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Time for Life

The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time

By: John Robinson,Geoffrey Godbey

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Time for Life

The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time

By: John Robinson,Geoffrey Godbey

Is it possible that Americans have more free time than they did thirty years ago? While few may believe it, research based on careful records of how we actually spend our time shows that we average more than an hour more free time per day than in the 1960s. Time-use experts John P. Robinson and Geoffrey Godbey received national attention when their controversial findings were first published in 1997. Now the book is updated, with a new chapter that includes results of the 1995&–1997 data from the Americans' Use of Time Project. &“Time for Life, an outstanding work of scholarship that manages to be highly readable, demands the attention of everyone interested in what&’s happening in today&’s society.&” &—Edward Cornish, The Futurist &“Time for Life . . . is excellent fodder for lively classroom discussions, not only about family time use, but about the ontological and epistemological assumptions in the prevailing post-positivist paradigm of family science.&” &—Alan J. Hawkins and Jeffrey Hill, Journal of Marriage and the Family &“Regardless of where you stand on this issue, Robinson and Godbey's arguments and data make for very interesting reading and open a cultural window on American society. . . . This is a piece of scholarship that should be read and its conclusions contemplated by people well outside the readership of this journal. . . . Time for Life is good social science research that should appeal to a broad audience.&” &—Journal of Communication

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Penn State Press

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027103985X

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9780271039855

Time for Life

The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time

By: John Robinson,Geoffrey Godbey

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Time for Life

The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time

By: John Robinson,Geoffrey Godbey

Analyzes time surveys of work and leisure, and discusses trends, time pressure, and comparisons with other countries

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Penn State Press

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027104487X

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9780271044873

Commodity Risk Management

Theory and Application

By: Geoffrey Poitras

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Commodity Risk Management

Theory and Application

By: Geoffrey Poitras

Commodity Risk Management goes beyond just an introductory treatment of derivative securities, dealing with more advanced topics and approaching the subject matter from a unique perspective. At its core lies the concept that commodity risk management decisions require an in-depth understanding of speculative strategies, and vice versa. The book offers readers a unified treatment of important concepts and techniques that are useful in applying derivative securities in the management of risk in commodity markets. While some of these techniques are well known and fairly common, Poitras offers applications to specific situations and links to speculative trading strategies - extensions of the material that not only are hard to come by, but helpful to both the academic and the practitioner. The book is divided into three parts. The first part deals with the general framework for commodity risk management, the second part focuses on the use of derivative security contracts in commodity risk management, and the third part deals with applications to three specific situations. As a textbook, this book is designed to appeal to classes at a senior undergraduate/MBA/MA levelof training in Finance, financial economics, actuarial science, management science, agriculturaleconomics and accounting. There will also be interest for the book as: a monograph for research libraries, a handbook for individuals working in the commodity risk management industry, and a guidebook for those in the general public interested in topics like farm risk management or the assessment of hedging practices of publicly-traded commodity producers.

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425

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Routledge

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113626261X

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9781136262616

Slow Living

By: Geoffrey Craig,Wendy Parkins

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Slow Living

By: Geoffrey Craig,Wendy Parkins

Speed is the essence of the modern era, but our faster, more frenetic lives often trouble us and leave us wondering how we are meant to live in today's world. Slow Living explores the philosophy and politics of 'slowness' as it investigates the growth of Slow Food into a worldwide, 'eco-gastronomic' movement. Originating in Italy, Slow Food is not only committed to the preservation of traditional cuisines and sustainable agriculture but also the pleasures of the table and a slower approach to life in general. Craig and Parkins argue that slow living is a complex response to processes of globalization. It connects ethics and pleasure, the global and the local, as part of a new emphasis on everyday life in contemporary culture and politics. The 'global everyday' is not a simple tale of speed and geographical dislocation. Instead, we all negotiate different times and spaces that make our quality of life and an 'ethics of living' more pressing concerns. This innovative book shows how slow living is about the challenges of living a more mindful and pleasurable life.

