De wetenschappen hebben een enorme hoeveelheid kennis voortgebracht, maar inzicht in de samenhang en diepere betekenis ontbreekt. Om dat inzicht te verkrijgen wordt in dit boek een specifieke systeemtheorie ontwikkeld, de theorie van de vier fundamentele systeemrelaties. Deze metatheorie maakt het mogelijk fundamentele zaken op zeer verschillende gebieden te verklaren. Zo wordt verhelderd wat de moderne natuurkunde over de materie aan het licht heeft gebracht. Verder geeft de theorie inzicht ...

The ideal course companion or primer for any undergraduate student of IR - the skeleton of the entire discipline in one accessible book.

This ground-breaking book looks at the historical development and theoretical approaches to trauma treatment.

Clearly explains core health communication principles and processes for designing effective messages for health communication interventions and campaigns while integrating perspectives from multiple areas including psychology, public health, and social marketing.

This book is a brief, supplemental book derived from the International Handbook of Cross-Cultural Counseling. Edited by a high-profile team with international expertise, the book focuses on the history, issues, challenges, and opportunities for the counseling profession worldwide.

With its topical focus and lucid style, this is a thoroughly international analysis of how terrorism and the war on terror is communicated through a variety of global media outlets. The editors and contributors are all very high profile in the field, and the content is both global and interdisciplinary.

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An agenda-setting and topical textbook that looks at how ICTs have become an important part of social work and how they can improve and affect practice

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Introduces students to the language, ideas, and concepts that are used frequently in Critical Management Studies and that they will be expected to discuss in seminar debates and to draw upon in their essays