With 80 percent of the world's commodities being transported by water, ports are the pillars of the global economy. Port Management and Operations offers readers the opportunity to enhance their strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, while developing market foresight. It examines global port management practices at the regulatory, commercial, technological, operational, financial, and sociopolitical levels.

This powerful sourcebook describes how seaports are being affected by the chan...

HSK Standard Course 2 - Textbook

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The story of Bridget is about hope and will as well as luck. How many girls called Bridget survive after all? It is about love, the love of a mother and grandfather in a hostile society. It is most of all about the capacity to fight. Fight for the survival of a twitching baby who can neither suck nor crawl nor later walk. Fight for a person to be called human even if all the odds seem against it because of a traditional belief system.

Those around her in her local society mumble: Isn t sh...

We remember still a single farm with chickens and pigs on the farm and cows in the pasture. Increasingly we see grain silos appear with large livestock farming, whose pigs, chickens or cows never outside come. Diseases, which can be transmitted from animals to humans, are the result.

Prevention is essential for all of us in order to make our environment healthier and reduce the increase of chronic diseases.

Lifestyle changes, such as the purification of drinking water, sewage treatment and t...

We remember still a single farm with chickens and pigs on the farm and cows in the pasture. Increasingly we see grain silos appear with consumption animal farms, whose pigs, chickens or cows never outside come. Diseases, which can be transmitted from animals to humans, are the result. The expansion in the intensive livestock and tropical bird breeding threatens the health of us all. It is of great importance that the air we breathe indoors in private homes, public transport, public buildings ...

Na het internationale succes van de eerste en de tweede editie van 'Carnets d'une chorégraphe'/'A Choreographer's Score', verschenen in 2012 en 2013, grijpen de Belgische choreografe Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker en performance-theoreticus en musicologe Bojana Cvejic´ naar dezelfde formule terug voor Drumming en Rain, twee producties die tot op de dag van vandaag op het repertoire staan bij verschillende gereputeerde dansgezelschappen.

'Carnets d'une chorégraphe: Drumming & Rain'/'A Choreog...

Classical ballet is no longer the sole stimulus for today's audiences, as a fluid fusion of everything from ballet to Bollywood and from breakdancing to Latin represents how dance is consumed today. With the emergence of modern choreographers and new teaching styles, debate on the benefits of classical ballet training for non-classical dancers continues, even raising questions as to its relevance. The increasing academic interest in examining ballet's role is the focus of this book, published...

Everybody plays the role of Project Sponsor at some point, for example during a renovation project at home. At work this role also crops up more and more frequently. As director, you commission the development of a product, or as manager you want to have a new IT system developed.

You naturally expect certain results, and want to make favourable agreements with respect to schedule and budget. Often, however, this is not easy, which is logical enough, given that the role of project executive i...

Hester de Jong is NLP Health Coach and Classical Homeopath. She is also

trained in Systemic Work and Solution Focused Therapy. With PasoPaso Training & Coaching she concentrates on the area of personal development. Her aim is to reconnect women with their inner drive, inspiration and passion.

This book invites you to step out of your comfort zone,

to stick out your neck and get the best out of yourself,

resulting in more peace of mind, more energy and more joy.

Lifestyle embraces more than ...

What is knowledge? How does it differ from mere belief? Do you need to be able to justify a claim in order to count as knowing it? How can we know that the outer world is real and not a dream?Questions like these are ancient ones, and the branch of philosophy dedicated to answering them - epistemology - has been active for thousands of years. In this thought-provoking Very Short Introduction, Jennifer Nagel considers these classic questions alongside new puzzles arising from recent discoverie...