Koel- en vriestechniek is sinds zijn verschijning een zeer geschikt boek gebleken voor iedereen die koel-, vries-, en luchtbehandelingsinstallaties bedient en onderhoudt, zowel aan boord van schepen als aan de wal. Het is geschreven voor niveau 4, maar zeker ook bruikbaar als basis voor hogere onderwijsniveaus. Er is geen bijzondere voorkennis nodig van de materie nodig: het boek begint eenvoudig en biedt later veel verdieping en achtergronden. De theorie wordt op veel plaatsen in het boekje...

Learn how to safely sedate your dental patients and help control their anxiety with Sedation: A Guide to Patient Management, 6th Edition. Written by sedation expert Stanley Malamed, DDS, this concise guide combines essential theory with "how-to" technical instruction to help you master basic techniques in dental sedation and anxiety control. This new sixth edition also incorporates the latest guidelines from the ADA and the American Society of Anesthesiologists, along with vivid images of the...

Individual Differences and Personality, Third Edition provides a comprehensive overview of research on personality. The book begins with the main approaches to the study of personality, basic principles of personality measurement, the concept of personality traits, and the major dimensions of personality variation. Further chapters review personality change and stability, biological causal mechanisms, genetic and environmental influences and evolutionary adaptive function.

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Lifestyle Medicine: Lifestyle, the Environment and Preventive Medicine in Health and Disease, Third Edition, is an adjunct approach to health practice that seeks to deal with the more complex modern determinants of chronic diseases—primarily lifestyle and the environments driving such lifestyles—in contrast to the microbial ‘causes’ of infectious disease. Our lifestyle choices have a profound effect on our health. As we live longer, one thing is clear: many of us will spend time livin...

Now is the time for conservation science—a mission-oriented scientific enterprise that seeks to protect nature, including Earth’s animals, plants, and ecosystems, in the face of unprecedented human demands upon the planet. Conservation scientists apply principles from ecology, population genetics, economics, political science, and other natural and social sciences to manage and preserve nature. The focus of this textbook is first and foremost on protecting nature and especially Earth’s ...

Understanding the earth’s climate system has never been more crucial.

At a time when the evidence is stronger than ever that human activity is the primary cause for global climate change, Ruddiman's breakthrough text provides a thorough and multi-disciplinary introduction to the earth’s climate. It offers a clear, engaging, objective portrait of the current state of climate science, including compelling recent findings on global warming and important advances in understanding past climates.

Written by leading experts in the field, this book offers an introduction to recent developments in port and hinterland strategies, operations and related specializations. The book begins with a broad overview of port definitions, concepts and the role of ports in global supply chains, and an examination of strategic topics such as port management, governance, performance, hinterlands and the port-city relationship. The second part of the book examines operational aspects of maritime, port an...

Lineaire Algebra met uitwerkingen is een boek voor de tweedegraads lerarenopleiding wiskunde. De eerste helft van het boek concentreert zich op Vectormeetkunde. In de tweede helft komen essentiële begrippen als lineaire combinatie, basis, lineaire afbeelding, kern, beeldruimte en inverse aan bod. Alle deze, vaak abstracte begrippen worden vanaf het eerste hoofdstuk glashelder uitgelegd, en aan de hand van een groot aantal goedgekozen voorbeelden gedemonstreerd. De bijna 200 volledig uitgewer...

The new edition of a comprehensive introduction to a rapidly developing field, combining developmental data with theory.

An updated edition of the classic book on digital storytelling, with a new introduction and expansive chapter commentaries. I want to say to all the hacker-bards from every field—gamers, researchers, journalists, artists, programmers, scriptwriters, creators of authoring systems... please know that I wrote this book for you."— Hamlet on the Holodeck, from the author's introduction to the updated edition Janet Murray's Hamlet on the Holodeck was instantly influential and controversial when...