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  • Audiobook

    The Asia Code

    A Million-Dollar Handshake: How to Build Relationships that Win in Asia

    by Gadi Sznajder ...
    Narrated by Kevin Howard ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 37 min

    Forget AI. The Most Powerful Business Tool in Asia is Still a Handshake.As technology accelerates and markets become more automated, the ability to build authentic human connections has become the most valuable and rarest skill in business. Nowhere is this truer than in Asia, where deals are made between people, not companies. A deep personal connection, grounded in cultural understanding, is what ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Popular Contention, Regime, and Transition

    Arab Revolts in Comparative Global Perspective

    Although episodes of resistance and contention in authoritarian and authoritarian-like regimes constitute the majority of mass political movements worldwide, the theories and models of popular contention have been developed on liberal-democratic assumptions. Prompted by the recent revolutionary waves in the Middle East and North Africa, Popular Contention, Regime, and Transition offers a deeper ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Metropolitan Commuter Belt Tourism

    Edited by Michał Jacenty Sznajder ...
    Series series New Directions in Tourism Analysis
    With the current rise of metropolitan regions as a present location and driver of the development of rural tourism, agritourism, food tourism and nature tourism, there is a need to analyse the major economic, social, political and managerial aspects of these types of tourism which occur within the rural-urban fringe.This book establishes a current inventory and appropriate future selection of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Polish Lace Makers

    Gender, Heritage, and Identity

    by Anna Sznajder ...
    AnnaSznajder centers this ethnography of gendered creative practice in the lace-making community of Bobowa, Poland. Grounded in rural gender studies and feminist epistemology, Polish Lace Makers: Gender, Heritage, and Identity is a pivotal historical and modern account of the social and economic behaviors of entrepreneurial craftswomen tasked with preserving the originality and symbolic value of ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • The Politics of Exile in Latin America

    The Politics of Exile in Latin America addresses exile as a major mechanism of institutional exclusion used by all types of governments in the region against their own citizens, while they often provided asylum to aliens fleeing persecution. The work is the first systematic analysis of Latin American exile on a continental and transnational basis and on a long-term perspective. It traces ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Transnational Capitalism in East Central Europe's Heavy Industry

    From Flagship Enterprises to Subsidiaries

    Focusing on the steel industry during the post-communist transition from 1989 through 2009, Aleksandra Sznajder Lee traces the transformation of flagship state enterprises in the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia into the subsidiaries of large, international corporations. By analyzing this transformation at the three levels of enterprise, sector, and national-international nexus, she ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Exile, Diaspora, and Return

    Changing Cultural Landscapes in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay

    During the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, dictatorships in Latin America hastened the outward movement of intellectuals, academics, artists, and political and social activists to other countries. Following the coups that toppled democratically elected governments or curtailed parliamentary oversight, the incoming military or civilian-military administrations assumed that, by ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe

    Bridging Worlds

    Series series The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society
    In Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe: Bridging Worlds, Sabina Owsianowska and Magdalena Banaszkiewicz examine the limitations of the anthropological study of tourism, which stem from both the domination of researchers representing the Anglophone circle as well as the current state of tourism studies in Central and Eastern Europe. This edited collection contributes to the wider ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Resilience and Ageing

    Creativity, Culture and Community

    Series series Connected Communities
    Understanding how creative interventions can help develop social connectivity and resilience for older people is vital in developing a holistic cross-sector approach towards ageing well.Academics with a wide range of expertise critically reflect on how the built environment, community living, cultural participation, lifelong learning, and artist-led interventions encourage older people to thrive ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

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    Taking Responsibility for Tourism is about the globally vital necessity of realising sustainable tourism. It is a hugely important challenge to those who organise and sell travel and tourism, and those who consume it. Taking Responsibility for Tourism is not a book about a niche product; major trade associations and large and small tour operators are committing to the objectives of responsible ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Redeemers

    Ideas and Power in Latin America

    In Redeemers, acclaimed historian Enrique Krauze presents the major ideas that have formed the modern Latin American political mind during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries—and looks closely at how these ideas were expressed in the lives of influential revolutionaries, thinkers, poets, and novelists. Here are the Cuban José Martí; the Argentines Che Guevara and Evita Perón; political ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Framing Strategic Urban Projects

    Learning from current experiences in European urban regions

    Edited by Willem Salet, Enrico Gualini ...
    Presenting the findings of extensive research into the development of planning tools and strategies since the early 1970s, this book addresses key issues in urban development/governance and brings together a range of different national experiences.Helpfully divided into three sections, Framing Strategic Urban Projects sets out the study framework, with its social, policy and institutional contexts ... Read more

    $76.99 USD