Author: Arch Montgomery
Publisher: Bancroft Pre
Keywords: trilogy, gunpowder, hank
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2003-02-03
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1890862223
ISBN-13: 9781890862220

Meet Hank Collins, an astute, gutsy, and funny 13-year-old who’s just finished the seventh grade at a public school in Baltimore’s affluent suburbs. But all is not trouble-free for Hank. He must contend with a troubled family, an alien school, and a world otherwise booby-trapped with alluring but perilous possibilities. Hank is the page-turning, contemporary, coming-of-age story he tells of growing up amidst this wreckage during a dangerous and suspenseful summer. From him, we hear the events of his life. We stand by him on the baseball field and at the dinner tables of his remarried parents

Authors:Mr. J. Arch Getty, Oleg V. Naumov, J. Arch Getty,
Publisher: Yale University Pre
Keywords: bolsheviks, destruction, stalin, terror, road
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: $39.00
ISBN-10: 0300094035
ISBN-13: 9780300094039

This gripping book assembles and translates into English for the first time top secret Soviet documents from 1932 to 1939, the era of Stalin’s purges. The nearly 200 documents-dossiers, police reports, private letters, secret transcripts, and more-expose the hidden inner workings of the Communist Party and the dark inhumanity of the purge process.

Author: Arch G. Woodside
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Keywords: contextual, intelligence, achieving, thinking, driven, market
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2005-02-03
List price: $67.95
ISBN-10: 0750679018
ISBN-13: 9780750679015

Market-Driven Thinking provides a useful mental model and tools for learning about how executives and customers think within marketplace contexts. When the need to learn about how executives and customer think is recognized, a solution is usually implemented automatically, with no thought given to the relative worth of alternative methods to learn fill the need. Thus, the "dominant logics" (most often implemented methods) to learn about thinking are written surveys and focus group interviews--two research methods that that almost always fail to provide valid and useful answers on how and why e

Author: Arch Lustberg
Publisher: Career Pre
Keywords: yourself, message, ideas, techniques, winning, selling
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 1564145859
ISBN-13: 9781564145857

How many people do you know who have a knack for connecting with others? Very few of us are born with it. The rest of us need to learn it. This book explains in clear, simple, easy-to-understand, common sense terms the skills you need to develop to get your message across in any speaking situation. The secret of winning communication is "likeability". Some people call it warmth. Some call it charm or charisma. Whatever name you give it, likeability can be learned. If you know how to use it to communicate effectively, it will improve your chances for success in every aspect of your life. Arch L

Author: Arch G. Woodside
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Keywords: research, hospitality, tourism, culture, advances
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2009-12-21
List price: $134.95
ISBN-10: 1849506035
ISBN-13: 9781849506038

Volume 3 examines how research tools affect theory advances in culture and tourism research. Using visual narrative art to explicate unconscious thinking that shapes trip plans and visits, building tree diagrams of streams of antecedent conditions associating with extreme behavior (e.g., road rage, chronic casino gambling), and research methods that go beyond quantitative/qualitative taxonomies are examples of the unique themes covered in this volume. The papers focus on how to gain meaning from data to thus look at how streams of antecedent conditions result in tourism behavior.

Author: Arch G. Woodside
Publisher: JAI Press
Keywords: research, volume, hospitality, tourism, culture, advances
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2008-07-27
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0762314516
ISBN-13: 9780762314515

Advances in Culture, Tourism, and Hospitality Research (ACTHR) broadly seeks to increase understanding and description of human behavior, conscious and unconscious meaning, and implicit/explicit decision processes applied to living and making major and everyday choicesfrom where to live, how culture affects thinking and actions; marriage, children; work choices and behavior; leisure pursuits; holiday destination; travel behavior; making tradeoffs among work, play, sleeping, and necessity behaviors; deciding, using, and evaluating short and long term accommodations; decisions and behaviors rega

Author: Arch Woodside
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Keywords: methods, practice, theory, research, study, case
Number of Pages: 455
Published: 2010-06-23
List price: $114.95
ISBN-10: 1849509220
ISBN-13: 9781849509220

"Case Study Research: Theory, Methods and Practice" looks at the research processes involved in conducting methods including participant observation, fuzzy set social science, system dynamics, decision systems analysis, forced metaphor elicitation technique, ethnographic decision tree modelling, mapping strategic thinking, the historical method, storytelling research and conversational analysis. The book reviews and applies the best literature on case study methods from several disciplines providing strong rationales for adopting case study research methods alone or in mixed-methods.