This much-loved textbook responds to the ever-growing importance of leadership to a healthcare professional's role. It summarises all of the key theories, information and research and applies to the healthcare context.

This bestselling introduction to research supports nursing students by demystifying jargon, explaining the key concepts and building their skills in applying research principles to their studies and practice.

A manual, monograph, and call to action, Toward an Urban Ecology points to the future of landscape architecture's role in making resilient, sustainable, and community-oriented spaces

Kate Orff, 2017 MacArthur Fellow, has an optimistic and transformative message about our world: we can bring together social and ecological systems to sustainably remake our cities and landscapes.

Part monograph, part manual, part manife­sto, Toward an Urban Ecology reconceives urban landscape design as a form o...

Met deze water atlas of the Netherlands maakt u een reis door de wereld van het water. Onderwerpen als watermanagement, landbouw en visserij, drinkwaterwinning en rivieren en zeeën komen voorbij in meer dan 300 kaarten en afbeeldingen.

In this textbook the life course approach to women's health is applied to the clinical practice of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Life is considered a continuum ‘from the cradle to the grave’, where each life stage affects the individual's health and wellbeing and that of future generations. This approach in obstetric and gynaecological patient care provides a path towards healthy ageing, with specific attention for lifestyle, prevention and social context. By managing not only disease, but ...

In the ‘Anatomy lessons’ that were painted for the Surgeons’ Guild in Amsterdam, the surgeons portrayed, their teachers, the corpse and the dissection are described and discussed.

The year 2024 marks the opening of the new Middle Eastern Library of Leiden University, a purpose-built facility to serve the needs of all those who engage in the study of the Middle East and North Africa from the dawn of history to the present day. To celebrate the occasion, more than 40 authors from Leiden and beyond have contributed to this special volume on the library’s rich and multifaceted Oriental holdings.

Topics range from the Ancient Near East to the material and conservational ...

The contributions to this edited volume explore, from various perspectives, the relationship between law and morality. The authors analyze specific issues in the domains of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, constitutionalism, the universality of human rights, animal rights, democracy and terrorism. What unites them is their search for an answer to the question of what values such as justice, fairness, and respect for human rights might mean. The focus on said domains ensures the societa...

Health economics is about making wise investments in health and health care. The purpose of this book is to make readers familiar with the principles, methods and pitfalls of health economic evaluations. These evaluations help to make choices and set priorities in favour of those investments (for prevention, diagnosis, cure or care) that give the greatest return on health for money spent.

The results of these evaluations are increasingly a subject of focus and discussion in scientific journal...