NASA’s Mercury astronauts were seven highly skilled professional test pilots. Each of them seemed to possess the strength of character and commitment necessary to overcome apparently insurmountable obstacles as the United States entered into a Cold War space race with the Soviet Union. This was never more evident than on the epic suborbital MR-4 flight of Liberty Bell 7 with astronaut Virgil (‘Gus’) Grissom piloting the spacecraft to a successful splashdown, followed by the premature b
Foreword xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
About the Author xxi
Part One New Analytics for a New Environment: The Evolution of Hotel Revenue Management Analytics, Technology, and Data 1
Chapter 1 The Social World Has Changed Revenue Management Forever 3
The Changing Marketplace 6
The Evolution of the Revenue Management Function 7
This is the story of humankind’s quest over centuries to learn the true nature of the most dominant object in our Solar System: the Sun.
Award-winning science writer Peter Bond describes in detail how our ideas about the Sun have changed over the millennia, starting with the simple observations of classical astronomy and continuing through telescopic observations to the age of nuclear physics. He shows how we discovered the Sun’s basic characteristics – its distance, size, temperature a
Luftfahrtunternehmen befinden sich in einem Markt mit hohen Wachstumsraten, doch immer wieder erschüttern Krisen die Luftfahrt. Doch nicht nur krisenbedingte Nachfrageeinbrüche stellen Luftfahrtunternehmen vor Schwierigkeiten, auch die fortwährende Globalisierung und der zunehmende Marktwettbewerb - vor allem durch Low Cost Airlines - führen selbst in Wachstumszeiten immer wieder zu Insolvenzen von Luftfahrtunternehmen. Letztlich müssen sie im hart umkämpften Markt Strategien finden, um dauer
This book explains how the Apollo crews learned to work on the lunar surface. Its lively and informative text draws heavily on transcripts and photographs to illustrate points. It puts the reader on the lunar surface with the astronauts, sharing their observations, excitement, and frustrations. The carefully selected photographs show the stark beauty of the lunar surface. There are excerpts from the mission transcripts in which the Apollo astronauts on the lunar surface discuss their progress
No matter how excellent the food, guests will not return to a restaurant with poor service. On the other hand, great service leads to both a pleasurable dining experience and a successful restaurant. Whether as a server or restaurant executive, anyone entering today's foodservice industry cannot afford to ignore the significance of excellent service.
Restaurant Service basics, Second Edition
This book takes the reader on a journey through the history of extremely ambitious, large and complex space missions that never happened. What were the dreams and expectations of the visionaries behind these plans, and why were they not successful in bringing their projects to reality thus far?
As spaceflight development progressed, new technologies and ideas led to pushing the boundaries of engineering and technology though still grounded in real scientific possibilities. Exampl
Der Autor übersetzt den Normentext in die Sprache des betrieblichen Alltags
Es werden alle Normenkapitel entsprechend der Struktur der ISO 9001:2015 erklärt
Mit praktischen Tipps zum Ablauf des Zertifizierungsprozesses, insbesondere zur Erstzertifizierung
Introduction.- Onboard dropped object prevention programs.- Risk assessments dropped object hazards.- Implementation of the dropped object prevention programs.- Continuous improvement.- DROP programs roles and responsibilities.- Example dropped object zoning areas.- Recommended practices for working at height.- Recommended items for inclusion when auditing the drops prevention program.- Equipment design for dropped object prevention for DOPP+ and equivalent classification.- Equipment installa
In 2014, Rosetta became the first mission to orbit a comet and to deploy a lander onto its surface. This is the story of ESA’s pioneering comet explorer, following the mission from its initial inception to its historic touchdown.
Read along as the Rosetta orbiter and its lander, Philae, evolve over the years, overcoming early mission hurdles before embarking on their one-way, decade-long voyage to a comet. See how the saga then culminates with Rosetta and Philae at last unveiling their
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gh. Reza Sinambari lehrte die Fachgebiete Schall- und Erschütterungsschutz, Emissionstechnik-Akustik und Konstruktionsakustik an der FH Bingen. Er ist auch Geschäftsführer der Fa. IBS, Ingenieurbüro für Schall- und Schwingungstechnik GmbH, in Frankenthal.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Sentpali lehrt Fahrzeugtechnik, Technische Akustik, Dynamik und Technische Mechanik an der Hochschule München und ist Vorstand der MdynamiX AG, Institut für Akustik, Schwingungen und Fahrdy
Er war immer mein Fels in der Brandung - doch jetzt schlagen die Welle über uns zusammen.
Als ich 16 war, rettete Noah McCormick mir das Leben. Seitdem ist er nicht nur mein bester Freund, sondern auch die einzige Person, der ich blind vertraue. Nie hätte ich gedacht, dass ich jemals mehr von ihm wollen würde - bis jetzt.
Es ist das erste Mal seit Jahren, dass wir uns wiedersehen, und definitiv das erste Mal, dass ich ihn überrasche, als er gerade aus der Dusche k
A Most Valuable Medium brings an exquisitely tuned analytical ear to a rich collection of understudied but foundational media performances. Richard Bauman's seminal approach to verbal performance sheds new light on commercial recordings at the dawn of modern media, providing a model of historically specific intermedial scholarship and producing a cornucopia of insights about how sales pitches, political oratory, storytelling, and sermons were adapted for the phonograph. A most valuable