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A secret, a spa in Bangkok and two naked Germans Martin, an ex-rent boy drug-dealing lawyer, offers to share his tales of misfortune with Stefan, a jaded hack writer on a junket. Together they engage in an intricate exchange of outrageous stories, weaving through movies, sex, celebrity and genocide.

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Michael O'Hanlon and Hassina Sherjan have written a superb analysis of the current strategy in Afghanistan. It is an insightful work by two authors with exceptional knowledge and experience.

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Tourism and Cultural Change in Costa Rica: Pitfalls and Possibilities examines the consequencespositive, negative, and otherwiseof tourism in four different sites in Costa Rica.

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In Tourism and Language in Vieques, Luis Galanes-Valldejuli examines the fractured and heteroglossic dimensions of the Viequenses voice in direct relation to the occupation of the island from 1941 to 2003 and the tourism that became a primary driver of the economy in the post-Navy period.

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In Tourism and Language in Vieques, Luis Galanes-Valldejuli examines the fractured and heteroglossic dimensions of the Viequenses voice in direct relation to the occupation of the island from 1941 to 2003 and the tourism that became a primary driver of the economy in the post-Navy period.

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Tourism and Maternal Health examines prenatal health in the Monteverde Zone of Costa Rica in the context of a tourism-driven nutrition transition. Allison R. Cantor highlights the essential role of practice-oriented research in the complex relationship between global policy and community health.

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In this book, Xianghong Feng focuses on the intersection of tourism, power, and inequality in the southern interior of China. In this region, capital-intensive and elite-directed tourism has disrupted the social and cultural patterns of the ethnic Miao and other local residents.

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By recognizing tourism as a profound social force, this book engages with notions of power and perspectives of wellness in tourism and the contested conceptualizations of tourism spaces and places for wellness.

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By engaging a range of burgeoning debates on sustainable socio-economic development, this book offers a deep dive into the dynamics that have shaped tourism in South Africa.

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The tournament was a mock battle, at its height between 1100 and 1300, conducted by two arbitrary battalions over many square miles of open country. It was a one-day event, but when joined to ancillary festivals it could extend it to several days. Tournament holding had penetrated England, Germany and Austria by 1200.

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While much foreign aid achieves commendable goals, some is ineffective. In this volume, Clifford Zinnes argues that a donor's intrinsic informational limitations on the local context as well as inability to control the progress of interventions mean that lack of success is not rooting in insufficient funding but in maladapted institution designs of interventions that don't foster local ownership.

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Promoting care, a sense of personal responsibility for the welfare of others, is one of society's primary moral challenges. A caring society is one in which care penetrates all major social institutions including the family, schools, places of work, and worship.

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Promoting care, a sense of personal responsibility for the welfare of others, is one of society's primary moral challenges. A caring society is one in which care penetrates all major social institutions including the family, schools, places of work, and worship.

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Critical belonging has been an essential feature of Christianity since its origin. This book shows how, by working collaboratively, the people of God can credibly meet past and present challenges together. In this way, the diversity and unity within the Christian community are acknowledged and affirmed.

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Although Mexican Americans comprise the United States' second largest minority group, most studies have provided only a historical perspective on Chicano issues.

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Their research spotlights neighborhood-based child protection systems and provides a comprehensive approach for creating procedures that meaningfully address child maltreatment.

The volume discusses the challenges of moving toward such a system within the current legal, political, and cross-cultural contexts of child protection.

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Addressing the need for marshaling the resources of education to help promote a more civil society, this book argues that education has a critical role to play in challenging the dominant views of politics and education.

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Addressing the need for marshaling the resources of education to help promote a more civil society, this book argues that education has a critical role to play in challenging the dominant views of politics and education.