Door de toenemende globalisering zijn sociale tolken meer dan ooit belangrijk om de communicatiekloof te dichten. Voor mensen die een beroep doen op sociale tolken in noodsituaties, is hun hulp vaak van levensbelang. Sociale tolken zijn immers een onzichtbare brug tussen het verhaal van de cliënt en de dienstverlening van de hulpverlener. Daarbij is het belangrijk dat de tolk neutraal blijft en de vertaling zo letterlijk mogelijk houdt. In Horen, zien en tolken systematiseert Raïssa De Keys...

In Our Clients' Shoes conveniently assembles a number of important papers on the Therapeutic Assessment approach in one resource, explicating its history, theory, techniques, as well as its impact on clients and assessors.

Are you curious to know what all languages have in common and how they differ? Do you want to find out how language can be used to trace different peoples and their past? Now in its fourth edition, this fascinating book guides beginners through the rich diversity of the world's languages. It presupposes no background in linguistics, and introduces key concepts with the help of problem sets, end-of-chapter exercises and an extensive bibliography. It is illustrated with detailed maps and charts...

Public Management and Governance is the leading text in international public management and governance and an ideal introduction to all aspects of this field. It combines rigorous insight from pre-eminent scholars around the world with supportive, thoughtful, and intuitive structure and pedagogy. This revised and updated fourth edition responds to the significant changes in the external environment, as well as the field itself.

It includes six new chapters covering aspects of increasing impor...

An accessible, humorous, and highly illustrated guide to how the brain’s structures and functions determine how the mind works, this is essential reading for undergraduate psychology students.

This handbook provides a comprehensive grounding of the history, methods, debates and theories that contribute to the study of human-machine communication.

Designed as a core text for undergraduate students. Politcal Geography employs a novel and accessible structure to guide students through the key Approaches, Concepts, and Futures of Political Geography.Â

Since 1984 this book, now in its 7th edition and thoroughly updated, has introduced the crucial interface between our diet and the essentially chemical nature of what we eat and drink. The contributions of the various classes of natural food components, as well as additives and contaminants, to the nutritional value of foods are considered. These include the nutrients required in large amounts like carbohydrates, proteins, fat, minerals and water as well as the less bulky nutrients such as vi...

Jan Steen is bekend geworden door zijn schilderijen van rommelige en ontspoorde huishoudens, die inmiddels ook naar hem vernoemd zijn. Maar die uitdrukking ‘huishoudens van Jan Steen’ heeft iets schampers, iets neerbuigends. Het gaat om gezinnen waar lacherig over wordt gedaan. Er valt echter weinig te lachen om geweld in gezins- en familieverband en in andere afhankelijkheidsrelaties. Deze vorm van geweld is de meest verbreide in onze samenleving. Het is akelig dichtbij en het werpt lang...