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Tourism, Performance and the Everyday

Consuming the Orient

By: Michael Haldrup,Jonas Larsen

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Tourism, Performance and the Everyday

Consuming the Orient

By: Michael Haldrup,Jonas Larsen

Traditionally social and cultural accounts of tourism have limited their analytical gaze to the spaces and places where tourism is performed. This book scrutinizes the multiple ways in which tourism emerges in people’s everyday lives and the everyday appears in people’s tourist’ lives by tracing out the mobilities, networks and flows between ‘home’ and ‘away’ in tourist performances

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1135256926

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Maritime Governance

Speed, Flow, Form Process

By: Michael Roe

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Maritime Governance

Speed, Flow, Form Process

By: Michael Roe

This book provides an original analysis of the problems facing global governance and in particular that of one of the most globalised of all industries – shipping. Central to all global trade and its dramatic growth, shipping faces difficulties of governance stemming from its every globalised nature. The current characteristics of global governance – nation-state fixation, anachronistic institutions, inadequate stakeholder involvement and an over-domination of owner interests are dwarfed by the problems of stasis and fixation which means that policies to address problems of safety, the environment and security are inadequate. This book provides a full and wide ranging discussion of how governance can be animated in a global context so that the dynamism of the maritime industry and its problems can be prevented, regulated and understood. Its unique approach to governance makes it essential reading for all maritime policy-makers and those analysing maritime issues, alongside those with an interest in governance in its widest sense.

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331921747X

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God and the British Soldier

Religion and the British Army in the First and Second World Wars

By: Michael Snape

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God and the British Soldier

Religion and the British Army in the First and Second World Wars

By: Michael Snape

Drawing on a wealth of new material from military, ecclesiastical and secular civilian archives, this book shows that religion had much greater currency and influence in twentieth-century British society than has previously been realized.

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Marvel Visionaries

Steve Ditko

By: Bill Mantlo,Michael Fleisher,Will Murray,Roger Stern,Stan Lee,Steve Ditko

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Marvel Visionaries

Steve Ditko

By: Bill Mantlo,Michael Fleisher,Will Murray,Roger Stern,Stan Lee,Steve Ditko

Collects Incredible Hulk (1962) #6; Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #31-33; Daredevil (1964) #162; Incredible Hulk (1968) #249; And Material From Tales To Astonish (1959) #26 And #42; Amazing Adult Fantasy #7, #10 And #12-14; Strange Tales (1951) #94, #97, #110, #115, #126-127 And #146; Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #1 And Annual #1; Tales Of Suspense (1959) #48; Speedball #1 And Marvel Super-Heroes (1990) #8. Celebrate the career of a true Marvel Visionary! Best known as the co-creator of the amazing Spider-Man, Steve Ditko illustrated Spidey's adventures for four years and introduced dozens of classic villains. But even as he infused Spider-Man's world with grounded realism, Ditko took readers on mind-bending romps through twisted and mystical realms with another massively popular co-creation, Doctor Strange! Plus, Ditko's unmatched creative vision is on full display with the debuts of Squirrel Girl and Speedball - and scores of rarely seen fantasy and sci-fi work from Marvel's Atlas Era!

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Globalizing the Streets

Cross-cultural Perspectives on Youth, Social Control, and Empowerment

By: Michael Flynn

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Globalizing the Streets

Cross-cultural Perspectives on Youth, Social Control, and Empowerment

By: Michael Flynn

Not since the 1960s have the activities of resistance among lower- and working-class youth caused such anxiety in the international community. Yet today the dispossessed are responding to the challenges of globalization and its methods of social control. The contributors to this volume examine the struggle for identity and interdependence of these youth, their clashes with law enforcement and criminal codes, their fight for social, political, and cultural capital, and their efforts to achieve recognition and empowerment. Essays adopt the vantage point of those whose struggle for social solidarity, self-respect, and survival in criminalized or marginalized spaces. In doing so, they contextualize and humanize the seemingly senseless actions of these youths, who make visible the class contradictions, social exclusion, and rituals of psychological humiliation that permeate their everyday lives.

