Hospitality and service industries Books

Book SynopsisReveals how many of our customs and wedding rituals were the product of sophisticated advertising campaigns, merchandising promotions, and entrepreneurial innovations. The businesses and entrepreneurs, from jewelers to bridal consultants and caterers, set the stage for today's multibillion-dollar industry.Trade Review"A fascinating read that has much to offer historians of business, labor, and culture-not to mention anthropologists and specialists in gender and cultural studies. 'Marrying' the symbolic concerns of new cultural history with the material concerns of business history is one of the book's considerable strengths." * American Historical Review *"Howard provides a thorough study of the growth of the wedding industry, using numerous primary sources on a subject that has previously received too little attention." * Choice *"This richly illustrated and exhaustively researched study provides systematic and long overdue analysis of the evolution of wedding industry products and marketing." * Business History Review *

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Book SynopsisMichael Chertoff outlines a long-term strategy for protecting America from terrorist attacks and preparing for effective responses to man-made and natural disasters. The former homeland security secretary also urges the nation to resist complacency, maintain its resolve, and build on past successes.Trade Review"Michael Chertoff offers a clear-eyed assessment of the threats we face and how to confront them. Among his good ideas are the use of soft power to project and protect America's values, and improved efforts to prepare-rather than scare-an anxious public. In contrast to the toxic political environment that surrounded him, Chertoff's pragmatism and lack of partisanship are on full display, and he has written a valuable primer for his very able successor." * Representative Jane Harman (D., Calif.), chair of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence and Terrorism Risk Assessment *"America's response to the 9/11 tragedy was the establishment of a new Department of Homeland Security created from 22 separate federal agencies. Just about every issue imaginable came to this new department, from protecting our borders and ensuring the safety of passengers in the air from terrorist attacks to maintaining defenses against natural disasters. Michael Chertoff, only the second person to serve as secretary in this office, describes with penetrating analysis the strategy that has emerged from this huge challenge, the eyes-open risk-costs analysis that has made it manageable, and the steps that have been taken to turn this gigantic effort into a well-coordinated and effective line of defense for our citizens. What a useful gift to his new successor, former Governor Janet Napolitano." * William Webster, chairman, Homeland Security Advisory Council, former FBI director, former CIA director *"As memories of 9/11 fade, the nation has required a tough-minded realism against growing complacency. In Michael Chertoff, the nation had a keen thinker, a straight talker, an honest broker, and a diligent doer at the head of the Department of Homeland Security. Michael Chertoff remains driven to inform and persuade. In comprehensive fashion, this book tells America and the world what we've been doing and what we still must do to enhance our safety and security." * Frances M. Fragos Townsend, former homeland security adviser to President George W. Bush *"In terms of insight, intellect, and experience, Michael Chertoff is uniquely placed to undertake diagnosis and offer prescriptions for the range of contemporary dangers to our security. He addresses those threats, both man-made and natural, with a clarity of thought and conviction of purpose that provides an immense service and inspiration to all of us, far beyond the shores of his own homeland." * John Reid, former UK Home Secretary and Defense Secretary *"A valuable tool for emergency management and homeland security practitioners in all sectors and of all levels. It addresses a wider audience by challenging policymakers to continue crafting workable solutions. . . . It also provides a starting point for scholarly research. But, most important, it makes you think." * Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management *Table of ContentsForeword, by Lee H. Hamilton THREATS 1 Assessing the Dangers 2 The Ideological Roots of Terror PREVENTION 3 Securing the Border—and Reforming Immigration 4 Using Every Tool 5 Why Soft Power Works 6 Why Washington Won't Work PROTECTION: REDUCING VULNERABILITIES 7 Protecting and Preserving Infrastructure 8 Cybersecurity 9 Responding to IEDs at Home 10 Managing Identity PREPARATION AND RESPONSE 11 Managing Risk 12 Biological Threats and Biodefenses 13 The Question of FEMA and Homeland Security INTERNATIONAL DIMENSIONS 14 Cooperation and Consensus Abroad 15 The Responsibility to Contain Conclusion: Before September 11—and Since Notes Index

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Book SynopsisKenneth L. Shropshire, Timothy Davis, and N. Jeremi Duru, experts in the fields of sports business and law, examine the history of the sports agent business and the rules and laws developed to regulate the profession, and consider recommendations for reform.Trade Review"An insider's guide to the current state of the sports agent business for those now in the industry, those interested in becoming a professional agent, and public officials who may be called on to draft or enforce regulations." * Choice, in a review of a previous edition *Table of ContentsPreface to the Third Edition Introduction PART I. BACKGROUND Chapter 1. Historical and Legal Foundations Chapter 2. The Business Chapter 3. Consolidation: An Evolving Industry PART II. PROBLEMS Chapter 4. The Basics: Competition for Clients Chapter 5. Unscrupulous and Criminal: The Problem Agents Chapter 6. Conflicts of Interest Chapter 7. Ethics: Attorney Versus Nonattorney Agents Chapter 8. Agent Wars Chapter 9. The Last Amateurs on Earth: Amateurism and Opportunity PART III. SOLUTIONS Chapter 10. Knights of Columbus Rules? Private Sports Agent Regulation Chapter 11. The Laws Chapter 12. A Uniform Approach: The Uniform Athlete Agents Act PART IV. THE INTERNATIONAL REALM Chapter 13. Agents in a Globalizing Sports World Conclusion. The Absence of a Panacea Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Rose utilizes a sure grasp of regulatory issues, a command of interdisciplinary literature, the fruits of deep archival research, and the ability to craft political narratives and biographical sketches. Market Rules is, without doubt, the best book we have on the history of the regulation of commercial banking from the 1960s to 1999." * The Journal of American History *"Mark Rose has written a lively and lucid account of banking and financial history over the past half century, laying out the grand ambitions and rivalries of leading bankers and policymakers like Walter Wriston, Donald T. Regan, and Sandy Weill-and the changing strategies for delivering economic growth led by presidents Kennedy, Reagan, and Obama. Market Rules relates the history of today's massive multipurpose banks, the 2008 crisis, and its aftermath to broader trends in American society and life from the 1960s to the present. It is a great achievement." * Walter Friedman, Harvard Business School *"Compared to half a century ago, America has many fewer and much larger banks. Mark Rose's engaging study shows that this was far from a market outcome. It was a product of bank politics: entrepreneurial bankers persuaded U.S. presidents and regulators that ever-larger, less regulated 'supermarket' banks were more efficient, more stable, and thus more growth-promoting. The actual outcome-financial crisis, the Great Recession, and slower growth-lead Rose to suggest that, in banking, political clout trumped economic efficiency." * Richard Sylla, New York University *"Mark Rose's engaging study follows a group of men, who, over successive presidential administrations, helped transform the landscape of American banking in the late twentieth century. Rose makes a compelling argument that the history of American banking is a fundamentally political one. In its focus on politics and people at the center of banking, Market Rules offers a unique voice." * Susie Pak, St. John's University *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction. Politics and the Markets They Made PART I. LAWMAKERS AND REGULATORS Chapter 1. Deregulation Before Deregulation: John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and James Saxon Chapter 2. Supermarket Banks: Richard Nixon and Donald Regan PART II. BANKERS IN POLITICS Chapter 3. Rescuing Banks Through Growth: Walter Wriston and Citicorp Chapter 4. A Marine in Banker's Clothing: Hugh McColl and North Carolina National Bank PART III. NEW REGIMES FOR BANKERS Chapter 5. Full-Service Banks: Bill Clinton and Sandy Weill Chapter 6. God's Work in Finance: Ken Lewis, Charles Prince, Richard Fuld, and Henry Paulson Chapter 7. Reregulating the Regulators: Barack Obama and Timothy Geithner Epilogue. Another Round of Bank Politics Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisFocuses exclusively on how - and why - tourism came to define Florida. Offering a concise look at the subject from the 1820s to the present, Tracy Revels demonstrates tourism's relevance to all other major aspects of Florida history, including the Civil War, the land boom, and civil rights.Trade ReviewAn enlightening journey through Florida's diverse and evolving tourism history, illustrating the changing face of tourism over the years, and how Floridians have coped with these changes. An informative look at Florida's past efforts to woo tourists, and the mixed blessings that tourism has brought to the Sunshine State." - Brian Rucker, author of Image and Reality"At last a readable, concise history of Florida tourism from the earliest European discovery to the present. Revels's prose sizzles. Her ability to summarize and analyze more than 300 years of Florida tourism in just over 200 pages is truly stunning. It is a remarkable achievement. Sunshine Paradise both entertains and informs on every page, and it should be required reading for policy makers and everyone else who needs to know how current Florida came to be." - James M. Denham, professor of history and director, Lawton M. Chiles Jr., Center for Florida History, Florida Southern College

