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Historisch overzicht vanaf de tijd van het Nieuwe Testament tot aan de Reformatie in de zestiende eeuw.

Thomas J Watson Sr's motto for IBM was THINK, and for more than a century, that one little word worked overtime. In Making the World Work Better: The Ideas That Shaped a Century and a Company , journalists Kevin Maney, Steve Hamm, and Jeffrey M. O'Brien mark the Centennial of IBM's founding by examining how IBM has distinctly contributed to the evolution of technology and the modern corporation over the past 100 years.

The authors offer a fresh analysis through interviews of many key figures, chronicling the Nobel Prize-winning work of the company's research laboratories and uncovering rich archival material, including hundreds of vintage photographs and drawings. The book recounts the company's missteps, as well as its successes. It captures moments of high drama - from the bet-the-business gamble on the legendary System/360 in the 1960s to the turnaround from the company's near-death experience in the early 1990s.

The authors have shaped a narrative of discoveries, struggles, individual insights and lasting impact on technology, business and society. Taken together, their essays reveal a distinctive mindset and organizational culture, animated by a deeply held commitment to the hard work of progress. IBM engineers and scientists invented many of the building blocks of modern information technology, including the memory chip, the disk drive, the scanning tunneling microscope (essential to nanotechnology) and even new fields of mathematics. IBM brought the punch-card tabulator, the mainframe and the personal computer into the mainstream of business and modern life. IBM was the first large American company to pay all employees salaries rather than hourly wages, an early champion of hiring women and minorities and a pioneer of new approaches to doing business--with its model of the globally integrated enterprise. And it has had a lasting impact on the course of society from enabling the US Social Security System, to the space program, to airline reservations, modern banking and retail, to many of the ways our world today works.

The lessons for all businesses - indeed, all institutions - are powerful: To survive and succeed over a long period, you have to anticipate change and to be willing and able to continually transform. But while change happens, progress is deliberate. IBM - deliberately led by a pioneering culture and grounded in a set of core ideas - came into being, grew, thrived, nearly died, transformed itself... and is now charting a new path forward for its second century toward a perhaps surprising future on a planetary scale.

Explores Cervantes' life and work and situate them in the perspective of Spain's golden age. Brilliantly illustrated in full color with examples of the art of the time, of the countryside the author knew, and of the work of the illustrators who have taken their inspiration from Don Quixote, the book is completed by a generous anthology of passages from the novel.--From jacket flap

De achtergronden en ervaringen van clandestiene literaire uitgevers, drukkers en auteurs tijdens de Duitse bezetting van Nederland.

Chronologisch overzicht van de belangrijkste of opmerkelijkste gebeurtenissen uit de Nederlandse geschiedenis, van de opstand der Batavieren (69) tot de aankondiging van de zwangerschap van Maxima (2003).

Biografie van de Britse staatsman (1874-1965).

Essays over Nederlandse 20e-eeuwse schrijvers.

Biografie van Hollywood-acteur Robin Williams (1951-2014).

Fotoboek met een selectie van monumenten in Nederland.

People are any organization's principal enablers or disablers of change. Not processes. Not technology. That's the uncomplicated - some would say radical - premise at the heart of this book. And it will show you how pragmatically embracing the human face of change not only generates results and improves performance but also builds an accelerating organization that thrives in a world in which rapid and unpredictable change has become the norm. Based on the far-reaching and forward-thinking curriculum of the executive education programs being conducted by Arthur D. Little and Innovation Associates, The Accelerating Organization offers a balanced, holistic approach to managing change that recognizes the vital importance of intelligently designed structures ... and of the capacity of people to learn and respond effectively to whatever happens.

Verkenningen over muziek en van de muzikale belevingswereld van de auteur.

Macro-economische visie op een toekomst waarin welvaart niet hoeft samen te hangen met economische groei.

Journalistieke reportages uit de periode 1943-1964 met portretten van markante figuren en plaatsen in New York.

Feiten, overpeinzingen en tips met betrekking tot de psychologie van de man.

Explores the historical and cultural evolution of the theoretical language of the stage

Inleiding in herkomst, inhoud en betekenis van kristallen schedels; met beschrijvingen van experimenten en fotomateriaal van energetische veranderingen in landschap en rond voorwerpen.

Beschrijving van honderd foto's van topfotografen met informatie over de foto en de fotograaf en een kader met creatieve tips en technieken.

