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Check In; Check Out: Managing Hotel Operations (7th Edition)

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Check In; Check Out: Managing Hotel Operations (7th Edition)
Jerome J. Vallen , and Gary K. Vallen
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This book has been a job-training leader and valuable professional reference in rooms management for over two decades. It provides exceptionally complete coverage of the hotel's front office and all of the support positions that make it work—from the international reservation network, to legal concerns, sales and marketing techniques, management issues, room rate formulas, control and oversight, etc. In a sequence that follows the flow of most guests—reservation, arrival, billing, departure, auditing and accounting—the book treats both the how-to (e.g., completing a reg card) and the wherefore (e.g., yield management) while keeping readers abreast of the trends currently affecting the industry. For hotel/resort managers and front-office support staff.

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a very good book.......2006-02-07

I bought this book to understand better the modern age in the hotel industry. I run a small hotel in Greece with my family and now we are building a new more up to date one. This book helped me to understand the hotel industry as a whole and the way it is changing. It covers with detail many issues, from GDS to bed making. There are hundrends of examples that make it easy to understand what is being discused. It is abstract at the beginning of every chapter and becomes more practical (how to do things) further on.
Although the books draws most cases and examples from big properties, I found it very helpful and discovered many ways to improve the service we offer in our small hotel.

It is one of the books that I will keep for reference and the best I have read so far, among those that try to cover almost every aspect of running a hotel. I can not think of someone in the hotel bussines who would not find this book intresting and worth reading.

CHECK-IN CHECK OUT.......2002-01-20

THIS IS IS WELL WRITTEN BOOK IT COVERS ALL THE ISSUES ABOUT RUNNING A HOTEL/MOTEL.I FOUND THIS BOOK VERY HELPFUL.

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Douglas K. Rex , and Christopher B. Williams
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Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog (Tor Classics)

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Didn't age well
Good reading of delightful novel
Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog
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Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog (Tor Classics)
Jerome K. Jerome
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"I had the general symptoms, the chief among them being a disinclination to work of any kind."So begin the hilarious misadventures of a merry, but scandalously lazy band of well-to-do young men-and a plucky and rather world-weary fox terrier named Montmorency-on an idyllic cruise along the River Thames. Feeling seedy, muses one of them dreamily, "What we want is rest." What they find instead is one hapless catastrophe after another. Soggy weather, humiliating dunkings, the irritating behavior of small boats and the "contrariness of teakettles" are just a few of the barbarisms our genteel heroes are forced to endure. But which a delighted reader can only sing, Hooray!First published in 1889, Three Men in a Boat was an instant success, and Jerome has been compared to comic master P.G. Wodehouse.

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A marvel of British comedy, this story of a simple boating trip follows in the tradition of Oscar Wilde. In the late 19th century, three men pack food, clothes, and dog into a small boat built with character and charm (read: disaster in the making), then traverse the English countryside along the Thames, armed with their wits and a certain genteel ruthlessness.

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three men in a boat from the oxford bookworms library.......2007-05-04

I read this book about 10 years ago......and today I'm still laughing.
Jerome possessed very good comic timing, the story flowed naturally, the emotions and reaction of the 3 men were so real that I wish I was on the river and met them at that time! Somehow this book can teach us the importance of taking a break from our daily life.
I recently bought a copy from Amazon which was initialy meant as a gift for someone, but having a second thought, I decided to keep it as a precious reading companion for myself when I'm travelling.

Didn't age well.......2007-03-26

Jerome K. Jerome might have been a riot 100 years ago but this book will provoke only a rare smirk. The best bits belong to the dog who only seems to appear at the end of every third or fourth chapter to drop a one-liner. Other than that, it is aged, slow moving slapstick with some oddly out-of-place moments of reflection.

How anyone can call this a laugh riot boggles my mind.

Good reading of delightful novel.......2006-11-10

This is a very nice reading of one of my favorite humorous novels.

Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog.......2006-11-10

So very refreshing!!!!! Lots of laughs.

A comedic classic.......2006-09-25

I had put off reading this book for many years, and finally got to it.

The writing in this novel is simply superb. Jerome possesses a comic timing that most authors don't have and can simply never hope to have. He is able to weave in a history of the River Thames in with the bumblings of the three main characters and their dog, without hurting either major premise of the book.

