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Final Impacts of a Home Visiting Program in Texas Designed to Reduce Repeat Pregnancies

A final report presents evidence on the long-term impacts of the Steps to Success home visiting program for adolescent mothers in San Angelo, Texas.




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New Tools to Explore the Role of Physician Group Practices in U.S. Health Care Systems

A new, publicly available data file on physician group practices has been released by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Comparative Health System Performance Initiative.




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ACF Seeks Comments on Performance Measures Used in a Mathematica-Conducted Study

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) seeks comments on performance measures used for the Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) grant program.




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New Toolkit Highlights How Medicare Accountable Care Organizations Engage Beneficiaries

Under a contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Mathematica’s health experts worked with 24 Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Seamless Care Organizations participating in the Shared Savings Program, Next Generation ACO Model, and the Comprehensive ESRD Care Model to identify the strategies that ACOs use to engage beneficiaries in their care.




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More Nutritious School Meals Reach Millions of Children Since Passage of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act

Updated nutrition standards called for in the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (HHFKA) have made school meals significantly healthier, according to a recent article.




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Mathematica Named a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality

Mathematica received a score of 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s recently released 2020 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), earning the designation as a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality.




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Explore everything : place-hacking the city / Bradley L. Garrett

Garrett, Bradley L




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International handbook on ecotourism / edited by Roy Ballantyne and Jan Packer, University of Queensland, School of Tourism, Australia




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The ecotourism-extraction nexus : political economies and rural realities of (un)comfortable bedfellows / edited by Bram Büscher and Veronica Davidov




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International cases in sustainable travel & tourism / edited by Pierre Beckendorff, Dagmar Lund-Durlacher




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Japanese tourism : spaces, places and structures / Carolin Funck and Malcolm Cooper

Funck, Carolin




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Understanding and governing sustainable tourism mobility : psychological and behavioural approaches / edited by Scott A. Cohen, James E.S. Higham, Paul Peeters and Stefan Gössling




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Green growth and travelism : concept, policy and practice for sustainable tourism / edited by Terry DeLacy, Min Jiang, Geoffrey Lipman and Shaun Vorster




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The tourism education futures initiative : activating change in tourism education / edited by Darko Prebezac, Christian Schott and Pauline J. Sheldon




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The Wiley Blackwell companion to tourism / edited by Alan A. Lew, C. Michael Hall, and Allan M. Williams




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Tourism destination development : turns and tactics / edited by Arvid Viken and Brynhild Granås




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Tourism imaginaries : anthropological approaches / edited by Noel B. Salazar and Nelson H. H. Graburn




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Queer postcolonial narratives and the ethics of witnessing / Donna McCormack

McCormack, Donna




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Nabokov, Rushdie, and the transnational imagination : novels of exile and alternate worlds / Rachel Trousdale

Trousdale, Rachel




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Century of the leisured masses : entertainment and the transformation of twentieth-century America / David George Surdam ; preface by Ken McCormick

Surdam, David G. (David George)




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Ethnic and minority cultures as tourist attractions / edited by Anya Diekmann and Melanie Kay Smith




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VFR travel research : international perspectives / edited by Elisa Backer and Brian King




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Institutional arrangements for conservation, development and tourism in Eastern and Southern Africa : a dynamic perspective / René van der Duim, Machiel Lamers, Jakomijn van Wijk, editors




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Cultural tourism in a digital era : first International Conference IACuDiT, Athens, 2014 / Vicky Katsoni, editor

International Conference on Cultural and Digital Tourism (1st : 2014 : Athens, Greece)




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Human resources management in the hospitality industry / David K. Hayes, Jack D. Ninemeier

Hayes, David K., author




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Challenges and contemporary solutions for tourism destination planning, development, and marketing : building better places, attracting newer faces : proceedings of the 4th International Tourism Studies Association Biennial Conference / editors: Shen Han,

International Tourism Studies Association Biennial Conference (4th : 2012 : Bali, Indonesia)




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The practice of sustainable tourism : resolving the paradox / edited by Michael Hughes, David Weaver and Christof Pforr




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Events and sustainability / Kirsten Holmes, Michael Hughes, Judith Mair and Jack Carlsen

Holmes, Kirsten, author




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Contemporary destination governance : a case study approach / editors, Harald Pechlaner, Pietro Beritelli, Sabine Pichler, Mike Peters, Noel Scott




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Archipelago tourism : policies and practices / edited by Godfrey Baldacchino




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Sustainability, social responsibility, and innovations in tourism and hospitality / edited by H.G. Parsa ; Vijaya "Vi" Narapareddy, consulting editor ; SooCheong (Shawn) Jang, Maríval Segarra-Oña, and Rachel J.C. Chen, associate editor




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Ecotourism : practices, benefits and environmental impacts / Shannon C. Brophy, editor




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Landscapes of leisure : space, place and identities / edited by Sean Gammon and Sam Elkington




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A tourism development and marketing strategy for the Lake Grace Development Association / prepared by Menzies & Associates Pty Ltd for the Lake Grace Development Association




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Segment insights pack : market research intelligence on Aboriginal tourism / prepared by Market Insights Unit, Australian Tourist Commission




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Attracting attention : promotion and marketing for tourism attractions / Andi Stein

Stein, Andi, 1960-




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Marketing places and spaces / edited by Antónia Correia, Juergen Gnoth, Metin Kozak, Alan Fyall




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The social side of tourism : the interface between tourism, society, and the environment : answers to global questions from the International Competence Network Of Tourism Research and Education (ICNT) / Michael Lück, Jan Velvin, Bernd Eisenstein (ed




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Commercial space exploration : [ethics, policy and governance] / edited by Jai Galliott




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When East meets West : cross-cultural variation in service encounter interactions / Thuy-Huong Truong

Truong, Thuy-Huong




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Tourist attractions : from object to narrative / Johan R. Edelheim

Edelheim, Johan R., author




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Cartographic Japan : a history in maps / edited by Kären Wigen, Sugimoto Fumiko, and Cary Karacas




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Tourism in Pacific Islands : current issues and future challenges / edited by Stephen Pratt and David Harrison




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Managing sustainable tourism : a legacy for the future / David L. Edgell, Sr

Edgell, David L., Sr. (David Lee), 1938-




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Case studies of traditional cultural accommodations in the Republic of Korea, Japan and China




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Tourism competitiveness in the Italy-France cross-border area : the role of knowledge and innovation transfer / Iacopo Cavallini, Barbara Burchi and Marco Celi

Cavallini, Iacopo, author




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Assessing the economic impact of tourism : a computable general equilibrium modelling approach / Samuel Meng, Mahinda Siriwardana

Meng, Samuel, author




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Re-imagining leisure studies / Tony Blackshaw

Blackshaw, Tony, 1960- author




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Practical guidelines for integrated quality management in tourism destinations : concepts, implementation and tools for destination management organizations




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Touring Pacific cultures / edited by Kalissa Alexeyeff and John Taylor