Basiscursus Zweeds deel 1 is een goed hulpmiddel voor iedereen die zelfstandig of in een groep Zweeds wil leren. Dit eerste deel is bedoeld voor beginners en begint met een informatief stuk over de Zweedse taal, gevolgd door een beknopte behandeling van de uitspraak van het Zweeds. Het boek telt twaalf lessen die elk bestaan uit onder meer een dialoog, twee teksten, een woordenlijst en een behandeling van de grammaticale moeilijkheden uit de teksten. Aan het eind van elke les zijn vragen over...

Kuifje onderneemt een reis om zijn vriend Tchang te zoeken in het Tibetaanse hooggebergte. Wat begint als een zoektocht naar het Bekende, eindigt in een ontmoeting met het Vreemde en de ontdekking van 'de kostbaarste zeldzaamheid', de blik van de Yeti.Dit handboek richt zich op de opleiding van professionele opvoeders van jonge kinderen: peuter- en kleuterleidsters, kinderverzorgsters, maatschappelijk werkers, pedagogen en psychologen.Het verkent de complexe omgeving waarin kinderen morgen op...

How can science be brought to connect with experience? This book addresses two of the most challenging problems facing contemporary neurobiology and cognitive science: first, understanding how we unconsciously execute habitual actions as a result of neurological and cognitive processes that are not formal actions of conscious judgment but part of a habitual nexus of systematic self-organization; second, creating an ethics adequate to our present awareness that there is no such thing as a tran...

The cloth edition of Assia Djebar's Women of Algiers in Their Apartment, her first work to be published in English, was named by the American Literary Translators Association as an ALTA Outstanding Translation of the Year. Now available in paperback, this collection of three long stories, three short ones, and a theoretical postface by one of North Africa's leading writers depicts the plight of urban Algerian women who have thrown off the shackles of colonialism only to face a postcolonial re...

Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety--building in more warnings and safeguards--fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. He asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents.

(At Chernobyl, tests of a new safety system helped produce the meltdown and subsequent fire.) By recognizing two dimensions of risk--compl...

This edition contains Donald Cress's completely revised translation of the Meditations (from the corrected Latin edition) and recent corrections to Discourse on Method , bringing this version even closer to Descartes's original, while maintaining the clear and accessible style of a classic teaching edition.

Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and structure of the world itself? From the author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos comes a provocative hypothesis that explores the connection between what modern neuropsychology tells us about the brain and what rituals, myths, and religious stories have long narrated. A cutting-edge work that brings together neuropsycho...

Introduction to Protein Structure provides an account of the principles of protein structure, with examples of key proteins in their biological context generously illustrated in full-color to illuminate the structural principles described in the text. The first few chapters introduce the general principles of protein structure both for novices and for non-specialists needing a primer. Subsequent chapters use specific examples of proteins to show how they fulfill a wide variety of biological f...

This GuideBook introduces and assesses Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, arguably the single most important work in western philosophy. It is ideal for newcomers to Kant's thought.