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Understanding the Hospitality Consumer (Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism)


  • ISBN:
  • 0750652497
  • Authors:
  • Alastair Williams

'Understanding the Hospitality Consumer' presents a unique perspective on consumer behaviour in the hospitality sector. It seeks to focus on the role of consumption in hospitality and to investigate our understanding of its place in the contemporary industry. Taking the view that successful marketing demands focusing on the customer, this text concentrates on understanding and determining customer needs, relevant factors in consumer buying...

Statistical Quality Control for the Food Industry


  • ISBN:
  • 0306477289
  • Authors:
  • Merton R. Hubbard

Specifically targeted at the food industry, this state-of-the-art text/reference combines all the principal methods of statistical quality and process control into a single, up-to-date volume. In an easily understood and highly readable style, the author clearly explains underlying concepts and uses real world examples to illustrate statistical techniques. This Third Edition maintains the strengths of the first and second editions while adding...

Electrostatic Accelerators: Fundamentals and Applications (Particle Acceleration and Detection)


  • ISBN:
  • 3540239839

Electrostatic accelerators are an important and widespread subgroup within the broad spectrum of modern, large particle acceleration devices. They are specifically designed for applications that require high-quality ion beams in terms of energy stability and emittance at comparatively low energies (a few MeV). Their ability to accelerate virtually any kind of ion over a continuously tunable range of energies makes them a highly versatile tool...

ASM Handbook: Volume 9: Metallography And Microstructures (ASM Handbook) (ASM Handbook)


  • ISBN:
  • 0871707063
  • Authors:
  • George F. Vander Voort

Volume 9 is an indispensable reference for anyone who specifies, performs, monitors, evaluates, or uses metallurgical analyses for production quality control, research, or educational training. This edition provides important updates and new information reflecting the substantial changes in automation, equipment, consumable products and preparation methodology, as well as new metals, alloys and manufacturing technologies that have emerged since...

Vertebrate Palaeontology


  • ISBN:
  • 0632056371
  • Authors:
  • Michael J. Benton

Vertebrate Palaeontology is a complete, up-to-date history of the evolution of vertebrates. The third edition of this popular text has been extensively revised to incorporate the latest research, including new material from North and South America, Australia, Europe, China, Africa and Russia. Highlights astonishing new discoveries including new dinosaurs and Mesozoic birds from China features a new chapter on how to study fossil vertebrates...

Optimal Statistical Decisions (Wiley Classics Library)


  • ISBN:
  • 047168029X
  • Authors:
  • Morris H. DeGroot

The Wiley Classics Library consists of selected books that have become recognized classics in their respective fields. With these new unabridged and inexpensive editions, Wiley hopes to extend the life of these important works by making them available to future generations of mathematicians and scientists.

Software Quality Engineering: Testing, Quality Assurance, and Quantifiable Improvement


  • ISBN:
  • 0471713457
  • Authors:
  • Jeff Tian

The one resource needed to create reliable software This text offers a comprehensive and integrated approach to software quality engineering. By following the author's clear guidance, readers learn how to master the techniques to produce high-quality, reliable software, regardless of the software system's level of complexity. The first part of the publication introduces major topics in software quality engineering and presents quality planning...

Handbook of Computational Economics, Volume 2: Agent-Based Computational Economics (Handbooks in Economics)


  • ISBN:
  • 0444512535

The explosive growth in computational power over the past several decades offers new tools and opportunities for economists. This handbook volume surveys recent research on Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE), the computational study of economic processes modeled as dynamic systems of interacting agents. Empirical referents for "agents" in ACE models can range from individuals or social groups with learning capabilities to physical world...