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A new model of tourism development has recently emerged out of a
widening concern for the morality of tourist experience. Known
variously as 'ecotourism', 'new tourism', socially responsible
tourism', huge claims are made for it in terms of what it might
offer in promoting national tourism development. Yet how well does
this new model work in practice? And what does it mean to be an
international tourist encountering the cultural, political and
economic particularities of the South African experience? Garth
Allen and Frank Brennan seek to explore the realities of this new
morality of tourism as experienced in four important tourist areas
of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa: the greater St Lucia Wetland Park
- South Africa's third largest reserve and a vast and beautiful
area accredited World Heritage Status; the Phinda Resource Reserve,
renowned for its diverse habitats and rich wildlife; Kosi Bay, a
wetland area of international importance; and the Durban
beachfront. For the first time they try to locate the international
tourist within the moral maze of tourism in the new South Africa.
Their analysis can be applied to other societies committed to the
belief that investing in tourism development will be a fast track
to economic development and will resonate with the moral challenges
facing the international tourist.
Throughout human history people have been driven from their
homes by wars, unjust treatment, earthquakes, and hurricanes. The
reality of forced migration is not new, nor is awareness of the
suffering of the displaced a recent discovery. The United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that at the end of 2007
there were 67 million persons in the world who had been forcibly
displaced from their homes -- including more than 16 million people
who had to flee across an international border for fear of being
persecuted due to race, religion, nationality, social group, or
political opinion.
"Driven from Home" advances the discussion on how best to
protect and assist the growing number of persons who have been
forced from their homes and proposes a human rights framework to
guide political and policy responses to forced migration. This
thought-provoking volume brings together contributors from several
disciplines, including international affairs, law, ethics,
economics, and theology, to advocate for better responses to
protect the global community's most vulnerable citizens.
This award-winning graded readers series is full of original
fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for
teenagers. Short stories themed around food and drink: a bed and
breakfast owner is determined that a guest should try her famous
'Full English Breakfast'; a scientist invents an additive that
increases peoples' attraction to certain food; a young boy learns
to cook with the help of a great uncle and a magic ingredient; and
a Japanese master chef must prepare his own last meal. This
paperback is in British English. Download the complete audio
recording of this title and additional classroom resources at
cambridge.org/experience-readers Cambridge Experience Readers get
teenagers hooked on reading.
Cambridge English Readers is an exciting new series of original fiction, specially written for learners of English. Graded into six levels – from elementary to advanced – the stories in this series provide easy and enjoyable reading on a wide range of contemporary topics and themes.Each of these highly entertaining stories centres around one of the five senses. We meet Arlo, who will stop at nothing to get silence, Gopal who uses smell to protect the memory of his sister, Kathy whose blindness is her power, David whose tongue is his fortune, and Jamie who overdoes his search for physical strength.
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven
levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of
carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every
student's capabilities. United by the theme of the circle, these
stories are set in the UK, the USA and Singapore. From the
discovery by a student archaeologist of a mysterious silver disc
with strange properties to the heart-warming story of the rescue of
a dangerously ill child by a poor tri-shaw driver, this collection
of five stories is both amusing and thought provoking.
Paperback-only version. Also available with Audio CDs including
complete text recordings from the book.
Cambridge English Readers is an exciting new series of original fiction, specially written for learners of English. Graded into six levels--from elementary to advanced--the stories in this series provide easy and enjoyable reading on a wide range of contemporary topics and themes.Five stories about discovery--a perfume that attracts men, a book that shows people's thoughts, a remarkable change in an old woman's life, the secret of high intelligence, and a way of making time stand still--make up this entertaining collection.
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven
levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of
carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every
student's capabilities. Six stories about a world we cannot
explain. A film star discovers the dangers of dancing with a
stranger. A man comes face-to-face with his father's history. An
Irish-American family cannot escape someone from the past. A woman
doesn't listen to warnings about an old tree. An English writer
slowly becomes more and more Japanese. And a killer watches himself
die in hospital. Paperback-only version. Also available with Audio
CDs including complete text recordings from the book.
