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Ocean Travel and Cruising: A Cultural Analysis
by Arthur Asa Berger
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Brian King, PhD, Professor and Head, School of Hospitality, Tourism & Marketing, Victoria University, Australia
The author deftly navigates a range of perspectives and provides us with insights into what sets cruises apartfrom othertourist experiences.
Carl Braunlich, DBA, Associate Professor, Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Purdue University
A great book for the curious to read or for the frequent cruiser to use to gain a broader insight.
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Poland's Jewish Landmarks: A Travel Guide
by Joram Kagan
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RandMcNally Kids' Road Atlas (Backseat Books)
by Kristy McGowan, Karen Richards, and Chris Reed
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Rand McNally's Backseat Books® series is your source for fighting those boredom blues. Kids' Road Atlas features real road maps, great travel games, state-by-state puzzles, state facts (including the nickname, capital, flower, tree, and bird), an index, and much, much more. An answer key is also included in the back of the book. These colorful, fun-filled books are perfect for keeping the kids busy at home or during those long stretches. Backseat Books®. Boredom cured. 80 pages; 8.5" x 10.75".
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Strange New Worlds, Vol. 5 (Star Trek)
by Dean Wesley Smith
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Back by popular demand! Our fifth anthology featuring original Star Trek,® Star Trek: The Next Generation,® Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,® and Star Trek: Voyager® stories written by Star Trek fans, for Star Trek fans! The past five Strange New Worlds competitions have drawn thousands of submissions. This new galaxy of amazing stories, proves that our writers keep on expanding the boundaries of their collective imaginations. Strange New Worlds V features newly released stories spanning the twenty-third and twenty-fourth centuries, from the early days of Captain Kirk and his crew to the later generations of Captains Picard, Sisko, and Janeway. These unforgettable stories explore and examine the past and future of Star Trek from many different perspectives. Join Strange New Worlds in its thrilling quest to uncover the most compelling Star Trek fiction this side of the Galactic Barrier!
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The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Volume 3: Transcontinental America, 1850-1915
by D. W. Meinig and D.W. Meinig
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"Meinig has written a major scholarly work with this first volume in a projected three-volume study . . . a fresh look at history," wrote PW of this examination into the geographical nuances, political upheavals and historical phenomena that created America. Illustrated.
Copyright 1988 Reed business Information, Inc.
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In the second volume of this series exploring geographical influences on American history, following the first, Atlantic America ( LJ 8/86), Meinig, a geographer at Syracuse University, attempts to form a synthesis of the American story and of the movement of racial and national groups across the land. The work is a narrative history, spanning 1800 through the Civil War; it emphasizes the expansion of the United States, especially the role Jefferson played in acquiring the Louisiana Purchase. The theme is not new, but the author marshals considerable secondary material to support his theories. Unfortunately, this is determinist history penned in pedestrian prose. What makes the work unusual is its emphasis on geography as a major force in U.S. history. Although certainly not a first choice for a basic history of America, this would still be a necessary purchase for academic libraries.
- Jamie S. Hansen, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia
Copyright 1993 Reed business Information, Inc.
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Transatlantic Manners: Social Patterns in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Travel Literature
by Christopher Mulvey
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Christopher Mulvey has entered the world of travelers writing about their journeys abroad--Americans in their travels through England, and the English in their forays to the United States--during the eighty years following the War of 1812. The writings of travelers from one country about the other dispel the myth that good manners were a universal value and that variations were to be explained in terms of moral or political corruptions of either nation. The impact of such different yet somehow familiar cultures is highlighted in chapters that explore the contemporary issues of the nineteenth-century American woman, slavery, and the English poor. Mulvey's text draws on the writings, letters, and reports of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Adams, Matthew Arnold, and Fanny Trollope among others.
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Travel Smart: Minnesota Wisconsin
by Alice Vollmar
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Travels in Hyperreality (Harvest Book)
by Umberto Eco
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"This uneven collection reflects the Italian scholar's love of the Middle Ages--one essay compares American universities to monasteries, another focuses on Thomas Aquinas--though, for the most part, Eco relentlessly analyzes the present," reported PW.
Copyright 1990 Reed business Information, Inc.
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This smorgasbord of 26 pieces ultimately focuses on the boundaries of realism as exemplified by the"hyper reality" of American phenomena like the Madonna Inn, wax museums, San Simeon, theme parks, etc. Though his tone is witty, Eco's purpose remains that of the semiologist. He is concerned about "the systems of signs that we use to describe the world and tell it to one another," and aims both to expose the "messages" of political and economic power and of "the entertainment industry and the revolution industry" and to show us how to analyze and criticize them. Though these essays are generally entertaining, they lack the originality and punch of Barthes's Mythologies and seem unlikely to find the same popular success as Eco's own The Name of the Rose . Richard Kuczkowski, Dir., Continuing Education, Dominican Coll., Blauvelt, N.Y.
Copyright 1986 Reed business Information, Inc.
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