The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall, Paperback - Lawrence Osborne

Reducere. From the theme resorts of Dubai to the jungles of Papua New Guinea, a disturbing but hilarious tour of the exotic east--and of the tour itselfSick ...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Samantha WaltonNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 198 x 25Cover type: Paper...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)Author(s): Walton Samantha WaltonNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 216 x 135 x 30Cover typ...

Reducere. DescriptionRight in the middle of the chaos and division, heartache and anxiety, we are faced with the seemingly impossible words of Jesus--that He...

Tarzan is still an icon of adventure, because like all adventurers, his actions have universal qualities: doing something previously untried, revea...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Lawrence CappelloIllustration(s): 6 halftonesNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

What can we learn from the legal cases of Stephen Lawrence and Louise Woodward? How do the legal system and the media contribute to a collective un...

How should one proclaim of the gospel of Jesus Christ in a secular age? For many Christians, the traditional approach of apologetics has grown stal...

Reducere. Will the universe continue to expand forever, reverse its expansion and begin to contract, or reach a delicately poised state where it simply persi...

Reducere. Multiculturalism and unmitigated immigration have weakened America quite possibly to the point of no return.At its founding, immigration was integr...

Reducere. When Simon and Fiona embark on a quest to track down the Queen of Tonga, they have no idea they'll end up marooned on a desert island. No idea they...

Reducere. The Ugly Renaissance is a delightfully debauched tour of the sordid, gritty reality behind some of the most celebrated artworks and cultural innova...

"In an age in which the inexhaustible power of scientific technology makes all things possible, it remains to be seen where we will draw the line, ...

A spirited critique of the cultural politics of the tourist age. Or, why we are all tourists who hate tourists We've all been tourists at some poin...

Reducere. In the first decades of the nineteenth century, no place burned more brightly in the imagination of European geographers--and fortune hunters--than...

Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigIllustration(s): 350 colourNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 170 x 246 x 35Cove...

Reducere. Ours is an age full of desires but impoverished in its understanding of where those desires lead--an age that claims mastery over the world but als...

In this second edition of the remarkable, and now classic, cultural history of black women's beauty, Venus in the Dark, Janell Hobson explores the ...

Reducere. In 1908, Florence Nightingale Graham moved from the suburbs of Toronto, Canada to Manhattan with dreams of becoming a self-made woman. Within two y...

Reducere. This history of the largest block women's organization in the United States is not only the story of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority (DST), but also tel...

Reducere. Throughout the 1850s, Native peoples of the inland Northwest actively resisted white encroachments into their traditional territories. Tensions exp...

A fascinating exploration of new and disappearing islands around the world, by the author of Off the Map.Illustrations: 2x8pp col plates, maps

From canvas tents to Terminal 6 - charting the history of Heathrow Airport in photographsIllustrations: 255 Illustrations, unspecified

Reducere. Music remains something of a mystery to many people--ephemeral sounds floating invisibly through the air--here, and then gone. This book begins wit...

Reducere. Alicia and Tom find a strange note hidden in the walls of Grandpa's hut. It talks about a secret gate and provides a code to find it. They decide t...

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Scholars have long been fascinated by the creative struggles with genre manifested throughout Dostoevsky's career. In The Novel in the Age of Disin...

Using an accessible style and innovative visual methods, The Living Inca Town illustrates how tourism can perpetuate and even exacerbate gendered a...

Reducere. DescriptionTo understand how capitalism has come to engulf our world, we must understand how it developed out of classical civilization. Its histor...

Reducere. The 8th standalone novel in the Claus Universe. His real name is Christmas. It's embarrassing. He's been accepted into the Institute of Creative Mi...

A fascinating exploration of new and disappearing islands around the world, by the author of Off the Map.

Reducere. "Unpredictable and amusing and informative and original, cavorting between biology, history, travel writing, and memoir."--Mark Kurlansky The Whale...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Ryan BoehmIllustration(s): 6 mapsNumber of pages: 316Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 22...

'Sam Willis has pulled off another notable coup in bringing to light these original dispatches, which add so much knowledge, and so much colour and...

Reducere. Renowned architect Renzo Piano (the New Whitney Museum, the Pompidou Center, Potsdamer Platz, Cite Internationale, New York Times Building, The Aca...

Reducere. Do you or someone you love struggle with depression? If so, know that you and your loved ones can go on.Beauty in the Browns author Paul Asay knows...