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Cruise Operations Management

by Philip Gibson

Cruise Operations Management: Hospitality Perspectives provides a comprehensive and contextualized overview of hospitality services for the cruise industry. As well as providing a background to the cruise industry,...

Brave Dragons: A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing

by Jim Yardley

The wonderfully original story of a struggling Chinese basketball team and its quixotic, often comical attempt to right its fortunes by copying the American stars of the NBA—a season of cultural misunderstanding...

Lidia's Italy

by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich & Tanya Bastianich Manuali

In this exciting new book the incomparable Lidia takes us on a gastronomic journey—from Piemonte to Puglia—exploring ten different regions that have informed her cooking and helped to make her the fabulous...

Tourism and Agriculture

by Rebecca Maria Torres & Janet Henshall Momsen

Shifting global consumption patterns, tastes and attitudes towards food, leisure, travel and place have opened new opportunities for rural producers in the form of agritourism, ecotourism, wine, food and rural...

Event Policy

by Malcolm Foley, David McGillivray & Gayle McPherson

As the event management field expands, there has been an emergence of a distinctive 'events' policy field of study and a need for more advanced texts that look at this subject with a multidisciplinary research...

International Sports Events

by Richard Shipway & Alan Fyall

This book offers new insight into International Sports Events (ISEs), examining the relationship between sport, tourism and events. It assesses sports events through the lens of both sports participants and...

Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now--As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long for It

by Craig Taylor

Five years in the making, Londoners is a fresh and compulsively readable view of one of the world's most fascinating cities—a vibrant narrative portrait of the London of our own time, featuring unforgettable...

Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth

by James M. Tabor

In 2004, two great scientist-explorers attempted to find the bottom of the world. American Bill Stone took on the vast, deadly Cheve Cave in southern Mexico. Ukrainian Alexander Klimchouk targeted Krubera, a...

Vancouver: Frommer's ShortCuts

by John Wiley

Frommer's ShortCuts give you exactly what you need for your trip to Vancouver—and no more.

In this ebook, you'll get the same candid reviews and insider tips that you'll find in all Frommer's guides. Plus,...

Quebec City: Frommer's ShortCuts

by John Wiley

Frommer's ShortCuts give you exactly what you need for your trip to Quebec City—and no more.

In this ebook, you'll get the same candid reviews and insider tips that you'll find in all Frommer's guides. Plus,...

Montreal: Frommer's ShortCuts

by John Wiley

Frommer's ShortCuts give you exactly what you need for your trip to Montreal—and no more.

In this ebook, you'll get the same candid reviews and insider tips that you'll find in all Frommer's guides. Plus, we've...

Frommer's Honolulu, Waikiki and Oahu

by Jeanette Foster

• Full-color throughout!
• Insider advice on avoiding the crowds as you explore Oahu, from the world-famous Waikiki Beach and Diamond Head Crater to Honolulu's Chinatown and museums. Plus tips for discovering the...

Frommer's Switzerland

by Danforth Prince

• The best of the great outdoors, from hiking the Swiss mountains to exploring the sparkling lakes of central Switzerland--and even strolling along the palm-lined waterfront promenades in the Ticino.
• Insider advice...

Frommer's Greek Islands

by John S. Bowman, Sherry Marker & Peter Kerasiotis

• If it's Ancient Greece you're interested in, our authors will guide you from the Acropolis to the islands (the geographical and spiritual center of the Cyclades). In the 21^st century, they'll point you toward...

Frommer's New Zealand

by Adrienne Rewi

• Insider advice from a New Zealand resident on how to experience one of the world’s most exciting ecotourism destinations! It’s much more complete and in-depth than its major competition.
• Where to find the...

Frommer's Yosemite and Sequoia / Kings Canyon National Parks

by Eric Peterson

• Insider advice on avoiding the crowds as you explore some of the most memorable natural wonders, from majestic Yosemite Falls to Kings Canyon's towering sequoias.
• Where to find the absolute best campgrounds for...

Harry Potter Places : OWLs: Oxford Wizarding Locations

Harry Potter Places #2

by CD Miller

Welcome to the A Novel Holiday travel guidebook, Harry Potter Places Book Two--OWLs: Oxford Wizarding Locations, the second of five guidebooks designed to help Harry Potter Fans (Potterites) visit places found...

The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today

by Ted Conover

From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of Newjack, an absorbing book about roads and their power to change the world.

Roads bind our world—metaphorically and...

The Dog Fence: A Journey Across the Heart of Australia

by James Woodford

At 5400 kilometres, the Dog Fence is one of the longest man-made structures on Earth. It slices across Australia's desert heart, dividing the continent to keep dingoes away from livestock. James Woodford embarks...

The Monkey and the Dragon: a True Story About Friendship, Music, Politics & Liife on the Edge

by Linda Jaivin

Memoir, biography and travel book, The Monkey and the Dragon is a story about the personal and political tumult of a changing China. Linda Jaivin traces this transformation through the life of Hou Dejian: Taiwan...