Henk van Rensbergen is a Boeing 787 pilot who flies around the globe. While his crew rests at the swimming pool, he goes out to explore abandoned places in our world. From the breakaway state of Abkhazia, a floating warship cemetery in France, a forgotten love hotel in Japan to an abandoned rail depot in Detroit, van Rensbergen searches for the beauty of their desolation and pinpoints the richness of their decay. Van Rensbergen is a pioneering urban explorer. His Abandoned Places photo books (1, 2, 3 and The Photographer's Selection) have been highly successful. This complete revised edition shows his most iconic photos of the past 25 years, including new unpublished material and anecdotes.
What if customers expect more than just a good product, excellent service and perfectly performing digital interfaces? And what if new technologies like 5G, artificial intelligence, quantum computing and robotics offer possibilities that go beyond mere ease of use?
Digital ease of use is the new minimum. It has become a commodity. The customer now regards it as the most normal thing in the world to have access to limitless products and services with just a single click of a mouse. In the years ahead, companies will need to play an active role in the 'life journey' of customers: helping to make their dreams come true and removing problems from their daily lives. In addition, customers are looking increasingly to companies instead of governments to tackle societal challenges like climate change, health care and mobility.
If your company succeeds in providing outstanding digital service, becomes a partner in the life of your customers and provides solutions for major societal issues, you will develop 'an offer you can't refuse'.
A selection of the 150 most beautiful and inspiring hotels in the world - each having a unique story to tell.
From Paris to New York, from New Zealand to the Arctic. By Debbie Pappyn, Travel Journalist. - Enjoy!
This is the era of the Smart Ecosystems Economy, where the companies that thrive must be ready to cope with randomness and unexpected events. In this digital world, the traditional boundaries have disappeared, paving the way for new and smarter ecosystems to develop. Companies seeking to transform into future-proof organisations would do well to understand these ecosystems, and get a grasp on how they work.
This book serves as a guide to building smart, competitive ecosystems for both small and large organisations. A timely book that cracks the code of tomorrow's business models.
The renowned World Press Photo Foundation ("Connecting the world to the stories that matter") publishes a compilation of prizewinning press photographs each year. Carefully selected from thousands of entries, they present the most celebrated, powerful, moving, and often disturbing images from around the world, often putting a face on conflicts in far-flung places and reminding us of our shared humanity. The 2022 Yearbook, bringing together the best press photographs from 2021, will reflect the joy, anguish, and upheaval of this incredible year.
To ensure the well-being of the planet, we need marketing heroes on the barricades for a sustainable future. Research shows that more than 80% of consumers are looking at companies to take the lead in this transition. At the same time, it appears that less than 10% of the messages about sustainability are credible to the public. Speak up Now! helps companies seize this historic opportunity and shows how we can make the shift to a world where business success goes hand in hand with the survival of the planet.
Les Panama Papers de la RD Congo: pourquoi ce pays potentiellement riche est-il tellement pauvre ? Une accusation tranchante contre le pillage des matières premières du Congo, pendant que la population souffre Dans Cobalt blues le journaliste Erik Bruyland plonge dans l'histoire postcoloniale de son pays natal, la République Démocratique du Congo. Le passé colonial belge transmue vers des scènes quasi d'esclavage dans les mines les plus riches au monde. Alors pourquoi ce pays tellement riche est-il si pauvre ? Son travail fouillis de journalisme d'investigation dévoile comment des opportunistes et de spéculateurs ont - comme des vautours - pu mettre main-basse sur les richesses minières. Bruyland effiloche les carrousels économiques et financiers et les manigances géopolitiques qui ont abouti à la tragédie du Cobalt blues: l'or bleu qu'engrangent des sociétés offshore, la sueur noire n'en récoltant rien. Et tout ça pour assouvir notre appétence pour nos téléphones intelligents ou voitures électriques. Une analyse tranchante du dépérissement économique et politique de la RDC, avec en miroir le rôle et la responsabilité de l'ancien colonisateur belge
Renee & Matthew Hahnel, two professional travel photographers, embarked on the adventure of a lifetime ... a seven month journey to every national park in America. Over the course of this epic road trip, they traveled through 39 states, two US territories, drove over 25,000 miles, took 26 flights, and hiked hundreds of miles across some of the most dramatic landscapes on the planet.
Roaming America tells their story through breathtaking imagery and musings from the road that will set your wanderlust into overdrive. The Hahnel's also share their personal experiences, and give away their insider tips to help you plan your own national parks adventure!
Dreaming big propels you forward. But it is often a bumpy road. In this book, two remarkable women unravel 15 persistent myths about the path to success and finding happiness in life and work, both from their own experiences and from their daily interactions with professionals. They want to encourage people to set themselves free from such myths and to pursue their dreams with confidence and optimism. In this inspiring book they share their personal stories, stimulating testimonies, and relevant scientific knowledge.
Is the perfect job out there? How do you define success? Is it only about climbing the ladder? Does everything have to be planned out, preferably before your thirties? And what about so-called work-life balance? Discover their answers to all of these questions, and so much more.
A book about dreaming big, lifelong learning, and daring to jump.
Drawing enhances memorisation, understanding, talking and listening and sparks communication. It is a universal language, and can help you convey your message more clearly and engagingly - especially during meetings, while laying out ideas or simply in a brainstorming session. So why have all of us stopped drawing at a certain point in our lives?
