Written in a highly accessible style and in four parts, this book provides rapid and authoritative access to current ideas and practice in intercultural communication. It draws on concepts and findings from a range of different disciplines and uses authentic examples of intercultural interaction to illustrate points.

'Actieve hand, complexe beweging, dominantieconditie, fonotaxis, gebonden morfeem, hanteerclassifier, lexicaal gebaar, niet-manuele modificeerder, orale component, pro-drop, enzovoort, termen waarvan u de betekenis vindt in dit woordenboek van de gebarentaalwetenschap.Dit boek is het eerste lexicon van gebarentaalwetenschap, in Nederland en wereldwijd. Het Lectoraat Dovenstudies van de Faculteit Educatie van de Hogeschool Utrecht heeft, met vereende krachten een meesterwerk tot stand gebracht...

This book positions qualitative analysis as an ongoing process occurring over the life cycle of a project. It pays attention to the research proposal and the decisions taken early on in the research design that influence the analysis, such as the use of theory, sampling and data collection.

Optimization is an important tool used in decision science and for the analysis of physical systems used in engineering. It begins with very simple ideas progressing through more complicated concepts, concentrating on methods for both unconstrained and constrained optimization.