
ilość książek w kategorii: 225895
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Strategic Countryside Management
ISBN: 9780080438894 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The complex and conflicting demands that society makes on the countryside have led to an increasingly strategic approach to its management. This important new work evaluates the key challenges facing managers and policy-makers in the contemporary British countryside and critically examines a range of strategies for making the most of our natural heritage.
The complex and conflicting demands that society makes on the countryside have led to an increasingly strategic approach to its management. This impor...
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527,82 |
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Indigenous Tourism
ISBN: 9780080446202 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In a world characterized by an encroaching homogeneity induced by the growth of multi-national corporations and globalization, the causes of difference accrue new levels of importance. This is as true of tourism as in many other spheres of life ??? and one cause of differentiation for tourism promotion is the culture of Indigenous Peoples. This offers opportunities for cultural renaissance, income generation and enhanced political empowerment, but equally there are possible costs of creating commodities out of aspects of life that previously possessed spiritual meaning. This book examines...
In a world characterized by an encroaching homogeneity induced by the growth of multi-national corporations and globalization, the causes of differenc...
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1074,61 |
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Travel Survey Methods: Quality and Future Directions
ISBN: 9780080446622 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 708 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book is a new chapter in the continuing focus of the International Steering Committee for Travel Survey Conferences (ISCTSC) on maintaining and improving the quality of data collection in transport surveys. The papers extend discourse on broad topic areas that have been addressed by the ISCTSC in previous conferences, provide an update on travel survey initiatives currently under way in many countries, and offer a glimpse into the future in the form of changing contexts, new topics, new technologies, and new standards from around the world, with an emphasis on standards and future...
This book is a new chapter in the continuing focus of the International Steering Committee for Travel Survey Conferences (ISCTSC) on maintaining and i...
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cena:
1300,36 |
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Managing Coastal Vulnerability
ISBN: 9780080447032 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book breaks down primary concepts of coastal vulnerability by providing a thorough discussion of the concept. It addresses coastal vulnerability around the world with specific examples from the Ebro Delta (Spain), the crumbling cliffs of Corton Village/Suffolk (UK), and tsunami-worn Phuket (Thailand/Indian Ocean) as well as others. Ultimately, a framework is established for discussion about global locations and sustaining resilience of coastal areas. An international audience of academics, researchers, students and policy advisors in geography, economics, sociology, and environmental...
This book breaks down primary concepts of coastal vulnerability by providing a thorough discussion of the concept. It addresses coastal vulnerability ...
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780,20 |
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Transport Science and Technology
ISBN: 9780080447070 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The book will offer a representative sample of the best papers presented at the Transport Science and Technology Congress (TRANSTEC) Athens 2004. It will also serve as the peer reviewed conference proceedings. As in the congress writing, in this book our aim is to demonstrate the most recent developments in merging scientific and technological discoveries to solve important transportation problems and to cover a wide variety of transportation issues in passenger and freight transportation but also a variety of modes. A parallel aim is to have papers that are representative of the research and...
The book will offer a representative sample of the best papers presented at the Transport Science and Technology Congress (TRANSTEC) Athens 2004. It w...
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cena:
705,58 |
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Institutions and Planning
ISBN: 9780080449319 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The chapters in this volume, written by a distinguished group of academics in planning and related fields, revisit the terrain of planning in light of recent developments in the recognition of the importance of institutions in planning. The book is divided into three sections: the first section is concerned with examining the impact of the new institutionalism on the field of planning and on its theory. Chapters include those proposing intellectual justification of planning as a field and a profession. The second section is concerned with how civic traditions and institutions affect the urban...
The chapters in this volume, written by a distinguished group of academics in planning and related fields, revisit the terrain of planning in light of...
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619,40 |
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Tourism and Social Identities
ISBN: 9780080450742 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The making and consuming of tourism takes place within a complex social milieu, with competing actors drawing into the product peoples history, culture and lifestyles. Culture and people thus become part of the tourism product. The implications are not fully understood, though the literature ranges the arguments along a continuum with culture being described on one hand as vulnerable and fixed, waiting to be impacted by tourism and on the other being seen as vibrant and perfectly well capable of dealing with globalization and modernity trends. Some of the answers are likely to focus around...
The making and consuming of tourism takes place within a complex social milieu, with competing actors drawing into the product peoples history, cultur...
