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Fully revised and updated for 2005, DK's best-selling Financial Times World Desk Reference gives a complete overview of the modern world. With more than 600 maps, 5,000 charts and diagrams, and including over 25,000 facts and statistics on the world's 193 nations, this practical guide is a perfect reference for the home, school, or office.
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How do dealers price contemporary art in a world where objective criteria seem absent? Talking Prices is the first book to examine this question from a sociological perspective. On the basis of a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data, including interviews with art dealers in New York and Amsterdam, Olav Velthuis shows how contemporary art galleries juggle the contradictory logics of art and economics. In doing so, they rely on a highly ritualized business repertoire. For instance, a sharp distinction between a gallery's museumlike front space and its businesslike back space safeguards the separation of art from commerce.
Velthuis shows that prices, far from being abstract numbers, convey rich meanings to trading partners that extend well beyond the works of art. A high price may indicate not only the quality of a work but also the identity of collectors who bought it before the artist's reputation was established. Such meanings are far from unequivocal. For some, a high price may be a symbol of status; for others, it is a symbol of fraud.
Whereas sociological thought has long viewed prices as reducing qualities to quantities, this pathbreaking and engagingly written book reveals the rich world behind these numerical values. Art dealers distinguish different types of prices and attach moral significance to them. Thus the price mechanism constitutes a symbolic system akin to language.
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Very enlightening.......2007-05-07
The book isn't easy reading, but it has some very useful information for artists regarding pricing of their work.
Intriguing economic analysis of how fine art is sold.......2007-02-09
Getting a handle on the economics of the art market is much like grabbing smoke. Dealers are loath to discuss the financial side of their business and the private nature of their transactions frustrates researchers. Even the ostensibly open world of auctions is full of slippery practices. None of that deterred Olav Velthuis, whose exhaustive research into the art market yields a fascinating economic analysis. He explores the anticommercial bias of dealers and even finds some tangible factors that influence art prices. While impressive, Velthuis' work would have benefited from a more conversational, less academic tone. His fascinating price study, for instance, focuses on "coefficients" and "t-values" rather than on actual prices. Still, we recommend this study for its ambitious and intriguing attempt to shed light on a little-known corner of the economy.
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Linguistic and Cultural Online Communication Issues in the Global Age
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International online access has grown rapidly in recent years with the number of global Internet users skyrocketing. The most astounding growth, however, is taking place in developing nations. Linguistic and Cultural Online Communication Issues in the Global Age provides readers with in-depth information on the various linguistic, cultural, technological, legal, and other factors that affect interactions in online exchanges within the global age. Linguistic and Cultural Online Communication Issues in the Global Age proposes information that implements effective decisions related to the uses and designs of online media when interacting with individuals from other cultures. This comprehensive and informative title is completed by foundational knowledge needed to communicate effectively with individuals from other countries and cultures via online media.
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A compilation of checklists and ideas for coping with cultural differences in both business and social communication.
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Cultural Issues.......2002-05-31
A BIG thank you for this informative, compact, and easy-to-understand guide to international business and travel. It fits into my carry-on, and I can read (and prepare!) for my next stop while I'm on the move. Do get it before your next trip abroad.
Don't be Clueless!.......2002-05-29
Sellin and Winters provide a concise overview of things you probably never think of that affect communication between people from different cultures. Their book is easily understood with clear examples and sensible suggestions. Though not a substitute for real life, the book does draw from the authors' extensive overseas experience and may save many a business person from costly clueless blundering.
Diversity in the Business Environment.......2001-02-08
When you travel overseas and are doing business it essential that you know the cultural issues. I have been there - Russia, Bulgaria, Armenia, Central Asia, Panama, Columbia, Costa Rica, etc. Had I read this outstanding book by Elaine Winters before making these visits conducting business, I would have been so much better off. Yes, this is an easily read book for everyone, not just travelers like me. Diversity and cultural issues are right here and now in our work place. Even our new president is faced with them in the hiring of his sub-cabinet employees. Affordable? Definitely and can be read in a short period of time and then easily referenced when you need help.
