Sourcing is een vorm van organiseren waar organisaties (de vragende partijen) keuzes maken over de manier waarop wordt samengewerkt met marktpartijen, interne dienstverleners, shared service centers, ketenpartijen of andere samenwerkingsverbanden (de leverende partijen) om de gestelde doelstellingen te bereiken.

In dit boek nemen we professionals van zowel vragende als leverende organisaties, toeleveranciers of andere dienstverleners mee in alle facetten die met sourcingsvraagstukken te maken...

Al jaren becommentarieert David Grossman in internationale bladen (The Guardian, De Standaard, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The New York Times en vele andere) ‘de situatie’ in Israël en Palestina. Maar wat kun je na de terreuraanval van 7 oktober en de gebeurtenissen die daarop volgden, anders dan je afschuw en vertwijfeling uiten?

David Grossman zou zichzelf niet zijn als hij na de eerste schok niet de noodzakelijke pijnlijke vragen zou stellen: Hoe heeft dit bloedbad op Israëlisch...

All too often, attention is paid only to those children's novels that were written in English, with non-English-language works being passed over and neglected. Beyond Babar: The European Tradition in Children's Literature examines eleven of the most celebrated European children's novels in substantial, critical essays written by well-known international scholars. This approach provides a comprehensive discussion of the selected works from a variety of theoretical perspectives.

Each essay offe...

The popularity of such books as Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club, and Kathryn Harrison's controversial The Kiss, has led columnists to call ours "the age of memoir." And while some critics have derided the explosion of memoir as exhibitionistic and self-aggrandizing, literary theorists are now beginning to look seriously at this profusion of autobiographical literature. Informed by literary, scientific, and experiential concerns, How Our Lives Become Stories enhance...

This introduction to social and cultural anthropology has become a modern classic, revealing the rich global variation in social life and culture across the world. Presenting a clear overview of anthropology, it focuses on central topics such as kinship, ethnicity, ritual and political systems, offering a wealth of examples that demonstrate the enormous scope of anthropology and the importance of a comparative perspective. Using reviews of key works to illustrate his argument, for over 25 yea...

The complete guide to doing a literature search and review also contains a wealth of features to calm students overwhelmed at the prospect of doing their dissertation or thesis

Annemarie Schimmel, one of the world's foremost authorities on Persian literature, provides a comprehensive introduction to the complicated and highly sophisticated system of rhetoric and imagery used by the poets of Iran, Ottoman Turkey, and Muslim India. She shows that these images have been used and refined over the centuries and reflect the changing conditions in the Muslim world.

According to Schimmel, Persian poetry does not aim to be spontaneous in spirit or highly personal in form. In...

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Anna van den Breemer & Heleen van Lier gingen op zoek naar de ultieme antwoorden bij experts en wetenschappers. Beter leven staat vol met nuchtere, praktis...