Coverage offers unrivalled coverage, where no other book offers such breath of topics covered placing events within the wider business/management discourse. It therefore offers an excellent, complete and full general introductory Events Management textbook that can be used throughout the degree, known to students as the events management bible. Thoroughly revised and updated with one new chapter on events and social sciences and new content on: technology (esports, virtual events, Ai, VR, AR,...

This volume provides a history of the computer which now comes properly up to the ubiquitous age, with new chapters that look at globalization, platformitization and regulation, allowing readers to engage with the more recent takeover by computers in their historical perspective. With the growing ubiquity of computers, the subject is one of interest to many students and this will feature in history of science and technology courses, and world history courses as well as ones specifically on co...

In Het Advocatenbrein maakt Marloes ter Huurne duidelijk hoe juristen in het algemeen en advocaten in het bijzonder hun voordeel kunnen doen met kennis en inzichten uit de gedragswetenschap. Met praktische voorbeelden past ze wetenschappelijke bevindingen toe op de praktijk van de advocaat. Ze slaat een brug tussen de algemene gedragswetenschapsliteratuur en de juridische wereld, en licht daarnaast onderzoek uit dat is gedaan naar gedragsmatige aspecten van deze specifieke beroepsgroep.

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Door de toenemende globalisering zijn sociale tolken meer dan ooit belangrijk om de communicatiekloof te dichten. Voor mensen die een beroep doen op sociale tolken in noodsituaties, is hun hulp vaak van levensbelang. Sociale tolken zijn immers een onzichtbare brug tussen het verhaal van de cliënt en de dienstverlening van de hulpverlener. Daarbij is het belangrijk dat de tolk neutraal blijft en de vertaling zo letterlijk mogelijk houdt. In Horen, zien en tolken systematiseert Raïssa De Keys...

We will spend up to 120,000 hours at work in our lifetimes.

But how do we best use those hours? And how do we adapt to today's working world?

'Life has questions. They have answers' New York Times

From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Designing Your Life

With this innovative and deeply empowering book, all of us can find answers to these challenging questions. It offers a fresh understanding of the politics and psychology of work and, by sharing the 'design thinking' principles th...

'Claire North brings a powerful, fresh and unflinching voice to ancient myth - darkly fascinating, raw and breathtaking' Jennifer Saint, author of Sunday Times bestseller Ariadne***A Sunday Times Historical Fiction Book of the Year***This is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, famed wife of Odysseus, as it has never been told before. Beyond Ithaca's shores, the whims of gods dictate the wars of men. But on the isle, it is the choices of the abandoned women - and their goddesses - that will chang...

This introduction to social and cultural anthropology has become a modern classic, revealing the rich global variation in social life and culture across the world. Presenting a clear overview of anthropology, it focuses on central topics such as kinship, ethnicity, ritual and political systems, offering a wealth of examples that demonstrate the enormous scope of anthropology and the importance of a comparative perspective. Using reviews of key works to illustrate his argument, for over 25 yea...

In de eerste tien hoofdstukken van het boek wordt de basis gelegd om het Oplossingsgericht coachen in de praktijk toe te passen.

Het is de perfecte kennismaking óf een fijne manier om kennis op te frissen en aan te scherpen.

De behandeling van casuïstiek in de tweede helft van het boek biedt vervolgens praktische tips voor tien coachsituaties die studentcoaches veelal als lastig ervaren.

Denk hierbij bijvoorbeeld aan de student die klaagt, sociaal wenselijke antwoorden geeft, gedoe heeft in...

The gripping and extraordinarily moving new novel from the internationally bestselling Celeste Ng.

Discover the critical art of rethinking: how questioning your opinions can position you for excellence at work and wisdom in life

Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, the most crucial skill may be the ability to rethink and unlearn. Recent global and political changes have forced many of us to re-evaluate our opinions and decisions. Yet we often still favour the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt, and prefer opinions ...