... Complete works of Guy de Maupassant ...

v. 1. The window, and short stories.--v. 2. Strong as death, Useless beauty, and short stories.--v. 3. Afloat, In the sunlight, The windering life, The Rondoli sister, and short stories.--v. 4. Pierre and Jean, Ball-of-Tallow, and short stories.--v. 5. Belami, Mademoiselle Pearl, and short stories.--v. 6. A life, unedited stories not found in other editions.--v. 7. Our heart, Sundays of a Parisian.--v. 8. Mont-Oriol, three plays, Yvette, and three short stories.--v. 9. Poetry, Allouma, and short stories.

Works.

v.1. Nature's serial story.--v.2. Without a home.--v.3. A knight of the nineteenth century.--v.4. Opening a chestnut burr.-v.5. Barriers burned away.--v.6. An original belle.--v.7. From jest to earnest.--v.8. Near to nature's heart.--v.9. Miss Lou and Driven back to Eden.--v.10. What can she do?--v.11. Taken alive and other stories with an autobiography [and] The home acre.--v.12. A face illumined.--v.13. His somber rivals.--v.14. A day of fate.--v.15. The earth trembled.--v.16. A young girl's wooing.--v.17. Success with small fruits.--v.18. He fell in love with his wife [and] E.P. Roe, Reminiscences of his life, by his sister, Mary A. Roe.

The book of the short story /

Introduction.--The shipwrecked sailor. About 2500 B.C.--The book of Ruth. About 450 B.C.--Apuleius. The story of Cupid and Psyche. 2d century A.D.--Boccaccio. Frederick of the Alberighi and his falcon. 1353.--The story of Ali Baba, and the forty robbers destroyed by a slave. 1548.--Cervantes. The liberal lover. 1613.--Defoe. The apparition of Mrs. Veal. 1706.--Voltaire. Jeannot and Colon. 1764?--Irving, W. Rip Van Winkle. 1819.--Scott, Sir W. Wandering Willie's tale. 1824.--Mérimée, P. The taking of the redoubt. 1829.--Balzac, H. de. La Grande Bretéche. 1832.--Hawthorne, N. The birthmark. 1843.--Poe, E.A. The cask of Amontillado. 1846.--Turgeneff, I. A Lear of the steppes. 1870.--Stevenson, R.L. Markheim. 1884.--Maupassant, G. de. A coward. 1885.--Kipling, R. Without benefit of clergy. 1890.--A list of representative tales and short stories.

Writings.

[v. 1.] Frontier stories -- [v. 2.] The luck of roaring camp, and other sketches -- [v. 3.] Mrs. Skagg's husband, and other sketches -- [v. 4.] Poems -- [v. 5.] Tales of the Argonauts, and other stories -- [v. 6.] Trent's trust, and other stories.

The Arabian nights entertainments;

An accurate version of the wonderful and fanciful stories of 1,001 Arabian nights, retold and corrected from an Aribic manuscript, by the famous translator, Dr. Jonathan Scott.

The works of Alphonse Daudet

v.17. Tartarin of Tarascon, to which is added Tartarin on the Alps; tr. by Katharine P. Wormeley.--v.18. Port-Tarascon, to which is added Studies and landscapes; tr. by Katharine P. Wormeley.--v.19. Letters from my mill, to which is added Letters to an absent one; tr. by Katharine P. Wormeley.--v.20. Monday tales; tr. by Marian McIntyre.--v.21-22. Jack; tr. by Marion McIntyre.--v.23. The support of the family; tr. by G. B. Ives, to which is added Notes on life; tr. by Mary Hendee.--v.24. Memoir by L. Daudet, to which is added The Daudet family ("Mon frère et moi") by E. Daudet; tr. by C. De Kay

The Waverley novels /

Binder's title.

Selected works of Rudyard Kipling.

V. 1. Soldiers three; In black and white; The story of the Gadsbys; The phantom 'rickshaw and other tales; Wee Wille Winkie and other child stories. -- v. 3. Mine own people; The courting of Dinah Shadd and other stories; American notes; Under the deodars and other tales; Departmental ditties; Barrack-room ballads and other verses.

George Eliot's works.

Each vol. also has separate title page.

Educating readers: Breast cancer in Australian women's magazines

Women's magazines in Australia have become increasingly involved in various public health awareness campaigns. In particular, breast cancer has been targeted as an issue for attention. This disease occupies a privileged position in women's magazines, being represented as treatable and survivable with an emphasis on the advocacy of early detection through breast self-examination and screening programs. In this way, women's magazines can be seen to be proactive in serving the public interest of their readers. Information and advice about breast cancer are not limited to medical articles, advice columns and diet pages, but occur, perhaps more accessibly, in feature articles of personal accounts of experiences with breast cancer. This paper looks at coverage of the disease in Australian women's magazines over the last 3 years to see how this role in public health awareness operates. It pays particular attention to illness narratives in feature articles and to stories associated with the magazines' own breast cancer campaigns.

