Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault, argues this ingenious,even liberating,book, lies not in ourselves, but in product design that ignores the needs of users and the principles of cognitive psychology. The problems range from ambiguous and hidden controls to arbitrary relationships between controls and functions, coupled with a lack of feedback or other assistance ...

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Oikonomia — het goed besturen van een huishouden — is een concept dat zijn oorsprong kent in het oude Griekenland. Sindsdien is economie alsmaar belangrijker geworden in de samenleving, en toch blijft het voor velen een abstract begrip. Niet langer.

In dit werk presenteren Johan Albrecht en Bruno Merlevede op een toegankelijke manier de essentie van de economische analyse. De auteurs loodsen hun leespubliek doorheen de verschillende economische stromingen en benadrukken hierbij de samenha...

A major new interpretation of European integration. Leading scholar, Neil Fligstein, provocatively argues that European integration has produced a truly transnational European society.

Teaching Entrepreneurship moves entrepreneurship education from the traditional process view to a practice-based approach and advocates teaching entrepreneurship using a portfolio of practices, which includes play, empathy, creation, experimentation, and reflection. Together these practices help students develop the competency to think and act entrepreneurially in order to create, find, and exploit opportunities of all kinds in a continuously changing and uncertain world. Divided into two par...

Looks at the function of the air cargo business and its role in global supply chains and logistics. This book examines how carriers are coming up with new methods and technologies to improve ground handling and road transport, traceability systems and barcoding, security and screening, and safe delivery of perishable items.