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Examining exactly what social scientists mean by the term
tourism, and what it means to be a tourist, this collection charts
the sociological changes that have occurred in tourism, as well as
the shift from the upper-class a ~grand toursa (TM) of the late
nineteenth-century to the mass tourism of the present day.
With an astonishing breadth and range of content, these
fascinating volumes assess the economic impacts of tourism on local
economies, the environmental considerations to take into account,
and whether the huge growth in tourism is sustainable in a
post-September 11th world.
Tourism: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences is an
accessible and comprehensive resource that is invaluable for
academics and scholars researching tourism, globalization and human
geography.
Diocletian began his career as a soldier of the humblest origins. Yet he rose from the ranks to become emperor in Rome's hour of greatest need. Diocletian and the Roman Recovery tells the story of this man's remarkable reign (284-305 AD). It explores how he faced the seemingly impossible challenge of ending half a century of military rebellion and barbarian invasion, and examines the solutions he created to restore the security and stability of the Roman empire. This eminently readable biography provides both enjoyment and sound scholarship for the student of Roman history and general reader alike.
The use of first-hand service user accounts of mental illness is
still limited in the professional literature available. This is,
however, beginning to change, with a new 'recovery' focus in mental
health services meaning that the voices of service users are
finally being heard. Recovering from Psychosis: Empirical Evidence
and Lived Experience synthesises a narrative approach alongside an
evidence-based review of current treatment by including Stephen
Williams' own personal experience as it relates to psychosis,
recovery and treatment. A mental health professional himself, the
author's account of his own recovery from severe mental health
difficulties, without sustained intervention, challenges the
orthodoxy of representation of service users in mental health.
Recovering from Psychosis critically explores and reviews the
current state of the art of research and knowledge about the nature
and treatment of psychosis. Working simultaneously from empirical,
lived experience and philosophical perspectives, Stephen Williams:
Evaluates political and power related issues in professional
understanding, knowledge-creation and treatment of people with
psychosis; Introduces the current 'recovery movement', unpacking
its origins and implications for the future development of
'recovery oriented services'; Reviews, summarizes and critiques the
current state of 'recovery' research, looking at the advantages and
disadvantages of such an approach, examining how this is
influencing the transformation of UK mental health services;
Analyses the difficulties in organisational implementation of
recovery approaches, summarises the most empirically robust
approaches to practice, personal and service delivery measurement;
Reviews current 'models' of psychosis and how various professional
scientific groups explain the experience and nature of psychosis;
Uses lived-experience accounts taken from the scientific
literature, portraying the nature of such experiences and analysing
them in the face of contemporary psychological models. Recovering
from Psychosis is an essential comprehensive guide for mental
health professionals, psychologists, social workers and carers, who
are working with people with severe and enduring mental health
difficulties diagnosed as psychosis. It addresses the practical
implications of working with such difficult conditions and serves
as a hopeful story of recovery for service users.
The Rome that Did Not Fall provides a well-illustrated,
comprehensive narrative and analysis of the Roman empire in the
east, charting its remarkable growth and development which resulted
in the distinct and enduring civilization of Byzantium. It
considers:
* the fourth century background
* the invasions of Attila
* the resources of the east
* the struggle for stability
* the achievements of Anastasius.
Contents: Contents. List of Figures. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part One: Separation 1. Crisis and Partition 2. The Fourth Century Background 3. Fortunes of East and West 4. The Western Warlords 5. A Changing State Part Two: On The Defensive 6. The Shock of Attila 7. Resistance and Recovery Part Three: The Resources 8. Military Developments, East and West 9. Imperial Wealth and Expenditure 10. Centralised Power 11. The God-Protected State Part Four: The Struggle For Stability 12. Imperial Conflicts 13. Eastern Chaos, Western Extinction Part Five: Stability Attained 14. The Achivements of Anastasius 15. The Survival and Renewal of the East Appendices. I. List of Emperors II. The Theodosian Dynasty References. Abbreviations and Bibliography. Index.
Emperor Theodosius (379-95) was the last Roman emperor to rule a
unified empire of East and West and his reign represents a turning
point in the policies and fortunes of the Late Roman Empire. In
this imperial biography, Stephen Williams and Gerry Friell bring
together literary, archaeological and numismatic evidence
concerning this Roman emperor, studying his military and political
struggles, which he fought heroically but ultimately in vain.
Summoned from retirement to the throne after the disastrous Roman
defeat by the Goths at Adrianople, Theodosius was called on to
rebuild the armies and put the shattered state back together. He
instituted a new policy towards the barbarians, in which diplomacy
played a larger role than military might, at a time of increasing
frontier dangers and acute manpower shortage. He was also the
founder of the established Apostolic Catholic Church. Unlike other
Christian emperors, he suppressed both heresy and paganism and
enforced orthodoxy by law. The path was a diffucult one, but
Theodosius (and his successor, Stilicho) had little choice. This
new study convincingly demonstrates how a series of political
misfortunes led to the separation of the Eastern and Western
empires which meant that the overlordship of Rome in Europe
dwindled into mere ceremonial. The authors examine the emperor and
his character and the state of the Roman empire, putting his reign
in the context of the troubled times.
