Personen helpen om gezond te gaan bewegen en mensen helpen bij bewegingsbelemmeringen zijn essentieel voor mens en samenleving. De kern van het Lectoraat "Bewegen naar Gezondheid" is bewegen. Bewegen om gezond te worden of te blijven. Bewegen door mensen die een aandoening hebben en de belemmeringen die zij daarbij ervaren. Daarbij gaat het om niet, onvoldoende of met een beperkte kwaliteit uit

kunnen voeren van activiteiten in het dagelijks leven. Maarten Schmitt schetst in zijn openbare les ...

De belangrijkste wetgeving op internet in duidelijke taal: van online auteursrecht en privacy tot aansprakelijkheid van bloggers en forumsites en computercriminaliteit.

'De wet op internet’ is geheel vernieuwd en is nu beschikbaar!

Iemand googelen, is dat gewoon raadplegen van een openbare bron of een grove privacyschending? Wanneer maakt een hyperlink inbreuk op auteursrechten, en is ‘googelen’ eigenlijk geen merkinbreuk? Hoe moet je omgaan met open source, en hoe zit het met een webwi...

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Sixth Edition has been considered essential reading by instructors, students and practitioners of computer design for over 20 years. The sixth edition of this classic textbook from Hennessy and Patterson, winners of the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award recognizing contributions of lasting and major technical importance to the computing field, is fully revised with the latest developments in processor and system architecture.

The text now features exam...

"A quintessential work of technological futurism." - James Surowiecki, strategy + business, "Best Business Books 2017 - Innovation"

From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next thirty years and transform our lives

Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion. In this fascinating, provocative new book, Kevin Ke...

Our economic welfare and social well-being depend on our mobility. But our means of travel threaten the planet's sustainability. In this innovative text, Luca Bertolini shows how mobility planning - which takes seriously the demands of both urban and transport planning - offers solutions to transport challenges in the 21st Century.

The essay-with its emphasis on the provisional and explorative rather than on definitive statements-has evolved from its literary beginnings and is now found in all mediums, including film. Today, the essay film is, arguably, one of the most widely acclaimed and critically discussed forms of filmmaking around the world, with practitioners such as Chris Marker, Hito Steyerl, Errol Morris, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Rithy Panh.

Characteristics of the essay film include the blending of fact and ficti...

Coulson and Richardson's Chemical Engineering has been fully revised and updated to provide practitioners with an overview of chemical engineering. Each reference book provides clear explanations of theory and thorough coverage of practical applications, supported by case studies. A worldwide team of editors and contributors have pooled their experience in adding new content and revising the old.

The authoritative style of the original volumes 1 to 3 has been retained, but the content has bee...

The Books That Shaped Art History provides an invaluable roadmap of the field by reassessing the impact of the most important texts of art history published during the 20th century. Each of the sixteen incisive chapters, focusing on a single book, is written by a leading art historian, curator or one of the promising scholars of today. In bringing these cross-generational contributions together, the book presents a varied and invaluable overview of the history of art, told through its most en...

How is our language affected by our ethnicity, gender, and region? How are our conversations and other interactions structured? How does society view and regulate language? How do we use language to present ourselves to others? In this revised and updated second edition of the popular What Is Sociolinguistics? Gerard Van Herk explores these and other intriguing questions about language, how we use it, and its relationships to society. Van Herk guides the reader on a tour through the major iss...

City provides an accessible yet critical introduction to one of the key ideas in human geography. While most of the world’s population now lives in cities, the definition and theoretical specification of the city nonetheless remains elusive. In this extensively updated second edition, Phil Hubbard considers the different ways that the lived and messy realities of urban life have been approached by geographers, past and present.

Situating these in the context of ongoing debates concerning gl...