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This unique book examines the vital and contested connections
between colonialism and tourism, which are as lively and charged
today as ever before. Demonstrating how much of the marketing of
these destinations represents the constant renewal of colonialism
in the tourism business, this book illustrates how actors in the
worldwide tourism industry continue to benefit from the colonial
roots of globalisation. This interdisciplinary book focuses on the
relationships between tourism, colonialism and place, in both
historical and contemporary periods. Chapters explore cases of
tourism and colonialism in locations across the globe, from
colonial Korea and French Indochina, to colonial Australia, U.S
Tourism in the British West Indies, heritage tourism in Mozambique,
and city branding in Dunedin. Expert contributors analyse the
motivations and impacts of colonial tourism, investigating such
diverse topics as the Chinese tourist rush to Taiwan, issues of
displacement at wildlife sites in Zimbabwe, the impact of tourism
on Indigenous peoples in Hawaii and the pursuit of Macanese
identity and re-colonisation. Excavating the range and diversity of
colonialism at work in tourism across a wide variety of global
destinations, Colonialism, Tourism and Place will be an
illuminating read for students and scholars interested in tourism
and development, heritage studies, and social, cultural and human
geography.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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Tree Fu Tom: Tree Fu Magic (DVD)
Sophie Aldred, David Tennant, Tim Whitnall, Samantha Dakin, Sharon D Clarke; Directed by …
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Another collection of episodes from the CGI-animated show for
children featuring the vocal talents of David Tennant and Sophie
Aldred. Tom Powers (voice of Aldred) seems like an average
eight-year-old boy. However, Tom has made an incredible discovery.
In the woodland near his house is a special tree that houses
Treetopolis, a city inside a tree trunk that he is able to access
as a miniature version of himself and interact with the weird and
wonderful small creatures of the forest. These include Twigs
(Tennant), an acorn sprite, and Zigzoo (Tim Whitnall) the frog.
Wake up. Go to work. Prepare for war.
A tyrannical and irrational boss, job insecurity, unreasonable
demands, stress from juggling home and family-these are just a few
of the all-too-common grievances in the workplace today. Employees
often live with resentment, frustration, and feelings of impending
doom. They may not know what will happen next and lack a sense of
control in their work lives. No wonder a workplace characterized by
unanswered complaints is reminiscent of a combat zone.
"Workplace Warfare" discusses the high costs of stress and anger
in the workplace. Written in a conversational style from the
employee perspective, this practical guide goes beyond merely
showing you how to make the best of a bad situation: its focus is
on empowering you to understand the different kinds of situations
you might face and to "take control" of your own responses to
frustrating situations, especially when dealing with bosses.
Learn how to redesign your job to get what you want from work
every day. Based on actual case histories, providing professional
psychological and employment advice, "Workplace Warfare" offers
readers higher levels of comfort and productivity on the job.
In "Women and Recovery: Sex, Sobriety and Stepping Up," Ann D.
Clark, Ph.D, provides readers with a no-nonsense, step-by-step
guide to giving up anything. Clark explains how to conquer
additions using a lighthearted approach. Addressing such problems
as substance abuse, overeating, shopping, or simply patterns in
relationships, she gives her practical tips from a very relatable
and realistic experience: her own. The journey into recovered
living and self-knowledge is the purpose for this collection of
experiences, and the suggestions found in " Women and Recovery" can
make that journey smoother and more enduring for readers and their
loved ones.
Whether you are dependent on relationships, food, drama, drugs,
alcohol, or the alcoholic, this guide offers assistance. You do not
have to have used drugs to experience the pain of withdrawal-sugar,
food, relationships, or even caffeine will do. "Women and Recovery"
is for those who seek to improve their quality of life, obtain a
lasting and significant relationship, and gain practical
advice.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
"ZNIDD SUDDABIT!"
So the Ulleran challenge begins, with the rantings of a prophet
and a seemingly incidental street riot. Only when a dose of poison
lands in the governor-general's whiskey does it become clear that
the "geeks" have had it up to their double-lidded eyeballs with the
imperialist Terran Federation's Chartered Uller Company. Then,
overnight, war is everywhere.
How it will end is in the (merely) two Terran hands of the new
governor-general, a man shrewd enough to know that "it is easier to
banish a habit of thought than a piece of knowledge." The problem
is, the particular piece of knowledge he needs hasn't been used in
450 years. . . .
On December 31, 1999, Boris Yeltsin stepped down as president of
the Russian Federation, marking the end of an era. While scholars
and observers alike continue to debate the degree to which Russia
succeeded in establishing democracy or a free market economy, the
enormity of the social transformation that occurred during the
Yeltsin era is far less disputable. For the social stratification
that emerged changed the very face of Russian society. Much
criticism has been leveled at the political corruption that marred
the Yeltsin era. However, the economic and political reforms
enacted under Yeltsin also permitted the opening of new channels of
social mobility, particularly in the larger cities. Those who
benefited most from the reforms became its strongest supporters,
allowing the creation of a nascent middle class. The book's focus
on this socioeconomic group is unique, as most analyses of the
Yeltsin era largely ignore it.
