Nooit meer slapen is het meesterlijke verhaal van de jonge geoloog Alfred Issendorf, die in het moerassige noorden van Noorwegen onderzoek wil verrichten om de hypothese van zijn leermeester en promotor Sibbelee te staven. Issendorf is ambitieus: hij hoopt dat hem op deze reis iets groots te wachten staat, dat zijn naam aan een belangrijk wetenschappelijk feit zal worden verbonden. Deze ambitie hangt samen met het verlangen het werk van zijn vader, die door een ongeluk tijdens een onderzoekst...

he Active Grammar 1 is for the teaching / learning Portuguese as a Foreign Language (PLE) and Portuguese Second Language (PL2) and covers the main structures of elementary and pre-intermediate levels - A1, A2 and B1. The Active Grammar 1 is not geared to be a book of course PLE / PL2. It is supplementary material to be used in the classroom or at home, and as such, the book should not be worked from beginning to end, following the numerical order of the units; they shall be selected and worke...

Consciousness, 'the last great mystery for science', remains a hot topic. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could consciousness itself be an illusion? Exciting new developments in brain science are continuing the debates on these issues, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers. This controversial book clarifies the potentially confusing arguments, a...

An essential guide for succeeding in today's competitive environment, this book provides beginning scientists and experienced researchers with practical advice on writing about their work and getting published. This brand new, updated edition also includes a new chapter on editing one's own work, a section on publicizing and archiving one's paper, and updates on authorship, including information on new authorship criteria and on the author identification number ORCID. The book guides readers ...

From experts on working with court-mandated populations, this book shows how motivational interviewing (MI) can help offenders move beyond resistance or superficial compliance and achieve meaningful behavior change. Using this evidence-based approach promotes successful rehabilitation and reentry by drawing on clients' values, goals, and strengths--not simply telling them what to do.

With this guide to mindful practice, teachers will learn how to use mindfulness in their own professional and personal lives as well as how to incorporate it in their teaching to support student wellbeing.

This book supports teachers to plan, assess and develop children's writing for a range of purposes in a range of styles. Chapters focus on different subjects exploring the different opportunities for writing across curriculum areas.

"Vergeet maar snel wat je op de lerarenopleiding hebt geleerd, in de praktijk gaat het heel anders", is een vaak gehoorde uitspraak. Op opleidingsscholen, waarin scholen en lerarenopleidingen intensief samenwerken bij het opleiden van studenten tot leraren, gaat deze uitspraak echter niet op.

In haar openbare les beschrijft lector Mariëlle Theunissen de manier waarop scholen voor basisonderwijs, voortgezet onderwijs en middelbaar beroepsonderwijs samenwerken met de lerarenopleidingen om aanko...

'Must the tyranny of the group rule us from cradle to grave? Absolutely not, says Todd Rose in a subversive and readable introduction to what has been called the new science of the individual ... Readers will be moved' Abigail Zuger, The New York Times'Groundbreaking ... The man who can teach you how not to be average' Anna Hart, Daily Telegraph'Fascinating, engaging, and practical.

The End of Average will help everyone - and I mean everyone - live up to their potential' Amy Cuddy, author of ...