The Essential Ingredient.(desk clerk offered room discount)(Brief Article): An article from: Cornell Hotel & Restaurant Administration Quarterly

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Title: The Essential Ingredient.(desk clerk offered room discount)(Brief Article)
Author: Glenn Withlam
Publication: Cornell Hotel & Restaurant Administration Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2000
Publisher: Cornell University
Volume: 41 Issue: 6 Page: 81

Article Type: Brief Article

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Motel Clerk
Ad Wittmann
Manufacturer: Camelot Consultants
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0938481487

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Organizing the Public Sector Economics Study.......2000-08-23

This guide is usefull to organize the studing of public finance. Due to the large amount of practice questions and review notes, this book serves as a complete guide to the reading of The Economy of the Public Sector.

In my personal point of view, its ideal to complement the reading of the book with this complete study guide.

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Pelican Readings In Economic Policy: The Public Sector
John Dixon (Editor)
Manufacturer: Pelican / Penguin Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KK8OXK

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James Latimore considers the problem of "good results or good reports" in the context of his study of one small agency's transition from financial independence to government funding dependence. As Latimore points out, private philanthropy has played a large role in America's social and economic history. In recent years, government funding has flowed into private agencies. What happens when private and public overlap? Does public funding change the direction of an agency? Does it become less client centered and more program oriented? How is this change manifested? What specific changes occur in the heretofore private philanthropy? Latimore's study shows that the strengths of philanthropic intervention may be negated by the bureaucratic accountability that accompanies public funding. Latimore suggests that accountability alters the thrust and management of programs in order to show good results.

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For Ian, being a hitman means good money, security and a neverending supply of contracts. It sometimes causes problems with his lady friends, but by and large, they accept his frequent absences. But Ian faces a moral conflict when he's given a contract to get rid of Janet, the only woman who really understands him. And moral conflicts are not something that Ian can handle. Dark and funny, The Hitman Diaries continues Danny King's unique take on what makes lowlife characters tick.

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Hilareous.......2006-02-09

Dark and delightful. If think you might enjoy a sort of English Carl Hiaasen this book is for you.

An engaging, offbeat, original, skillfully crafted novel.......2004-04-12

Written by a former burglar who renounced his life of crime, got an education, and started a new career as a journalist, Danny King's The Hitman Diaries is a dark novel of the personal life of a professional killer. Most of the women Ian Bridges meets in his line of work end up dead -- until he is thrust in a moral quandary when his next contract happens to be for the one woman who truly loves and understands him. Black humor laced with tangled human realities make for an engaging, offbeat, original, skillfully crafted novel would make one dynamite Hollywood movie!

Morbid humour at its best!.......2003-12-12

To tell the truth, I borrowed this book from my library because of its cute pink cover - it struck me as weird that a book titled as such would use this colour theme usually meant for those diabetic-inducing novels or whatever is associated with 'cute' book genres! But I never regretted borrowing the book; I fully intend to get it from my bookstore as soon as I can.

Danny King's humour shines through in this book, clearly meant only for those who are able to look at the world in a crooked and morbid view. I feel that it's kinda like in the same vein as 'Kill Bill' (another fantastic movie!) but without all the blood and gore (unless you really go and visualise it all in your mind). But as you read the book further, you start to sympathise with the lead character, Ian Bridges, who only wants to find his leukemia/coma girl while doing his hit jobs for the mob boss JB - which is kinda similar to everyone of us searching for that one great love, ain't it?

Plenty of hilarious and albeit unrealistic (at least to me) and totally fantastic situations but hey it's supposed to be fiction. But Danny King made each character lovable in their own individual way and you start to cheer on Ian's side in his quest for love! If you can't find the ridiculousness in any kind of situation, this is definitely not the book for you.

This book has made me a Danny King fan and now, excuse me while I go get the other two books in the series...

Didn't like it.......2003-09-10

Just too cruel and raw for my taste. Some of the details are just too descriptive for me. It just went on and on about how to kill and in what awful manner....it never seemed to end.

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"The quest for freedom with a small f," writes John Litweiler, "appears at the very beginning of jazz and reappears at every growing point in the music's history." But Litweiler's book is about the upper-case variety of freedom--the Free jazz pioneered in the late 1950s by the likes of Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, Anthony Braxton, and Eric Dolphy. The author, who has also written a fine biography of Coleman, traces the rise and multiple ramifications of this firebreathing music. His judgements have held up superbly since the book's original 1985 publication, and his thumbnail portraits and fine-tuned analyses make this an essential volume.

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Bad Jazz Journalism.......2002-08-31

Litweiler has been a jazz critic for many years and has written a fine book about Ornette Coleman. But this book is really a disappointment. A good scholarly book about the free jazz movement is long overdue, at least in this country, but Litweiler isn't the person to do it. This book reads more like the opinions of a fan rather than thoughtful and considered ideas.

