Greenpeace's most experienced captain recounts his thrilling adventures on the seas in this action-packed memoir."Willcox raises important environmental awareness and celebrates Greenpeace exploits, which should inspire like-minded activists." ― Kirkus ReviewsPeter Wilcox has been a Captain for Greenpeace for over thirty years. He would never call himself a hero, but he is recognized on every ocean and continent fo...

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities for all.While much progress in race relations has been made in recent years-including the election of Barack Obama as President of the United State-it's clear that our journey t...

Destination branding and marketing form the backbone of tourism industry growth, but it is increasingly important that the strategies employed consider and promote sustainable solutions. This book provides a comprehensive set of tools and techniques for branding and marketing for sustainable tourism development. It blends tourism and marketing strategies with practical, innovative information technology solutions and a psychological perspective, providing illustrative case studies and exam...

Even as kindness toward individuals with intellectual disabilities has increased, encountering an individual and his or her family whose lives revolve around the daily challenges that come with them is atypical, or is experienced and narrated as such, particularly by the media. Even when there is progress, making such a leap provides rhetorical cover, or at least a distraction, while intolerance regroups. And for some, it becomes less about showing love and compassion than about being able...

Given the simple prompt, "hello winter," nine writers were given the task to create a new short story to be put into this collection. This unique group of stories were all crafted in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic and brings writers from two continents and five states together when we all must stay safely apart. Short Stories included in this collection: THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO HAPPINESS by Mindi Dickstein, TEDDY by Ronald Keaton, THE SNOW QUEEN by Theresa Heskins, LE CYGNE by James De...