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GIS And Generalisation : Methodology And Practice
ISBN: 9780748403196 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Generalisation is an integrating tool for the analysis and presentation of spatial data. This book examines issues regarding its implementation in GIS, distinguishing between modelling with generalisation and graphical representation. It also
Generalisation is an integrating tool for the analysis and presentation of spatial data. This book examines issues regarding its implementation in GIS...
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624,83 zł |
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Geographic Objects with Indeterminate Boundaries
ISBN: 9780748403875 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Current geographical information systems GIS deal almost exclusively with well-defined, static geographical objects ranging from physical landscapes to towns and transport systems. Such objects, exactly located in space, can easily be handled by modern GIS, yet form only a small proportion of all the possible geographical objects.; This book challenges the assumption that the world is compsed of exactly defined and bounded geographic objects such as land parcels, rivers and countries. ignoring the essential complexity of the world, current GIS do not adequately address problems as diverse as...
Current geographical information systems GIS deal almost exclusively with well-defined, static geographical objects ranging from physical landscapes t...
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400,88 zł |
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Parallel Processing Algorithms for GIS
ISBN: 9780748405084 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Over the last fifteen years GIS has become a fully-fledged technology, deployed across a range of application areas. However, although computer advances in performance appear to continue unhindered, data volumes and the growing sophistication of analysis procedures mean that performance will increasingly become a serious concern in GIS. Parallel computing offers a potential solution. However, traditional algorithms may not run effectively in a parallel environment, so utilization of parallel technology is not entirely straightforward. This groundbreaking book examines some of the current...
Over the last fifteen years GIS has become a fully-fledged technology, deployed across a range of application areas. However, although computer advanc...
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728,97 zł |
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Beware of Bad-News Bearing BBQ's: Travel Tidbits Acquired Trekking the Globe
ISBN: 9780759617483 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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71,44 zł |
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Reflective Practice in Geography Teaching
ISBN: 9780761969822 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary thought and practice in teaching geography. It is designed to support continuing professional development and reflective practice in geography education by: encouraging a critical understanding of the literature and concepts; stimulating teachers to continue with personal and professional development; and providing professionally relevant knowledge, understanding, skills and values.
Drawn from a wide range of eminent geographers and experienced practitioners, the authors cover: progress in geography - changing viewpoints; the... This book provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary thought and practice in teaching geography. It is designed to support continuing professio...
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255,09 zł |
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The Birth of the Titanic
ISBN: 9780773518643 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Lavishly illustrated with the official photographs of Titanic shipbuilders Harland & Wolff, The Birth of the Titanic presents an unprecedented insight into the four years it took to construct the mighty ship in Belfast, Ireland.
Lavishly illustrated with the official photographs of Titanic shipbuilders Harland & Wolff, The Birth of the Titanic presents an unprecedented insight...
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255,14 zł |
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Gay Tourism: Culture and Context
ISBN: 9780789016027 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The pink tourism dollar is now recognized as a highly profitable niche of the tourism market. Gay Tourism: Culture and Context critically investigates the emergence of a commercial gay tourism industry for male clients, the way it is organized, and how the tourism industry promotes cities, resorts, and nations as 'gay' destinations. This careful examination critically questions the social, political, and cultural implications regarding relationships between gay tourism, Western gay male culture, the erotic, sexual politics, and sexual diversity.
The pink tourism dollar is now recognized as a highly profitable niche of the tourism market. Gay Tourism: Culture and Context critically investigates...
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911,22 zł |
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Gay Tourism: Culture and Context
ISBN: 9780789016034 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This comprehensive overview details the place of tourism in western gay male culture and in the world at large, with emphasis on its effects on gay identity and global, national and local communities. It also reveals the various motivations for gay tourist choices and the destinations that attempt to lure them.
This comprehensive overview details the place of tourism in western gay male culture and in the world at large, with emphasis on its effects on gay id...
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359,23 zł |
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The Internet and Travel and Tourism Education
ISBN: 9780789016508 / Angielski / Twarda / 193 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Macro and micro issues are discussed relating to the use of the Internet to enhance a travel and tourism curriculum. Insights offered on Web-based instruction, student perceptions of Internet courses, and using the Web to expand content areas will help travel and tourism instructors use online resou
Macro and micro issues are discussed relating to the use of the Internet to enhance a travel and tourism curriculum. Insights offered on Web-based ins...
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546,74 zł |
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The Internet and Travel and Tourism Education
ISBN: 9780789016515 / Angielski / Miękka / 193 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Design and implement successful Web-based courses This wide-ranging book discusses both the micro and macro aspects of using the Internet to enhance your travel and tourism curriculum. The Internet and Travel and Tourism Education offers useful insights for both novices and experienced users. With these suggestions, you can use online resources to contribute to your class objectives. The innovative teaching strategies presented in The Internet and Travel and Tourism Education will not soon become outdated. Instead of being based on fast-changing technical details, such as...
Design and implement successful Web-based courses This wide-ranging book discusses both the micro and macro aspects of using the Internet to...
