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This book is an introduction to the philosophical dimensions of food. David M. Kaplan shows how the different branches of philosophy contribute to a broader understanding of food and emphasizes how different narratives help us navigate the complex world of food.

In the bestselling tradition of The Nine and The Brethren, The Most Dangerous Branch takes us inside the secret world of the Supreme Court. David A. Kaplan, the former legal affairs editor of Newsweek, shows how the justices subvert the role of the other branches of government-and how we've come to accept it at our peril.With the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Court has never before been more central in American life. It is the nin...

Succesvolle organisaties hebben overal een systeem voor, omdat systematische processen de risico"s beperken en de prestaties verhogen. Vreemd genoeg hebben veel ondernemingen echter nog geen systeem voor het allerbelangrijkste proces: de manier waarop ze hun strategie uitvoeren. In Van strategie naar uitvoering bewijzen Robert Kaplan en David Norton dat bedrijven die hun strategie systematisch tot uitvoering brengen het veel beter doen dan and...

De jarenlange ervaring van Kaplan en Norton met de Balanced Scorecard heeft geleid tot een vernieuwde, meer praktijkgerichte toepassing: Strategiekaarten. Hiermee kan elk bedrijf en iedere organisatie de verbanden in kaart brengen tussen de in de organisatie aanwezige assets en methoden om waarde te creëren. De auteurs stellen dat het kritieke aspect van strategie, namelijk continue en blijvende waardecreatie, afhankelijk is van vier interne ...

In the bestselling tradition of The Nine and The Brethren, The Most Dangerous Branch takes us inside the secret world of the Supreme Court. David A. Kaplan, the former legal affairs editor of Newsweek, shows how the justices subvert the role of the other branches of government-and how we've come to accept it at our peril.Never before has the Court been more central in American life. It is now the nine justices who too often decide the biggest ...

Excerpt from Serology of Nervous and Mental DiseasesThe credit for first withdrawing cerebrospinal ¿uid from a patient ought, properly, by right of priority, to go to an American physician, Dr. J. L. Corning, who performed the puncture in Essex Wynter conceived the plan of diminishing intracranial pressure by performing ventricular puncture. Later, in a patient in whom the fontanels had prematurely closed, and it was desirable to diminish the ...

Das von Kaplan/Norton entwickelte Management-Instrument, um die Wirksamkeit der Strategieumsetzung zu verbessern. Mit der Balanced Scorecard können strategische Aktivitäten eines Unternehmens oder einer Organisation gemessen, gesteuert und dokumentiert werden.Die Experten zeigen, warum die Balanced Scorecard in jedem Unternehmen effizient eingesetzt werden sollte. Neben dem Aufbau des Systems wird die Integration der Balanced Scorecard in die ...

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This book covers trends in modern biotechnology. All aspects of this interdisciplinary technology, where knowledge, methods and expertise are required from Chemistry, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Genetics, Chemical Engineering and Computer Science, are treated. More information as well as the electronic version available at springeronline.com

This important book provides a comprehensive synthesis of the geography of race and ethnicity. David Kaplan explores the complicated terrain of ethnicity through an expansive global perspective. He encapsulates the central debates, explains key concepts, and provides compelling examples of the crucial role ethnicity plays in everyday geographies.

This important book provides a novel perspective on ethnicity, nationality, and race by considering how they are shaped by their geography. Exploring the complicated terrain of ethnicity through an expansive global perspective, David H. Kaplan traces the spatial arrangements that convey such potent meaning to the identity and opportunities of members of any cultural group. With examples from around the world, the author considers the most impo...

Telling a Story, Part Five in the Five Approaches to Acting Series is a chance to learn true witchcraft: the casting of a spell on audience members so that they see what isn't there. More, the telling of a tale can reveal the occult: what takes place in the mind of the speaker. Shakespeare's soliloquies offer an actor special opportunities to reveal the processes of thought, and there is a separate chapter in Telling a Story, Part Five in the ...

Episodic techniques developed in early twentieth century Russia and Germany, based on the study of Shakespeare's texts and other non-realistic plays. Playing episodes became the international silent film technique and is still the basis of most film work. Onstage today an episodic approach is especially useful for Shakespeare, Brecht and Sam Shepard, but essential for any actor working on realistic plays - Chekhov, Ibsen, and Williams, for exa...

Getting to the Task, Part One includes practical exercises for class and rehearsals, techniques for analyzing a text for tasks, techniques for maintaining and deepening performances, examples from film to study, and a useful working vocabulary. It explains how other approaches might expand Stanislavsky's vision. Getting to the Task, Part One separates Stanislavsky from his inaccurate (and widely influential) translators and interpreters in Ame...

Inhabiting the World of the Play, Part Four lays out a ten-part plan for actors to analyze a play and ways to create individual roles within plays. Inhabiting the World of the Play, Part Four gives practical applications in rehearsal and performance, explains how to apply a world of the play analysis to a text, and points actors towards available examples in film. A world of the play analysis is especially useful for plays that require heighte...

The source of an actor's imagery may be different, but the techniques for applying them in rehearsal and performance are remarkably similar. Building Images, Part Three includes practical techniques for an actor to build imagery - external and internal - in rehearsal. Building Images, Part Three offers strategies for text analysis based on imagery, and offers strategies for maintaining and deepening imagery in performance. Building Images, Par...

A fascinating study of how criminal enterprise can infect the very heart of modern capitalism. Here is the backstage world of political influence and organized crime in the world's second largest economy... by far the most detailed and even-handed study of this important and neglected subject."—John W. Dower, author of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War IIReviews of original edition:"A superb study of Japan's underworld that is b...

A guide to the contemporary craft cocktail movement, from an influential bar.

An examination of contemporary cultural and political changes in Europe as they are reflected in the region's borderlands. The text employs a variety of perspectives on globalization, the rise of national and ethnic identities, contemporary European integration, and the enlargement of the EU.