"Learning Teaching" has been one of the most successful guides to English since it was first published in 1994. Its no-nonsense approach has made it a superb teaching textbook for initial training courses, and also an essential handbook for practising ELT teachers. The third edition has been extensively revised and restructured to take recent developments in ELT into account and now includes a DVD featuring a full lesson being taught as well as demonstrations of practical teaching techniques.

This book reflects the wide-spread belief that the twenty-first century is evolving in a significantly different way to the twentieth, which witnessed the advance of human rationality and technological progress, including urbanisation, and called into question the public and cultural significance of religion. In this century, by contrast, religion, faith communities and spiritual values have returned to the centre of public life, especially public policy, governance, and social identity. Rapi...

This thought-provoking work presents Confucianism as a living ethical tradition with contemporary relevance. While acknowledged as one of the world's most influential philosophies, Confucianism's significance is too often consigned to a historical or solely East Asian context. Discussing both the strengths and weaknesses of Confucian ethics, the volume's contributors reflect on what this tradition offers that we cannot readily learn from other systems of ethics. Developing Confucian ethical i...

Anyone who has been asked to read and understand a poem has probably wondered: What does this really mean? Have I understood this the way I was supposed to? Did I get it? As the least literal of all of forms of creative writing, poetry is for many readers also the most cryptic. Confronted by the mysteries of poetic interpretation, some people are intrigued, some become addicted, others are left frustrated. Shira Wolosky's accessibly written book, The Art of Poetry, provides a road map of the ...

An introduction to the modeling of business information systems, with processes formally modeled using Petri nets. This comprehensive introduction to modeling business-information systems focuses on business processes. It describes and demonstrates the formal modeling of processes in terms of Petri nets, using a well-established theory for capturing and analyzing models with concurrency. The precise semantics of this formal method offers a distinct advantage for modeling processes over the in...

Data Modeling Made Simple with CA ERwin Data Modeler r8 will provide the business or IT professional with a practical working knowledge of data modeling concepts and best practices, and how to apply these principles with CA ERwin Data Modeler r8. You'll build many CA ERwin data models along the way, mastering first the fundamentals and later in the book the more advanced features of CA ERwin Data Modeler. This book combines real-world experience and best practices with down to earth advice, h...

The fourth edition of this highly regarded and successful text continues to provide a clear and accessible introduction to the world of GIS for students and professionals. Focusing on the practical applications of GIS, this book features a wealth of multi-disciplinary case studies and examples of GIS in practice, demonstrating how it is used worldwide and within a variety of different industries.

The new edition has been substantially revised and updated to include coverage of the latest adva...

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De Nederlandse Vereniging tot Ontwikkeling van het Reken-Wiskunde Onderwijs (NVORWO) heeft het initiatief genomen om het onderwerp ernstige rekenwiskunde-problemen en dyscalculie op de onderwijsagenda te zetten en stappen te ondernemen om te komen tot landelijke eenduidigheid. Het ministerie van OCW heeft in 2008 een subsidie toegekend om het protocol te ontwikkelen.

Het landelijk protocol voor leerlingen van 4 tot 12 jaar met (Ernstige) RekenWiskunde-problemen en Dyscalculie (protocol ERWD) ...

Door welke krachten wordt de concurrentie in een bedrijfstak beheerst? Hoe zullen de concurrenten zich opstellen? Hoe zal de bedrijfstak zich ontwikkelen? Hoe reageren de strategische planners op acties van de concurrenten? Wat is de beste uitgangspositie van het bedrijf op lange termijn? Michael Porters 'Concurrentiestrategie' snijdt onderwerpen aan die van vitaal belang zijn voor managers en belicht uitvoerig diverse analysetechnieken die leiden tot een beter inzicht in de bedrijfstak en he...