The Cultivation of Taste: Chefs and the Organization of Fine Dining
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After many decades, if not centuries, of neglect of fine food and high-level restaurants in Britain,...

The Directors Manual: A Framework for Board Governance
Peter C. Browning and William L. Sparks
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Directors: Improve Board Performance The Director's Manual: A Framework for Board Governance offers...

The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took Their Children's Future - And Why They Should Give it Back
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The baby boom of 1945-65 produced the biggest, richest generation that Britain has ever known....
Tourism in Brazil: Environment, Management and Segments
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Since the 1990s, tourism has become a major driver of economic activity and community development in...
Designing Schools in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Focusing on West and Southern Africa, this book provides a comprehensive historical analysis of...

Free Jazz/Black Power
Philippe Carles, Jean-Louis Comolli and Gregory Pierrot
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For the first time in English, the classic volume that developed a radical new understanding of free...

On Anger: Race, Cognition, Narrative
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Anger is an emotion that affects everyone regardless of culture, class, race, or gender-but at the...

Experiencing Liveness in Contemporary Performance: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Matthew Reason and Anja Molle Lindelof
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This volume brings together dynamic perspectives on the concept of liveness in the performing arts,...

Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914: Engineering Triumphs That Transformed Meiji-Era Japan
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Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914 is a cultural and engineering history of railway building in Japan...

In Pursuit of Privilege: A History of New York City's Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis
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A history that extends from the 1750s to the present, In Pursuit of Privilege recounts upper-class...