Litweiler often makes statements of opinions and masquerades them as fact. And he For example, he castigates Keith Jarrett mercilessly, questioning Jarrett's originality on spurious grounds. He makes statements to the effect that what Jarrett does is the same as any college music student does when they sit in a practice room and improvise in the style of Bach or Chopin. I have news for him, I never heard anyone do this in any of the music schools that I attended. Classical musicians never improvise, no matter how good it would be for them to learn. So, far from being something that "every student does" this is a pretty rare skill.

And again, Litweiler castigates Sun Ra and Pharoah Sanders for interest in popular music and tonal music respectively. In this, Litweiler shows his own bias, which is definately for the New York Energy school as opposed to the more modal school of Sanders, or the interest that Ra had in situating himself within the jazz canon.

I think the worst thing, though, is that Litweiler completely misses the spiritual side of the music. Free jazz is mostly a spiritual thing for the performers, and for the open listener. Ascension wasn't a raw expression of anger, it was a "rasing of the spirits" in the old Yoruba sense. Litweiler's interest in so much in the "advanced" ideas of free jazz that he misses the point.

A better introduction to this music might be Eberhardt Jost's classic, Free Jazz. It is much more rational and scholarly, though like this book, it's a bit out of date. David Such also wrote a wonderful book on the subject, Avante-Gard Music and Musicians. Such is both an ethnomusicologist and an avant-garde performer, and knows what he's talking about from the inside.

A Decent Book; Now Out-Dated. Perhaps an Introduction........2001-11-22

Litweiler's "Freedom Principle" is a pretty good book if you know nothing about "free jazz" (a terrible label, by the way) and want to learn about the dominant performers in the music. He provides some interesting commentary on Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor, AACM members, and the European performers. Considering when the book was published, it is somewhat out-dated, since many of the artists he mentions (that are still living, of course) have gone on to develop their creativity far beyond the point where Litweiler begins and ends his analysis of it.

Litweiler also develops some perspectives that seem rather off to me. For example, he says that "Among the great jazz musicians, Ayler's emotional range may be the most limited" (p.151). Ayler's music, in my opinion, is quite the opposite. When discussing Miles Davis' fusion period, he states "the content of his music declined to a search for the new idea or effect, and innovation became valueless" (p.224). Considering how many artists have been inspired by Miles' late 60s-mid 70s period (e.g., there have been a flood of reissues documenting this period of his career, and new people are discovering and loving his music from this period every day), this statement seems to be a little too bold, if not totally erroneous. Miles made the most challenging and innovative fusion music of the 70s, and his creativity inspired and influenced not only jazz musicians of the period but also funk and rock musicians. The textures he explored on those early 70s albums are as artful and challenging as anything before or since. He also claims that Sun Ra's love for popular music is a weakness: "Sun Ra's most impenetrable music, as composer and improviser, has been influenced by the most flabby kinds of popular musics. He is the only jazz musician who ever recorded a version of 'Holiday for Strings'" (p.143). Maybe it is just me, but I find the implied tone of the last sentence a little insulting to Sun Ra and his magnificent legacy. Such commentary smacks of elitist arrogance.

This aside, I must say that Litweiler's book about Ornette Coleman is excellent. Compared with "The Freedom Principle," it is like day and night--I almost wonder if they were written by the same person.

Good, if occasionally didactic.......2001-01-14

Freedom Principle definitely suffers from the author's avocation as music critic--the prose is choppy, and the big thematic ideas occasionally get lost in the minutiae. Chapter 1 "Steps in Search of Freedom" is especially desultory and poorly focused. The chapters on individual players are better.

That said, the book is an excellent introduction to the free jazz movement, and covers the major players well, with very insightful discussions of individual works and solos.

Litweiler is at his worst when his own opinions come blazing through; he loves free jazz and despises rock. It's an opinion shared by others, to be sure, but he belabors his point, and, in the final chapters, all but bludgeons his reader with it. It's a fairly ironic twist in a book dedicated to the unbridled freedom of musical expression.

Indispensable for free jazz enthusiasts.......1999-11-01

An excellent summary of the formative years of America's neglected music. Covers important figures intelligently and succinctly. Best used as an introduction to the field, from which you can move on to biographies of individuals.

An excellent overview of the subject.......1998-09-24

This is book is an excellent overview of the subject. That said, most of the book is dedicated to the major figures (Coltrane, Davis, Coleman, Sun Ra, Mingus, etc.) and there are other books available dedicated to these subjects with more detail. But if you haven't read the critical biographies on the major figures, this is a good place to start to learn about jazz during 1958-1975, and there are interesting sections on some less well known musicians who you can't read about anywhere else.

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The Freedom Principle: Jazz after 1958
John LITWEILER
Manufacturer: William Morrow and Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GT7XF0

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Loose women and dangerous men; true tales from the darkest corners of the brightest cities. From New York City to the Czech Republic, from Philadelphia to Finland, from intimate stag bars to underage street walkers and subway suicides, these are the compelling first-hand accounts of travelers who have hit upon the weird and the despicable-whether through fault or by design; all have a tale to tell.