The main reason to read this is because it will make you laugh. If it doesn't, you are not understanding it correctly.

Clinical Bone Marrow and Blood Stem Cell Transplantation

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The text of this new third edition is significantly revised and updated with 124 chapters on all aspects of autologous, syngeneic, and allogeneic transplantation. Thoroughly referenced through 2003 with a final "breaking news" chapter from this rapidly evolving field, the authoritative and practical text is an essential resource for hematologists, oncologists, and transplant specialists. Second Edition Hb (1999): 0-521-62288-3

Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel

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Just Delightful
Mediumly funny, but dry humor (except where they fall overboard!)
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Only slightly humorous

Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel
Jerome K. Jerome , and Jeremy Lewis
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`Other works may excel this in depth of thought and knowledge of human nature: other books may rival it in originality and size; but, for hopeless and incurable vivacity, nothing yet discovered can surpass it.' (Jerome, Preface to Three Men in a Boat). Three Men in a Boat describes a comic expedition by middle-class Victorians up the Thames to Oxford. It provides brilliant snap-shots of London's playground in the late 1880s, where the fashionable steam-launches of river swells encounter the hired skiffs of city clerks. The medley of social vignettes, farcical incidents, descriptions of river fashions, and reflections on the Thames's history, is interspersed with humorous anecdotes told by a natural raconteur. Three Men on the Bummel records a similar escapade, a break from the claustrophobia of suburban life some ten years later; their cycling tour in the Black Forest, at the height of the new bicycling craze, affords Jerome the opportunity for a light-hearted scrutiny of German social customs at a time of increasing general interest in a country that he loved. This account of middle-aged Englishmen abroad is spiced with typical Jeromian humour.

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Just Delightful.......2007-06-05

What a delightful read! The book weaves the happenings of a current boat trip with stories of previous trips and experiences. It is hillarious, laugh-out-loud funny in a lot of spots. The language is superb and the research section is very helpful. All in all a great read!

Mediumly funny, but dry humor (except where they fall overboard!).......2007-04-20

I liked it, but then I have a dry wit as well. It is two books in one publication and so it is good value. It also came from an age where the average folk could afford to buy books. So it is very colloquial in content. The sort of "you could be out having fun" too sort of tale. And yet most of us could easily replicate a journey like their's either rowing up the Thames or biking in Germany.

So not a laugh a minute slapstick stuff but definitely funny. On the other hand if you are worried, buy a used copy some of them are quite cheap. Or get it from the library.

super delivery.......2006-08-25

i have nothing to say about the product, a book i have allready read. i am very satisfied with the delivery. thank you

Cannot resist.......2005-06-10

I was going to hold off on glowing reviews for a bit, but I couldn't resist commenting on this book. I'm not even sure how I stumbled on Jerome, but I found Three Men on the Bummel about as funny as anything I've read in a long while. I've studied German off and on for a few years, so I got a kick out of Jerome's comments on the language and people, and with the driest of dry observations energized by a bit of hyperbole it had me laughing out loud. Both stories are very funny, but Three Men on the Bummel was laugh out loud funny and his observations on the German people (pre-WWII) were uncannily prescient.

Both stories are similar, they involve a bit of a bungling, but not too bungling, English fellow getting in a bit over his head with his mates, and the use of humorous exaggeration is about as well done asa you ever see it in print. For a Wodehouse, etc fan- these are in must read territory.

Only slightly humorous.......2002-12-10

I'm a little surprised that so many people found this book so humorous. After reading this little travelogue I would say that I snickered about, oh... twice, and was stupefyingly bored for most of the read. This book put me to sleep in mid-chapter for many nights, and they are very short chapters.

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The massive research effort known as the Human Genome Project is an attempt to record the sequence of the three trillion nucleotides that make up the human genome and to identify individual genes within this sequence. The description and classification of sequences is heavily dependent on mathematical and statistical models. This short textbook presents a brief description of several ways in which mathematics and statistics are being used in genome analysis and sequencing.

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Narrow and shallow.......2003-10-10

Genome analysis is a huge field - any title that promises to address it all has taken on a huge task.

This brief book does not deliver on the title's promise. It provides a cursory introduction to the assembly problem. That intro is so brief, however, that I don't think a reader will come away understanding what genome assembly is really about.