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cena:
880,10 |
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Tourism and Politics
ISBN: 9780080450759 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 409 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Tourism and Politics aims to disseminate ideas on the critical discourse of tourism and tourists as they relate to politics, through a series of case studies from around the world written by specialists with an emphasis on linking theory to practice. That tourism is a profoundly important economic sector for most countries and regions of the world is widely accepted, even if some of the detail remains controversial. However, as tourism matures as a subject, the theories underpinning it necessarily need to be more sophisticated; tourism cannot be simply read' as a business proposition with a...
Tourism and Politics aims to disseminate ideas on the critical discourse of tourism and tourists as they relate to politics, through a series of case ...
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cena:
880,10 |
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Hospitality
ISBN: 9780080450933 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Hospitality: a social lens follows on from the unique contribution made by In Search of Hospitality: theoretical perspectives and debates. It progresses debate, challenges the boundaries of ways of knowing hospitality, and offers intellectual insights stimulated by the study of hospitality.
The contributing authors provide tangible evidence of continuing advancement and development of knowledge pertaining to the phenomenon of hospitality. They draw on the richness of the social sciences, taking host and guest relations as a means of studying in-group and out-group... Hospitality: a social lens follows on from the unique contribution made by In Search of Hospitality: theoretical perspectives and debates. It progress...
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1074,61 |
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Bilbao: Basque Pathways to Globalization
ISBN: 9780080453248 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The gleaming Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has put the Basque capital on the map of world cities and has exacerbated optimism among public officials worldwide about the role of spectacular architecture in urban renewal. This book - a theoretically-informed case study and a major synthesis of Bilbaos developments through the lens of globalization analyzes the Guggenheim project as the latest of Bilbaos globalization efforts, puts the project in the context of Bilbaos decades-long transformation and contends that Bilbaos positive economic performance since 1994 is not fundamentally due to the...
The gleaming Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has put the Basque capital on the map of world cities and has exacerbated optimism among public officials worldw...
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619,40 |
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Brownfields Redevelopment and the Quest for Sustainability
ISBN: 9780080453583 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Concerns over urban blight, environmental degradation, climate change, inner-city unemployment, and a host of other socio-economic and environmental problems have forced policy makers, planners, and others interested in the future of our planet to take a closer look at ways to foster more sustainable urban development. Drawing on the author's extensive research, this book examines the role that brownfields redevelopment is playing and can play in our quest for sustainability, focusing primarily on efforts in the US and Canada to build better places for urban dwellers to live, work, and play....
Concerns over urban blight, environmental degradation, climate change, inner-city unemployment, and a host of other socio-economic and environmental p...
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581,69 |
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Battlefield Tourism
ISBN: 9780080453620 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Through a series of case studies that involve past conflict in China, the United States, The South Pacific and Europe, the nature of battlefield sites as tourist locations are explored. As places of past conflict and individual acts of heroism, these sites are places of story telling. How are these stories told? And for what purposes are the stories told? The acts and modes of interpretation are many, ranging from a discourse conducted through silences to the more complex nuanced story telling told through re-enactments of past battles. The book also asks where is the battle-field? - as case...
Through a series of case studies that involve past conflict in China, the United States, The South Pacific and Europe, the nature of battlefield sites...
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880,10 |
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Identity Tourism: Imaging and Imagining the Nation
ISBN: 9780080466187 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Identity Tourism: Imaging and Imagining the Nation" examines the role of tourism in the construction of national identity. To imagine a nation, nationalists must construct a national story about their history and culture that defines them as a people, and counters the negative story circulated by their enemies. One of the objectives of this book is to identify the necessary historical and cultural components of a compelling national story. Yet, a story is of no use unless it is heard, so nationalists need media through which the national narrative can be told.The principal objective of this...
"Identity Tourism: Imaging and Imagining the Nation" examines the role of tourism in the construction of national identity. To imagine a nation, natio...
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533,21 |
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1979 : A Big Year in a Small Town
ISBN: 9780091896713 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "1979" takes place in a small fishing town called Musselburgh, situated on the east coast of Scotland. It's about a young girl who is very naive yet incredibly self-aware in the year that changed her life foreveran evocative, moving, and at times hilarious true-life story about growing up gay in a small town, finding out you're adopted, and losing your father at the age of 14. Always an outsider, the Rhona of 1979 was desperate to fit in at any cost, and here lies the bittersweet humor. At the heart of the book is the Clubhouse, a place that symbolizes all that is normal, happy, and secure....
