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Covering the entire United States gaming market, Legalized Casino Gaming in the United States provides gaming researchers, policymakers, and hospitality students comprehensive overview of the history, development, legislation, and economic and social impacts of riverboat, land-based, and Native American casino gaming. Containing national and regional research about the industry, this book will provide students with a historical view on gaming and the hospitality industry, offer researchers data and current market status of the industry; and will give policymakers information about the advantages and disadvantages of a gaming industry in their community.
Comprehensive and thorough, Legalized Casino Gaming in the United States is full of case studies, data, and surveys that provide you with credible information on community incomes, residents' attitudes about gaming, and gaming taxes in certain states. This fact-filled book will help you evaluate and learn about the pros and cons of the industry, including:
reviewing changes in the gaming laws and regulations in particular regions and segments of the industry
explaining laws and regulations by state for riverboat and other Native American land-based gaming
examining negative and positive social impacts of gaming, including crime; quality of life; community services; availability of entertainment, recreation, and cultural activities; community attractiveness, such as reputation, appearance, cleanliness, and traffic; local resident attitudes; and pathological gaming
explaining Nevada's gaming regulatory system, including the roles of the Nevada Gaming Commission and Gaming Control Board, and discussing issues related to currency transactions, exclusion lists, work permits, customer disputes, and underage gambling
discussing positive economic aspects of Native American gaming, such as tax benefits, in Connecticut, Wisconsin, Oregon, and Minnesota, and how the industry impacts surrounding communities
Examining the industry from ethical, economic, and social standpoints, the contributors offer you several perspectives of a situation, not just one side of an issue, to help you make educated decisions or opinions about gaming. Bolstered with charts, graphs, tables, and future research recommendations, Legalized Casino Gaming in the United States offers you an in-depth and comprehensive look at the gaming industry, helping you weigh the positive and negative effects of one of the most popular areas of hospitality.
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The Robust Organization: Transforming Your Company Using Adaptive Design
William A. Stimson
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Fundamental change in the global business environment dictates that american industry responds vigorously to remain competitive and to meet customer demands. The goal of the robust organization is to apply the methods of adaptive design to every aspect of a business operation. Robustness implies flexibility, strength and, above all, the ability to achieve an objective or hit a target, even when that target is moving. Robust design uses innovative yet proven principles of systems engineering and adaptive control theory The Robust Organization is a guide for applying these methods and principles to every process and at every level of a company. Designed and written for line managers and non-engineers, The Robust Organization is a guide for applying these methods and principles to every process and at every level of a company. Designed and written for line managers and non-engineers, The Robust Organization brings the vigor and discipline of engineering to an organizational system that will effectively achieve robust performance in every aspect of operations. The Robust Organization also includes: Tips for identifying the tasks that top management must accomplish before proces change can be considered; A wide variety of examples from industry and service companies to illustrate the key points of designing and implementing robustness; Well-developed translations of engineering terms, such as stochastics, stability, and system state, to organizational requirements.
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Beech Forests
R. Peters
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This volume compares the beech forests of eastern Asia, North America and Europe. Beech forests are important in each of these three regions. No other book covers beech on this scale.
The author has personally studied beech forests in each region, and his large body of data is the starting point for comparison. For such a world-wide comparison to be justified, factors that have most strongly influenced the beech forests should be known. First, use and management of beech forests are compared. They have influenced beech forests for millennia and have been very different in each region. Next, in a historical comparison spread and speciation since the early Tertiary are analysed. Today's beech forests cover a wide range of climates and soils; they occur in cool temperate regions as well as on tropical mountains. The final part compares the trees and forests themselves: growth and form of trees, species composition and populations, forest structure and forest dynamics.
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The New Zealand Beeches: Ecology, Utilisation, and Management
John A. Wardle
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This digital document is a journal article from Forest Ecology and Management, published by Elsevier in 2004. 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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Patterns in above- and belowground allocation of biomass and net primary production (NPP) along a topographic and soil N availability gradient were measured in a cool-temperate deciduous forest in central Japan. In this study site, soil N availability changed along the topographic sequence and decreased up the slope. Total NPP ranged from 8.8 to 14.1tha^-^1 and showed no trends along the topographic sequence, while the percentage of belowground NPP to total NPP ranged from 15.2 to 55.1% and increased up the slope. The aboveground NPP ranged from 5.6 to 8.6tha^-^1 and decreased up the slope. Belowground NPP ranged from 1.5 to 7.7tha^-^1 and increased up the slope. Fine root production contributed to this trend. Allocation to structural components in the lower slope exceeded that on upper slope positions, whereas higher allocation to fine roots on the upper slope may result in higher annual belowground litterfall. Our results suggest that differences in the carbon allocation pattern of plants between structural and litter components may be a driving force to create variations in forest structure and nutrient cycling along the topographic sequence.
