Filled with suspense, unlikely coincidences, wrenching tragedies and marvellous flights of lyricism and erudition, the novel carries the reader effortlessly along with Marco's search - for love, for his unknown father, and for the key to the elusive riddle of his origins and his fate.

My Years with General Motors became an instant bestseller when it was first published in 1963. It has since been used as a manual for managers, offering personal glimpses into the practice of the "discipline of management" by the man who perfected it. This is the story no other businessman could tell—a distillation of half a century of intimate leadership experience with a giant industry and an inside look at dramatic events and creative business management.

HET GEBED VAN EEN CHARLATANAns van der Heide- Kort bracht het grootste deel van haar jeugd door in het voormalig Nederlands Indië.Na de middelbare school werd zij verloskundige en oefende als zodanig een praktijk uit in Wageningen. De oorlog 1940-1945 maakte voortzetting van haar werk onmogelijk. Inmiddels gehuwd moest zij met haar jonge gezin, wegens oorlogshandelingen, eerst uit Wageningen, later uit Arnhem vluchten, waarbij al haar bezittingen verloren gingen.Na de oorlog zocht zij haar l...

The field of performance studies embraces performance behaviour of all kinds and in all contexts, from everyday life to high ceremony. This volume investigates a wide range of performance behaviour - dance, ritual, conflict situation, sports, storytelling and display behaviour - in a variety of circumstances and cultures. It considers such issues as the relationship between training and the finished performance; whether performance behaviour is universal or culturally specific; and the relati...

For the first time available in paperback, this classic anthology provides readers with important literary works composed during the Middle English period (1100-1500) in England, Scotland, and Ireland. The editors provide glosses for all unfamiliar words and obscure phrases and every selection refers to at least one definitive edition where details of recent scholarship can be found. Modern punctuation and capitalization are used throughout and variant spellings are kept to a minimum to avoid...

Tien opstellen over cultuur, geschiedenis, wetenschap en literatuur - alle geschreven, voorgedragen en eerder gepubliceerd in de periode '83 tot '90.

Het zevental korte stukken van Jung dat hier is samengebracht, geeft een duidelijke beschrijving van kernpunten, begrippen en termen die voor Jungs psychologie typerend zijn. Jung gaat ervan uit dat de mens, behalve door zijn bewustzijn, ook in sterke mate be

Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a method for satisfying customers by translating their demands into design targets and quality assurance points. For a thorough "how-to" on the implementation of QFD, we went directly to the source -- Yoji Akao, the creator of QFD and one of the foremost leaders of the Japanese Total Quality Control movement.

In this unprecedented book he explains the concepts and methods of this remarkable systems engineering approach. Filled with case studies, detailed c...