It continues with a disappointing analysis of nucleotide frequencies. The probability analysis is competent enough, within its limits, but I don't see any mention of why the analysis is interesting, or how to extend it the same techniques proteins. The author proposes spectral analysis as a tool, and argues for Walsh vectors as basis functions. Spectral analysis is offbeat, to say the least, but the author does not explain what (if any) biological insight the technique generates. More mainstream tools, including Markov Models, get little or no mention.

The chapter on sequence comparison is so short and skips so much critical material, that I'm tempted to call it negligent.

Perhaps you have specific reason for wanting the narrow and idiosyncratic view that Percus brings. ...

Short but helpful.......2002-01-02

This book is a short overview of some of the important mathematical techniques used to study genome sequences. In spite of the length of the book, the author does a fine job of introducing these techniques. Students of computational biology will especially benefit from its perusal.

The first section is a brief overview of the structure of DNA, m-RNA, and t-RNA. Recognizing that DNA is two large for direct analysis, restriction fragments are discussed in the second section, with emphasis on the restriction-enzyme fingerprint. The author's goal is to find the probability of occurences of a 6-letter word in a strand and the mean distance between occurrences of this word (assuming no overlap between the words or the occurences and equal probabilities for the bases). The effect of successive pair correlation (Markov chain effect) is considered briefly. This is followed by a calculation of the probability that a base pair is contained in a given clone. The author omits any discussion of algorithms for optical mapping, but does give a brief discussion of restriction maps.

The mathematics becomes more rigorous in chapter two, wherein the author analyzes a chain that exists as a set of cloned subchains with unknown overlap. This is the 'fingerprint assembly' problem the object of which is to produce a physical map of the full sequence. The fingerprint of the clone is a collection of lengths of a particular restriction fragments. This algorithm involves a sequence of contiguous clones called 'islands'; and 'contigs', which are two or more clones. The average number and size of islands are calculated assuming that the clones have equal length and identical overlap threshold. The method of anchoring is also discussed as a second method for obtaining the physical map of the genome. The author then considers the problem of covering the whole sequence by first placing n markers on a genome and covering by intervals centered at these markers. This is the restriction-fragment-length polymorphism analysis, the combinatorics of which the author solves by using Laplace and Fourier transforms. He also considers adaptive and non-adaptive pooling, in order to find a particular set of proteins on a large fragment.

The third chapter addresses sequence statistics, with the author addressing the nonhomogeneity of sequences and the correlation dependence in the bases. The chi-square test is discussed is some detail and the author discusses the accuracy of the Markov chain assumption. Noting that very long chains would be needed to determine the parameters for the expressions for the conditional correlations, he uses the maximum likelihood method to find the intrinsic correlation length, and then estimates the parameters by modeling the parameter set.

The author then studies the isochore regions and discusses their detection via the Jensen-Shannon entropy. Asking whether there are correlations between these long regions and within them motivates him to consider the long-range properties of DNA. This leads to the examination of a long fragment of a single strand of DNA, and with the assumption that strand-symmetry holds, the correlation coefficients are studied, with the decay properties of the auto- and cross-correlation discussed. Then, distinguishing only dual pairs, the author considers the probability that a pair is separated by an integer after an integral number of steps, a calculation that reduces to finding the largest eigenvalue of a 'transfer matrix', a procedure well-known in statistical physics.

Next, a consideration of simple sequence repeats leads to a difference equation that is solved by the method of moments. Windows of bases are then discussed, in order to improve on the statistics. Correlations within and between windows are calculated. Interestingly, the consideration of long-range correlations gives a power-law dependence for the correlations, which is related to the Hurst index for self-similar patterns. Readers get their first taste of hidden Markov models in this chapter, which are currently very popular in sequence analysis. Even more interesting is the discussion of walking Markov models, wherein a first-order base-to-base Markov chain is chosen to depend on a hidden parameter, and the time evolution is shown to satisfy a Fokker-Planck (diffusion) equation. Spectral analysis and information theoretic criteria are also discussed.

