This book offers a practical guide for policy advisors and their managers, grounded in the author's extensive experience as a senior policy practitioner in New Zealand's Westminster-style system of government. A key message is that effective policy advising is less about cycles, stages and steps, and more about relationships, integrity and communication. Policy making is incremental social problem solving.

Policy advising is mostly learned on the job, like an apprenticeship. It starts with ca...

De enige complete inleiding in het vakgebied Ruimtelijke Ordening en Planologie voor het hbo;

stimuleert studenten om zelf na te denken over omgevingsvraagstukken;

bevat veel casussen, opdrachten en oefeningen.

Basisboek Ruimtelijke Ordening en Planologie gaat over onze leefomgeving en hoe deze tot stand komt en tot stand gekomen is. Het boek geeft uitleg over de veel voorkomende typen ruimtegebruik in verschillende omgevingsgebieden en is bedoeld als inleiding op het vakgebied. De belangrijk...

Kissinger's six leaders are Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Richard Nixon, Anwar Sadat, Lee Kuan Yew, and Margaret Thatcher. All of them were formed in a period when established institutions collapsed all over Europe, colonial structures gave way to independent states in Asia and Africa, and a new international order had to be created from the vestiges of the old. Kissinger penetratingly analyses each of these leaders' careers through the highly individual strategies of statecraft which h...

- De meest gebruikte inleiding in het vakgebied marketing;

- toegankelijk en volledig, veel praktijkvoorbeelden;

- aandacht voor actuele marketing onderwerpen.

Grondslagen van de marketing van prof. dr. Bronis Verhage is de meest gebruikte inleiding in het hoger onderwijs voor marketing. Deze gerenommeerde auteur slaagt er als geen ander in studenten passie voor het vak bij te brengen. Ze leren hoe ze creatieve ideeën en de juiste klantgerichte houding ontwikkelen voor een uitdagend, commerc...

The second edition of this popular introductory undergraduate textbook uses examples, applications, and a problem-solving approach to convey the impact of biomedical engineering. Updated throughout, the author has included more qualitative and quantitative questions and problems, highlighting recent advances in biomedical engineering to provide a modern overview of the field.

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 timely book is a crucial resource on the rich diversity of African constitutional law, making a significant contribution to the increasingly important field of comparative constitutional law from a historically understudied region. Offering an examination of substantive topics from multiple jurisdictions, it emphasises issues of local importance while also providing varied perspectives on common challenges across the continent. Divided into four thematic parts, chapters cover a wide arra...