Peter Olsthoorn geeft in een persoonlijk relaas een overzicht van alle aspecten rondom privacy. Vanuit het perspectief van de marketeer, vanuit dat van de overheid, maar ook vanuit het perspectief van jou als burger. Wat is jouw privacy je waard? En voor welke voordelen ben je bereid een deel daarvan op te geven?

'Dit boek is verplicht leesvoer voor iedereen die zich in de actuele privacydiscussie mengt over spionage, patiëntendossier of surfgedrag volgen. De cases schetsen de rijke omvang, ...

Olaf H. koopt een tweedehands BMW bij een handelaar in Sittard. Hij wil de ware prijs van de auto verborgen houden voor zijn ex-vrouw. De autoverkoper gaat akkoord met een lagere prijs op de factuur. Terwijl de papieren in orde worden gemaakt, gaat de nieuwe autobezitter even naar de WC in het naastgelegen woonhuis.Dan klinken er schoten. Olaf H. verstopt zich en ontdekt even later dat de autohandelaar en diens vrouw dood zijn. Ook de kleindochter van de autohandelaar ligt op de grond. Zij bl...

The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing's first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid. Set in Rhodesia, `The Grass is Singing' tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush and viciously abuses the black South Africans who work on their farm. But after many years, trapped by poverty, sapped by the heat of their tiny house, the lonely and frightened Mary turns to M...

For courses in International Marketing and Global Marketing. This is the leading MBA text in international marketing-with comprehensive cases.

A practical guide, from the basic techniques, through to advanced applications, showing you what operational risk is, and how you can manage it. Mastering Operational Risk provides a step-by-step guide from the basic elements of operational risk through to advanced applications of operational risk management. Focusing on practical applications, it gives you the knowledge needed to understand what operational risk is and puts in place a workable way of managing it.

Andrew Harrison has expertly authored this engaging text on the business environment, offering theoretical rigour, along with a truly global focus, and an understanding of the economic dimensions of the subject. The text takes a unique approach exploring the business environment at different spatial levels (global, international, national, and regional), in different dimensions (culture, ethics, internationalization, markets, technology, and risk) and in the maingeopolitical regions (Europe, ...

No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order. Discover a chillingly powerful and prescient dystopian vision from one of Europe's greatest writers. A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind.

David de Vaus' classic text Surveys in Social Research provides clear advice on how to plan, conduct and analyse social surveys. It emphasises the links between theory and research, the logic and interpretation of statistics and the practices of social research. This sixth edition has been completely revised and updated, and contains new examples, data and extensive lists of web resources.

As well as explaining how to conduct good surveys, de Vaus shows how to become a critical consumer of re...

Gives student and instructors the comprehensive and accessible presentation of ancient Greek. This title features: readings based on actual texts and include unadapted passages from Xenophon, Lysias, Plato, Aristophanes, and Thucydides; composite list of verbs with principal parts, and an appendix of all paradigms; and, English-Greek glossaries.

The second edition of A History of Sub-Saharan Africa continues to provide an accessible introduction to the continent's history for students and general readers. The authors employ a thematic approach to their subject, focusing on how the environment has shaped the societies and cultures of the African peoples. The text demonstrates how the geography, climate and geology of Africa influenced the rise of states and empires, the emergence of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the European conques...