Dit boek geeft inzicht in uw team, bedrijf of organisatie aan de hand van scheepsuitdrukkingen.

Nederland was eeuwenlang een toonaangevende scheepvaartnatie. Geen wonder dat veel woorden en uitdrukkingen in ons dagelijks taalgebruik een maritieme oorsprong hebben. Deze uitdrukkingen zijn veelal metaforen om situaties, onderlinge verhoudingen of gebeurtenissen aan te geven.

Kris Heijnis is trainer, coach en adviseur. Hij verzamelde en rubriceerde scheepsuitdrukkingen en maakte ze toepasbaar om...

Kinderen nemen van jongs af aan veel initiatief om contact met anderen te maken. Hierdoor leren ze taal gebruiken, oogcontact maken, beurt nemen, imiteren, gespreksvaardigheden, emoties herkennen, sociale regels enzovoort. Kinderen met een autisme spectrumstoornis nemen dat initiatief veel minder vaak; hierdoor missen ze veel natuurlijke leermomenten die andere kinderen wel ervaren. De beperkte motivatie om zich tot anderen te richten wordt gezien als een kernprobleem bij mensen met autisme, ...

• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction •

Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who in this presidential election year, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven "nations" that continue to shape North America

According to award-winning journalist and historian Colin Woodard, North America is made up of eleven distinct nations, ea...

For a century, economists have driven forward the cause of globalization in financial institutions, labour markets, and trade. Yet there have been consistent warning signs that a global economy and free trade might not always be advantageous. Where are the pressure points? What could be done about them? Dani Rodrik examines the back-story from its seventeenth-century origins through the milestones of the gold standard, the Bretton Woods Agreement, and the Washington Consensus, to the present ...

Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying questions: What is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose? Fry engages with the major themes and strands in twentieth-century literary theory, among them hermeneutics, modes of formalism, semiotics and...

This publication provides essential reading for any language teacher. Pupil engagement in the language-learning process is key to success, and with this in mind the authors provide a comprehensive list of ideas as well as explaining the underlying principles of successful language-learning. Neil Jones, Assistant HeadteacherLearning a language, especially in a class or group, is an intensely practical subject.

Active participation by students is the key to successful language learning at any a...

A completely revised and updated edition of A Course in Language Teaching. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to English language teaching, and is suitable for teachers in a variety of educational settings, including compulsory education. It has been completely revised and updated to include essential new topics for the modern English language teacher, including English as an international language, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and using digital materials.

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Updated, practical, comprehensive guide to academic writing online and traditionally.

A comprehensive introduction to ethics and values within a police setting for all those undertaking policing degrees.