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Book SynopsisAlthough a few other brands hold slim market shares, the fact is that Gatorade single-handedly created the sports drink industry 40 years ago and has absolutely ruled it ever since. Gatorade is an enthralling story, brought to life in bright color and sharp detail in First in Thirst.

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Book SynopsisOnly a decade ago, the notion that museums, galleries and heritage organisations might engage in activist practice, with explicit intent to act upon inequalities, injustices and environmental crises, was met with scepticism and often derision. Seeking to purposefully bring about social change was viewed by many within and beyond the museum community as inappropriately political and antithetical to fundamental professional values. Today, although the idea remains controversial, the way we think about the roles and responsibilities of museums as knowledge based, social institutions is changing. Museum Activism examines the increasing significance of this activist trend in thinking and practice.At this crucial time in the evolution of museum thinking and practice, this ground-breaking volume brings together more than fifty contributors working across six continents to explore, analyse and critically reflect upon the museum's relationship to activism. Including contTrade Review'Museums have woken from their slumber. Here is a clarion call to leave behind the "immorality of inaction" and confront a troubled world, a threatened planet, and threats to cultural diversity, equality and justice. This volume documents the extraordinary range of ways in which museum activism, as an integral and necessary part of contemporary museum practice, is at work in the 21st century. Janes and Sandell marshal an impressive line-up of authors across the globe who are using the "civic resource" of the museum to bring about environmental, social and political change. The book is a handbook for this urgent task. Read it and join the struggle!'- Conal McCarthy, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand'Are museums shrines to the past, hubs of engagement for the present, or shapers of the future? Assembling dozens of contributions by leading and new voices in museum studies, Museum Activism targets the core values and principles guiding museum practice today with the aim of transforming the way we think about the social role of museums. This book offers a deep reflection on the limits and potential for museum activism at a time of deepening economic inequality and environmental collapse, a bold call for action for the international museum community, and a field guide to museum activism in practice. Slaying the zombie myth of institutional neutrality that excuses institutional complacency and inaction, it argues for a vision of the museum as an ally and agent of change. Activists around the world are calling on museums to leverage their cultural power to help shape the future for the common good. This book is an insider’s guide to making it happen.'- Beka Economopoulos, Founding Director of The Natural History Museum, USA, a traveling museum and museum transformation project'Janes and Sandell have assembled a powerful volume of essays that encourages museums to transform themselves from precious vaults into active agents of social justice. Museum Activism is a collective call for museums to become more mindful, moral, and courageous places of conscience. These timely essays challenge museums to become more aware of the toxic legacies and current devastation of colonialism, imperialism, xenophobia, homophobia, racism and sexism and to become unafraid in "addressing the big problems and the big questions" that confront us globally. This publication provides a needed wake-up call, a radical re-imagining of museums and a range of practical strategies for action!'- Jennifer Scott, Director & Chief Curator of Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, University of Illinois at Chicago, USAMuseum Activism features 34 essays by 50 authors from 14 countries on six continents that look at how museums are working as activists on issues, such as climate change, decolonization, sustainability, the Holocaust, the refugee crises, feminism, politics and queer activism, human rights and poverty.-Rob Alexander, Rocky Mountain OutlookThe 53 authors involved in this book did a fabulous job in translating their engagement and research into language for an academic publication that is understandable and able to convey the reasons behind their personal engagement. As the editors stated in the introduction, a book with such a big topic can only be “partial and particular” but the book is an valuable orientation within the discourse and will provide many points of reference for future research. I found this book comforting as I resonated with many of the frustrations shared in the chapters and it did make me hopeful to be reminded that there is a whole community out there doing important work.-Anabel Roque Rodríguez, Anabel Roque Rodríguez BlogThe book is a strong collection of essays on activist museum practices around the world and it deserves a wide readership, not just by museum workers, but also by people who are unconvinced by claims that museums are entitled to and worthy of support[...] The world is full of racists, homophobes, misogynists and climate breakdown deniers. They continue to resist the notion that museums can never be, and should stop pretending to be, neutral[...] But resistance is rendered far more difficult as a result of the existence of this book. -David Fleming, Museums Journal "This publication is vital reading for those arts managers who are interested in progressing their own activist ideas or activism within their organisations. It is primarily suitable those working in the museums and heritage sectors, but as many of the case studies touch on wider fields, it is also highly relevant for those working in arts, community learning and science engagement settings...Altogether, it is an excellent publication providing theoretical and practical examples of how museums can embrace activism and be harnessed as a force for good."- Arts Management, 2019"Bringing together a well-selected collection of current and best practice activism by and at museums across a global community spanning six continents, Museum Activism builds upon existing linkages between social protest and reform movements and transformations within museum scholarship and practice"- Kylie Message & Eleanor Foster, Museum Management and Curatorship"Museum Activism is undoubtedly the most influential scholarly book I’ve read in recent times. It is a book that demands multiple readings, a resource that discloses new meanings every time it is consulted, a body of reference that untangles the complex interpretations of a concept which is still uncomfortable for many of us working in the museum field." - Andrea Bandelli, Executive Director, Science Gallery InternationalTable of ContentsList of Colour Plates; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Posterity Has Arrived: The Necessary Emergence of Museum Activism Robert R. Janes and Richard Sandell; Part 1 Nurturing Activism; 2 Detoxing and Decolonising Museums Sara Wajid and Rachael Minott; 3 Growing an Activist Museum Professional Elizabeth Wood and Sarah A. Cole; 4 Dividing Issues and Mission-driven Activism: Museum Responses to Migration Policies and the Refugee Crisis Maria Vlachou; 5 Access as Activism: Bringing the Museum to the People Catherine Kudlick and Edward M. Luby; 6 Fossil Fuel Sponsorship and the Contested Museum: Agency, Accountability and Arts Activism Paula Serafini and Chris Garrard; 7 The Activist Role of Museum Staff Victoria Hollows; 8 From the Ground Up: Grassroots Social Justice Activism in American Museums Laura-Edythe S. Coleman and Porchia Moore; 9 Spectacular Defiance Julie McNamara; 10 ‘I’m Gonna Do Something’: Moving Beyond Talk in The Museum Bernadette Lynch; 11 Feminism and the Politics of Friendship in the Activist Museum Viv Golding; Part 2 Activism in Practice; 12 Memory Exercises: Activism, Symbolic Reparation, and Non-repetition in Colombia’s National Museum of Memory Cristina Lleras, Michael Andrés Forero Parra, Lina María Díaz and Jennifer Carter; 13 Auto Agents: Inclusive Curatorship and its Political Potential Jade French; 14 Museums as Public Forums for 21st Century Societies: a Perspective from the National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe Njabulo Chipangura and Happinos Marufu; 15 Museums in the Climate Emergency Steve Lyons and Kai Bosworth; 16 Activism, Objects and Dialogues: Re-engaging African Collections at the Royal Ontario Museum Silvia Forni, Julie Crooks and Dominique Fontaine; 17 Museological Activism and Cultural Citizenship: Collecting the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement Selina Ho and Vivian Ting; 18 Museums in the Age of Intolerance Sharon Heal; 19 Activist Practice Through Networks: A Case Study in Museum Connections Mercy McCann; 20 Whose Memories for Which Future? Favela Museums and the Struggle for Social Justice in Brazil Marcelo Lages Murta; 21 From Vision to Action: The Journey Towards Activism at St Fagans National Museum of History Sioned Hughes and Elen Phillips; 22 Inside out/outside in: Museums and communities activating change Moya McFadzean, Liza Dale-Hallett, Tatiana Mauri and Kimberley Moulton; 23 Quiet is the New Loud? : On Activism, Museums and Changing the World Åshild Andrea Brekke; 24 Heritage and Queer Activism Sean Curran; Part 3 Assessing Activism; 25 The Activist Spectrum in United States Museums Dina A. Bailey; 26 Up Against It: Contending with Power Asymmetries in Museum Work Kevin Coffee; 27 Taking a Position: Challenging the Anti-authorial Turn in Art Curating Lynn Wray; 28 Memory Activism and the Holocaust Memorial Institutions of the 21st century Diana I. Popescu; 29 Advocacy and Activism: A Framework for Sustainability Science in Museums Sandra L. Rodegher and Stacey Vicario Freeman; 30 Narratives of Transformation: Stories of Impact from Activist Museums Jennifer Bergevin; 31 Memorial Museums at the Intersection of Politics, Exhibition and Trauma: A study of the Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum Bridget Conley; 32 ‘I Attack this Work of Art Deliberately’: Suffragette Activism in the Museum Nicola Gauld; 33 Museums, Activism and Social Media (or, how Twitter challenges and changes museum practice) Jennie Carvill Schellenbacher; 34 Unprecedented Times? Shifting Press Perceptions on Museums and Activism Jenny Kidd; Index

