Advances in hospitality management research

Table of Contents: “…; Travel Inn: everything you want for a good night's sleep -- 100 per cent satisfaction guarantee or your money back; What makes hotel values in the UK? A hedonic valuation model; Who's kicking whom? Employees' orientations to work; Questioning the myth of the Chinese learner; International tourism networks…”
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The nature of moral thinking by Snare, Francis

Table of Contents: “…Moral thinking and philosophical questions -- Authoritarian ethics and subjectivist ethics -- Some classic ethical theories -- Psychological egoism and hedonism -- Meta-ethical theories -- Hume's gap and the naturalistic fallacy -- Relativism in general -- Descriptive relativism and meta-ethical subjectivism -- Genetic accounts which debunk morality -- Descriptive relativism and varieties of normative relativism -- Whether meta-ethical subjectivism has practical consequences -- Methods of justifying a normative ethical theory.…”
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Subjective well-being : measuring happiness, suffering, and other dimensions of experience

Table of Contents: “…Summary -- Introduction -- Conceptualizing experienced (or hedonic) well-being -- Measuring experienced well-being -- Additional conceptual and measurement issues -- Subjective well-being and policy -- Data collection strategies -- References -- Appendix A: Experienced well-being questions and modules from existing surveys -- Appendix B: The subjective well-being module of the American time use survey: assessment for its continuation -- Appendix C: Biographical sketches of panel members -- Committee on National Statistics.…”
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Machiavelli and epicureanism : an investigation into the origins of early modern political thought by Roecklein, Robert J., 1960-

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Aestheticism and Deconstruction : Pater, Derrida, and de Man. by Loesberg, Jonathan

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Fifty Years of Economic Measurement : the Jubilee of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth. by Berndt, Ernst R.

Table of Contents: “…Issues in the Measurement and Interpretation of Saving and Wealth; 6. Hedonic Price Indexes and the Measurement of Capital and Productivity: Some Historical Reflections.…”
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Information systems evaluation : getting closer to the organisation

Table of Contents: “…Abstracts & keywords; Guest editorial; An integrative, iterative approach to IS evaluation for pharmaceutical clinical trials; Defining ICT proposals; A hedonic wage model-based methodology for evaluating the benefits of IT investments in public-sector organisations; Information systems evaluation and the information systems development process; Narratives in ERP systems evaluation; Online point-of-click Web usability mining with PopEval (C-Assure Co-design methodology); Benefits and barriers of electronic marketplace participation: an SME perspective.…”
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Markets and diversity by Rosen, Sherwin, 1938-2001

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : markets and diversity -- Hedonic prices and implicit markets : product differentiation in pure competition -- Discrimination in the market for public school teachers -- The value of saving a life : evidence from the labor market -- Learning and experience in the labor market -- Substitution and division of labour -- Education and self-selection -- Specialization and human capital -- The economics of superstars -- Authority, control, and the distribution of earnings -- Prizes and incentives in elimination tournaments -- Rank-order tournaments as optimum labor contracts -- Contracts and the market for executives.…”
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Economics and ethics?

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; ETHICS AND ECONOMICS: AN ECONOMIST'S VIEW; ETHICS AND ECONOMICS: A PHILOSOPHER'S VIEW; FROM DIVINE CORPORATION TO A SYSTEM OF JUSTICE: ADVENTURES IN INDIVIDUAL MOTIVATION AND SOCIAL OUTCOME, WITH HUTCHESON, HUME AND SMITH; COMMENT: ETHICS, COMMERCE AND GOVERNMENT: THE SCOTTISH SCHOOL; UTILITARIANISM, OXFORD IDEALISM AND CAMBRIDGE ECONOMICS; COMMENT: NO MATTER OF REGRET: THE CAMBRIDGE CRITIQUE(S) OF JEVONS'S 'HEDONICS'; THE ECONOMISTS APPROACH TO ETHICS: A LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY VIEW.…”
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Social and experiential retailing

Table of Contents: “…Shopping experiences of Hungarian consumers; The shopping experience of female fashion leaders; Hedonic usage of product virtualization technologies in online apparel shopping; Consumers online: intentions, orientations and segmentation; CONTENTS 7; Guest editorial.…”
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How to be happy! positive psychology in action

Table of Contents: “…Positive Psychology (3:59) -- Happiness Skills Workshop (4:05) -- Happiness and Hedonism (3:47) -- Emotions and Brain Pathways (3:28) -- Happiness and Public Service (2:40) -- Search for Happiness (3:58) -- What Makes People Happy? …”
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The end of knowledge : a discourse on the unification of philosophy by Levenstein, Michael David

Table of Contents: “…; Pleasure, Pain, Happiness and Utility; Moral Axiology: Autonomy and Rights; Treatment of Rights; Hierarchy of Pleasures; The Paradox of Hedonism.…”
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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy XXXV : Winter 2008. by Inwood, Brad

