Derde deel uit een serie over de haven van Amsterdam en de Amsterdamse koopvaardijvloot. Evenals in de andere delen wordt ook in deze uitgave het onderwerp uitgebreid en tot in detail behandeld. De beschreven periode ligt tussen 1918 en 1940; het Interbellum. Een moeilijke tijd, vooral getekend door de economische wereldcrisis, die door de bezuinigingspolitiek onder premierschap van dr. Hendrikus Colijn in Nederland langer duurde dan elders het geval was.

Hoe kan het dat gezagvoerder Van Zanten, een ervaren KLM piloot, jaren van training en cruciale veiligheidsregels in de wind sloeg, en zodoende de grootste vliegtuigramp aller tijden veroorzaakte? Waarom zijn we eerder geneigd verliefd te worden als we ons in gevaarlijke situaties bevinden? En hoe kunnen studenten economie overgehaald worden om meer dan 100 euro te betalen voor een briefje van 20?

Er blijkt dat een aantal psychologische onderstromen ons keer op keer weten te verleiden tot irra...

Create physically realistic 3D Graphics environments with this introduction to the ideas and techniques behind the process. Author David H. Eberly includes simulations to introduce the key problems involved and then gradually reveals the mathematical and physical concepts needed to solve them.

He then describes all the algorithmic foundations and uses code examples and working source code to show how they are implemented, culminating in a large collection of physical simulations. The book tac...

For many students with no science background, environmental geology may be one of the only science courses they ever take. Living With Earth: An Introduction to Environmental Geology is ideal for those students, fostering a better understanding of how they interact with Earth and how their actions can affect Earth's environmental health. The informal, reader-friendly presentation is organized around a few unifying perspectives: how the various Earth systems interact with one another; how Eart...

Explains the relationship of electrophysiology, nonlinear dynamics, and the computational properties of neurons, with each concept presented in terms of both neuroscience and mathematics and illustrated using geometrical intuition.

Hydrology in Practice is an excellent and very successful introductory text for engineering hydrology students who go on to be practitioners in consultancies, the Environment Agency, and elsewhere. This fourth edition of Hydrology in Practice, while retaining all that is excellent about its predecessor, by Elizabeth M. Shaw, replaces the material on the Flood Studies Report with an equivalent section on the methods of the Flood Estimation Handbook and its revisions.

Other completely revised s...

Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia, this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes between 1990 and 2008. It finds that where social, economic, and technocratic ties to the West were extensive, as in Eastern Europe and the Americas, the external cost of abuse led incumbents to cede power rather than crack down, which led to democratization. Where ties to the West were limited, external democratizing pressure was w...

Provides advice on the application of the Commission's 2007 Recommendations.

This book is a fully updated and expanded new edition of An Introduction to Continental Philosophy, first published in 1996. It provides a clear, concise and readable introduction to philosophy in the continental tradition.