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Columbia University Press

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An Introduction to Political Geography

Space, Place and Politics

By: Martin Jones,Rhys Jones,Michael Woods

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An Introduction to Political Geography

Space, Place and Politics

By: Martin Jones,Rhys Jones,Michael Woods

An Introduction to Political Geography provides a broad-based introduction to how power interacts with space; how place influences political identities; and how policy creates and remoulds territory. By pushing back the boundaries of what we conventionally understand as political geography, the book emphasizes the interactions between power, politics and policy, space, place and territory in different geographical contexts. This is both an essential text for political geographers and also a valuable resource for students of related fields with an interest in politics and geography.

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Psychology Press

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0415250765

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Shopping, Place and Identity

By: Peter Jackson,Michael Rowlands,Daniel Miller

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Shopping, Place and Identity

By: Peter Jackson,Michael Rowlands,Daniel Miller

Engages in key debates in contemporary consumption and identity studies, yet presents a firmly grounded study that will complement the more speculative writing about shopping, place and identity that has developed in recent years.

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1134733917

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The Battle for France & Flanders

Sixty Years On

By: Brian Bond,Michael Taylor

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The Battle for France & Flanders

Sixty Years On

By: Brian Bond,Michael Taylor

The Fall of France in 1940 has been well chronicled but numerous misconceptions remain.This fascinating and thought-provoking collection of essays on wide-ranging issues covering the politics and fighting on land, sea and in the air will be greatly welcomed by academics and military history enthusiasts.Topics covered include the preparations of the BEF, the failure of allied counter attacks, the air war, the Royal Navys's role in the campaign, the influence of the Battle on British military doctrine and the repercussions from the British, French and German angles.

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Pen and Sword

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1473812194

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Rethinking Rural Literacies

Transnational Perspectives

By: Michael Corbett

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Rethinking Rural Literacies

Transnational Perspectives

By: Michael Corbett

The chapters in this international collection investigate a wide range of theorizations of rurality and literacy; literate practices and pedagogies; questions of place, space, and sustainability; and representations of rurality that challenge simplistic conceptions of standardized literacy and the real-and-imagined world beyond the metropolis.

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1137275499

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The Chamber Organ in Britain, 1600–1830

By: Michael I. Wilson

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The Chamber Organ in Britain, 1600–1830

By: Michael I. Wilson

The first edition of The English Chamber Organ was published in 1968. This new, revised edition takes into account the considerable research into chamber organs that has taken place over the last thirty years. Much of the book has been completely rewritten and expanded, and it includes a number of organs not detailed in the first edition. As its revised title suggests, this new edition covers foreign-make imports as well as British-made organs that were sent overseas. Part one comprises a series of chapters that cover the history of the chamber organ, its origins and development. Part two provides a general introduction to the construction of organs, while part three gives detailed descriptions of 196 British chamber organs, with information on their location, specifications, design, and suggestions for further reading. As a domestic instrument the chamber organ was often perceived to be as much a piece of furniture as an item of musical equipment. The Chamber Organ in Britain offers an assessment of the organ as both a musical instrument and as a decorative icon.

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"The Chamber Organ in Britain, 1600?830 "

By: Michael I. Wilson

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"The Chamber Organ in Britain, 1600?830 "

By: Michael I. Wilson

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A Manual of Applied Techniques for Biological Electron Microscopy

By: Michael J. Dykstra

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A Manual of Applied Techniques for Biological Electron Microscopy

By: Michael J. Dykstra

This easy-to-follow manual describes tested procedures used to prepare biological samples for scanning and transmission electron microscopy, as well as methods for cytochemistry, immunocytochemistry, and scientific photography. The work is structured to clearly define testing objectives, necessary materials, procedural steps, and expected results; a list of references and trouble shooting techniques round out the text.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0306444496

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Performing Tourist Places

By: Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt,Michael Haldrup,John Urry

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Performing Tourist Places

By: Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt,Michael Haldrup,John Urry

This book looks at the making and the consuming of places in the contemporary world. Illustrated through various case-studies from Denmark, it considers how places, performances and peoples intersect. It examines the fascinating circumstances through which visitors to a place, in part, produce that place through their performances. Places are intertwined with people through various systems that generate and reproduce performances in and of that place. These systems comprise networks of ’hosts, guests, buildings, objects and machines’ that contingently realize particular performances of specific places. The studies featured here develop an exciting ’new mobility’ paradigm emerging within the social sciences.

