This best-selling comprehensive descriptive grammar forms a complete course, ideal for all students studying English Language, whether on a course or for self-study. Broadly based on Hallidayan systemic-functional grammar but also drawing on cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis, English Grammar is accessible, avoiding overly theoretical or technical explanations. Divided into 12 self-contained chapters based around language functions, each chapter is divided into units of class-length...

This book examines the distinctive evolution of the political and economic relationships of East Asia. It does this by placing East Asian development in the unique historical circumstances that have underpinned its rise to power over the last few decades. This detailed analysis provides the basis for an assessment of a unified East Asian region.

We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, where mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones, machines dominate a new "internet of things," and more people live in cities than in the countryside. In Smart Cities, urbanist and technology expert Anthony Townsend takes a broad historical look at the forces that have shaped the planning and design of cities and information technologies from the rise of the great industrial cities of the nineteenth century to the presen...

This kanji textbook is designed for use with Minna no Nihongo Shokyu I Second Edition Main Text. With this book, the learner studies how to use, read and write kanji through the concept of learning via the use of known words in familiar contexts, rather than by simply memorising kanji and learning how to write them.

A total of 536 kanji are studied in the two books in this series (220 kanji in this book and 316 in book two), covering the kanji required for the N4 and N3 levels of the Japanese...

Delivering fundamental insights into the most popular methods of molecular analysis, this text is an invaluable resource for students and researchers. It encompasses an extensive range of spectroscopic and spectrometric techniques used for molecular analysis in the life sciences, especially in the elucidation of the structure and function of biological molecules. Covering the range of up-to-date methodologies from everyday mass spectrometry and centrifugation to the more probing X-ray crystal...

This book guides readers by gradual steps through the central concepts and debates in the philosophy of science. Using concrete examples from the history of science, Kent W. Staley shows how seemingly abstract philosophical issues are relevant to important aspects of scientific practice.

Structured in two parts, the book first tackles the central concepts of the philosophy of science, such as the problem of induction, falsificationism, and underdetermination, and important figures and movemen...

Now updated with new data and examples throughout, Clinical Epidemiology: Principles, Methods, and Applications for Clinical Research, Second Edition is a comprehensive resource that introduces the reader to the basics of clinical epidemiology and explores the principles and methods that can be used to obtain quantitative evidence on the effects of interventions and on the diagnosis, etiology, and prognosis of disease. The everyday challenges of clinical research and the quantitative knowledg...

Leidmotief is het handboek voor iedereen die als leidinggevende, professional of zzp'er zijn weg moet banen door de organisatielandschappen van vandaag. Deze selectie van elementaire, bewezen en praktische kennis helpt je daarbij.

Dat de uitdagingen in onze tijd steeds toenemen, is het grote cliché dat we met elkaar herkauwen. Waar of niet, in alle organisaties speelt de vraag hoe het beter kan. Daar een creatief en constructief antwoord op hebben is goed voor je ontwikkeling, goed voor je l...

With a new author team contributing decades of practical experience, this fully updated second edition textbook summarises the most critical decisions, techniques and steps in creating effective forecasting models. Includes all new theoretical and practical exercises geared at guiding students through the steps of creating forecasting models on their own.

Alle leerlingen hebben recht op goed onderwijs dat is afgestemd op hun onderwijsbehoeften. De Rechten van het Kind, de Salamanca Statement en de Canon voor Wereldburgerschap getuigen daarvan. De uitvoering naar een weerbarstige praktijk van nu is een heel ander verhaal.

Prisma Co-Teaching is een effectieve werkwijze die tegemoet komt aan het omgaan met een toenemende diversiteit in klassen en scholen. Meerdere onderwijspro- fessionals nemen hierbij gezamenlijk de verantwoording voor een groep...