Jan: 4507 books
Czech Out John Amos Comenius
Czech Out Book Series
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2017
The Czech Out book series tells stories about everything and everyone Czech,from Bohemian landmarks to notable figures. In this specific edition, we are looking at John Amos Comenius (Czech: Jan Amos Komenský). John Amos Comenius was a Czech philosopher, pedagogue and theologian from the Margraviate...
by Jan Brokken
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 30, 2017
«A ogni passo in questa città mi viene in mente un libro o mi risuona in testa una musica. È una scoperta continua.» È il 1975 quando Jan Brokken rimane folgorato da San Pietroburgo, l’allora Leningrado, patria splendente e malinconica di poeti e dissidenti, folli e geni, disperati e amanti,...
Heligoland
Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
On 18 April 1947, British forces set off the largest non-nuclear explosion in history. The target was a small island in the North Sea, thirty miles off the German coast, which for generations had stood as a symbol of Anglo-German conflict: Heligoland. A long tradition of rivalry was to come to an...
by Jan Siebelink
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Naast de familie Sievez woont Henk Wielheesen, die zijn moeder verliest als hij elf jaar is. Het is door toedoen van de buren dat hij in veiligheid wordt gebracht.
Jan Siebelink geeft een beeld van een heel leven en een bijzondere vriendschap.
by Jan Brokken
Language: Dutch
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Language: Dutch
Release Date: July 2, 2012
In ‘Baltische zielen’ schetst schrijver Jan Brokken aan de hand van uiteenlopende levensverhalen de woelige historie van Letland, Estland en Litouwen. Het boek geeft een onthutsend beeld van de twintigste eeuw, met al zijn illusies, desillusies, doctrinaire twisten en waanzinnige moordlust. Reizend...
Mountaineering First Aid
A Guide to Accident Response and First Aid Care
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2004
* Meets the current standards of first aid care by the American Red Cross and the Wilderness Medical Society * Updated figures and drawings that illustrate essential first aid skills * Includes quick-reference boxes that summarize recognition and treatment of many first-aid problems This fifth edition...
by Xiaowang Chen, Jan Silberstorff
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
In order to master Taijiquan you must begin with the most fundamental steps, and systematically work up to the advanced levels, slowly building up your knowledge and technique as you go. This book explains the five levels of Taijiquan from complete beginner to highest level practitioner. Presenting...
Global Brand Strategy
World-wise Marketing in the Age of Branding
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Steenkamp introduces the global brand value chain and explains how brand equity factors into shareholder value. The book equips executives with techniques for developing strategy, organizing execution, and measuring results so that your brand will prosper globally.
What sets strong global brands...
The Right Word!
How to Say What You Really Mean
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Every writer needs help with words: choosing them, using them, spelling them correctly. When is optimal or optimum the better choice? Why use germane when relevant is, well, more relevant? Created for just such tortuous (torturous?) situations, this handy guide provides an A-to-Z listing of troublesome,...
In Defence Of The School
A Public Issue
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
As a painfully outdated institution the school is accused of: being alienating, closing itself off to society and to the needs of young people; reproducing social inequality and consolidating existing power relations; demotivating youth; showing a lack of effectiveness and having great difficulty...
by Jan Masschelein & Maarten Simons
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
As a painfully outdated institution the school is accused of: being alienating, closing itself off to society and to the needs of young people; reproducing social inequality and consolidating existing power relations; demotivating youth; showing a lack of effectiveness and having great difficulty...
Rethinking Rational Choice Theory
A Companion on Rational and Moral Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
The marriage of neuroscience and the science of choice behaviour gave birth to neuroeconomics. Jan de Jong explores this new discipline, investigating the relationship between choice behaviour and brain activity, and the light that this sheds on our systems of reasoning.
The Right Letter
How to Communicate Effectively in a Busy World
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Replaces previous edition.
In today's hectic world of cell phones, email, and instant messages, is it still worthwhile to know how to write a good letter? Absolutely! An attractive, well-written letter can grab the reader's attention and hold it long after someone else's email has been discarded....
Exploring Culture
Exercises, Stories and Synthetic Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2002
A masterpiece in intercultural training!
Exploring Culture brings Geert Hofstede's five dimensions of national culture to life. Gert Jan Hofstede and his co-authors Paul Pedersen and Geert Hofstede introduce synthetic cultures, the ten "pure" cultural types derived from the extremes...