For courses in Human Geography. A distinctly modern look at human geographyDescribed as "fresh, innovative, and intelligent," Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context is acclaimed for its global approach, conceptual rigor, engaging real-world applications, and outstanding visual program. Knox and Marston foster awareness of current issues and developing trends from a geographic perspective, and provide a solid foundation in the fundamentals of human geography.

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In the coursebook the chapters follow the course of history. You will start by looking at how we divide history into periods. This coursebook contains everything you need (texts, sources) for the assignments in the workbook.

Today's educational regime requires that a student develops entrepreneurial qualities during her studies. Making a Business Plan offers a solid and coherent step-by-step approach to writing a business plan. This book contains two kinds of assignments: activities and extra assignments. The reader is encouraged to carry out the activities in order to complete a business plan for a new company. The extra assignments help to provide a better understanding of the reality of starting a new business...

Dit overzicht van stedenbouw in Nederland, bij verschijnen al een klassieker, is nu weer beschikbaar. Het laat zien hoe de Nederlanders vanaf het einde van de achttiende eeuw de steden. De op water gebaseerde infrastructuur werd vervangen door een uitgebreid spoorwegennetwerk en later door snelwegen. Het platteland werd geherstructureerd om zo de landbouwproductie op te voeren en vervolgens herontwikkeld tot ruimte voor suburbane agglomeratie.Deze publicatie is een bloemlezing van plannen, en...

Where can a hospital apply principles from the airline sector?

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Cross-industry innovation is a clever way to jump-start your innovation efforts by drawing analogies and transferring approaches between contexts, beyond the borders of your own industry, sector, area or domain.

Not invented here refers to the phenomenon of people blocking out ideas from the outside, it also indicate...

For undergraduate courses in Evolution By presenting evolutionary biology as a dynamic, ongoing research effort and organising discussions around questions, this best-selling text helps students think like scientists as they learn about evolution. The authors convey the excitement and logic of evolutionary science by introducing principles through recent and classical studies, and by emphasising real-world applications. In the 5th Edition, co-author Jon Herron takes the lead in streamlining a...

This book offers students a practical, solid and consistent step-by-step plan for doing research.

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This book is intended for Chinese Studies majors, China-focused students in other fields, heritage learners, and professionals. It will help improve vocabulary and grammar competence, and foster reading strategies and writing and translation skills, for use in academic and professional settings.

Paint Feet on a Snake

*is available in full-form and simplified character editions

*is aimed at learners of Mandarin with a command of about 850 characters and 1200 vocabulary items

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This book is intended for everyone in an organization who wishes to have a basic understanding of information security. Knowledge about information security is important to all employees. It makes no difference if you work in a profit- or non-profit organization because the risks that organizations face are similar for all organizations.

It clearly explains the approaches that most organizations can consider and implement which helps turn Information Security management into an approachable, e...

Organisations often come to the conclusion that their groups and teams should collaborate more effectively. No competitive rat race but collaboratively achieving results. No hidden agendas and politics but connectedness and trust. However, the question is how to accomplish this. Collaboration is seldom part of a curriculum. It is a skill that people are expected to have, it is considered as a given talent, a personal characteristic, or a general competence. But collaboration, the skill of eff...