This book is a study of the interaction of the Western societies of Europe and America with others around the world in the past two centuries - the age of European empire. It deals with the European threat and the non-Western response, but the focus is on the ways in which people in Asia, Africa, and Indian America have tried to adapt their ways of life to the overwhelming European power that existed in this period. The challenge and the response are presented through a series of selected and...

War has always been close to the centre of British culture, but never more so than in the period since 1850. "Warrior Nation" explores the way in which images of battle, both literary and visual, have been constructed in British fiction and popular culture since this time. The rise of war reporting has helped to shape a society fascinated by conflict, and the development of mass communications has aided in the creation of mass-produced martial heroes and the relation of epic adventures for po...

Drawing together literature from a variety of fields, Food Texture and Viscosity, Second Edition, includes a brief history of this area and its basic principles. It reviews how texture and viscosity are measured, including the physical interactions between the human body and food, objective methods of texture measurements, the latest advances in texture-measuring instruments, various types of liquid flow, and more. This revised edition contains approximately 30% new material, including two ne...

Psychological Management of Individual Performance is a unique combination of contributions from an academic and a practitioner for each topic. Leading international authors come together in this integrative and comprehensive handbook, to combine academic research findings and to provide detailed practice-relevant information, on subjects such as performance concepts, work design, cognitive ability and personality as predictors of performance, performance appraisal and potential analysis, goa...

Bundu was an anomaly among the precolonial Muslim states of West Africa. Founded during the jihads which swept the savannah in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it developed a pragmatic policy, unique in the midst of fundamentalist, theocratic Muslim states. Located in the Upper Senegal and with access to the Upper Gambia, Bundu played a critical role in regional commerce and production and reacted quickly to the stimulus of European trade.

Drawing upon a wide range of sources both ora...

As violence escalates in the Middle East, a peace agreement between Israel and Palestine seems more elusive than ever. Yet one thing remains clear: without constructive dialogue such an agreement cannot occur. This timely volume presents just such a dialogue.

It brings together opinions, perspectives, and research focused on one of the region's most complex and volatile problems: the Palestinian refugee situation.Based on a 1999 conference at the University of Oklahoma International Program C...

is gericht op het maken van een ontwerp voor een leermiddel. Het is een praktisch boek, zonder teveel theoretische ballast dat het complete ontwerpproces beschrijft. Het ontwerp is een verantwoord en gedetailleerd plan dat dient als basis voor de daadwerkelijke ontwikkeling van een leermiddel. Dat leermiddel kan zowel een leerboek, een studiehandleiding, een cd–rom, een coachingtraject als een workshop zijn. Door eerst een goed ontwerp te maken kun je jezelf (en andere betrokkenen) een hele...

De Islam kent een aantal regels waaraan moslims zich moeten houden. Zo moet een moslim vijf keer per dag bidden met gezicht naar Mekka. Hoe bepaal je die richting? Een andere regel is dat moslims zich in de vastenperiode, de Ramadan, moeten houden. Het begin van deze vastenperiode wordt bepaald door de Islamitische kalender die samenhangt met de gang van de Maan langs de hemelbol. Met deze Zebra kun je leren hoe vroeger (en nu) deze problemen door moslims werden opgelost. De tekst is het resu...