Manufacturing and Design presents a fresh view on the world of industrial production: thinking in terms of both abstraction levels and trade-offs. The book invites its readers to distinguish between what is possible in principle for a certain process (as determined by physical law); what is possible in practice (the production method as determined by industrial state-of-the-art); and what is possible for a certain supplier (as determined by its production equipment). Specific processes consid...

Beginning with the foundations of community development, An Introduction to Community Development offers a comprehensive and practical approach to planning for communities. Road-tested in the authors' own teaching, and through the training they provide for practicing planners, it enables students to begin making connections between academic study and practical know-how from both private and public sector contexts. An Introduction to Community Development shows how planners can utilize local e...

This new edition of one of the most widely used course books on Islamic civilizations around the world has been substantially revised to incorporate the new scholarship and insights of the last twenty-five years. Ira Lapidus' history explores the beginnings and transformations of Islamic civilizations in the Middle East and details Islam's worldwide diffusion. The history is divided into four parts.

Part I is a comprehensive account of pre-Islamic late antiquity; the beginnings of Islam; the ...

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.

Teaching Entrepreneurship moves entrepreneurship education from the traditional process view to a practice-based approach and advocates teaching entrepreneurship using a portfolio of practices, which includes play, empathy, creation, experimentation, and reflection. Together these practices help students develop the competency to think and act entrepreneurially in order to create, find, and exploit opportunities of all kinds in a continuously changing and uncertain world. Divided into two par...

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...

Through close study of Avicenna's statements and major works, Dimitri Gutas traces Avicenna's own sense of his place in the Aristotelian tradition and the history of philosophy in Islam, and provides an introduction to reading his philosophical works by delineating the approach most consistent with Avicenna's intention and purpose in philosophy. The second edition of this foundational work, which has quickened fruitful research into the philosopher in the last quarter century, is completely r...

- Breed inzetbaar binnen het hbo;

- geeft inzicht in functioneren vanuit procesgerichte benadering;

- uitgebreide online ondersteuning.

Kijk op Bedrijfsprocessen toont de student bedrijfsprocessen in allerlei soorten organisaties. Het boek past in de beginfase van iedere hbo -opleiding en is het enige inleidende boek dat de student inzicht geeft in het functioneren vanuit de procesgerichte benadering.

Deze uitgave biedt een referentiekader van waaruit de studenten de werking van organisaties ...

- Onderwijspraktijk centraal bij vakdidactische ontwikkeling van studenten;

- afgestemd op de landelijke rekentoets;

- uitgebreide online ondersteuning.

Rekenen-wiskunde in de praktijk is een succesvolle serie vakdidactische studieboeken voor de pabo. De serie bestaat uit vier delen: onderbouw, bovenbouw, kerninzichten en verschillen in de klas. Centraal staat de vakdidactische ontwikkeling van de student, met als uitgangspunt de onderwijspraktijk.

Rekenen-wiskunde in de praktijk – bovenbou...

Grip op de groep gaat uitgebreid in op het groepsproces in een klas en hoe een leerkracht een positieve leeromgeving creëert aan het begin van het schooljaar. Het is geen methode, maar biedt inzicht in processen die in een groep spelen en geeft handvatten om in een groep een positieve sfeer te maken.