A New Edition Featuring Case Studies and Examples of the Fundamentals of Robot Kinematics, Dynamics, and Control In the 2nd Edition of Robot Modeling and Control, students will cover the theoretical fundamentals and the latest technological advances in robot kinematics. With so much advancement in technology, from robotics to motion planning, society can implement more powerful and dynamic algorithms than ever before. This in-depth reference guide educates readers in four distinct parts; the ...

Sustainable Business: Key Issues is the first comprehensive introductory-level textbook to address the interface between environmental challenges and business solutions to provide an overview of the basic concepts of sustainability, sustainable business, and business ethics. The book introduces students to the background and key issues of sustainability and suggests ways in which these concepts can be applied in business practice. Though the book takes a business perspective, it is interdisci...

Conducted properly, information security risk assessments provide managers with the feedback needed to manage risk through the understanding of threats to corporate assets, determination of current control vulnerabilities, and appropriate safeguards selection. Performed incorrectly, they can provide the false sense of security that allows potential threats to develop into disastrous losses of proprietary information, capital, and corporate value. Picking up where its bestselling predecessors ...

From the author of Doing Business in Europe (SAGE, 2018), Gabriele Suder has teamed up with Sumati Varma based in India, and Terence Tsai from China to bring this comprehensive solution for Asian business teaching and learning. The book offers a highly productive mix of international business and marketing theory, and is packed with pedagogical tools to engage and develop understanding, including two full-length corporate case studies per chapter. This is a unique volume covering the most rel...

The world's bestselling guide to negotiation. Getting to Yes has been in print for over thirty years. This timeless classic has helped millions of people secure win-win agreements both at work and in their private lives. Founded on principles such as:* Don't bargain over positions* Separate the people from the problem* Insist on objective criteria. Getting to Yes simplifies the whole negotiation process, offering a highly effective framework that will ensure success.

Remorseless financial crises. Extreme inequalities in wealth. Relentless pressure on the environment. Anyone can see that our economic system is broken. But can it be fixed?In Doughnut Economics, Oxford academic Kate Raworth identifies the seven critical ways in which mainstream economics has led us astray - from selling us the myth of 'rational economic man' to obsessing over growth at all costs - and offers instead an alternative roadmap for bringing humanity into a sweet spot that meets th...

One of the seminal management books of the past 75 years, The Fifth Discipline is an international multi-million-copy bestseller. Written in an engaging and accessible way, with diagrams and illustrations, it will change the way you think and therefore way you and your team grows and develop. In the long run, the only sustainable source of competitive advantage is your organisation's ability to learn faster than its competitors....

'Senge explains why the learning organization matters, provid...

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...

Het Kursbuch bestaat uit tien Lektionen. In de Inhaltsverzeichnis worden de onderdelen van elke Lektion weergegeven: opbouw, thema's, taalhandelingen, woordenschat en grammatica, uitspraak en spellingregels. Thema's die aan bod komen zijn onder andere: introductie van een nieuwe medewerker, de bedrijfsstructuur, een fabrieksbezoek, een zakenreis, vergaderingen, thuiswerken, beroepskleding en de computerwerkplek.

De tien Lektionen zijn helder gestructureerd en bieden een ruim aanbod aan opdra...

Niveau B1 bis C1

Die em Übungsgrammatik ist die ideale Ergänzung für Lernende, die mit dem Lehrwerk em neu arbeiten, aber auch lehrwerksunabhängig einsetzbar.

Voraussetzungen: Grundstufenkenntnisse (obere Grundstufe).

Zielgruppe: Lernende der Niveaustufen B1 bis C1.

Lernziel: Vertiefung und Wiederholung der Grund- und Mittelstufengrammatik.

Konzeption: Die em Übungsgrammatik vermittelt einen Überblick über die frequenten Phänomene der deutschen Grammatik. Durch den integrierten Lösun...