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192

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Berg

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1847880886

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9781847880888

Metal-Catalysed Reactions of Hydrocarbons

By: Geoffrey C. Bond

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Metal-Catalysed Reactions of Hydrocarbons

By: Geoffrey C. Bond

This unique book, drawing on the author’s lifetime experience, critically evaluates the extensive literature on the field of Metal-Catalysed Reactions of Hydrocarbons. Emphasis is placed on reaction mechanisms involving hydrogenation, hydrogenolysis, skeletal and positional isomerisation, and exchange reactions. The motivation for fundamental research in heterogeneous catalysis is to identify the physicochemical characteristics of active centres for the reaction being studied, to learn how these may be modified or manipulated to improve the desired behavior of the catalyst, and to recognize and control those aspects of the catalyst's structure that limit its overall performance. By restricting the subject of the book to hydrocarbons, Bond has progressively developed the subject matter to include areas of importance both to researchers and to those working in the industry.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387261117

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9780387261119

Consumer Psychology of Tourism, Hospitality, and Leisure

By: Arch G. Woodside,Geoffrey I. Crouch,J. R. Brent Ritchie

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Consumer Psychology of Tourism, Hospitality, and Leisure

By: Arch G. Woodside,Geoffrey I. Crouch,J. R. Brent Ritchie

This book is based on papers given at the 2nd Symposium on Consumer Psychology of Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure (CPTHL) in Vienna in July 2000. The Symposium comprised papers reflecting the progress in consumer psychology theory and research. The Vienna Symposium put special emphasis on consumer decision making for evaluating choice alternatives in tourism, leisure, and hospitality operations. The reports have been arranged into five major compartments.

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370

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CABI

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0851998968

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9780851998961

Directions in Condensed Matter Physics

Memorial Volume in Honor of Shang-keng Ma

By: Geoffrey Grinstein

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Directions in Condensed Matter Physics

Memorial Volume in Honor of Shang-keng Ma

By: Geoffrey Grinstein

This volume collects several in-depth articles giving lucid discussions on new developments in statistical and condensed matter physics. Many, though not all, contributors had been in touch with the late S-K Ma. Written by some of the world's experts and originators of new ideas in the field, this book is a must for all researchers in theoretical physics. Most of the articles should be accessible to diligent graduate students and experienced readers will gain from the wealth of materials contained herein.

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276

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World Scientific

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9971978423

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9789971978426

Feminist Interpretations of David Hume

By: John P. Robinson,Anne Jaap Jacobson,Geoffrey Godbey

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Feminist Interpretations of David Hume

By: John P. Robinson,Anne Jaap Jacobson,Geoffrey Godbey

Analyzes time surveys of work and leisure, and discusses trends, time pressure, and comparisons with other countries

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Penn State University Press

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0271019700

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9780271019703

Time Shift, Leisure and Tourism

Impacts of Time Allocation on Successful Products and Services

By: Klaus Weiermair,Pietro Beritelli

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Time Shift, Leisure and Tourism

Impacts of Time Allocation on Successful Products and Services

By: Klaus Weiermair,Pietro Beritelli

HauptbeschreibungTime has a strong impact on the leisure and tourism industry. How people spend their time now and particularly in the future will have major implications for leisure and tourism markets. At this stage there are increasingly new patterns of time allocation and hybrid forms of life time activities. Many of the new patterns of time allocation are overlapping into the sphere of recreational activities. Also the traditional use of leisure time itself is changing into new actions. Among the major forces which account for these changes are long-term declines in economic and productivi.

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3503103783

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9783503103782

Book's by Geoffrey Godbey

Time for Life

Time for Life

Time for Life

Time for Life

Commodity Risk Management

Commodity Risk Management

Slow Living

Slow Living

Metal-Catalysed Reactions of Hydrocarbons

Metal-Catalysed Reactions of Hydrocarbons

Consumer Psychology of Tourism, Hospitality, and Leisure

Consumer Psychology of Tourism, Hospitality, and Leisure

Directions in Condensed Matter Physics

Directions in Condensed Matter Physics

Feminist Interpretations of David Hume

Feminist Interpretations of David Hume

Time Shift, Leisure and Tourism

Time Shift, Leisure and Tourism

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