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Book SynopsisOffers an account of the evolution of the Irish tourist industry over the twentieth century. This book examines how a small group of tourism advocates, inspired by tourist development movements in countries such as France and Spain, worked tirelessly to convince their Irish compatriots that tourism was the secret to Ireland's success.Trade ReviewWell researched and written, and provides an excellent insight into how Irish tourism policy was developed and who engineered it. Zuelow wisely resists any simple endorsement of the view that tourism changed the Irish people. . . . There is much then to think over with this stimulating and challenging study.

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Book SynopsisTells the story of the Palestinian citrus industry from its inception until 1950, tracing the shifting relationship between Palestinian Arabs and Zionist Jews. Kabha and Karlinsky portray the industry's social fabric, detail its economic history, and analyse the conditions that enabled the formation of a unique binational organisation.

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Book SynopsisExamining the role of performance in state-makingTrade Review"The Tourist State is a substantial work of theatrical insight and applied critical theory. It approaches the theoretical sublime, showing rich learning and originality in scaled and shrewd ways." —Rob Wilson, University of California, Santa CruzTable of ContentsContentsNote on OrthographyIntroduction: Toward a Performance Theory of the State1. The State of Nature: Governmentality, Biopoetics, Sensation2. The Class Act of Guide Maggie: Cosmopolitesse, Publics, and Participatory Anthropology3. Translation, Transnation: Theatrical Politics and Political Theater in the American Pacific4. Trafficking Race: Policy, Property, and Racial Reformation in the Tourist State5. Altered States: Global Hollywood, the Rise of Wellywood, and the Moving Image of RaceConclusion: Living in a Tourist StateAcknowledgmentsNotesGlossaryIndex

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Trade ReviewThis book is a story of mismanagement, fraud, government corruption, and cover-up in the banks of Florida and Georgia from 1926 to 1929. Vickers tells a classic tale of evil bankers deliberately channeling depositors' funds into their own development projects while bribing government officials to help hide their crimes. One of the most interesting aspects of the book is the author's own role in 'putting the criminal away.' An attorney, economic historian, and past assistant comptroller of the state of Florida, Vickers had to use all of his skills.... In addition to the usual problems,... the author faced the state controller's opinion that the release of the records 'was a crime.' Vickers' legal efforts and skillful use of publicity caused the reversal of that decision. - American Historical Review ""This dramatic and pioneering book... makes important contributions to Florida and American history [and] it is a well-written, compelling account that is given added veracity [because] Vickers forced reinterpretation of Florida's bank secrecy law. His book should find a place on the shelves of all Floridians interested in the colorful history of their state."" - Tallahassee Democrat ""Excellent and detailed.... Reads almost like a fiction thriller."" - Tampa Tribune