In the next chapter of the book, the author considers the most important part of sequence analysis, namely the comparison between sequences according to their linear ordering. The problem is to find the probability of a common subsequence of two linear chains with a given length. The first calculation assumes that the matches are mutually exclusive, and the result is an upper bound on the probability. The author then considers the matches to be independent events, and again bounds are given for the probability, the so-called Chen-Stein estimate). He also gives an estimate of the probability in terms of an asymptotic series. Extreme value methods are then used to calculate the expectation value and the variance of the length of the longest match. An interesting exercise is assigned for the reader; namely of finding the effect on the Fourier and Walsh power spectrum with the assumption that the base correlations are fractal in form. The alignment problem is then generalized to include replication errors, mutations, etc. The chapter ends, appropriately, with a discussion of multisequence comparison. The author poses the problem as one of finding the best match of a word to an n-tuple of words, which he tackles first using 'information content'. The category analysis of separating subsequence configurations into clusters is briefly discussed via simulated annealing, discriminant analysis, Bayesian analysis, and neural networks.

The last chapter is a short introduction to the biophysics of DNA. The Hamiltonian for the dynamics of DNA is given, thermal equilibrium is assumed, and the partition function is calculated. This is followed by a discussion of the dynamics at low temperature when the energy is given by RNA polymerase instead of the heat bath, and the dynamics is solved via the Lagrangian using Bessel functions.

Three Men in a Boat (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Stands the test of time

... to say nothing of the dog

Three Men in a Boat (Penguin Popular Classics)
Jerome K. Jerome
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Stands the test of time.......2007-01-19

Basically, it's a narrative of three men (and a dog) taking a boat trip down the river in the late 1800s. Filled with flashbacks and tangential stories that range from the hysterically funny to tragic and heartwarming.

"...and you look back and realize that you have been swimming for your life in two feet of water."

There is so much going on, so much jumping around that it (occassionally)is hard to keep track of where you are (in the main story or in a tangent...). So there were probably things I missed, and I may go back and read it later, because it was truly well-written and very engrossing. There were parts that made me laugh out loud, and then... there were even some rather tragic, touching moments. All blended together with well-crafted prose and great scenic description.

I will warn you that the humor is, well, a certain type of humor. It's very dry and British, so if that's not your style you probably won't find it as funny as I did. But even without that there's still enough to recommend the book.

... to say nothing of the dog.......2006-05-23

Imagine Bertie Wooster and two of his idiot friends out on a boat... with no Jeeves. That about describes "Three Men in a Boat : To Say Nothing of the Dog," Jerome K. Jerome's enchanting comic novel about three young men (to say nothing of the dog) who discover the "joys" of roughing it.

The three men are George, Harris and the narrator, who are all massive hypochiandriacs -- they find that they have symptoms of every disease in existance (except housemaid's knee). To prop up their failing health, they decide to take a cruise down the Thames in a rented boat, camping and enjoying nature's bounty.

Along with Monty -- an angelic-looking, devilish terrier -- the three friends set off down the river. But they find that not everything is as easy as they expected. They get lost in hedge mazes, end up going downstream without a paddle, encounter monstrous cats and vicious swans, have picnics navigate locks, offend German professors, and generally get into every kind of trouble they possibly can...

Even though it was published more than a century ago, "Three Men in a Boat" remains as freshly humorous as when it was first published. While editor/playwright/author Jerome K. Jerome wrote a lot of other books, this book remains his most famous. And once you've read it, you'll see why.

Jerome's real talent is in finding humor in everyday things, like trying to erect a tent in the woods, getting seasick, or questioning whether it's safe to drink river water. Written in Jerome's dry, goofy prose, these little occurrances become immensely funny. One of the funniest parts of the book is when the boys listen to a fishermen telling of his prowess, only to accidently knock down his record-breaking stuffed fish.... and discover it's made out of plaster. Oops.

But Jerome takes a break from the humor near the end, when the boys find a drowned woman floating in the river. And here he becomes solemn and quietly compassionate: "She had sinned - some of us do now and then - and her family and friends, naturally shocked and indignant, had closed their doors against her."

But back on the funny stuff. The capstone on all this humor is the "three men." These guys are basically pampered Victorian aristocrats, who have a romantic yearning for the great outdoors. You'll be laughing at them and with them, as they struggle through the basics of boating and camping.

Funny, wacky and creepily true to life, "Three Men in a Boat" is an enduring comic classic in the vein of PG Wodehouse. Not to mention the dog!

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You'll never believe this is HOUSE!

Three Men in a Boat
Jerome K. Jerome
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You'll never believe this is HOUSE!.......2007-01-07

For those of you who only know Hugh Laurie as Greg House M.D. - you're in for a surprise. You'd never guess that gravely voiced doctor could be the same posh Brit you'll hear on this recording.

