Vanaf 2005 zijn er al meer dan 33.000 exemplaren van Handboek Voor elke mentor verkocht. De auteurs hebben in 2014 hard gewerkt aan het updaten van dit zeer gewaardeerde boek. Vanaf de veertiende, herziene druk van het handboek Voor elke mentor heb je een boek in handen dat is aangepast aan de laatste ontwikkelingen. Passend Onderwijs, social media, hoogsensitieve leerlingen, KIVA en de nieuwste inzichten op het gebied van mentoraat krijgen vanaf deze druk uitgebreid aandacht.

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Introduction to Statistics for Forensic Scientists is an essential introduction to the subject, gently guiding the reader through the key statistical techniques used to evaluate various types of forensic evidence. Assuming only a modest mathematical background, the book uses real-life examples from the forensic science literature and forensic case-work to illustrate relevant statistical concepts and methods. Opening with a brief overview of the history and use of statistics within forensic sc...

Scientific and commercial interest in the field of nutritional neuroscience has grown immensely over the last decade. Today, a broad range of dietary supplements, foods for weight loss, functional foods, nutraceuticals, and medical foods are widely available. Many of these products are marketed for their effects on behavior or brain function, which relates directly to nutritional neuroscience and raises issues regarding their safety and efficacy.

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Through incisive discussions of topics ranging from practice, power, and pedagogy to ritual, history, sex, and death, the authors offer new directions for the understanding of Buddhism, taking constructive and sometimes polemical positions in an effort both to demonstrate the shortcomings of assumptions about the religion and the potential.

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution.

They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

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In today's world, it is no longer just acceptable that a corporation does well by doing good. It is expected. With increasing pressures to improve the bottom line as well as to be good corporate citizens, business leaders face tough decisions. What social issues should we support? What charities will make strong partners? What initiatives should we develop that will do the most good for the company as well as the cause? Do we just write a check, incorporate social messages in our advertising,...

These 18 essays examine the relationships between narrative fiction films and documentary filmmaking, focusing on how each influenced the other and how the two were merged in diverse films and shows. Topics include the docudrama in early cinema, the industrial film as faux documentary, the fear evoked in 1950s science fiction films, the selling of ""reality"" in mockumentaries, and reality TV and documentary forms.

This engaging 2005 introduction offers a critical approach to discourse, written by an expert uniquely placed to cover the subject for a variety of disciplines. Organised along thematic lines, the book begins with an outline of the basic principles, moving on to examine the methods and theory of CDA (critical discourse analysis). It covers topics such as text and context, language and inequality, choice and determination, history and process, ideology and identity.

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Dans ce classique de la littérature contemporaine, Georges Perec dresse avec une redoutable justesse le portrait d'une génération prise dans le balbutiement des années 1960. Sylvie et Jérôme, jeunes psychosociologues de classe moyenne, cultivent une idée matérialiste du bonheur, à laquelle ils s'asservissent... au risque de se laisser happer par le vertige des choses.

Une baignoire des plus classiques. Quelqu'un allongé à bord, parfois habillé d'une manière très simple, parfois tout succinctement vêtu, méditant tranquillement, les yeux fermés, avec le sentiment de pertinence miraculeuse que procure la pensée qu'il n'est nul besoin d'exprimer. Lorsque ce dernier, pour quelle raison ? – obscure raison –, commença à passer ses après-midi dans la salle de bain, il ne comptait pas s'y installer.

Commençant dans l'immobilité d'une salle de bain...