Graphic tools and visual solutions for team building and development Visual Teams uses visual tools and methods to help teams both face-to-face and virtual reach high performance in today's work environment. As teams become more and more global and distributed, visualization provides an important channel of communication one that opens up the group's mind to improving work systems and processes by understanding relationships, interconnections, and big picture contexts. Visual Teams shares bes...

Now in its fourth edition 'Tyldesley and Grieve's Muscles, Nerves and Movement' has established itself as the leading textbook for the study of movement by occupational therapists. The book provides students with a sound understanding of the way in which bones, joints, muscles and nerves allow the body to perform movement during daily activities. Early chapters provide a foundation for the study of movement, with the complexity of detail increasing as the book progresses.

Functional anatomy i...

This book is an introduction in the very best sense of the word. It provides the beginner with an accurate, sophisticated, yet accessible account, and offers new insights and challenging perspectives to those who have more specialized knowledge. Focusing on the period in Chinese philosophy that is surely most easily approachable and perhaps is most important, it ranges over of rich set of competing options.

It also, with admirable self-consciousness, presents a number of daring attempts to re...

Für die praktische Unterrichtsarbeit mit Film im Allgemeinen und Literaturverfilmungen im Besonderen haben sich die theoretischen Grundlagen des Bandes Filmanalyse im Unterricht - Zur Theorie und Praxis von Literaturverfilmungen, Best.-Nr. 022264 in den letzten Jahren als äußerst nützlich erwiesen.

Die Filmanalyse im Unterricht II knüpft daran an, kann jedoch auch ohne vorherige Lektüre des Grundlagenbandes verwendet werden. Hilfreich ist hierfür das aus dem ersten Band übernommene Gl...

Epocheneinführungen, Texte, Arbeitsanregungen, bibliographische Hinweise

Die Geschichte der deutschen Literatur in Beispielen ist eine nach Epochen gegliederte didaktisierte Materialsammlung exemplarischer literarischer Texte mit einer grundlegenden Epocheneinführung zu Beginn eines jeden Kapitels.

Alle drei Grundformen der Dichtung werden gleichermaßen berücksichtigt und solche literarischen Texte in den Mittelpunkt der Betrachtung gerückt, die nicht nur für die Epoche, sondern auch fÃ...

This major new textbook on business history brings together the expertise of two internationally renowned authors to provide a thorough overview of the developments in business – from just before the industrial revolution right up to the present day. Business History is global in scope and looks at the major players – Europe, the US and Japan – as well as emerging economies, such as China and India. Focusing mainly on ‘big business‘, Amatori and Colli critically analyze ‘the firmâ...

This second edition of a bestseller details the manifestations, diagnosis and treatment of immune-related disease in the dog and cat. It is illustrated throughout in full color, to show and explain to the reader as clearly as possible the complicated principles of disease and immunodiagnostic tests, supported by clinical cases, gross and histopathology, cytology, hematology, immunohistochemistry and other immunological tests.

Research design is fundamental to all scientific endeavors, at all levels and in all institutional settings. In many social science disciplines, however, scholars working in an interpretive-qualitative tradition get little guidance on this aspect of research from the positivist-centered training they receive. This book is an authoritative examination of the concepts and processes underlying the design of an interpretive research project.

Such an approach to design starts with the recognition ...

In Critical Thinking: An Appeal to Reason, Peg Tittle empowers students with a solid grounding in the lifelong skills of considered analysis and argumentation that should underpin every student’s education. Starting with the building blocks of a good argument, this comprehensive new textbook offers a full course in critical thinking. It includes chapters on the nature and structure of argument, the role of relevance, truth and generalizations, and the subtleties of verbal and visual language.

Special features include:• an emphasis on the constructive aspect of critical thinking—strengthening the arguments of others and constructing sound arguments of your own—rather than an exclusive focus on spotting faulty arguments• actual questions from standardized reasoning tests like the LSAT, GMAT, MCAT, and GRE• graduated end-of-chapter exercises, asking students to think critically about what they see, hear, read, write, and discuss• numerous sample arguments from books, magazines, television, and the Internet for students to analyze• many images for critical analysis• analyzed arguments that help students to read critically and actively• an extensive companion website for instructors and studentsA companion website features:• for instructors: an extensive instructor’s manual; a test bank; and PowerPoint slides• for students: extended answers, explanations, and analyses for the exercises and arguments in the book; supplementary chapters on logic and ethics; downloadable MP3 study guides; interactive flash cards; and thinking critically audio exercises. www.routledge.com/textbooks/titt...

Learning Teaching wurde in der dritten Ausgabe komplett überarbeitet und aktualisiert. Aktuelle methodisch-didaktische Entwicklungen und Trends im Bereich English as a Foreign Language wurden dabei berücksichtigt. Auch der Einsatz moderner technischer Hilfsmittel im Unterricht wie PCs, Interactive Whiteboards und virtuelles Lernen wird erläutert. Neu eingefügte Abschnitte behandeln die Themen CLIL, junge Lerner und die Vorbereitung auf die Cambridge ESOL-Prüfungen.

Ganz neu ist eine inte...