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Theoretical Approaches to Participitory Communications (Iamcr Book Series)
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Advertising and Consumer Culture: A Special Issue of Mass Communication & Society (Mass Communication & Society Special Edition)
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Furthering the dialogue about the growing power of commercialization and consumerism from a variety of perspectives and methodologies, this special issue contains a meticulously-researched account of the early battles waged over advertising regulation. It also includes articles examining the phenomenon of home shopping channels to determine how issues of social class are incorporated into their sales discourse, and showing how, since the 1970s, the discourse of ads in Hong Kong have changed from a celebration of more "traditional" Chinese values to a celebration of more "Western," consumer values. This issue also provides a focus on a subject often missing from studies of advertising and consumer culture--the advertising creatives themselves.
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This digital document is an article from Business Communication Quarterly, published by Association for Business Communication on March 1, 1997. The length of the article is 3972 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the supplier: Terms such as multicultural, cross-cultural and cultural diversity are often used interchangeably and in reference to a different culture or country. However, it is argued that studies on multiculturalism should also focus on the differences among groups within a single culture such as gender, age, geography and class. Two assignments for teaching MBA students about cultural issues are presented.
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Title: Addressing issues of cultural diversity in business communication.
Author: Janice Tovey
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Title: And broadband for all: powered by satellite technology, high-speed Internet reaches rural users.(growth of broadband internet services)
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This digital document is an article from Black Enterprise, published by Thomson Gale on July 1, 2006. The length of the article is 522 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: The art of persuasion: how to get what you want from employers, clients, and staff.(MAKING CONNECTIONS)
Author: Lee Anna Jackson
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Buy This Book brings together an outstanding international collection of writings on advertising and consumption. Contributors from Britain, Europe and the United States consider the history, industry practices, textual strategies and public consumption of advertising and changes in consumer imagery and identity. The contributors look at such issues as British and American consumption in the post World War II world; the consumer as the imaginary subject of advertisers; the challenge of the Benetton advertising campaigns; the use of music, image and nostalgia in advertising; the marketing of Latino/a culture; "power dressing"; and safe sex and pleasure in the advertising of condoms.
Contributors include Roberta Astroff, Steven Kline, Reina Lewis, Frank Mort, Katrina Rolley, Barbera Usherwood and Andrew Wernick among others.
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Do exactly what it says on the cover.......2000-12-12
This fast-paced and tightly written tour-de-force cuts a swathe through the often mystifying world of advertising and consumption. Both students and veterans of the industry will find its sparkling insights open a multitude of intellectual doors. The contribution of the talented Dr Macrury is worthy of particular note: he is swiftly becoming an academic force to be reckoned with.
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Collaboration Management: Inter-Cultural Working : New Issues and Priorities (Business Boundaries)
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ASIN: 0060847352
Release Date: 2006-05-23 |
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Entry name: Cassandra Grace
Event: Horseback riding (jumping)
Animal name: Lola (best horse in the world!)
Fee enclosed: Um, almost . . .
See, the thing is, I almost have enough money, I have tons of riding students who pay me, but there's this guy, and every time he calls I have to see him, so I've kind of been skipping work lately . . . but I'll have the fee soon, I promise!
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great!!.......2007-04-15
Tourist Trap is one of the best books I have ever read. It got me into the teen romance books like Tropical Kiss, Love on the Lifts etc. Tourist Trap is about a girl named Cassandra Grace who lives in a small town. The Kents, who everybody knows of in the town, come back. This was their first time back in years. Jared Kent(the son) meets Cassandra.
This is all I am going to tell you. You will love this book!!!
Love it!!.......2007-04-14
I just finished reading this book a few minutes ago actually..and I have to say it was sooo good i couldn't put it down. I started it today and I finished it today. It's a really easy book to read and I could totally relate to the main character Cassie. The beginning was a little boring for me, but once you get past that it's amazing until the end. I definitely would recommend it!
