Gives students access to basic medical education, knowledge and skills. This title helps students to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes that advances their careers and, ultimately, enhance the health of the population and contribute to the advancement of medicine.

Introduction to Pragmatics guides students through traditional and new approaches in the field, focusing particularly on phenomena at the elusive semantics/pragmatics boundary to explore the role of context in linguistic communication. Offers students an accessible introduction and an up-to-date survey of the field, encompassing both established and new approaches to pragmatics. Addresses the traditional range of topics - such as implicature, reference, presupposition, and speech acts - as we...

This new edition retains the appeal, clarity and practicality that made the first so successful, and continues to provide a fundamental introduction to the principles and purposes of rubrics, with guidance on how to construct them, use them to align course content to learning outcomes, and apply them in a wide variety of courses, and to all forms of assignment.

Through a series of case studies, the authors employ both neopluralist and exchange perspectives to explore the lobbying activity that occurs in the later stages of the policymaking process which are typically less partisan, involve little conflict, and receive scant public attention.

This book provides all students need to start out a survey research project.

Volwassenen praten niet zo vaak met kinderen. Als ze dat doen is daar vaak een vervelende aanleiding voor, bijvoorbeeld slechte schoolprestaties of nog erger een scheiding van de ouders. Het zijn vaak gesprekken waar kinderen niet om vragen. Het is daarom extra belangrijk om die gesprekken zo te voeren, dat kinderen dit niet als onaangenaam ervaren. Aan te sluiten bij de leefwereld van een kind is dan van belang.

Je kunt beter met het kind op de grond op een groot stuk papier samen een tekeni...

In Higher Education, the Dutch edition of Report writing for readers with little time is the textbook most widely used for the writing of reports of a technical nature while professional writers use it as a popular reference work.

Managing your competencies has been revised on the basis of the authors' experiences and reactions of users of earlier editions.

What is a competency? A competency is a combination of knowledge, skills and attitude that you need to function well in specific professional situations. For example, a nurse must be able to inoculate a crying child. A nurse who cannot perform this task is regarded as incompetent - unfit to be a nurse. Likewise, a police officer must be able to pacify drunken pub vi...

Was jij een lezertje, zoals Jan Leyers? Of was je gek op dieren, zoals Inge Vervotte? Speelde je graag poppenkast en deed je niets liever dan verhaaltjes vertellen, zoals Goedele Liekens? Of zong je de hele dag voor de spiegel, zoals Jo Lemaire? Je favoriete speelgoed en de dingen die je als kind het liefste deed, zeggen alles over je natuurlijke voorkeuren en de talenten die je hebt. Deze natuurlijke voorkeur is de basis van de KernTalenten-methode, die de grond van je karakter, je talent en...