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Taking Tourism to the Limits: Issues, concepts and managerial perspectives (Advances in Tourism Research)
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The concept of margins and limits is often referred to within the tourism academic literature and includes subjects as diverse as carrying capacities, peripheral economies, technological advancement, adventure tourism, dark tourism and socially marginalized communities. After identifying a number of ways in which limits might be defined Taking Tourism to the Limits explores concepts and challenges facing contemporary tourism in five main sections, namely in tourism planning and management, nature based tourism, dark tourism, adventure and sport tourism and the accommodation industry.
Drawing upon case studies, current research and conceptualizations these different facets of the limits are each introduced by the editors with commentaries that seek to identify themes and current practice and thinking in the respective domains. The picture that emerges is of an industry that reinvents itself in response to changing market parameters even while core issues of stakeholder equities and political processes remain problematic.
International in scale, the book links with its companion piece Indigenous Tourism the commodification and management of culture (also published by Elsevier) as an outcome of the very highly successful conference, Taking Tourism to the Limits hosted by the University of Waikato Department of Tourism Management in 2003.
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Developments in Organizational Politics presents a comprehensive analysis of organizational politics and its meaning and application for employees and managers in modern worksites.
Eran Vigoda suggests an integrative model that tries to explain how politics, and especially perceptions of politics, emerges, transforms and affects employees' performance and other work related outcomes in organizations. The analysis is based on empirical data collected over almost a decade of field studies. This data uses a variety of scientific methods to demonstrate how internal politics may be related to job attitudes, behavioral intentions as well as actual behaviors of employees. Special attention is given to non-profit organizations but analysis of businesses and private firms is also included.
The book will be essential reading for academics and researchers from the fields of organizational behavior, human resource management and is also useful for practitioners who struggle through the barriers of power, influence and politics in the workplace.
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Dynamic Openers & Energizers
Anderson Pike
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The Dynamics of Employee Relations (Management, Work & Organisations)
Paul Blyton , and
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This book explores the prospects for the emergence of a distinctly European pattern in industrial relations, in which European-level organizations representing employers and trade unions gain in importance.
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Title: CHANGING DYNAMICS.(impact of corporate culture on employee performance)
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Title: Industry dynamics in the Washington, DC, area: has a second job core emerged? From 1990 to 2005, federal jobs in the District declined while private-sector jobs increased rapidly throughout the metropolitan area; professional and business services jobs spearheaded this growth, particularly in Fairfax County, VA.(Industry Dynamics in DC)(Statistical data)
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Title: PR's dynamic duo: Schenkein co-owners keep vision alive.(executive edge)(Schenkein Public Relations)(Brief Article)
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Title: Turf dynamics shape employees, organizations. (Great Expections).(Brief Article)
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Cheese Rheology and Texture
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Cheese Rheology and Texture is the first reference to bring together the essential information on the rheological and textural properties of cheese and state-of-the-art measurement techniques. This comprehensive resource begins with an overview of cheesemaking technology and detailed descriptions of fundamental rheological test methods. Then it presents uniaxial testing and fracture mechanics, the theory and applications of linear viscoelastic methods (dynamic testing), and the nonlinear viscoelasticity of cheeses. The book focuses on mechanics in its examination of cheese texture, while it emphasizes measurement methods in its discussion of cheese meltability and stretchability. Finally it addresses the effects of various factors, such as the properties of milk, cheesemaking procedures, and post-manufacturing processes, on the functional properties of cheese. Summarizing the vast literature available on the subject, Cheese Rheology and Texture helps those in the dairy industry and in academia choose the proper technique to measure properties that directly relate to food applications and ensure that cheese in their formulations will function as intended.
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Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy
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Modern astronomy has been characterized by an enormous growth in data acquisition - from new technologies in telescopes, detectors, and computation. One can now compile catalogs of tens or hundreds of millions of stars or galaxies and databases from satellite-based observations are reaching terabit proportions. This wealth of data gives rise to statistical challenges not previously encountered in astronomy. This book is the result of a workshop held at Pennsylvania State University in August 1991 that brought together leading astronomers and statisticians to consider statistical challenges encountered in modern astronomical research. The chapters have all been thoroughly revised in the light of the discussions at the conference, and some of the lively discussion is recorded here as well.