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Book SynopsisThis book—ideal for African and world history classes, as well as for potential travelers to the continent—takes readers on a journey through the dynamics of Africa’s tourist history from the nineteenth century to the present to illuminate and challenge deeply ingrained (mis)perceptions about the continent and its peoples.Trade Review“Ready for adventure under control? Cleveland’s book invites us to explore the experiences and meanings of tourism in Africa and its profound impact on how the continent is imagined. It also provides a different reading of Western modernity as a producer of otherness through one of its most profitable products: tourism, where verbs such as to travel become to explore and to discover, preserving the allure of colonial sagas and developmental missions. Experience of difference, heritage, traditions, nature, wildlife, and community culture, have been and are (re)shaped, tailored, commodified, and contested in complex and conflicting local-global power relations from the nineteenth century under the dynamics of tourism in the continent. Their impact on African lives is a capital ingredient of this journey confronting artificial Africas with the realities that the tourism industry produces.” -- Mónica Inés Cejas, author of Feminismo, cultura y política: El contexto como acertijo (Feminism, Culture and Politics: Context as a Riddle)“Todd Cleveland brings together significant facets of tourist history on the African continent into one engaging read. Whereas many tourist studies focus on the tourist, vitally, A History of Tourism in Africa illuminates the myriad competing desires at play in all tourist sites—those of tourists, governments, laborers, and local communities. By presenting these competing perspectives on tourism within the thematic frames of his chapters, Cleveland reveals the complicated nature of African tourist industries, as well as how, from the start, they have been interwoven with the history of socio-politico-economic developments across the continent.” -- Carol L. Magee, author of Urban Cadence: Street Scenes from Lagos and Johannesburg"A seminal and meticulously presented study … [and] an inherently fascinating and impressively informative history. Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, A History of Tourism in Africa is an original and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, college, and university library collections in African history and cultural anthropology in general, and African hospitality, travel, and tourism supplemental curriculum studies lists in particular. * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Touristic Illusions and Realities 1. Initial Touristic Incursions to Africa 2. Hunting in Africa: Invisible Guides, Big Game, and Bigger Egos 3. Profits and Propaganda: Tourism in Colonial Africa 4. Paradoxes of Independence: Modernizing by Promoting Primitivism 5. The Touristic Invention of the African Camera Safari 6. Going Home: The Diasporic Quest for Belonging through “Roots” Tourism 7. Controversial New(er) Forms of Tourism in Africa Study Guide and Selected Readings Notes Index

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Book SynopsisUses an innovative global perspective and rich ethnographic data on six continents to fashion a comprehensive account of the creation and reception of the global Japanese restaurant' in the modern world.Trade ReviewJapanese food has spread around the world with dramatic ease over the last forty years. This book historicizes and spatializes that dispersion over the long twentieth century (1880–2020). The authors connect the phases of East Asian colonialism, through settler migration, to ethnic succession, corporatization, to the sudden global repute of Japanese fine dining. This is not about Japanese food in Japan but about Japanese food outside of Japan." —Eric C. Rath, The University of Kansas

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Book SynopsisUses an innovative global perspective and rich ethnographic data on six continents to fashion a comprehensive account of the creation and reception of the global Japanese restaurant' in the modern world.Trade ReviewJapanese food has spread around the world with dramatic ease over the last forty years. This book historicizes and spatializes that dispersion over the long twentieth century (1880–2020). The authors connect the phases of East Asian colonialism, through settler migration, to ethnic succession, corporatization, to the sudden global repute of Japanese fine dining. This is not about Japanese food in Japan but about Japanese food outside of Japan." —Eric C. Rath, The University of Kansas

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Book SynopsisIn this thought-provoking new book, John Barnes examines the contemporary state of commercial college athletics as a guide for current and potential administrators, coaches, regents, and others involved in collegiate athletic operations and decision-making.Trade Review[This book] not only covers historical issues and precedents in the crazy world of commercialized college sports in America, but it also includes a focus on the current and relevant issues of intercollegiate athletics literally as they are happening. . . . This book eloquently covers the issues outside the fields and courts that will shape intercollegiate athletics far into the future and shows how different it may one day look."--B. David Ridpath, author of Tainted Glory: Marshall University, the NCAA, and One Man's Fight for JusticeTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One. Ivory Towers: A Business Model Chapter Two. An Unstable Marriage: Academics in College Athletics Chapter Three. Students, Athletes, and Student Athletes Chapter Four. The Athlete, Not the Enterprise Chapter Five. The Doomsday Machine Chapter Six. Television Creates a Monster: NCAA's 1% Chapter Seven. Some Are More Equal Afterword References Index

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Book SynopsisCapturing contemporary trends and forecasting the look of the future, this dazzling anthology collects the work of the most cutting-edge photographers working today, this volume is an essential compilation of the most important photographic trends of the age of social media and digital publication.The interaction between photography and fashion has always been compelling--how can artists balance commercial viability against their own creative vision? Anti-Glossy collects some of the most innovative photographers working in the field of fashion, exploring the way new media is influencing the direction of photography for print.As the notion of the fashion photographer becomes less distinct, the industry is benefitting from the talents of artists whose influence leads the genre into a multitude of surprising, often shocking, directions. In this collection of new fashion photography, full-page color and black-and-white photographs represent an incredible range of Trade Review"Anyone guilty of hoarding issues of Vogue, Dazed, or W will want to bookmark Anti Glossy, a curated anthology of fashion spreads from over 20 photographers who have made their name in creating fiercely cutting-edge editorials, including household names like Juergen Teller and emerging female talents like Charlotte Wales." —NEW YORK MAGAZINE

