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  • Managing in the Public Sector

    A Casebook in Ethics and Leadership

    by Brett Sharp, Grant Aguirre, Kenneth Kickham ...
    Casebooks in public administration have become intensely sophisticated with complex scenarios, richly detailed multi-step simulations, and demanding role playing requirements. While these types of cases and exercises have their place, Managing in the Public Sector is a casebook designed with maximum instructor flexibility and student engagement in mind. Featuring cases brief enough to be covered ... Read more

    $142.90 CAD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory

    Edited by Karl Spracklen, Brett Lashua, Erin Sharpe, Spencer Swain ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This is the first handbook devoted entirely to leisure theory, charting the history and philosophy of leisure, theories in religion and culture, and rational theories of leisure in the Western philosophical tradition, as well as a range of socio-cultural theories from thinkers such as Adorno, Bauman, Weber and Marx. Drawing on contributions from experts in leisure studies from around the world, ... Read more

    $370.19 CAD

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  • Tourism and Retail

    The Psychogeography of Liminal Consumption

    Edited by Charles McIntyre ...
    Series series Advances in Tourism
    Tourists are drawn to explore new environments and peoples. What better way to interact with a locality than to seek out and roam its marketplaces? The nature of tourist shopping activity thus goes beyond mere functional purchasing into multi-sensory explorations of place and space. Awareness of the shifting nature of these attractions is crucial to retailers and place marketers, in this age of ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • The Tools of Government

    A Guide to the New Governance

    Edited by Lester M. Salamon ...
    The Tools of Government is the first professional guide to the principles and practices of public administration in an age when governments no longer provide many services--but arrange for others to do so. Characterized by extensive collaboration among levels of government and between government and the private sector, this new approach to solving public problems presents many new important issues ... Read more

    $58.39 CAD

  • Failed Olympic Bids and the Transformation of Urban Space

    Lasting Legacies?

    by Robert Oliver, John Lauermann ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book evaluates why cities choose to bid for the Olympics, why Olympic bids fail, and whether cities can benefit from failed bids. Attention is shifted away from host cities (or winners), to consider the impact of the bidding process on urban development in losing cities. Oliver and Lauermann show that bidding is often a politically strategic exercise, as planning ideas are recycled from one ... Read more

    $83.29 CAD

  • The Professional Bar & Beverage Manager's Handbook: How to Open and Operate a Financially Successful Bar, Tavern, and Nightclub

    by Amanda Miron ...
    A successful beverage operation is much more than top-shelf cocktails. In today’s market, whether running a stand-alone business or one incorporated into a restaurant, hotel or food service operation, the successful bar operator needs product and equipment knowledge, management savvy, marketing skills, insight into the latest trends, and, of course, a strong grasp of mixology.All this and more is ... Read more

    $65.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Managing the Paralympics

    Edited by Simon Darcy, Stephen Frawley, Daryl Adair ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book critically examines the planning, management, and operations of the world’s premier event for Para sport athletes. Noting a lack of research into how these games are planned and managed, the authors of this contributed volume discuss how the Paralympics are essentially different to the Olympics and what this means for their management. Managing the Paralympics explores how the organizers ... Read more

    $128.09 CAD

  • Global Trends

    Facing up to a Changing World

    by A. Done ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Looks at the bigger picture, and the future trends that are going to affect the global business world over the next few years. The author analyses traditional themes such as technology and sustainability but also takes into consideration the effects of developments in other areas such as health, education and demographics ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • The Politics of Tourism Development

    Booms and Busts in Ireland

    by A. O'Brien ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Moving beyond both tourism and politics literatures' current understandings of how tourism is developed, this book offers an original theory of interlocking regimes to account for the manner in which public and private bodies either facilitate or prevent development within tourism. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Performing Nashville

    Music Tourism and Country Music's Main Street

    by Robert W. Fry ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the formation and continuance of Nashville, Tennessee as a music place, the importance of the fans (tourists) in creating Nashville’s multifaceted musical identity, and the music and city’s influence on the formation and performance of the individual and collective identities of the country-music fan. More importantly, the author discusses the larger issue of country music as a ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD

  • Catalytic Governance

    Leading Change in the Information Age

    by Patricia Meredith, Steven A. Rosell, Ged R. Davis ...
    Although the information age offers individuals from all walks of life the power to make their voices heard, we often end up with a cacophony of competing voices rather than a conversation. With so many people empowered to join the decision-making process, the number and diversity of stakeholders in governance situations poses a special challenge: how do you steer when so many hands are on the ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies

    Edited by Philip R. Stone, Rudi Hartmann, Tony Seaton, Richard Sharpley, Leanne White ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This handbook is the definitive reference text for the study of ‘dark tourism’, the contemporary commodification of death within international visitor economies. Shining a light on dark tourism and visitor sites of death or disaster allows us to better understand issues of global tourism mobilities, tourist experiences, the co-creation of touristic meaning, and ‘difficult heritage’ processes and ... Read more

    $434.19 CAD