In Game Changer, Koen Timmers shows how education, technology and climate action can change the world. How do they interact with each other, and above all: how do they contribute to global solutions for young people worldwide? From the refugee camps in Kakuma in Kenya, to the Microsoft headquarters in Seattle or the school desks in Malawi. From Charlize Theron to Trevor Noah, from NASA to LEGO, from CNN to BBC: where Koen Timmers speaks, people listen carefully. Dr Jane Goodall and Princess E...

Are you a professional often involved with brands and their visual communication, but not really a designer? Do you want to better understand how brands communicate? Do you often need to advise or manage designers? Or would you like to start as a designer yourself? This book aims to bridge the gap between business and creativity in visual communication.

To eliminate the noise in visual communication as much as possible, we provide managers and graphic designers a common language to communicat...

Thomas' Calculus: Early Transcendentals goes beyond memorizing formulas and routine procedures to help you develop deeper understanding. It guides you to a level of mathematical proficiency, with additional support if needed through its clear and intuitive explanations, current applications and generalized concepts. Technology exercises in every section use the calculator or computer for solving problems, and Computer Explorations offer exercises requiring a computer algebra system like Maple...

This new edition builds on the success of the first edition. It has been enhanced to embrace new topics including Due Dilgence, EHS Auditing, Process Safety, Auditing, and a chapter summarizing auditing with the relevant ISO standards. The rest of the book has been updated to fit with the guidance and requirements set out with the changes in the ISO standards. The goal of this book remains the same, to provide a "down to earth" guidance for managers and specialists in organizations who are co...

Engage students in the essential principles of economics and demonstrate how they relate to real-life issues facing individuals, businesses, society, and economists today Essentials of Economics, 9th edition provides a clear, concise and accessible introduction to economics, making it the ideal textbook for one-semester or non-specialist courses.

The fifth edition of this comprehensive and engaging text guides readers through the essential tools and skills necessary to conduct quantitative content analysis research. Readers will find a clear definition of quantitative content analysis and step-by-step instructions on designing a content analysis study, along with examples of content analysis studies and journal articles. This edition has been updated with the latest methods in sampling in the digital age, computerized content analysis...

Auditing and Assurance Services: An Integrated Approach, the definitive introductory text on auditing, focuses on the auditor's decision-making process—whether during a financial statement audit or during an integrated audit of both financial statements and internal control over financial reporting. Comprehensive and up to date, the text uses examples from the complex, current global auditing environment, such as the United Kingdom's Financial Reporting Council highlighting a lack of s...

DSM-5-TR is the most comprehensive, current, and critical resource for clinical practice available to today's mental health clinicians and researchers. With contributions from over 200 subject matter experts, this must-have updated volume boasts the most current text updates based on the current literature.

Covering the essential aspects of critical care nursing, students are asked to consider the biopsychosocial triggers of critical illness, and are walked through a number of different patient scenarios.

This book introduces pharmacokinetic concepts to beginners to help them understand the absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of drugs. After a basic introduction to pharmacokinetics and its related fields, the book introduces readers to quantitative pharmacokinetic relations and the interplay between pharmacokinetic parameters.