In 1895, Eleanor Marx and Edward Aveling were two of the best-known
socialists in Britain, mixing with the most influential figures of
their time, from Keir Hardie to William Morris. The couple were
committed to building a socialist political force based on the
'scientific' theories of Eleanor's father Karl and his
collaborator, Friedrich Engels. Marx and Aveling's 'letters' to
Russia from England offer a unique perspective on British socialism
as it entered its crucial phase, which culminated in the foundation
of the Labour Party in 1900. As they reported from the heart of
capitalist Britain, a Liberal government fell, having failed to
keep its promises to labour. The remainder of the year saw the
election of a Conservative-led Unionist administration, an
underwhelming general election performance by socialists, and the
death of Engels. These lively, accessible letters include sharp
reflections on Victorian cultural figures including Oscar Wilde,
Annie Besant, and the 'new woman' novelists. An introductory essay
sheds light on the authors' complex, tumultuous life and work
together, and reveals the friendships and political connections
Karl Marx, Engels and the authors had with prominent Russian
revolutionaries. The book will be of interest to students,
historians, and all those interested in left politics and movements
in Britain.
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
2021 marks the 40th anniversary of the Limehouse Declaration and
the launch of the Social Democratic Party in the UK, which was
later to merge and form the Liberal Democrats. To mark this
important milestone, this book brings together prominent
politicians from across the spectrum of social democracy to reflect
on its history and the challenges it faces in the coming decades.
With an introduction by Sir Vince Cable describing the current
state of social democracy across the world, leading figures
including Sarah Olney, Roger Liddle and Chris Huhne explore a wide
range of contentious policy areas such as the economy, housing and
globalisation. Together, they set out a vision for the country and
for the Liberal Democrats that has social justice at its core.
This small catalog of an exhibition co-sponsored by Harvard's
Peabody Museum and the Center for Inter-American Relations, New
York, includes some 50 illustrations, and introductory essay, and
full descriptive and historical notes.
This official history of NUPE covers its years of membership
expansion, growing recognition and entry onto the national
industrial and political stage. From a position of near obscurity
in the 1920s, NUPE grew into one of the most important forces in
the trade union movement in the 1970s, playing a key role in some
of the major struggles of that decade and beyond. The authors throw
new light on NUPE's relationship with the Labour governments of
Harold Wilson and James Callaghan (1974-79), and analyse for the
first time from the union's perspective the events that became
known as the 'Winter of Discontent'. They convincingly argue that
accounts which hold the dispute responsible for the demise of the
Labour government, and thus for opening the way for Thatcherism,
are inadequate and misleading - often deliberately so; in general
such accounts are based on a deprecation of public services, public
service labour and the 'social wage'. These developments are
discussed in relation to the role of union leadership and
considerations of organisation and democracy, revealing much that
will be of interest to activists and students of trade unionism
alike.
This is a new kind of JavaScript book. It's not cut'n'paste, it's
not a reference, and it's not an exhaustive investigation of the
JavaScript language. It is about client-side, web focused, and
task-oriented JavaScript. JavaScript is a core skill for web
professionals, and as every web professional knows, client-side
JavaScript can produce all sorts of glitches and bugs. 'Practical
JavaScript for the Usable Web' takes a two pronged approach to
learning the JavaScript that you need to get your work done:
teaching the core client-side JavaScript that you need to
incorporate usable interactivity into your web applications,
including many short functional scripts, and building up a complete
application with shopping cart functionality. When you have
finished working with this book, you'll have a thorough grounding
in Client-side JavaScript, and be able to construct your own
client-side functionality quickly, easily, and without falling into
any of the usability traps that this technology leaves wide open.
This book covers: DHTML for IE4 and NN4 browsers, and the Dom for
the latest browsers Usability techniques Working scripts that can
be incorporated into your web applications immediately Step-by-step
breakdown of JavaScript shopping cart functionality Advanced Data
Validation Techniques Book Info Covers DHTML for IE4 and NN4
browsers, and the Dom for the latest browsers. Discusses working
scripts that can be incorporated into your web applications
immediately. Provides advanced data validation techniques. From the
Publisher This is for readers who are either learning JavaScript
from scratch, or who have a little experience - perhaps with
DreamWeaver behaviors, or incorporating scripts into their pages.