"1979" takes place in a small fishing town called Musselburgh, situated on the east coast of Scotland. It's about a young girl who is very naive yet i...
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cena:
86,13 |
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Disconnected : Why our kids are turning their backs on everything we thought we knew
ISBN: 9780091897413 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the spirit of "No Logo" and "Fast Food Nation," "Disconnected" is the author's journey into modern youth culture, meeting and speaking to hundreds of kids on the way. Shocking and revealing, it gives adults an insight into understanding a generation gap that has never been so wide. Confronting crime, underage sex, fame obsession, violence, ambition, learning and friendship, Nick Barham's compelling investigation finds that this disconnection from what adults understand to be substantial or real is creating a radical new youth culture.
In the spirit of "No Logo" and "Fast Food Nation," "Disconnected" is the author's journey into modern youth culture, meeting and speaking to hundreds ...
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86,13 |
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Qualitative Research Methods for Psychologists: Introduction Through Empirical Studies
ISBN: 9780120884704 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Qualitative Research Methods for Psychologists is a collection of 14 original articles that teaches readers how to conduct qualitative research. Instead of characterizing and justifying certain methods, the contributors show by means of actual research studies what assumptions, procedures, and dilemmas they encountered. Fischer's introduction, which emphasizes the practical nature of qualitative research and the closing chapter, which uses a question-and-answer format to investigate, among other subjects, what is scientific about qualitative research, are complemented by a glossary and...
Qualitative Research Methods for Psychologists is a collection of 14 original articles that teaches readers how to conduct qualitative research...
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cena:
450,31 |
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Link Analysis: An Information Science Approach
ISBN: 9780120885534 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The web is central to many human activities and infringes on many others: at home, and at work, including education and research. Links between web sites can be used in information science and social science research as a valuable source of evidence about online phenomena, and about online components of offline phenomena. Given a set of websites, the links between them many reveal interesting patterns of connectedness that could reflect issues of underlying human communication or information value. Link analysis is therefore a valuable tool for information science and social science...
The web is central to many human activities and infringes on many others: at home, and at work, including education and research. Links between web si...
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393,16 |
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The Social Structure of Right and Wrong
ISBN: 9780121028039 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This revised paperback edition features a new prologue and updated citations. The book extends the theoretical approach of Black's classic "Behavior of Law" (Academic Press, 1976) to a dramatically larger universe: the handling of conflict across societies and history. It also introduces and illustrates Black's "pure sociology," a new theoretical paradigm applicable to human behavior of every kind. It provides current sociological theory on largely unexplored topics such as vengeance, discipline, avoidance, pacification, negotiation and toleration. It contains new concepts and typologies...
This revised paperback edition features a new prologue and updated citations. The book extends the theoretical approach of Black's classic "Behavior o...
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373,25 |
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Investigating Child Exploitation and Pornography: The Internet, Law and Forensic Science
ISBN: 9780121631055 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Investigating Child Exploitation and Pornography provides the historical, legal, technical, and social background for the laws prohibiting child exploitation, in particular, child pornography. It offers a history of child exploitation cases and studies, outlining the roles of technology in this type of crime and the evidence they can contain, and documenting new research performed by the authors. It details how successful undercover Internet operations are conducted, how the associated evidence is collected, and how to use the evidence to locate and apprehend the... Investigating Child Exploitation and Pornography provides the historical, legal, technical, and social background for the laws prohibiting c... |
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424,67 |
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Grounding Grounded Theory: Guidelines for Qualitative Inquiry
ISBN: 9780122146404 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Professor Dey's persuasive, instructive, critical, engaging, and often humorous investigation places many elements of grounded theory under close scrutiny. In searching out the methodological principles on which grounded theory is built, he reveals its main features as a qualitative research methodology for social research and the issues fundamental to understanding it. He also highlights the disagreements between the originators of grounded theory, their reasons, and their effects. His enlightened perspective thereby makes sense of the ways in which grounded theory approaches some of the key...
Professor Dey's persuasive, instructive, critical, engaging, and often humorous investigation places many elements of grounded theory under close scru...
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cena:
333,91 |