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Exploring non-human work in tourism
Critical animal studies is increasingly interfacing with tourism research in an effort to shed light on the various ways animals are incorporated into touristic experience. Exploring non-human work in tourism: From beasts of burden to animal ambassadors builds upon the theoretical connections of animal ethics, agency, and welfare as it foregrounds specifically the work that animals perform in the industry. While some types of animal labor are more readily identified, readers of this volume may be surprised by how many forms of animal labor are overlooked. Taking a widely international perspective, with cases from the Arctic, China, Costa Rica, China, Finland, Greece, Mexico, New Zealand, and...
Shores, Surfaces and Depths
This book examines the oceanic presence in life on Earth, and the ways that we engage with the oceanic worlds for play, pleasure, adventure, and the pursuit of leisure and escape through tourism and travel. The oceanic ‘turn’ across the social sciences and humanities has produced a still proliferating opus of work that seeks to discover and emphasize oceanic presence in life on Earth. This literal and figurative ‘unearthing’ of blue spaces has encouraged scholars to gaze beyond the lands that have supported much of our experience and knowledge towards the gathering up of a more holistic appreciation of blue planetary life. This widening of scholarly attention – from ‘land’ to â...
Bowery Murder
A greedy womanizer is shot in a bar's back room with five witnesses and no shortage of suspects in this mystery from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. New York City financier Thomas Woodward had a wealth of enemies. The once wizard of Wall Street faced charges of stock manipulation and left lives ruined by his greed. His notorious affairs with women garnered him the nickname "Big-hearted Tom, the Chorus Girl's Friend," and he left numerous broken and embittered women in his wake. There were threats to Woodward's life on record and he was driven into hiding. It was no shock when he was found dead in the back of the Bowery Bar. The real surprises came afterward. Woodward was shot in the pre...
Chess
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Magical Tourism and Enchanting Geographies
This book explores the events, attractions, and places that comprise magical tourism. It showcases magical storytelling, ecologies, realities, entities, belief systems, cultural heritage, and rituals leading to spiritual, otherworldly, enchanting, mindful, interconnected, green, and dark experiences. The volume offers the reader insights into the exciting, popular new tourism trend of magical tourism and its over-arching attributes and tropes. Chapters feature a number of case studies and discussions including the history of magical travel, studies of affect, witch festivals, the rights of mythical animals, folkloric beasts, unmappable places that seem to retreat and slide sideways, multi-la...
Municipal Register
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Finance
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