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Human Resource Management in the Hospitality Industry: A Guide to Best Practice

by Michael Boella & Steven Goss-Turner

Now in its ninth edition, Human Resource Management in the Hospitality Industry: A Guide to Best Practice, is fully updated with new legal information, data, statistics and examples. Taking a 'process' approach,...

Low-Carbon Land Transport: Policy Handbook

by Daniel Bongardt, Felix Creutzig & Hanna Hüging

Practical guide for transport policymakers and planners to achieve low-carbon land transport systems.

Based on wide ranging research, it shows how policies can be bundled successfully and worked into urban transport...

Managing Visitor Attractions: New Directions

by Bruce Prideaux, Alan Fyall & Anna Leask

'Managing Visitor Attractions' is a unique text that provides a cutting edge insight into the issues, principles and practices of visitor attractions today and into the future.

Divided into five parts, the book...

Global Energy Governance in a Multipolar World

by Dries Lesage & Thijs Van de Graaf

Investigating the relationship between the emergence of a multipolar world order and the enormous challenges of global energy governance that the world is facing in the 21st century, this volume reflects on...

Russian Renewable Energy: The Potential for International Cooperation

by Indra Øverland & Heidi Kjærnet

What is Russia's potential as a partner in the global race towards a low-carbon economy? This book provides a balanced analysis of Russia's impressive, understudied and sometimes surprising strengths in the...

Food Supply Protection and Homeland Security

by Frank R. Spellman

Addressing both direct threats to humans, including the introduction of anthrax or smallpox, and indirect threats, those introducing diseases to plants and animals, the author examines the state of our food...

India's Store Wars: Retail Revolution and the Battle for the Next 500 Million Shoppers

by Geoff Hiscock

As India's middle class grows and disposable incomes rise, "modern" retail is becoming the next hot sector of the Indian economy. Hundreds of millions of new consumers will join this retail revolution, venturing...

Marketing to the Social Web: How Digital Customer Communities Build Your Business

by Larry Weber

An updated and expanded Second Edition of the popular guide to social media for the business community

Marketers must look to the Web for new ways of finding customers and communicating with them, rather than...

Introduction to Air Transport Economics: From Theory to Applications

by Bijan Vasigh & Ken Fleming

Here is a comprehensive textbook that applies economic theory to all aspects of the aviation industry. Extensively updated throughout, it features new coverage of macroeconomics for managers, expanded analysis...

Madoff with the Money

by Jerry Oppenheimer

An intriguing look at Bernie Madoff the man, and his scam

Madoff with the Money is a deeply disturbing portrait of Bernie Madoff based on dozens of exclusive, news-making interviews. From the values Madoff was...

Finding the Future of Digital Book Publishing: "Interviews With 19 Innovative Ebook Business Leaders"

by Jeremy Greenfield & James L. McQuivey

Finding the Future of Digital Book Publishing - Interviews With 19 Innovative Ebook Business Leaders is Digital Book World's first ebook. In interviews with 19 innovative ebook business leaders, Digital Book...

Lessons in Excellence from Charlie Trotter

by Paul Clarke & Geoffrey Smart

Charlie Trotter's Chicago restaurant is not only one of the premiere eating experiences in America, it serves also as the model of a thriving business whose cutting-edge approach to management is setting new...

How Walmart Is Destroying America (And the World): And What You Can Do about It

by Bill Quinn

After carving up the once lovingly cared-for downtowns of Small Town America, Wal-Mart launched a frontal assault on mom-and-pop businesses all over the globe. With 1.5 million employees operating more than...

Risky Business: Insurance Markets and Regulation

by Lawrence S. Powell

Today’s insurance regulation in the United States is at a crossroads: while some segments of the insurance industry are moving away from a state-based approach toward regulation, others favor a greater role...

Sir Thomas Lipton: The Man Who Invented Himself

by James Mackay

Thomas Lipton burst onto the national scene in 1897, the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. The Princess of Wales had launched a �30,000 fund to provide a Jublilee dinner for the poor, but, with only...

Youtube and Video Marketing: An Hour a Day

by Greg Jarboe

A complete, task-based guide to developing, implementing, and tracking a video marketing strategy

Online video marketing is crucial in today's marketplace. This guide teaches you proven, practical guidelines...

Ten Acres Enough - The Classic 1864 Guide to Independent Farming

by , Edmund Morris

This early work on farming is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It details the experiences of a man setting up an independent farm and the challenges he faces. This is a fascinating work...

Report on publishing in Italy in 2012

by Giovanni Peresson, Alessandra Mutti, Lorenza Biava & Elena Vergine

The Italian paper and book publishing scenario in a year of transformations due to lower spending power of households, change in purchasing habits, sales channels (on line libraries, e-book stores) and device...

The Mathematics of Bookselling: A Monograph

by Leonard Shatzkin

The Mathematics of Bookselling is a definitive resource for book retailers looking to maximize margins and profits through the proven pricing and inventory management practices developed by Leonard Shatzkin,...

In Cold Type: Overcoming the Book Crisis

by Leonard Shatzkin & Mike Shatzkin

During the nineteen seventies and early eighties, the trade book publishing industry faced financial and philosophical problems of a magnitude unparalleled in its existence. It appeared that without undertaking...