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This digital document is an article from Instructor (1990), published by Scholastic, Inc. on April 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1049 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: Activities: Discover the underwater world of the "rainforests of the sea" with these great tech activities. (Coral Reefs).(Brief Article)
Author: Laura Beech
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Instructor (1990) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2002
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Issue: 7
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This digital document is a journal article from Forest Policy and Economics, published by Elsevier in 2006. 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 economic impacts of various harvesting strategies in uneven-aged beech management in Denmark are analysed, using a matrix growth model and taking into account that sales prices fluctuate over time. A vector autoregressive (VAR(1)) model is estimated on the basis of price data 1957-1998 for various assortments and used for simulating price development and consequently the economic return. It is found that harvesting strategies containing a high proportion of large trees have higher mean sales revenue, but with bigger variance, than strategies with a more even diameter distribution. If single-tree management is applied, harvesting strategies with a high proportion of large trees are relatively insensitive to harvest intensity's influence on revenue and diameter distribution. It is also found that even drastic changes of harvesting strategy do not necessarily cause large fluctuations in future revenue, indicating flexibility with respect to harvest. The simulation model results in a large standing volume compared to cyclic management, especially for large dimensions. This gives an option value with respect to adaptation to changing prices, but it also implies high storage costs and thereby a smaller land expectation value (LEV). If harvest is adapted to price fluctuations, there is a potential gain of 11% in uneven-aged management from letting the harvest cycle vary between 5 and 15 years. This is similar to the gain known from even-aged management. Therefore, a possible higher gain from adaptation in uneven-aged management must be caused by the forest structure being less sensitive to changes in ecological conditions, not by the changed assortment portfolio.
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Human Body Systems: Structure, Function and Environment is written for readers who want to learn about their bodies. Focusing primarily on the organ systems that comprise the body, readers will learn the main parts of each system and how they operate, as well as what happens when things go wrong.
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Chronic Complications In Diabetes: Animal Models and Chronic Complications (FRONTIERS IN ANIMAL DIABETES RESEARCH)
Anders A. F., Ed. Sima
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Individual volumes in the series Frontiers in Animal Diabetes Research provide basic researchers as well as clinical investigators with in-depth coverage of basic experimental diabetes research. Each volume will be topic oriented with timely and liberally referenced reviews. The series will provide a valuable reference source for basic researchers as well as clinical investigators, graduate students and research fellows in the areas of diabetology, endocrinology, physiology, and pharmacology. Major advances have been made in diabetes research, partly as a result of experimentation in animal models. Experimental animal research has contributed significantly to the understanding of the aetiology of this disease and its dreaded complications. In particular the areas of immunology, insulin signal transduction, and the pathogenetic mechanisms involved in the chronic complications have become clearer. Various animal models used in diabetes research are reviewed, together with the diverse but often interrelated mechanism in the complication of diabetes. The functional and structural consequences in the various target organs are also discussed. Students, trainees, fellows, as well as clinicians and investigators interested in diabetes and its complications will find this new book series a valuable reference source.
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A practical overview of the garden railway covering both the traditional raised system and the ground-level type. Chapters include: gauges and scales for the garden, surveying and setting out, electricity in the garden, planning the layout, civil engineering, track laying and live steam operation. Fully illustrated with photographs and specially produced diagrams. Filled with clear and precise, step-by-step instructions on how to complete the various modelling and construction processes.
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Not applicable to most of today's Garden Railroaders.......2003-11-23
As the first book I have purchased covering garden railroads, I have to say I'm very disappointed. Although it's a 2002 reprint of a book published in 1995, I found the information to be out of date, and really not that applicable to my chosen scale: G scale.
