The revised and updated third edition of Simplified TRIZ: New Problem Solving Applications for Technical and Business Professionals, 3rd Edition continues to demystify TRIZ (systematic innovation), the internationally acclaimed problem solving technique. It demonstrates how TRIZ can be used as a stand alone methodology or used to enhance Lean, Six Sigma, and other systems of organizational improvement. Simplified TRIZ 3rd Edition once again strikes the perfect balance between overly complex a...

Offering unrivalled coverage of classical theories, contemporary approaches, and current issues, together with an exceptionally clear writing style, Introduction to International Relations provides a uniquely accessible and engaging introduction to the subject. With an emphasis on theoretical approaches and their application to the real world, the authors encourage critical engagement with the theories presented, highlighting their strengths, weaknesses, and the major points of contention. Th...

This fully updated third edition provides students and researchers with the tools they need to perform critically engaged, theoretically informed research using methods that include interviewing, focus groups, historical research, oral histories, ethnography and participant observation, textual analysis and digital research. Each chapter features step-by-step instructions that integrate theory with practice, as well as a case study drawn from published research demonstrating best practices fo...

A fully reconceived first edition exploring human development topic by topic.

Kathleen Berger’s breakthrough text tells a compelling story of life-span development via a topically organised approach. Berger draws from a variety of cultures around the world to tell the story of human development, communicating the scientific understanding and human impact of developmental psychology in her distinguished narrative voice.With a wide-ranging cultural perspective, up-to-date research, this text...

Conducted properly, information security risk assessments provide managers with the feedback needed to manage risk through the understanding of threats to corporate assets, determination of current control vulnerabilities, and appropriate safeguards selection. Performed incorrectly, they can provide the false sense of security that allows potential threats to develop into disastrous losses of proprietary information, capital, and corporate value. Picking up where its bestselling predecessors ...

"Dans l'histoire naturelle et sociale du Second Empire, La Curée est la note de l'or et de la chair." C'est par ces mots que Zola annonce en 1871 le premier grand roman parisien de la série des Rougon-Macquart. En digne successeur de Balzac, il allie ici avec brio la satire et le récit, le tableau de moeurs et le drame, la fiction et une analyse socio-politique acérée du capitalisme conquérant. À travers l'histoire du couple formé par Saccard, le spéculateur frénétique, et Renée, ...

BEGEGNUNGEN DEUTSCH ALS FREMDSPRACHE A1+ bis B1+ ist ein modernes und kommunikatives Lehrwerk in mehreren Teilen, das sich an erwachsene Lerner richtet, die auf schnelle und effektive Weise Deutsch lernen möchten. Es ist übersichtlich strukturiert und ermöglicht den Lernenden einen selbstständigen und einfachen Umgang mit dem Lernstoff. Das Lehrwerk ist bereits vom Sprachniveau A1 an auf die sprachlichen, inhaltlichen und intellektuellen Anforderungen erwachsener Lerner ausgerichtet.

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Inleiding Construeren biedt de student een eenvoudige en heldere inleiding in de basisbegrippen voor construeren. Het biedt daarmee een eenvoudige opstap naar bijvoorbeeld het gebruik van Machineonderdelen.

Het boek behandelt de basis voor mechanische oplossingen. De basisbegrippen lastproces, overbrenging en aandrijving worden eenvoudig behandeld en laten zien aan de hand van een doorlopend voorbeeld. Zo kan een student de mechanische oplossingen ontwerpen voor het complete technische ontw...