This book is the first to analyze the phenomenon of international retirement migration, to trace the story of the migrants from their old to their new homes, and to examine the conceptual and policy contexts of this relatively new form of transnational mobility. The Costa del Sol, the Algarve, Tuscany and Malta attract increasing numbers of retirees each year, especially British and other Northern European citizens. This study provides new insights into the motivations of the mainly well-off and well-educated retirees who settle in Southern Europe and how they manage the transition. It demonstrates the roles of international tourism and of living abroad earlier in life in the formation of the ambition to retire abroad, and it describes the dominantly positive consequences of the moves. The challenges of providing health and welfare services for the ageing population are also explored. The book develops fascinating perspectives on new constructions of old age as a period for personal development and positive changes, and on the ways by which Northern European retirees resident in the South are forming a new pan-national European identity.This book will have wide appeal to a range of readerships and its cross-disciplinary nature will make it relevant for courses on sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, tourism and leisure studies, migration studies, gerontology, social and health policy and area studies.

Two unconnected but important recent academic and policy debates have focussed on the idea of the knowledge-based economy and the economic consequences of increasing international migration. This book challenges pre-conceived views on the debates and argues the need to understand that all migrants are potentially knowledge carriers and learners, and that they play an essential role in the globalization of knowledge transactions.

Deconstructing the concept of knowledge, and demonstrating how tacit knowledge is in fact an amalgam of encultured and embrained/embodied forms of knowledge this book considers how international migration has profound consequences, analysed, first, in terms of the economic and immigration strategies of national and regional bodies. And, secondly, the authors explore how the diversity dividend of migration is captured by firms through their management strategies, and by individuals through increasingly boundaryless careers, continuous learning and transnational working lives.

This research is a highly original contribution which provides the first overview of one of the most dynamic forces for change in the globalising economy. It will challenge migration researchers and students to engage with the management and learning literatures, and it will challenge management and economic policy analysts to think through the role of international migration. As such it will contribute to teaching and research in a range of social science disciplines, as well as to those involved in policy arenas ensuring that firms and all migrants engage in mutual learning and knowledge sharing."

This comprehensive book provides full coverage of beach management principles and practice, with an emphasis on needs-based management. The book provides a wealth of case studies from the UK, USA, New Zealand, the Mediterranean, and Latin America. The emphasis throughout the book is on optimizing economic, social and environmental outcomes and reconciling competing needs in management planning for beach area. This book is an indispensable tool kit for all professionals in beach and coastal/beach zone management . It is also a comprehensive primer for university undergraduate students in professional planning, land management, coastal geography as well as tourism and conservation planning and management.

This comprehensive book provides full coverage of beach management principles and practice, with an emphasis on needs-based management. The book provides a wealth of case studies from the UK, USA, New Zealand, the Mediterranean, and Latin America. The emphasis throughout the book is on optimizing economic, social and environmental outcomes and reconciling competing needs in management planning for beach area. This book is an indispensable tool kit for all professionals in beach and coastal/beach zone management . It is also a comprehensive primer for university undergraduate students in professional planning, land management, coastal geography as well as tourism and conservation planning and management.

Two unconnected but important recent academic and policy debates have focussed on the idea of the knowledge-based economy and the economic consequences of increasing international migration. This book challenges pre-conceived views on the debates and argues the need to understand that all migrants are potentially knowledge carriers and learners, and that they play an essential role in the globalization of knowledge transactions.

Deconstructing the concept of knowledge, and demonstrating how tacit knowledge is in fact an amalgam of encultured and embrained/embodied forms of knowledge this book considers how international migration has profound consequences, analysed, first, in terms of the economic and immigration strategies of national and regional bodies. And, secondly, the authors explore how the 'diversity dividend' of migration is captured by firms through their management strategies, and by individuals through increasingly boundaryless careers, continuous learning and transnational working lives.

This research is a highly original contribution which provides the first overview of one of the most dynamic forces for change in the globalising economy. It will challenge migration researchers and students to engage with the management and learning literatures, and it will challenge management and economic policy analysts to think through the role of international migration. As such it will contribute to teaching and research in a range of social science disciplines, as well as to those involved in policy arenas ensuring that firms and all migrants engage in mutual learning and knowledge sharing.

Europe has a long history of managing coastal erosion through a variety of protection strategies, from the defences of the Venice lagoons to coastal land reclamation in the Netherlands. This book provides a comprehensive review of the entire coastline of Europe and a comparative analysis of erosion problems and solutions in each country. Each chapter discusses the natural and anthropogenic factors in the erosion process and in defence projects design and maintenance, including coastal morphology and wave climate, land use changes and use of coastal areas, the evolution of coastal protection, climate change and political and administrative assessments. Particular attention is paid to demographic and economic factors influencing coastal erosion in each country and to technical and administrative criteria influencing defence projects design. Lavishly illustrated in full colour throughout, the book represents a definitive reference work on its subject.

