74381Understanding foodservice cost control : an operational text for food, beverage, and labor costs: 3rd ed.
Book contents include: About operating controls in the foodservice industry, about recipes, about the portion cost, about purchasing; purchasing the "right quantity", about the "right supplier", about receiving storing products processsing invoices, about inventory inventory control, about food production control, about food cost food cost percentage, monitoring sales, menus, menu pricing, sales forecasts, sales analysis, about beverage production control service, beverage cost beverage cost percentage, bar inventory control, controling payroll costs employee turnover, measuring staff performance productivity, operating statements, preparing income statements.
74382Understanding GIS : an ArcGIS project workbook (with CD)
An ArcGIS Project Workbook explains the methods, tools, and processes needed to apply full-scale GIS analysis to a spatially based problem. This book lets you assume the role of a GIS analyst challenged with finding the best location for a new park along the Los Angeles River in Southern California. The problem is complex: you need vacant land that’s close to the river in park-poor urban neighborhoods with lots of families. The book provides the starting data and guidance you need to perform a complete GIS analysis: explore the study area; evaluate the data; build a database; process, edit, and analyze the data; model alternative outcomes; map your findings; and share your results on interactive web maps. Through this process, you develop critical-thinking and geographic problem-solving skills. You also learn to use ArcGIS® Desktop 10 software from Esri®.
74383Understanding global cultures : metaphorical journeys through 34 nations, clusters of nations, continents and diversity : 6th ed.
Part 1. Introduction; Part 2. Authority-ranking cultures; Part 3. Scandinavian egalitarian cultures; Part 4. Other egalitarian cultures; Part 5. Market-pricing cultures; Part 6. Cleft national cultures; Part 7. Torn national cultures.
74384Understanding how we learn : a visual guide
This accessible guide helps teachers to integrate effective, research-backed strategies for learning into their classroom practice. The book explores exactly what constitutes good evidence for effective learning and teaching strategies, how to make evidence-based judgments instead of relying on intuition, and how to apply findings from cognitive psychology directly to the classroom.
74385Understanding human sexuality
Since its conception, Understanding Human Sexuality has achieved distinction and success by following the science of human sexuality. The first of the modern sexuality textbooks, Understanding Human Sexuality introduced this topic to students through the science that has uncovered what we know about the field. Groundbreaking when it first appeared, this research-based tradition continues to result in a contemporary, balanced introduction to human sexuality in an integrated learning system that engages students in learning the content of the course, about others, and about themselves.
74386Understanding human sexuality
This trusted text examines the biological psychological and sociological perspectives of human sexuality and provides practical information needed for everyday living all with a firm grounding in research. The thoroughly revised thirteenth edition of Hyde Understanding Human Sexuality features a new emphasis on critical thinking skill development with input from expert Diane Halpern to ensure clarity and accessibility for students. The author team features a unique combination of a psychologist and a sociologist which gives this text a distinct interdisciplinary perspective.
74387Understanding human sexuality
It retains its focus on three key strengths: solid grounding in research, fully integrated Canadian content, and commitment to currency. A unique multidisciplinary approach, which brings psychological, sociological, and biological perspectives to the text’s comprehensive coverage, makes this a versatile volume—appropriate not only for its key target of upper-level psychology courses but also for programs such as nursing, social work, and family studies. Canadian contributor E. Sandra Byers, a well-known and respected clinical psychologist, has produced a rigorous revision addressing all aspects of the text: content, features, and visuals. Supported by a supplements package that includes exciting new offerings, this new edition remains an authoritative and distinctive Canadian text in the field of human sexuality.
74388Understanding hypertext : concepts and applications
Thousands of computer users are gaining access to the easy data storage, browsing and linking capabilities of hypertext-based products such as guide, knowledge garden and agenda. "Understanding hypertext" offers nonprogrammers the help they need to get the most out of these flexible data organizers. Philip Seyer uses the latest hypertest releases to demonstrate data structures, interactive browsers and structured editors - the three main components of hypertext.
74389Understanding knowledge engineering
Managing expert system projects; Building intelligent knowledge-based systems; Knowledge elicitation: frinciples and practice; The representation and use of knowledge; Tools for building expert systems; An expert system for ship evaluation and design; Human-computer interaction for knowledge-based systems...
74390Understanding Michael Porter : the essential guide to competition and strategy
It examines and explains the revolutionary business frameworks of Michael Porter, with examples to illustrate and update Porter's ideas for achieving and sustaining competitive success.