The hospitality sector is one of the largest growing industries in the world. This is reflected in the growing number of academic courses available on the subject. The key element of hospitality management is interaction between the people who work in the industry and the environment in which they work.

Yvonne Guerrier has compiled a state-of-the-art textbook which considers the core elements of organizational behaviour in the hospitality industry with an international perspective. By its very nature, hospitality management is becoming an international topic and as such needs to be studied in this context. The book draws on the available case studies and experiences from around the world in order to develop an understanding of working and living with people from different cultures.

Organizational Behaviour in Hotels and Restaurants will enable you to find the answers to such questions as:
"Why is it a pleasure to work in some organizations and torture to work in others?
"Why is it sometimes difficult to motivate people to work hard?"
"How can one person persuade people to work together as a team?"
What is the best way of designing an organization structure?"
"How can I persuade my boss to listen to my ideas?"

Students studying hospitality management, hotel management or hotel and catering management at degree level will find this book an invaluable guide to the subject. Students studying for degrees in tourism management, leisure management and retail management will also find much in this book which is of relevance and interest to them.

It is not only green thinkers who value the environment. Decisions on how to respond to global environmental change, energy policy or where to site a new road are all informed by values. People bring very different sets of values to the understanding of environmental issues depending on whether they come from developed or developing countries, are applying an expert or lay person judgment, are making policy decisions from a distance or are directly affected at their local level. This book examines the multitude of ways in which we value the environment from a social science perspective. This is a multidisciplinary collection with contributions from academics with backgrounds in philosophy, sociology, psychology, economics, geography, law and engineering. The book is divided into four sections: the first addresses fundamental theoretical and conceptual issues; the second explores the methodological problems of uncovering peoples values; the third looks at some of the policy dilemmas which arise when different sets of values in relations to the environment conflict; and the final section deals with issues of value-change through education about the environment. The book will be of interest to social scientists whose work, either directly or indirectly, is concerned with the environment, whether looking at national and local government decisions, urban or rural planning, the response of business to environmental issues, protest movements and local democracy, education and value change. It is an excellent introduction to the conceptual and methodological issues and to the way in which researchers from different social science disciplines view values and the environment.

The benefits of this book lies not in the association of anatomy with modern imaging techniques (CT and MRI), but also and predominantly in the numerous diagrams of bony fenestration of the cochlea, the vestibule and the semicircular canals. These views reveal the membranous labyrinth, the internal organs of balance and audition, and highlight their innervation, as well as the utricular and saccular nerves of the spiral organ of corti.

Cet atlas prA(c)sente le trajet de chaque nerf A partir de son origine rA(c)elle et apparente, son trajet intra-canalaire et intra-crA nien, jusqu'A la pA(c)riphA(c)rie avec la vascularisation artA(c)rielle et veineuse. L'auteur a rA(c)alisA(c) de nombreux diagrammes particuliers. Notamment de la systA(c)matisation du nerf facial avec ses rameaux communicants jusqu'aux glandes lacrymales et salivaires et de l'organe audio-vestibulaire prA(c)sentA(c) avec les fenestrations au niveau des parois osseuses de la cochlA(c)e, du vestibule et des canaux semi-circulaires, afin d'y inclure A l'intA(c)rieur, les A(c)lA(c)ments organiques de l'audition et de l'A(c)quilibration des organes spiral de Corti, de l'utricule, des crAates ampullaires, du labyrinthe membraneux. L'ouvrage est un guide prA(c)cieux pour l'oto-rhino-laryngologiste, l'anatomiste, le neurochirurgien, le radiologiste, le neuro-radiologiste, le neurologue, l'ophtalmologiste, le chirurgien maxillo-facial, l'odontologiste, ainsi que le stomatologiste.