The book is written by and for Brits, and spends much of the pages discussing the history of British garden railroading from Z to N, HO and mostly O guages. All the "scales" discussed are in Metric, so we Yanks need to constantly convert (or have a conversion chart available).
There are no Web site addresses listed in the "For More Information" appendix, another indication of the age of this publication, and all of the snail mail addresses and phone numbers are in the U.K.
In addition, the pictures are all black and white, so it's not even very visually appealing.
All in all, I'd avoid this book unless you are: 1) from the U.K. and/or 2) interested in an historical discussion of British garden railroads from 1900-1995. Even then, there seem to be many other titles that would be more useful.
I've several other books on their way from Amazon, and hopefully these will be more helpful in getting me started in what appears to be a great hobby.
The Garden Railway Manual : A Step-By-Step Guide to Building.......2000-07-16
The book i have, the 1998 reprint, is very good in detail and text. I realy dit help me setting up my own gardenrailroad
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i Colloquial Amharic /i is the ideal introduction to this language, Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Amharic.
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A thorough course on Amharic--the official language of Ethiopia--complete with up-to-date vocabulary, situation-based conversations, and a variety of exercises with an answer key. Ideal for anyone seeking to develop a firm command of the language, whether studying independently or with a teacher.
This paperback in the Colloquial Language Learning Series is available individually here or as part of a cassette pack. To purchase the book
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Good, could be much better.......2005-02-18
There are not many choices for Amharic self-taught lessons, this is likely the best for the price range.
FSI, Colloquial, Lonely Planet Phrase Book (Amharic ONLY), the Lonely Planet Travel Guide book (Amharic and Tigrinya- spoken in the North of the historical route- Tigray, Axum city) and Talk Now. There are a few online resources.
FSI, Foreign Service Institute, is complete, as in all languages.
Expensive, but provides 26 tapes and a 500+ page textbook. For learning the complete language it is the best starting point, fastest way and best method. For complete learning Colloquial should be added as a 2nd choice. It is more practical and offers good grammatical explanations (if you already have a basic grasp of the grammar and how it is used through FSI)
The more you hear (listen) to Amharic the better. Exercises are good, but listening to learn is much better. The Amharic wording is somewhat long. Lots of suffix, prefix, and add-on's to basic root/stem words. prefix ZZZ(root word- verb or noun)YYY suffix
doctor Indiyayuwat
Indi (aya)u wat = that the doctor sees her
The root verb is aya (seeing), but it is lost in the pre-suffix.
That is one of the difficulties of quickly recognizing questions and being able to quickly answer. It also means that it is very difficult to learn ONLY by being exposed to the language, you need the many grammar rules even for basic sentences. The difficulty is of course in the use of the grammar rules, listening-speaking. Drills are an effective method here.
For English only speakers:
I would guess that 10% of Amharic is easier than learning French
10-50% is equivalent in diffulty to French
50-85% more difficult than French, but manageable
15% MUCH more difficult than French for an English speaker
The problem is that none of courses offer a solution to the needs of the learner.
If you are travelling, short duration visit:
Lonely Planet Phrase Book is probably the worse and best choice. With no tapes, as it is currently offered, this is the worse offering. One needs to hear Amharic. The simplicity of the Phrase Book is good and is the best place, even the serious student, to beging learning, IF you can get the text read in Amharic on tape.
Colloquial is a course that is/was offered in London for somewhat serious students of the language, not travel. For the price, I think it is the best option for the traveler (because of the tapes), although not intended for travel.
This Colloquial provides 2- 60 minute tapes with a ~350 page textbook. ~2500 word glossary in the back. If you want to learn in depth you will need a dictionnary, but the glossary is enough to get you through the book...beginner, ~intermediate?
It is a great reference but crams in far too much material too quickly. It tries to do a beginner and intermediate course for the begginer. Possible Yes, difficult and time consuming for the learner...YES.
From the author:
Amharic is a rich and often complex language, and to be able to pick up a novel, or even a magazine or newspaper article and read it without difficulty does take several years of intensive practice.
The goal of the book/ lesson is to manage: read, write and especially converse in everyday Amharic.
You need the audio tapes, IMPOSSIBLE without.
In 10-20 hours(without hearing the language), I still don't thing you can order food, basic greetings, hotel, taxi, conversations, etc. I seriously doubt. (You can read it while speaking, but remembering and using is another story) Picking out words (not sentences) is quite easy. As a tourist stick to English and some basic words (much easier than building sentences) which you can learn IF you hear them.
