Studieboeken (7)
Made to Stick
Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
2011 || Paperback || Chip Heath e.a. || Random House Publishing Group
Mark Twain once observed, A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on. His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus public-health scares circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas–business people, teachers, politicians, journalists, and others–struggle to make their ideas stick. Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas? In Made to Stick, accomplished e...
Vector Calculus / 6th Edition
2011 || Hardcover || Jerrold E. Marsden e.a. || Macmillan
Now in its sixth edition, Vector Calculus helps students gain an intuitive and solid understanding of this important subject. The book's careful account is a contemporary balance between theory, application, and historical development, providing it's readers with an insight into how mathematics progresses and is in turn influenced by the natural world.
Mindfulness
A practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world
2011 || Paperback || Prof Mark Williams || Little, Brown Book Group
THE LIFE-CHANGING BESTSELLER - OVER 1.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD'A deeply compassionate guide to self-care - simple and profound' Sir Kenneth Branagh'If you want to free yourself from anxiety and stress, and feel truly at ease with yourself, then read this book' Ruby WaxAuthoritative, beautifully written and much-loved by its readers, Mindfulness: A practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world has become a word-of-mouth bestseller and global phenomenon. It reveals a set of simple yet powerf...
Introduction to the Pharmaceutical Sciences / 2nd Edition
An Integrated Approach
2011 || Paperback || Nita K. Pandit e.a. || Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
This unique textbook provides an introductory, yet comprehensive overview of the pharmaceutical sciences. It is the first text of its kind to pursue an interdisciplinary approach. Readers are introduced to basic concepts related to the specific disciplines in the pharmaceutical sciences, including pharmacology, pharmaceutics, pharmacokinetics, and medicinal chemistry.
In an easy-to-read writing style, the book provides readers with up-to-date information on pharmacogenomics and includes compr...
Visual Teams
Graphic Tools for Commitment, Innova tion, and High Performance
2011 || Paperback || D Sibbet || John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Graphic tools and visual solutions for team building and development Visual Teams uses visual tools and methods to help teams both face-to-face and virtual reach high performance in today's work environment. As teams become more and more global and distributed, visualization provides an important channel of communication one that opens up the group's mind to improving work systems and processes by understanding relationships, interconnections, and big picture contexts. Visual Teams shares bes...
Introduction to Polymers / 3rd edition
2011 || Paperback || Robert J. Young || Taylor & Francis
Thoroughly updated, Introduction to Polymers, Third Edition presents the science underpinning the synthesis, characterization and properties of polymers. The material has been completely reorganized and expanded to include important new topics and provide a coherent platform for teaching and learning the fundamental aspects of contemporary polymer science. New to the Third EditionPart IThis first part covers newer developments in polymer synthesis, including living radical polymerization, cat...
Visible Learning for Teachers
Maximizing Impact on Learning
2011 || Paperback || John Hattie || Taylor & Francis
In November 2008, John Hattie's ground-breaking book Visible Learning synthesised the results of more than fifteen years research involving millions of students and represented the biggest ever collection of evidence-based research into what actually works in schools to improve learning. Visible Learning for Teachers takes the next step and brings those ground breaking concepts to a completely new audience. Written for students, pre-service and in-service teachers, it explains how to apply th...