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Book SynopsisThe outbreak of anthrax infections that followed September 11, 2001, showed all too clearly that while we can defend ourselves against bioterrorism, our defenses need improvement. What''s most important is the ability to recognize the associated disease, and recognize them quickly. Yet, many in the medical world are unfamiliar with the characteristic signs and symptoms of bioterrorism agents and are unable to differentiate between diseases whose symptoms appear almost identical. While a plethora of information on such diseases is available, finding it is time consuming.Bioterrorism: Field Guide to Disease Identification and Initial Patient Management is an accessible resource that helps first-responders to quickly recognize the signs and symptoms caused by exposure to bioterrorism agents. It provides enough information to initiate treatment while a definitive diagnosis is being determined and presents measures for preventing contamination of those involved in the victims'' mediTrade Review"Finding the best information that is currently available frequently requires persistence and effort. Von Lubitz … here provides ready access to information about infectious diseases for health care workers … . … [The book] presents information … in a manner that would prove useful even in very stressful moments. Thus it is a book suitable for true field use. … If needed, it would provide the essential information to start treatment, and maintain it until expert assistance become available. Summing Up: Recommended." - CHOICE "As the title implies this field guide can be used as a starting place for obtaining rapid access to relevant medical information. … Recommended for non-specialists medical personnel at any level e.g. physicians, nurses, paramedics and first responders, and for establishments responsible for public safety." - E-Streams, Vol. 7, No. 11Won Highly Commended in the Public Health category of the 2004 British Medical Association Library Book Competition. "Field Guides like this are exactly what our country needs to address the hysteria that seems to surround the subject of chemical and biological attack. We must address this hysteria through education and training programs to educate the public, health care professionals, and our senior leaders. This field guide gives concise usable information to diagnose and treat such problems. I heartily recommend it for every practitioner in the field and for our public so that they are educated about the threat and can replace the hysteria with a reasoned approach based on fact." - Lt. General Paul K. Carlton, Jr. (Ret.), Director, Integrative Center for Homeland Security, Texas A&M University "Dr. von Lubitz is a world leader in the field of high fidelity medical simulation. This manual, which provides a basic and accessible summary of information on possible bioterrorism agents, is a timely addition to the literature on this topic. Through concise prose and formatting, Dr. von Lubitz presents information necessary for those wishing to simulate bioterrorism events, teach about the topic, or recognize and treat these conditions at a basic level." - Kenneth A. Williams, MD, FACEP, Brown University, University of Massachusetts, Rhode Island Dept of Health EMS Division, and Principal Investigator, The Rhode Island Disaster InitiativeTable of ContentsBrief Overview of Biological Warfare and Bioterrorism. Pathogens Posing a Major Threat. Medical Diagnosis and Initial Treatment. Pediatric Dosing of Drugs. Useful Techniques. Precautionary Measures. Responses to Acts of Bioterrorism. Resources. Federal and State Agencies Relevant to Counter-Bioterrorism.

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Book SynopsisLanguages convey messages, have a heuristic or semantic content, and operate through a conventional system of symbols and codes. In this book, it is shown that tourism, in the act of promotion, as well as in the accounts of its practitioners and clients, has a discourse of its own. The language of tourism is however much more than just a metaphor. Through pictures, brochures and other media, the language of tourism attempts to seduce millions of people into becoming tourists and subsequently to control their attitudes and behaviour. Tourists, in turn, contribute further to this language through the communication of their experiences. This book provides the first sociolinguistic treatment of tourism. It draws on both semiotic analyses of tourism and on the content of promotional material produced by the tourism industry. The author writes in a way that is both rigorous but accessible. Providing a highly original treatment, the book is of interest to all studying tourism from a social scTable of Contents1: Tourism as Language 2: A growing awareness of tourism as language 3: Four major theoretical perspectives on tourism and their socio-linguistic correlates 4: Properties of the Language of Tourism 5: Convergent properties 6: Divergent properties 7: Tourism as a Language of Social Control 8: Tourism as a language of social control in the prototypical forms of tourism 9: Tourism as a language of social control in contemporary tourism 10: The linguistic underpinnings of tourism as a language of social control 11: Tourism as a language of social control in promotional material 12: Tourism as a language of social control in hotels and resorts 13: Tourism as a language of social control in touring 14: The Media of the Language of Tourism 15: Media classification schemes 16: A new method of classification 17: Techniques of the Language of Tourism 18: Verbal techniques 19: Visual techniques 20: Verbal and visual techniques combined 21: Registers of the Language of Tourism 22: Many tourism themes - several registers of the language of tourism 23: Ol’ talk - the register of nostalgia tourism 24: Spasprech - the register of health tourism 25: Gastrolingo - the register of food and drink 26: Greenspeak - the register of eco-tourism

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Book SynopsisThe World Leisure and Recreation Association (WLRA) held its fourth World Congress in Cardiff, Wales, in July 1996. The overall theme was "Leisure and the Quality of Life In the 21st Century". At the congress, the Management Commission, the newest of WLRA's Commissions, attracted 78 papers in the management and access theme, from 16 countries. This book presents edited and revised versions of 18 of the most significant papers from the management section of the congress. The papers are diverse in topic, focus and geography, but demonstrate the vigour and developing nature of management studies in leisure, both of an applied and theoretical nature. Two themes in particular are developed: issues, such as access to leisure services, pressures of visitor numbers on rural areas, and contracting out of services to the private sector; and applications of different theories and approaches to managing leisure resources and customers. Case study material is presented from locations as diverse as Table of Contents1: Who needs leisure managers? G Torkildsen, Leisure Management Consultant, Harlow, UK 2: The accessibility of Australian Aboriginal people to sport and recreation, H MacGowan, Western Australian Government 3: Leisure and recreation and the 'Sport for All' policy in developing countries: a critical examination, C Cousineau, University of Ottawa, Canada 4: Leisure lifestyles in a developing country: reasons for non-participation, A Bramante, Sorocaba University, Brazil 5: Access to museums as leisure providers; still a long way to go, Frans Schouten, National Institute for Tourism and Transport Studies, Breda, Netherlands 6: Access for all? Paradigm shift in Government support for the provision of countryside recreation in England and Wales, N Ravenscroft, University of Reading, UK 7: Recreation pressures on the countryside: real concerns or crises of the imagination? R Sidaway, Research and Policy Consultant, Edinburgh, UK 8: Sport, culture and urban regimes: the case of Bilbao, I Henry and J Paramio Salcines, Loughborough University, UK 9: Urban leisure: edge city and the new leisure periphery, Graeme Evans, North London University, UK 10: A model of alternative forms of public leisure services delivery, T Glover and T Burton, University of Alberta, Canada 11: The value and structure of commercial leisure, D Irvine and P Taylor, Sheffield University, UK 12: The casino in the post-industrial city: the social and economic impact of the Sydney casino, T Veal and R Lynch, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia 13: Sports and safety: leisure and liability, S Frosdick, Staffordshire University, UK 14: Quality management in public leisure services, L Robinson, Sheffield University, UK 15: Application of the SERVQUAL model to the UK leisure industry, C Williams, Lancashire Business School, UK 16: Up the wall: the impact of the development of climbing walls on British rock climbing, D Morgan, Bolton Business School 17: Evidencing the sports-tourism inter-relationship: a case study of elite British athletes, G Jackson and M Reeves, Loughborough University, UK 18: The search for a sports-tourism policy network, M Weed and C Bull, Christ Church College, Canterbury, UK

