Charles Robert Darwin (Shrewsbury (Shropshire), 12 februari 1809 - Downe (Kent), 19 april 1882) was een Engels autodidact op het gebied van natuurlijke histo-rie, biologie en geologie. Darwin ontleent zijn roem aan zijn theorie dat evolutie van soorten wordt gedreven door natuurlijke selectie. Het bestaan van evolutie werd nog tijdens zijn leven binnen een groot deel van

de wetenschappelijke gemeenschap geaccepteerd. De acceptatie van natuurlijke selectie als aandrijvend mechanisme liet lang...

Hester de Jong is NLP Health Coach and Classical Homeopath. She is also

trained in Systemic Work and Solution Focused Therapy. With PasoPaso Training & Coaching she concentrates on the area of personal development. Her aim is to reconnect women with their inner drive, inspiration and passion.

This book invites you to step out of your comfort zone,

to stick out your neck and get the best out of yourself,

resulting in more peace of mind, more energy and more joy.

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Reinaert de vos is vaker in modern Nederlands vertaald. De literaire hertaling van Ernst van Altena doet recht aan de Reinaert. Bij hém blijven stijl en ritme in het spoor van de Vlaamse Reinaert en de middeleeuws-Franse Roman de Renart. In deze tweetalige studie-editie van de middeleeuwse satire staat de Middelnederlandse versie uit het Comburgs handschrift naast de literaire hertaling in modern Nederlands. De uitgave is uitermate geschikt voor gebruik in het hoger onderwijs. Ernst van Alte...

What is knowledge? How does it differ from mere belief? Do you need to be able to justify a claim in order to count as knowing it? How can we know that the outer world is real and not a dream?Questions like these are ancient ones, and the branch of philosophy dedicated to answering them - epistemology - has been active for thousands of years. In this thought-provoking Very Short Introduction, Jennifer Nagel considers these classic questions alongside new puzzles arising from recent discoverie...

This book provides an introduction to compositional semantics and to the syntax/semantics interface. It is rooted within the tradition of model theoretic semantics, and develops an explicit fragment of both the syntax and semantics of a rich portion of English. Professor Jacobson adopts a Direct Compositionality approach, whereby the syntax builds the expressions while the semantics simultaneously assigns each a model-theoretic interpretation.

Alongside this approach, the author also presents...

Language Practice for First New Edition is an in-depth, detailed approach to English grammar and vocabulary, providing clear grammar explanations, plenty of practice and regular review units. The accompanying MPO provides extra practice. Perfect for students preparing for the First exam, can be used in class or for self-study.

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This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes during the Quaternary. The evidence is extremely diverse ranging from landforms and sediments to fossil assemblages and geochemical data, and includes new data from terrestrial, marine and ice-core records. Dating methods are described and evaluated, while the principles and practices of Quaternary stratigraphy are also...

Events Management 1e John Beech, Sebastian Kaiser and Robert Kaspar The Business of Events Management provides an accessible and lively introduction to the practice of managing an event, festival, conference or congress. Written by a team of international experts, the book incorporates the latest thinking in events management and highlights key theories, concepts and models by using a range of case studies and examples. This book will enable you to: * Manage the financial aspects of events ma...

Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition is a comprehensive textbook that bridges the gap between the fields of sociolinguistics and second language acquisition, exploring the variety of ways in which social context influences the acquisition of a second language. It reviews basic principles of sociolinguistics, provides a unified account of the multiple theoretical approaches to social factors in second languages, summarizes the growing body of empirical research, including examples ...