A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY#11 in the New York Times '100 Best Books of the 21st Century'A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, Oscar's sweet but disastrously overweight.

Vele tinten grijs brengt in kaart hoe de wereld van ouderen, zorgprofessionals, zorgmanagers en beleidsmakers wordt bezien als wij een sociale gedragstheorie hanteren. Het belangrijkste argument is dat we in een samenleving waar individualisme en het denken in entiteiten (zoals markt, instelling, beleid, technologie) hoogtij viert, veronachtzamen dat mensen meestal met elkaar samenwerken of zich verbinden. Door interactie en communicatie krijgt de wereld en onze identiteit betekenis. Als gevo...

With this dictionary students learn the most important collocations they need to know. The dictionary also guides them to the right word combination for their context. The CD-ROM includes the complete dictionary and practice exercises.

The word combinations are based on analysis of the Oxford English Corpus, a collection of three billion words of text from the English-speaking world that show the words that really do go together.

Presents a controversial view of the origins of fascism, locating them in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Anti-Enlightenment, a far earlier date than most historians. This book contends that J G Herder, Edmund Burke, and Joseph de Maistre can be connected to the origins of the Anti-Enlightenment.

Over a century ago, psychologists who were fascinated with religion began to study and write about it. People with a background in psychology often lack a solid understanding of the religious traditions they wish to study, and theologians may not be up to date on the latest developments in psychology.

Written by leading scholars in the field, this comprehensive and readable resource gives anthropology students a unique guide to the ideas, arguments and history of the discipline. The fully revised and expanded second edition reflects major changes in anthropology in the past decade.

Novo Avenida Brasil 2 (A2) é composto por 6 lições e 1 capítulo de revisão. Estrutura clara: comunicação cotidiana em diálogos curtos apresentação e prática da gramática livro Segundo o Novo Acordo Ortográfico exercícios de leitura e escuta exercícios de vocabulário Over deze serie O Novo Avenida Brasil destina-se a principiantes adolescentes e adultos, de qualquer nacionalidade, que queiram aprender o Portugues da forma como o idioma e falado no Brasil. Pode ser usado em grup...

Confused by business statistics? Problem solved. Schaum's Outline of Business Statistics helps you understand basic concepts and offers extra practice on topics you'll encounter in your introductory- and intermediate-level courses. With this book, you'll understand and master the basic methods of statistical description, statistical inference, decision analysis, and process control.

You will also learn about frequency distributions, histograms and frequency polygons, frequency curves, samplin...

Synthesizing over thirty years of advances into a comprehensive textbook, Biomolecular Crystallography describes the fundamentals, practices, and applications of protein crystallography. Deftly illustrated in full-color by the author, the text describes mathematical and physical concepts in accessible and accurate language. It distills key concepts for understanding the practice and analysis of protein crystal structures and contains examples of biologically-relevant molecules, complexes, and...

As in previous editions of this popular text on cross-cultural management, students will find here an invaluable guide to key management theories, linked to practical examples from all round the world. The book's key distinctive feature remains its truly international profile, with current examples from the US, Europe, Asia and new perspectives in this edition from other regions. Discussion of cross-cultural models is updated by including the 'crossvergence' framework developed during the 199...