Hotel Chart of Accounts

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Hotel Chart of Accounts
Ad Wittemann
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Hotels, administration and accounts;: A treatise on the management, administration and departmental methods of the modern hotel. With specimen diagrams, charts, and tabular systems
A. R Lewis
Manufacturer: Jordan
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Resistance is multi-dimensional.......2002-02-02

The complexity of both sex and gender issues in the workplace are illuminated by Cockburn in this extensive case study research project. Her ability is admirable, to, in clear and concise language, communicate the class relations at the roots of patriarchal practices as she highlights the interacting and intersecting systems of race, class and sex. In analyzing "men's responses to positive action for sex equality," Cockburn explains and uses a range of feminist approaches, including those know as liberal, socialist and radical feminism. Presenting the material not case by case, but by theme, the author is able to establish the ways in which certain types of behaviours are produced and constructed systemically; a notion which can lead to the opportunity for men and women to make more informed choices about the behaviours they wish to reproduce, or reconstruct, and could lead to transformative change in organizations, industries and institutions.

In exploring male resistance to change through an examination of their own voices and practices, Cockburn provides a window for reflection. Including the voices of both supportive and obstructive women in the same organizations, she clarifies that feminism is a problematic concept for both women and men. Her vibrant analysis goes a long way towards expanding our understanding of the intricacies and inter-relations of practices of discrimination at work. By drawing these fine lines, and so transparently demonstrating the mechanics of such practices, the reader is given the opportunity to engage in their own analysis of a comparison with their own workplaces.

This book was written in 1991, at the pinnacle of affirmative action implementation in the US, Great Britain, Australia, and in Canada. It was disappointing that no mention was made of the Employment Equity initiatives in Canada, but quite clearly, as someone most familiar with the latter situation, I can say that she hits the nail directly on the head!

"We inherit from history complex structures - the power of the state, the legal system, the pattern of ownership, the mode of production, the operation of labour markets - all of which sustain class, sex and race inequalities. Feminists. however, make a critique of these structures, analyse their adverse effect on women, speak out against them and organize in opposition. the test of men is whether they do the same: they rarely do so. Equality activists are not so naïve as to suppose a capitalist firm can operate for long at a net loss. They may, however, suggest that some additional costs, either above or below the famous 'bottom line" - extra costs of production or a diversion of net profits - may be justified in the name of social responsibility. Few men do...Male power is not occasional, incidental or accidental. It is systemic." (p. 220)

Interspersed throughout the book, are examples of men in the cases studied who chose to engage in more transformative practices, their reasons and their challenges, and she ends an acknowledgement of the need to form alliances in the production of social change in organizations: alliances between committed women and committed men, with white women and men and those of different racial and ethnic backgrounds, between heterosexual and gay and lesbian workers and, I would add, people with disabilities. She assures us that this is not easy, and experience has taught us that coalitions can be quickly undermined by comments and actions that show a lack of respect for differences, but she does close by reminding us that "[w]omen and other subordinated groups are potentially able to recognize and use power not as domination but as capacity" (p. 241).

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In the Way of Women: Men's Resistance to Sex Equality in Organizations
Cynthia Cockburn
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A little disappointing, depending on what you're looking for

Satirical Ursinological Scholarship!

Pooh and the Psychologists (Wisdom of Pooh)
John T. Williams
Manufacturer: Egmont Books Ltd
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Move over, Freud, there's a new psychologist in the forest, and his name is Winnie-the-Pooh. In this witty book, Williams cleverly explores the psychological depths of the inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood: Piglet is compulsively shy, Eeyore is clinically depressed, and so on. In his unobtrusive way, Pooh is at the center of the puzzle, teaching each of his friends a little smackerel about themselves and leading them on the road to recovery.

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A little disappointing, depending on what you're looking for.......2004-07-04

I bought this book because I read a lot of books on psychology AND I was introduced to looking at diverse themes through the "Pooh" world view when a frind suggested "The Tao of Pooh," by Benjamin Hoff. I got this book thinking it might be entertaining and illustrative as well.

It is entertaining for the first while, but generally not very illustrative. As the previous reviewer said, the more you know about shools of psychological theory the more you will enjoy the book. But if you are looking to either learn something about psychological theory OR looking for images and anologies that illustrate concepts in a striking or perceptive way, this is not the best book.

