Deze praktische en informatieve gids behandelt alle medische aspecten van psychofarmaca. Er komen algemene kwesties aan de orde, zoals registratie van geneesmiddelen, medicijnnamen, de werking van psychofarmaca, verschillen in dosis bij verschillende mensen en het risico van bijwerkingen die in de bijsluiter staan. In twee aparte hoofdstukken wordt ingegaan op het gebruik van psychofarmaca door kinderen en ouderen. De toegankelijkheid van het boek wordt verder vergroot door een verklarende wo...

In 1997 verscheen Ernst van de Weterings boek Rembrandt. The Painter at Work, inmiddels een classic. Na verschillende herdrukken verschijnt nu bij Amsterdam University Press een herziene uitgave. In een uitvoerig voorwoord, dat tevens als samenvatting fungeert, worden de recente ontwikkelingen rond de in het boek behandelde onderwerpen uiteengezet.

Ben je een Zoeker? Of ben je een Vinder? En is je partner, je kind of je collega een Zoeker of een Vinder? Zoekers en Vinders benaderen de wereld op een heel verschillende manier, wat grote gevolgen heeft voor onze omgang met elkaar.

Zoekers willen groeien, Vinders willen met hun talenten aan de slag. Zoekers willen een beter mens worden, Vinders willen een beter leven leiden. Zoekers blijken onder andere zelfredzaam, mededeelzaam, rusteloos en filosofisch te zijn, terwijl Vinders onder andere...

With this dictionary students learn the most important collocations they need to know. The dictionary also guides them to the right word combination for their context. The CD-ROM includes the complete dictionary and practice exercises.

The word combinations are based on analysis of the Oxford English Corpus, a collection of three billion words of text from the English-speaking world that show the words that really do go together.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Arthur Miller. 'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers'Fading southern belle Blanche DuBois is adrift in the modern world.

When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner ...

Confused by business statistics? Problem solved. Schaum's Outline of Business Statistics helps you understand basic concepts and offers extra practice on topics you'll encounter in your introductory- and intermediate-level courses. With this book, you'll understand and master the basic methods of statistical description, statistical inference, decision analysis, and process control.

You will also learn about frequency distributions, histograms and frequency polygons, frequency curves, samplin...

Social theory is the theoretical core of the social sciences, clearly distinguishable from political theory and cultural analysis. This book offers a unique overview of the development of social theory from the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the present day. Spanning the literature in English, French and German, it provides an excellent background to the most important social theorists and theories in contemporary sociological thought, with crisp summaries of the main books, arguments...

Almost everyone has wondered at some time or another why morality requires what it appears to require and how, if at all, it speaks to us. In "Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality, " David Wiggins surveys the answers most commonly proposed for such questions-gathering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians and the post-utilitaritarian thinkers of the twentieth century. The view of morality he then proposes draws not only on Hume but on other sources as diverse as Aristotl...

From the authors of Women Don’t Ask, the groundbreaking book that revealed just how much women lose when they avoid negotiation, here is the action plan that women all over the country requested—a guide to negotiating anything effectively using strategies that feel comfortable to you as a woman.

Whether it’s a raise, that overdue promotion, an exciting new assignment, or even extra help around the house, this four-phase program, backed by years of research and practical success, will sh...

Spanning almost seven centuries, this anthology encapsulates the foundation and consolidation of literature written in English, culminating in some of the finest works produced in English in the high Middle Ages. New edition of this widely-used anthology of Old and Middle English literatureNow extended to include newly-edited versions of Old English Wonders of the East, of Poema Morale, extracts from Julian of Norwich and Margery KempeFull translations are offered for the Old and earlier Midd...