Extented stay and you want to learn more than absolute basics:
Lonely Planet phrase book (get it read on tape for you) is a good place to start.
FSI it the best resource to learn Amharic. You will learn to speak the language best and fastest using this method. Pricey, shop around and look for resources on the net of FSI. But if you really want to spend the time learing, it is worth the $$.
The problem with FSI is that it is academia structured. It is not practical, effective, time-friendly. It is design to be used in a class setting, not self-learnt. The same goes for Colloquial.
FSI is VERY heavily front loaded with material that follows the academic learning path. You need to know a lot of grammar and how to use it to build even easy sentences (10-50-85% range earlier mentionned). Lonely Planet will only get you 0-10%, but very useful, and some basics beyond, but not much more. Therefore, FSI front loads as much information to be mastered early on (front loaded). Great in academic theory, but not logical nor time efficient (practical) without extensive class room assistance. 100 hours of learining Q&Answers of a single chapter 8 of 50 for example-is not out of the question to master the material. The earlier material needs to be known, but not so soon and at that level of difficulty. It can be learnt in 1 hour at a later stage with far more logic and simplicity with a better command of the language introduced at a latter stage.
For anyone that is using or plans to use FSI, it is the best resource, but the planning and introduction of the material is just not logical. Academia planned (on paper)= poor actual effective usage for the student and it sticks to the rigid formula until the end. It's all there, but not well presented for the learner. Early chapters are a 9 to 9.95 on 10 in difficulty level. Later chapters 30's... 2/10 difficutly range. Not many learer's will ever get to chapter 30's, because of the difficulty of earlier chapters. To make matters worse the information in the later chapters is the information you will need on a daily basis as a speaker. The difficult material, although let me emphasize that it is needed, is not material you use on a daily basic. The easy-mid range you will constantly use the difficult material you will seldom use, still needed.
After completing the early, difficult, time consuming, not that useful FSI chapters, you still won't be able to make or use the simplest of sentences. You will be able to make up the few basic sentences you learnt, but to use or recognize a general (formulaic) constuctions to sentence that will help learn the difficult material, not to mention to actually speak the language (the goal) FSI will NOT do that unless you get though the whole course. If it were better stuctured, the exact same material, in my opinion only, I truly believe (I would bet a lot of $$ on a sample of a 1000 students) a 5:1 or ever 20:1 learning time savings can be achieved. 5 to 20 times faster for the self-taugh student. After spending that much time learing the first 12 chapters of 50, a student should be able to build-up basic sentences, it is not the case here. It makes sense on paper to need to learn the early parts so soon, but practiclly it does not make sense at all. Amharic is really not that difficult, the material provided just makes it seem that way.
The class room setting would of course move things along much faster and guide the student through the difficult earlier chapters. Still not very well presented even for a class setting, in my opion. I can not do better, but someone that knows what they are doing can easily do better.
What I suggest:
If you are going to Ethiopia as a tourist and you want spend 5+ more hours learning a little. Buy Colloquial, Almaz and Hirut voices are worth the cost alone. BYW, both FSI and Colloquial, the voice are very clear and better pronounced than street talk speed. Colloquial is only slightly more Colloquial in speech, the linking of 2 words as 1 (very quickly) and very occasionally not fully pronouncing the words (as is done in any language Colloquially) is used.
If you don't want to pay the price and have little time. Buy the Lonely Planet. You can TRY reading the book while saying hello or I want a beer. You most likely won't sound at all like what it should, because you haven't heard it (on tape). BUT, the Ethiopians will probably smile and appreciate the effort nonetheless and know what you mean.
If you want to learn the complete language and quicker than Colloquial...go with the FSI.
If you want to get some basics and to learn more in-depth in Ethiopia (on location learning). Colloquial is more than enough. If you want to learn faster and can afford the FSI, that's the best choice.
In Summary, you won't learn Amharic in less than 10 hours for a trip. Colloquial is good enough to give you a starting point to read a magazine, newspaper or listen to the radio- IF (and that is not easy at all) you are capable of finishing the course.
You will learn faster and in more depth with FSI, but you will pay more and still probably (most likely) won't be fully fluent unless you read and listen to Amharic extensively.