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven
levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of
carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every
student's capabilities. Three stories to make you think, set in the
near future, 100 years and 1500 years from now. The end of spam - a
curse or a blessing? Are people robots? What happens to the last
brain in the world? Paperback-only version. Also available with
Audio CD including complete text recordings from the book.
The graded readers series of original fiction, adapted fiction and
factbooks especially written for teenagers. A collection of short
stories themed around food and drink: a bed and breakfast owner is
determined that one of her guests should try her famous 'Full
English Breakfast'; a scientist invents an additive that increases
peoples' attraction to certain food; a young boy learns to cook
with the help of a great uncle and a magic ingredient; and a
Japanese master chef must prepare his own last meal. This paperback
is in American English. Audio recordings of the text are available
at: www.cambridge.org/elt/discoveryreaders/ame Cambridge Experience
Readers, previously called Cambridge Discovery Readers, get your
students hooked on reading.
Frank Brennan has been a long time advocate for human rights and
social justice in Australia. This collection of essays brings
together some of his major addresses and writings on justice in the
Catholic Church and in Australian society. Placing the individual's
formed and informed conscience as the centre piece in any work for
justice, he surveys recent developments in the Catholic Church
including the handling of child sexual abuse claims and the
uplifting effect of the papacy of Francis, the first Jesuit pope.
He then applies Catholic social teaching and the jurisprudence of
human rights to contested issues like the separation of powers and
the right of religious freedom, and to the claims of diverse groups
including Aborigines, asylum seekers, the dying, and same sex
couples. At every step, he is there in the public square amplifying
that still, small voice of conscience, especially the voice of
those who are marginalised.
Frank Brennan has been a long time advocate for human rights and
social justice in Australia. This collection of essays brings
together some of his major addresses and writings on justice in the
Catholic Church and in Australian society. Placing the individual's
formed and informed conscience as the centre piece in any work for
justice, he surveys recent developments in the Catholic Church
including the handling of child sexual abuse claims and the
uplifting effect of the papacy of Francis, the first Jesuit pope.
He then applies Catholic social teaching and the jurisprudence of
human rights to contested issues like the separation of powers and
the right of religious freedom, and to the claims of diverse groups
including Aborigines, asylum seekers, the dying, and same sex
couples. At every step, he is there in the public square amplifying
that still, small voice of conscience, especially the voice of
those who are marginalised.
In these reflections on leadership in Church and State, Frank
Brennan states ideals and proposes practical challenges in
addresses ranging from his non-partisan 'Light on the Hill' address
to the Australian Labor Party after the 2013 federal election to
his address to the representatives of the world's Jesuit
universities. He reflects on the leadership of past prime ministers
Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser. He offers insights into tested
leadership with his ANZAC Centenary Address in the Harvard Memorial
Chapel. He challenges church leaders to be more transparent and
compassionate in their responses before the Royal Commission into
Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. He draws inspiration
from leaders like Pope Francis, El Salvador's Archbishop Oscar
Romero and Redfern's Fr Ted Kennedy. Frank writes with the
conviction that we the people are seeking spiritual and political
leaders who can inspire us to dedicate ourselves to taking up the
burdens of the fallen in the Great War and, with the same high
courage and steadfastness with which they went into battle, to
setting our hands to the tasks they left unfinished (some of which
they could not possibly have imagined a century ago), and giving
our utmost to make the world a better and happier place for all
people, through whatever means are open to us. As well as being
bloodied and tested, our new leaders need to be nurtured,
encouraged, and espoused. They need strong moral contours to
navigate the modern demands of leadership when taking on the big
issues like climate change and entrenched inequality.
