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Event Planning
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This bestselling all-in-one guide to the event planning business is back & better than ever fully updated & revised to reflect the very latest trends & best practices in the industry. This handy comprehensive guide

Includes:: forms checklists & tips for managing events as well as examples & case studies of both successful & unsuccessful events. Judy Allen (Toronto ON Canada) is founder & President of Judy Allen Productions a full-service event planning production company.

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Event Policy
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As the event management field expands there has been an emergence of a distinctive events policy field of study & a need for more advanced texts that look at this subject with a multidisciplinary research & theoretical orientation. Events Policy: From Theory to Strategy is the first text to embrace this new direction in the field of events management. Its main aim is to locate the phenomena of events (and festivity) within a theoretical & strategic framework & in doing so demonstrate the links between the development of events in policy-making & the theoretical exploration of the role of events as policy. Building on a strong coherent framework the book explores the conceptual terrain in which events & festivities are located evaluates the range of theoretical perspectives pertinent to the study of events policy appraises the socio-economic & socio-cultural implications of event-led policies internationally & draws together the main theoretical & event policy issues for the future. It utilizes a good range of international cases from Dubai Singapore New Orleans & Glasgow to help demonstrate the relationships between theory & strategy &

Includes:: useful features to help students understand the subject & deepen their knowledge of the events policy terrain. This groundbreaking volume will be essential reading for students researchers & academics of events & other related disciplines.

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Event Studies
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Event Studies is the only book devoted to developing knowledge & theory about planned events. This book focuses on event planning & management outcomes the experience of events & the meanings attached to them the dynamic processes shaping events & why people attend them. Event Studies draws from a large number of foundation disciplines & closely related professional fields to foster interdisciplinary theory focused on planned events. It brings together important discourses on events including event management event tourism & the study of events within various disciplines that are able to shed light on the roles importance & impacts of events in society & culture. Since the first edition of this book there have been many important developments in this field & this second edition

Features: New sections have been added on: trends & issues in the world of planned events; examination of three discourses; event-related careers & professionalism; new theory on the event travel career trajectory; implications of social worlds & social media & new theory on convergence in the forms & functions of events. Expert contributions & personal viewpoints from a number of respected events academics Updated Research Notes to connect readers to the vast & diverse current literature methods & techniques pertaining to events. Instructors Guide including Power Point Slides for each chapter at http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780080969534/

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The study of event-related potentials (ERPs) -- signal-averaged EEG recordings that are time-locked to perceptual cognitive & motor events -- has increased dramatically in recent years but until now there has been no comprehensive guide to ERP methodology comparable to those available for f MRI techniques. Event-Related Potentials meets the need for a practical & concise handbook of ERP methods that is suitable for both the novice user of an ERP system & a researcher more experienced in cognitive electrophysiology. The chapters in the first section discuss the design of ERP experiments providing a practical foundation for understanding the design of ERP experiments & interpreting ERP data. Topics covered include quantification of ERP data & theoretical & practical aspects of ANOVAs as applied to ERP datasets. The second section presents a variety of approaches to ERP data analysis &

Includes:: chapters on digital filtering artifact removal source localization & wavelet analysis. The chapters in the final section of the book cover the use of ERPs in relation to such specific participant populations as children & neuropsychological patients & the ways in which ERPs can be combined with related methodologies including intracranial ERPs & hemodynamic imaging.

