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Beginning college writers come from a wide range of backgrounds. For many, academic reading and writing skills are ones they must learn and practice. Enter Rules for Writers. Comprehensive and easy to use, this book provides students with all of the support they need--accessible explanations of writing and grammar topics, step-by-step advice for writing and doing research, class-tested examples and models, and opportunities to practice and build th...

Major global events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the UN Sustainable Development Goals have changed the business landscape with significant consequences for trade. Understanding such environmental issues, politics, economics and more, is critical in international marketing strategy. Fully updated and revised, the ninth edition of this popular text reflects the changing focus of international marketing and ensures students are fully up-to-date with the challenges posed by new patterns of d...

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The second volume of Tobira: Beginning Japanese, a textbook for beginner-level students with no previous knowledge of Japanese who have already finished volume 1 of this method. Tobira offers integral preparation and all units include sections of grammar, reading, conversation, listening vocabulary, and kanji.

This volume includes 10 units whose structure is:

- Introduction: in this part, students will see the goals and the abilities that they will acquire once they have finished each chapt...

In de beroepspraktijk werk je veel samen. Kennis van andere vakgebieden is daarom belangrijk. Het maakt de communicatie eenvoudiger en je begrijpt beter welke informatie geleverd en/ of gevraagd wordt. In De economische beroepspraktijk maak je kennis met de vakgebieden management & organisatie, sales, marketing, productie & logistiek, office en management support, financieel en juridisch.

Alle hoofdstukken zijn voorzien van praktijkgerichte opdrachten. Opdrachten waar de vaardigheden optreden...

Individual quality of life has been widely used as a frame of reference guiding service provision in social and health services, as well as a critical objective or outcome of these services. Yet, the topic of quality of life in the context of child and youth care remains a relatively uncharted territory.

This dissertation is based on a practice-oriented project that focuses on bridging the gap between research and practice on the topic of quality of life of adolescents in youth care. This wor...

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There have been two main traditions of writing on ethics in the Islamic tradition, one philosophical and related to the works of Aristotle and other Greek philosophers, represented by thinkers such as Avicenna, and one theological, represented by such figures as the famous theologian al-Qadi Abd al-Jabbar. Some later scholars attempted to combine those two traditions. For the most part, however, the views of the jurists have been ignored.

Abdulaziz Sachedina herecalls attention to this third ...

This extremely popular text is the complete introduction to doing business research and is the ideal guide for students embarking on a research project. The authors have extensively revised this sixth edition to make it the most engaging and relevant text available. New chapters on quantitative methods and visual research offer extensive coverage of these areas and even greater practical support in applying these techniques, while cutting-edge material on inclusivity and bias in research, fem...

This book critically examines the role and politics of humour and the performance of power in South Asia. What does humour do and how does it manifest when lived political circumstances experience ruptures or instability? Can humour that emerges in such circumstances be viewed as a specific narrative on the nature of democracy in the region? Drawing upon essays from India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, this volume discusses many crucial historical and contemporary themes, including dance-drama pe...