In these reflections on leadership in Church and State, Frank
Brennan states ideals and proposes practical challenges in
addresses ranging from his non-partisan 'Light on the Hill' address
to the Australian Labor Party after the 2013 federal election to
his address to the representatives of the world's Jesuit
universities. He reflects on the leadership of past prime ministers
Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser. He offers insights into tested
leadership with his ANZAC Centenary Address in the Harvard Memorial
Chapel. He challenges church leaders to be more transparent and
compassionate in their responses before the Royal Commission into
Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. He draws inspiration
from leaders like Pope Francis, El Salvador's Archbishop Oscar
Romero and Redfern's Fr Ted Kennedy. Frank writes with the
conviction that we the people are seeking spiritual and political
leaders who can inspire us to dedicate ourselves to taking up the
burdens of the fallen in the Great War and, with the same high
courage and steadfastness with which they went into battle, to
setting our hands to the tasks they left unfinished (some of which
they could not possibly have imagined a century ago), and giving
our utmost to make the world a better and happier place for all
people, through whatever means are open to us. As well as being
bloodied and tested, our new leaders need to be nurtured,
encouraged, and espoused. They need strong moral contours to
navigate the modern demands of leadership when taking on the big
issues like climate change and entrenched inequality.
In these Gasson Lectures, Frank Brennan addresses various contested
contemporary issues such as church-state relations, physician
assisted suicide and national border protection. He writes, 'I hope
that these lectures can help persons of all faiths and none
maintain what Pope John Paul II, when addressing the Italian
Parliament, called "a convinced and pondered trust in the heritage
of virtues and values handed down by your forebears". In these
lectures I have drawn much inspiration from Pope Francis who
travelled to the island of Lampedusa to speak boldly and
prophetically about the plight of asylum seekers coming across the
Mediterranean Sea in search of new life. Before offering his
blessing and casting a wreath on the waters, Francis asked, "Who is
responsible for the blood of these brothers and sisters of ours?"
In these lectures, I seek to draw on my own religious tradition to
answer that question to the satisfaction of persons of all faiths
and none, and in the many precarious situations in which people
find themselves, especially at the borders of life and of nation
states.'
In these Gasson Lectures, Frank Brennan addresses various contested
contemporary issues such as church-state relations, physician
assisted suicide and national border protection. He writes, 'I hope
that these lectures can help persons of all faiths and none
maintain what Pope John Paul II, when addressing the Italian
Parliament, called "a convinced and pondered trust in the heritage
of virtues and values handed down by your forebears". In these
lectures I have drawn much inspiration from Pope Francis who
travelled to the island of Lampedusa to speak boldly and
prophetically about the plight of asylum seekers coming across the
Mediterranean Sea in search of new life. Before offering his
blessing and casting a wreath on the waters, Francis asked, "Who is
responsible for the blood of these brothers and sisters of ours?"
In these lectures, I seek to draw on my own religious tradition to
answer that question to the satisfaction of persons of all faiths
and none, and in the many precarious situations in which people
find themselves, especially at the borders of life and of nation
states.'
A new model of tourism development has recently emerged out of a
widening concern for the morality of tourist experience. Known
variously as 'ecotourism', 'new tourism', socially responsible
tourism', huge claims are made for it in terms of what it might
offer in promoting national tourism development. Yet how well does
this new model work in practice? And what does it mean to be an
international tourist encountering the cultural, political and
economic particularities of the South African experience? Garth
Allen and Frank Brennan seek to explore the realities of this new
morality of tourism as experienced in four important tourist areas
of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa: the greater St Lucia Wetland Park
- South Africa's third largest reserve and a vast and beautiful
area accredited World Heritage Status; the Phinda Resource Reserve,
renowned for its diverse habitats and rich wildlife; Kosi Bay, a
wetland area of international importance; and the Durban
beachfront. For the first time they try to locate the international
tourist within the moral maze of tourism in the new South Africa.
Their analysis can be applied to other societies committed to the
belief that investing in tourism development will be a fast track
to economic development and will resonate with the moral challenges
facing the international tourist.
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