Crooners sing close to the mic in a soft, intimate style. In this book Alex Coles explores the crooner in popular music from the 1950s to the present. Each chapter focuses on one song and one singer – Frank Sinatra, Scott Walker, Barry White, David Bowie, Bryan Ferry, Tom Waits, Grace Jones, Ian McCulloch, Nick Cave and Nas – and examines in detail how each contributes to the crooner image. The book describes how crooners traverse era, gender, geography and genre – where Barry White developed out of disco, Nick Cave sprung from alternative rock; where Grace Jones was born from reggae and funk, Nas originated from hip-hop. Ultimately, Coles shows how the crooner continues to be a figure that enables listeners to reflect on and communicate their emotions.

Walter Benjamin is often considered the key modern philosopher and critic of modern art. Tracing his influence on modern aesthetics and cultural history, Introducing Walter Benjamin highlights his commitment to political transformation of the arts as a means to bring about social change. Benjamin witnessed first-hand many of the cataclysmic events of modern European history. He took a critical stance on the dominant ideologies of Marxism, Zionism and Technocracy, and his attempt to flee Nazi Europe ultimately led to his suicide in 1940. With its brilliant combination of words and images, this is an ideal introduction to one of the most elusive philosophers.

This particular research is aimed at finding the marketing implication of influence of social class on consumer behavior for Sainsbury. Social classes differ in respect of behaviors, attitudes, and preferences. To investigate the consumer behavior and social class relationship, triangulation methodology has been adopted. A sample of 75 consumers of Sainsbury has been selected through convenience sampling. A questionnaire has been designed to collect data from sample. The findings showed that most of the respondents belonged to middle and lower social classes. The research found that middle and lower classes spend major part of their income on food and necessities of life whereas upper class spends its income on luxuries. It has been found that upper class uses internet for getting information about products and services of Sainsbury. Middle class uses televisions and newspaper for getting information about products and services of company. Upper class has more intentions of online shopping as compared to other classes. Upper classes have more attitude of investing in profitable projects. It has been found that lower and middle classes use credit cards for shopping and take bank loans for fulfilling their needs. Marketers can identify needs and preferences of different social classes from results of this particular research. Research has been limited to the findings only which have been collected from a small sample.

Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, printed single-sided, grade: A, University of Hertfordshire, language: English, abstract: In the management of any business and industry the function of strategic planning plays a key role that gives direction for future and assists in identifying the organisations competitiveness. Evidences suggests that construction companies are not putting enough efforts and are not emphasizing enough on strategic planning in comparison with their counterparts in other industries. The paper gives a platform for an enhanced framework for practices of strategic planning for construction companies in UK. The analysis of strategic planning as right method for defining and implementing future strategic options for the UK construction industry is proposed from the current practices in the industry and online available literature on the topic. The paper highlights related external factors and scenarios of the industry, considers the engagement of the stakeholder during the process, and helps to analyse the overall effectiveness of the strategic planning. The paper should help companies in construction industry of UK to plan and implement their future strategic options in a better way and thus improve their practices.

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: A, The University of Liverpool, language: English, comment: Very well presented, abstract: This particular research has been conducted in order to compare the employee retention practices of Tesco and Sainsbury in United Kingdom. This particular research has been conducted through triangulation methodology. Qualitative and quantitative data tools have been employed for comparing the employee retention practices of both competitors. Primary data has been collected through a survey which is conducted through a close end questionnaire. A sample of 100 employees has been selected through convenience sampling technique. The survey generated a response rate of 93%. The findings of the research suggest that Tesco has been more effective in its employee retention practices as compared to Sainsbury. Tesco adopts long lasting and effective tools for employee retention whereas Sainsbury looks for short term gains. The research found that in Tesco, management role, high salaries, extra benefits, and good working environment has been created for influencing employees to stay with the organization for a long time. On the other hand, Sainsbury lacks some important practices such as management role, extra benefits, job authority, job empowerment, and communication across departments which make it ineffective in its employee retention practices. In order to retain key employees for a long time period, it is important for Sainsbury to provide extra benefits and management support to the employees. This research has been limited to the Tesco and Sainsbury in United Kingdom. Future researchers can expand the scope of this research by taking a large sample from different stores. They can generalize the results by taking large sample from different organizations.

