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Building for a better hospital
value-adding management and design of healthcare real estate
2019 || Paperback || Johan van der Zwart || TU Delft Open
Recent deregulation of laws on hospital real estate in the Netherlands implies that healthcare institutions have more opportunities to make independent accommodation choices, but at the same time have themselves become responsible for the risks associated with the investment. In addition, accommodation costs have become an integral part of the costs of healthcare. This sheds new light on the alignment between the organisation of healthcare and accommodation: care institutions themselves bear ...
Philosophy of Science
A Contemporary Introduction
2019 || Paperback || Alex Rosenberg e.a. || Taylor & Francis
Any serious student attempting to better understand the nature, methods, and justification of science will value Alex Rosenberg and Lee McIntyre's updated and substantially revised fourth edition of Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction. Weaving lucid explanations with clear analyses, the volume is a much- used, thematically oriented introduction to the field. The fourth edition has been thoroughly rewritten based on instructor and student feedback, to improve readability and acc...
Statistics: Concepts and Controversies
2019 || Paperback || David S. Moore e.a. || Macmillan
Statistics for the liberal arts students.
Statistics: Concepts and Controversies is a book on statistical ideas and statistical reasoning and on their relevance to public policy and to the human sciences from medicine to sociology. Many fundamental graphical and numerical techniques are included in the text to give flesh to the ideas and muscle to the reasoning. Students learn to think about data by working with data, however technique does not dominate concepts. This author’s intention her...
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De dikke alg
Hoe algen de wereld gaan redden
2019 || Paperback || Peter Mooij || Lebowski
Algen leveren de helft van de zuurstof op aardeAlgen zijn een perfect alternatief voor fossiele brandstoffenAlgen gaan de wereld reddenDe ijskappen smelten, de zeespiegel stijgt, de uitstoot van co2 neemt dramatische proporties aan - klimaatverandering is een feit en daarmee wordt de roep om een klimaatneutrale samenleving steeds urgenter. Algen zullen daar een wezenlijke rol in gaan spelen, omdat ze op een duurzame wijze olie en voedsel kunnen produceren.In De dikke alg beschrijft onderzoeke...
Introductory Statistics: A Problem-Solving Approach
2019 || Paperback || Stephen Kokoska || Macmillan
Promotes a lifelong skill of problem solving.
This text helps students develop the fundamental lifelong skill of solving problems and interpreting solutions in real world terms in a way that is accessible and easy to apply in many situations. We certainly want students to appreciate the beauty of statistics and connections to so many other disciplines. However, it is even more important for students to be able to apply problem-solving skills to a wide range of academic and career pursuits, in...
The Uninhabitable Earth
A Story of the Future
2023 || Paperback || David Wallace-Wells || Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible-food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation.
An "epoch-defining book" (The Guardian) and "this generation's Silent Spring" (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through i...
Invitation to Oceanography / 8th Revised Edition
2019 || Paperback || Paul R. Pinet || Jones and Bartlett Publishers
Invitation to Oceanography, Eighth Edition introduces students to the key concepts from geology, chemistry, physics, and biology as it relates to ocean environments and processes. This comprehensive text helps students learn how scientists interpret data, taking raw knowledge and transforming it into real understanding. As concepts are explained and described with words and numbers, students can apply their learning using questions at the end of each chapter, including the Review of Basic Con...
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Negotiation and design for the self-organising city
gaming as a method for urban design
2019 || Paperback || Ekim Tan || TU Delft Open
An understanding of cities as open systems whose agents act on them simultaneously from below and above, influencing urban processes by their interaction with them and with each other, is replacing the simplistic debate on urban participation which asks whether cities should be organized bottom-up or top-down. This conceptualization of cities as complex systems calls for new collaborative city-making methods: a combination of collaborative planning (which already embraces various agencies and...
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Geo-Design
advances in bridging geo-information technology, urban planning and landscape architecture
2019 || Paperback || Steffen Nijhuis e.a. || TU Delft Open
Geodesign is a GIS-based planning and design method, which tightly couples the creation of design proposals with impact simulations informed by geographic contexts. Geodesign as such comprises a set of geo-information technology driven methods and techniques for planning built and natural environments in an integrated process. It includes project conceptualization, analysis, design specification, stakeholder participation and collaboration.
This academic publication brings together a wide var...
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Ype & Ionica
en andere nogal logische fotostrips
2019 || Paperback || Ype Driessen e.a. || Nieuwezijds || met inkijkexemplaar
- Is 0,99999 echt hetzelfde als 1?
- Wat is de kans dat van zeg 23 mensen er 2 op dezelfde dag jarig zijn?
- bHoeveel pianostemmers telt Amsterdam?
- Hebben wij wel gevoel voor wat echt willekeurig is?
- Hoeveel verschillende potjes schaak zijn er mogelijk?
Ype en Ionica nemen je mee op ontdekkingsreis door het fantastische universum van de wetenschap. Onderweg leer je meer over nogal logische dingen zoals toeval, tijdreizen, kansberekening of het waarnemerseffect in:
• Het doldwaze droste-...