It is entertaining, but it can get old if you are not careful. The tone is very tongue-in-cheek, I had some good chuckles. The kick of the book is looking at the world of the Hundred Acre Wood through such over-the-top scholarly eyes. There is an "inside tone" to his dialog with the reader: sort of a "uninformed and unstudied individuals fail to appreciate this, but you and I can clearly see..." attitude runs through the entire book. I enjoyed that in the first few chapters, but after a while the joke got old. To be fair, I did read this in just a couple long sessions in just a couple days. It may be enjoyed more as a nightstand book where you read a chapter or two every few days.

In terms of learning anything new from the book, one is not likely to get more than a few nuggets of information about one theorist or another. The book is orgainized more by character and story than by psychological concept, so one never really gets to see a school of thought fleshed out in a way that enhances your understanding of it. But, if that's not why you're reading the book, you won't experience it as a short-coming.

It is a fun book, especially if you LOVE Pooh or psychology. If you love and know a lot about both this could be a good, light read to nibble on before bed or over lunch.

Satirical Ursinological Scholarship!.......2001-06-11

The more you know about psychological theories and Winnie-the-Pooh, the more you will enjoy this book. Dr. Williams blasts away with tongue-in-cheek satire aimed at the psychologist's belief that everything that is said, thought, dreamed, and done has many layers of significance. Unfortunately, that approach means that your enjoyment will be modest if your knowledge is correspondingly limited in either area. If you know little about psychology and have not read Winnie-the-Pooh, you may not get most of the humor in the book.

In Freud-like fashion, Dr. Williams begins by descrbing the case for Winnie-the-Pooh being a super psychologist. The thrust of this argument is that Winnie employs every method ever recommended by any psychologist or psychoanalyst somewhere in his fictional adventures. In fact, he often combines them in a single fictional encounter.

The book then recounts seven cases and Winnie's role in them.

Case 1 -- Pooh Cures Christopher Robin of Arktophobia (fear of bears)

Case 2 -- Pooh Assists Piglet to Mature

Case 3 -- Pooh at His Most Eclectic with Tigger

Case 4 -- The Problem with Rabbit

Case 5 -- Parenting: Kanga and Roo

Case 6 -- Wol's Problems with Communication

Case 7 -- Eeyore: A Case of Classical Depression

The cases are written up like Freud's with the exception that they are illustrated with many drawings from the original Pooh stories.

As an example of the approach, the book Winnie-the-Pooh opens with a reference to his living under the name of Sanders. That is never mentioned again. Dr. Williams provides a lengthy argument in favor of this meaning that Winnie-the-Pooh is describing himself as the Sand man, the bringer of dreams. This is an indication of his role as psychotherapist.

In the famous story where Winnie eats too much honey and cannot get out of the hole in the tree, Dr. Williams reinterprets this as Winnie-the-Pooh making an example of himself to discourage others from overeating rather than using aversion therapy on them.

To put this prescience into context, Dr. Williams points out that the Pooh stories date in the 1920s. In the text, he finds "frequent anticipation of theories and practices which more plodding psychologists arrived at much later."

I don't know about you, but I didn't think much about Jung when I read Winnie-the-Pooh. Obviously, the references were too subtle for me.

Those who have experienced psychotherapy will probably find humor in the observations made about Winnie-the-Pooh that they may have heard applied to themselves. Could the observations be equally apt?

This book is best enjoyed by a roaring fire on a cold night with a warmed snifter of brandy, and savored slowly.

After you have finished the book, you might consider the many instances where novels do show ways to solve psychological problems through their fictional developments. Could it be that we can use fiction to be our own therapist? Or, is someone else the therapist? If someone gave you the book, perhaps they are the therapist. If so, is the author the propounder of the theory . . . or is the character?

See the possibilities for humor in pomposity everywhere!

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Beginning in 1994 and closing in the first months of 1998, the UK passed through a cultural moment as distinct and as celebrated as any since the war. Founded on rock music, celebrity, boom-time economics, and fleeting political optimism, this was "Cool Britannia." Records sold in the millions, a new celebrity elite emerged, and Tony Blair's Labour Party found itself returned to government. Drawing on interviews from all the major bands including Oasis, Blur, Elastica, and Suede, and from music journalists, record executives, and those close to government, Britpop! charts the rise and fall of the Britpop moment. In this wonderfully engaging, page-turning narrative, John Harris, currently the hottest young music journalist in the UK, argues that the high point of British music's cultural impact also signaled its effective demise. After all, if rock stars were now friends of government, how could they continue to matter? "Cool Britannia was an empty promise that was bound to end in tears. John Harris captures the moment when New Labour, desperately wanting to seem hip, invited Britpop into Downing Street. Irresistible." -Billy Bragg

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A Better Book on Britpop May Never Be Written.......2005-02-21

I've never read anything by John Harris before, but after reading the superbly detailed and imaginatively researched BRITPOP!, I picture him as a kind of Theodore K. White of music journalism. He is careful to place the phenomenon inside a political and social context which included the passing of the Thatcher kingdom and the birth of "New Labor" as exemplified by the triumph of the young, music loving prime minister, Tony Blair. And paralleling also the rise of the Young British artists llike Damien Hirst and or Tracey Emin.

