The Logic Manual is the ideal introduction to logic for beginning philosophy students. It offers a concise but complete introductory course, giving a firm grounding in the logic that is needed to study contemporary philosophy. Exercises, examples, and sample examination papers are provided on an accompanying website.

The Evidence-Based Nursing Series is co-published with Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI). The series focuses on implementing evidence-based practice in nursing and mirrors the remit of Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, encompassing clinical practice, administration, research and public policy. Models and Frameworks for Implementing Evidence- Based Practice: Linking Evidence to Action looks at ways of implementing evidence gained through research and factors that influence successful im...

Leren adviseren is geschreven voor ervaren organisatieadviseurs die deze ervaring willen verdiepen en zichzelf verder willen professionaliseren. Het is ook geschreven voor afnemers van organisatieadvies. Want voor wie regelmatig adviseurs over de vloer heeft, is het verstandig om te weten hoe het beste met externe organisatieadviseurs wordt omgegaan en hoe je als opdrachtgever een professionele consultant in huis haalt. Het boek geeft de stand van zaken weer over de kennis die is opgebouwd ov...

Learning From Strangers is the definitive work on qualitative research interviewing. It draws on Robert Weiss's thirty years of experience in interviewing and teaching others how to do it. The most effective interviews, says Weiss, rely on creating cooperation -- an open and trusting alliance between interviewer and respondent, dedicated to specific and honest accounts of both internal and external events. Against the eclectic background of his work in national sample surveys, studies based o...

Just about everyone seems to have views about language. Language attitudes and language ideologies permeate our daily lives. Our competence, intelligence, friendliness, trustworthiness, social status, group memberships, and so on, are often judged from the way we communicate.

Even the speed at which we speak can evoke reactions. And we often try to anticipate such judgements as we communicate. In this lively introduction, Peter Garrett draws upon research carried out over recent decades in or...

The study of law and politics is one of the foundation stones of the discipline of political science, and it has been one of the most productive areas of cross-fertilization between the various subfields of political science and between political science and other cognate disciplines. This Handbook provides a comprehensive survey of the field of law and politics in all its diversity, ranging from such traditional subjects as theories of jurisprudence,constitutionalism, judicial politics and l...

Risks and uncertainties play a role in virtually all of our decisions. Quantitative models have so far been either too unrealistic or too complex. This graduate textbook presents modern models that are both realistic and tractable. All mathematical tools are related to real-life processes, ensuring accessibility to a wide audience.

Eentalige methode zakelijk Duits, met nadruk op communicatieve vaardigheden. Bevat uitleg over de belangrijkste grammaticale onderwerpen.

Het Übungsbuch volgt de opbouw van het Kursbuch in hoofdstukken en paragrafen, maar legt de nadruk op de schrijfvaardigheid, de woordenschat en de grammatica. Elke paragraaf begint met een overzicht van de belangrijkste woordenschat, met ruimte om de Nederlandse vertaling erbij te schrijven, en een aantal handige uitdrukkingen uit het Kursbuch. Daarop volg...

From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly, because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet, in many ways, equally legitimate interpretations, ritual seems to elude any systematic historical and comparative scrutiny.

In this book, Catherine Bell off...