New Releases by Van Loon

Provides comprehensive improvement programs and methodologies The author provides lots of guidance based upon his personal experience on the standard and clarifies several aspects that are not always clear to the new process assessors and organizations starting to perform assessments.

Various competing schools of sociology have attempted to fit observations of social phenomena into different conceptual systems. This book traces the origins of these systems from the enlightenment thought to subsequent developments in Karl Marx, Herbert Spencer, and Max Weber.

Explains the history and origins of the various streams of mathematics.

This book traces the origins of cultural studies in Britain, and its dissemination in the United States, Canada, France, Australia, and South Aisa.

This book, now available for the first time in an English translation, was published in Dutch in 1732 by lawyer Gerard van Loon. His aim was to give the reader a pleasant and informative tour of the history of coins and medals and the result is an astonishing, entertaining and surprisingly modern numismatic work. The format, layout and plates of this English translation follow closely those of the original edition. This translation opens up to modern readers of all kinds the fascinating thoughts and advice of a numismatist, historian and philosopher who lived and wrote more than a quarter of a millennium age.

Winner of the first John Newbery Medal in 1921, here is van Loon''s renowned classic record of historic adventure, updated for the 21st century.