The contributors to Signal Traffic investigate how the material artifacts of media infrastructure--transoceanic cables, mobile telephone towers, Internet data centers, and the like--intersect with everyday life. Essayists confront the multiple and hybrid forms networks take, the different ways networks are imagined and engaged with by publics around the world, their local effects, and what human beings experience when a network fails. Some contributors explore the physical objects and industr...

Highly Commended at the British Medical Association Book Awards 2016 MRI at a Glance encapsulates essential MRI physics knowledge. Illustrated in full colour throughout, its concise text explains complex information, to provide the perfect revision aid.

Colonialism/Postcolonialism is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical, theoretical and political dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies. This new edition includes a new introduction and conclusion as well as extensive updates throughout. Topics covered include globalization, new grassroots movements (including Occupy Wall Street), the environmental crisis, and the relationship between Marxism and postcolonial studies.

Loomba also discusses how ongoing struggles such a...

How is practical change work carried out in modern organizations? And what kind of challenges, tasks and other difficulties are normally encountered as a part of it?In a turbulent and changing world, organizational culture is often seen as central for sustained competitiveness. Organizations are faced with increased demands for change but these are often so challenging that they meet heavy resistance and fizzle out. Changing Organizational Culture encourages the development of a reflexive app...

Het boek Arbeidsrecht voor HR-management combineert

de theorie van het arbeidsrecht met gerichte praktijkvoorbeelden.

Hierbij wordt speciale aandacht gegeven

aan wijzigingen die de Wet werk en zekerheid (WWZ)

met zich mee brengt.

De praktijkvoorbeelden zijn gebaseerd op twee fi ctieve

professionals: Henk en Veronique. Henk is franchiseondernemer

van een supermarkt en Veronique is

HR-manager bij een internationale onderneming. Aan

de hand van de praktijkvoorbeelden worden alledaagse

werksituaties beschr...