An international career requires more than just the obvious CV translation. You are looking for work abroad? This pocket format guide tells you about CV writing, recruitment practice and management differences in China. An international team of researchers compiled all relevant information with regard to work permit, visa regulations, labour market insights and beyond. This guide also includes a few in-depth interviews with expatriates who are currently living in China. These interviews provi...

Innovation is highly relevant to every organization. Yet, eighty percent of innovation projects never reach the market. Many have a false start. The Innovation Expedition is written to inspire you with practical tools on HOW to start innovation effectively. It gives you practical and visual tools.The remarkable stories of how great explorers overcame unexpected setbacks will inspire you. How Columbus discovered America, how Hillary reached the summit of Everest and how Neil Armstrong got to b...

The TOGAF 9 certification program is a knowledge-based certification program. It has two levels, leading to certification for TOGAF 9 Foundation and TOGAF 9 Certified, respectively.

The purpose of certification to TOGAF 9 Certified is to provide validation that, in addition to the knowledge and comprehension of TOGAF 9 Foundation level, the Candidate is able to analyze and apply this knowledge. The learning objectives at this level therefore focus on application and analysis in addition to kn...

The import of tropical birds caused an epidemic of the so-called parrot disease in Europe. This psittacosis has spread in weakened form as Chlamydia pneumoniae throughout the population and is the cause of many chronic cell infections in humans. Cancer and other chronic diseases are the result of it.

Prevention is essential to achieve a healthy environment for everyone and to reduce the increase of these often chronic diseases. Changes in lifestyle, such as the cleaning of drinking water and...

High-tech development—which lies at the very heart of the processes of economic growth—has been recognised by many developed and developing countries as a strategic instrument to enhance and sustain their competitiveness in the global economic network. Although the concept of high-tech development differs between countries, many share the underlying assumption that the core of high-tech development is to create a sound environment where innovation thrives. This ideology implies a definite...

De Roemeens-Nederlandse kunstenaar en theoreticus Calin Dan (1955) heeft in de afgelopen jaren een zeer specifiek interessegebied geformuleerd, de zogenoemde 'Emotional Architecture'. Dan ontwikkelde een heel eigen idioom waarin video en fotografie, naast tekst en muziek, een grote rol spelen.

Zijn werk richt zich op het gebruik, de beleving, betekenis en emotionele waarde van architectuur en de stedelijke omgeving. Door zijn observaties van de stad, het rondtrekken door buurten, het contact ...

Social media has come to deeply penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define many of our daily habits of communication and creative production. The Culture of Connectivity studies the rise of social media in the first decade of the twenty-first century up until 2012, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major platforms in the context of a rapidly changing ecosystem of connective media. Such history is needed to understand h...

Customer Relationship Management gives a well-balanced coverage of strategy and organisation, marketing aspects, analytical CRM, operational CRM, CRM systems and their implementation. It is the only comprehensive academic text to cover the entire scope of CRM from a marketing management angle. Geared to MBA students and advanced undergraduate students, as well as those taking courses on CRM, direct marketing, relationship marketing, database management or business intelligence, the book is al...

With a more specific focus than the all-encompassing textbook, each title in the Foundations of Psychology series enables students who are new to psychology to get to grips with a key area of psychological research, while also developing an understanding of basic concepts, debates, and research methodologies. In this book Diana Jackson-Dwyer presents an introductory survey of classic and recent research on relationships and the theories that underpin them. The book starts with a brief overvie...