Project Report from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: A, The University of Liverpool, language: English, comment: Very good, abstract: Recruitment and selection are the processes of human resource management that are applied in organization for fulfilling its human resource needs. In this report, recruitment and selection processes adopted in Sainsbury and Tesco have been discussed and compared. This report also discusses the importance of recruitment and selection for the organizations. Only secondary data has been included in the report for the evaluation of its aims and objectives. Through company reports and articles, recruitment and selection processes in both organizations have been discussed and compared. The findings of the report suggest that recruitment and selection in both organizations has been developed in terms of a structured activity. At Tesco, internal and external sources of recruitment are used for fulfilling existing posts in the organization. It relies on internal sources more than on external sources. Television, radio, newspapers and internet ate preferred tools of recruitment by Tesco. It also allows candidates to drop their resume in stores for further selection process. On the other hand, Sainsbury relies on internal and external recruitment tools, equally. Internally, existing employees are assessed for promotions on higher levels in the organization. Through external sources, Sainsbury attracts suitable employees from website and assessed the suitable candidates through several tests and interviews. By comparing the recruitment and selection strategies of both organizations, it is found that Tesco has adopted costly and time consuming strategies. Moreover, its store recruitment strategy does not ensure selection of suitable candidates. On the other hand, Sainsbury is cost effective in its strategies but these strategies can be time consuming. It is recommended that Tesco

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Sociology - Law, Delinquency, Abnormal Behavior, printed single-sided, grade: A, University of Cambridge, language: English, abstract: If students are to succeed within the confines of the school community, all involved stockholders must create a positive, safe and encouraging learning environment. In order for the stockholders to develop this environment, everyone must feel respected by and involved in the school community. Creating an effective school climate must be a community process so that all involved can thrive. Standard, exclusionary models of discipline in the school systems work against this concept of education and only decrease students' success. This is particularly true for low income and minority students. More promising models of school discipline are those based on the Teen Court systems of justice. These models rely on peer and community concepts of discipline enforcement. When used in an educational setting, Teen Court is proving to be more effective in reducing recidivism and dropout rates. Rather than promoting a culture of exclusionary and punitive justice for youth, Teen Court models effectively discipline, while promoting a culture of safe and positive education (Harrison et al, 2001). Problem The data related to the biggest school districts of California reveals a much higher level of expulsion and suspension of students for the year 2009-10, and the statistics for California are a lot higher as compared to the rest of the country. While the rate for California remained 9.9 percent for both expulsion and suspension put together, the overall average for the nation was a much lower 7 percent (Losen and Skiba, 2010). However, in various cases in the state of

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: A, University of Canberra, course: MA, language: English, comment: Very good., abstract: This particular research is aimed at finding the marketing implication of influence of social class on consumer behavior for Sainsbury. Social classes differ in respect of behaviors, attitudes, and preferences. To investigate the consumer behavior and social class relationship, triangulation methodology has been adopted. A sample of 75 consumers of Sainsbury has been selected through convenience sampling. A questionnaire has been designed to collect data from sample. The findings showed that most of the respondents belonged to middle and lower social classes. The research found that middle and lower classes spend major part of their income on food and necessities of life whereas upper class spends its income on luxuries. It has been found that upper class uses internet for getting information about products and services of Sainsbury. Middle class uses televisions and newspaper for getting information about products and services of company. Upper class has more intentions of online shopping as compared to other classes. Upper classes have more attitude of investing in profitable projects. It has been found that lower and middle classes use credit cards for shopping and take bank loans for fulfilling their needs. Marketers can identify needs and preferences of different social classes from results of this particular research. Research has been limited to the findings only which have been collected from a small sample.

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: A, The University of Liverpool, language: English, abstract: Abstract A great number of smart phones still are inadequately interactive with visually impaired and blind users and thesteps to providing access that actually exist does not give or sustain some of the tasks efficiently. This literature review presents some of the issues and gives different yet effective solutions and guidelines to improve the Smartphone's interface with visually impaired and blind users. CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION Nowadays, mobile devices allow the disabled people with many different opportunities to act independently in the world. However, these powerful and competent devices may have large number of interactivity challenges, especially for the people who are blind or visually impaired. Research and different studies proves that a blind or visually impaired person has better capability to rely on other senses most importantly the touch and audio sensors. This literature review would be dealing with the analysis and studies of different interfaces for the blind and visually impaired patients, keeping in view the important points that favour the user in every way. Using the haptic concept, to elaborate the letters for the blind user while writing a text message or calling someone and an audio interface to direct and communicate between the phone and user. There are some problems that hinder blind users to interact with the Smartphonewhich includes screen touch, interface, text entry, navigation, individual differences and some other problems. There are no efforts that have been made to discover the control of touch or smart phones in non-visual mobile interface. In this lecture review, I am going to present some works that have been done recently about interacting challenges with Smartphone devices and blind people.

David Marshall is bored and annoyed. He's been bored and annoyed for ages. Everyone thinks he is living a middle class dream. No one has any idea that he isn't happy, or that he is full of hatred. People are parasites. Life isn't fair. Idiots go about their selfish and thoughtless lives and get away with it. One of David's friends has an accident and injures his brain, leaving him with an inability to lie. David watches his friend's life crumble around him as his inability to lie gradually alienates everyone. David is appalled that honesty has such severe consequences in modern society and decides it is time to do something about it. David exposes the liars and the cheats, and makes them face the consequences of their lives and their choices, but with traumatic consequences of his own. A story of obsession and the selfish foundation of human existence.