Paperback / softback. New. Golf continues to represent the largest sports-related travel market valued at GBP30 billion with over 50 million golf tourists travelling the world to play on some of the estimated 40000 courses. Golf Tourism is the leading text for both students and practitioners and the completely updated and revised new edition discusses the latest issues paperback
Hardback. New. For years organizations have struggled to make sense out their data. IT projects designed to provide employees with dashboards KPIs and business-intelligence tools often take a year or more to reach the finish line. if they get there at all. This has always been a problem. Today though it's downright unacceptable. hardcover
Hardback. New. The contributors examine whether the challenge presented to al-Qaeda by Islamic State heralds a tectonic shift in international jihadism and how the former may respond to the threat of being usurper. hardcover
Hardback. New. Victorian England as is well known produced an enormous amount of scientific endeavour but what has previously been overlooked is the important role of geography on these developments. Naylor seeks to rectify this imbalance by presenting a historical geography of regional science. hardcover
Hardback. New. Berlin is the capital of Germany the largest economy in Europe. Divided after World War II the city was reunited in 1989. Since reunification the city has become the center of power in modern Germany. Featuring photographs and interviews with local residents this work offers a snapshot of this vibrant city. hardcover
Paperback. New. The essential revision guide for the Royal College of Surgeon's MRCS exam. Divided into four exam papers written in the same style as the real exam and featuring many questions from past papers. Over 1000 MCQs and EMQs to choose from each question has a detailed explanation and useful mnemonics to aid revision. paperback
Paperback / softback. New. Originally designed as a cargo and paratroop transport during World War II the Fairchild C-82 Packet is today mainly remembered for its starring role in the Hollywood film The Flight of the Phoenix 1965. This book provides a comprehensive history of the C-82 detailing each of the 224 aircraft built with technical diagrams multiple appendices and more than 200 photos. paperback
Hardback. New. Conquerors Brides and Concubines investigates the political and cultural significance of marriages and other sexual encounters between Christians and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula from the Islamic conquest in the early eighth century to the end of Muslim rule in 1492. hardcover
Paperback / softback. New. To date non-medical researchers particularly those working in nursing and allied health have suffered from a general lack of good strategic advice on how to build their careers. paperback
Paperback / softback. New. Poland and NATO is the third book by Jeffrey Simon on emerging post-communist countries to recently join NATO. As with the previous two volumes this book contains a treasure of firsthand research grounded in primary source material and personal interviews with key civil and military leaders. paperback
Paperback / softback. New. For decades Indonesia's 1945 Constitution the second-shortest in the modern world was used as an apologia by successive authoritarian regimes. But following the fall of President Soeharto in 1998 the amendment of the Constitution ushered in a liberal democratic system. This book surveys this remarkable constitutional transition. paperback
Hardback. New. Through Victorian art opera and novels this title examines how sexuality and desire the politics of culture and the role of religion in society were considered and debated through the Victorian obsession with antiquity. It offers insights into how the Victorian sense of antiquity and our sense of the Victorians came into being. hardcover
Hardback. New. Ramadan is the most sacred month of the year for Muslims. This book describes the various customs and traditions of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr celebrations in Africa Asia Europe the Middle East North America and Oceania and how social and political influences have shaped these observances. hardcover
Paperback. New. Capital cities today remain central to both nations and states. They host centres of political power not only national but in some cases regional and global as well thus offering major avenues to success wealth and privilege. paperback
Hardback. New. Investing Japan demonstrates that foreign investment is a vital and misunderstood aspect of Japan's modern economic development. This study investigates the role played by foreign companies in the Japanese experience of modernization highlighting their identity as key agents in the processes of industrialization and technology transfer. hardcover
Paperback. New. This unique monograph comprises a collection of interviews conducted face-to-face with leading economists at universities throughout the United States. paperback
Hardback. New. The question of how to lead a happy and meaningful life has been at the heart of philosophical debate since time immemorial. This book tackles the question of 'how to live' by forcing us to explore our troubling relationship with death. It provides an introduction to the thought of Simon Critchley. hardcover
Paperback / softback. New. This essential new edition is written by the experienced author-examiner team of Simon Green Rob Lewis and Julia Willerton and provides a wealth of expert support practical activities and exam skills guidance. paperback
Paperback. New. Even though it can be argued that affiliate marketing is an old phenomenon in a rapidly changing online business environment it is still a new and developing business area. This highly topical book contains a thorough analysis of affiliate marketing including theoretical and practical considerations. paperback
Paperback. New. Nineteen papers examining varied responses to Romanization and how this affects our view of the development of the Roman Empire. paperback
Paperback / softback. New. This is the only textbook that fully support the Oxford AQA International A Level Human Geography specification 9635 for first teaching from September 2018. It enables students to develop a broad knowledge and understanding of a wide range of human geography topics. paperback
Hardback. New. Redemption in Poetry and Philosophy highlights the ways in which prose allegedly serves as a redemptive agent for nonbelievers in the modern age but engenders dangerous notions of self-redemption in contemporary Christians.--Richard Lansdown Associate Professor of English James Cook University hardcover
Paperback. New. An international comparison of the Sports Policy factors Leading to International Sporting Success SPLISS 2.0 in 15 nations. paperback
Paperback / softback. New. Dealing with the forgotten comic literature of eighteenth-century Britain this book uncovers a rich vein of cruel humor beneath the surface of Enlightenment civility that forces us to recognize just how slowly ordinary human sufferings became worthy of sympathy. paperback
Paperback / softback. New. This collection of Chekov's correspondence is weighted heavily toward the letters dealing with literary and intellectual matters. It provides insight into Chekov's development as a writer. paperback
Paperback / softback. New. Campaign 3 is composed of 12 units each based around a topic. The topics have been chosen for their intrinsic interest and as carriers for teaching the lexis grammar and functional English in the Campaign syllabus. This book takes students from intermediate to level 3 of NATO's STANAG 6001 system of levels. paperback
Hardback. New. The Contagious City details how early Americans struggled to preserve their collective health against both the strange new perils of the colonial environment and the familiar dangers of the traditional city through a period of profound. hardcover
Paperback / softback. New. China's economic rise has been astonishing yet the country finds itself engaged in a debate over whether its scientific and technological potential can be realised. This study addresses the critical issues surrounding China's talent pool and speaks of significant policy implications both for China and the international community. paperback
Paperback / softback. New. Statistics Analysis of Geographical Data: An Introduction provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the theory and practice of statistical analysis in geography. paperback
Paperback / softback. New. This book by criminologists and archaeologists examines the international market in illicit antiquities with a particular for on the UK's position. paperback
Hardback. New. In Light without Heat David Carroll Simon argues for the importance of carelessness to the literary and scientific experiments of the seventeenth century. While scholars have often looked to this period in order to narrate the triumph of methodical rigor as a quintessentially modern intellectual value Simon describes the appeal of open-ended. hardcover
Hardback. New. Historians have paid less attention to Thomas Paine than to other leading Patriots such as Thomas Jefferson. In Paine and Jefferson in the Age of Revolutions editors Simon Newman and Peter Onuf present a collection of essays that examine how the reputations of two figures whose outlooks were so similar have had such different trajectories. hardcover
Paperback. New. This book presents an accessible and sometimes controversial economic exploration of numerous issues surrounding sex marriage and family. It analyzes the role of `vanity' defined as social status and self-esteem in social and economic behaviors. paperback