Over the last fifty years, tourism has become firmly established as a development option around the world. Commensurate with this, the study of tourism's developmental role has also expanded significantly. There now exists a broad understanding of the policies and processes, opportunities and challenges that apply to tourism's potential contributions to development. As the tourism environment now faces numerous challenges and transformations, it is timely to reflect on contemporary underst...

Four volumes of history and biography for fans of the Aubrey-Maturin novels, with lore on the Royal Navy and much more.What is a sandgrouse, and where does it live? What are the medical properties of lignum vitae, and how did Stephen Maturin use it to repair his viola? Who is Adm. Lord Keith, and why is his wife so friendly with Capt. Jack Aubrey? More than any other contemporary author, Patrick O'Brian knew the past. His twenty Aubrey–Maturin novels, beginning wit...

UPDATED EDITION WITH OVER FIFTY NEW STORIES'A FIRST-RATE BOOK' - THE OBSERVERLaura Buxton, aged ten, releases a balloon from her garden. It lands 140 miles away in the garden of another Laura Buxton, aged ten. Coincidence? Or something beyond coincidence?Is someone playing snap with our lives? Could it be the hand of God? Or are we, as some scientists have suggested, being granted an insight into a hyper-connected universe who...

An eshort story introduces readers to Brian Panowich's brutal, mesmerizing North Georgia landscape, in preparation for Like Lions (4/30/19)."No king lives forever, and Gareth was getting old."Enter the world of Brian Panowich, where Gareth Burroughs runs McFalls county, in north Georgia, and all the criminal enterprises therein. Two of his three sons, Halford and Buckley, are aiming to follow in his footsteps. The third, Clayton, has turned his bac...

This is not a fairy tale, not a love story, but bound into the truths of everyday deeds, in a world that doesn't exist today.Once upon a time, near a century younger, lives so fresh, every experience cherished by a thought and a nation on the brink.From the honesty of memory, we live for the moment, because our next might be our last, in a war to end all wars.Hear from the lips...

Beautifully illustrated in full colour throughout, Echoes of Britain: York Minster tells the remarkable story of one of Britain's greatest buildings, from Roman Eboracum and the proclamation of Constantine as emperor to medieval ambition, Civil War tension, catastrophic fires, hidden carvings, stained glass, restoration, legend and the living cathedral of today.This is a richly told history of York Minster, exploring how one extraordinary building came to embody nearly two thousand...

There has never been a more important time for those involved in criminal justice policy, operations and civil service to know their history. The Historical Dictionary of American Criminal Justice provides a comprehensive overview of the development of criminal justice in the United States. Criminal justice is a multidisciplinary endeavor, emerging across time and place through the fields of philosophy, law, biology, anthropology, and sociology. Developments occur quickly and regularly, th...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.My name is Morgan, and that's the name I've chosen. I'm on the run from my family—finally living as the man I am.But one rainy night at an inn, when my money's run dry and my past is catching up, I meet Lord Valtair, and I can't look away.I first saw him years ago from afar, another lifetime ago. Then, I'd had an impossible crush. Because he only likes men, and I hadn't known that I was one.But when he sees I'm i...

In Violence in the Films of Stephen King, contributors analyze the theme of violence in the film adaptations of Stephen King’s work—ranging from the earliest films in the King canonto his most recent iterations—through a variety of lenses. Investigating the diverse and varying roles that violence continues to play as both the level of violence and the gendered depictions of violence have evolved, many of the contributors come to the conclusion that King’s films have grown more violent over...

"This compelling account of the Crusades era debunks the clash-of-civilizations paradigm [and] depicts an era of interfaith cooperation." — The New YorkerIn Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors, the award-winning scholar Brian Catlos transports readers to the Mediterranean world of 1050–1200, the era when enlightened Islamic empires and primitive Christendom began to contest it. Catlos meticulously reconstructs this world from siege tactics to poetry ...

In this New York Times bestseller, get the inside scoop into LeBron James's return -- and ultimate triumph -- in Cleveland.What really happened when LeBron James stunned the NBA by leaving a potential dynasty in Miami to come home to play with the Cleveland Cavaliers? How did the Cavs use secret meetings to put together the deal to add star Kevin Love? Who really made the controversial decision to fire coach David Blatt when the team was in first place? Wh...

A multidisciplinary environmental history of early China’s political systems, featuring newly available Chinese archaeological dataThis book is a multidisciplinary study of the ecology of China’s early political systems up to the fall of the first empire in 207 BCE. Brian Lander traces the formation of lowland North China’s agricultural systems and the transformation of its plains from diverse forestland and steppes to farmland. He argues that the growth of states ...