Dit boek is door de kredietcrisis weer helemaal actueel. Het beschrijft onomwonden hoe en waarom de huidige accountantscontrole faalt, maar ook hoe het beter kan. Een openhartig, kritisch en baanbrekend boek.

"This edition contains Larman's usual accurate and thoughtful writing. It is a very good book made even better."-Alistair Cockburn, author, Writing Effective Use Cases and Surviving OO Projects"Too few people have a knack for explaining things. Fewer still have a handle on software analysis and design.

Craig Larman has both."-John Vlissides, author, Design Patterns and Pattern Hatching"People often ask me which is the best book to introduce them to the world of OO design. Ever since I came ac...

Coetzee – soon to be a major film starring Mark Rylance, Robert Pattinson and Johnny DeppFor decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is.

This Norton Critical Edition is again based on the first edition text (1722), the only text known to be Defoe's own. It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations and the editor's essay outlining the novel's textual history. "Contexts" collects related documents on criminal transport, contemporary accounts of lives of crime, and colonial laws as they applied to servants, slaves, and runaways.

"Criticism" includes eleven interpretations by Juliet McMaster, Everett Zimmerman, Maximillia...

Never before has there been a greater need for deeper listening and more open communication to cope with the complex problems facing our organizations, businesses and societies. Renowned scientist David Bohm believed there was a better way for humanity to discover meaning and to achieve harmony. He identified creative dialogue, a sharing of assumptions and understanding, as a means by which the individual, and society as a whole, can learn more about themselves and others, and achieve a renew...

This introduction to organic spectroscopic analysis aims to provide the reader with a basic understanding of how nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), infrared (IR) and ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry (MS) give rise to spectra, and how these spectra can be used to determine the structure of organic molecules. The text aims to lead the reader to an appreciation of the information available from each form of spectroscopy and an ability to use spectroscopic informati...

Presents reviews and critiques of major topics in organizational psychology - including leadership, motivation, communication, decision making, negotiation, power, productivity and collective action. This text includes a wide range of pedagogical features, glossaries of social identity, and social psychological and organizational terms.

Explores the nature of psychological change - the central purpose of all counselling and psychotherapy. The authors describe the process through which clients can be helped to come to terms with painful experiences and develop new ways of relating and living creatively. Maltby from Canterbury Christ Church Uni College, NZ.

Verhalen bieden een herkenbare, creatieve en toegankelijke manier om te zeggen waar het op staat. Ze worden gebruikt als middel bij het betekenis geven aan complexe informatie. Het is dan ook niet verwonderlijk dat het vertellen van verhalen steeds belangrijker wordt als sturingsinstrument in organisaties.

Stel uzelf de volgende vraag: "Gebruik ik droge feiten en cijfers om mensen achter een nieuwe reorganisatie te krijgen? Of vertel ik een verhaal, een metafoor, waaruit iedereen de moraal en ...