Addresses the main systems necessary for the successful operation of a maintenance organization, such as performance control, work control and documentation. This work shows how they can be modelled, their function and operating principles, and the main problems encountered in operation.

Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan.But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone - even if the only way he can master his feelings is with his fists.

In Bijzonder onderwijs vertellen meer dan veertig specialisten uit het protestants-christelijk, reformatorisch, gereformeerd en evangelisch onderwijs op persoonlijke wijze hoe ze in de praktijk van hun onderwijswerk willen aansluiten bij de Bijbel. Daarbij komen heel concrete zaken aan de orde. Wat maakt dat de les Frans op een christelijke of reformatorische school anders is dan op een openbare school? Wat heeft de christelijke identiteit te maken met het rekenen in het basisonderwijs? Kan h...

Waarom worden sommige teksten als 'literair' gewaardeerd? Hoe verhoudt het medium 'tekst' zich tot andere media? Hoe verloopt het leesproces en wanneer geven lezers hun eigen interpretaties? Hoe beïnvloedt de literatuur onze kijk op de werkelijkheid? Waarom is een 'nationale canon' geen vanzelfsprekendheid en is niets wat het lijkt in het tradition

Strategic Maintenance Planning deals with the concepts, principles and techniques of preventive maintenance, and shows how the complexity of maintenance strategic planning can be resolved by a systematic 'Top-Down-Bottom-Up' approach. It explains how to establish objectives for physical assets and maintenance resources, and how to formulate an appropriate life plan for plant. It then shows how to use the life plans to formulate a preventive maintenance schedule for the plant as a whole, along...

Although dour in appearance and formidable in reputation, Friedrich Nietzsche was an ardent practitioner of the art of poetry &; called in 12th-century Provencal "the gay science." This volume, which Nietzsche referred to as "the most personal of all my books," features the largest collection of his poetry that he ever chose to publish. It also offers an extensive and sophisticated treatment of the philosophical themes and views most central to his thinking, as well as the ideas that proved m...

Ce livre, entièrement illustré, vous propose une promenade dans l'histoire de Paris à travers ses plus beaux monuments. Partez, ou repartez, à la découverte des grandes avancées architecturales et urbaines de la ville, depuis les Gaulois sur les berges de la Seine, jusqu'aux quartiers luxueux d'aujourd'hui.

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Le Palais-Bourbon est l'autre nom donné à l'Assemblée nationale. Le palais appartenait à la famille royale. La fille de Louis XIV et de madame de Montespan, la...

Newly adapted for the Anglophone reader, this is an excellent translation of Hans-Thies Lehmann’s groundbreaking study of the new theatre forms that have developed since the late 1960s, which has become a key reference point in international discussions of contemporary theatre. In looking at the developments since the late 1960s, Lehmann considers them in relation to dramatic theory and theatre history, as an inventive response to the emergence of new technologies, and as an historical...

Natural computing brings together nature and computing to develop new computational tools for problem solving; to synthesize natural patterns and behaviors in computers; and to potentially design novel types of computers. Fundamentals of Natural Computing: Basic Concepts, Algorithms, and Applications presents a wide-ranging survey of novel techniques and important applications of nature-based computing. This book presents theoretical and philosophical discussions, pseudocodes for algorithms, ...

In this rich and resonant work, Kierkegaard reflects on the biblical story of God's command to Abraham that he sacrifice his son Isaac as a test of faith. This volume, first published in 2006, presents the first new English translation for twenty years, by Sylvia Walsh, together with an introduction by C. Stephen Evans.