This book deals with the process that leads to innovations. It provides an overall method for innovating in companies. As the method originated in Delft, it is called The Delft Innovation Method. It consists of five interconnected elements:

1. a general model of the corporate innovation process;

2. a facilitative leadership style;

3. a diversely composed innovation team;

4. the use of creative techniques;

5. the connection of the company to the external world.

The Delft Innovation Method is w...

Africa and the Future of International Criminal Justice examines critical issues concerning Africa as a place in which international criminal accountability mechanisms have played, and still continue to play a prominent role in the efforts to deal with and to tackle impunity for atrocity crimes. It interrogates important questions relating to Africa's importance to international criminal justice as exemplified by the activities of international criminal accountability mechanisms. Some example...

Alain Badiou is een van de meest spraakmakende hedendaagse filosofen. Onder de noemer 'inesthetiek' introduceert Badiou een radicaal nieuwe verhouding tussen kunst en filosofie: kunst is niet langer het passieve onderwerp van kunstbeschouwing, maar vormt de voorwaarde voor het denken, en precies daarin ligt haar politieke betekenis.Alain Badiou. Inesthetiek: filosofie, kunst, politiek bevat de sleutelteksten uit Badiou's kunsttheorie en plaatst deze in de context van zijn recente pleidooi voo...

Dit boek is samengesteld en bestemd voor diegenen die recentelijk kennis hebben gemaakt met de Islam. Het werk dient als een handboek om de Islam binnen een redelijk afzienbare tijd vanuit de authentieke bronnen te leren kennen. Vanwege zijn bondige weergave van de basisconcepten van de Islam is dit werk ideaal voor hen die over deze religie inleidende informatie wensen.Het boek begint met een uiteenzetting van de verbindingen tussen menselijke wezens, het universum en de Schepper en de relat...

For upper-level undergraduate and MBA students enrolled in an international business law course. August emphasizes the diversity and similarity of how firms are currently regulated and governed around the world.

Structured Computer Organization, specifically written for undergraduate students, is a best-selling guide that provides an accessible introduction to computer hardware and architecture. This text will also serve as a useful resource for all computer professionals and engineers who need an overview or introduction to computer architecture. This book takes a modern structured, layered approach to understanding computer systems.

Its highly accessible - and its been thoroughly updated to reflec...

Hirsch, Devaney, and Smale’s classic Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems, and an Introduction to Chaos has been used by professors as the primary text for undergraduate and graduate level courses covering differential equations. It provides a theoretical approach to dynamical systems and chaos written for a diverse student population among the fields of mathematics, science, and engineering. Prominent experts provide everything students need to know about dynamical systems as students...

Why is there more chance we'll believe something if it's in a bold type face? Why are judges more likely to deny parole before lunch? Why do we assume a good-looking person will be more competent? The answer lies in the two ways we make choices: fast, intuitive thinking, and slow, rational thinking. This book reveals how our minds are tripped up by error and prejudice (even when we think we are being logical), and gives you practical techniques for slower, smarter thinking. It will enable to ...

With an accessible approach, the third European edition of Principles of Economics provides students with the tools to analyze current economic issues. The book is underpinned by a focus on seven Core Principles, which help students to make the link between economic theory and practice. The 'economic naturalist' approach, supported by exercises, problems and examples, encourages students to employ economics principles to understand and explain the world around them.Developed from the well-reg...