3 stars for effort, however it is error prone.......2004-06-06
If you're considering learning Amharic, look somewhere else. This book attempts to present a condensed tutorial on the use of colloquial Amharic, and in my opinion fails miserably.
First, let me start off by saying that Amharic is an extremely complicated language to learn. It is nothing like Spanish, French, or Italian. It is a semitic language, of the same family as Arabic and Hebrew, and contains over 200 characters. On saying that, I believe that it requires more than this book has to offer. Some of the words used in the book are humorous, and will probably prompt laughter by an Amharic speaker (it had me laughing quite often).
It does have some useful phrases and words however, such as the time of day, the days of the week, and very basic greetings. It also has a good section in the back on the conjugation of verbs.
What really shocks me is that Ethiopians collaborated on this effort. My guess is that the people who worked with David (I think he's English) lacked a strong command of the english language, or he didn't consult with them before going to print.
If decide to buy this book anyhow, don't be offended when someone laughs at you, stares blankly, or wonders why you're addressing them as being elderly, when they're in their 20's.
Fun.......2003-04-26
I love Ethiopian music among other things Ethiopian and I bought this in order to improve my understanding of the Amharic lyrics of some of my favorite Ethiopian singers (GiGi, Dawit, Aster, Abonesh, etc.) It's turned into an obsession and passion to study this beautiful language. This is a thorough, fun, extremeley helpful course. For example, The lessons on "glottalized" sounds (sounds made in Amharic that we don't make in English) helped me to better understand, say, GiGi (has a series of highly recommended albums sung entirely in Amharic--beautiful!) when she belts out an Amharic word that my ears can't grasp. Helpful, good, easy to follow lessons. Highly recommended!
amharic for your Ethiopian holiday.......2001-06-12
This is an exellent book to learn amharic from for those really interested in penetrating this extremely difficult language. The author takes you through the amharic alphabet, after which you are prepared to read any amharic text with correct pronounciation. To understand amharic, however, much practising is needed. I managed to learn sufficient amharic from the first 4-5 chapters, so that my 2 weeks journey to Ethiopia became several fold more interesting and inspiring. I managed to convince people I met, that I had spent years in Ethiopia!! That certainly says more about foreigners in Ethiopia than myself.
A very valuable resource, practically one of a kind.......2000-10-30
I like this book very much. This isn't an easy language so it is very slow going (or it was for me, anyway). The tapes provide indispensable practice in listening as well as making sounds that don't exist even in other Semitic languages. A couple of suggestions for making the book a five star book: First, include a section that shows how to hand-write the Amharic syllables. I still feel very awkward writing Amharic although I've been at it for quite a while. Also, I would like it if in the glossary in back there was a Roman transliteration as well as Amharic. I don't want to be dependent on romanization (and it certainly isn't necessary) but in many cases there are geminate (doubled) consonants in the middle of words, which isn't shown in the native writing system. A transcription would be a help in insuring correct pronunciation.
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Colloquial Amharic: The Complete Course for Beginners (Colloquial)
D. Appleyard
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The Calligrapher's Bible: 100 Complete Alphabets and How to Draw Them
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One of the most widely read and consulted texts on calligraphy ever written. History, theory, materials and techniques of calligraphy, typography and constructed letters. Over 500 illustrations and an exhaustive bibliography of scholarly and technical references. "One of the most comprehensive and well made histories of lettering and calligraphy." — American Artist.
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Unique review of calligraphy.......2002-04-23
Unlike most "calligraphy" books, Anderson presents a review of the topic spanning the globe and millenia. Starting with Roman graffiti and ending with modern calligraphy revival schools in California to 8th Century Burma, there's a little bit of everything here.
A nice review of western european medieval calligraphy, I rarely use the rest of the book. It presents well how the different styles are related, the development of modern styles of calligraphy and type fonts, the 20th century revival of more traditional art forms with some froo-froo hat tipping to Victorian style copperplate to bold modern blocky forms.
This has it all. A well written book, it references the copious plates and examlpes while guiding the novice through the years and development of the manifaceted art style known as calligraphy.
I would recommend this for intermediate students who are interested in the history of calligraphy, to complement learning how to do it. This will not teach you how to do calligraphy, it will hopefully teach you how to appreciate it as an art form.
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