Table of Contents: “…; Plato on the Possibility of Hedonic Mistakes; The Self, the Soul, and the Individual in the City of the Laws; 'As if we were investigating snubness': Aristotle on the Prospects for a Single Science of Nature; Aristotle's Notion of Priority in Nature and Substance; Excavating Dissoi Logoi 4; Plotinus on Astrology; Power, Activity, and Being: A Discussion of Aristotle: Metaphysics T, trans. and comm. …”
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Bulimics on Bulimia. by Stavrou, Maria

Table of Contents: “…I Want to Be Like You; 17. Sex, Lies and Hedonism; 18. The Lesbian Bulimic Mafia; 19. Diets Don't Work, Bulimia Does; FURTHER READING.…”
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The Epistemology of the Cyrenaic School. by Tsouna, Voula

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The Renaissance. by Pater, Walter, 1839-1894

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Kundera and modernity by Steinby, Liisa

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: Kundera, a European Novelist -- Chapter Two: The Legacy of Cervantes -- Chapter Three: Falling Out of History -- Chapter Four: Unmasking, Thought, and Analysis in the Post-Proustian Novel -- Chapter Five: The Thematic Structure of Kundera's Novels -- Chapter Six: The Sentimental and the Authentic Self -- Chapter Seven: The Dangers of Forgetting and Laughter -- Chapter Eight: Hedonism, Aestheticism, and Love as Modes of Authentic Sense Giving -- Chapter Nine: Lightness and Death -- Chapter Ten: The End of Modernity, the End of the Novel? …”
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The concepts of psychiatry : a pluralistic approach to the mind and mental illness by Ghaemi, S. Nassir

Table of Contents: “…-- Order out of chaos: the evolution of psychiatric nosology -- A theory of DSM-IV: ideal types -- Dimensions versus categories -- The perils of belief: psychosis -- The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune: depression -- Life's rollercoaster: mania -- Being self-aware: insight -- Psychopharmacology: Calvinism or hedonism? -- Truth and statistics: problems of empirical psychiatry -- A climate of opinion: what remains of psychoanalysis -- Being there: existential psychotherapy -- Beyond eclecticism: integrating psychotherapy and psychopharmacology -- Bridging the biology-psychology dichotomy: the hopes of integrationism -- Why it is hard to be pluralist.…”
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Platonic Ethics, Old and New. by Annas, Julia

Table of Contents: “…Ethics and Metaphysics in Plato; VI Humans and Beasts: Moral Theory and Moral Psychology; VII Elemental Pleasures: Enjoyment and the Good in Plato; Conclusion; Appendix: Hedonism in the Protagoras; Cast of Characters; Editions Used; Bibliography; Index Locorum.…”
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The concepts of psychiatry : a pluralistic approach to the mind and mental illness by Ghaemi, S. Nassir

Table of Contents: “…-- Order out of chaos: the evolution of psychiatric nosology -- A theory of DSM-IV: ideal types -- Dimensions versus categories -- The perils of belief: psychosis -- The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune: depression -- Life's rollercoaster: mania -- Being self-aware: insight -- Psychopharmacology: Calvinism or hedonism? -- Truth and statistics: problems of empirical psychiatry -- A climate of opinion: what remains of psychoanalysis -- Being there: existential psychotherapy -- Beyond eclecticism: integrating psychotherapy and psychopharmacology -- Bridging the biology-psychology dichotomy: the hopes of integrationism -- Why it is hard to be pluralist.…”
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Soviet Intellectuals and Political Power : the Post-Stalin Era. by Shlapentokh, Vladimir

Table of Contents: “…The Intellectuals' Values and Orientations: Between Hedonism and Altruism; 3. The Intellectuals' Subculture: A Quest; 4. …”
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Treasures of ancient Greece. The long shadow

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Treasures of ancient Greece. The age of heroes

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Treasures of ancient Greece. The classical revolution

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The Politics of Everyday Life : Making Choices, Changing Lives. by Ginsborg, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Intro; The Politics of Everyday Life; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 We can't go on like this; Riches and poverty; Power and powerlessness; Male and female; Profits and ethics; Legality and illegality; Human consumption and environmental conservation; Consumption; Procreation; War and peace; 2 Individuals, Choice and Consumer Capitalism; Freedom and self-interest; Choice and constraints; Time; Individualisation, 'flexibility', risk; Choice and consumer capitalism; The Western model; The spread; Imaginative hedonism; Romance and advertising…”
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Roaming into the Beyond. by Kirkova, Zornica

Table of Contents: “…The Distant Journey in the Han Fu The Journey Theme in the Yuefu Tradition; The Distant Journey as a State of Mind; Sun Chuo's Visionary Ascent of the Tiantai Mountains; The Elixir Way; Alchemical Formulas and Sacred Scriptures; Chapter 6; Immortality in the Context of the Human World; The Juxtaposition of the Two Realms in the Chuci Tradition; Melancholy and Yearning for Immortality during the Third and Fourth Centuries; Social Engagement, Hedonism, or Immortality Seeking?; Honoring the Immortals; Feasting Songs; Tableaus of Higher Realms; The Earth Below Is Out of Sight.…”
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Science and Philosophy (Routledge Revivals) : And Other Essays. by Bosanquet, Bernard