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The best bathroom reading ever!

-- San Francisco Chronicle

The shows that got away luckily.

-- Hollywood Reporter

Packed with amusing failures.

-- Chicago Sun-Times

Irresistible and enthralling.

-- Hartford Courant

Full of fool's gold and genuine TV treasures.

-- The New York Post

Finally in paperback! This two-volume set will tell you everything you could possibly want to know about the thousands of TV series ideas rejected by the networks since 1955 who made them, who starred in them, what they were about, and why they ultimately failed.

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Learning Cocoa with Objective-C is the "must-have" book for people who want to develop applications for Mac OS X, and is the only book approved and reviewed by Apple engineers. Based on the Jaguar release of Mac OS X 10.2, this edition of Learning Cocoa includes examples that use the Address Book and Universal Access APIs. Also included is a handy quick reference card, charting Cocoa's Foundation and AppKit frameworks, along with an Appendix that includes a listing of resources essential to any Cocoa developer--beginning or advanced. Completely revised and updated, this 2nd edition begins with some simple examples to familiarize you with the basic elements of Cocoa programming as well Apple's Developer Tools, including Project Builder and Interface Builder. After introducing you to Project Builder and Interface Builder, it brings you quickly up to speed on the concepts of object-oriented programming with Objective-C, the language of choice for building Cocoa applications. From there, each chapter presents a different sample program for you to build, with easy to follow, step-by-step instructions to teach you the fundamentals of Cocoa programming. The techniques you will learn in each chapter lay the foundation for more advanced techniques and concepts presented in later chapters. You'll learn how to:

Effectively use Apple's suite of Developer Tools, including Project Builder and Interface Builder
Build single- and multiple-window document-based applications
Manipulate text data using Cocoa's text handling capabilities
Draw with Cocoa
Add scripting functionality to your applications
Localize your application for multiple language support
Polish off your application by adding an icon for use in the Dock, provide Help, and package your program for distribution

Each chapter ends with a series of Examples, challenging you to test your newly-learned skills by tweaking the application you've just built, or to go back to an earlier example and add to it some new functionality. Solutions are provided in the Appendix, but you're encouraged to learn by trying. Extensive programming experience is not required to complete the examples in the book, though experience with the C programming language will be helpful. If you are familiar with an object-oriented programming language such as Java or Smalltalk, you will rapidly come up to speed with the Objective-C language. Otherwise, basic object-oriented and language concepts are covered where needed.

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Great Start to Learn OS X Programming.......2005-07-02

This book is a great start to learn the best OS X programming technology. As a professional developer. The title says it "Learning Cocoa with Objective C". Avoid the book "Cocoa in a Nutshell" until you know Cocoa and Objective C and want a good refeerence.

I also plan to read: "Programming in Objective C" and "Cocoa Programming", but only after mastering the material in this book.

OK..........2005-02-25

While this book is very detailed and has a lot of information in it about Cocoa programming, it starts off too quickly. You might be discouraged by the assumptions the author makes about how much C (and programming in general) you know. If you are experienced in computer programming, then you will find this book to be a blast and will learn objective -C in no time at all. However, if you aren't too good with programming, start off with some online tutorials or other books, as you will get lost after reading the first two chapters or so.

A good book, but not the best book.......2004-05-10

A very popular book, and greatly improved in its second edition. Very example and tutorial oriented; somewhat out of date at this point, however. Helps the user learn Interface Builder, ProjectBuilder and Objective-C, too. Possibly a bit shallow to get the reader writing their own Cocoa programs from scratch, but a good introduction. Ultimately, probably not as recommended for a first purchase as Cocoa Programming by Scott Anguish or Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass.

Indispensible Guide for Moving from C to Object Orientation.......2004-02-23

Being an old Pascal and C programer from the earlier Mac OS (systems 6 and 7) I was finding 1) that Carbon documentation was a mess, and 2) that Cocoa's object orientation was incomprehensible. So, in deciding which environment to work in to upgrade my old scientific apps, I felt stuck between two impossible choices. I wanted the power of quartz and the familiarity of C in a format I could learn. This book provides the indispensible introduction to object orientation that is a prerequisite for Cocoa and ultimately Apple's latest and greatest stuff under the hood. From there, the developer documentation and Garfinkel's or Hillegrass' books can take you the rest of the way. But, this is the place to start if you're conversant in c but not objects.

Good try, but needs a bit more work.......2004-01-16

This book needed one more pass by the proofreaders. There are an annoyingly large number of typographical errors and other mistakes. What surprised me is that after introducing a number of features of Interface Builder, the author tends to manually write code (e.g., outlet declarations) then load the results into Interface Builder to make the various object connections. It would have been better in my view to simply use Interface Builder to perform these tasks (certainly less error prone).

Overall, the book is helpful in explaining a lot of issues, but I would have like the book to touch more in internationalization issues, such as how to handle input method editors and product localization. In real world programing, I'll need internationalization and input method editor handling before I need to worry about speech synthesis.

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