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Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy II
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Modern astronomical research faces a vast range of statistical issues which have spawned a revival in methodological activity among astronomers. The Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy II conference, held in June 1996 at the Pennsylvania State University five years after the first conference, brought astronomers and statisticians together to discuss methodological issues of common interest. Time series analysis, image analysis, Bayesian methods, Poisson processes, nonlinear regression, maximum likelihood, multivariate classification, and wavelet and multiscale analyses were important themes. Astronomers frequently encounter troublesome situations such as heteroscedastic weighting of data, unevenly spaced time series, and selection effects leading to censoring and truncation. Many problems were introduced at the conference in the context of large-scale astronomical projects inlcuding LIGO, AXAF, XTE, Hipparcos, and digitized sky surveys.This volume will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in both fields-astronomers who seek exposure to recent developments in statistics, and statisticians interested in confronting new problems. It is edited by two faculty members of the Pennsylvania State University who have a long-standing cross-disciplinary collaboration and jointly authored the recent introductory monograph "Astrostatics." G.J. Babu is Professor of Statistics, Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Statistical Planning & Inference and the Journal of Nonparametric Statistics. Eric D. Feigelson is Professor of Astronomoy and Astrophysics.
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Title: Called to account: Homeland Secretary Michael Chertoff, the nation's top risk manager, looks back on mistakes made in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He says his Homeland Security Department is prepared for the 2006 hurricane season.(RISK & INSURANCE[R]: SPECIAL REPORT: CATASTROPHIC RISK)
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The Minutes: A Guide for Company Secretaries and Managers
Simon Mort
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Richard M. Bissel Jr. followed the preferred path to spy superstardom: Groton, Yale, military service in World War II, and a stint helping to write the Marshall Plan, followed by time as an operative and then as an assistant to Allen Dulles, director of the CIA. In 1959, he assumed the reigns as head of the agency's covert operations. But his career ran into a brick wall with the ill-fated Bay of Pigs operation. In Reflections of a Cold Warrior, Bissell, who died in 1994, recounts his involvement in operations ranging from the overthrow of a democratically elected government in Guatemala to the creation of the U-2 spy plane project to the fiasco in Cuba.
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In this revealing memoir, the CIA's most important spymaster provides an insider's view of American intelligence activities during a pivotal period in history. The author tells of the personalities, policies, and historical forces that influenced events while he was in charge of the development of the U-2 spy-plane, the Corona spy satellite, the infamous Bay of Pigs operation, and other covert CIA operations and discusses the lessons that were learned during the Cold War.
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Bissell's own account.......2005-10-18
Although not real well-known, those who have studied modern American history, mainly in the intelligence sector, have seen Richard Bissell's name associated with the Marshall Plan, the U-2 spy plane, and the Bay of Pigs, to name a few. It's refreshing to get first-hand account from Bissell himself, and how he shares some of the key events during the last century in which he played a big part.
The chapter of the Marshall Plan I found a bit tedious, mainly because it delves deeply into economics; that was Bissell's specialty. If you're into economics and the theory behind it, you'll love that chapter, as he goes into detail and the machinations of what went on behind the scenes during that post-WWII period of reconstructing Europe. The chapters on the U-2 and Bay of Pigs I found very enlightening. You always hear it from second or third hand sources, which many times present it from a dark or conspiratorial point of view. But to hear it told by Bissell, and how they all came to be, is worth the price of the book. The persistence he possessed (and was a big part of his character) is evident in his successes and demands put on him during the Cold War. Also, the day-by-day (or even hour-by-hour) details of the Bay of Pigs fiasco, and why it failed, is worth studying. Although I feel Bissell shouldn't be blamed for it's failure, he does in fact take responsibility for it, and readily admits it, as well as his shortcomings (several times in the book, actually). I don't know if it was necessary to repeat it so many times, but perhaps he just wanted to set things straight.
Bissell admits he was a bit presumptuous at times in his judgment during those times, however he seemed to have learned from his experiences and mistakes, and there is no arrogance in the way he lays it out. What you see is a humble genius simply telling it from his point of view, someone who had a big, extremely important role in the 20th century, yet avoided the spotlight.
He was, in effect, as Evan Thomas so aptly titled the book written about Bissell, Wisner, Barnes, and Fitzgerald - one of "The Very Best Men."
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Reflections of a Cold Warrior: From Yalta to the Bay of Pigs.: An article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly
Elizabeth Edwards Spalding
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Title: Reflections of a Cold Warrior: From Yalta to the Bay of Pigs.
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Not a Total Waste: The True Story of a Mother, a Son And AIDS
B. M. Lloyd
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