De idee voor dit boek werd geboren kort na de terroristische aanslagen van 11 september 2001. De Amerikaanse filosofe Giovanna Borradori ging in New York in gesprek met twee grootmeesters van de hedendaagse Europese filosofie, Jürgen Habermas en Jacques Derrida, over deze meest verwoestende terreurdaad uit de geschiedenis en over het thema terrorisme in het algemeen.

Tussen het Indische moederland en het Nederlandse vaderland.Dit boek verhaalt over iemand van Indische afkomst, die na de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Indonesi

Er is in een Nederland een grote groep drinkers die niet verslaafd is aan alcohol, maar die wel meer drinkt dan goed voor hem is. Drinken is sluipenderwijs een gewoonte geworden. Doorgaan met een dergelijk drinkpatroon leidt op termijn bijna zeker tot ernstige (gezondheids)klachten of een alcoholverslaving.

Als u een alcoholprobleem in een vroeg stadium herkent, kunt u er zelf veel aan doen. Het Boom Hulpboek Minder drinken kan u daarbij helpen. In vijf weken krijgt u inzicht in uw eigen alcoh...

Banned and vindicated, condemned and lauded, Lady Chatterley's Lover is D.H. Lawrence's seminal novel of illicit passion and forbidden desire. Lady Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the Sir Clifford.

Paralysed in the First World War, Sir Clifford is unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, and encourages her instead to have a liaison with a man of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to Oliver Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper, with whom she...

Make discussion work easy for students with Bookworms Club. These collections of graded short stories have been specially selected for Reading Circles - small groups of students who meet to talk about stories. With role sheets to help students prepare for the discussions, and stimulating graded stories, Bookworms Club provides the magic formula for getting students to talk in English.

James Spillane, the leading expert in Distributed Leadership, shows how leadership happens in everyday practices in schools, through formal routines and informal interactions. He examines the distribution of leadership among administrators, specialists, and teachers in the school, and explains the ways in which leadership practice is stretched over leaders, followers, and aspects of the situation, including routines and tools of various sorts in the organization such as memos, scheduling proc...

This is a practical guide to the historical study of international politics. The focus is on the nuts and bolts of historical research--that is, on how to use original sources, analyze and interpret historical works, and actually write a work of history. Two appendixes provide sources sure to be indispensable for anyone doing research in this area.

The book does not simply lay down precepts. It presents examples drawn from the author's more than forty years' experience as a working historian....

Strategic Maintenance Planning deals with the concepts, principles and techniques of preventive maintenance, and shows how the complexity of maintenance strategic planning can be resolved by a systematic 'Top-Down-Bottom-Up' approach. It explains how to establish objectives for physical assets and maintenance resources, and how to formulate an appropriate life plan for plant. It then shows how to use the life plans to formulate a preventive maintenance schedule for the plant as a whole, along...

One of the seminal management books of the past 75 years, The Fifth Discipline is an international multi-million-copy bestseller. Written in an engaging and accessible way, with diagrams and illustrations, it will change the way you think and therefore way you and your team grows and develop. In the long run, the only sustainable source of competitive advantage is your organisation's ability to learn faster than its competitors....

'Senge explains why the learning organization matters, provid...