Africa and the Future of International Criminal Justice examines critical issues concerning Africa as a place in which international criminal accountability mechanisms have played, and still continue to play a prominent role in the efforts to deal with and to tackle impunity for atrocity crimes. It interrogates important questions relating to Africa's importance to international criminal justice as exemplified by the activities of international criminal accountability mechanisms. Some example...

Hirsch, Devaney, and Smale’s classic Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems, and an Introduction to Chaos has been used by professors as the primary text for undergraduate and graduate level courses covering differential equations. It provides a theoretical approach to dynamical systems and chaos written for a diverse student population among the fields of mathematics, science, and engineering. Prominent experts provide everything students need to know about dynamical systems as students...

A new and engaging key text for cognitive psychology providing core knowledge plus learning and skills support for all undergraduate psychology students.

A popular text in its first edition, Mechanics of Solids and Structures serves as a course text for the senior/graduate (fourth or fifth year) courses/modules in the mechanics of solid/advanced strength of materials, offered in aerospace, civil, engineering science, and mechanical engineering departments. Now, Mechanics of Solid and Structure, Second Edition presents the latest developments in computational methods that have revolutionized the field, while retaining all of the basic principle...

This book lays out the concepts necessary to understand how a computer works. For reasons of clarity, the authors have deliberately chosen examples that apply to machines from all eras, without having to water down the contents of the book. This choice helps to show how techniques, concepts and performances have evolved since the first computers.

The book is divided into five parts. The first four, which are of increasing difficulty, are the core of the book: “Elements of a Basic Architectu...

Een oud adagium stelt dat voorkomen beter is dan genezen.Preventieve adviezen worden helaas vaak slecht opgevolgd omdat zij worden gegeven aan gezonde, klachtenvrije mensen en het resultaat pas op lange termijn waarneembaar is. Daarom hebben adviezen op bevolkingsniveau nogal eens teleurstellend effect. Individuele preventieve zorg in de spreekkamer richt zich op mensen met een verhoogd riciso en heeft daardoor per definitie een hoger rendement. Bijna alle praktiserende artsen hebben daar dag...

Klachten en ziekten van kinderen zijn voor hun ouders vaak een bron van zorg enongerustheid. Is er sprake van een onschuldige kwaal of heeft het kind misschien een ernstige ziekte? Door hun verantwoordelijkheidsgevoel zijn ouders geneigd aan te dringen op specialistische zorg voor hun kind. Aan de huisarts de uitdaging om tussen de milde kwalen de chronische en levensbedreigende aandoeningen tijdig op te sporen en adequate zorg te bieden aan kind en ouder.Hoe duidt u de klachten van kinderen?...