This book explores the partnership between the French state and Disney to create Val d’Europe. It reveals why a welfarist state joined a capitalist giant and critically examines their ongoing efforts to build a massive urban tourism pole despite criticisms and challenges.
This book shows ball lightning is not electricity, but a bubble of light—a new object whose anomalous behaviour matches the mystery of natural ball lightning. The physical laws ensuring its stability are detailed, based on over 30 published scientific articles.
Neoteric Developments in Management Science in Engineering
This book identifies the major research categories in Management Science in Engineering (MSE) and evaluates and classifies each journal. Compiled by leading academics and editors, it is an essential resource for scientists, researchers, engineers, practitioners, and students.
A Case for Radical Pragmatic Leaders and Personalised Learning Schools
Thousands of disadvantaged youth are leaving Australian schools due to public policy that works against inclusion. This book highlights the damage done and examines schools that succeed ‘against the grain’, presenting them as examples for refreshed policy and radical leadership.
This book analyses data from floods, earthquakes, and bio-infections to provide a model of ethnological disaster research. It focuses on communities’ quality of life, offering contributions to policy for disaster prevention, response, and recovery.
Intuitive Instructional Speech in Sufism
This book demystifies the Sufi practice of the sohbet—an ad hoc discourse. Approaching it like improvised music, it reveals how these talks provoke prolonged states of raised awareness in listeners and condition their sympathetic nervous system.
Plautus’ Erudite Comedy
This collection of original essays examines the comedy of Plautus as a creative dialogue with contemporary culture. The studies explore his engagement with Greek literature, science, and philosophy, revealing his foundational influence on Latin literature.
Giuseppina Pizzigoni was a pioneer of Italy’s ‘new school’ movement. In 1911, she created the Rinnovata Pizzigoni school, anticipating the comprehensive model. This book explores the evolution of her experimental method and its creative pedagogical development.
Sport Tourism Development
This book brings together international authors to explore sport tourism from theory to practice, examining E-sport events, territorial development, and sustainability. Essential for academic researchers, students, policymakers, and professionals in sports tourism and management.
This book presents a combination of Christian faith and scientific knowledge as an answer to human suffering. Addressing individual and collective pain, it offers therapeutic models and deepens understanding of the value of spiritual insight in therapy.
The Legend, Lore and Spirit of the Water Horse
This book explores the legends of the water horse in mythology, folklore, and art. It delves into the romance and mystery of water as a sacred, cleansing element and also as an untamed, disruptive force. How are these manifestations linked to the human psyche?
The Economic Decline of the Family
Families face a declining standard of living, and in a historically unprecedented trend, young adults are likely to be worse off than their parents. This book identifies five key deformations causing this crisis, from liberalism and materialism to the destructive power of debt.
A Psychoanalytic Biography of Ye
This theoretical biography of Ye focuses on 2016-2021, thinking psychoanalytically about his complex subjectivity, his struggle with manic-depression, and his art. Taking him seriously and avoiding stigma, the author attempts to see him from his mother Donda’s point of view.
This groundbreaking work presents literature by early 20th-century Japanese female authors. It features their first publication in English—the author’s own translations—alongside insightful commentary on key translation issues. Suitable for postgraduate or advanced self-study.
Transforming Computing Education with Problem-Based Learning
This book argues that Problem-Based Learning (PBL) can develop professional computing competencies. It proposes a methodology to implement PBL in a manageable way and reports on teaching and learning experiences, providing a realistic picture of this methodology.
Analog meters offer an easy-to-read display of electrical parameters. Modern digital meters provide many more features, including measurements of capacitance and frequency. This book describes both analog and digital meters, the two primary modes of electronic indication.
This collection analyzes the Star Wars movies from diverse viewpoints—from history and politics to music and economics. The book will appeal to a wide audience, from students and academics to dedicated fans of the saga.
This volume offers diverse perspectives on translation as a bridge to other cultures. It provides studies on literary translation, interpreting, and idiom translation. Written by professional translators, their experience is invaluable for fellow practitioners.
America’s project to privatize the world’s resources via the dollar is igniting a nationalist backlash. As these forces clash, the entire global system faces a greater, existential threat: climate change.
This book introduces citizen science approaches to coastal and marine sciences. It goes beyond the narrow definition of citizen science to include contributions from the tourism industry, discussing methods from social media and apps to tour operator sighting logs.
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