Warm-water islands are a cohesive group of islands distinguished by their geography and remoteness, history as former colonial territories, and dependence on external stakeholders for their economic and social development. Warm-water island destinations also have a year-round tourism industry. These island tourism destinations are facing unprecedented adjustment challenges in the wake of increasing globalization and susceptibility to external shocks, and are in search of appropriate policy...

The book offers a comprehensive and integrated approach to the topic of tourism development and its contribution to the fight against poverty. Tourism development is credited to be a powerful source of regional development and improvement in developing countries, and the focus of the book is on the world's poorest areas and how tourism connects to

WANTING TO BELONG. WANTING TO GO HOME. LOVE. REGRET. FAMILY LEGENDS. DREAMS. REVENGE. ENGLISH. SPANISH.This eclectic, gritty, and groundbreaking collection of short monologues features twenty-one of the most respected Latino authors writing today, including Sandra Cisneros, Oscar Hijuelos, Esmeralda Santiago, and Gary Soto. Their fictional narratives give voice to what it's like to be a Latino teen in America. These voices are yearning. These voices are angry. These...

What if the most important negotiations of your life weren’t happening in boardrooms—but in everyday conversations you barely notice? At work. At home. In moments where you stay silent, explain yourself, or agree just to keep the peace. Every Conversation Is a Negotiation reveals a truth most people learn too late: decisions are rarely made by logic alone. Long before facts are weighed, emotions have already chosen a direction—and logic simply follows. In this thoughtful a...

Collects Daredevil #1-6. Matt Murdock is back and hoping to resuscitate his law practice, he takes on a police-brutality case, but someone is trying to silence the victim. Then, Klaw, master of sound, makes his deadly return! And the blind literally lead the blind as a visually impaired client targeted for assassination holds the key to a global conspiracy.

The Nine Oclock Novella is a first sample of Herminios written work for the theater. It was first presented in Spanish at the Gershwin Auditorium in Brooklyn College (CUNY) in the spring of 1973. Later, it traveled, in an incipient English version, to the Henry Street Settlements New Federal Theater (NYC); and, in the summer of 1979, to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Out-of-Doors Festival. From there, it travelled to various off-Broadway settings and to Puerto Ricos Teatro Bellas A...