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Cultural tourism, domestic and international, is comprised of
travel that takes people out of their usual environments and
focuses on activities that are related to the cultural aspects of
an area. Rapid progress in technology, especially the advancement
of mobile applications, has changed various aspects of travel,
especially in areas such as transportation. Cultural Tourism in the
Wake of Web Innovation: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an
essential scholarly book that examines revolutionary changes taking
place in the field of cultural tourism that are a result of the
applications of web-based and other information technologies
including Web 2.0 innovations, locational technologies, and digital
imaging. It features a wide range of topics such as economic
development, mobile applications, and green development, and is
intended for use by hotel management, travel agents, event
organizers and planners, airline managers, academicians,
researchers, students, and professionals in the tourism and
hospitality industry.
Justice Statistics: An Extended Look at Crime in the United States
is a special edition of Crime in the United States. It brings
together key reports that fall under this category. Topics covered
include capital punishment, rape and sexual assault among
college-age women, correctional populations, crime in the United
States, hate crimes, probation, parole, human trafficking, and law
enforcement officers killed and assaulted. Tables in this volume
provide a comprehensive account of each of these subjects. Each
section contains statistical tables and figures highlighting the
data, as well as a brief summary of the report's methodology and
at-a-glance highlights of the most compelling information. This
completely updated volume provides valuable information compiled by
the Department of Justice, including its subsidiaries, the Bureau
of Justice Statistics and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Agrarian social movements are at a crossroads. Although these
movements have made significant strides in advancing the concept of
food sovereignty, the reality is that many of their members remain
engaged in environmentally degrading forms of agriculture, and the
lands they farm are increasingly unproductive. Whether movement
farmers will be able to remain living on the land, and dedicated to
alternative agricultural practices, is a pressing question. The
Political Ecology of Education examines the opportunities for and
constraints on advancing food sovereignty in the 17 de Abril
settlement, a community born out of a massacre of landless
Brazilian workers in 1996. Based on immersive fieldwork over the
course of seven years, David Meek makes the provocative argument
that critical forms of food systems education are integral to
agrarian social movements' survival. While the need for critical
approaches is especially immediate in the Amazon, Meek's study
speaks to the burgeoning attention to food systems education at
various educational levels worldwide, from primary to postgraduate
programs. His book calls us to rethink the politics of the possible
within these pedagogies.
In Online Predators, An Internet Insurgency: A Field Manual for
Teaching and Parenting in the Digital Arena Jeffrey A. Lee brings
his ten plus years' experience in the fight against online child
exploitation to bear in an easy to follow guide for all with a
stake in the life of a child. This book equips parents, guardians,
extended family, and educational professionals with practical
strategies to help keep kids safe in a technology connected world.
Instead of focusing on ever changing technology, Lee proposes a key
fundamental change in the fight against online predation-to develop
an insatiable curiosity about their child's online life, then get
in the front lines and stay there.
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