From bestselling author Jon Gordon and rising star Damon West comes The Coffee Bean an illustrated fable that teaches readers how to transform their environment, overcome challenges, and create positive change. Life is often difficult. It can be harsh, stressful, and feel like a pot of boiling hot water. The environments we find ourselves in can change, weaken, or harden us, and test who we truly are. We can be like the carrot that weakens in the pot or like the egg that hardens. Or, we can b...

With over 70 per cent of bearing failures attributed to ineffective lubrication practices, no one involved in asset management can afford to pass up this new edition! As a clear, concise, practical introduction to the world of industrial lubrication, the second edition dispels the myths surrounding lubrication and helps users develop a keen sense and understanding of how lubrication directly and indirectly impacts machine reliability, availability, and ultimately, the bottom line. What's more...

Principles of Chemical Engineering Processes: Material and Energy Balances introduces the basic principles and calculation techniques used in the field of chemical engineering, providing a solid understanding of the fundamentals of the application of material and energy balances. Packed with illustrative examples and case studies, this book:Discusses problems in material and energy balances related to chemical reactorsExplains the concepts of dimensions, units, psychrometry, steam properties,...

This is a second edition of the highly popular volume used by clinicians and students in the assessment and intervention of aphasia. It provides both a theoretical and practical reference to cognitive neuropsychological approaches for speech-language pathologists and therapists working with people with aphasia. Having evolved from the activity of a group of clinicians working with aphasia, it interprets the theoretical literature as it relates to aphasia, identifying available assessments and...

50 Steps to Improving Your Academic Writing 50 Steps to Improving Your Academic Writing addresses the challenges facing every student beginning a program of academic study. This comprehensive guide gives you everything you need to write well-constructed academic essays. It is packed full of information that is critical to attaining better marks, including: * how to apply critical thinking skills * how to strengthen your arguments * how to include paper referencing * how to avoid plagiarism 50...

English for Mechanical Engineering in Higher Education Studies The Garnet Education English for Specific Academic Purposes series won the Duke of Edinburgh English Speaking Union English Language Book Award in 2009. English for Mechanical Engineering is a skills-based course designed specifically for students of mechanical engineering who are about to enter English-medium tertiary level studies. It provides carefully graded practice and progressions in the key academic skills that all student...

This book explores fundamental principles for securing IT systems and illustrates them with hands-on experiments that may be carried out by the reader using accompanying software. The experiments highlight key information security problems that arise in modern operating systems, networks, and web applications. The authors explain how to identify and exploit such problems and they show different countermeasures and their implementation.

The reader thus gains a detailed understanding of how vul...

Bij de 5e druk van de Sobotta deel 3 – Hoofd, hals en neuroanatomie ligt de nadruk opde relevantie voor tentamens:·         Nieuwe en inhoudelijk aangepaste afbeeldingen en tabellen als basis voor het begrip van anatomische structuren·         Overzicht houden, de details van een preparaat herkennen en snel de anatomische verbanden kunnen begrijp...

Het Leerboek kindergeneeskunde is een unieke, multimediale leeromgeving waarin de belangrijkste actuele stromingen in het onderwijs zijn geïntegreerd. Een team van zevenentachtig auteurs, allen specialisten op hun vakgebied, hebben dit omvangrijke werk samengesteld.In de online leeromgeving staan, naast de tekst uit het boek, beeld- en geluidsfragmenten die een onmisbare toelichting geven op de gedrukte tekst: de gebruiker ziet hoe het in de praktijk werkt! Daarnaast zijn op het web verdiepi...

In dit boek leer je hoe je in vier stappen zelf aan de slag kunt met de 16 meest effectieve gedragstechnieken.

Gedragsveranderaars Joyce Croonen en Liza Luesink delen de geheimen van het vak aan de hand van echte praktijkvoorbeelden. De bewezen methodes zijn succesvol toegepast bij meer dan honderd kleine en grote organisaties, van Hema tot de Belastingdienst en van de Zuidas tot Zutphen.

Dit boek pak je er regelmatig weer even bij en iedereen kan er inspiratie uithalen, zowel voor werk als p...