Table of Contents: “…RECENT CRITICISM OF GREEN'S ETHICS; XI. HEDONISM AMONG IDEALISTS; XII. THE PREDICTION OF HUMAN CONDUCT; XIII. …”
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Again, Dangerous Visions. by Milner, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…On the Beach: Apocalyptic Hedonism and the Origins of Postmodernism; ‎Chapter 5. …”
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The philosophy of transhumanism : a critical analysis by Ross, Benjamin

Table of Contents: “…-- 4.3 Engineering a Perfect World: Infinite Well-being -- 4.4 Problematizing Transhuman Hedonism…”
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Development of tourism and the hospitality industry in Southeast Asia

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Destination ASEAN, Beyond 2015 -- Chapter 2: Factors Affecting¡Willingness of Foreign Tourists to Spend Money in Benefiting¡Local People -- Chapter 3: Destination Loyalty Model of Senior Foreign Tourists Visiting Bali Tourism Destination -- Chapter 4: Hedonic Shopping Motivation: Does it really matter? …”
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Architecture and Embodiment : the Implications of the New Sciences and Humanities for Design. by Mallgrave, Harry Francis

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Beauty; Darwin's haunting; Bowerbirds and mating habits; Neuroaesthetics; The human brain; The visual brain; The hedonic circuit; 2 The culture of architecture; Images and words; Radical embodiment; Brain plasticity and enculturation; Cultural change; The psychological model of cognitive evolution; The cultural model of cognitive evolution; The culture of architecture; 3 Emotion; The fractious brain; Later stages of visual processing; Feelings and emotions; Panksepp and Damasio.…”
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Appetite and body weight : integrative systems and the development of anti-obesity drugs

Table of Contents: “…Introduction and overview -- Cortical systems involved in appetite and food consumption -- Nucleus accumbens shell as a model of integrative subcortical forebrain systems regulating food intake -- Hypothalamic neuropeptides and feeding regulation -- Brainstem-hypothalamic neuropeptides and the regulation of feeding -- Gut-brain axis in the control of eating -- Integration of peripheral adiposity signals and psychological controls of appetite -- Brain reward systems for food incentives and hedonics in normal appetite and eating disorders -- Pharmacology of food, taste and learned flavor preferences -- Role of palatability in control of human appetite: implications for understanding and treating obesity -- Learned influences on appetite, food choice, and intake: evidence in human beings -- Gene environment interactions and the origin of the modern obesity epidemic: a novel nonadaptive drift scenario -- Preclinical developments in antiobesity drugs -- Clinical investigations of antiobesity drugs.…”
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National Academy of Sciences colloquium : science, technology and the economy.

Table of Contents: “…CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCHEnvironmental change and hedonic cost functions for automobiles -- ESTIMATING A HEDONIC COST FUNCTION -- THE DATA -- RESULTS FROM THE PRODUCTION DATA -- THE FUEL EFFICIENCY OF THE NEW CAR FLEET -- INNOVATION -- CONCLUSIONS -- Sematech: Purpose and Performance -- THE PURPOSE OF SEMATECH -- THE PERFORMANCE OF SEMATECH -- CONCLUSIONS -- The challenge of contracting for technological information -- THE PECULIAR PROPERTIES OF TECHNOLOGICAL INFORMATION -- THE PRODUCTION AND TRANSMISSION OF TI -- IMPLICATIONS…”
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Principled persuasion in employee communication by Churchman, Mike

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Introduction; Part I A Continuing Journey; 1 Pathways from the Past: The Evolution of Employee Communication; 2 Pathways to the Future: Five Converging Forces Shaping the Future of Work; Part II Signposts for the Road Ahead; 3 Changing Minds: The Basic Principles of Principled Persuasion; 4 Happiness at Work: The Principles of Hedonic Persuasion; 5 Harm at Work: The Principles of Mindful Persuasion; 6 The Good Life at Work: The Principles of Ethical Persuasion; Part III Making Conversation Along the Way; 7 Watch Your Language: The Principles of Meaningful Persuasion.…”
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Seeing the City : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Study of the Urban. by Verloo, Nanke

Table of Contents: “…Household preferences and hedonic pricing -- Hans R.A. Koster and Jan Rouwendal -- Introduction -- Micro-economic foundations -- Econometric estimation of hedonic price functions…”
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The existential drinker by Earnshaw, Steven

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Practical Ethics for the Surgeon by Jacobs, Lloyd

Table of Contents: “…Beneficence Versus Egoism; Chapter 5. Hedonism; Chapter 6. Autonomy: Concepts; Chapter 7. …”
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Reasons by Wiland, Eric

Table of Contents: “…Factualism, the explanatory requirement, and agency5 Hybrid theories; Building normative reasons out of motivating reasons; Building motivating reasons out of normative reasons; The identity thesis; 6 Constitutivism; Activities and aims; Hedonism; Action and knowledge; The knowledge constraint; Constitutivism and knowledge; Shmaction and shmagency; Constitutivism and error; The magic of constitutivism; 7 Anscombean views; Why?…”
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Modern women on trial : sexual transgression in the age of the flapper by Bland, Lucy

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Tourism Sustainability in the Alpine Region : What Are the Major Trends and Challenges?. by Dornier, Raphaël

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