Just right........2007-03-19
When I first started reading "Tourist Trap", I just couldn't get into it! After reading the first few chapters, I was convinced it was a cliche book of "Girl meets boy, girl hates boy, girl learns to like boy, girl and boy fall in love, etc". But after I got past the first few chapters, I was hooked on this book! It was full of surprises. Not only did it make me laugh out loud, but parts even made me want to cry. I identified with the main character Cassie in so many ways, it was crazy. I absolutely LOVED this book, and would recommend it. :)
Courtesy of Teens Read Too.......2006-12-26
Cassandra Grace and her best friends, twins Donna and Derek Policastro, have lived in Lake Logan, a tiny town in upstate New York, for their whole lives, and they're looking forward to spending their last summer before college together--swimming at the lake, riding horses, and hanging out the Regency Theater, the old, run-down theater Donna and Derek's parents own. Cassie is also going to be busy working, giving horseback riding lessons at her parents' farm to the kids of the rich vacationers who spend the summers at Lake Logan, commonly known by the year-round locals as invaders. Cassie needs to make enough money for the entry fee of the jumper competition she plans to win with her horse, Lola, and she's determined that nothing is going to stop her from making that money and winning the competition.
Then Jared Kent shows up, son of the most infamous invader family (this is their first time back at Lake Logan in twenty years), and suddenly Cassie finds herself very distracted. She's skipping work and hang-out sessions with her friends in order to spend time with Jared, and she's definitely not making the money she needs. On top of that, Jared's father has made a proposition to the Lake Logan locals, one that has the whole town in an uproar and Cassie wondering whether she's making the right choice by being with Jared.
A story of first love, life changes, and just plain fitting in, TOURIST TRAP is a fun, light read, and teenagers, especially those getting ready to go off to college, will definitely be able to relate.
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Fantabulous.......2006-08-03
Such a great book!!!! It was unbelievably good! It was the best read of the summer so far. I have read about 10 books published by AVON and this one- so far - is by far the best. Keeps you on your toes. If you are a reader who wants a fast interesting read. This is for you!!!!! ; ) It's FABULOUS!!!
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Tourism in the New South Africa: Social Responsibility and the Tourist Experience (Tourism, Retailing and Consumption)
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A new model of tourism development has recently emerged out of a widening concern for the morality of tourist experience. Known variously as ‘ecotourism’, ‘new tourism’, socially responsible tourism’, huge claims are made for it in terms of what it might offer in promoting national tourism development. Yet how well does this new model work in practice? And what does it mean to be an international tourist encountering the cultural, political and economic particularities of the South African experience? Garth Allen and Frank Brennan seek to explore the realities of this new morality of tourism as experienced in four important tourist areas of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa: the greater St Lucia Wetland Park - South Africa’s third largest reserve and a vast and beautiful area accredited World Heritage Status; the Phinda Resource Reserve, renowned for its diverse habitats and rich wildlife; Kosi Bay, a wetland area of international importance; and the Durban beachfront. For the first time they try to locate the international tourist within the moral maze of tourism in the new South Africa. Their analysis can be applied to other societies committed to the belief that investing in tourism development will be a fast track to economic development and will resonate with the moral challenges facing the international tourist.
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Tourist's Experience of Place (New Directions in Tourism Analysis)
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The Tourist Experience
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To advance understanding of Special Interest Tourism (SIT), this paper will explore the complexities of this phenomenon in the early 21st century. First, a look at what is ''out there'', both from a supply and demand perspective, will serve to paint a broad picture at macro-level. The paper will present a discussion of the SIT phenomenon at the macro-level within a triangular relationship of supply, demand and media. Then, a more specific look at SIT attempts to clarify the ambiguity of the term. Finally, a look at micro-level from the consumer's perspective will introduce the concepts of enduring and situational involvement, and the nature of the product. Proposed frameworks are presented to provide structure and possible directions for future research and as a means of progressing conceptual development.
