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The most researched, documented, and comprehensive manifesto on experiential marketing.As customers take control over what, when, why, and how they buy products and services, brands face the complete breakdown and utter failure of passive marketing strategies designed more than a half-century ago. To connect with a new generation of customers, companies must embrace and deploy a new marketing mix, powered by a more effective discipline: experiences.Experien...

An irreverent yet authoritative guide to one of the world's most popular destinations, Kerry Smith's Walt Disney World for Mature Travelers (published in print in 1999) gives visitors the tools to make their own decisions and have the most enjoyable Disney vacation ever.Of the millions of visitors to Walt Disney World each year, more than 15% are 50 or older - a market segment that is booming. This guide is geared to the traveler who measures the success of a vacation by ho...

The air in Alder Creek smells like somebody's best day. A stranger just offered millions for it.Ruth Calloway has nine cows, a third dry summer, and a kitchen table held level by foreclosure notices. She also has one rule: save the farm without ever setting foot in the east field, the last place on earth that still belongs entirely to her late husband.Then a stranger in a spotless suit wipes his shoes twice on her porch and says the one sentence that makes ...

SHE DIED AT HER DESK. HER DEADLINE DID NOT.In the Building, nobody picks a job. The afterlife assigns one according to how you died, and June Calloway's was Quarter-End Close, forever. Six years in, she has never missed a deadline and never taken a lunch.Then she is summoned to Floor Four to audit a leak in the one system every soul depends on. Forty working days. Twelve files. One rule she has never bent: an auditor files the finding, no matter whose name ...

Japan is a place where powerful earthquakes have occurred more frequently and have caused more harm in the modern era than they have in all but a handful of other locations on the planet. In the twentieth century alone, earthquake disasters in Japan took almost as many lives as they had in all of the country’s recorded history up to that point. Predicting Disasters is the first English-language book to explore how scientists convinced policy makers and the public in postwar Japan ...

Japan is a place where powerful earthquakes have occurred more frequently and have caused more harm in the modern era than they have in all but a handful of other locations on the planet. In the twentieth century alone, earthquake disasters in Japan took almost as many lives as they had in all of the country’s recorded history up to that point. Predicting Disasters is the first English-language book to explore how scientists convinced policy makers and the public in postwar Japan ...

Some apologies are never sent. This one found her anyway.Postmarked Never is a twisty, one-sitting small-town mystery about a librarian, a midnight deadline, and the letters nobody was ever meant to read.Wren Aldous keeps the Unsent Archive of Harrow Falls, where other people's apologies are filed and never read. She has one rule, and she has kept it for years. Now there is something she wants more than the rule: the truth about who in this town knows her w...

If you're one of the more than five million people who will go on a cruise vacation this year, you may be wondering how to choose between the many cruise lines, ships, and destinations that are available. You may be looking for a cruise geared towards adults, one where both you and the grandkids can have fun, or a cruise on which singles are catered to as much as couples. The key to great vacation is knowing what you need in one convenient place.Looking for an Alaskan cruise in an i...

First Published in 2011. This is Volume 10 of in a set of ten titles on Resources for the Future Library Collection Forests, Lands and Recreation. The research on which this monograph is based was stimulated by some ideas presented in George Stankey's A Strategy for the Definition and Management of Wilderness Quality and the conceptual model presented in a paper by Anthony Fisher and John Krutilla entitled, Determination of Optimal Capacity of Resource-Based Recreation Facilities. This stu...

Originally published in 1974, Technical Change, Relative Prices, and Environmental Resource Evaluation explores the relationship between natural environmental resources and the differential implications of technological change and relative price appreciation. Smith claims that price is linked to technological progress and comments on the economic issues surrounding this. This title will be of interest to students of Environmental Studies and Economics.

Current views on resource availability are examined, along with the original Barnett-Morse thesis of resource supply.Originally published in 1979

This book, first published in 1988, provides an overview of the diverse work that was being done in applied and theoretical environmental and resource economics. Some essays reflect upon the background of the work of John Krutilla, one of the founders of Resources for the Future and a leading scholar of environmental economics, and the development of the field to date. Other essays examine and convey findings on particular resource problems and theoretical issues and resource policies and ...