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Basic Management Accounting for the Hospitality Industry

Basic Management Accounting for the Hospitality Industry

Basic Management Accounting for the Hospitality Industry uses a step by step approach to enable students to independently master the field. This second edition contains many new themes and developments including: the essence of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) integration of the changes caused by the evolution of the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry (USALI) the extension of price elasticity of demand and addition of income and cross elasticities the addition of break-even time (BET) as an additional method of analysing capital investments Up-to-date and comprehensive coverage this textbook is essential reading for hospitality management students. Additional study and teaching materials can be found on www. hospitalitymanagement. noordhoff. nl

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On Shell Structure

On Shell Structure

This volume collects together core papers by Richard K. Larson developing what has since come to be known as the VP Shell or Split VP analysis of sentential structure. The volume includes five previously published papers together with two major unpublished works from the same period: Light Predicate Raising (1989) which explores the interesting consequences of a leftward raising analysis of NP Shift phenomena and The Projection of DP (and DegP) (1991) which extends the shell approach to the projection of nominal and adjectival structure showing how projection can be handled in a uniform way. In addition to published unpublished and limited distribution work the volume includes extensive new introductory material. The general introduction traces the conceptual roots of VP Shells and its problems in the face of subsequent developments in theory and offers an updated form compatible with modern Minimalist syntactic analysis. The section introductions to the material on datives complex predicates and nominals show how the updated form of shell theory applies in the empirical domains where it was originally developed. | On Shell Structure

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Agnes's Jacket A Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness.Revised and Updated with a New Epilogue by the Author

Agnes's Jacket A Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness.Revised and Updated with a New Epilogue by the Author

In a Victorian-era German asylum seamstress Agnes Richter painstakingly stitched a mysterious autobiographical text into every inch of the jacket she created from her institutional uniform. Despite every attempt to silence them hundreds of other psychiatric patients have managed to get their stories out or to publish them on their own. Today in a vibrant network of peer-advocacy groups all over the world those with firsthand experience of emotional distress are working together to unravel the mysteries of madness and to help one another recover. Agnes’s Jacket tells their story focusing especially on the Hearing Voices Network (HVN) an international collaboration of professionals people with lived experience and their families and friends who have been working to develop an alternative approach to coping with voices visions and other extreme states that is empowering and useful and does not start from the assumption that such people have a chronic illness. A vast gulf exists between the way medicine explains psychiatric conditions and the experiences of those who suffer. Hornstein’s work helps us to bridge that gulf guiding us through the inner lives of those diagnosed with schizophrenia bipolar illness depression and paranoia and emerging with nothing less than a new model for understanding one another and ourselves. | Agnes's Jacket A Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness. Revised and Updated with a New Epilogue by the Author

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Filmed School Desire transgression and the filmic fantasy of pedagogy

Filmed School Desire transgression and the filmic fantasy of pedagogy

Filmed School examines the place that teaching holds in the public imaginary through its portrayal in cinema. From early films such as Mädchen in Uniform and La Maternelle to contemporary images of teaching in Notes on a Scandal and The History Boys teachers’ roles in film have been consistently contradictory portraying teachers as both seducers and selfless heroes social outcasts and moral models contributing to a similarly divided popular understanding of teachers as both salvific and sinister. In this book Stillwaggon and Jelinek present these contradictory images of teaching through the concept of transference—the fantastical belief in another’s knowing that founds a teacher’s authority in relation to her students and to some degree the public at large. Tracing the place of transference across a century of school films each chapter demonstrates the persistence of this fantasy in one of the dreams or nightmares of teaching that recurs thematically in school films: the teacher-as-savior seducer signifier in a moribund discourse and sacrificial object. Through these analyses the authors suggest that something might be missing in our attempts to theorize education when we leave our unthought fantasies of teaching out of the picture. This book will be of key interest to academics researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of educational theory teacher education philosophy of education film and media studies psychoanalysis sociology of education curriculum studies and cultural studies. | Filmed School Desire transgression and the filmic fantasy of pedagogy

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Data Analysis A Model Comparison Approach To Regression ANOVA and Beyond Third Edition

Data Analysis A Model Comparison Approach To Regression ANOVA and Beyond Third Edition

Data Analysis: A Model Comparison Approach to Regression ANOVA and Beyond is an integrated treatment of data analysis for the social and behavioral sciences. It covers all of the statistical models normally used in such analyses such as multiple regression and analysis of variance but it does so in an integrated manner that relies on the comparison of models of data estimated under the rubric of the general linear model. Data Analysis also describes how the model comparison approach and uniform framework can be applied to models that include product predictors (i. e. interactions and nonlinear effects) and to observations that are nonindependent. Indeed the analysis of nonindependent observations is treated in some detail including models of nonindependent data with continuously varying predictors as well as standard repeated measures analysis of variance. This approach also provides an integrated introduction to multilevel or hierarchical linear models and logistic regression. Finally Data Analysis provides guidance for the treatment of outliers and other problematic aspects of data analysis. It is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses in data analysis and offers an integrated approach that is very accessible and easy to teach. Highlights of the third edition include: a new chapter on logistic regression; expanded treatment of mixed models for data with multiple random factors; updated examples; an enhanced website with PowerPoint presentations and other tools that demonstrate the concepts in the book; exercises for each chapter that highlight research findings from the literature; data sets R code and SAS output for all analyses; additional examples and problem sets; and test questions. | Data Analysis A Model Comparison Approach To Regression ANOVA and Beyond Third Edition

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Women in Mycenaean Greece The Linear B Tablets from Pylos and Knossos

