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Tourism Transformations in Protected Area Gateway Communities

by Dorothee Bohn, Andrea Zita Botelho, Kelly S. Bricker, Robert S. Bristow, Karina H. Casimiro, Rosa Suárez Chaparro, Ana Cristina Costa, Kynda R. Curtis, Margaret J. Daniels, Edieser Dela Santa, C. Michael Hall, Manuel Ramón Gonzalez Herrera, Russell M. Hicks, Julie Judkins, N. Qwynne Lackey, Natalya Lawrence, Gustavo C. X. M. P. Machado, Gianna Moscardo, Jake Powell, Sidnei Raimundo, Mary Anne Ramos-Tumanan, Milena Manhães Rodrigues, Professor Chris Ryan, Renato de Oliveira dos Santos, Jessica A. Schottanes, Ole R. Sleipness, Maria Anunciação Ventura, Therez B. Walker ...

Gateway communities that neighbour parks and protected areas are impacted by tourism, while facing unique circumstances related to protected area management. Economic dependency remains a serious challenge for these communities, especially in a climate of neoliberalism, top-down policy environments, and park closures related to environmental degradation or government budgets. The collection of ... Read more

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Gateway communities that neighbour parks and protected areas are impacted by tourism, while facing unique circumstances related to protected area management. Economic dependency remains a serious challenge for these communities, especially in a climate of neoliberalism, top-down policy environments, and park closures related to environmental degradation or government budgets. The collection of
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A Handbook of Food Crime

Immoral and Illegal Practices in the Food Industry and What to Do About Them

by Sugandi del Canto, Kora Liegh Glatt, Camilla Barbarossa, Dominique Paturel, Coveney John, Sue Booth, Ricardo Cesar Barbosa Junior, Estevan Leopoldo De Freitas Coca, Michael Lynch, Michael Long, Rob White, Stephanie Baran, Jan Deckers, Linnea Laestadius, Xiaocen Liu, Juanjuan Sun, Reece Walters, Eileen Davenport, Ashley Savage, Richard Hyde, Wesley Tourangeau, Amy Fitzgerald, Hongming Cheng, Joseph Asomah, Paul Leighton, Bernd Van Der Meulen, Antonia Corini, Rachel Engler-Stringer, Jan Mei Soon, Louise Manning, Robert Phillips, Judith Schrempf-Stirling, Jinky Leilani Del Prado-Lu, Harvey James, Tiziana Pagnani, Ferro Trabalzi, Marcello De Rosa, Martha McMahon ...

Food today is over-corporatized and under-regulated. It is involved in many immoral, harmful, and illegal practices along production, distribution, and consumption systems. These problematic conditions have significant consequences on public health and well-being, nonhuman animals, and the environment, often simultaneously.In this insightful book, Gray and Hinch explore the phenomenon of food ... Read more

$46.79 USD

Food today is over-corporatized and under-regulated. It is involved in many immoral, harmful, and illegal practices along production, distribution, and consumption systems. These problematic conditions have significant consequences on public health and well-being, nonhuman animals, and the environment, often simultaneously.In this insightful book, Gray and Hinch explore the phenomenon of food
... Read more
Understanding and fostering soil carbon sequestration

by Dr C. Rumpel, Prof Ingrid Kӧgel-Knabner, Dr Martin Wiesmeier, Dr Stefanie Mayer, Prof Xiaojuan Feng, Prof Patrick Lavelle, Prof Sebastian Doetterl, Dr Rose Abramoff, Dr Jean-Thomas Cornelis, Dr Aline Frossard0, Dr Peter Fiener1, Dr Gina Garland2, Dr Michael Kaiser3, Dr Moritz Laub4, Dr Sophie Opfergelt5, Dr Marijn Van de Broek6, Dr Sarah van den Broek7, Dr Sophie F. von Fromm8, Dr Beverley Henry9, Dr C. Chenu0, Dr F. Amiraslani1, Dr Kazem Zamanian2, Prof Yakov Kuzyakov3, Prof Muhammad Sanaullah4, Dr T. Afzal5, Dr T. Shahzad6, Dr María de la Luz Mora7, Dr Jorge Medina8, Dr Patricia Poblete-Grant9, Dr Rolando Demanet0, Dr Paola Durán1, Dr Patricio Barra2, Dr Cecilia Paredes3, Dr Marcela Calabi-Floody4, Dr Matthias Kuhnert5, Dr Pete Smith6, Dr Christopher Poeplau7, Dr Edward Gregorich8, Dr Amin Sharififar9, Prof Budiman Minasny0, Dr Carlos A. Sierra1, Dr Susan E. Crow2, Dr Matt Aitkenhead3, Prof Rattan Lal4, Prof Thomas Kätterer5, Dr Martin A. Bolinder6, Dr Hyeon Ji Song7, Dr Pil Joo Kim8, Dr Abad Chabbi9, Dr K. Klumpp0, Dr Alan Franzluebbers1, Dr Andreas Schindlbacher2, Dr Mathias Mayer3, Dr Robert Jandl4, Dr Stephan Zimmermann5, Dr Frank Hagedorn6, Prof Lydie Stella Koutika7, Dr Nicolas Marron8, Dr Rémi Cardinael9, Dr Sonja Paul0, Dr Jens Leifeld1, Dr Deborah Dick2, Dr Cimélio Bayer3, Dr Jeferson Dieckow4, Dr Inigo Virto5, Dr Isabel de Soto6, Dr Rodrigo Antón7, Dr Rosa M. Poch8, Dr J.-C. Lata9, Dr C. Marques-dos-Santos Cordovil0, Dr E. Nartey1, Dr C. Staudhammer2, Dr E. Yeboah3, Dr Luca Montanarella4, Dr Ram Dalal5, Dr Matthew Tom Harrison6, Dr Brian Keating7, Prof Siân Mooney8, Dr Kathryn Janoski9, Dr Carmen M. Ugarte0, Dr Alexandra Langlais-Hesse1, Professor Michelle M. Wander2, Dr Abdul Wakeel3, Dr Sylvia Vetter4 ...

