Waarom worden sommige teksten als 'literair' gewaardeerd? Hoe verhoudt het medium 'tekst' zich tot andere media? Hoe verloopt het leesproces en wanneer geven lezers hun eigen interpretaties? Hoe beïnvloedt de literatuur onze kijk op de werkelijkheid? Waarom is een 'nationale canon' geen vanzelfsprekendheid en is niets wat het lijkt in het tradition

Banned and vindicated, condemned and lauded, Lady Chatterley's Lover is D.H. Lawrence's seminal novel of illicit passion and forbidden desire. Lady Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the Sir Clifford.

Paralysed in the First World War, Sir Clifford is unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, and encourages her instead to have a liaison with a man of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to Oliver Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper, with whom she...

James Spillane, the leading expert in Distributed Leadership, shows how leadership happens in everyday practices in schools, through formal routines and informal interactions. He examines the distribution of leadership among administrators, specialists, and teachers in the school, and explains the ways in which leadership practice is stretched over leaders, followers, and aspects of the situation, including routines and tools of various sorts in the organization such as memos, scheduling proc...

One of the seminal management books of the past 75 years, The Fifth Discipline is an international multi-million-copy bestseller. Written in an engaging and accessible way, with diagrams and illustrations, it will change the way you think and therefore way you and your team grows and develop. In the long run, the only sustainable source of competitive advantage is your organisation's ability to learn faster than its competitors....

'Senge explains why the learning organization matters, provid...

In dagelijkse werksituaties valt er veel te leren. Leerkansen worden echter lang niet altijd benut, waardoor fouten zich herhalen of noodzakelijke ontwikkeling onvoldoende wordt bereikt. Door alert te zijn op leermogelijkheden en door leerprocessen deskundig te begeleiden draagt u bij aan het leren van mensen en aan de ontwikkeling van een lerende cultuur in uw organisatie. Opleiders, managers en docenten krijgen met dit boek materiaal in handen voor het aanscherpen van hun visie op praktijkg...

De wetenschap heeft weinig aandacht voor ouderschap. Alice van der Pas doet een serieuze poging om dit onderontwikkelde gebied van de psychologie in kaart te brengen. Drie zaken zijn opmerkelijk in de wijze waarop zij dat in dit boek doet:

De bekommernis van de auteur om de belangen van kinderen staat buiten kijf. In dit boek echter, zet zij het kind even, theoretisch, de kamer uit opdat het de aandacht van de lezer niet afleidt van de ouders.

Van der Pas geeft een totaalvisie op ouderschap ...

~The Red Badge of Courage," written in 1895 by Stephen Crane (1871-1900), is considered by many literary critics to be one of the greatest of all American novels. This is a book about the Civil War, and one Union soldier's struggle with his inner demons as he prepares for, and fights his first battle.

In its original edition, Bruce Trigger's book was the first ever to examine the history of archaeological thought from medieval times to the present in world-wide perspective. Now, in this new edition, he both updates the original work and introduces new archaeological perspectives and concerns. At once stimulating and even-handed, it places the development of archaeological thought and theory throughout within a broad social and intellectual framework.

The successive but interacting trends a...

Media and Public relations combines practical hands-on strategies with firm grounding in the theories of media relations. To successfully integrate theory and practice, the text uses case studies as the basis of theoretical argument. The text examines how communications practitioners deliver messages to the media, how the media receives the messages and how the media deals with the message prior to dissemination to the public.

It takes a comprehensive look at the different types of media in A...

Written in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic, "Political Theology" develops the distinctive theory of sovereignty that made Carl Schmitt one of the most significant and controversial political theorists of the twentieth century. Focusing on the relationships among political leadership, the norms of the legal order, and the state of political emergency, Schmitt argues in "Political Theology" that legal order ultimately rests upon the decisi...