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It is Scotland's tourism ambition to grow by 50% by 2015. In order to achieve this, ''authenticity'' has being identified as a future key consumer-driver and as a trend that matches Scotland's brand equity proposition of ''human, enduring and dramatic''. This paper identifies 10 trends that are shaping the concept of authenticity and exemplifies these through two scenarios-the Ella Stewart Family Centre Holidays and Orkadian Ancestors and Fiddlers. The paper discusses the concept of ''authenti-seeking'', which is defined as ''consumers searching for authenticity from a range of products, services and experiences or looking for it within themselves''. This concept is then considered within the context of tourism, highlighting the opportunity for Scotland, whether this be community-based propositions, activity holidays or even nostalgic, authentic products, such as the Tizer Experience at Barr's Soft Drink Plant. If authenticity is to be a serious proposition, it must be built around the notions of ethical, natural, honest, simple, beautiful, rooted and human concepts.
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The article presents an attempt to use the SERVQUAL evaluation method for judging the tourist product quality of the Rogalin Palace, a branch of the National Museum situated near Poznan (western Poland). A 36-item questionnaire instrument was used to assess visitors' expectations, perceptions, and level of satisfaction. The survey was carried out among 102 visitors. With the use of correlation, factor and graphic analysis of their expectations and perceptions, strong and weak points of the museum were identified.
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This digital document is a journal article from International Journal of Hospitality Management, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the behaviour associated with the phenomenon of the giving and receiving of gifts that are experiences. Gift giving theory has evolved around physical goods, to the detriment of building an explicit knowledge of intangible gifts-the hospitality, leisure and tourism experiences. Fifty-two cases of experience gifts emerged from depth interviews with donors or recipients of different ages, occupations and gender. A storyline of the Four S's of experience gift giving-surprise, suspense, sacrifice and sharing-offered distinctive insights into experience gift giving behaviour.
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Whale-watching tourism is a growth industry worldwide. In Australia, with whale-watchers approaching one million per annum there has been considerable effort to develop management regimes that protect the whales while enabling the development of a sustainable ecotourism industry. A mixture of National and State laws and regulations have governed the industry (Tourism based on free-ranging marine wildlife: opportunities and responsibilities, Wildlife Tourism Research Report No. 11, Status Assessment of Wildlife Tourism in Australia Series, CRC for Sustainable Tourism, Gold Coast, Queensland) but these have been mainly derived from experiences with humpback (Megaptera novaeangliae) whale watching from vessels at sea. In this article we describe the development and nature of new and rapidly growing swim-with-whales operations based on the dwarf minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) in the Great Barrier Reef of northern Queensland. The distinctly different quality of these operations raise interesting questions for long-term management (Towards sustainable management of the developing dwarf minke whale tourism industry in northern Queensland, CRC Reef Research Technical Report 27, James Cook University of North Queensland, 30pp (emended version of SC/50/WW1)). In the 1999-2000 seasons, 453 passengers (88.1% of respondents) swam with minke whales. Only 25% of visitors came specifically for the whale interactions and 43% learned of the whales on board the vessel. Passengers thus had low expectations about whales and encounters. A variety of factors, including the diving experience, particular dive sites, a range of wildlife species and socializing contributed to visitor satisfaction. Nonetheless, there was a significant correlation between visitor satisfaction and closeness of approaches by the whales, total number of whales seen and total time spent with whales. We discuss the key issues associated with swim-with-whales programs in the light of our findings. The cooperative engagement of tourism operators, researchers and government management agencies is a feature of this new industry.
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The Heritage Tourist Experience (The International Library of Essays in Tourism, Heritage and Culture)
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Guide to Teleconferencing and Distance Learning
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This Third Edition covers some of the most significant changes as new International Telecommunications Union (ITU) standards for dataconferencing (T.120) and videoconferencing over Internet Protocol (IP) networks and LANS (H.323) were implemented in products at TeleCon XVII. The implementations of these standards removed significant barriers to PC-based desktop conferencing. This is a great guide to understanding many forms of electronic conferencing.
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