The first text to fully explore the issue of ownership and governance of international events. Split onto two distinct parts of 'Theory' and 'Cases', it presents cases from sports as well as non-sports events, in addition to general principles regarding ownership and governance based on historical, legal and managerial considerations. Ownership and Governance of International Events explores these events as global common goods owned by communities of participants, be they athletes, spectators...

Het Woordenboek Roemeens-Nederlands (Dictionar român-neerlandez), samengesteld door drs. Jan Willem Bos, is de pendant van het reeds in 2006 verschenen Woordenboek Nederlands-Roemeens (ISBN 978 90 6143 328 6).

De omvang is 618 pagina’s, waarvan 600 pagina’s woordenboek en 18 pagina’s met o.m. voorwoord en aanwijzingen voor het gebruik.

Het woordenboek telt ongeveer 40.000 trefwoorden, veelal met voorbeelden van het gebruik in zinsverband. Er zijn tienduizenden van zulke voorbeeldzinnen met ...

Mensen met onbegrepen gedrag vallen vaak tussen wal en schip. Politie, gemeenten, ggz, sociaal werkers en beleidsmakers krijgen al jarenlang geen grip op dit probleem. Allemaal worstelen ze met de vraag: wie is er verantwoordelijk? 

In dit magazine lees je openhartige verhalen van ervaringsdeskundigen die laten voelen wat cijfers en rapporten niet kunnen. Experts en professionals duiden wat werkt, wat niet, en delen praktische tips: van de wijk-GGD’er tot de sociaal werker, en van d...

The world's leading reference in hematopathology returns with this completely updated second edition. Authored by international experts in the field, it covers a broad range of hematologic disorders -- both benign and malignant -- with information on the pathogenesis, clinical and pathologic diagnosis, and treatment for each. Comprehensive in scope, it's a must-have resource for both residents and practicing pathologists alike.

Authored by the chief architects of the WHO classification in neo...

Sheila Jasanoff charts society’s embrace of technological solutions and technology’s complex interplay with ethics and human rights. She dissects the ways in which we delegate power to technological systems and asks how we might regain control. From GMOs to gene therapy, biomedicine has challenged traditional definitions of life and death and raised difficult questions, such as who owns our genetic information.

The Internet has redefined privacy with social media and search giants operati...

A framework for formalizing risk management thinking in today?s complex business environment Security Risk Management Body of Knowledge details the security risk management process in a format that can easily be applied by executive managers and security risk management practitioners. Integrating knowledge, competencies, methodologies, and applications, it demonstrates how to document and incorporate best-practice concepts from a range of complementary disciplines. Developed to align with Int...

At the heart of coordination chemistry lies the coordinate bond, in its simplest sense arising from donation of a pair of electrons from a donor atom to an empty orbital on a central metalloid or metal. Metals overwhelmingly exist as their cations, but these are rarely met ‘naked’ – they are clothed in an array of other atoms, molecules or ions that involve coordinate covalent bonds (hence the name coordination compounds). These metal ion complexes are ubiquitous in nature, and are cent...

Financial Risk Forecasting is a complete introduction to practical quantitative risk management, with a focus on market risk. Derived from the authors teaching notes and years spent training practitioners in risk management techniques, it brings together the three key disciplines of finance, statistics and modeling (programming), to provide a thorough grounding in risk management techniques. Written by renowned risk expert Jon Danielsson, the book begins with an introduction to financial mark...

To a diverse group of industries, static headspace-gas chromatography (static HS-GC) is an indispensable technique for analyzing volatile compounds; it enables the analyst to assay a variety of sample matrices, while avoiding the time-consuming and costly preparation involved with traditional GC.

This well-known undergraduate electrodynamics textbook is now available in a more affordable printing from Cambridge University Press. The Fourth Edition provides a rigorous, yet clear and accessible treatment of the fundamentals of electromagnetic theory and offers a sound platform for explorations of related applications (AC circuits, antennas, transmission lines, plasmas, optics and more). Written keeping in mind the conceptual hurdles typically faced by undergraduate students, this textbo...