The story of the photographic intelligence work undertaken from a country house at Medmenham, Buckinghamshire, is one of the great lost stories of the Second World War . At its peak in 1944, almost 2,000 British and American men and women worked at the top-secret Danesfield House, interpreting photographs - the majority stereoscopic so they could be viewed in 3D - to unlock secrets of German military activity and weapons development. Millions of aerial photographs were taken by Allied pilots, flying unarmed modified Spitfires and Mosquitos on missions over Nazi Europe. it was said that an aircraft could land, the photographs be developed and initial interpretation completed within two hours - marking the culmination of years of experiments in aerial intelligence techniques. Their finest hour began in 1943, during the planning stages of the Allied invasion of Europe, when Douglas Kendall, who masterminded the interpretation work at Medmenham, led the hunt for Hitler's secret weapons. Operation Crossbow would grow from a handful of photographic interpreters to the creation of a hand-picked team, and came to involve interpreters from across the Medmenham spectrum, including the team of aircraft specialists led by the redoubtable Constance Babington Smith. In November that year, whilst analysing photographs of Peenemunde in northern Germany, they spotted a small stunted aircraft on a ramp. This intelligence breakthrough linked the Nazi research station with a growing network of sites in northern France, where ramps were being constructed aligned not only with London, but targets throughout southern Britain. Through the combined skill and dedication of the Crossbow team and the heroism of the Allied pilots, throughout late 1943 and 1944 V-weapon launch sites were located and through countermeasures destroyed, saving hundreds of thousands of lives, and changing the course of the war. Operation Crossbow is a wonderful story of human endeavour and derring-do, told for the first time.

In schools everywhere children are bullied for being different. Most suffer no long-term damage. Others develop deep psychological problems. In the case of one child, now grown, the taunts had consequences no one could have foreseen for the kindness of one boy so many years ago resulted in a decades old obsession. A chance encounter on a special day for Cadogan Cain triggers a series of horrifying events that bring him face-to-face with an adversary more cunning and dangerous than any he has ever known.

Cadogan Cain, a photojournalist with a secret, bands together with his girlfriend Angie and his best friend Lt. Bob McLean to solve one of the worst crimes in the history of their city. The mass murder of ten teenagers in a place known as Devil's Hole. Their investigation dredges up the past of a historic site and of their personal lives while facing an antagonist whose sociopathic personality demands he get what he wants no matter who gets in the way.

Three islands, three bodies, and a mystery that involves the past and the present. A story that mixes secrets, lies, and immorality with mistrust between the classes and results in a tragic tale of grief gone horribly wrong.

True fear is in the unexpected. It grips the heart of a man who thinks his past is behind him. It troubles a woman who has been living two lives, and it pounces on the innocence of a child at play. For Cadogan Cain, Angie Bianco, and a boy named Frankie, fear is hand delivered by a ghost of a man whose outward beauty hides a soul as black as coal.

Are you ready to take a tour inside of many different types of black men souls in this modern day and age? This book will reveal the butt naked truth about the secret thoughts, desires, and mentalities that black men will never expose to black women or to the world in general. The black man has been mentally sleep in a zombie state for several centuries. However even in his drowsy mode he is able to make history that mind boggles the world to this day. It's not a mystery that the first man and people on earth were black well dark green at that time from interbreeding with the star beings A.K.A gods from the star system "Sirius in the Orion Constellation"J. The pyramids in Egypt were built by the hands of black people that were using a higher percentage of their brains, souls, and most importantly spirits. The Bible said as in heaven as it is on earth. Jesus the Christ would be labeled as a black man physically but it's not about color. It is written that out of the darkness came the light. The Universe is filled with circles and cycles. The Universe is just a galactic black female that gives birth to planets and new life forms. Every race and culture on the planet is God's children. However in this book we are strictly dealing with a black man's worth. Behold and awaken the miracle of a black man's worth. From the heavenly star seed author that wrote "God don't like fake people, "A black woman's worth, Storetry, For what it's worth, Karma is God's girlfriend, and A real black woman is the closest thing to God. Proverbs 31:10-10 "Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.

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God and his girlfriend Karma is not concerned about people's materialistic, superficial and worldly possessions. They are only concerned about your life, well being, and spiritual connection to God. God is aware of the desires of people's hearts and he will give the people that are close to him most of them as long as their desires don't take the attention from him. Keep in mind that attention equals worship. Whatever a person pays the most attention to that is what they are directly or indirectly worshiping. See God is a jealous creator because he knows that no person or thing can love a person more than him. God doesn't want anyone or anything in existence to take up more space in a person's mind except him. That includes a person's job, boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife, children, luxurious house, new car, money, clothes, image or looks. This book is a 93% collection of modern day proverbs, wise quotes and sayings created by the spirit of discernment a.k.a Allan Williams. This book is designed to make people laugh, think, worship and discuss meaningful issues in life that most people will never and have never thought or talked about. This book is not meant to offend anyone but if the shoe fits then why not wear it? Nobody on this planet is perfect. Life is a growing process but unfortunately most people stop their own growth by thinking they know everything or too scared to confront or admit to their sins. However the Holy Bible says in James 5:16 - Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed.

The Saga continues. "STORETRY the Second Coming" is packed with raunchy and hardcore stories, unleashed in a poetic formation to tear down and rebuild the ghetto souls in the nation. The Ghetto Gospel is back for the second time to resurrect the have- nots to a higher consciousness. There is no other book in history that has strictly catered to the issues that takes place in the hood. This book is a collection of prophetic slang words that are dipped into the divine. If you came across this book it was not by chance. It means that it is your destiny to read each poetic story carefully with an open mind to fully reap the ingenious wisdom at hand. Get ready for the second coming!