Series Book 121 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
Highlights the increasing role of soils as an important and dynamic part of the global carbon cycle and their potential role in counteracting increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrationsExplores key aspects of soil carbon sequestration in different environments and soil typesProvides a comprehensive review of socioeconomic, legal and policy issues surrounding the adoption of soil carbon sequestration ... Read more

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Highlights the increasing role of soils as an important and dynamic part of the global carbon cycle and their potential role in counteracting increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrationsExplores key aspects of soil carbon sequestration in different environments and soil typesProvides a comprehensive review of socioeconomic, legal and policy issues surrounding the adoption of soil carbon sequestration
... Read more
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - European Gothic

The ten best gothic short stories of all time by European authors

by Charles Dickens, Nikolai Gogol, Miguel de Cervantes, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rosa Mulholland, E T A Hoffman, Jean Lorrain, Rhoda Broughton, Sheridan Le Fanu, Moritz Jokai, Ernst Raupach ...

Narrated by Robbie McNab, Ian Holm, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

10 hours 46 min

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
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Stories From The Shadows – 1850 – 1899

Embrace the darkness

by Alice Dunbar Nelson, Ambrose Bierce, Amelia Edwards, Amy Levy, Anatole France, Anton Chekhov, Arabella Kenealy, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Mew0, Charlotte Perkins Gilman1, Charlotte Riddell2, Clara Venn3, Edith Nesbit4, Edward Bulwer-Lytton5, Edward Page Mitchell6, Elizabeth Gaskell7, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps8, Ella D'Arcy9, Fernan Caballeron0, George Eliot1, George Eliot2, Gustave Flaubert3, Guy De Maupassant4, H G Wells5, Hesba Stretton6, Israel Zangwill7, Jack London8, Jan Neruda9, Jean Lorrain0, John Buchan1, Lafcadio Hearn2, Leo Tolstoy3, Lettice Galbraith4, Louisa Baldwin5, Lucy Hamilton Hooper6, Marcel Schwob7, Margaret Oliphant8, Mary Cholmonderly9, Mary E Penn0, Mary E Wilkins Freeman1, Mary Elizabeth Braddon2, Oscar Wilde3, Rhoda Broughton4, Robert Louis Stevenson5, Rosa Mulholland6, Rudyard Kipling7, Thomas Hardy8, Vsevolod Garshin9, Wilkie Collins0, William Hunt1 ...

Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley2, Richard Mitchley3, Christopher Ragland4 ...

Unabridged

21 hours 47 min

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

$39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
... Read more
New Directions in Anthropological Kinship

by Lynn Åkesson, Lisa M. Anderson-Levy, Caroline B. Brettell, Rosa De Jorio, Allen S. Ehrlich, Kathy-Lee Galvin, Ilana Gershon, Barry S. Hewlett, David Jacobson, William Jankowiak, Louise Lamphere, Joan H. Liem, Susanne Lundin, Richard E. Maddy, Judith S. Modell, Cynthia Robin, Joan B. Silk, Karen Sinclair, Robert S. Weiss ...

