Human Resources Leadership in Hospitality

Author(s): John Walker

There is a distinct difference between managing a human resources team and leading it, and those in leadership positions must evolve with the industry.Human Resources Leadership in Hospitality addresses one of the biggest challenges that hospitality managers across the board express: finding and ret...

Managing the Built Environment in Hospitality Facilities

Author(s): Dina Marie Zemke

Managing the Built Environment in Hospitality Facilities provides an introduction to managing hospitality buildings and grounds for non-technical managers – an ideal foundation for hospitality management students and emerging managers in the industry.The 2nd edition features shorter chapters to prov...

Work and Society

Author(s): Viktor Wang

Work and Society is the required textbook for Working Around the World, fulfilling the upper-division Social Sciences requirement in general education. It provides students with a strong foundation for entering the global workforce, while graduate students can also use it as an elective for advanced...

Contemporary Approaches to Hospitality and Tourism Management

Author(s): Ernest P. Boger, Deanne Williams-Bryant

Contemporary Approaches to Hospitality and Tourism Management is an Introductory Hospitality/Tourism textbook that covers the broad spectrum of exciting, enriching, lucrative career possibilities that exist under the umbrella of Hospitality/Tourism. Tourism, requiring travel, is of course presented ...

Open RN: Medical Terminology

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Medical Terminology 2e is a foundational textbook designed to help students master the language of healthcare. It focuses on the components of medical terms, including prefixes, suffixes, and word roots, and introduces diagnostic, therapeutic, surgical, and symptomatic terminology related to all bod...

Thriving in the Community and Technical College

Author(s): Joseph B Cuseo, Aaron Thompson, Julie McLaughlin

Thriving in the Community and Technical College covers the full range of topics and issues that impact student success. Content is delivered through multiple formats and learning modalities, including snapshot summary boxes, concept maps, content-relevant cartoons, inspiring quotes from successful s...

OpenStax: Nutrition for Nurses

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Nutrition for Nurses is structured to support the flexible integration of nutrition content across both system-based and nursing competency-based curricula. It can be used whether nutrition is taught as a standalone course or part of another nursing course. The table of contents for Nutrition for Nu...

Essentials in Community and Public Health

Author(s): Lesley Rennis, Beverly Xaviera Watkins

When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth becomes useless, and reason is powerless. - Herphilus, 300 B.C Essentials in Community and Public Health, First Edition is an introduction to community and public health. The text p...

OpenStax: Maternal-Newborn Nursing

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Maternal-Newborn Nursing introduces students to the concepts and skills related to pregnancy, birth, postpartum, newborn care, reproductive health, and social determinants related to those topics. Written and thoroughly reviewed by experienced nurse educators, the material focuses on patient safety,...

Meetings, Expositions, Events & Conventions: An Introduction to the Industry

Author(s): George G Fenich, KRISTIN MALEK

The meetings, expositions, events, and conventions (MEEC) industry continues to grow and garner increasing attention from the hospitality industry, colleges and universities, and communities.Meetings, Expositions, Events, and Conventions: An Introduction to the Industry provides a broad overview of ...