This second edition of European Basic Treaties contains the texts of the Treaty on European Union, the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (including the latter's `Explanations').

This edition incorporates all rectifications and treaty amendments, up until 1 July 2013, including those that follow from the accession of Croatia to the EU on that date.

It also contains the provisions of the Treaty of Lisbon that exist alongside these three cor...

Leerkrachten in het basisonderwijs moeten continu prikkelen, stimuleren, motiveren en nieuwe invalshoeken bedenken. Zo bevorderen zij een onderzoekende en nieuwsgierige leerhouding bij hun leerlingen. Dat vraagt van hen de nodige flexibiliteit en inventiviteit, kortom een enorm creatief denkvermogen. Juist over die vaardigheid zijn leerkrachten vaak onzeker.

Hoe bedenk je het?! is een uniek basisboek met meer dan 100 denkstrategieën en werkvormen. Naast praktische handvatten biedt het theor...

* Overzicht van het volledige kwantitatieve onderzoekspectrum;

* geschikt voor een heterogene groep zonder voorkennis;

* toegankelijk, aansprekend en praktijkgericht.

Een bijzonder toegankelijk studieboek dat studenten laat kennis maken met de belangrijkste aspecten van kwantitatief onderzoek. Beroep op onderzoek gidst hen met talloze praktijkvoorbeelden langs het hele kwantitatieve onderzoekspectrum: van probleemstelling via het vergaren van gegevens tot analyse en rapportage. Er is geen spe...

Inleiding Techniek biedt een aantrekkelijke eerste kennismaking met het domein engineering voor de opleidingen Technische Bedrijfskunde en Werktuigbouwkunde. Inleiding Techniek is een praktisch boek rondom een centrale casus waarin de student een bestaand technisch product onderzoekt door middel van reverse engineering. De student analyseert de werking van het product, beoordeelt de kwaliteit en doet mogelijke verbetervoorstellen. Zo leert de student de samenhang tussen verschillende engineer...

Stresses the importance of argumentation in everyday life Critical Thinking and Communication, 7/e, encourages students to develop skills in constructing and refuting arguments in contexts ranging from informal conversations to structured debates. The authors stress the importance of argumentation in everyday life while building student competence and critical awareness. Through exercises and examples, students learn to create arguments and develop, understand, and interpret extended cases.

This third edition of Human Rights: Between Idealism and Realism presents human rights in action, focusing on their effectiveness as legal tools designed to benefit human beings. By combining conceptual analysis with an emphasis on procedures and mechanisms of implementation, this volume provides a multidimensional overview of human rights. After examining briefly the history of human rights, the author analyses the intellectual framework that forms thebasis of their legitimacy.

In particular...

Success in today's globalized business environment requires deep knowledge of varied areas, and the willingness to engage in commerce not just across geographic areas, but cross-culturally and environmentally as well. Doing Business in Latin America offers an in-depth look at a complex region, integrating practitioners’ and scholars’ ideas to examine business conducted in Latin America through the lens of international business and globalization. The book introduces, discusses, and explai...

Events Management 1e John Beech, Sebastian Kaiser and Robert Kaspar The Business of Events Management provides an accessible and lively introduction to the practice of managing an event, festival, conference or congress. Written by a team of international experts, the book incorporates the latest thinking in events management and highlights key theories, concepts and models by using a range of case studies and examples. This book will enable you to: * Manage the financial aspects of events ma...

Providing for National Security: A Comparative Analysis argues that the provision of national security has changed in the 21st century as a result of a variety of different pressures and threats. In this timely volume experts from both the academic and policy worlds present 13 different country case studies drawn from across the globe-including established and newer states, large and smaller states, those on the rise and those in apparent decline-to identify what these key players consider to...

As part of the Syngress Basics series, The Basics of Information Security provides you with fundamental knowledge of information security in both theoretical and practical aspects. Author Jason Andress gives you the basic knowledge needed to understand the key concepts of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and then dives into practical applications of these ideas in the areas of operational, physical, network, application, and operating system security. The Basics of Information Se...