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Find Public Records Fast, 4th Edition: The National Directory of Government Agencies That House Public Records (Find Public Records Fast: The Complete State, County, & Courthouse Locator)
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Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way: How to Be a More Effective Leader in Today's Schools
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Now you can do more than just deal with the "crisis-du-jour".Being a school leader can actually be exciting, rewarding, and fun again, once you’re equipped to tackle today’s challenges!
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Como Comprender Los Conceptos Basicos En Economia
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Histories of Tourism: Representation, Identity And Conflict (Tourism and Cultural Change)
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Key features: • Argues for a closer relationship between history and tourism studies • Written by an expert team of international contributors • Explores a broad range of geographical and historical contextsThis collection of essays presents develops the historical dimension to tourism studies through thematic case studies. The editor's introduction argues for the importance of a closer relationship between history and tourism studies, and an international team of contributors explores the relationships between tourism, representations, environments and identities in settings ranging from the global to the local, from the Roman Empire to the twentieth century, and from Frinton to the 'Far East'.
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Relationship between tourism and cultural heritage management: evidence from Hong Kong [An article from: Tourism Management]
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This digital document is a journal article from Tourism Management, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.|
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Tourism and Cultural Conflicts
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Tourism can revive local economies, preserve cultures, and even resurrect lost traditions. However, it can also result in conflicts with existing values, economic relations, social norms, and traditions, sometimes resulting in pervasive or violent resistance. This book examines the changing relationships between tourism and host cultures and explores how and why conflicts emerge. It presents a series of detailed case studies from many parts of the globe and highlights initiatives and practices where conflict can be replaced by consensus and effective management.|
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Travellers' Tales: Narratives of Home and Displacement (Futures, New Perspectives for Cultural Analysis)
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From time to time, most of us either adopt a "tourist" identity or are framed within another's experience of travel and voyeurism.
Travellers' Tales investigates the future of travelling in a world whose boundaries are shifting and dissolving. The contributors bring together popular and critical discourse of travel to explore questions of identity and politics; history and narration; collecting, appropriating or representing other cultures; and tourism.
Travellers' Tales sways between the thrill of novel experiences and unexpected pleasures, and the alienation and loneliness of exile in strange and unfamiliar lands. The contributors review recent work on the discourses of tourism, travel and cultural politics; the effects of global interactions and local resistances, and the ways in which records, memorials, and signs have all been used to describe the experience of encoutering the "Other."
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Post-Conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism: Tourism, Politics and Development at Angkor (Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations)
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Angkor, Cambodia's only World Heritage Site, is enduring one of the most crucial, turbulent periods in its twelve hundred year history. Given Cambodia's need to restore its shattered social and physical infrastructures after decades of violent conflict, and with tourism to Angkor increasing by a staggering 10,000 per cent in just over a decade, the site has become an intense focal point of competing agendas. Angkor's immense historical importance, along with its global prestige, has led to an unprecedented influx of aid, with over twenty countries together donating millions of dollars for conservation and research. For the Royal Government however, Angkor has become a `cash-cow' of development.
Post-conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism critically examines this situation and locates Angkor within the broader contexts of post-conflict reconstruction, nation building, and socio-economic rehabilitation. Based on two years of fieldwork, the book explores culture, development, the politics of space, andthe relationship between consumption, memory and identity to reveal the aspirations and tensions, anxieties and paradoxical agendas, which form around a heritage tourism landscape in a post-conflict, postcolonial society.
With the situation in Cambodia examined as a stark example of a phenomenon common to many countries attempting to recover after periods of war or political turmoil, Post-conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism will be of particular interest to students and scholars working in the fields of Asian studies, tourism, heritage, development, and cultural and postcolonial studies.
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Dissonant Heritage: The Management of the Past As a Resource in Conflict
J. E. Tunbridge , and G. J. Ashworth Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Import) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover General
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Washington Health Care in Perspective 2001: A Statistical View of Health Care in the Evergreen State (Washington Health Care in Perspective)
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Washington in Perspective 2001: A Statistical View of the Evergreen State (Washington in Perspective)
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R/C Pilot's Handbook: Basic to Advanced Flying Techniques from the Pros
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Put all the basics of R/C flight at your fingertips with this informative reference volume published by the experts at Model Airplane News.Customer Reviews:
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If you're getting started in R/C and looking for some good basic flight instruction, plus some other useful tips, I MUCH preferred "Getting Started in Radio Control Airplanes" by Yarrish. It has as much flight instruction as this one, plus some useful info on model building, covering, etc.