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Events Dear Boy Events
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This title brings twentieth-century British politics vividly to life & reveals perspective on the tumultuous events it sought to control the changes it resisted & the reforms it brought into being. Ruth Winstone retells Britains history through the great diarists of the last century drawing back the curtain on the lives of political classes their doubts ambitions & emotions. She moves deftly among those in the thick of it showing the elation anger doubts jealousy joys & fears of those such as Nicolson Cooper Channor Macmillan Castle Clark Benn Campbell Mullin & Ashdown as they record their own & the nations triumphs & disasters. To this potent mix she adds the mordant perceptions of observers like Virginia Woolf Cecil Beaton Peter Hall & Roy Strong & the vivid records of everyday life found in the diaries of otherwise ordinary men & women. Events Dear Boy Events" reveals Britains recent past in the words of the actors who were shaping events of the day as they were happening. This is living real-time history." ...
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Events Management
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This is an excellent publication that correctly reviews the external environment associated with events both in the context of the theoretical & operational
- Neil Robinson University of Salford. Guiding readers through the practicalities of events management this book is the resource for understanding the many elements of working successfully in the events industry. Bridging the ever-widening gap between specialists this book you will enable to be fully conversant with the application theory practicalities & value of events management essentials including: equipment & design; planning; marketing & PR; terminology; legislation; finance & budgeting; technology; sponsorship; logistics; & the role of events tourism. Topics are brought to life through application to a range of events case studies including live music venues arenas conference centres & community festivals.
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Ever Open Door
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Told with warmth & humour The Ever Open Door" is the story of a hard working down-to-earth community in a small Yorkshire town during the Second World War & its aftermath. Burly steelworker Jim Butler & his wife Sally are quite content in their little house on Potters Row. Jims only complaint is that Sally is too soft hearted for her own good always at the beck & call of any neighbour friend or even stranger. Sally on the other hand accuses Jim of being a soft touch for anyone after a drink or two at the Rising Sun. Both accept that neither will ever change & they love each other & their daughter Daisy deeply. Theirs is a close-knit family in a close-knit community where gossip
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Ever The Diplomat
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In this entertaining & engaging memoir former ambassador Sherard Cowper-Coles lifts the lid on embassy life throughout the world. For over thirty years Sherard Cowper-Coles was on the diplomatic front line in a distinguished career that took him from the corridors of power in Whitehall to a string of high-profile around the world. Entering the Foreign Office in 1977 he took up postings in Beirut Alexandria & Cairo Washington Paris & Hong Kong his globe-trotting punctuated with spells in London where the young diplomat had a baptism of fire writing foreign affairs speeches for Geoffrey Howe & Margaret Thatcher. In 1999 under the New Labour government & Prime Minister Tony Blair he was made Principal Private Secretary to the irascible Foreign Secretary Robin Cook providing the book with some of its most hilarious sequences. His career culminated in a succession of ambassadorial posts as Our Man in Israel Saudi Arabia & finally Afghanistan. Ever the Diplomat is his revealing & witty account of half a lifetime in diplomacy. ...
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Mike Peyton is the nautical world's best known & much loved cartoonist. For years he has made his mark contributing witty well executed & poignantly funny cartoons to the yachting & boating press poking fun at seafarers of all types & capturing in his distinctive cartoon style their often eccentric & idiosyncratic ways. Now here at last is a wonderful collection of Mike Peyton's light hearted & amusing recollections of time spent messing about in boats all illustrated in his unique cartoon style. A perfect bunkside read for seafarers & landlubbers alike. ...
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Everafter
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It seems the odds are forever against Ivy & Tristan being together. Tristan is still trapped in the body of an accused murderer & in trying to clear his name Ivy & Tristan must battle against the dark forces that would keep them apart & destroy them both. Ivy fears for Tristan because as a fallen angel death would mean losing his soul. It's up to Ivy to save the one she loves & hopefully find a way for the two of them to be togetherÂ… for all eternity. ...
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Events Management

Events Management is the must-have introductory text providing a complete A-Z of the principles and practices of planning managing and staging events. The book: introduces the concepts of event planning and management presents the study of events management within an academic environment discusses the key components for staging an event covering the whole process from creation to evaluation examines the events industry within its broader business context covering impacts and event tourism provides an effective guide for producers of events contains learning objectives and review questions to consolidate learning. Each chapter features a real-life case study to illustrate key concepts and place theory in a practical context as well as preparing students to tackle any challenges they may
face in managing events. Examples include the Beijing Olympic Games Google Zeitgeist Conference International Confex Edinburgh International Festival Ideal Home Show and Glastonbury Festival. Carefully constructed to maximise learning the text provides the reader with: a systematic guide to organizing successful events examining areas such as staging logistics marketing human resource management control and budgeting risk management impacts evaluation and reporting fully revised and updated content including new chapters on sustainable development and events perspectives on events and expanded content on marketing legal issues risk and health and safety management a companion website for lecturers and students which includes PowerPoint slides extra case studies and multiple choice
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Events Management is the must-have introductory text providing a complete A-Z of the principles & practices of planning managing & staging events. The book: introduces the concepts of event planning & management presents the study of events management within an academic environment discusses the key components for staging an event covering the whole process from creation to evaluation examines the events industry within its broader business context covering impacts & event tourism provides an effective guide for producers of events contains learning objectives & review questions to consolidate learning. Each chapter features a real-life case study to illustrate key concepts & place theory in a practical context as well as preparing students to tackle any challenges they may face in managing events. Examples include the Beijing Olympic Games Google Zeitgeist Conference International Confex Edinburgh International Festival Ideal Home Show & Glastonbury Festival. Carefully constructed to maximise learning the text provides the reader with: a systematic guide to organizing successful events examining areas such as staging logistics marketing human resource management control & budgeting risk management impacts evaluation & reporting fully revised & updated content including new chapters on sustainable development & events perspectives on events & expanded content on marketing legal issues risk & health & safety management a companion website for lecturers & students which

Includes:: Power Point slides extra case studies & multiple choice questions to aid both teaching & learning.

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