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Gender, Work and Tourism examines the central role played by women in the tourism industry. It discusses the nature of their work and the ways in which tourism creates tensions between the attitude and conduct of tourists and the beliefs and behaviour of local women.Among the areas explored are: the segmentation of tourism work in Northern Cyprus, women's and men's work in Bali and the division of social and political power, gendered tourism w...

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This volume surveys the slave trade from the 16th to 18th centuries. It examines the numbers of slaves transported, the populations enslaved, the imperial strategies of European powers, factors of age, sex and ethnicity, and the impact on economic change in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.

The original Penguin Handbook of Living Religions, published in 1984, quickly established itself as a standard introduction to the major religions in the modern world for students, professionals in various fields and general readers. Written by a team of leading international scholars in a clear and readable style, each chapter provides a general introduction to the sources and history of the religion, then its teachings, practices, popular tr...

A small compendium of what will later be published as two paper volumes: Gregory the Great by Carole Straw and Fredegar by Roger Collins. Gregory was Pope from 590 to 604, is greatly admired by posterity for his writing, theology, and administrative activism, and is considered the central personalit

In the 15th-18th centuries, the spice trade from the Indian Ocean to markets all over the world was a major economic enterprise. This collection reviews trade in a wide variety of spices, exploring merchant organization, transport and marketing.

In this book, David Silverman offers a fully researched and analytically sensitive account of how counselling, as a process, is dynamically constructed through the interaction of counsellor and client. Drawing on research on counselling of clients undergoing an HIV test, the author explores the ways in which conversations between counsellors and clients reflect, embody and subtly alter assumptions about the purpose, method and practice of coun...

With the erosion in western society of the traditional code of masculinity and a move towards more balanced gender roles, male heterosexual development now faces a challenge. The Male Heterosexual explores biological, developmental psychological, sociocultural and historical perspectives of male sexuality. Larry A Morris deals with a range of issues surrounding male sexual development in a skilful and humorous manner. He concludes with a form...

This useful volume will help researchers and practitioners ensure the legal relevance of their initial research question as well as conduct their own evaluation of the primary legal materials. The book describes how to use a law library to: find, cite and track cases, uncover statutes passed by the state legislatures, examine the legislative history of these statutes and administrative rules and regulations, and discover decisions promulgated ...

While earlier historians have seen the elaborate public rituals of the Burgundian dukes as stagnant forms held over from the chivalric world of the High Middle Ages, Peter Arnade argues that they were a vital theater of power through which the...

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Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene has often been referred to as a pioneer of the sub-Saharan African cinema. From Borom Sarret (1963) to Guelwaar (1992), Sembene has developed a political and aesthetic project that has deeply influenced the evolution of African filmmaking. This project, with its goal to create a new Africa free of the remnants of colonialist oppression, has subsequently become the objective of emerging generations of African...

This study examines the use of prefabricated language (conventional lexical collocations) in the production of native and non-native writers of English. It first develops a framework for the description of restricted collocations and then reviews experimental research into the psycholinguistic processing of prefabricated language. Computer-based corpora of native and advanced non-native academic writing are analysed to discover to what extent ...

A landmark in the development of international women's movement, collecting original articles from women in seventy countries.

Examining the collection of nearly 300 pamphlets in early modern German and Latin form the earliest years of the Reformation, this bibliography supplies descriptions of the contents and the circumstances which lead to the appearance of the individual imprints.

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Mental disorders cost the United States over $72 billion for treatment, related support and lost productivity each year - yet funding for prevention of such disorders has been inconsistent due, partly, to lack of confidence in the effectiveness of specific prevention programmes. This book highlights some of the most effective prevention programmes and offers a common set of principles to reduce maladaptive behaviour. Following an overview of ...

The acclaimed author of The Culture of Disbelief turns his critical eye to the mystery of why the virtue of integrity holds such sway over the American political imagination.

Die seit 1925 erscheinenden Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte bilden eine der traditionsreichsten historischen Buchreihen im deutschsprachigen Raum. Sie enthalten Forschungen zur Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte des Christentums aller Epochen, veröffentlichen aber auch Arbeiten aus verwandten Disziplinen wie beispielsweise der Archäologie, Kunstgeschichte oder Literaturwissenschaft. Kennzeichnend für die Reihe ist der durchgängige Anspruch, historis...