Sociaal werkers staan in de frontlinie van de samenleving, waar ze geconfronteerd worden met schendingen van mensenrechten. Als experten van het dagelijkse leven van mensen in een kwetsbare leefsituatie beschikken sociaal werkers over tal van mogelijkheden om mensonwaardige en onrechtvaardige situaties om te buigen en te werken aan de realisatie van mensenrechten. Daarom is sociaal werk een mensenrechtenberoep. Hoewel mensenrechten het moreel kompas zijn voor het sociaal werk, blijft het zoek...

Opleidingsteams in het hoger beroepsonderwijs hebben een belangrijke opdracht. Zij werken elke dag met hart en ziel aan het vormgeven van een curriculum dat studenten kansen biedt een diploma te behalen binnen de nominale studieduur. Daarnaast voelen zij zich verantwoordelijk aan te sluiten bij de behoeften en verwachtingen vanuit verschillende belanghebbenden in de binnen- en buitenwereld. Hogeschool Rotterdam heeft als grote stads -hogeschool met een oriëntatie op en verantwoordelijkheid v...

Pain: A textbook for health professionals provides a comprehensive guide to pain and pain management with a focus on interprofessional practice. Written by internationally acclaimed authors and fully updated to reflect latest evidence and understanding, this book bridges the gap between theoretical underpinning and practice for assessment and management of patients with persistent pain - all in clear and accessible language. Now in its third edition, the text emphasises personal aspects of pa...

Coulson and Richardson's Chemical Engineering: Volume 2B, Separation Processes, Sixth Edition, covers distillation and gas absorption, illustrating applications of the fundamental principles of mass transfer. Several techniques, including adsorption, ion exchange, chromatographic membrane separations and process intensification are comprehensively covered and explored.

Throughout her distinguished and prolific writing career, she explored questions of good and bad, myth and morality. The framework for Murdoch's questions - and her own conclusions - can be found in the Sovereignty of Good.

Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try and improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. So is his marriage.

He has ninety days to save his plant - or it will be closed by corporate HQ, with hundreds of job losses. It takes a chance meeting with a colleague from student days - Jonah - to help him break out of conventional ways of thinking to see what needs to be done. Described by Fortune as a 'guru to industry' and by Businessweek as a '...

A Critical Introduction to the Study of Religion introduces the key concepts and theories from religious studies that are necessary for a full understanding of the complex ways in which religious and cultural institutions and traditions influence society.

This volume provides a history of the computer which now comes properly up to the ubiquitous age, with new chapters that look at globalization, platformitization and regulation, allowing readers to engage with the more recent takeover by computers in their historical perspective. With the growing ubiquity of computers, the subject is one of interest to many students and this will feature in history of science and technology courses, and world history courses as well as ones specifically on co...

This new edition of Psychopharmacology provides a comprehensive scientific study of the effects of drugs on mind and behaviour. With the growing prevalence of psychiatric and behavioral disorders and the rapid advances in the development of new drug therapies, it offers an understanding of the necessary details of drug action.