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Book SynopsisManagers practice in a constantly changing environment, creating the need for effective strategic planning. However, to date the importance of strategic planning to hospitality and tourism has not been the subject of detailed empirical academic research. This book fills that gap. It contains the latest research which integrates theory with practice, including two new diagnostic tools developed by the authors, the Strategic Planning Index (SPI) and Marketing Planning Index (MPI). The tourism and hospitality industry is examined from a strategic perspective, including case illustrations and detailed studies of two major hotel groups, along with the relevance of the strategic planning process. The book goes on to describe strategic planning systems, at both the corporate and business unit level. International examples are used to demonstrate how these concepts and techniques can be incorporated into the design and implementation of effective strategic planning systems, in order to improveTable of Contents1: The Relevance of Strategic Planning Systems 2: The Hospitality and Tourism Industry: A Strategic Perspective 3: The Strategic Planning Process 4: Strategic Planning and Performance 5: Strategic Planning Systems 6: The Strategic Planning Index 7: The Marketing Planning Index 8: Designing and Implementing Effective Strategic Planning Systems I: References II: Index

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Book SynopsisCultural tourism has been identified as one of the most important of the global tourism markets. Europe hosts a vast treasure house of cultural attractions and the level of competition between cities, regions and nations to attract cultural tourists is increasing. This book reviews the cultural tourism market in Europe, based on recent surveys. It analyses the way in which cultural attractions are produced for and used by cultural tourists and pays attention to specific types of cultural attractions including museums, art galleries, monuments and heritage attractions and the management, marketing and cultural issues surrounding them.Table of ContentsPart One: Development of Cultural Tourism and Cultural Attractions 1: The Development of Cultural Tourism in Europe, Greg Richards, Tilberg University, Tilberg,The Netherlands 2: The Market for Cultural Attractions, Greg Richards 3: The Experience Industry and the Creation of Attractions, Greg Richards 4: The Cultural Attraction Distribution System, Greg Richards, Saskia Goedhart, L A Group, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Carla Herrijgers, Pelikaan Reizen, Zevenbergen, The Netherlands Part Two: Case Studies of European Cultural Attractions 5: The Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Wil Munsters, Hoge Hotelschool Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands 6: Urban Regeneration and Glasgow's Galleries with Particular Reference to The Burrell Collection,David Leslie, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK 7: Clonmacnoise: a Monastic Site, Burial Ground and Tourist Attraction, Frances McGettigan and Kevin Burns, Althone Insitute of Technology, Althone, Ireland 8: Cultural Heritage Sites and Their Visitors: Too Many For Too Few?, Sue Berry and Graham Shephard University of Brighton, Eastbourne UK 9: Urban Heritage Tourism: Globalization and Localization, Michael Green, Loughborough University, 10: The Budapest Spring Festival - a Festival for Hungarians?, László Puczkó and Tamara Rátz, Tourism Research Centre, Budapest, Hungary 11: The Consumption of Cultural Tourism in Poland, Barbara Marciszewska, University School of Physical Education, Wiejska, Poland 12: Creative Industries as Milieu of Innovation: The Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, Caro Bonink, Caro Consulting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Erik Hitters, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 13: European Cultural Attractions: Trends and Prospects, Greg Richards

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Book SynopsisIt is now increasingly recognized that forests have multiple functions, and can provide opportunities for leisure, recreation and tourism, and other environmental benefits, as well as timber. In general, such "public goods" are assumed not to be marketable. However, this book challenges this assumption, and shows how these issues can be tackled from an economics and marketing perspective.The work is based on an EU-funded project, conducted from four university or research centres: Hamburg (Germany), Padua (Italy), Vienna (Austria) and Wageningen (The Netherlands). Many case studies and original surveys are presented from these countries, which provide practical solutions to market these forest enterprises. These empirical data are then related to economic models concerning public goods. This book is relevant to those studying or involved in marketing in the forest tourism, recreation and leisure industries.Table of Contents1: Contracts and Organisations as a Basis of Market Development 2: The reason to analyse economic institutions and a way how to do it 3: Contracts as important formal institutions 4: Product structures, distribution channels and contractual cooperation in different niche markets 5: Transaction costs and their sources in case of offering RES-Products 6: Transaction qualities and their influence on contract design 7: General conclusions 8: Summary 9: Multifunctional Forest Management 10: Project Management for RES-Projects 11: Potential Analysis – a multifunctional forest management tool 12: Land use potential evaluation and multiple land use planning 13: Business Organisation and Accounting Delimitation of Property Rights 14: Basic rights relevant for forest land use in Germany 15: Relevance of forest law for RES-products in Germany 16: Comparative study on access rights in different countries 17: Final reflections and recommendations for German legislation 18: Summary a: Glossary b: Forest Policy Analysis – Evaluation Studies of Public Acceptance c: Public acceptance of RES-products in the Netherlands d: Public acceptance of RES-products in Germany

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Book SynopsisVolunteerism is a topic of increasing importance in this age of budget cuts, declining employment and amid the threat posed by other competing leisure pursuits. There are both social and economic benefits of volunteering. As we are becoming more reliant on volunteers, there is a need for a better understanding of why people take up volunteering, and how to recruit, manage, motivate, and support volunteers most effectively. In order for organisations that host volunteers to achieve the most from their volunteers, they must understand how to give them the best "leisure" experience. This book examines critical aspects of contemporary volunteerism, from the perspective of a variety of volunteering contexts. It will appeal to academic researchers and students in disciplines such as leisure, recreation, tourism, management and sociology as well as practitioners in the voluntary sector (including volunteers), National and Local Government and those organising special events that depend on volTrade Review"In all, this collection of articles constitutes a considerable step forward in the study of volunteering as leisure / leisure as volunteering. It helps to fill a gap in our understanding and to bridge the divide between leisure studies and volunteering studies." Angela Ellis, Leisure Studies, 2005"Table of Contents1: Introduction, R A Stebbins 2: Volunteering as heritage/Volunteering in heritage, M Graham Part I: Establishing Long-Term Commitment: Event Volunteering 3: Adopting sustainable ethics: Voluntary practice amongst event organizers, G Berridge, Thames Valley University London, UK 4: Paths to volunteer commitment: Lessons from the Sydney Olympic Games, B C Green and L Chalip, University of Texas, USA Part II: Changing Volunteer Lifestyles: Motivation and Satisfaction 5: Volunteer satisfaction and serious leisure in rural fire departments: Implications for human capital and social capital, K B Perkins, Longwood University, Virginia, USA and J Benoit, Dalhousie University, Canada 6: Understanding American parks and recreation volunteers: Utilizing a functionalist perspective, K E Silverberg, University of Utah, USA 7: A logistical regression model of the decision of volunteers to enter a sports coach education programme, B E Wilson, University of Nottingham, UK Part III: Politics of Volunteering and Active Citizenship: Policy Issues 8: Defining field characteristics of museums and art museums: An Australian Perspective, D Edwards, University of Western Sydney, Australia 9: Volunteering in the Canadian context: Identity, civic participation, and the politics of participation in serious leisure, S M Arai, Brock University, Ontario, Canada 10: Managing volunteers in different settings: Membership and program management, L C P M Meijs, Erasmus University, The Netherlands and L Bridges Karr, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Part IV: Encouraging the Next Generation: Sustainability and Youth Volunteering 11: Pressures on volunteers in the UK, G Nichols, Sheffield University, UK 12: Examining best practice in volunteer tourism, S Wearing, University of Technology, Australia 13: Fostering human resources in the leisure field: Serious leisure and the potential role of volunteers. A proposal for developing countries, A C Bramante, State University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

