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Inclusion, disability, an ageing population and tourism are increasingly important areas of study due to their implications for both tourism demand and supply. This book therefore sets out to explore and document the current theoretical approaches,...

The book offers a comprehensive overview of the multifaceted matters that arise in the process of financing commercial aircraft. It reviews the different topics on a high-level basis, and then explains the terminology used for each particular area of...

The music industry is one of the most dynamic and fascinating business sectors. Its business model has had to evolve and adapt to continually changing technologies that impact at every level from distribution to artist management. Its latest challenge...

In the 1930s, hundreds of barges sailed the crowded waters of the Thames estuary carrying up to 100 tons of every sort of cargo - wheat and barley, coal, gun powder, cement and gravel. These remarkable craft were worked by a crew of two - skipper and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957537200Author Anna MaxwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Fizz Marketing LtdPublisher Fizz Marketing LtdWeight(grams) 194g

Strongly-held values can stabilize a society. They can also splinter it. In Restraint, Conflict, and the Fall of the Roman Republic, Paul Belonick explores the moral paradoxes of Republican Rome. He describes how aristocrats engaged in "performative...

The luxury market has long been the exception. Protected for decades - and even centuries - from swings in economic fate and taste by consumers with money and demands for something extraordinary. But the world is changing, and those changes have already...

Planet earth as we know it is changing rapidly as a consequence of the excessive use of fossil fuels, deforestation and industrial processes. Our natural environment is deteriorating at pace and today people are struggling to find mechanisms to cope in...

This book helps power industry executives to systematically navigate the complex technological and organizational changes necessary to recreate power grids.This is especially pertinent in the current environment characterized by volatility, uncertainty,...

Fundamentals of Sustainable Aviation is the first textbook to survey the critical field of sustainability within the aviation industry. Taking a systems thinking approach, it presents the foundational principles of sustainability and methodically applies...

Peels and Chemical Exfoliation, from Milady's Aesthetician Series, successfully exposes the reader to a broad understanding of the use of specific peeling agents and how they react on the skin. In this text, the author addresses the advanced educational...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590564936Author Elise DesulniersFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,US

Bad News for Refugees analyses the political, economic and environmental contexts of migration and looks specifically at how refugees and asylum seekers have been stigmatised in political rhetoric and in media coverage. Through forensic research,...

The Wall Street Journal technology columnist reveals the fascinating story behind the misleadingly simple phrase shoppers take for granted-"Arriving Today"-in this eye-opening investigation into the new rules of online commerce, transportation,...

This book offers readers a startling view of how blockchain technology will transform the financial industry in profound ways. Some of the world's top thinkers in blockchain have contributed chapters that survey the coming digital storm-how it will level...

This accessible guide through audience studies' histories outlines a contemporary Cultural Studies approach to audiences for the digital age. This book is not a survey of all existing audience research. Instead, its chapters survey parts of the field in...

This, London-based painter Sarah Medway's second publication from Anomie Publishing, is devoted to the subject of the River Thames. The publication presents a series of twenty-eight oil paintings created in Medway's canal-side studio in central London...

While there are a growing number of books based on the Toyota Production System, or lean, focused on healthcare, there are very few that detail the tools that make lean more than just a way of thinking and put the methodology into practice.Based on...

Successful fashion merchandising, branding and communication start with satisfyingly sensory and interactive shopping experiences. With Kate Schaefer's beautifully illustrated and practical book, learn how retailers create these experiences to connect...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979508356Author Michael C StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Construction Programs & Results IncPublisher Construction Programs & Results...

Expert nurse technology pioneers, emerging leaders, and award-winning informatics nurses provide practicing and aspiring nurse informaticists with an acute understanding of current and evolving healthcare trends and roles and how healthcare organizations...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385512916Author Carlos GhosnFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A Division...

This book critically explores sport-related tourism drawing on the fields of sport management, the sociology of sport, consumer behaviour, sports marketing, economic, urban and sports geography, and tourism studies. It presents multidisciplinary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190233105Author Professor of History Kate BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University...

Praise for Energy and Power Risk Management "Energy and Power Risk Management identifies and addresses the key issues in the development of the turbulent energy industry and the challenges it poses to market players. An insightful and far-reaching book...

On the manufacturing shop floor, the principle of "value comes from the production of parts rather than charts" crucially applies when using practical statistical process control (SPC). The production worker should need to enter only a sample's...

In this book, Alan Taylor reveals that the history of Dorset's oil starts in the 1850s with attempts to extract oil and gas from mined oil shale at Kimmeridge. By the early twentieth century exploration geologists had realised the significance of oil...

Is it time for traditional hotels to check out? As one of the world's most established industries, the hotel sector has remained relatively unchanged and unchallenged for decades. Yet traditional hotels have recently come under increasing pressure on...

iTunes. Spotify. Pandora. With these brief words one can map the landscape of music today, but these aren't musicians, songs, or anything else actually musical-they are products and brands. In this book, Timothy D. Taylor explores just how pervasively...

Designed for all students of hospitality and tourism management, the second edition of this best selling text gives a modern approach to front office operations and management using realistic scenarios set in the hotel environment Key features of this...

In the last half century Brazil's rural economy has developed profitable soy and sugarcane plantations, causing mass displacement of rural inhabitants, deforestation, casualization of labor, and reorganization of politics. Since the early 2000s...

A shocking and unputdownable expose of the United States meat industry, the devastating failures of the country's food system, and the growing disappointment of alternative meat producers claiming to revolutionize the future of food. Perfect for fans of...

Many of the most famous results in mathematics are impossibility theorems stating that something cannot be done. Good examples include the quadrature of the circle by ruler and compass, the solution of the quintic equation by radicals, Fermat's last...

"I wish I could have had this book when I was starting out in the business. An invaluable reference work." -Alan Poul, producer, WestworldThe legal resources of studios and networks are legendary, often intimidating independent producers, writers,...

Mr Bunny is back . . . and this time he's running for mayor. Coop Town needs some urgent repairs-and Mr Bunny is promising to make it great again. At first, the chicken electorate is wowed by Mr Bunny's promises of new chocolate houses, new chocolate...

News and journalism are in the midst of upheaval: shifts such as declining print subscriptions and rising website visitor numbers are forcing assumptions and practices to be rethought from first principles. The internet is not simply allowing faster,...

This textbook examines fashion luxury brand management, providing students with a comprehensive understanding of its origins, unique components, current practices, global trade and, most importantly, the application of sustainable models to the industry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451498120Author Nicholas SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA Inc

A timely and incisive exploration of disinformation and its impact in the Global South In Disinformation in the Global South, media and communications scholars Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-Morales deliver a unique and geographically diverse...

This is an accessible, easy-to-use illustrated dictionary designed especially for hairdressing students. It contains appropriate technical, professional and assessment vocabulary required for NVQ Levels 1, 2 and 3 for all awarding bodies. It includes a...