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Taylor & Francis

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Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Microanalysis

Third Edition

By: Joseph Goldstein,Dale E. Newbury,David C. Joy,Charles E. Lyman,Patrick Echlin,Eric Lifshin,Linda Sawyer,J.R. Michael

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Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Microanalysis

Third Edition

By: Joseph Goldstein,Dale E. Newbury,David C. Joy,Charles E. Lyman,Patrick Echlin,Eric Lifshin,Linda Sawyer,J.R. Michael

This text provides students as well as practitioners with a comprehensive introduction to the field of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray microanalysis. The authors emphasize the practical aspects of the techniques described. Topics discussed include user-controlled functions of scanning electron microscopes and x-ray spectrometers and the use of x-rays for qualitative and quantitative analysis. Separate chapters cover SEM sample preparation methods for hard materials, polymers, and biological specimens. In addition techniques for the elimination of charging in non-conducting specimens are detailed.

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A Church Militant

Anglicans and the Armed Forces from Queen Victoria to the Vietnam War

By: Michael Snape

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A Church Militant

Anglicans and the Armed Forces from Queen Victoria to the Vietnam War

By: Michael Snape

This is a study of the relationship between Anglicans and the armed forces, of the military heritage and history of the Anglican Communion, and the changing nature of this relationship between the mid-Victorian period and the 1970s. This era spanned a period of imperial expansion and colonial conflict round the turn of the twentieth century, the two World Wars, the Cold War, wars of decolonisation, and Vietnam. In terms of armed conflict, it was the bloodiest period in the history of humanity and marked the advent of weaponry that had the capacity to extinguish human civilization. This book assesses the contribution of an expansive Anglican Communion to the armed forces of the English-speaking world, examines the ways in which this has been remembered, and explores its challenging legacy for the twenty-first century Church of England.

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Oxford University Press

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0192848321

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Religion and Tourism

Crossroads, Destinations and Encounters

By: Michael Stausberg

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Religion and Tourism

Crossroads, Destinations and Encounters

By: Michael Stausberg

This book explores the dynamic interaction between religion and tourism in the modern world. It considers questions such as: do travellers leave their religion at home when they are touring – and what happens if not? what are the relationships between tourism and pilgrimage? what happens to religious performances, places and festivals that function as tourism attractions? Other chapters examine religious theme parks, wellness and spa tourism, the roles played by tourist guides, guidebooks and religious souvenirs, and the role of tourism as a major arena of religious encounters in the contemporary world. Surveying the growing body of work in the field, Michael Stausberg argues that tourism should be a major focus of research within religious studies.

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Introducing Social Geographies

By: Rachel Pain,Jamie Gough,Graham Mowl,Michael Barke,Robert MacFarlene,Duncan Fuller

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Introducing Social Geographies

By: Rachel Pain,Jamie Gough,Graham Mowl,Michael Barke,Robert MacFarlene,Duncan Fuller

`Introducing Social Geographies' is a major new text offering a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to this important area of human geography. It presents a broad overview of social geography, clearly outlining the key theoretical and political positions, and making extensive use of examples to show how these frameworks can be used to analyse real social issues. The book is ideal for undergraduates first encountering social geography and includes topic overviews, summaries of key points, critiques, boxed case studies and suggestions for further reading.

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Geographic Information

Value, Pricing, Production, and Consumption

By: Roger A. Longhorn,Michael Blakemore

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Geographic Information

Value, Pricing, Production, and Consumption

By: Roger A. Longhorn,Michael Blakemore

Bringing producer and consumer debates together, Geographic Information: Value, Pricing, Production, and Consumption provides a coherent perspective on what have become emotional and territorial issues of IPR protection and liberation. This book addresses a range of issues relating to GI, from its definition, purpose, and use to how GI affects indi

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CRC Press

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1420005170

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Rural

By: Michael Woods

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Rural

By: Michael Woods

The division of ‘rural’ and ‘urban’ is one of the oldest ideas in Geography and is deeply engrained in our culture. Throughout history, the rural has been attributed with many meanings: as a source of food and energy; as a pristine wilderness, or as a bucolic idyll; as a playground, or a place of escape; as a fragile space of nature, in need of protection; and as a primitive place, in need of modernization. But is the idea of the rural still relevant today? Rural provides an advanced introduction to the study of rural places and processes in Geography and related disciplines. Drawing extensively on the latest research in rural geography, this book explores the diverse meanings that have been attached to the rural, examines how ideas of the rural have been produced and reproduced, and investigates the influence of different ideas in shaping the social and economic structure of rural localities and the everyday lives of people who live, work or play in rural areas. This authoritative book contains case studies drawn from both the developed and developing world to introduce and illustrate conceptual ideas and approaches, as well as suggested further reading. Written in an engaging and lively style, Rural challenges the reader to think differently about the rural.

