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Management of Hospitality Human Resources: Theory and Practice for Maximizing Management and Employee Potential

Author(s): Allen Reich

The guiding principles in writing this book were to find a way to lower the cost of a Human Resources textbook, to reduce student study time while improving learning outcomes, and to increase the effectiveness of the instructor's efforts. Significantly less than half of most textbooks, sometimes les...

Practical Universe: Observations, Experiments, Exercises

Author(s): Manfred Cuntz, Nilakshi Veerabathina, Levent Gurdemir

Practical Astronomy: Observations, Experiments, and Exercises has been in print for over twenty-five years. The progress in astronomy since that time, both regarding new observations and the development of new methods and techniques, is gigantic and almost beyond anybody’s comprehension. Practica...

Training the Next Generation: Ethical, Legal, and Management Issues in the Workplace

Author(s): DeShannon McDonald, Kim Smith

With a focus on career preparation and development, the authors McDonald and Smith present case studies demonstrating various ethical, legal, and managerial issues that may occur in the workplace. Through the use of this highly engaging text, students will gain knowledge and understanding of how to ...

World Religions: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives

Author(s): Donald Viney

This book is titled World Religions rather than The World’s Religions because I am not trying to canvass all of the religions in the world, only those religions of the world that are more or less products of what Karl Jaspers called the axial age, roughly 800 to 200 BCE. These are religions with lon...

Introduction to Mythology

Author(s): James G Farrow

This Introduction to Mythology is intended as a teaching and student resource consisting mainly of extracts translated directly from primary source-texts by the author. The first eight chapters provide a pedagogical introduction, explaining core concepts in the academic study of myth, together wi...