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  • Tourism, Heritage and Commodification of Non-human Animals

    A Posthumanist Reflection

    by Tomas Arias, Jean Azcatl Pineda, Alicia Mariana Penélope Castro Pérez, Bobbie Chew Bigby, Émilie Crossley, Johan Edelheim, Georgina Flores, Carolin Funck, Leonardo Garavito-González, Yulei Guo, Dr Jes Hooper, Brenda Martínez Velasco, Alejandro Morales, Gustavo Ortiz-Millán, Mateo Nicolás Rico Medina, Jorge Iván Ruiz Barrera, Javed Salim, Estephania Sepúlveda Perdomo, Rie Usui, David A. Varela-Trejo, Nusrat Yasmeen ...
    Heritage is a social construction rooted in modern and contemporary societies. It is commonly a positive assessment of many elements of the physical and human environment (e.g. ecosystems and landscapes, monuments, customs, gender norms, religious practices, gastronomy, and livelihoods). Heritage and tourism are strongly related to each other in that heritage gives rise to tourist attractions and ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Living Cities in Japan

    Citizens' Movements, Machizukuri and Local Environments

    Edited by André Sorensen, Carolin Funck ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    Over the last fifteen years local citizens' movements have spread rapidly throughout Japan. Created with the aim of improving the quality of the local environment, and of environmental management processes, such activities are widely referred to as machizukuri, and represent an important development in local politics and urban management in Japan.This volume examines the growth and nature of such ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Japanese Tourism

    Spaces, Places and Structures

    by Malcolm Cooper, Carolin Funck ...
    Series Book 5 - Asia-Pacific Studies: Past and Present
    The changing patterns of Japanese tourism and the views of the Japanese tourist since the Meiji Restoration, in 1868, are given an in-depth historical, geographical, economic and social analysis in this book. As well as providing a case study for the purpose of investigating the changing face of global tourism from the 19th to the 21st Century, this account of Japanese tourism explores both ... Read more

    Was $31.99 USD Now $23.99 USD

  • Japanese Tourism

    Spaces, Places and Structures

    by Carolin Funck, Malcolm Cooper ...
    Series Book 5 - Asia-Pacific Studies: Past and Present
    The changing patterns of Japanese tourism and the views of the Japanese tourist since the Meiji Restoration, in 1868, are given an in-depth historical, geographical, economic and social analysis in this book. As well as providing a case study for the purpose of investigating the changing face of global tourism from the 19th to the 21st Century, this account of Japanese tourism explores both ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • Crazy Rich Asians

    by Kevin Kwan ...
    Series Book 1 - Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The international sensation and blockbuster Hollywood rom com. • "A Pride and Prejudice-like send-up about an heir bringing his Chinese-American girlfriend home to meet his ancestor-obsessed family.” —People“Deliciously decadent.... This 48-karat beach read is crazy fun.” —Entertainment WeeklyWhen New Yorker Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Empire of Sin

    A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans

    by Gary Krist ...
    From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans’ other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent CityEmpire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans’ thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city’s elite “better half” against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Some Great Idea

    Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto

    by Edward Keenan ...
    Since 2010, Toronto's headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford. But the heated debate at City Hall has obscured a bigger, decade-long narrative of Toronto's ascendance as a mature global city. Some Great Idea traces how post-amalgamation, and under three very different mayors, Toronto managed to so quickly ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Any Other Way

    Histories of Queer Toronto

    Edited by Stephanie Chambers, Jane Farrow, Maureen FitzGerald, Ed Jackson, John Lorinc, Tim McCaskell, Rebecka Sheffield, Tatum Taylor, Rahim Thawer ...
    Toronto is home to multiple and thriving queer communities that reflect the dynamism of a global city. Any Other Way is an eclectic and richly illustrated local history that reveals how these individuals and community networks have transformed Toronto from a place of churches and conservative mores into a city that has consistently led the way in queer activism, not just in Canada but ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • House of Snow

    An Anthology of the Greatest Writing About Nepal

    Edited by Ellen Parnavelas ...
    A ground-breaking collection of stories, poems and articles about Nepal covering the length and breadth of this enchanting nation and its people.'If you want a book in English that tells you about Nepalese thinking, and gives a taste of the country's contemporary literature, you could hardly do better than House of Snow' Daily Telegraph'One of the finest books I have read this year' Nudge Books'A ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Street Kids

    Homeless Youth, Outreach, and Policing New Yorks Streets

    by Kristina E. Gibson ...
    Street outreach workers comb public places such as parks, vacant lots, and abandoned waterfronts to search for young people who are living out in public spaces, if not always in the public eye. Street Kids opens a window to the largely hidden world of street youth, drawing on their detailed and compelling narratives to give new insight into the experiences of youth homelessness and youth outreach. ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Cities

    by John Reader ...
    A "vastly entertaining" history of urban centers—from the ancient world to today ( Time).From the earliest example in the Ancient Near East to today's teeming centers of compressed existence, such as Mumbai and Tokyo, cities are home to half the planet's population and consume nearly three-quarters of its natural resources. They can be seen as natural cultural artifacts—evidence of our civic ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Neoliberal City

    Governance, Ideology, and Development in American Urbanism

    by Jason Hackworth ...
    The shift in the ideological winds toward a "free-market" economy has brought profound effects in urban areas. The Neoliberal City presents an overview of the effect of these changes on today's cities. The term "neoliberalism" was originally used in reference to a set of practices that first-world institutions like the IMF and World Bank impose on third-world countries and cities. The support of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD