'It's rare for a book to make you see the world differently, but this ... does exactly that on almost every page' GuardianStandard histories of technology give tired accounts of the usual inventions, inventors, and dates, framing technology as the inevitable march of progress. They split history into ages - electrification, motorisation, and computerisation - and rarely ask whether anyone bothered to use these inventions at the time.

Shock of the Old is not one of those histories. I Letters e...

A completely revised and updated edition of the bestselling productivity guide

Jean-François Jaussaud met Louise Bourgeois for the first time in 1994, at her studio in Brooklyn. But it was not before she had interrogated him about every aspect of his life that he earned her trust. A first photo session was set up in Spring 1995, under one condition: she would destroy the photographs if she didn’t like them... Jaussaud agreed to it and passed the test. He was then given carte blanche to photograph her studio and her house in Chelsea, and he kept coming back for anothe...

With a simple approach to essential information, Rubin's Pathology: Mechanisms of Human Disease? establishes the foundation for medical training and practice and delivers the perfect balance of basic pathology and bedside perspective to confidently and efficiently equip students for clinical success. More accessible than ever, this eighth edition emphasizes the coverage students need most--disease mechanisms, integration of mechanisms into organ system pathology, and application of pathobiolo...

Is it possible to quickly build a modern web application and love the process? With Symfony 5, you can. This book - written by Symfony's creator - lays out a pragmatic approach to developing web applications with Symfony 5: from scratch to production. Whether you are discovering Symfony for the first time or refreshing your knowledge, this practical guide provides the definitive introduction to modern Symfony applications.

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– A Practical Approach is an interactive and hands-on introduction to the fi eld. The theory behind management and organisation is accessibly explained by renowned authors Jos Marcus and Nick van Dam using many practical examples. The book comprises three sections:

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– Structure and Organisations

This fully renewed edition has been expanded with six new c...

International Health Law and Ethics. Basic Documents contains a collection of treaty documents and soft law on health care rights and health ethics, used in health law training programs. Regional documents and explanatory reports on health care rights, which are derived from international human rights law, provide a way of "unwrapping" government obligations in health care, making rights more specific, accessible and (judicially) accountable. In addition, soft law declarations and medical e...

De woorden die belangrijk zijn in het examen Engels vmbo staan nu met vertaling op een overzichtelijke kaart. Je ziet in één oogopslag waar het om gaat! Wanneer je die ca. 1500 examenwoorden beheerst, kun je het examen Engels vmbo met vertrouwen tegemoet zien.

De woordenschat is alfabetisch geordend, zodat je snel elk gewenst woord kunt opzoeken. De kaart is bedoeld om er ca. een jaar voor je examen mee aan de slag te gaan. Door hem bij je Engelse lessen en huiswerk te gebruiken, kom je in...

This book is a collection of essays dealing with issues of contemporary significance in the law of treaties. It neither purports nor aspires to provide a general overview of all aspects of the law of treaties, and it is by no means intended to be a comprehensive textbook.

The discussion of the subjects selected in this book will shed some light on a number of areas of the contemporary law of treaties, and, consequently, on some important features of the international legal system at the begin...

The book describes what we mean by requirements for systems, more specifically for information systems, and how you can specify them. Also available in Dutch.

You have requirements for everything you use. When you don't specify the correct requirements, you will not get what you expect: software that does not fully apply the fiscal rules for calculating VAT or a watch that is difficult to read.

This book is primarily intended to help with specifying requirements for information systems, but b...