Following periods of intense debate and eventual demise, kinship studies is now seeing a revival in anthropology. New Directions in Anthropological Kinship captures these recent trends and explores new avenues of inquiry in this re-emerging subfield. The book comprises contributions from primatology, evolutionary anthropology, archaeology, and cultural anthropology. The authors review the history ... Read more

$55.09 USD

Following periods of intense debate and eventual demise, kinship studies is now seeing a revival in anthropology. New Directions in Anthropological Kinship captures these recent trends and explores new avenues of inquiry in this re-emerging subfield. The book comprises contributions from primatology, evolutionary anthropology, archaeology, and cultural anthropology. The authors review the history
... Read more

Sustainable Tourism

Principles, Contexts and Practices

by David A. Fennell, Prof. Chris Cooper ...

Series Book 6 - Aspects of Tourism Texts
This new textbook provides a comprehensive overview of sustainable tourism framed around the UN’s sustainable development goals. It examines the origins and dimensions of sustainable tourism and offers a detailed account of sustainable initiatives and management across destinations, the tourism industry, public sector and leading agencies. The book explores the principal values and priorities in ... Read more

$23.79 USD

This new textbook provides a comprehensive overview of sustainable tourism framed around the UN’s sustainable development goals. It examines the origins and dimensions of sustainable tourism and offers a detailed account of sustainable initiatives and management across destinations, the tourism industry, public sector and leading agencies. The book explores the principal values and priorities in
... Read more
Hiding from Humanity

Disgust, Shame, and the Law

by Martha C. Nussbaum ...

Should laws about sex and pornography be based on social conventions about what is disgusting? Should felons be required to display bumper stickers or wear T-shirts that announce their crimes? This powerful and elegantly written book, by one of America's most influential philosophers, presents a critique of the role that shame and disgust play in our individual and social lives and, in particular, ... Read more

$36.79 USD

Should laws about sex and pornography be based on social conventions about what is disgusting? Should felons be required to display bumper stickers or wear T-shirts that announce their crimes? This powerful and elegantly written book, by one of America's most influential philosophers, presents a critique of the role that shame and disgust play in our individual and social lives and, in particular,
... Read more
What We Owe Each Other

A New Social Contract for a Better Society

by Minouche Shafik ...

From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thriveWhether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, paying taxes, and benefiting from public services define the social contract that ... Read more

$15.89 USD

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From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thriveWhether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, paying taxes, and benefiting from public services define the social contract that
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Tourism and Sustainability

Development, globalisation and new tourism in the Third World

by Martin Mowforth, Ian Munt ...

By January 2015 the world’s richest 80 people had as much wealth as the poorest 50 per cent of the world’s population. It is a global unevenness through which the barriers to in-migration of Third World migrants to wealthy First World nations go ever higher, while the barriers to travel in the reverse direction are all but extinct.So how exactly does tourism contribute to narrowing this glaring ... Read more

$95.99 USD

By January 2015 the world’s richest 80 people had as much wealth as the poorest 50 per cent of the world’s population. It is a global unevenness through which the barriers to in-migration of Third World migrants to wealthy First World nations go ever higher, while the barriers to travel in the reverse direction are all but extinct.So how exactly does tourism contribute to narrowing this glaring
... Read more
A Healthy Society

How a Focus on Health can Revive Canadian Democracy

by Ryan Meili ...

Income, education, employment, housing, the wider environment, and social supports; far more than the actions of physicians, nurses, and other health care providers, it is these conditions that make the greatest difference in our health. Drawing on his experiences as a family physician in the inner city of Saskatoon, Mozambique, and rural Saskatchewan, Dr. Ryan Meili uses scholarship and patient ... Read more

$15.89 USD

Income, education, employment, housing, the wider environment, and social supports; far more than the actions of physicians, nurses, and other health care providers, it is these conditions that make the greatest difference in our health. Drawing on his experiences as a family physician in the inner city of Saskatoon, Mozambique, and rural Saskatchewan, Dr. Ryan Meili uses scholarship and patient
... Read more
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women

The Reinvention of Nature

by Donna J. Haraway ...

Simians, Cyborgs and Women is a powerful collection of ten essays written between 1978 and 1989. Although on the surface, simians, cyborgs and women may seem an odd threesome, Haraway describes their profound link as "creatures" which have had a great destabilizing place in Western evolutionary technology and biology. Throughout this book, Haraway analyzes accounts, narratives, and stories of the ... Read more

$66.99 USD

Simians, Cyborgs and Women is a powerful collection of ten essays written between 1978 and 1989. Although on the surface, simians, cyborgs and women may seem an odd threesome, Haraway describes their profound link as "creatures" which have had a great destabilizing place in Western evolutionary technology and biology. Throughout this book, Haraway analyzes accounts, narratives, and stories of the
... Read more

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