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Hotel Management: Books

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The library has a large collection of books, which has been specially compiled for the hotel management school. The books can be consulted on the spot, but you can also borrow them. There is also access to e-books, which can be searched online in specialised databases licensed by Zuyd Library.

Zuyd Library Catalogue

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(E-)Books in the spotlight

Total Facility Management

Placement Code: 366.46 Atki

The book deals with the most common and intractable challenges facing professionals, academics and students in the field and provides practical solutions with the means to implement them. The new edition includes a greater focus on applicable ISO standards in facility management as well as maintaining an international perspective throughout.

Experimental Dining: Performance, Experience and Ideology in Contemporary Creative Restaurants

Placement Code: 375.23 Gear

Considers four of the world’s leading creative restaurants as experimental performance practice. Using ideas from performance studies, cultural studies, philosophy and economics, the book argues that technoemotional restaurants can be understood as both a commodified experience and an artistic and aesthetic practice

Doing Research in the business world

Placement code: 300.6 Gray

Starting with the basics and fully grounded in the context of actually doing research, this practical book is the perfect companion as you tackle a business research project head-on.

Measuring social change: performance and accountability in a complex world

Digital Access

Alnoor Ebrahim addresses one of the fundamental dilemmas facing leaders as they navigate this uncertain terrain: performance measurement. How can they track performance towards worthy goals such as reducing poverty, improving public health, or advancing human rights? What results can they reasonably measure and legitimately take credit for? This book tackles three core challenges of performance faced by social enterprises and nonprofit organizations alike: what to measure, what kinds of performance systems to build, and how to align multiple demands for accountability

The Gastronot's Language of Flavor: How Science Shapes Our Palates: Exploring the Chemistry Behind the Captivating Flavors

Placement Code: 629. Özse

This groundbreaking book explores the intersection of chemistry, creativity, and cuisine, unraveling how scientific principles define what we taste, how we taste it, and how we can manipulate flavors to create extraordinary culinary experiences. From the molecular structures that trigger taste sensations to the complex roles of herbs, spices, meats, dairy, and even heat in enhancing flavor, this book offers a deep dive into the science behind the foods we love.

Gastronot's Symphony of Flavors: The Science of Taste and Sound in Dining: Exploring the Intersection of Taste, Sound, and Multisensory Dining

Placement Code: 629 Özse

 This book explores the science behind multisensory dining experiences, showing how music, soundscapes, and flavors can work together to enhance every meal, transforming it into a truly immersive experience. Drawing on cutting-edge research in neurogastronomy and sensory science, Gastronot's Symphony of Flavors offers practical insights for chefs, bartenders, and anyone passionate about food. From pairing sweet flavors with classical music to contrasting bitter notes with bass-heavy beats, this book helps readers understand how to orchestrate unforgettable sensory experiences in restaurants, bars, and beyond.

Chefs, restaurants, and culinary sustainability

Placement Code: 351.31 Coun

This volume explores how chefs around the world approach culinary sustainability. Building on empirical data collected from a wide range of cultural, historical, political, and economic settings, the contributors to this collection provide an engaging examination of how chefs in diverse culinary contexts tackle the increasingly urgent societal and environmental need for a more secure food future

Chefs, restaurants, and culinary sustainability

Digital Access

This volume explores how chefs around the world approach culinary sustainability. Building on empirical data collected from a wide range of cultural, historical, political, and economic settings, the contributors to this collection provide an engaging examination of how chefs in diverse culinary contexts tackle the increasingly urgent societal and environmental need for a more secure food future

Sustainable food innovation

Digital Access

This will be the first publication to combine literature review and research data and the first to offer a comprehensive discussion on sustainable food innovation. The ultimate goal is to educate consumers and experts, providing technical and socioeconomic knowledge in a multidisciplinary context. Ultimately, informed technologists will develop healthier, sustainable food products and informed consumers will make informed decisions on nutrition and food choices.

Zero complaints: the path to continuous value creation

Placement Code: 369.11 Maha

The book shows why customers complain and how these complaints create huge problems for organizations, including limiting their growth, increasing unnecessary costs, contributing to customer churn, and upsetting employees. The book also calculates the enormous costs of complaints that can be saved in a Zero Complaints world. The book then goes on to describe processes and technologies that can identify and address the underlying reasons for those complaints, as well as the organizational changes required and mandated to provide continuous improvements

E-BOOKS

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