Pandora Revisited: Book One of the Series A Little Mythunderstanding

Pandora Revisited: Book One of the Series A Little Mythunderstanding
Author: David Graham
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2009-01-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1435734521

When Diana and her brother Jason accidentally discover and open Pandora's Box while visiting modern-day Greece, the past, present and future become interwoven into an adventure that will eventually cover the whole planet and draw from every major mythology on the earth. Trying to solve the multitude of mysteries that surround them -- including the disappearance of their parents -- and gathering a team of both mortals and immortals to battle mythical monsters, the two teens find out what the gods are really like, not to mention getting to know themselves a little better, in an action-packed and romance-filled tale suitable for all ages.

Tourism and Social Marketing

Tourism and Social Marketing
Author: C. Michael Hall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2014-02-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136989285

Social Marketing is the utilisation of marketing principles and methods to encourage individual and organisational behaviour change for the public good. Traditionally the domain of government it is increasingly also utilised by non-government and non-profit organisations and other institutions of civil society as a non-regulatory means to achieve policy and public good goals. At a time when concerns over tourism's contribution to undesirable environmental, economic and social change is greater than ever, social marketing strategies are important for encouraging more appropriate and desirable behaviours by tourists and the tourism industry. Tourism and Social Marketing is the first book to comprehensively detail the relevance of social marketing principles and practice to tourism, destination management and marketing. By considering this relationship and application of social marketing approaches to key issues facing contemporary tourism development, such as the environment, this book provides significant insights into how the behaviours of visitors and businesses may be changed so as to develop more sustainable forms of tourism and improve the quality of life of destination communities. It further provides a powerful impetus to the development of tourism related forms of sustainable consumption and the promotion of ethical tourism and marketing. This innovative book is comprehensive in scope by considering a variety of relevant fields relevant to tourism and social marketing practice including, health, non - profit organisations, governance, the politics of marketing and consumption, consumer advocacy and environmental and sustainable marketing. It integrates selected international cases studies to help tourism students engage with the broader debates in social marketing, governance and the politics of behaviour change and shows the relationship of theory to practice. Written by a leading authority in the field, topical and integrative, this book will be valuable reading for students, scholars and researchers in tourism.

Staging Loss

Staging Loss
Author: Michael Pinchbeck
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2018-11-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 3319979701

This book locates and critically theorises an emerging field of twenty-first century theatre practice concerned, either thematically, methodologically, or formally, with acts of commemoration and the commemorative. With notions of memorial, celebration, temporality and remembrance at its heart, and as a timely topic for debate, this book asks how theatre and performance intersects with commemorative acts or rituals in contemporary theatre and performance practice. It considers the (re)performance of history, commemoration as a form of, or performance of, ritual, performance as memorial, performance as eulogy and eulogy as performance. It asks where personal acts of remembrance merge with public or political acts of remembrance, where the boundary between the commemorative and the performative might lie, and how it might be blurred, broken or questioned. It explores how we might remake the past in the present, to consider not just how performance commemorates but how commemoration performs.

Fashion-ology

Fashion-ology
Author: Yuniya Kawamura
Publisher: Berg
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2004-12-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1847886078

This book provides a concise and much-needed introduction to the sociology of fashion. Most studies of fashion do not make a clear distinction between clothing and fashion. Kawamura argues that clothing is a tangible material product whereas fashion is a symbolic cultural product. She debunks the myth of the genius designer and explains, provocatively, that fashion is not about clothes but is a belief. There is an institutional structure, ignored by many fashion theorists, that has shaped and produced the fashion phenomenon. Kawamura further shows how the structural nature of the fashion system works to legitimize designers creativity and can make them successful. Newer fashion cities, such as Milan and New York, are the product of the fashion system that originated in Paris. Without that systemic structure, fashion culture would not exist. Fashion-ology provides a big picture approach that focuses on the social process behind fashion and its perpetuation.

Tourism and Crisis

Tourism and Crisis
Author: Gustav Visser
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2013-02-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136289445

The new millennium has been characterised by several crises ranging from dramatic acts of terror to natural disasters, as well as the most significant economic recession since the late 1920s. However, despite such challenges the global tourism system has in the main retained its past vitality although in some cases in a different form. The book investigates different kinds of "crisis" and unpacks understandings of crisis in relation to various components in the contemporary tourism system. The aim of this book therefore is to critically analyse the relationship between tourism and crises. The volume focuses on the roles and potential of tourism for development and relations between tourism, environment and broad global process of change at different levels of analysis, highlighting different types of "crisis". In particular it questions the general conviction that tourism-led development is a sustainable and necessarily solid platform from which to develop local, national and regional economies from a range of perspectives. Written by leading academics in the field this book offers valuable insight into tourism’s relationship with socio – cultural, environment, economic and political crisis as well as the challenges facing future tourism development.

Arab Society

Arab Society
Author: Nicholas S. Hopkins
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
Total Pages: 620
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789774244049

This all-new edition of the classic Arab Society: Social Science Perspectives, containing thirty new articles by leading scholars, examines Arab society in the 1990s. Articles by scholars from many countries explore such subjects as Arab unity and identity; demographic processes; the roles of men, women, and family; rural social change; political developments; and religious change. For students, scholars, and general readers alike, Arab Society offers up-to-date analysis and discussion of the social, political, and economic transformations that face the region today.

International Business and Tourism

International Business and Tourism
Author: Tim Coles
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2008-03-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134096569

Whether its bungee jumping in Queenstown or visiting the Guinness factory in Dublin, where we travel and what we do when we get there - has changed significantly in the past twenty years. This innovative textbook explores what is possibly the most unrecognized of international service industries, placing tourism in the context of contemporary gl

Sustainable Marketing of Cultural and Heritage Tourism

Sustainable Marketing of Cultural and Heritage Tourism
Author: Deepak Chhabra
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2010-04-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136997407

The book first explains the dynamics of cultural heritage with its authenticity underpinnings, marketing, and tourism, and proposes a strategic praxis drawn from core sustainable principles.

Hogwart's School

Hogwart's School
Author: Scholastic Books
Publisher: Scholastic
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2001
Genre: Coloring books
ISBN: 9780439286190