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  • Millennial Movements

    Positive Social Change in Urban Costa Rica

    by Karen Stocker ...
    Series series Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
    Through social movements that are both grassroots and global, young leaders in San José, Costa Rica, have sought to create positive social change in their communities. Using social media, art, local organizations, corporations, and government entities, these leaders have found creative ways to connect with and support one another’s efforts to promote change and tackle growing concerns, including ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Re-Centering Women in Tourism

    Anti-Colonial Feminist Studies

    by Sarah Becklake, Augusta Lynn Bolles, Emily Falconer, Amy Kipp, Kris Maksymowicz, Siân Stephens, Karen Stocker, Frances Julia Riemer, Lindsey B. Pullum ...
    Series series The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society
    Re-Centering Women in Tourism: Anti-Colonial Feminist Studies addresses tourism as simultaneously empowering women and reproducing colonial hierarchies. This volume contributes to conversations on the engagement of women in tourism by centering women’s multivalent lived experiences—as hosts, liaisons, vendors, performers, producers, and consumers—in tourism projects. Examining eco-tourism, craft ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • My Dear Daisy

    Letters to Fulham from the Front

    by Karen Stocker ...
    William Stocker was born in 1892 and, like most men of his generation, served in the First World War. After he died, his family found some three hundred letters written to his fiance. They present a narrative that will interest specialists in military and social history and also the general reader, particularly at this time of hundredth anniversaries. Their appeal comes from the immediacy of Will ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Tourism and Cultural Change in Costa Rica

    Pitfalls and Possibilities

    by Karen Stocker ...
    This book examines the consequences—positive, negative, and otherwise—of tourism in Costa Rica. Based on ethnographic research and interviews with tourists, tour operators, tourists-turned-settlers, and locals living in tourist destinations, this book brings together these varied perspectives with the aim of presenting forms of tourism beneficial to all parties. To examine both pitfalls and ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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    The Garvin Family Letters, 1914–1916

    by Christina Garvin, J.L Gerard ...
    This fascinating collection of letters traces the exchanges between a young subaltern on the front, Gerard ‘Ged’ Garvin, and his mother and father at home. Correspondence was eagerly awaited by all. Ged savored letters home like ‘Jim Hawkins trickling the doubloons through his fingers’. Equally, his mother and father at home were always fearful that each letter they received would be the last. In ... Read more

    $10.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rebel Sisters

    The epic and heartbreaking story of three extraordinary women fighting for Ireland’s freedom

    by Marita Conlon-McKenna ...
    The No.1 bestselling novel from one of Ireland's most loved writers!With the threat of the First World War looming, tension simmers under the surface of Ireland.Bright, beautiful and intelligent, the Gifford sisters Grace, Muriel and Nellie kick against the conventions of their privileged, wealthy Anglo-Irish background and their mother Isabella's expectations.As War erupts across Europe, the ... Read more

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  • Favela

    Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro

    by Janice Perlman ...
    Janice Perlman wrote the first in-depth account of life in the favelas, a book hailed as one of the most important works in global urban studies in the last 30 years. Now, in Favela, Perlman carries that story forward to the present. Re-interviewing many longtime favela residents whom she had first met in 1969--as well as their children and grandchildren--Perlman offers the only long-term ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Economies of Desire

    Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic

    by Amalia L. Cabezas ...
    Is a native-born tour guide who has sex with tourists—in exchange for dinner or gifts or cash—merely a prostitute or gigolo? What if the tourist continues to send gifts or money to the tour guide after returning home? As this original and provocative book demonstrates, when it comes to sex—and the effects of capitalism and globalization—nothing is as simple as it might seem.Based on ten years of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • A Future for Amazonia

    Randy Borman and Cofán Environmental Politics

    by Michael Cepek ...
    Blending ethnography with a fascinating personal story, A Future for Amazonia is an account of a political movement that arose in the early 1990s in response to decades of attacks on the lands and peoples of eastern Ecuador, one of the world's most culturally and biologically diverse places. After generations of ruin at the hands of colonizing farmers, transnational oil companies, and Colombian ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • These Wonderful Rumours!

    A Young Schoolteacher's Wartime Diaries 1939-1945

    by May Smith ...
    May Smith is twenty-four at the outbreak of World War Two; at night, the sirens wail, and the young men of the village leave to fight. But still, ordinary life goes on: May goes shopping, plays tennis, takes holidays and even falls in love - while recording it faithfully in her diary.'May is simply a joy, a bright spark in dark times' The Times ... Read more

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  • Only Remembered

    by Michael Morpurgo ...
    Illustrated by Ian Beck ...
    Published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, this beautiful anthology collects favourite extracts, poems and images from some of the UK’s leading cultural, political and literary figures.Poems, short stories, personal letters, newspaper articles, scripts, photographs and paintings are just some of the elements of this astonishing collection, with cover and artwork by ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Chile - Culture Smart!

    The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

    by Caterina Perrone, Culture Smart! ...
    Series series Culture Smart!
    Chile is a land of contrast and surprise, flanked by the Pacific Ocean on the west, the Andes to the east, the forbidding salt basins of the Atacama Desert to the north—with a verdant Central Valley and Cape Horn at its southern extremity. The Chilean people, too, are surprising: on one hand reserved, family-oriented, Catholic, and conservative; and on the other fun-loving, entrepreneurial, ... Read more

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