Against this changing backdrop of society and expectations, a new breed of British bands appeared all at once to world consciousness. Oasis, Blur, Pulp and more seemed poised to take over the world the way that the Beatles, Stones and Kinks has once dominated rock 30 years before. And yet within a few years, all this excitement had dried up, and the Gallagher Brothers were now seen only as a pair of drunken louts who slagged everyone they could, even their own wives and girlfriends. Harris is good at depicting not only the appropriation strategies of these bands but the way they knew how to play themselves in the media against their American or Australian counterparts for maximum effect, culminating in the episode where Jarvis Cocker showed up at a Michael Jackson TV taping to denounce the black R&B singer, or the way that Noel Gallagher assailed Kylie Minogue for being a "lesbian," or so he said.

The Koran says, "In our beginning are our ends," and this book Britpop! proves it over and over and over and over.

Well done, John Harris.

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We live in a culture of choice. But, in an age of corporate dominance, our freedom to choose has taken on new meaning. Upset with your local big box store? Object to unfair hiring practices at your neighbourhood fast food restaurant? Want to protest the opening of that new multinational coffeeshop? Vote with your feet! What if it's not that simple? In No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart, Tom Slee unpacks the implications of our fervent belief in the power of choice. Pointing out that individual choice has become the lynchpin of a neoconservative corporate ideology he calls MarketThink, he urges us to re-examine our assumptions . Slee makes use of game theory to argue that individual choice is not inherently bad. Nor is it the societal fix-all that our corporations and governments claim it is. A spirited treatise, this book will make you think about choice in a whole new way.

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An orthodox economic rebuttal to the naive idea of consumer choice.......2007-10-02

The title of this book is actually ironic: Slee's claim is that the choices of other consumers often force you to do things you don't want to do. A "choice" shouldn't be viewed as an atomic economic act; real choices are entangled with what everyone else chooses to do. You choose to buy Us Weekly at the grocery store, and so do a million of your compatriots, and pretty soon that's all that's available for *me* in the checkout aisle. No one "chose" for that to happen, but that's how it worked out. Choices are constrained by other choices.

Slee wraps this all up beautifully: you should think of "best response" rather than "preference": what you choose to do is not a direct expression of what you prefer, as naïve choice theory would have it; rather, what you choose is the best response to everyone else's choices -- and theirs are best responses to yours.

The classic example of a best response that leads to a disappointing outcome is the prisoner's dilemma: each prisoner, when deciding how to act, realizes that no matter what the other prisoner does, it would be in his best interest to rat his partner out. If he rats the other one out, and the other one rats him out, then he's better off than if his partner ratted and he stayed quiet. Likewise, if his partner stays quiet, he's better off ratting his partner out. So no matter what his partner does, he should pick the outcome that makes life worse for the both of them.

Slee's book is the best use of economics in a mass-audience context that I've yet seen. And it's entirely rigorous. The argument is perfectly simple and correct. It should be valuable to anyone who believes that the free market will apply a balm to all woes.

This Book is a Keeper.......2007-08-03

I read a copy of this book from the public library, but now I'm buying a copy to keep, which lets you know how much I enjoyed it. It makes an excellent companion to a book like Dixit and Nabebuff's Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life. Both of them are friendly introductions to game theory, but Slee's book is uniquely valuable for two reasons.

First, Dixit and Nalebuff want to teach you about game theory itself, and so are concerned that you learn the right terminology, know how to step backwards through a game tree, get a little sense of the historical development of the theory, and various other things that are mostly important if you want to pass a test on game theory at some point, or intend to read more advanced books later. Slee, on the other hand, wants to attack a political position and uses game theory to do it. Because he wants to use the theory rather than provide a formal introduction, his presentation eliminates jargon, technicalities, and anything else he can throw overboard to lighten the ship. The end result, for me, is a clear, unobstructed view of the raw power of the fundamental ideas of game theory as Slee puts them to work.