His first-person narration of JKJ's Three Men in a Boat is without doubt one of the funniest things I've ever heard! The book itself is hysterical, but when Hugh Laurie gets his teeth into it, it transcends! His reading of this is my favorite audio book of all time. I keep it in my car and listen to it whenever I feel stressed or need a pick-me-up - or just want to laugh. I practically have the thing memorized, but it never gets old or boring.

When he starts talking about Montmorency (fox terriers are born with four times the original sin of other dogs!), I can't help but laugh out loud.

Buy this CD - it's charming, witty, sweet, surprising informative (JKJ meant for it to be a travel guide when he started) and Hugh Laurie turns it into a rare gem!

Please, Mr. Laurie, do some more audio books! You're brilliant!

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A Right Way, a Wrong Way, free will
Le Guin's renditon, like "Crystal Blue Persuasion"
The Way is The Way
Not a translation at all....
The Way of Being. Outstanding Book

Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching
Ursula K. Le Guin , Jerome P. Seaton , and Lao-Tzu
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Like Stephen Mitchell, acclaimed author and poet Ursula K. Le Guin has attempted a nonliteral, poetic rendition of the Tao Te Ching. She brings to it a punctuated grace that can only have been hammered out during long trials of wordsmithing. The wisdom that she finds in the Tao Te Ching is primal, and her spare, undulating phrases speak volumes. By making the text her own, Le Guin avoids such questions as "Is it accurate?" By making it her own, she has made it for us--a new, uncarved block from which we are free to sculpt our own meaning.

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A Right Way, a Wrong Way, free will .......2007-02-19

Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

The Tao Te Ching , roughly translatable as The Book of the Way and its Virtue (see below), is a Chinese classic text. According to tradition, it was written around 600 BCE by the Taoist sage Laozi (or Lao Tzu, "Old Master"), a record-keeper at the Zhou Dynasty court. A careful reading of the text, however, suggests that it is a compilation of maxims sharing similar themes. The text's authenticity, authorship, and date of composition or compilation are still debated.

( Jesus said, I am The Way, The Truth, The Life. Now go read the first few lines of John. It says, In the beginning, was the word, and the word was with God. )

Jesus is the word, and has been here since the beginning, so that makes him the one and only God.

This Te CHing, how many around the world are following this today>? hardly any, I bet its less than 1% in the USA. While Christianity is worldwide.

Enough said.

Le Guin's renditon, like "Crystal Blue Persuasion".......2007-02-12

What makes this version of the Tao te Ching so unique is that LeGuin has taken the 8 translations that seemed most cogent to her and synthesized them into a very compelling rendition. She spells this out in the Notes section.

This rendering opens up the poetic and philosophical horizons whereby Lao Tzu's original vision is now made manifestly accessible for us in the 21st Century. If the Old Guy was around today, he would approve of how Ursula LeGuin has disseminated his thoughts.

Only a writer of the purest "water" can take something cryptic and render the latent truths it contains in such a way that the value becomes accessible: "In my obscurity/is my value" (p. 90). Ursula LeGuin has done us all a great service in the writing of this book. Infinite thanks . . .

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The Way is The Way.......2006-03-11

Even though the information seems a bit short. That is the Way. This little books sums it up most pleasantly. You get a chance to think on the pieces and the writer/translator does not insult your intelligence with mundane information. She allows the reader to make their own assessment. I do recommend this book as one for travel and pondering. A great way to empty your mind.

Not a translation at all...........2005-04-11

If she had a genuine interest in translating the Tao Te Ching one would think that Ursula LeGuin would have learned Chinese and studied the Tao Te Ching in depth. She has done neither, and the "translation" shows this, making some very horrible distortions of the original text that are indeed well written, but have nothing to do with Taoism.

The Way of Being. Outstanding Book.......2004-04-22

Ursula K. Le Guin did a remarkable job in bringing us her translation of this magnificent book that will lift your heart, bring more understanding to your mind, free your ego from its grip on your life, and bring your soul peace from the ancient and extraordinary verses in this book.

This is one book that would bring harmony to anyone, when taken into the depths of consciousness. It will show you the way of being. It will help you live with what IS, and that alone will help free you from pain.

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