Economics of Tourism (Routledge Advances in Tourism)

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Makes a key contribution from an economic standpoint to the understanding of tourism. Examining such issues as how tourism firms operate in national and global contexts, the effects of tourism on destination areas, the demand for tourism, and the interaction between tourism and natural environments, this comprehensive introduction explains how economic concepts and techniques can offer a clearer understanding of the subject.

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The second edition of Economics of Tourism is a welcome update to a classic text. The authors provide as complete a review on the subject as can be found anywhere. This is an outstanding guide to an under appreciated and under studied area of economics.

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Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music

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The Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music is the first comprehensive reference to cover this important American musical form. Coverage includes all aspects of both African-American and white gospel from history and performers to recording techniques and styles as well as the influence of gospel on different musical genres and cultural trends.

Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music Review

While this is a good resource, it's not nearly as comprehensive and in-depth as many of the reviews would suggest.
In fact, the large type font and large use of pictures are what makes the book take up so many pages; it's not because
of the intensive amount of information.....Most of the biographical entries are very brief and elementary.

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The Evolutionary Strategies that Shape Ecosystems

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In 1837 a young Charles Darwin took his notebook, wrote "I think" and then sketched a rudimentary, stick-like tree. Each branch of Darwin's tree of life told a story of survival and adaptation �� adaptation of animals and plants not just to the environment but also to life with other living things. However, more than 150 years since Darwin published his singular idea of natural selection, the science of ecology has yet to account for how contrasting evolutionary outcomes affect the ability of organisms to coexist in communities and to regulate ecosystem functioning.

In this book Philip Grime and Simon Pierce explain how evidence from across the world is revealing that, beneath the wealth of apparently limitless and bewildering variation in detailed structure and functioning, the essential biology of all organisms is subject to the same set of basic interacting constraints on life-history and physiology. The inescapable resulting predicament during the evolution of every species is that, according to habitat, each must adopt a predictable compromise with regard to how they use the resources at their disposal in order to survive. The compromise involves the investment of resources in either the effort to acquire more resources, the tolerance of factors that reduce metabolic performance, or reproduction. This three-way trade-off is the irreducible core of the universal adaptive strategy theory which Grime and Pierce use to investigate how two environmental filters selecting, respectively, for convergence and divergence in organism function determine the identity of organisms in communities, and ultimately how different evolutionary strategies affect the functioning of ecosystems. This book reflects an historic phase in which evolutionary processes are finally moving centre stage in the effort to unify ecological theory, and animal, plant and microbial ecology have begun to find a common theoretical framework.

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Don't be fooled by the triangle on the front cover; the book isn't a simple repeat of Grime's well-worn triangle theory, although it does add to it plenty with a whole chapter on life-history traits in animals and microbes. It's more about how evolution and ecology are related to one another, and how the evolution of species is affected by their ecology, and how this feeds back on itself. The book mainly deals with community assembly rules and the effects of species' traits on the timing and extent of things happening in the ecosystem. Recently Hubbell's unified neutral model of biodiversity has gotten a lot of attention, but Grime reaffirms that biodiversity has an evolutionary basis, and more importantly gets into the nuts and bolts of adaptation and how this relates to ecology. He even describes the neutral theory as "self-falsifying".

The reference list alone looks to be about a thousand references long, and the whole book can be seen as an in-depth and up to date review of eco-evolutionary dynamics. The species index ranges from everything from to Acrocanthosaurus to Zygiella spiders. I'd never realized how fossil evidence can reveal the ecological similarities between specific dinosaurs and modern animals, and how extinct animals relate to wider ecological theory. It pretty much blew me away how all the bits of the puzzle fit, and the panorama Grime paints with "a conceptual framework in which evolutionary and ecological processes can be reconciled and are viewed as part of a single natural creative phenomenon that extends above and below the level of species.". Awesome!

I was a little shocked by the price at first, but I had to get this book, and I'm glad I did (although perhaps I would have given half a star less because of the price, but there wasn't the choice).

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Expert One-on-One Visual Basic .NET Business Objects

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In the late 1990s, author Rockford Lhotka wrote extensively on creating distributed, object-oriented Windows applications using Visual Basic 6, COM, and DCOM. The introduction of .NET has motivated him to revisit these themes and revise his strategy. In this book, he explains the changes introduced by .NET, the possibilities that are emerging, and an essential tutorial on the best ways to make .NET work for you.

This book is divided into three parts. In the first, Lhotka analyzes logical and physical application architectures, exploring their effect on scalability, fault tolerance, and performance. In the second, he implements and documents a Visual Basic .NET framework for the creation of distributed, object-oriented applications that employ .NET technologies including remoting, serialization, and auto-deployment. This framework encapsulates functionality such as database access, transaction handling, and location transparency.

In the last part of the book, you'll use the framework to create a sample application, and discover the ease with which you can write Windows, Web, and Web services interfaces for the underlying objects. In addition, this book contains the author's own Component-based, Scalable, Logical Architecture (CSLA .NET), an object-oriented framework that can act as the foundation for a diverse range of enterprise applications. By the end of the book, you'll be free to examine, use, and modify this architecture for your own needs.

