A must-read for aspiring hospitality industry leaders Managing Hotels Effectively: Lessons from Outstanding General Managers is the essential text for anyone working in or aspiring to the hospitality
Winner of the 2014 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, selected by Gerald SternNeighbors is a book of lyric narratives about the men and women who live and work next to us, the people standing in line at t
The War Between the United States and Mexico, Illustrated, originally published in 1851, was easily the most beautiful nineteenth-century publication relating to the early history of Texas. It was als
The book traces urbanisation patterns in Oman looking at the coastal strip of Muscat Capital Area. This metropolitan region emerged within the last 50 years almost out of nowhere and is now home of th
While events in the Middle East-North Africa region dominate world news, it is an area little understood by the rest of the world—not only historically, politically, and culturally but also within the
The "capability approach" of development economist Amartya Sen, who received the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998, poses a major challenge to the dominant paradigm of neo-classical economics. Accordi
These proceedings of the November 2006 symposium include such topics as the fundamentals of the growth and characteristics of diamond, nanocrystalline diamond and diamond-like carbon, doping diamond t
From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chan
Papers from a November 2007 symposium cover topics in diamond research, encompassing quantum computing, single photon emission, bio-sensing, growth and doping of poly-, single-, and nano-crystalline d
Most of us have one reaction when we hear the name Joe Profit; we think, “Can that really be his name?” It seems all too fitting that one of the most prominent businessmen in America could have a surn