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Fifty Years of the Deutsche Mark: Central Bank and the Currency in Germany since 1948
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This book provides detailed independent analyses of the successes and limitations of one of the most successful economic relationships in recent history: the Deutsche Mark and the Deutsche Bundesbank. With European economic and monetary union approaching, the lessons to be learnt from the German experience are now more important than ever. The Deutsche Mark has been one of the most stable currencies in the world for decades. The combination of a sound monetary structure and an anti-inflationary monetary policy have been the bedrock for unprecedented German economic success. This success, however, has not been unlimited or without risk. Fifty Years of the Deutsche Mark will give future European montary policy-makers the invaluable benefit of the German experience. The book combines chronological articles with others which follow the developments of a specific issue over the entire 50-year period. Issues covered include the central bank constitution, the central bank's relationship with fiscal policy-makers and with other banks, the role of the Bundesbank in European monetary integration, and the international significance of the Deutsche Mark. Individual accounts of the key monetary policy events in 1948 and 1990 as well as general articles on the `message' of German monetary policy and on academic deabte over German monetary policy round the book off. Sixteen eminent independent scholars were asked by the Bundesbank to contribute to this volume, and given full access to the Bank's records. The resulting articles provide comprehensive analysis of the successes and limitations of Europe's most powerful central bank. On June 20th, 1998, the Deutsche Mark will be 50 years old: this book will ensure that its legacy lives on.|
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Fifty Years of the Deutsche Mark : the Central Bank and the Currency Since 1948
Deutsche Bundesbank Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OKTQ4W |
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Endless Prospects: 301 Tactics to Reach Hard-To-Reach People
C. Richard Weylman Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Companies ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback General
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Endless Prospects gives salespeople 301 proven tips and strategies for prospecting, marketing, and increasing their business. Weylman shows frustrated marketers how to open closed doors, approach the right people in the right way, and reach those customers who are potentially the most valuable prospects for their company. Combining proven business values with shrewd marketing and prospecting tactics, Weylman's easy-to-apply strategies will help sales reps focus, position, and increase their visibility-and ultimately lead to increased sales, access and new business.Customer Reviews:
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Systems of Nominal Classification (Language Culture and Cognition)
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This volume addresses the fundamental linguistic question of how the perceived world is expressed through systems of nominal classification. Leading scholars review the whole spectrum of nominal classification, from gender systems through to numeral classifiers, providing cutting-edge theoretical interpretations and empirical case studies across a variety of languages. The volume presents new ideas about the problems of classification and clarifies the interface between anthropological and grammatical work. It will appeal to linguists, anthropologists and psychologists alike as well as specialists in languages as diverse as Australian, Amazonian, and Mayan.
