Metaheuristics for Resource Deployment under Uncertainty in Complex Systems

"This book analyzes how to set locations for the deployment of resources to incur the best performance at the lowest cost. Resources can be static nodes and moving nodes while services for a specific area or for customers can be provided. Theories of modeling and solution techniques are used with uncertainty taken into account and real-world applications used"--

Business & Money

Chen, Chen

Zhang, Qi

Ding, Shuxin

Xin, Bin

Economics

CRC-Press

The Recipe for Success in Restaurant Management… Restaurant Management: A Best Practices Approach introduces the reader to the vast menu of opportunities available in the restaurant industry - from creating business plans to guest service, quality management, labor costs and beyond.
Written by a diverse collection of restaurant industry and education experts, Restaurant Management: A Best Practices Approach:
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<li>Includes a section dedicated to career opportunities, job prospects, and the differences between self-ownership and franchised operations.</li>
<li>Describes the five types of managerial control and discusses the importance of cost control to a foodservice operation.</li>
<li>Explains what a menu should accomplish for a foodservice operation as well as the nine factors involved in menu pricing and the seven quantitative menu pricing methods.</li>
<li>Includes learning objectives, key terms, summaries, review questions, and more to facilitate and assess student learning.</li>
<li>Describes different types of foodservice operation budgets and offers advantages and disadvantages of each. </li>
</ul>

Restaurant Management: A Best Practices Approach

Cihan Cobanoglu

Frederick DeMicco

Joseph Dunbar

Robert Grimes

James R Keiser

Kendall/Hunt Publishing

The Chens were classified as "national bourgeois" following the Communist takeover and endured the cataclysmic violence of the Cultural Revolution - separation, imprisonment, internal exile, and "re-education" in the "cadre schools" designed for ideological criminals. Come Watch the Sun Go Home powerfully evokes the viciousness and absurdity of a society in thrall to totalitarian hysteria.

Come Watch the Sun Go Home: A Memoir of Upheaval and Revolution in China

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

MARLOWE & COMPANY *

Writing under a pseudonym, the author recounts the fortunes and misfortunes of her and her family since the takeover of her native China by the communists, including her confinement to reform camps during the Cultural Revolution for being an intellectual. IP.

Come Watch the Sun Go Home

Da Capo Press

In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family - the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes - all from Asian American, immigrant and queer perspectives. Holding all accountable, this refreshingly candid and entertainingly provocative collection fully embraces the loss, grief, and abundant joy that come with charting one's own path in identity, life and love. Foreword by Jericho Brown.

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

Literature & Fiction

Erotica

Bloodaxe Books Ltd.

In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family--the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes--all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Holding all accountable, this collection fully embraces the loss, grief, and abundant joy that come with charting one's own path in identity, life, and love. In the Hospital My mother was in the hospital &amp; everyone wanted to be my friend. But I was busy making a list: good dog, bad citizen, short skeleton, tall mocha. Typical Tuesday. My mother was in the hospital &amp; no one wanted to be her friend. Everyone wanted to be soft cooing sympathies. Very reasonable pigeons. No one had the time &amp; our solution to it was to buy shinier watches. We were enamored with what our wrists could declare. My mother was in the hospital &amp; I didn't want to be her friend. Typical son. Tall latte, short tale, bad plot, great wifi in the atypical café. My mother was in the hospital &amp; she didn't want to be her friend. She wanted to be the family grocery list. Low-fat yogurt, firm tofu. She didn't trust my father to be it. You always forget something, she said, even when I do the list for you. Even then. Chen Chen was born in Xiamen, China, and grew up in Massachusetts. His work has appeared in two chapbooks and in such publications as Poetry, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Best of the Net, and The Best American Poetry. The recipient of the 2016 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, he has been awarded fellowships from Kundiman, the Saltonstall Foundation, Lambda Literary, and in 2015, he was a finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships. He earned his BA at Hampshire College and his MFA at Syracuse University. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD in English and Creative Writing at Texas Tech University. Chen lives in Lubbock, Texas, with his partner, Jeff Gilbert, and their pug dog, Rupert Giles.

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America)

United States

BOA Editions, Ltd.

What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves calling out for rescue? 
In his highly anticipated second collection, Chen Chen continues his investigation of family, both blood and chosen, examining what one inherits and what one invents, as a queer Asian American living through an era of Trump, mass shootings, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Always at work in the wrecked heart of this new collection is a switchboard operator, picking up and connecting calls. Raucous 2 a.m. prank calls. Whispered-in-a-classroom emergency calls. And sometimes, its pages record the dropping of a call, a failure or refusal to pick up. With irrepressible humor and play, these anarchic poems celebrate life, despite all that would crush aliveness. 
Hybrid in form and set in New England, West Texas, and a landlocked province of China, among other places, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency refuses neat categorizations and pat answers. Instead, the book offers an insatiable curiosity about how it is we keep finding ways to hold onto one another.

Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (American Poets Continuum Series, 194)

Self-Help

Relationships

A Restricted View From Under the Hedge: In The Springtime

PATTEN, Brian

Poetry

Hedgehog Poetry Press

Dilah es un zorrito ártico que siempre ha sentido curiosidad por los humanos. Aunque su padre le ha contado que pueden ser peligrosos, después de visitar a una familia humana durante un tiempo, Dilah se da cuenta de que también pueden ser bastante amables y, secretamente, él desea ser uno de ellos. Todo cambia un día que regresa a la madriguera y encuentra a su madre gravemente herida: ella le cuenta que su padre ha muerto a manos de cazadores y le confiesa que hay un tesoro mágico capaz de convertir a cualquier animal en humano. Para encontrarlo, Dilah deberá guiarse con una piedra lunar que ha estado resguardada en la madriguera. A pesar de que ya no se siente seguro de querer seguir su sueño de convertirse en humano, Dilah se arma de valor y decide tomar la piedra para emprender la búsqueda del legendario tesoro, antes de que caiga en las garras equivocadas.

Zorro blanco. Dilah y la piedra lunar (Spanish Edition)

Children's Books

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Planeta Publishing

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