Alleen een afgewogen integratie van gebruikswaarde, esthetiek, techniek en betaalbaarheid maakt bouwen tot Architectuur. In dit boek laten de auteurs zien wat functionele kwaliteit van gebouwen concreet inhoudt. Na een korte beschouwing over de functies van een gebouw en de relatie tussen functionele en architectonische kwaliteit, wordt in vogelvlucht een rondgang gemaakt door de architectuurgeschiedenis. Aangegeven wordt hoe in verschillende architectuurbenaderingen wordt omgegaan met de rel...

Dit deel van de Zebra-reeks gaat over de beroemdste stelling uit de wiskunde: de Laatste Stelling van Fermat. In 1637 schreef de Franse wiskundige Pierre de Fermat in de marge van een Grieks wiskundeboek: "De vergelijking x^n + y^n = z^n, met x, y, z en n positieve gehele getallen, heeft geen oplossing als n>2. Ik heb hiervoor een waarlijk spectaculair bewijs, maar helaas is deze kantlijn te smal om het te bevatten". Honderden jaren hebben wiskundigen geprobeerd deze stelling te bewijzen. All...

A compassionate, hilarious tour of the United States explores the quirky side of life in America, from airline food to tax returns, from the perspective of a world traveler who has lived abroad for two decades. By the author of A Walk in the Woods. Reprint.

This collection of talks and seminars given by Erich Fromm between 1964 and 1980 deal with the issues between analyst and analysand, which go to the heart of the psychoanalytic process. For Fromm, the analyst is his or her own next patient, as the patient becomes his or her analyst.

With an Introduction by Ann Charters'A paean to what Kerouac described as "the ragged and ecstatic joy of pure being"' SUNDAY TIMESOn the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero. Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than F.Scott Fitzgerald's, and the narrative goes racing towards the...

After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding.

For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his disco...

Here is Oscar Wilde's most brilliant tour de force, a witty and buoyant comedy of manners that has delighted millions in countless productions since its first performance in London's St. James' Theatre on February 14, 1895.

Schools have failed our individual needs, supporting false and misleading notions of 'progress' and development fostered by the belief that ever-increasing production, consumption and profit are proper yardsticks for measuring the quality of human life. Our universities have become recruiting centers for the personnel of the consumer society, certifying citizens for service, while at the same time disposing of those judged unfit for the competitive rat race. In this bold and provocative book,...

System dynamics is both a utilized approach to organizational problem solving at the professional level, and a field of study in business, engineering, and social and physical sciences. This book explains what system dynamics is, and how it can be successfully applied to solve business and organizational problems.

Akkadian, comprising the Babylonian, Assyrian and Old Akkadian dialects, is the earliest known Semitic language, attested from the middle of the 3rd millenium B.C. until the time of Christ. It was widely adopted in the ancient Near East as a written vehicle for scholarship, literature, legal and diplomatic affairs. It is the language of the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Code of Hammurapi, the inscriptions of the kings of Assyria and Babylonia and countless legal and administrative documents.

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