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Biological Electron Microscopy

Theory, Techniques, and Troubleshooting

By: Michael J. Dykstra

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Biological Electron Microscopy

Theory, Techniques, and Troubleshooting

By: Michael J. Dykstra

In this practical text, the author covers the fundamentals of biological electron microscopy - including fixation, instrumentation, and darkroom work - to provide an excellent introduction to the subject for the advanced undergraduate or graduate student.

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Theatre/Archaeology

By: Mike Pearson,Michael Shanks

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Theatre/Archaeology

By: Mike Pearson,Michael Shanks

Theatre/Archaeology is a provocative challenge to disciplinary practice and intellectual boundaries. It brings together radical proposals in both archaeological and performance theory to generate a startlingly original and intriguing methodological framework.

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1134648448

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Across the Lines

Travel, Language, Translation

By: Michael Cronin

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Across the Lines

Travel, Language, Translation

By: Michael Cronin

Across the Lines is a study of how language mediates experience across cultures with regard to travel. The study is partly based on the books of various travel writers with no grasp of a foreign tongue & their perceptions using interpreters & guides.

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Cork University Press

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New Media and Public Activism

Neoliberalism, the State and Radical Protest in the Public Sphere

By: Roberts, John Michael

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New Media and Public Activism

Neoliberalism, the State and Radical Protest in the Public Sphere

By: Roberts, John Michael

The Arab Spring, chat forums, political leaders tweeting, online petitions, and protestors in the Occupy Movement - new media public spheres have without doubt radically altered social and political activism in society. But to what extent is this new activist public sphere stifled by the neoliberal economy and workfare state? Have we in fact become transformed into subjects of online consumption and orderly surveillance, rather than committed social and political campaigners? In this highly topical book, John Michael Roberts employs a political economy perspective to explore the relationship between financial neoliberal capitalism and digital publics. He assesses the extent to which they provide new forms of radical protest in civil society and offers an indispensable guide to understanding the relationship between the state, new media activism and neoliberal practices.

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Policy Press

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1447308239

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Communication as Gesture

Media(tion), Meaning, & Movement

By: Michael Schandorf

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Communication as Gesture

Media(tion), Meaning, & Movement

By: Michael Schandorf

This book critiques current assumptions about 'communication', particularly digitally mediated communication, by re-examining conceptual foundations in rhetoric, linguistics, semiotics, information theory, and cybernetics. The result is a dimensional account of interaction that is at once both intuitive and revolutionary.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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Bibles and Baedekers

Tourism, Travel, Exile and God

By: Michael Grimshaw

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Bibles and Baedekers

Tourism, Travel, Exile and God

By: Michael Grimshaw

Contemporary tourism and travel have become a form of religion, a new opiate of the masses. However, could Church and theology be religious forms of tourism and travel? 'Bibles and Baedekers' offers a theology of tourism and exile for a modern and postmodern world. It examines the ways in which location, identity and movement have made use of religious texts and metaphor and questions the relative absence of secular texts and ideas in theology. The theology of the tourist and traveller is one of new experiences, the acquisition of identity through movement. 'Bibles and Baedekers' uniquely applies this to the postmodern Christian, embodying the fulfilment of Bonhoeffer's 'religionless Christianity', dislocated from both a secular and 'religious' world.

