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Academic Writing Skills / Druk 3
2022 || Paperback || Henk van der Molen e.a. || Boom || met inkijkexemplaar
Many students have difficulties writing well-structured and readable texts. Academic Writing Skills breaks down the writing process into various skills that students can use to practice independently.
On on the corresponding website these skills are discussed using rules of thumb, several short exercises and examples of the right answer. By combining a clear explanation of the various skills and exercises with feedback, the training course has proven to be very effective.
The following subjec...
Human Rights / 3rd Edition
Between Idealism and Realism
2014 || Paperback || Christian Tomuschat || Oxford University Press
This third edition of Human Rights: Between Idealism and Realism presents human rights in action, focusing on their effectiveness as legal tools designed to benefit human beings. By combining conceptual analysis with an emphasis on procedures and mechanisms of implementation, this volume provides a multidimensional overview of human rights. After examining briefly the history of human rights, the author analyses the intellectual framework that forms thebasis of their legitimacy.
In particular...
The Political Speechwriter's Companion
A Guide for Writers and Speakers
2019 || Paperback || Robert A. Lehrman e.a. || CQ Press
Can you really learn to write speeches? The Political Speechwriter's Companion guides students through a systematic "LAWS" approach (language, anecdote, wit, and support) that politicians can use to persuade their audiences into taking action. In the highly anticipated Second Edition, esteemed speechwriter and author Robert A. Lehrman has teamed up with one of the "go-to-guys" for political humor, Eric Schnure, to offer students an entertaining yet practical introduction to political speechwr...
On Writing Well
The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
2016 || Paperback || William Zinsser || HarperCollins
"On Writing Well is a bible for a generation of writers looking for clues to clean, compelling prose." New York Times
A beloved classic, this definitive volume on the art of writing nonfiction celebrates its thirtieth anniversary.
On Writing Well, which grew out of a course that William Zinsser taught at Yale, has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity, and for the warmth of its style. It is a book for anybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get thro...
Policy Paradox / 3rd edition
The Art of Political Decision Making
2012 || Paperback || Deborah Stone || WW Norton & Co
Policy making is a political struggle over values and ideas. By exposing the paradoxes that underlie even seemingly straightforward policy decisions, Policy Paradox shows students that politics cannot be cleansed from the process in favor of "rationality." Author Deborah Stone has fully revised and updated this popular text, which now includes many paradoxes that have arisen since September 11. Examples throughout the book have been updated, and the prose has been streamlined to make a great ...
Global Economic History
A Very Short Introduction
2011 || Paperback || Robert C. Allen || Oxford University Press
Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income differences were small, but they have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. Since then, the interplay between geography, globalization, technological change, and economic policy has determined the wealth and poverty of nations. The industrial revolution was Britain's path breaking response to the challenge of globalization.
Western Europe and North America joined Britain to form a club ofrich nations by pursuing fou...
Gender, Alterity and Human Rights
Freedom in a Fishbowl
2020 || Paperback || Ratna Kapur || Edward Elgar
'Long admired for her pioneering work on gender, neo-liberalism and human rights, in this volume Ratna Kapur builds on that scholarship to offer a bold and wide ranging set of arguments that will add immensely to the many current debates about human rights and their efficacy in this age of inequality. Kapur' s trenchant critique of rights and her vision of an alternative to the liberal concept of freedom offer strikingly original arguments that make this an indispensable volume for all who ar...
How Mediation Works
Theory, Research, and Practice
2022 || Paperback || Stephen B. Goldberg || Emerald Publishing Limited || ook als eBook
How Mediation Works will introduce management and law students as well as businesses to this art of conflict resolution from the behavioral perspective, while also providing a valuable resource to continuing education programs, mediation training, and lawyers to familiarize clients with the mediation process.
Public Administration
A Very Short Introduction
2016 || Paperback || Stella Z. Theodoulou e.a. || Oxford University Press
Public administration ensures the development and delivery of the essential public services required for sustaining modern civilization. Covering areas from public safety and social welfare to transportation and education, the services provided through the public sector are inextricably part of our daily lives. However, mandatory budgetary cuts in recent years have caused public administrators to radically re-think how they govern in the modern age.
In this Very Short Introduction Stella Theo...
Words That Work
It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear
2008 || Paperback || Frank Luntz || Hyperion