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234,27 zł |
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Handbook for Distance Learning in Tourism
ISBN: 9780789018595 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Deliver quality instruction to your students--on-campus or off
The Handbook for Distance Learning in Tourism is a practical, down-to-earth guide to developing and using print-based and Internet-based flexible learning resources for courses where students rarely, if ever, attend on-campus classes. Whether you're a teacher who needs to develop course notes into a flexible learning package, a Web site, or both, or you just want information about how to teach in a flexible environment, the book will provide the help you need-in language you can understand. Designed to guide you through... Deliver quality instruction to your students--on-campus or off
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702,94 zł |
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Community Destination Management in Developing Economies
ISBN: 9780789023865 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The practical, user-friendly guide to creating a sustainable future for destinations in developing economies
Community Destination Management in Developing Economies is a user-friendly guide that provides a comprehensive view of the issues facing planners, policymakers, and destination managers who attempt to ensure a sustainable future for community destinations in developing economies. Travel and tourism experts from a wide range of disciplines discuss illustrative case studies and effective practical approaches for various facets of destination management. This book explains in... The practical, user-friendly guide to creating a sustainable future for destinations in developing economies
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937,25 zł |
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Management Science Applications in Tourism and Hospitality
ISBN: 9780789025180 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Focusing on new developments in the application of management science to the tourism and hospitality industries, this collection contains eight papers on data envelopment analysis and forecasting methodology. The researchers use data envelopment analysis to assess hotel labor and multiunit restaurant productivity, and forecast hotel room occupancy
Focusing on new developments in the application of management science to the tourism and hospitality industries, this collection contains eight papers...
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322,78 zł |
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Handbook of Consumer Behavior, Tourism, and the Internet
ISBN: 9780789025999 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Mills (hospitality and tourism management, Purdue University) and Law (hotel and tourism management, Hong Kong Polytechnic University) offer an analysis of the latest strategies involving Internet business applications for attracting online travel customers. General online buyer characteristics, the differences between online and offline consumer b
Mills (hospitality and tourism management, Purdue University) and Law (hotel and tourism management, Hong Kong Polytechnic University) offer an analys...
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307,16 zł |
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Tourism Crises : Management Responses and Theoretical Insight
ISBN: 9780789032089 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Don't wait until it's too late to learn how to manage a crisis situation The impact of crises on tourism has increased in the last ten years in response to terrorism, war, health emergencies, and natural disasters. Tourism Crises presents the latest research on crisis management with in-depth analysis of tourism flows and the economic well-being of communities at the regional, national, and international levels. This timely book examines a range of conceptual issues, including crisis communication and the safety of employees of the industry, and features case studies of responses to the World...
Don't wait until it's too late to learn how to manage a crisis situation The impact of crises on tourism has increased in the last ten years in respon...
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286,34 zł |
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The Construction of Cognitive Maps
ISBN: 9780792339496 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) and processes which are exclusive to humans in their encoding, storing, decoding and retrieving spatial knowledge for various tasks. The authors present and discuss connectionist models of cognitive maps which are based on local representation, versus models which are based on distributed representation, as well as connectionist models concerning language and spatial relations. As is well known, Gibson's (1979) ecological approach suggests a view on cognition which is diametrically different from the classical main stream view: perception (and thus cognition) is direct, immediate and needs no...
and processes which are exclusive to humans in their encoding, storing, decoding and retrieving spatial knowledge for various tasks. The authors prese...
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576,96 zł |
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Fieldwork in Geography: Reflections, Perspectives and Actions
ISBN: 9780792363293 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Geographers regard fieldwork as a vital instrument for understanding our world through direct experience, for gathering basic data about this world, and as a fundamental method for enacting geographical education. The range of international geography and educational experts who contributed to this volume has demonstrated that the concept of fieldwork has a considerable history in the field of geography. They have demonstrated that the theoretical aspects of fieldwork have been interpreted differently in regions around the world, but the importance of fieldwork remains strong globally.
A... Geographers regard fieldwork as a vital instrument for understanding our world through direct experience, for gathering basic data about this world, a...
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384,63 zł |
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Database Issues in Geographic Information Systems
ISBN: 9780792399247 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have been experiencing a steady and unprecedented growth in terms of general interest, theory development, and new applications in the last decade or so. GIS is an inter-disciplinary field that brings together many diverse areas such as computer science, geography, cartography, engineering, and urban planning.
Database Issues in Geographic Information Systems approaches several important topics in GIS from a database perspective. Database management has a central role to play in most computer-based information systems, and is expected to... Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have been experiencing a steady and unprecedented growth in terms of general interest, theory development, and ne...
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384,63 zł |
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Piracy in the Ancient World
ISBN: 9780801855054 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Seaborne brigands were greatly feared in the ancient world. Pirates not only preyed on merchant ships and fishing craft in the Mediterranean but also wreaked havoc on coastal townstaking men, women, and children to ransom or sell as slaves; raiding treasures; and exacting tribute from fearful town leaders. Responding to the threat of piracy, the Greeks established their primary cities inland for protection and even in their North African and Sicilian outposts they left coastal land uncultivated. Mariners feared pirate ships around every promontory and sought protection from the... Seaborne brigands were greatly feared in the ancient world. Pirates not only preyed on merchant ships and fishing craft in the Mediterranean but al... |
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137,03 zł |
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The World Map, 1300-1492: The Persistence of Tradition and Transformation
ISBN: 9780801885891 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In the two centuries before Columbus, mapmaking was transformed. The World Map, 1300-1492 investigates this important, transitional period of mapmaking. Beginning with a 1436 atlas of ten maps produced by Venetian Andrea Bianco, Evelyn Edson uses maps of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries to examine how the discoveries of missionaries and merchants affected the content and configuration of world maps. She finds that both the makers and users of maps struggled with changes brought about by technological innovation--the compass, quadrant, and astrolabe--rediscovery of... In the two centuries before Columbus, mapmaking was transformed. The World Map, 1300-1492 investigates this important, transitional period o... |
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325,56 zł |
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