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LaVerne H. Council Appointed to Mathematica’s Board of Directors

Mathematica announced the appointment of LaVerne H. Council to serve as a member of the organization’s Board of Directors.




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New Release of Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s 2018 Compendium of U.S. Health Systems

The Compendium of U.S. Health Systems for 2018 has been released today by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Comparative Health System Performance Initiative.




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New Tools for Improving Attendance in Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten

Chronic absenteeism is particularly high for students in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten compared with those in elementary and middle school. Check out new resources to help identify and reduce it.




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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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New Year, New Insights: Working Together to Make a Difference for Students

As we step into the new year, Mathematica is proud to announce new partnerships with the U.S. Department of Education. On these projects, we will work together to evaluate education programs and produce insights that strengthen teaching and learning.




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

Garrett, Bradley L




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Reading tourism texts : a multimodal analysis / Sabrina Francesconi

Francesconi, Sabrina, 1976-




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Tourism and the power of otherness : seductions of difference / edited by David Picard and Michael A. Di Giovine




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Working (out) leisure : a critical interpretation of post-work culture / Melinda Young

Young, Melinda




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Leisurely Islam : negotiating geography and morality in Shi'ite South Beirut / Lara Deeb & Mona Harb

Deeb, Lara, 1974- author




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Trends in European tourism planning and organisation / edited by Carlos Costa, Emese Panyik and Dimitrios Buhalis




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Revenue management for hospitality and tourism / [edited by] Patrick Legohérel, Elisabeth Poutier and Alan Fyall




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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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The leadership imperative : technology adoption and strategic management in travel firms in Jamaica / by Andrew Spencer

Spencer, Andrew (Lecturer in tourism management), author




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Tourist destination images and local culture : using the example of the United Arab Emirates / Verena Schwaighofer ; foreword by Prof. Dr. Sc. Othmar M. Lehner

Schwaighofer, Verena, author




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Lifestyle mobilities : intersections of travel, leisure and migration / edited by Tara Duncan, University of Otago, New Zealand, Scott A. Cohen, University of Surrey, UK, Maria Thulemark, Dalarna University, Sweden




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Internet marketing implementation and leapfrogging effects in tourism / Ahmad Fareed Ismail

Ismail, Ahmad Fareed, author




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Tourism and citizenship : rights, freedom and responsibilities in the global order / Raoul V. Bianchi and Marcus L. Stephenson

Bianchi, Raoul V., author




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Shipwrecks of the Ningaloo Reef : maritime archaeological projects from 1978-2009 / Jeremy Green (editor) ; with contributions by Ross Anderson ... [et al.]




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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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Managing sustainability in the hospitality and tourism industry : paradigms and directions for the future / edited by Vinnie Jauhari, PhD




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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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Three ships came sailing / Arthur H. Noble

Noble, Arthur Henry




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Planning for ethnic tourism / Li Yang and Geoffrey Wall

Yang, Li, author




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Tourism in Latin America : cases of success / Alexandre Panosso Netto, Luiz Gonzaga, Godoi Trigo, editors




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Tourism and natural protected areas / edited by M.F. Schmitz




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Creating experience value in tourism / edited by Nina K. Prebensen, University of Tromsø, Norway, Joseph S. Chen, Indiana University at Bloomington and Muzaffer Uysal, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University




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Dumont d'Urville : explorer & polymath / Edward Duyker

Duyker, Edward, 1955- author




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Explorer travellers and adventure tourism / Jennifer Laing and Warwick Frost

Laing, Jennifer, 1967- author




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New tourism in the 21st century : culture, the city, nature and spirituality / edited by Rubén C. Lois González, José M. Santos-Solla and Pilar Taboada-de-Zúñiga




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Tourism, environment and ecology in the Mediterranean Region / edited by Recep Efe and Münir Öztürk




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Disruptive tourism and its untidy guests : alternative ontologies for future hospitalities / Soile Veijola, Jennie Germann Molz, Olli Pyyhtinen, Emily Höckert and Alexander Grit

Veijola, Soile, author




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The new Chinese traveler : business opportunities from the Chinese travel revolution / Gary Bowerman

Bowerman, Gary, author




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Foreign correspondence / edited by Jan Borm and Benjamin Colbert




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Stereopticon : entry to a life of travel and tourism research / by Valene L. Smith

Smith, Valene L




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Tourism, religion and pilgrimage in Jerusalem / Kobi Cohen-Hattab and Noam Shoval

Cohen-Hattab, Kobi, author




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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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Challenges in tourism research / edited by Tej Vir Singh




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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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Market research report on Chinese outbound tourist (city) consumption




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The love market [videorecording] / written, produced, filmed and drected by Shalom Almond




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The forgotten district [videorecording] / a documentary by Oliver Dickinson




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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)