

Written by leading scholars in the field, this comprehensive and readable resource gives anthropology students a unique guide to the ideas, arguments and history of the discipline. The fully revised and expanded second edition reflects major changes in anthropology in the past decade.

Synthesizing over thirty years of advances into a comprehensive textbook, Biomolecular Crystallography describes the fundamentals, practices, and applications of protein crystallography. Deftly illustrated in full-color by the author, the text describes mathematical and physical concepts in accessible and accurate language. It distills key concepts for understanding the practice and analysis of protein crystal structures and contains examples of biologically-relevant molecules, complexes, and...

In de zorg voor mensen met een verstandelijke beperking is het gebruikelijk dat de mate van verstandelijke beperking van een individu wordt uitgedrukt in ontwikkelingsleeftijden. Dit zogenaamde ‘niveaudenken’ is een waardevol middel dat de professional kan inzetten om zich beter in te leven in zijn cliënt. Wanneer men rekening houdt met een aantal spelregels, kan deze manier van kijken gebruikt worden om beter af te stemmen op het individu en daarmee uiteindelijk de kwaliteit van leven van...

You are no longer a beginner, but not yet advanced. Now what? Tobira: Gateway to Advanced Japanese is your answer. This is the first textbook that addresses the gap between beginner- and advanced-level learners in all of the four language skills. A wide range of topics is explored, from Japanese geography and history to pop culture. Tobira facilitates learning through the use of multimedia, and helps you construct a Japanese environment even while living abroad.

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Widely adopted, this uniquely comprehensive text introduces the techniques and concepts of statistics in human and physical geography. Unlike other texts that gloss over the conceptual foundations and focus solely on method, the book explains not only how to apply quantitative tools but also why and how they work. Students gain important skills for utilizing both conventional and spatial statistics in their own research, as well as for critically evaluating the work of others.

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This Nihongo Hyogen Bunkei Jiten is a comprehensive dictionary to Japanese expressions, perfect for all levels. Dictionaries are probably one of the most important materials for learners of a foreign language, but sometimes even dictionaries cannot help, especially when it comes to expressions. You will find it quite difficult to look up a Japanese expression with a general dictionary as most just show the single vocabularies and not the combined expression.However, this dictionary contains t...