This book offers a practical guide for policy advisors and their managers, grounded in the author's extensive experience as a senior policy practitioner in New Zealand's Westminster-style system of government. A key message is that effective policy advising is less about cycles, stages and steps, and more about relationships, integrity and communication. Policy making is incremental social problem solving.

Policy advising is mostly learned on the job, like an apprenticeship. It starts with ca...

Now in its 6th Edition, this highly acclaimed textbook provides sanitation information needed to ensure hygienic practices and safe food for food industry personnel as well as students. It addresses the principles related to contamination, cleaning compounds, sanitizers, cleaning equipment. It also presents specific directions for applying these concepts to attain hygienic conditions in food processing or food preparation operations.

New in this edition:

Updated chapters on the fundamentals o...

'Wat zou u doen in mijn situatie?' Deze vraag wordt regelmatig door zwangere vrouwen aan zorgverleners gesteld als bij hun kind een afwijking wordt geconstateerd.

'Ik zou informatie inwinnen en op basis daarvan zelf een beslissing nemen,' is daarop het verstandige antwoord.

Maar waar haal je betrouwbare informatie vandaan? Googelen op 'downsyndroom' levert ruim 360.000 hits op. En 'open rug' zelfs meer dan 41 miljoen! Dan hebben we het alleen nog maar over twee mogelijke aandoeningen die met...