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economie

In de economische theorie wordt vaak uitgegaan van een consument, een producent of een overheid die verschillende keuzemogelijkheden tegen elkaar afweegt om zo tot de beste beslissing te komen. Zo eenvoudig is net meestal niet, want economisch handelen wordt ook beïnvloed door allerlei instituties, organisaties, vaste gewoontes en gedragscodes. Bovendien is er vaak sprake van onvolledige informatie en gedragen de economische actoren zich niet altijd rationeel. Juist al...

Er werd wat afgezongen tijdens het Derde Rijk. Zonder overdrijving kan men spreken van een ware dictatuur van de zang. De nazi's zorgden er wel voor dat iedereen, van de kleinste kleuter tot de hoogste partijbons, royal kon putten uit een reservoir aan bruine liederen. Want zang gaf moed, verbroederde en stampte de propagandaleuzen erin. Zingen is beter dan denken, beweerde een nazi-gezinde dichter zelfs. Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog galmden overal in bezet Europa Duitse marsliederen door d...

Een geschiedenis van de ontwikkeling en toepasbaarheid van voorspellingsmodellen ontwikkeld bij RAAP Archeologisch Adviesbureau

Het afgelopen decennium was een periode van ingrijpende verandering voor de Nederlandse archeologie in het algemeen, en in het bijzonder voor RAAP Archeologisch Adviesbureau, dat in die periode aan de wieg stond van de ontwikkeling van archeologische verwachtingskaarten. De papers in deze dissertatie bespreken de hier verschillende ontwikkelde voorspellingsmodellen en...

An Introduction to Museum Archaeology provides a comprehensive survey and synthesis of all aspects of current museum practice in relation to the discipline of archaeology. Drawing heavily on examples it deconstructs the different challenges posed by trying to tell archaeological stories in museum buildings, and on related sites. The final section sums up the state of museum archaeology in the early 21st century and discusses the major issues it is currently confronting.

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This fully updated edition offers over 11,000 entries, each providing clear, up-to-date coverage of specialist nursing terms including diseases, symptoms, anatomy, instruments, common drugs and biological terms. It covers both everyday vocabulary relating to patient care and terms from medical specialisations such as psychiatry. It provides the user with a complete guide to the vocabulary likely to be encountered by nurses (and other health care professionals) in their day-to-day work.

THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘WINNER OF WINNERS’ CHOSEN AS SERVICE95 BOOK CLUB'S BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR AUGUST 2023 ‘A literary masterpiece’ DAILY MAIL ‘An immense achievement’ OBSERVER ‘A gorgeous, pitiless account of love, violence and betrayal’ TIME In 1960s Nigeria, three lives intersect. Ugwu works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic lover, the lecturer.

And Richard, a shy Englishman,...

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY MARGARET ATWOOD AND DAVID BRADSHAWFar in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress...Huxley's ingenious fantasy of th...

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the roa...

Business Statistics is a student-friendly book written to encourage first year business students to understand (and enjoy!) their first experience of statistics. Each topic is well illustrated, with worked examples, tutorial sheets, supplementary exercises, and computer worksheets in SPSS, Minitab and Excel - all with answers provided.