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Book SynopsisIncludes research papers that examines various issues including the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSASs), management accounting change in the context of public sector reforms, corporate reporting disclosures, auditing, etcetera.Table of ContentsList of Contributors. List of Reviewers. CALL FOR PAPERS. About the volume. A trail of unintended consequences: Management accounting information in a volatile environment. A new institutional analysis of IFRS. The relationship between auditor size and audit fees: further evidence from big four market shares in emerging economies. Factors Influencing Corporate Disclosure Transparency in the Active Share Trading Firms: An Explanatory study. Analysis of the determinants of corporate social responsibility disclosure in the annual reports of Tunisian listed firms. Corporate environmental and climate change disclosures: Empirical evidence from Bangladesh. The adoption of IPSASs in South Asia: A comparative study of seven countries. The roles of degree of competition and types of business strategies in adopting multiple performance measurement practices: some reflections from Bangladesh. The adoption of accrual accounting in the Indonesian public sector. Toward IFRS: economic consequences of accounting convergence in an emerging economy. Research in accounting in emerging economies. Research in accounting in emerging economies. Copyright page.

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Book SynopsisDelivers refreshing insights from a host of scientific investigations pertaining to hospitality, leisure, and tourism while rendering an academic forum to stimulate discussion on literature, contemporary issues and fresh trends essential to theory advancement as well as professional practices from a global perspective.Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Aims and Submission Guidelines. EDITORIAL BOARD. Exploring Success Factors in Top Careers in the Netherlands. Achieving a Coordination Framework of Strategy and Information Technology. Safari Tourism: A Case Study on Tourist Loyalty. Trouble in Paradise? The Impact of Changes to the Working Backpacker Market to a Regional Destination. The Behavior of Hong Kong Cross-Border Shoppers: A Nonparametric Approach. Psychological Contract and Organizational Citizenship Behavior: A New Deal for New Generations?. The Effects of Nonresidents' Geographical and Cultural Distance on a Tourist Destination's Image. Examining the Relationship between Push and Pull Factors through Partial Least-Squares Path Modeling. Creating Loyalty by Involvement among Festival Goers. Sustainable Tourism & Hospitality Management Education: An Empirical Study on Educational Experiences in Preparation for Professional Life. Institutional Holdings and Corporate Social Responsibility in the Hospitality Industry. Subject Index. Advances in hospitality and leisure. Advances in hospitality and leisure. Advances in hospitality and leisure. Copyright page.

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Book SynopsisIncluding an array of distinguished contributors, this novel book fills a gap in the literature by addressing an important yet under researched issue in the field of sports economics.Trade Review‘The reading of the book is stimulating and equally informative; engaging in sport activities appear to really matter for overall labour productivity market outcomes and the readers are told, individual life satisfaction is reportedly three times higher when participating in physical activity than happiness associated with employment. . . highly innovative and insightful, having the merit of filling a gap in the literature of the, yet under-researched, field of sports economics.’ -- Constantin Oprean, Management of Sustainable DevelopmentTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Plácido Rodríguez, Stefan Késenne and Brad R. Humphreys 1. Participation in Physical Activity and Health Outcomes: Evidence from the Canadian Community Health Survey Jane E. Ruseski and Brad R. Humphreys 2. An Economic Analysis of the Subjective Health and Well-being of Physical Activity Paul Downward and Simona Rasciute 3. Physical Activity and Obesity in Spain: Evidence from the Spanish National Health Survey Jaume García Villar, Sonia Oreffice and Climent Quintana-Domeque 4. Does Physical Exercise Affect Demand for Hospital Services? Evidence from Canadian Panel Data Nazmi Sari 5. Leisure Sports Participation in Switzerland Michael Lechner 6. Do Sporty People Have Access to Higher Job Quality? Charlotte Cabane 7. Team Success, Productivity and Economic Impact Michael C. Davis and Christian M. End 8. Sports Participation and Happiness: Evidence from US Micro Data Haifang Huang and Brad R. Humphreys 9. Subjective Well-being and Engagement in Sport: Evidence from England David Forrest and Ian G. McHale 10. High School Sports and Teenage Births Joseph Price and Daniel H. Simon 11. Physical Activity and Subjective Well-being: An Empirical Analysis Georgios Kavetsos 12. Sport Opportunities and Local Well-being: Is Sport a Local Amenity? Tim Pawlowski, Christoph Breuer and Jorge Leyva Index

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Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates pioneering work on user-based service innovation using an analytical framework. Three main fields are analysed: user-based innovation in knowledge-intensive business service, user-based innovation in public services, and models and methods for structuring user-based innovation.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction Jon Sundbo and Marja Toivonen PART I: USER-BASED PERSPECTIVES ON UNDERSTANDING OF SERVICE INNOVATION – THEORETICAL AND PRINCIPAL DISCUSSION 2. Bricolage as a Way to Make Use of Input from Users Lars Fuglsang 3. ‘Othering’ in Service Encounters: How a Professional Mindset Can Hinder User Innovation in Services Donna Sundbo 4. Extended Value Chain Innovation: An Actor Network Theory Approach to Innovation at the Interface between the Service and Other Economic Sectors Jon Sundbo PART II: USER-BASED INNOVATION IN KNOWLEDGE-INTENSIVE BUSINESS SERVICES (KIBS) AND INDUSTRIAL SERVICES 5. KIBS and their Users as Co-creators of Breakthrough Innovation Hanne Westh Nicolajsen and Ada Scupola 6. The Business Model as a Tool in the User-based Development of Services: A Case Study of an Internationalizing KIBS Otto Mäkelä and Mikko Lehtonen 7. Innovation Strategy in the Indian IT Service Industry: User Centred Issues on Innovation Markus Holzweber, Jan Mattsson, Doren Chadee and Revti Raman 8. Users as a Development Driver in Manufacturing: The Case of ‘Reverse’ Servitization Taija Turunen PART III: USER-BASED INNOVATION IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR 9. Understandings of ‘Users’ and ‘Innovation’ in a Public Sector Context Luise Li Langergaard 10. Multiple Voices of the User in Public Sector Services Mikko Lehtonen and Tiina Tuominen 11. Bringing the Employee Back In: Integrating User-driven and Employee-driven Innovation in the Public Sector Mervi Hasu, Eveliina Saari and Tuuli Mattelmäki PART IV: MODELS AND METHODS STRUCTURING USER-BASED SERVICE INNOVATION – PRACTICAL ISSUES, MODELS AND METHODS 12. Service Innovation as an Experience: Differences between Employee and User Narratives Anu Helkkula and Mari Holopainen 13. User-based Service Innovation Including a Futures Perspective: A Case Study with Four Methods Mari Holopainen and Pia Helminen 14. Inducing User-driven Innovation in Tourism: An Experimental Approach Flemming Sørensen 15. Co-innovation for Profitability Hanna Kostama and Marja Toivonen 16. Towards User-based Productization in Services Katriina Valminen and Marja Toivonen Index

