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Hardbound. Condizione: As New. New. Contents Preface. Introduction. 1. International tourism historical perspectives. 2. International tourism trends. 3. International tourism contemporary issues. 4. World geography concepts. 5. World geography applications. 6. Tourism a community based approach. Bibliography. International Tourism World Geography and Developmental Perspectives has been framed as a supplementary text to the mainstream textbooks available to the learner. The major topical areas included are the historical development of tourism contemporary issues and future trends concepts and applications of tourism geography and community based tourism. Written in a jargon free and engaging style this is a student friendly text and is expected to be a vital introduction to this exciting ever changing area of study. 184 pp.

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Hardbound. Condizione: As New. New. Contents Foreword. Preface. 1. Pilgrimage tourists to Varanasi (Kashi) critique of the theories and a search for self organised patterns in space and time/Rana P.B. Singh and John M. Malville. 2. Tourism and the changing face of Goa/Zelia Breda. 3. SERICSAT The development of a preliminary instrument of measure service recovery satisfaction in tourism/Babu P. George and G. Anjaneya Swamy. 4. Sustainable eco tourism a catalyst for socio economic development/B.B. Parida and Sampad Kumar Swain. 5. Indian tourism issues challenges and outlook/Aparna Raj Parul Parihar and Santosh Kr. Upadhyay. 6. Tourism and environmental quality some principles and experiences in the Indian context/Gopal Poyyamoli and Babu P. George. 7. Tourism destination management/Renu Malra. 8. Tourism curriculum designing for bridging the gap between industry and education needs/Ranbir Singh. 9. Marketing strategies for the promotion of tourism destinations a case study/K. Mohan. 10. Laws preservation of monuments and tourism in India/Pallavi Gupta and Anuradha. 11. The role of tour operators in creating the total holiday experience some fresh musings/Purva G. Hegde Desai. 12. HRD practices in the Indian tourism sector an overview/Sampad Kumar Swain. 13. New product development for tourism a study in Pondicherry Region/Z. Nihmathullah. 14. Tourism business the E Horizon/Jagdeesh Pandian. Although tourism in India has already grown as a highly complex practice nothing that happens here gets documented for further reflections. Needless to say tourism theory here is still at its infancy. Wisdom acquired through years of industrial practice remains at the tacit level which causes difficulties in it being communicated to others. What we have are theoretical models developed elsewhere not in anyway connected with the native practice. Also many of these models are laden by theories that preceded the development of practice and thus are still hypothetical. It is not that theories should always succeed practice but that all good social theories have a cultural logic which can come about only when the theories are contextualized within the elements of native practice. This being the case there are a lot of lapses and lacunas with respect to Indian tourism that we have to look urgently upon. A body of situated theoretical and applied knowledge about tourism in India is an urgent need of the time. For the Indian tourism industry to be in control of its destiny theoretical sophistication as well as recursive reflections of the practice in the light of theory is a foundational prerequisite. The present volume Advancements in Tourism Theory and Practice Perspectives from India is to be seen in this backdrop. It aims to compile together strands of thought by tourism theoreticians and practitioners which serve as a truthful reckoner of the present level of scientific knowledge about Indian tourism. 294 pp.

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. "Before Management" challenges a foundational assumption of organizational life: that management is natural, necessary, and universal. Drawing on Indigenous governance systems across North America, this book argues that what we call management is a recent invention, a workaround developed by societies that lost older, more elegant systems for coordinating human activity. Indigenous peoples solved the fundamental problems of collective action through mechanisms that modern organizations have largely forgotten: authority that expired when context changed, consensus processes that treated dissent as data rather than obstacle, accountability systems that restored rather than punished, and economies oriented toward stewardship rather than extraction. This is not a how-to guide for adopting Indigenous practices; some knowledge is not portable, and the impulse to extract "lessons" reflects the very managerial mindset the book critiques. Instead, it is an invitation to see management differently, to question assumptions so deep they have become invisible, and to consider whether the future of organization might resemble patterns that predate management itself. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. This book began as a simple question: What would Thoreau do with a smartphone?The question sounds almost comical. We imagine him by Walden Pond, thumb-scrolling through notifications, his two years of deliberate living reduced to a content strategy. But the comedy dissolves quickly into something more unsettling. Because Thoreau's project was never really about the pond. It was about the mind. And the mind, in our era, faces colonization more thorough than anything the nineteenth century could have imagined.Walden.exe is not a book about technology. It is a book about what technology does to the space where thinking happens. It is about the systematic enclosure of attention, the monetization of solitude, and the slow evacuation of interior life from the human experience. It argues that we have built a civilization of unprecedented connectivity while presiding over an unprecedented crisis of presence.The book's central claim is stark: the primary oppression of the digital age is not censorship, surveillance, or even manipulation. It is distraction engineered at scale. The attention economy does not merely capture our time. It captures the very substrate of selfhood, the inner quiet from which meaning, creativity, and moral clarity emerge.This is not a call to abandon technology. Such calls are nostalgic and, ultimately, dishonest. The networks are our world now. But within networks, different lives remain possible. This book is a manual for sovereignty within systems designed to dissolve it.Drawing on Thoreau's philosophical method rather than merely citing his conclusions, Walden.exe reenacts the gestures of deliberate living for the algorithmic age. Where Thoreau built a cabin to carve out space from industrial capitalism, we must build cognitive architectures to preserve thought from attentional extraction. Where he practiced economic simplicity, we must practice informational simplicity. Where he refused to pay taxes to a government conducting unjust wars, we must learn the civil disobedience of refusing to optimize ourselves for platforms that profit from our fragmentation.The book is organized in four parts. Part I diagnoses the condition: how we came to live in systems that treat attention as a resource to be mined, cognition as a market to be captured, and identity as a performance to be quantified. Part II recovers what deliberate living might mean when every moment is potentially observed, recorded, and analyzed. Part III develops a theory and practice of resistance, not loud protest but quiet, persistent refusal. Part IV asks what freedom looks like on the other side, not freedom from systems, but freedom from unconscious participation within them.This is not an academic treatise, though it engages serious thinkers. It is not a self-help manual, though it offers practices. It is what Thoreau's own work was: a moral essay. A sustained argument about how to live that takes the form of demonstration as much as declaration.The book is written for anyone who suspects that something essential is being lost but cannot yet name it. For creators exhausted by the performance of creativity. For technologists troubled by what they build. For anyone who has noticed that "connection" now often means the opposite of presence, and that being "online" increasingly means being nowhere at all.We are building the nervous system of the future without ethical reflection. The costs are not primarily economic or even political. They are interior. They concern the possibility of having an inner life at all.Thoreau did not offer solutions. He offered stances: ways of standing in relation to the world that made different lives possible. This book attempts the same. It does not ask readers to retreat to the woods. It asks them to rebuild Walden wherever their mind s Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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