This volume examines the ways in which the socio-economic elites of
the region have transformed and expanded the material bases of
their power from the inception of neo-liberal policies in the 1970s
through to the so-called progressive 'pink tide' governments of the
past two decades. The six case study chapters-on Chile, Brazil,
Ecuador, Colombia, El Salvador, and Guatemala-variously explore how
state policies and even United Nations peace-keeping missions have
enhanced elite control of land and agricultural exports, banks and
insurance companies, wholesale and import commerce, industrial
activities, and alliances with foreign capital. Chapters also pay
attention to the ways in which violence has been deployed to
maintain elite power, and how international forces feed into
sustaining historic and contemporary configurations of power.
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Fuzzy Social Choice Theory (Hardcover, 2014)
Michael B. Gibilisco, Annie M. Gowen, Karen E. Albert, John N. Mordeson, Mark J Wierman, …
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This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the social choice
literature and shows, by applying fuzzy sets, how the use of fuzzy
preferences, rather than that of strict ones, may affect the social
choice theorems. To do this, the book explores the presupposition
of rationality within the fuzzy framework and shows that the two
conditions for rationality, completeness and transitivity, do exist
with fuzzy preferences. Specifically, this book examines: the
conditions under which a maximal set exists; the Arrow's theorem;
the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem and the median voter theorem.
After showing that a non-empty maximal set does exists for fuzzy
preference relations, this book goes on to demonstrating the
existence of a fuzzy aggregation rule satisfying all five Arrowian
conditions, including non-dictatorship. While the
Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem only considers individual fuzzy
preferences, this work shows that both individuals and groups can
choose alternatives to various degrees, resulting in a social
choice that can be both strategy-proof and non-dictatorial.
Moreover, the median voter theorem is shown to hold under strict
fuzzy preferences but not under weak fuzzy preferences. By
providing a standard model of fuzzy social choice and by drawing
the necessary connections between the major theorems, this book
fills an important gap in the current literature and encourages
future empirical research in the field.
"The Double Voice" reassesses the notions of gender which have been
used to analyze Renaissance literature. Rather than assuming that
men and women write differently because of background, education
and culture, it tries to unsettle the connections between the sex
of the author and the constructions of gender in texts, and to
reconsider the prevalent determinist model of reading which tends
to consign women writers to the private, domestic sphere, and to
render male negotiations of gender and sexuality invisible and
transparent.
The first book to examine in detail the ways in which people adapt
their understanding and behaviours towards poverty as a direct
result to their experiences of poverty in developing countries,
including world-leading academics and case studies from China,
India, Ethiopia and South Africa.
This book explores the extent to which fuzzy set logic can
overcome some of the shortcomings of public choice theory,
particularly its inability to provide adequate predictive power in
empirical studies. Especially in the case of social preferences,
public choice theory has failed to produce the set of alternatives
from which collective choices are made. The book presents empirical
findings achieved by the authors in their efforts to predict the
outcome of government formation processes in European parliamentary
and semi-presidential systems.Using data from the Comparative
Manifesto Project (CMP), the authors propose a new approach that
reinterprets error in the coding of CMP data as ambiguity in the
actual political positions of parties on the policy dimensions
being coded. The range of this error establishes parties fuzzy
preferences. The set of possible outcomes in the process of
government formation is then calculated on the basis of both the
fuzzy Pareto set and the fuzzy maximal set, and the predictions are
compared with those made by two conventional approaches as well as
with the government that was actually formed. The comparison shows
that, in most cases, the fuzzy approaches outperform their
conventional counterparts."
When Jeff Creek leaves his wife Angie for the summer, he doesn't
mean forever, but his need to reignite his passion for writing and
discover the true meaning of love leads him to Ocean Shores,
Washington and a mysterious beach girl named Kaitlyn. His novel,
Will the Real Jeff Creek, becomes a narrative of their journey to
share the most powerful human experience on earth. On the way their
traumatic pasts propel them toward numerous obstacles and an
unexpected destination.
This interdisciplinary volume provides a range of perspectives on
the collective memory of the German Democratic Republic in
contemporary Germany. Individual essays examine the controversial
commemoration of the victims of state socialism, memories of the
GDR state's institutions (e.g. The National People's Army and the
State Security Police), museums and the debates they inspire, the
memories of the GDR's former elites, memories of everyday life in
the GDR, and the contested legacies of antifascism and socialism.
Taken as a whole, the collection explores the parallels between
coming to terms with the GDR past and continuing debates about
memories of National Socialism.
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