Secondly, Slee shows game theory in a different context than usual. Most presentations of game theory, like Dixit and Nalebuff's, primarily use examples that concern rivals and competitors. Even when discussing co-operation, the emphasis is often on the possibility of betrayal and defection. Slee goes in the other direction. Because he wants to talk about how consumer choices in the marketplace impact communities, his examples tend towards situations where people are not consciously competing with each other or even thinking about each other. This change in emphasis highlights a different side of game theory, its exploration of interdependence rather than its exploration of competition. I found that to be refreshing and useful as well.

I don't mean to criticize the Dixit-Nalebuff book; it's very good. But Slee's unusual approach makes his book a welcome and valuable addition, no matter what your politics are.

It should have been called "Introduction to market failure".......2007-07-16

First of all, I'm a libertarian, which makes me the type of person most likely to disagree with Mr. Slee.
I'll start with what this book is not. This book is not a critique of capitalism in general or of the market system. This book is a polemic on what Mr. Slee calls MarketThink, the belief that markets free from government intervention will *always* achieve the public good; as Slee puts it "The subtext for this book is a call for the reinstatement of collective action into politics." This book also serves as a relatively good introduction to the many ways that markets can fail.
On to the content. I really don't know where Slee sees all this MarketThink. Certainly many libertarians are guilty of MarketThink, but I don't know of *any* politician who advocates anything close to free-markets and very few who actively advocate freer markets. Even many educated libertarians say that the government has some role in regulating and correcting markets.
This book covers a wide range of market failures, regular externalities, herd choices, asymmetric information and a few others. Slee also does a good job explaining most of them. He is clear, especially if you have a science background, and he usually uses very good examples, though, once or twice I thought the examples he used were misleading as to the real world applicability of his discussion topic.
A few of the topics discussed in the book are not market failures at all. For example, Slee tries to describe lack of self control (having a large discount rate) as a market failure, which is not even slightly correct. I also though chapter six, "Divide and Conquer," on corporations, was not well thought out because it was not consistent with some of the ideas Slee had discussed earlier in the book.
Slee makes very few policy recommendations, and with good reason, for many of the market failures Slee discusses are essentially impossible for the government to fix without doing things like banning all fancy cars, and some have no readily conceivable government solution. Also, Slee's language gives me the feeling that he does not have a good understanding or awareness of Public Choice economics, which dissects all the ways in which *government* can fail.
On the whole, Slee writes well, his prose is easy to understand and he is quite engaging. He also has a good sense of humor; I laughed out loud several times reading this book.
I would never recommend this book to anyone who has not had at least introductory micro-economics, first, just to be able to understand what Slee is discussing and second, to avoid getting the impression that markets are completely hopeless without government intervention. If you've had at least basic micro-economics, and especially if you have a heavy free-market slant, then I would recommend this book as a fun introduction to market failure, but as with most things, remaining a little skeptical is a good idea.

The more interesting side of economics.......2007-05-20

There is a theory (quite an elegant one, actually) that says that because we live in a marketplace of free choices we end up getting basically what we want -- our dollars are like votes for the society we wish to live in. Many have challenged this view, from a variety of perspectives, but Tom Slee (who calls this notion MarketThink) has chosen to focus on just one: the economic subfield of "game theory".

Slee walks through the major discoveries of game theory, explains them in simple language with reference to a fictional town of Whimsley, and discusses how they refute standard economic conclusions while still playing by basic economic assumptions with effects that appear to show up in the real world.

The book is full of dozens of examples, each with careful analysis and clear writing. Perhaps the most odd feature of the book is its politics. On the one hand, Slee is plainly a committed leftist, with positive references to Naomi Klein and other capitalist critics. But on the other hand, he never gives up on the rational actor and methodological individualist assumptions of modern economics, and shows little patience for those (typically his political allies) who have more thorough-going critiques. Nonetheless, the book is a recommended read for anyone interested in these questions.

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As American politics and television became more closely intertwined in the early 1960s, each underwent enormous and long-lasting changes. In The Expanding Vista, originally published in 1990 (Oxford University Press), Mary Ann Watson looks at how television was woven into the events and policies of John Kennedy’s presidency, not only in his unprecedented use of the medium in campaigning and image projection, but in the vigorous efforts of his administration to regulate and improve the content of network programs. Examining the legacy of the New Frontier and its relationship to the new medium, she traces the Kennedy influence across a spectrum of programming that includes news, documentary, drama, situation comedy, advertising, children’s shows, and educational TV. Through extensive archival research and oral histories Watson reconstructs key moments of an extraordinary time in the television age. The Expanding Vista’s analysis and interpretation of that era continue to enlighten our understanding of culture and communication as the themes sounded in the 1960s resonate in today’s complex media marketplace.

