The rapid increase in global services during the last few decades is without doubt one of the most challenging social, cultural, political, and especially economic, forces of our time. Services have supplanted agriculture, manufacturing and resources, as the primary source of international competitive advantage in many countries, providing wealth, employment, and almost unlimited future opportunities for growth, whether in traditional or more innovative forms. This book explores the strategic management of services through an Integrated Services Management Model which links operational, marketing, financial and human resource management functions, within a broad and diverse collection of international, regional, and local service contexts. It contains numerous case examples, student projects and exercises, designed to illustrate common problems and innovative approaches, with a particular focus on the Asia Pacific and Australasian regions.

Nature is poetry in motion. Second Nature: Yours, Mine, Its? is a compendium of observations and metaphors of the great outdoors, and our lives lived within.

Haikus are an age-old Japanese poetry form organized in lines of 5-7-5 syllables. Stone Deaf Sound Waves is a westerner's impression of these wonderfully expressed and compact lines. The haikus convey visualizations and understandings that touch the spirit of the reader. They can be humorous, irreverent and thought-provoking, and include observations on nature, life, love, and the innermost feelings we all have.

Nature is poetry in motion. Whose Nature? Yours, Mine, Its? is a compendium of observations and metaphors of the great outdoors, and our lives lived within.

Clumsy Love - Who hasn't known it? Who can always know what to do? Step aside Cupid and Dear Abby (and marriage counselors), The Clumsy Love poet exposes relationship foibles... Somewhat, Partially Or Through and through.

The spirits or vibrations of nature are the instincts or life forces that give life to every creature on the planet. There are human, animal and plant instincts, and overall, giving them substance, the life forces of materiality, the 'instincts' that compel atoms to combine in certain ways and keep the universe functioning. At the outset, people were purely 'human': comparatively helpless, naked creatures who lived in the world of instinct. All the wealth and technology of the world is to be found within the material zone: and this broad field of material instincts - the home of civilisation - proved an irresistible attraction for humankind. As they acquired the skill to make and use artefacts, the material life forces (which already governed their bodies) gradually took over their souls too. An instinctive awareness of this spiritual descent gave rise to the stories of mythology which have been handed down to us. In mythological terms we have all trodden a downhill route from Eden to the gates of Hades itself, and the time has come to seek the path that will take us back to the very gates of heaven. This book tells how it can be done.

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Play Production Scene-sketches See page 47 Top and center, by Victor Jacoby bottom, by Charles Allen Play Production FOR LITTLE THEATERS, SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES BY MILTON SMITH Associate Professor of Dramatic Arts and Director of Brander Matthews Theater Columbia University ILLUSTRATED BY WILLIAM STEINEL APPLETON-CENTURY-CROFTS, INC. NEW YORK PREFACE This book is a revision and an expansion of a similar one written many years ago. It is based on the same principle, that the first and most important approach to the art of the theater should be one which tries to discover its unity, and that theater practice involves the combining of many elements to make an exciting experience for an audience. None of these elements should be neglected by the practitioner who wishes to understand the art. In the following pages, therefore, I have tried to describe these elements and to explain their relationship. While I hope that it will be possible for inquiring students to find sensible answers to many practical questions in the following pages, varying from those involving general process such as how to conduct rehearsals and how to manage a performance to specific details such as how to cover or paint a flat, my primary aim has been to rationalize and relate these processes. This approach is based on the belief that mere practice of an art does not necessarily, in and of itself, bring about improvement except, perhaps, in the rare case of genius and that true progress is likely to take place only when an intellectual basis for the criticism of that practice can be established. However, in the course of more than thirty years of teaching theater, I have arrived at the melancholy conclusion that it isprobably impossible to make generalizations that are philosoph ically unassailable, or to formulate principles of practice that are universally applicable. I am certain, therefore, that every experienced and thoughtful practitioner of the art of the theater will disagree with some of my conclusions and precepts. I hereby reserve the right to disagree with them myself for in the VI PREFACE attempt to be brief, clear, and logical, many of them came out dogmatic and oversimplified. Finally, I wish to express my appreciation and to extend my thanks to my colleagues and students, not only to those who will recognize their contributions to the following pages, but also to the many others who have helped to develop and process my thinking in this field during the past thirty years. I am grateful for their earnest and intelligent cooperation, and for what they have taught me, in many happy hours of labor in the process of making innumerable plays. M. S. Contents PAGE PREFACE V Part I THE THEATER AND THE SCRIPT CHAPTER I POINT OF VIEW AND DEFINITIONS The Theater The Modern Conception of a Play The Play vs...

Be taken on a journey through Genesis. Written in daily studies, you will encounter God in the Bible in an exciting and deeply personal way.

Be taken on a journey through Genesis. Written in daily studies, you will encounter God in the Bible in an exciting and deeply personal way.

This book introduces a new scheduler to fairly and efficiently distribute system resources to many users of varying usage patterns compete for them in large shared computing environments. The Rawlsian Fair scheduler developed for this effort is shown to boost performance while reducing delay in high performance computing workloads of certain types including the following four types examined in this book: i. Class A - similar but complementary workloads ii. Class B - similar but steady vs intermittent workloads iii. Class C - Large vs small workloads iv. Class D - Large vs noise-like workloads This new scheduler achieves short-term fairness for small timescale demanding rapid response to varying workloads and usage profiles. Rawlsian Fair scheduler is shown to consistently benefit workload Classes C and D while it only benefits Classes A and B workloads where they become disproportionate as the number of users increases. A simulation framework, dSim, simulates the new Rawlsian Fair scheduling mechanism. The dSim helps achieve instantaneous fairness in High Performance Computing environments, effective utilization of computing resources, and user satisfaction through the Rawlsian Fair scheduler.

In Looking Beyond Race, Otis Milton Smith (1922-94) recounts his life as an African American who overcame poverty and prejudice to become a successful politician and the first black elected to a statewide office in the nineteenth century. He went on to become the first black vice president and general counsel of General Motors.

Born in the slums of Memphis, Smith was the illegitimate son of a black domestic worker and her prominent white employer. Although he identified with his mother's blackness, he inherited his father's white complexion. This left him open to racism from whites, who resented his African American heritage, and blacks, who resented his skin color.

Throughout his life, Smith worked with and met many prominent Americans. He knew boxer Joe Louis, future general Daniel "Chappie" James, future Detroit mayor Coleman Young, and the nation's first African American general, B. O. Davis Jr. Through politics he knew Michigan's prominent politicians and was appointed by Governor John Swainson to the Michigan Supreme Court, making him the first black man since reconstruction to sit on any Supreme Court in the nation. Smith also knew nationally known figures such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Estes Kevauver, and presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. Through his civil rights work, he met A. P. Tureaud, Roy Wilkins, and Benjamin Hooks, and he worked closely with Vernon Jordan.

Looking Beyond Race provides a rare glimpse into the inner workings of America's largest corporation, General Motors, at a time when the company expanded its overseas market and faced an unprecedented flood of consumer lawsuits. Smith was an early advocate of the increasedcooperation between business and government that was so necessary for businesses negotiating the complexities of a global economy. In 1983 he retired as general counsel for the corporation, having been the company's first black officer.

This memoir, which Smith dictated during the three years before his death in 1994, is a compelling tale that ends with the inspirational story of Smith's reconciliation with his white relatives who still live in the South. In this highly readable memoir, Looking Beyond Race provides a moving tale that will appeal to readers interested in African American history, politics, labor relations, business and Michigan history.