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Building Object Categories in Developmental Time (Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition)
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Classification and Cognition
Estes, W.K. Manufacturer: Oxford Univ. Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000K7O6HG |
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Classification and Cognition (Oxford Psychology Series , No 22)
William K. Estes Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Decision-Making & Problem Solving
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Based on Estes' important Fitts Lectures, this volume details a set of psychological concepts and principles that offers a unified interpretation of a wide variety of memory, categorization, and decision-making phenomena. These phenomena are explained via two families of models established by the author: a storage-retrieval model and an adaptive network model. Estes considers whether the models are competing or complementary, offering cogent and instructive arguments for both perspectives. Estes' theory is then applied to two large-scale series of studies on category learning and recognition, providing an integrated understanding of seemingly disparate phenomena. This book is the culmination of the author's more than ten years of research in the field, and stands as a great achievement by one of this century's eminent psychologists. It will be indispensable to a wide variety of behavioral scientists, including mathematical and cognitive psychologists.|
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Classification and Cognition. Oxford Psychology Series Volume 22
W[illiam] K. (born 1919) Estes Manufacturer: NY: OUP, 1994. 1st Printing. xii+282pp. Printed navy blue cloth with painted spine label. A near fine copy. eng. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000SVPXKS |
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Cognitive Foundations of Natural History: Towards an Anthropology of Science (Msh)
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What is it about human nature that makes our species capable of thinking scientifically? Inspired by a debate between Noam Chomsky and Jean Piaget, Scott Atran traces the development of natural history from Aristotle to Darwin, and demonstrates how the science of plants and animals has emerged from the common conceptions of folkbiology. The author proceeds not only from the more traditional philosophical, historical or sociological perspectives, but from a point of view he considers more basic and necessary to all of these: that of cognition.Customer Reviews:
Science and Common Sense.......2002-12-03
On one level, this work makes a general argument about the relationship between commonsense thinking and scientific thinking. . . . On another level, the one on which the more general argument is specifically illustrated, this work is an extremely well researched and presented history of 'systematics'--thescience of Western biological classification. This story, of course, has been told before, but never so compellingly and in aid of a provocative thesis that organizes the narrative. . . . Language and the process of representation may not be sufficiently problemized in this work. But in sum, a provocative aswell as a deeply investigated study.
From Ian Hacking - London Review of Books
Cognitive science lies close by Atran's side, guiding his claim that we have an innate capacity for sorting plants and animals. The cognitive revolution, as it is now called, took off from Noam Chomsky's thesis that there is a universal grammar, somehow innate, that makes it possible for infants to catch on to any language spoken round them almost without trying. This idea, once so radical, is now celebrated as fact and as a comprehensive model for the human mind. . . . Atran's thesis about a built-in cognitive skill for sorting the living beings fits nicely into this tradition. But you don't have to recite the cognitivist catechism to gain admission to his book. You can also think heis wrong-headed in his application of the cognitivist programme, and still immensely admire his work.
Exceptional scholarship in the history and theory of science.......2001-07-06
Atran approaches systematics as an anthropologist specializing in the study of folk classification -- the ways in which different cultures categorize the diversity of life. Against historians and philosophers who have claimed that common sense understandings of the world obstructed the growth of science, Atran argues that folk-taxonomic common sense was the framework within which the science of systematics developed. Further, it is only by trying to solve the problems posed by common sense that science gradually disengages itself from common sense and stands on its own.
After surveying the folk-taxonomic literature and the principles of cognitive anthropology, Atran turns to the often-misunderstood zoological works of Aristotle. Aristotle, Atran argues, did not use the methods of formal logic to classify unknowns, but rather to characterize more precisely the animal kinds already recognized by Greek vernacular culture. Unlike Aristotle, who had to deal only with a local fauna of limited diversity, the Renaissance herbalists of northern Europe at the beginning of the age of exploration were faced with a far greater diversity of natural forms, a diversity that became available for extended study as botanical gardens and herbaria were established. As a consequence, the herbalists differentiated the basic folk notion of a natural kind into two privileged ranks (genus and species), and accorded the genus special conceptual status as a fundamental unit of nature. As knowledge of natural diversity continued to increase, taxonomic ranks proliferated, and Atran argues that families and orders gradually came to be fundamental in the way that genera had been before. Emphasis on these higher-level structures led to the elaboration of comprehensive organizing principles for natural diversity, principles like the great chain of being stretching from monad to man.
Atran concludes his account with the rise of the evolutionary view of nature in the early 1800s. He does not address the deep transformations that are taking place within systematics today, transformations associated with the development of cladistic systematics. It is a testament to the value of Atran's perspective, however, that it was immediately apparent to me how the principal phenomenon he describes -- the gradual disengagement of science from common sense as a result of problems generated within the common sense framework -- is at the root of many contemporary systematic controversies, including the controversy over the rejection of taxonomic rank itself.
Atran has produced a work of substantial scholarship. Readers who are not familiar with any of the subjects covered in this book will find it slow going as the writing is dense in places, and specialists will wish to dispute certain technical points, but the wealth of information the book contains and the fresh perspectives it offers make it invaluable. Cognitive Foundations of Natural History will influence the conceptual and historical study of systematics for some time to come. [Adapted from my review in Forest and Conservation History, 37(1): 42, 1993.]
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