Women in Mycenaean Greece The Linear B Tablets from Pylos and Knossos

Women in Mycenaean Greece is the first book-length study of women in the Linear B tablets from Mycenaean Greece and the only to collect and compile all the references to women in the documents of the two best attested sites of Late Bronze Age Greece - Pylos on the Greek mainland and Knossos on the island of Crete. The book offers a systematic analysis of women’s tasks holdings and social and economic status in the Linear B tablets dating from the 14th and 13th centuries BCE identifying how Mycenaean women functioned in the economic institutions where they were best attested - production property control land tenure and cult. Analysing all references to women in the Mycenaean documents the book focuses on the ways in which the economic institutions of these Bronze Age palace states were gendered and effectively extends the framework for the study of women in Greek antiquity back more than 400 years. Throughout the book seeks to establish whether gender practices were uniform in the Mycenaean states or differed from site to site and to gauge the relationship of the roles and status of Mycenaean women to their Archaic and Classical counterparts to test if the often-proposed theories of a more egalitarian Bronze Age accurately reflect the textual evidence. The Linear B tablets offer a unique if under-utilized point of entry into women’s history in ancient Greece documenting nearly 2000 women performing over fifty task assignments. From their decipherment in 1952 one major gap in the scholarly record remained: a full accounting of the women who inhabited the palace states and their tasks ranks and economic contributions. Women in Mycenaean Greece fills that gap recovering how class rank and other social markers created status hierarchies among women how women as a group functioned relative to men and where different localities conformed or diverged in their gender practices. | Women in Mycenaean Greece The Linear B Tablets from Pylos and Knossos

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Factor Analysis and Dimension Reduction in R A Social Scientist's Toolkit

Factor Analysis and Dimension Reduction in R A Social Scientist's Toolkit

Factor Analysis and Dimension Reduction in R provides coverage with worked examples of a large number of dimension reduction procedures along with model performance metrics to compare them. Factor analysis in the form of principal components analysis (PCA) or principal factor analysis (PFA) is familiar to most social scientists. However what is less familiar is understanding that factor analysis is a subset of the more general statistical family of dimension reduction methods. The social scientist's toolkit for factor analysis problems can be expanded to include the range of solutions this book presents. In addition to covering FA and PCA with orthogonal and oblique rotation this book’s coverage includes higher-order factor models bifactor models models based on binary and ordinal data models based on mixed data generalized low-rank models cluster analysis with GLRM models involving supplemental variables or observations Bayesian factor analysis regularized factor analysis testing for unidimensionality and prediction with factor scores. The second half of the book deals with other procedures for dimension reduction. These include coverage of kernel PCA factor analysis with multidimensional scaling locally linear embedding models Laplacian eigenmaps diffusion maps force directed methods t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding independent component analysis (ICA) dimensionality reduction via regression (DRR) non-negative matrix factorization (NNMF) Isomap Autoencoder uniform manifold approximation and projection (UMAP) models neural network models and longitudinal factor analysis models. In addition a special chapter covers metrics for comparing model performance. Features of this book include: Numerous worked examples with replicable R code Explicit comprehensive coverage of data assumptions Adaptation of factor methods to binary ordinal and categorical data Residual and outlier analysis Visualization of factor results Final chapters that treat integration of factor analysis with neural network and time series methods Presented in color with R code and introduction to R and RStudio this book will be suitable for graduate-level and optional module courses for social scientists and on quantitative methods and multivariate statistics courses. | Factor Analysis and Dimension Reduction in R A Social Scientist's Toolkit

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Ujamaa and Ubuntu Conceptual Histories for a Planetary Perspective

Ujamaa and Ubuntu Conceptual Histories for a Planetary Perspective

For over a decade the world has experienced an accelerating erosion of a language that took hundreds of years to emerge. It is a language ordering time and space with words such as enlightenment reason rationality modernization and the most recent by-word globalization. However it is a language that has been accompanied by colonialism imperialism racism the exploitation of people and nature an unequal distribution of the world’s resources pogroms genocides and world wars. There has been a gap between assumptions underlying a visionary ambition and the often-brutal practices that have accompanied it. Moreover it is a language that expresses European values with the implicit or explicit suggestion that they pertain to the whole world a civilizing mission from a European centre. Although the established narrative argued that there was continuous progress it was a conclusion reached through hindsight. The idea of progress had to be repeatedly recreated through new visionary projects that attempted to live up to the high ideals their predecessors failed to achieve. Against the backdrop of this meta-normative point of departure the book argues that a convincing grand narrative has failed to materialize since the discrediting of globalization. In the search for a new narrative it argues at a meta-normative level for a reformulation of the term ‘global’ away from its close connection to the globe as an unbounded self-propelling market that exists beyond human influence. ‘Global’ should no longer be reduced to auto-playing market fiction but instead be connected to the planet Terra the Earth. With reference to Latour and Chakrabarty ‘global’ and ‘planetary’ mean cohabitation; life on earth is seen as an infinite symbiotic system nurtured and protected but also destroyed by human action. The book argues that a new conceptualization of ‘the global’ and ‘the planet’ requires input from African and Asian language cultures. The book explores in depth the history of the two political African key concepts of ujamaa and ubuntu and argues that they are cases showing how work on a new global/planetary narrative might look. The investigation of the two concepts demonstrate that translations are juxtapositions that point up what is shared and what isn’t between concepts in two or more languages. The point of comparison is not to develop a uniform global perspective even if that were possible but to develop a global understanding of difference and through that to begin to look for a common ground. Translations of political key concepts are the source of a growing understanding of difference. | Ujamaa and Ubuntu Conceptual Histories for a Planetary Perspective

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