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This book follows probably the most logical progression of any technically oriented book I've ever read.Architecture and Design
Key Technologies
Implementing a Business Framework
OO Design
Business Object Design (using the Framework)
Windows, Web, and Web Services Interfaces
Reporting and Batch Processing
The premise of this book is that there are best practices that apply when building software systems. We've all heard that catchphrase before, but Rocky does a very good job of distilling it down to a practical level.The book walks you through from proposed architecture to a fully functioning program, and along the way you learn some very powerful concepts:Business rule tracking
Principal-based security
n-Level Undo
DataBinding
Remoting over HTTP
Reflection
Transactional methods using both COM+ (Enterprise Services) and native .NET OleDbTransaction and SqlTransaction
Lightweight collection objects
The true best use of web services No-touch deployment
My favorite parts of the book were:1. His approach to data access. Rather than creating a separate Portal object and forcing the UI to create two objects to access data, this framework places virtual methods in the base classes that must be overridden in the business classes. The system then uses Reflection to call back into the business object (from the Portal object) for the implementation of the data portal methods. The UI developer, however, sees none of this. Instead, the UI calls static factory methods to fetch business objects, and a very simple Save() method to add, update, and delete. This is a very intuitive approach, because the abstract nature of a Save() command is very comfortable to a UI developer.2. Separate, lightweight objects for collections (for display in lists &c). Since this intelligent business object approach can create fairly "heavy" business objects, the framework has some great base classes for collections. Since you usually display only summary information in lists &c, why not create a specific lightweight object just for this purpose? Rocky shows you how to do this using structs rather than objects. This helps performance since they are a value type and stored on the stack. That may seem counterintuitive, but since this framework makes heavy use of serialization to pass objects across the wire by remoting, the gains from using reference types are mostly wiped out anyway.3. His approach to web services is very practical. Rather than seeing them as a universal savior and placing them as interfaces between every nook and cranny of our code, he takes the approach that they are the "machine interface" to our code, rather than the human interface. This frees us up to develop the business functionality for a specific project, create the forms and/or web UI, then build a specific web services interface to that project/module when the need arises for an external API. He also talks at length about the foolishness of exposing our core business objects to the web services interface. If we do that, we lose the ability to change the interface, because the external contract has been established. Imagine, for example, if UPS suddenly decided to change its web services interface. Mass chaos. Rather, he shows how to create methods that are specific to the web services interface, and are more abstract in their implementation, thus less likely to need changes. As a C# programmer, I was a little leery of buying this book, but I found out that by having to translate the code in the book, rather than just typing it in, I had to think more about the techniques involved. This helped so much, in fact, that I would now purposely buy books that are not in my language of choice, so that I can better understand the concepts instead of the syntax. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews Was this review helpful to you?�Yes No Report abuse | PermalinkComment Comment

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Gerontological CNS Exam Secrets Study Guide: CNS Test Review for the Clinical Nurse Specialist in Gerontology Exam

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Gerontological CNS Exam Secrets Study Guide: CNS Test Review for the Clinical Nurse Specialist in Gerontology Exam Review

This is a detailed outline source with content from all areas relivent to geriatric nursing care. It is well catagorized and moves smoothly from one topic area to another. I think it will be benefitial study guide, but I have not taken the certification test as of yet.

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Great White Sharks: The Biology of Carcharodon carcharias

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Now available in paperback, the first comprehensive reference on Great White sharks separates fact from fiction and presents real evidence of the ecology and behavior of these remarkable animals. The volume begins with the evolution of the white shark and its relatives and continues with sections on its anatomy, behavior, ecology, distribution, population dynamics, and interactions with humans. Included in the volume are many illustrations, maps, diagrams, graphs and photos.

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* Covers all biological aspects of Great White sharks
* Includes contributions from an international team of leading authorities
* Heavily illustrated with maps, diagrams, graphs, and photos

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In recent years, public opinion on the Great White Shark has turned away from the fierce bloodlust inspired by fiction and returned to the more civilized sense of awe and wonder at the amazing size and ferocity of these giant predators common to the days before Hollywood brought us 'Jaws' in its technicolor (mostly red) splendor. With specials common to PBS and the Discovery Channel, public awareness of the GW is higher now than ever before, making the shark more and more popular to study. The results of this scrutiny are brought to light in 'Great White Sharks : The Biology of Carcharodon carcharias', a collection of scientific papers edited by A. Peter Klimley and David G. Ainley. In this fascinating work, the picture of the GW as bloodthirsty killer is erased and replaced with the image of the predator's role as king of the sea. There are papers dedicated to nearly every scientific aspect of the animal from its ancestry to its behavior to its populations in oceans around the world. Nearly every serious question about the GW is explored, if not answered.
The only thing that makes this book a little inaccessible is the fact that is geared for academic use and research. It is not a book written for the masses, such as Ellis and McCosker's 'The Great White Shark', another excellent book on the subject. But if it is depth you are looking for, Klimley and Ainley & Co. provide it. This book is not to missed by serious students of the GW.

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