Start to Draw is a fun and clear-cut guide to drawing and visualising your ideas in your work environment. It is an accessible, bite-size book providing insight into why drawing works, how you can have a great impact on your own (and others') professional work, and how you can end up with a more creative approach to your job.
Une fois de plus, 2021 a été une année cycliste incroyable pour le Wolfpack, l'équipe de rêve de Patrick Lefevere. Davide Ballerini s'est vite imposé à l'Omloop, Kasper Asgreen a remporté l'E3 et le Tour des Flandres, et Sam Bennett, Mark Cavendish, Remco Evenepoel et Julian Alaphilippe ont collectionné les victoires. Pendant ce temps, Michael Morkov a également remporté la médaille d'or olympique sur piste. En famille pendant leur temps libre, en extase la plus complète après une victoire ou encore en mode décompression dans le bus de l'équipe : ce livre vous permet de découvrir les coureurs à travers l'objectif de Wout Beel. Ils chutent, se relèvent et se remettent en route vers la victoire. Un portrait de groupe qui vous tiendra en haleine du début à la fin.
Pain and discomfort related to the spine are extremely common, to the extent that back and neck pain may be considered part of the human condition. In most instances, interventions are not necessary. However, surgery can be required in some situations, and may be considered as a valuable option in others. In order to enable accurate patient counselling and to help in fine-tuning indications for surgery (for example, after unsatisfactory relief from conservative pain management), physiotherapists and rehabilitation specialists should be aware of surgery rationales and techniques. In most cases, surgery does not stand on its own, and postoperative rehabilitation will benefit from a certain degree of surgical knowledge by the physiotherapist and rehabilitation specialist. Additionally, it is paramount that all spinal caregivers speak the same vocabulary and issue the same messages to the patient. This little book explains surgical reasoning and surgical techniques to non-surgeons. It aims at crossing the bridge between surgical and rehabilitation paradigms to the benefit of patients. The entire field is covered in a concise and comprehensive way, and will be a must-read in spinal rehabilitation practices.
- The ultimate guide for the advanced home brewer.
- Learn everything about brewing processes, maintenance and analysis.
- Technical, in-depth and yet accessible.
- Written in collaboration with the European Trade Association of Brewers, representing 29 countries and more than 10,000 breweries.
This book is aimed at small brewers - professional brewers in the process of opening their own breweries or existing brewers - and focuses on quality measures to improve brewing skills and produce the best quality beer. It is the ideal guide for the advanced home brewer, who does not require 5 years of experience in a large industrial brewery or a master's degree in brewing science, and a precious resource for all small brewers looking to expand their brewing skills, improve their know-how about the brewing process and get more value and benefits from their brewing work.
In effective animation programming, one must be able to rely on theoretical knowledge as well as research-based insights in applicability. This updated version of Animation Maths contains an overview of both.
In addition to exploring collision detection, it also puts forward a discussion of programmable kinematics. These physics of motion, designed to complement programming, offer an invaluable tool in adding realism to games and animations. Furthermore, screen effects and image handling are taken to a professional level by a detailed outline of all the basic transformations.
The uniqueness of this book lies in its calculus-free approach. In order to cover the basics of the discipline, Animation Maths contains a brief summary of the fundamentals in arithmetics, solving systems and trigonometry. Animation Maths is accompanied by the website www.animationmaths.be which contains online support and useful downloads.
"Animation Maths achieves a perfect balance between deductive mathematics and broad accessibility, particularly through its interactive companion site." Leo Storme (Pure Mathematics and Computer Algebra, UGent) "With Animation Maths, Ivo De Pauw and Bieke Masselis present motion related mathematical subjects, ranging from trigonometry to quaternions and kinematics in an understandable fashion. It's a true game developers toolkit." Fries Carton (Guerrilla Games, Amsterdam)
- Loïc Van Impe vous rend encore plus dingues (de cuisine).
- Cuisinier autodidacte à la télé, Loïc Van Impe est de retour !
- Le mélange le plus fou de plats réconfortants, de pâtisserie, de mets japonais et tant d'autres choses encore.
- Encore plus de bons conseils et d'astuces pour davantage de plaisir à la cuisine.
On peut faire encore plus fou ? Mais bien sûr !
Loïc Van Impe nous emmène de nouveau dans son royaume. Faire soi-même ses plats favoris à emporter ? O.K. Des plats rustiques hyper simples avec un petit plus ? O.K. Des bouchées orientales à partager ? O.K. Son nouveau livre propose un mélange dingue comme tout de recettes les plus diverses, accessibles à tous grâce aux astuces de Loïc !
Loïc Van Impe est fou de cuisine, de faire soi-même son pain, d'aubergines et de se produire à la télé. Suivez ses aventures culinaires à la télé ou sur les médias sociaux.
Generational thinking is not a science, but a reliable framework for successful marketing, communications, and product strategy. This book describes how marketing is evolving for the demographic group Generation Y, born between 2010 - the year when the iPad and Instagram were launched - and 2025. This book examines the impact of technology and digitisation on the brains and development of this generation, the world's future consumers. With examples and insight, it shows how young entrepreneurs and influencers use new media to promote their interests and associated brand preferences to their peers and to the world.