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Book SynopsisDespite the fact that services have overtaken industry in terms of employment and GDP in developed countries, rigorous economic study of the service sector remains seriously neglected.Trade ReviewAcclaim for the first edition:‘This is a well-written, provocative book, featuring much new material, original data analyses and interesting insights. Despite the proliferation of books on various aspects of services, there is nothing quite like it around. In particular, examination of the challenges that the growth of services presents to conventional economics is very valuable.’ -- Ian Miles, University of Manchester, UK‘This is an intriguing book that contains many interesting ways of conceptualising service from the perspective of economics. It makes a number of important contributions to the academic literature. It is one of the very few books and it might even be the only book to be written by an economist on the economics of services – it is thus a pioneer work and is of value in that it attempts to bring together the work that economists have done on services.’ -- John Bryson, University of Birmingham, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Introduction 1. Purpose, Definitions and Present Structure of Service Consumption 2. Three Phases in the Development of Service Sector Employment 3. Key Service Characteristics for Economic Analysis Part II: Micro Foundations 4. Adding the Spatial Aspect to Elementary Cost Theory 5. Service Production Costs 6. Service Distribution Costs 7. The Basic Trade-off and Derivation of the Supply-System Cost Function 8. Optimal Charges for Services with the Focus on the User Cost Component 9. Location Patterns and Competition Part III: Driving Forces For and Against the Service Economy 10. Interpreting the Past Development by the Model of Unbalanced Productivity Growth 11. Urbanization and the Emergence Service Markets 12. Transport Motorization, Market Area Enlargement and Urban Sprawl 13. Towards a Self-Service Economy with Edge City Settlers as Prime Movers? Part IV: Public Policy Towards Services 14. Policy for Promotion of Urban Amenities 15. The Overriding Problem of the Modern Welfare State 16. Trust in Economic Growth Cannot Replace Allocation Policy 17. Merit Goods Revisited 18. Towards Allocative Efficiency 1: Reformation of the Resource Allocation Over the Budget 19. Towards Allocative Efficiency 2: Marginal Cost Pricing and Differential Commodity Taxation 20. Towards X-efficiency in Public Service Provision 21. Summary of Policy Recommendations References Index

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary Handbook combines both mainstream and heterodox economics to assess the nature, scope and importance of leisure activities.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Overview of the Economics of Leisure Samuel Cameron PART I: ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS OF LEISURE 2. On Economics, Leisure and Much More Alessandro Balestrino 3. Towards a Bourdieusian Economics of Leisure Andrew B. Trigg 4. Leisure and Subjective Well-being Victoria Ateca-Amestoy PART II: WORK/LEISURE BALANCE 5. The Economics of Sleep and Boredom Samuel Cameron 6. Half Full or Half Empty: The Economics of Work–Life Balance Samuel Cameron and Mark Fox 7. Working from Home: Leisure Gain or Leisure Loss? Samuel Cameron and Mark Fox 8. Contradictions of Capitalism in Health and Fitness Leisure Simeon Scott PART III: PEOPLE AND PLACES AS LEISURE 9. Dating as Leisure Véronique Flambard, Nicolas Vaillant and François-Charles Wolff 10. Home Improvements Peter E. Earl and Ti-Ching Peng 11. Reconsidering the Silk Road: Tourism in the Context of Regionalism and Trade Patterns Karen Jackson PART IV: SPECTATING AND EVENTS 12. Leisure Tribe-onomics Darragh O’Reilly 13. The Significance of Commercial Music Festivals Gretchen Larsen and Stephanie Hussels 14. The Rise and Decline of Drive-in Cinemas in the United States Mark Fox and Grant Black 15. Entertainment and Economic Contributions of the Indian Hindi Movie Industry Rajesh K. Pillania and Subhojit Banerjee 16. Leisure Time, Cinema and the Structure of Household Entertainment Expenditure, 1890–1940 Gerben Bakker 17. Long-run Trends and Factors in Attendance Patterns in Sport: Australian Football League, 1945–2009 Liam J.A. Lenten 18. The Changing Demands of Leisure Time: The Emergence of Twenty20 Cricket David Paton and Andrew Cooke PART V: DIVERSIONS AND PERVERSIONS 19. The Economics of the Video-gaming Leisure Market Joe Cox 20. Competitive Forces in the US Recreational Vehicle Industry Mark Fox, Lane David and Grant Black 21. Magazines Gillian Doyle 22. The Impact of New Technology on Leisure Networks Vincent G. Fitzsimons 23. Girls Just Want to Have Fun? Internet Leisure and Women’s Empowerment in Jordan Deborah L. Wheeler and Lauren Mintz 24. Sexual Leisure Markets Alan Collins Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the benefits of private sector involvement in creating, maintaining, operating, and programming parks and open space - ranging from enhanced returns on investment for developers that include open space in their projects to improved community health outcomes.

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Book SynopsisThe analysis of the four historic sites featured in this publication - Grosse Ile and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site in Canada, Chaco Culture National Historical Park in the United States, Port Arthur Historic Site in Australia, and Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site in the United Kingdom - provides valuable insight into the creation and management of heritage values. Each case study articulates how values are identified and assessed by the governing bodies; where (and with whom) the values reside; how the values are implemented into management policies and objectives; and the impact that these decisions have on the sites themselves. This book will be a vital tool for institutions and individuals engaged in the study or practice of site management, conservation planning, and/or historic preservation. Also included is a CD-ROM that contains supplemental management and planning documents created and used by the site-management authorities.

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