Managing enterprise resource planning projects

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to help managers to successfully plan, implement, and operate enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects using a risk management framework. Design/methodology/approach – This paper adopted a combined literature review and case study method. Using literature review, the paper first identified major issues of managing ERP projects and develops a risk management framework for managing those issues. The proposed risk management framework was then applied to a ERP implementation project of a UK-based energy services group and its effectiveness for managing ERP projects implementation had been demonstrated. Additionally, the risk factors as identified from the case application are compared with the risk factors from the previous researches so as to suggest mitigating measures. Findings – All the risk factors are categorized into planning, implementation and operations phases along with project processes, organizational transformation and information technology (IT) perspectives. Project implementation phase is the most vulnerable to failure. The case study results reveal that the effect of other projects on on-going ERP project, management of overall IT architecture and non-availability of resources for organizational transformation are most critical from likelihood and impact perspectives. Managing risk across various phases of project and equal emphasize to effective project management, organizational transformation and IT adoption are the key to success in ERP implementation. Practical implications – The risk factors, which were identified using literature review and the case study, have great significance as mitigating measures of those risks may result successful implementation of ERP projects in the industry. Additionally, proposed risk management framework could be customized to implement ERP projects elsewhere. Originality/value – ERP projects are risky as they are capital intensive, technically complex, and call for organizational transformation. There are both success and failure stories. However, both researchers and practitioners agree, that if it can be implemented and operated successfully and benefits should be achievable. Although there are many studies on ERP implementation, little has been discussed on managing risks of ERP projects. Therefore, this paper bridges the gap.

A Bayesian modeling approach to multi-dimensional sentiment distributions prediction

Sentiment analysis has long focused on binary classification of text as either positive or negative. There has been few work on mapping sentiments or emotions into multiple dimensions. This paper studies a Bayesian modeling approach to multi-class sentiment classification and multidimensional sentiment distributions prediction. It proposes effective mechanisms to incorporate supervised information such as labeled feature constraints and document-level sentiment distributions derived from the training data into model learning. We have evaluated our approach on the datasets collected from the confession section of the Experience Project website where people share their life experiences and personal stories. Our results show that using the latent representation of the training documents derived from our approach as features to build a maximum entropy classifier outperforms other approaches on multi-class sentiment classification. In the more difficult task of multi-dimensional sentiment distributions prediction, our approach gives superior performance compared to a few competitive baselines. © 2012 ACM.

Entre la provincia y el mundo. Modernidad e innovacion en la narrativa de Lino Novas Calvo

Lino Novás Calvo (1903–1983) is by many considered the best Cuban short story writer. Critics acknowledge his major contribution to the modernization of narrative prose in that country. With Cayo Canas and La Luna Nona, the short story achieved a language of its own, a precise technique, an acute outlook and an awareness of its own individual art form. Nevertheless, his novels and short stories have not received the recognition and the distribution they deserve, in part because his books have not been reprinted. ^ The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the innovative character of Novás Calvo's work. From the starting point of traditional discourse, he gathered together the main tendencies that until then co-existed in Cuban literature (realism, social criticism, criollismo, Afro Cuban themes and cosmopolitism) and renewed them with modern contributions, mainly assimilated from American authors writing between the two World Wars. He based himself in a concept of realism that does not limit itself to recreating reality and that eludes language localisms and the portrayal of environments. He brought Cuban characters and themes to his stories which at the same gave them a universal dimension. Novás Calvo participated in debates which amounted to a rupture between tradition and localism and brought universality to the Cuban short story. This achieved the aesthetic syncretism imposed by modernity. ^

Measuring Hotel Service Quality: Tools for Gaining the Competitive Edge

As the hotel industry grows more competitive, quality guest service becomes an increasingly important part of managers' responsibility measuring the quality of service delivery is facilitated when managers know what types of assessment methods are available to them. The authors present and discuss the following available measurement techniques and describe the situations where they best meet the needs of hotel managers: management observation, employee feedback programs, comment cards, mailed surveys, personal and telephone interviews, focus groups, and mystery shopping.

Hotel Managers Identify Ethical Problems: A Survey of their Concerns

This study identified and examined the concerns of hotel general managers regarding ethics in the hospitality industry. Thirty-five managers were interviewed during and immediately following the economic recession to determine which ethical issues in the hotel industry and at their own properties concerned them the most. Results showed that more people and organizations attempted to renegotiate hotel rates, which actions, in turn, led to some lapses in ethical behavior. Managers said that because of the economic downturn, they felt pressure from both private owners and corporate headquarters. They also said a lack of work ethic, low motivation, and low pay caused many workers to underperform in ways that raised ethical issues. Managers also mentioned diversity issues and theft by both guests and employees as ethical issues of concern, and shared stories about their experiences.