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 book demonstrates how authors performing the role of a public intellectual discuss ideas and opinions regarding society while using literary strategies and devices in and beyond the text. Their assumed persona thereby reads the world as a book - interpreting it and offering alternative scenarios for understanding it.

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...

In Organisch onthult arts en onderzoeker Giulia Enders (bekend van haar miljoenenbestseller De charme van je darmen) hoe je organen de gids zijn naar een betere gezondheid.In haar medische praktijk ontdekte Giulia Enders hoe diep onze gezondheid is verbonden met onze leefomstandigheden. Onze organen helpen ons dagelijks te overleven, verbinden en beschermen. In dit boek toont Enders op een moderne, holistische manier hoe onze organen (longen, spieren, hart, huid) nou echt functioneren en hoe ...

In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of the nation's public face and private parts (as it were), and to analyse what precisely it was he loved so much about a country that had produced Marmite; a military hero whose dying wish was to ...