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Research shows that self-awareness is the meta-skill of the 21st century – the foundation for high performance, smart choices, and lasting relationships. Unfortunately, we are remarkably poor judges of ourselves and how we come across, and it’s rare to get candid, objective feedback from colleagues, employees, and even friends and family. We can ALL learn to be more self-aware.

Integrating hundreds of studies with her own research and wo...

Dit boek is voor leraren en leiders die willen bijdragen aan hun eigen autonomie en die van leerlingen en collega’s. De inhoud: theoretische achtergronden, sprekende praktijkvoorbeelden en krachtige oefenen die je begeleiden naar meer autonomie in verbondenheid met jezelf en de groepen waarmee je werkt. Het boek bevat krachtige concepten uit Transactionele Analyse (TA), praktisch vertaald voor onderwijsprofessionals.

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Het tekstboek van Meta Profesional 1 bevat 10 overzichtelijke unidades die zijn opgebouwd rond een bepaald thema, zoals zakenreizen, agendabeheer of zakendiners. In elke unidad wordt het thema op de eerste pagina geïntroduceerd en volgen er zes pagina’s met gevarieerde teksten en oefeningen. Bij het maken van de oefeningen spelen samenwerken en overleggen een belangrijke rol.

Met het werkboek kunnen de cursisten het geleerde zelfstandig thuis of in de les oefenen. Ook wordt er in elke unidad aandacht besteed aan de uitspraak van het Spaans. Het werkboek bevat ook vijf Etapas, Etapa 2 en 5 zijn voorbeelden van examens op A1-niveau en A2-niveau. Achter in het werkboek staan de transcripties van de luisterteksten, oplossingen bij de oefeningen en een Tabla de recursos met idioom voor zakelijke gesprekken.

In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to the most urgent questions regarding the newest superpower, and offer a framework for understanding China's meteoric rise from developing country to superpower. Focusing their answers through the historical legacies--Confucian thought, Western and Japanese imperialism, the Mao era, and the massacre near Tiananmen...

In a multidisciplinary field such as energy, Hydrogen and Fuel Cells stands out by covering the entire width of hydrogen production and usage technologies, giving detailed descriptions of not just one but the range of very different fuel cells that have been developed or are under development. In one volume, respected experts Bent Sorensen and Giuseppe Spazzafumo provide all the basic scientific theory underlying hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, but at the same time present applications a...

How can we reconcile the ideal church described by theology with the broken church that we see in the world? In this book Joseph Small argues that the church's true identity is known somewhere in the tension between the two.

Small revisits familiar ecclesiological concepts--people of God, the body of Christ, the communion of the Holy Spirit--but rather than focusing on theological abstractions or worldly cynicism, he carefully evaluates the church in its scriptural, historical, theological, ...

Using case studies and real life teaching examples, this book explores how to use technology in teaching. Examples include gamified learning, social media, apps, video streaming and the flipped classroom approach.

This is the only comprehensive guide to the world of NoSQL databases, with in-depth practical and conceptual introductions to seven different technologies: Redis, Neo4J, CouchDB, MongoDB, HBase, Postgres, and DynamoDB. This second edition includes a new chapter on DynamoDB and updated content for each chapter.

Data is getting bigger and more complex by the day, and so are your choices in handling it. Explore some of the most cutting-edge databases available - from traditional relational datab...

The Integrated Chinese Volume 2 Character Workbook is designed to be used alongside the Volume 2 Textbook and Workbook.

New to the 4th Edition

Both traditional and simplified characters are included on the same page

Characters are listed in the order in which they appear in the Textbook

Step-by-step, clear stroke order is prominently displayed

Practice squares include grid lines to help students balance characters correctly

Pinyin pronunciation and English definitions are clearly indicated fo...