It assumes a though understanding of HTML, and a little CSS
experience. About the Author After an initial stint as a Visual
Basic applications programmer at the Ministry of Defence in the UK,
Paul Wilton found himself pulled into the Net. He is currently
working freelance and is busy trying to piece together the
Microsoft .Net jigsaw. Paul's main skills are in developing web
front ends using DHTML, JavaScript, VBScript, and Visual Basic, and
back-end solutions with ASP, Visual Basic, and SQL Server. Stephen
Williams recently co-founded Chimera Digital Ltd, a company that
brings together expertise in the fields of education, video
production and web technologies, and produces content packages
suitable for business in training, promotion, marketing, and more.
Prior to this he worked for Edison Interactive, where he was the
lead Vignette developer for their Switch2 entertainment portal web
site. His interests in artificial life lead him from his PhD in
Molecular Microbiology at the University of Birmingham, into
object-oriented programming and the Internet. Sing Li is an active
author, consultant, and entrepreneur. He has written for popular
technical journals and is the creator of the "Internet Global
Phone", one of the very first Internet phones available. His
wide-ranging consulting expertise spans Internet and Intranet
systems design, distributed architectures, web services, embedded
systems, real-time technologies, and cross-platform software
design. He also participates in the Jini and Jxta communities.
Volume 180 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages
and Literatures series.
The use of first-hand service user accounts of mental illness is
still limited in the professional literature available. This is,
however, beginning to change, with a new 'recovery' focus in mental
health services meaning that the voices of service users are
finally being heard. Recovering from Psychosis: Empirical Evidence
and Lived Experience synthesises a narrative approach alongside an
evidence-based review of current treatment by including Stephen
Williams' own personal experience as it relates to psychosis,
recovery and treatment. A mental health professional himself, the
author's account of his own recovery from severe mental health
difficulties, without sustained intervention, challenges the
orthodoxy of representation of service users in mental health.
Recovering from Psychosis critically explores and reviews the
current state of the art of research and knowledge about the nature
and treatment of psychosis. Working simultaneously from empirical,
lived experience and philosophical perspectives, Stephen Williams:
Evaluates political and power related issues in professional
understanding, knowledge-creation and treatment of people with
psychosis; Introduces the current 'recovery movement', unpacking
its origins and implications for the future development of
'recovery oriented services'; Reviews, summarizes and critiques the
current state of 'recovery' research, looking at the advantages and
disadvantages of such an approach, examining how this is
influencing the transformation of UK mental health services;
Analyses the difficulties in organisational implementation of
recovery approaches, summarises the most empirically robust
approaches to practice, personal and service delivery measurement;
Reviews current 'models' of psychosis and how various professional
scientific groups explain the experience and nature of psychosis;
Uses lived-experience accounts taken from the scientific
literature, portraying the nature of such experiences and analysing
them in the face of contemporary psychological models. Recovering
from Psychosis is an essential comprehensive guide for mental
health professionals, psychologists, social workers and carers, who
are working with people with severe and enduring mental health
difficulties diagnosed as psychosis. It addresses the practical
implications of working with such difficult conditions and serves
as a hopeful story of recovery for service users.
For millennia people have travelled to religious sites for worship,
initiatory and leisure purposes. Today there are hundreds, if not
thousands, of religious pilgrimage routes and trails around the
world that are used by pilgrims as well as tourists. Indeed, many
religious pilgrimage routes and trails are today used as themes by
tourism marketers in an effort to promote regional economic
development. Providing a holistic approach to religious pilgrimage
routes and trails, this book: - Addresses important conceptual
themes such as sustainable local development, regional economic
development, heritage identity and management, and promoting
environmentally friendly practices; - Includes global case studies
to help transfer theory into good practice; - Calls for further
discussion of the importance of better planning, management, and
maintenance of these routes and trails, so that the positive
benefits of this type of tourism development can be fully realized.
An important resource for those interested in religious tourism and
pilgrimage, this book is also an invaluable collection for
academics and policy-makers within heritage tourism and regional
development.
Tourism Geography develops a critical understanding of how
different geographies of tourism are created and maintained.
Drawing on both historical and contemporary perspectives, the
discussion connects tourism to key geographical concepts relating
to globalization, mobility, new geographies of production and
consumption, and post-industrial change. The new edition has been
fully updated to have an international focus, with global case
studies and broader based content.
This book is the only up to date and comprehensive review of
geographies of tourism and the ways in which geographers can
interpret contemporary tourism processes. It provides an accessible
yet thorough explanation of concepts and models which promotes an
understanding of their applications and limitations.
Tourism Geography develops a critical understanding of how
different geographies of tourism are created and maintained.
Drawing on both historical and contemporary perspectives, the
discussion connects tourism to key geographical concepts relating
to globalization, mobility, new geographies of production and
consumption, and post-industrial change. The new edition has been
fully updated to have an international focus, with global case
studies and broader based content.
This book is the only up to date and comprehensive review of
geographies of tourism and the ways in which geographers can
interpret contemporary tourism processes. It provides an accessible
yet thorough explanation of concepts and models which promotes an
understanding of their applications and limitations.
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