Bestaat er nog ongerepte natuur in Nederland? Landschappen met woeste gronden, ondoordringbare bossen, gevaarlijke moerasgebieden, getijdenstromen, kliffen, ongetemde stranden en wolfskuilen? Kunnen we naar ons land kijken vanuit het perspectief van de wildernis? Nederland is door mensenhand gemaakt. Toch telt het land plekken waar de wildernis heerst, waar de roep van de natuur klinkt. Kester Freriks doorkruiste het land op zoek naar de wilde weelde van het ongerepte, en hij vond die op onverwachte plekken. Behalve het woeste landschap vormen oude land- en waterkaarten zijn inspiratiebronnen. Vele hiervan zijn in dit boek afgebeeld. Jan W.H. Werner, conservator van de kaartencollectie van de Universiteit van Amsterdam, behandelt in vogelvlucht de geschiedenis van de cartografie in Nederland. Het resultaat is een reisverslag en een liefdesverklaring. "Verborgen wildernis" is een pleidooi voor het behoud van het kostbaarste bezit van ons land: de vrije, wilde natuur, al denken we dat die getemd is.

In this real-life political thriller, former Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou tells the inside story of the six years during which the Greek drama changed Europe and riveted the world. It is the story of a country forced by past mistakes into unprecedented actions with enormously painful consequences. A story about the people who shaped events by trying to respond to rapidly evolving circumstances often beyond their control. About decisions - good and bad, right and wrong - taken in official and behind-the-scenes gatherings in Brussels, Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris, London, New York, Washington and Athens; in Luxembourg châteaux courtyards, Davos kitchens and Bilderberg gatherings; in elegant offices and dreary basement meetings rooms.

The story begins in October 2009 in Athens, when after a landslide victory, the new government shocks the world by announcing a fiscal deficit of an alarming size, until then kept secret. The "accident waiting to happen" since the launch of the Euro is finally here - but there are no contingency plans to deal with it, and the systemic nature of the crisis is initially not fully appreciated. When a bailout mechanism is finally put together, it fails to convince markets that the Eurozone will do whatever it takes to prevent the bankruptcy of one of its members. The bluff is called, and Greece is forced to apply in May 2010 for a massive loan from the Eurozone and the IMF, and accept a harsh austerity program. As the first loan installment arrives one day before the country declares default, the first wage and pension cuts produce riots and social unrest which leave three people dead.

But the crisis is not over - it mutates. Delays in recognizing the problem and mistakes in the way it is dealt with end up opening the gates of hell for the entire Eurozone. Ireland is forced into a bailout - Portugal follows. And in Greece, the initial good program results are soon swept away by the concern in international markets that Greece might exit the Eurozone. Meanwhile the continuing austerity leads to an ever-deeper recession, rapidly rising unemployment, increasing social tensions, and real suffering.

Six years down the road since the crisis erupted, Greece is in its third bailout, still in a severe social and economic crisis, and there are so many questions. Were other solutions available? Should Greece have threatened to default in order to get a better deal? Should there have been debt relief from the beginning? Would Greece have been better off if it had left the Euro? Has Greece saved the Euro but not itself? The book addresses these questions with the eye of someone at the heart of decision-making during the crisis.

This is the breath-taking story of an incredible period, told for the first time not by an outside observer, but by one of its protagonists.

An essential work on the origins of statistics

The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820–1900 explores the history of statistics from the field's origins in the nineteenth century through to the factors that produced the burst of modern statistical innovation in the early twentieth century. Theodore Porter shows that statistics was not developed by mathematicians and then applied to the sciences and social sciences. Rather, the field came into being through the efforts of social scientists, who saw a need for statistical tools in their examination of society. Pioneering statistical physicists and biologists James Clerk Maxwell, Ludwig Boltzmann, and Francis Galton introduced statistical models to the sciences by pointing to analogies between their disciplines and the social sciences. A new preface by the author looks at how the book has remained relevant since its initial publication, and considers the current place of statistics in scientific research.

Inleiding tot de westerse ideëengeschiedenis, .

"Op zijn negenenvijftigste heeft de schilder Maris Coppoolse een overzichtstentoonstelling in het Stedelijk Museum. De internationale pers schrijft erover, het publiek stroomt toe. Maris staat op het toppunt van zijn roem. In de coverstory van een weekblad wordt de bron van zijn obsessieve werk blootgelegd: een misdaad die hij op zijn veertiende beging. Niemand in zijn omgeving is hiervan op de hoogte. Zijn vrienden en bekenden zijn diep geschokt. Alles begon in een zwart geteerde schuur op een eiland. 'Zwarte schuur' is een roman over het kwaad, over schuld en geweten, over de demonen die een leven begeleiden, en over de vrouwen die Maris confronteren met zichzelf".