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The start of TV.......2006-12-17

Televisions rocky development is captured in this wonderful book. It covers the start of TV and the types of shows that were on. It comes in just after the game show scandals and focuses on the more violent programs that Newt Minow the head of the FCC tried to regulate. IT looks at children programming development and the idea of news. You get a sense of the presidential debates and how they brought TV in as a popular medium but the touching tribute comes at the end. When Kennedy is killed the major networks stop programming and realize their responsibilities to the country. This book is wonderfully written and is a great addition to any post world war 2 historiography.

Expanding Vista: American Television in the Kennedy Years.

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Expanding Vista: American Television in the Kennedy Years.
Mary Ann Watson
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Expanding Vista: American Television in the Kennedy Years.
Mary Ann Watson
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The Expanding Vista - American Television In The Kennedy Years

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The Expanding Vista - American Television In The Kennedy Years
Mary Ann Watson
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THE EXPANDING VISTA: AMERICAN TELEVISION IN THE KENNEDY YEARS.
Mary Ann. Watson
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Expanding Vista: American Television in the Kennedy Years.

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Adobe Photoshop Elements 3: 50 Cool Ways to Create Cool Pictures covers all the new tools that Photoshop Elements 3 has to offer users of all levels who want to edit, store, share, and archive their digital images. Photoshop Elements 3 includes new edge tools, easier organization and layout tools, and better tools for red-eye reduction. With a focus on what the average photographer really wants to learn, author Dave Huss covers all of these tools in this practical, fun guide to learning Photoshop Elements 3. This book covers both the Macintosh and Windows versions of Photoshop Elements 3.

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Wowzer, wowzer!.......2006-07-22

What a great book! What separates this book from all the others is the downloaded pictures that you work with as you make your way through the book. I kept the pictures in their chapter folders and put them in a folder called Elements 3: 50 Cool Ways. Then after practicing with them, when Adobe asked me if I wanted to save changes, I said no - so I could practice again and again. I must be slow because I have needed to practice them again. Thanks Dave, for a wonderful book. Will you be doing the same for Elements 4?

AWESOME.......2005-08-19

This is the most user friendly book that I have ever held in my hands. The great thing about this book is that Dave works with you one on one by having you download the pictures that are the examples in the book! This way you work on the same picture step by step and you can see what your picture should look like through the edit process. This book is very FUN and INFORMATIONAL! Buy it you won't be sorry!!! And you will do things with this program that you didn't know you personally could do!!!

Light hearted, useful, and informative.......2004-12-01

This book is not only a pleasure to read, it also was superbly reproduced and technically accurate (not all books are!). Dave Huss goes the extra mile to provide an excellent selection of real world (read: useful) tutorials that cover in detail how to retouch and correct common digital photography problems (color cast, wrinkle removal, panorama assembly, red eye, perspective correction). It also covers common challenges associated with managing digital photo libraries (album assembly, photo cataloging, image management). The photo projects are perfect for newcomers to digital photography (like me) and expose many of the features of Photoshop Elements I needed to get up to speed on fast. Well worth the investment.

Photo Organizer is the main improvement.......2004-11-29

Perhaps the most pertinent question answered by the book is what are the differences between Elements 2 and 3. If you are an existing E2 user, is there enough incentive to migrate to E3? Huss devotes considerable space to squarely address your concerns.Of the changes, the most useful is Photo Organizer. A huge improvement over File Browser, which is what E2 gave you. PO is well suited for collections of hundreds or thousands of photos. Many people who take photos regularly will run into the scaling constraints of File Browser. PO lets you attach metadata to a photo, in the form of keywords which you can choose as succinct descriptors of the photo. Then, later, if you search for a keyword, PO will return a set of thumbnails of the photos with that metadatum. Picking a thumbnail gives the original image. Very simple to use.If you know HTML, the metadata in PO maps to the <meta> tag that can be used in any HTML page.

Serious collectors should welcome PO. The only drawback is that it does not exist in the Mac version of E3; only in the Microsoft version. Huss speculates that Apple's iPhoto is too close in functionality for Adobe to economically develop a Mac version.

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