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Transforming Warriors
This volume offers an interdisciplinary study of how different cultures have sought to transform individuals into warriors. War changes people, however a less explored question is how different societies want people to change as they are turned into warriors. When societies go to war they recognize that a boundary is being crossed. The participants are expected to do things that are otherwise prohibited, or at least governed by different rules. This edited volume analyses how different cultures have conceptualized the transformations of an individual passing from a peacetime to a wartime existence to become an active warrior. Despite their differences, all societies grapple with the same que...
Migration from the Russian Empire: June 1889-July 1890
These two volumes continue the work of documenting all 2.3 million immigrants from the Russian Empire who arrived in the United States between 1871 & 1910. Several nationalities or ethnic groups were represented in this migration-Poles, Byelorussians, Ukrainians, Jews, Finns, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, & Germans (the socalled Volga Germans). These ethnic Russians emigrated in far greater numbers than indigenous Russians, as reflected in the fact that of the 1.7 million Russian emigrants who arrived in the U.S. between 1899 & 1910, 43 percent were Jews, 27 percent Poles, 9 percent Lithuanians, 8 percent Finns, 5 percent Germans, & 4 percent indigenous Russians. The first four volumes o...
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Handbook of Rituals in Contemporary Studies of Religion
This book brings together leading international scholars with the aim of exploring ritual perspectives in the study of contemporary religions. It combines significant theoretical and methodological reflections and applies it to four main fields relevant to the study of contemporary religions: indigeneity; new spiritualities and ecology; lived religion (with Islam and Africa as case studies); and finally, religion and embodiment. The structure and content of the book takes its point of departure from the research topics and collegial network of the internationally acclaimed scholar of ritual studies, Professor Anne-Christine Hornborg. The book is dedicated to her.
This is Revenue Management
Learn the timeless principles behind successful hotel revenue management and how to effectively apply these principles to your hotel. These are proven techniques used by the best revenue managers to create massive value for their hotels. The revenue management and distribution scenes evolve at a rapid pace and the goal of this book is to make sure the lessons contained within will be just as relevant in 10 years as in 2019 when it was written. You will learn about revenue management basics, forecasting, booking windows, pace, value pricing, direct bookings, pricing, displacements analysis, group pricing, hotel management and much more. Your role as a revenue manager is to be a hungry, data-driven general who combines your own experience with data. Once you have some experience to lean back on, this is an unbeatable formula for success. This book is written for beginners as well as experienced hospitality professionals & hotel managers. The text provides you with a step-by-step framework to practice successful revenue management and can be used as your playbook to refer back to whenever you may need guidance.
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