Being a citizen is not just about holding a passport or being allowed to vote. It is also about how we communicate with each other about common societal issues. Rhetorical citizenship is about how we as citizens participate in society by means of discourse. How do we talk and write about civic issues? How are we addressed? How do we listen?

This book presents studies from different academic fields of theoretical issues raised by public discourse, focusing on understanding and evaluating how it...

This pocket guide provides a first introduction to the Open FAIR Body of Knowledge. It will be of interest to individuals who require a basic understanding of the Open FAIR Body of Knowledge, and professionals who are working in roles associated with a risk analysis project, such as those responsible for information system security planning, execution, development, delivery, and operation.

The Open FAIR Body of Knowledge provides a taxonomy and method for understanding, analyzing and measurin...

The nature can be cruel because it cleans up its weak animals. We now know that the strongest individuals of a species in nature evolve through an admirable adaptability and reproduce.

Birds in cages, poultry, pigs, cows and fish live in captivity. This book describes how caged birds and livestock diseases develop to a greater extent, which can also be transmitted to humans. The expansion in the intensive livesto...

Are you an international living in or moving to Holland? Looking for opportunities to be introduced to the Dutch language in order to integrate just a little bit? Having many social activities and not enough time? Wishing learning Dutch would be made a little bit easier

Grab this bilingual book!

- You will learn the basics (Level A1 to A2) of the Dutch language

- This book is written in both Dutch and English

- This book consists of the most important grammar parts and short e...

Previous experiences have shown that the implementation of planning policy does not always lead to the originally intended territorial management outcomes. This issue
is particularly crucial when policy ideas, institutions, models and programmes are transferred into places with different cultural settings without adaptations (Knieling and Othengrafen 2009b; Sanyal 2005). These unexpected consequences in planning practice and management outcomes have brought a significant amount of attention...

The urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon and the dependency of buildings on
fossil fuels were the two main issues that formed this dissertation. UHI results in higher air temperatures in dense urban areas compared with their suburbs and rural surroundings. This phenomenon affects human health through thermal discomfort. Furthermore, in the Netherlands, it is estimated that by 2050 the air temperature could be up to 2.3°C warmer as compared to the period of 1981-2010. Besides, the energy cons...

Since the 1980s China has experienced unprecedented urbanisation as a result of a series of reforms promoting rapid economic development. Shanghai, like the other big cities along China’s coastline, has witnessed extraordinary growth in its economy and population with industrial development and rural-to-urban migration generating extensive urban expansion. Shanghai’s GDP growth rate has been over 10 per cent for more than 15 years. Its population in 2013 was estimated at 23.47 million, wh...

I suppose all you do is put the shells in the bag, take one out and write down the letter. Then you put it back and repeat the procedure until you run out of paper. Don t tell me that s all there is to The Code?

Mr. Haze smiled.

No, that is not all. However, you have unraveled the basic principle. Now let me fill in the details.

During a business trip to San Jose, Peter meets Mr. Haze, an intriguing gentleman who tells him about the scientific principles of fortune telling. When he hands P...

Dit boek is het resultaat van een onderzoek naar een architectonisch type, het cultuurgebouw en naar

de rol die 'cultuur' heeft bij de realisering van een democratische maatschappij. Het boek People's

Palaces is geschreven rondom twee specifieke projecten, de South Bank in Londen, met de Festival

Hall ontworpen in 1948 en geopend in 1951, de Hayward Gallery/ Queen Elizabeth Hall, ontworpen in

1960/61 en het Kulturhus in Stockholm, ontworpen in 1966/67 en gerealiseerd tot 1974. De keuze

voor d...

Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs shows that much of what we now know about common diseases has been achieved by studying rare diseases. It proposes that future advances in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of common diseases will come as a consequence of our accelerating progress in the field of rare diseases. Understanding the complex steps in the development of common diseases, such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, and metabolic diseases, has proven a difficult problem.

Rare diseases...