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Othermindedness

The Emergence of Network Culture

By: Michael Joyce

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Othermindedness

The Emergence of Network Culture

By: Michael Joyce

Meditations on network culture, hypertext, the geography of cyberspace, and interactive film

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University of Michigan Press

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0472088432

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Regions in Recession and Resurgence

By: Michael Chisholm

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Regions in Recession and Resurgence

By: Michael Chisholm

The world economy has undergone rapid evolution in recent decades, along with changes in the importance of industries and their organization, and sharp changes in the fortunes of regions. There are differences of opinion regarding the mainsprings of change and development and the role of goverments in fostering national output. In order to show the relvance of these changes to regional economies, the book focuses on the different schools of economic thought – from the neo-classical, through Keynesian to Marxist/radical ideas and monetarist/supply-side thinking – providing a brief description of their structure in non-spatial terms. The way these theories map into contrasting ideas regarding the mechanisms of regional economic growth is then explained. The book concentrates on developed economies and explicitly seeks to confront theory with fact, fact with theory. Bringing together non-spatial economic thery, regional growth theory and relevant empirical data, this book is intended for students in geography and regional economics but will also be of interest for those studying politics and government.

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Understanding and Managing Tourism Impacts

An Integrated Approach

By: C. Michael Hall,Alan A. Lew

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Understanding and Managing Tourism Impacts

An Integrated Approach

By: C. Michael Hall,Alan A. Lew

This book discusses the complexity of understanding how tourism impacts the world and how the world impacts tourism – from the global scale to the local and individual scale.

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Visions of Invasion

Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies

By: Michael Lechuga

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Visions of Invasion

Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies

By: Michael Lechuga

Visions of Invasion: Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies explores how the US government mobilizes media and surveillance technologies to operate a highly networked, multidimensional system for controlling migrants. Author Michael Lechuga focuses on three arenas where a citizenship control assemblage manufactures alienhood: Hollywood extraterrestrial invasion film, federal antimigration and border security legislation, and various immigration enforcement protocols implemented along the Mexico–United States border. Building on rhetorical studies, settler colonial studies, and media studies, Visions of Invasion offers a glimpse at how the processes of alien-making contribute to an ongoing settler colonial project in the US. Lechuga demonstrates that popular films—The War of the Worlds, Predator, Men in Black, and more—participate in the production of migrants as subjective terrorists, felons, and other noncitizen personae vilified in public discourse. Beyond just tracing how alien invasion narratives circulate in popular media, Lechuga describes how the logics motivating early US colonists materialize in both the US’s citizenship control policy and in some of the country’s most popular texts. Beneath each of the film franchises and antimigrant political expressions described in Visions of Invasion lies an anxious colonial logic in which the settler way of life is seemingly threated by false narratives of imminent invasion from abroad. The volume offers a deep dive into how the rhetorical figure of the alien has been manufactured as a political subjectivity, one that plays out the anxieties, guilts, and fears of colonialism in today’s science fiction landscape.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496844092

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The Sources of Social Power: Volume 3, Global Empires and Revolution, 1890-1945

By: Michael Mann

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The Sources of Social Power: Volume 3, Global Empires and Revolution, 1890-1945

By: Michael Mann

This third volume of Michael Mann's analytical history of social power focuses on the interrelated development of capitalism, nation-states and empires.

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1107028655

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Nordic Landscapes

Region and Belonging on the Northern Edge of Europe

By: Michael Jones

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Nordic Landscapes

Region and Belonging on the Northern Edge of Europe

By: Michael Jones

The first in-depth presentation of the Nordic landscapes to be published in nearly twenty years. “Norden” -- the region along the northern edge of Europe bordered by Russia and the Baltic nations to the east and by North America to the west -- is a particularly fruitful site for the examination of the ever-evolving meaning of landscape and region as place. Contributors to this work reveal how Norden’s regions and people have been defined by and against the dominant culture of Europe while at the same time their landscapes and cultures have shaped and inspired Europe’s ways of life. Together, the essays provide a much-needed picture of this culturally rich and geographically varied part of the world."--pub. desc.

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0816639140

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Alternative Food Networks

Knowledge, Practice, and Politics

By: David Goodman,E. Melanie DuPuis,Michael K. Goodman

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Alternative Food Networks

Knowledge, Practice, and Politics

By: David Goodman,E. Melanie DuPuis,Michael K. Goodman

Farmers’ markets, veggie boxes, local foods, organic products and Fair Trade goods – how have these once novel, "alternative" foods, and the people and networks supporting them, become increasingly familiar features of everyday consumption? Are the visions of "alternative worlds" built on ethics of sustainability, social justice, animal welfare and the aesthetic values of local food cultures and traditional crafts still credible now that these foods crowd supermarket shelves and other "mainstream" shopping outlets? This timely book provides a critical review of the growth of alternative food networks and their struggle to defend their ethical and aesthetic values against the standardizing pressures of the corporate mainstream with its "placeless and nameless" global supply networks. It explores how these alternative movements are "making a difference" and their possible role as fears of global climate change and food insecurity intensify. It assesses the different experiences of these networks in three major arenas of food activism and politics: Britain and Western Europe, the United States, and the global Fair Trade economy. This comparative perspective runs throughout the book to fully explore the progressive erosion of the interface between alternative and mainstream food provisioning. As the era of "cheap food" draws to a close, analysis of the limitations of market-based social change and the future of alternative food economies and localist food politics place this book at the cutting-edge of the field. The book is thoroughly informed by contemporary social theory and interdisciplinary social scientific scholarship, formulates an integrative social practice framework to understand alternative food production-consumption, and offers a unique geographical reach in its case studies.

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The Geography of Tourism and Recreation

Environment, Place and Space

By: C. Michael Hall,Stephen J. Page

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The Geography of Tourism and Recreation

Environment, Place and Space

By: C. Michael Hall,Stephen J. Page

This fourth edition of The Geography of Tourism and Recreation provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the interrelationship between tourism, leisure and recreation from geographical and social science perspectives. It still remains the only book to systematically compare and contrast in a spatial context, tourism and recreation in relation to leisure time, offering insight into the demand, supply, planning, destination management and impacts of tourism and recreation. Whilst retaining its accessible style and approach this edition has been significantly updated to reflect recent developments and new concepts from geography which are beginning to permeate the tourism and recreational field. New features include: Content on the most recent developments, climate change, sustainability, mobilities and crisis management in time and space as well as trends such as low cost airlines and the control of land transport by transnational operators in the EU such as Arriva. More attention to management issues such as innovation and the spatial consequences for tourism and leisure development. New case studies and examples to showcase real life issues, from both developed and developing countries, especially the US, China and South Africa. Completely revised and redeveloped to accommodate new, user- friendly features: case studies, insights, summary points and learning objectives. Written by leading academics, this is essential reading for all tourism, geography, leisure and recreation students.

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1135041563

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Mission in Marginal Places: The Praxis

By: Michael Pears,Paul Cloke

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Mission in Marginal Places: The Praxis

By: Michael Pears,Paul Cloke

The second book in the series focuses on participation and practice, and discusses a range of ways in which Kingdom-centred mission can be embedded in the actually existing realms of activity and need in marginal places. The book explores five different realms of practice, each presenting opportunities for innovative expressions of incarnational attentiveness to marginalized communities and people. It seeks to inspire prayerful and discerning activity that tunes into what Jesus is doing in local places, rather than providing any kind of "off-the-shelf" checklist of prefigured mission tactics. It challenges readers to take their faith-praxis beyond orthodox congregational settings and out into the everyday realms of life in marginal places.

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Authentic Media Inc

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1842279165

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Epidemics, Empire, and Environments

Cholera in Madras and Quebec City, 1818–1910

By: Michael Zeheter

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Epidemics, Empire, and Environments

Cholera in Madras and Quebec City, 1818–1910

By: Michael Zeheter

Throughout the nineteenth century, cholera was a global scourge against human populations. Practitioners had little success in mitigating the symptoms of the disease, and its causes were bitterly disputed. What experts did agree on was that the environment played a crucial role in the sites where outbreaks occurred. In this book, Michael Zeheter offers a probing case study of the environmental changes made to fight cholera in two markedly different British colonies: Madras in India and Quebec City in Canada. The colonial state in Quebec aimed to emulate British precedent and develop similar institutions that allowed authorities to prevent cholera by imposing quarantines and controlling the disease through comprehensive change to the urban environment and sanitary improvements. In Madras, however, the provincial government sought to exploit the colony for profit and was reluctant to commit its resources to measures against cholera that would alienate the city's inhabitants. It was only in 1857, after concern rose in Britain over the health of its troops in India, that a civilizing mission of sanitary improvement was begun. As Zeheter shows, complex political and economic factors came to bear on the reshaping of each colony's environment and the urgency placed on disease control.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822981041

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