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Tourism industryJune 2009People and Work in Events and Conventions
A Research Perspective
by Hannah Theobald, Charles Arcodia, John Arthur, Parveen Yaqoob, Bruce German, Christopher Auld, Ronan Gormley, James D House, Paula Jauregi, Zuleika Beaven, Anne Pihlanto, Jo Lunn, Katalin Formádi, Bruce Mullan, Joe Goldblatt, Nigel Scollan, Russell Hoye, Kevin J Shingfield, Leo Jago, Chris Kemp, Jeong S Sim, Adele Ladkin, Judith Mair, Vivienne S McCabe, Roselyne N Okech. Edited by Caroline Rymer, Thomas Baum, Eddie Deaville, Margaret Deery, Clare Hanlon, Leonie Lockstone, Karen A Smith.
The part of the tourism industry which covers events, conventions and meetings is a substantial part of the global economy and provides employment for a very large number of people worldwide. The breakdown of employees in this sector is complex - employees can be full-time, casual labour or part of a volunteer workforce, and events can be as diverse as the Olympic Games and a local meeting. This book examines the role of people who work in events, meetings and conventions by looking at the context in which they work, and presenting theories, perspectives underlying trends of employment in this sector. Leading authors present international examples to further understanding of the concepts involved in people management in tourism events. This book will be an important resource for students and researchers of leisure, tourism and events management.
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Children's & YAJuly 2020The Little Virus Corona
How children helped defeating it
by Marie Franz, Daniela Spoto
This beautifully illustrated book is suitable for children from the age of four. It explains the whole pandemic to kids and points out all the things they were doing to help to stop the virus from spreading, e.g. washing hands, wearing masks, etc. – and why all of that makes them SUPERHEROS. The book tells the whole story of the pandemic, from the time before Corona appeared until the time when it will be history again. This way this book will remain relevant after Corona has disappeared, because it will always be important to remember.
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Children's & YANovember 2018Ruja
Your friend, solitude
by Marie Franz, Daniela Spoto
Most people are afraid of Ruja. They slam the door in her face, stare at their mobiles or hide in the most ridiculous places. But that is often when they feel truly lonely. Which is a shame because Ruja would have loved to keep them company and share her treasures with them. Inviting her to your life once in a while gives you a great opportunity to get to know yourself better. She is the one who knows the way to your real desires and to your wise and cheerful heart.
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Children's & YANora and the swifts
by Eloisa Guarracino, Mina Braun
This book is about Nora and her mother who discover a swift nest under the roof of their house, which Nora is especially excited about. Eager to learn, Nora learns valuable details about the swifts from her mother. A wonderfully illustrated story about freedom and independence that inspires and encourages readers to go their own ways and be free.
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Children's & YAThe old granny and the young vegetable
by Lisa Lax, Olga Gyömörei
This wonderfully illustrated book tells the story of the old grandma who lovingly takes care of her young vegetables in her garden every day and protects them as if they were her own children. She tends her garden from morning to night, but as she gets sick one day this is no longer possible. And then the tides are turning: the young vegetables want to help the old granny to get back on her feet!The story of the old granny shows what nature will give you in return when you take care of it and how valuable a good relationship with nature can be.
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Literature & Literary Studies
The world can wait - coffee poems
by Marina Berin, Jennifer Hilgert
How can the love of coffee be measured? In litres? In cups? In the amount of beans ground per year? Marina Berin and Jennifer Hilgert measure it in poems. They conjure up coffee kisses and delights on paper and serve up: pleasurable coffee table poetry, poetic verbal effusions finely and coarsely ground, brewed with a sense of detail, sometimes served hot, sometimes on ice and perhaps - decorated with a little flower.
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Desert Hunters (English Edition)
by Xue Mo
Revolving around a well in the desert, this novel focuses on the dispute between environmental protection and poaching. The main story line is supplemented by a series of daily life situations particular to the desert in the western region. The English edition is translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin.
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FictionSeptember 2018 - September 2023Desert Rites
A realistic depiction of China's rural life in the second half of the twentieth century,and epitomises a generation of farmers to struggle for survival and fate.
by Xue mo
Desert Rites XueMo Translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Desert Rites is a realistic depiction of China's rural life in the second half of the twentieth century,and epitomises a generation of farmers to struggle for survival and fate.It takes the author Xue Mo twenty years to write this novel.There are no great figures in this book.What touches people most are those scenes that depict little details in daily life.and those parts about the struggle of soul that each life goes through when confronted with sufferings from reality. The whole book was written in a Tolstoy-like style,Focusing on vividly depicting the characters’psychological life.It faithfully chronicled a reforming era and one year’s life of a farmer family in western China.For example,faced with life’s hardship,faced with love that is unlikely to come to fruition,Lingguang, the hero of the book, witnessed a family’s history of suffering,and witnessed the souls of a Generation who were in hopeless silence and helpless struggle on the land of western China. Finally, under the helpless trace,Lingguang chose to leave his hometown,heading towards the solitude in mind that no one ever know.The whole novel portrays human nature in ordinary life, and is a representative work of realism in contemporary Chinese literature that faithfully records the customs and cultures of western China. Untill now,five different publishers have published different versions of Desert Rites in China . The following people will like this book:Those who want to know what the society and people’s life were actually like in 1970s China,and those who want to break the “magical spell” of life to elevate their life to a higher level.
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FictionSeptember 2018 - September 2023Desert Hunters
a great fable written by the author Xuemo in a plain and realistic style
by Xuemo
Desert Hunters Xuemo Translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Desert Hunters is a great fable written by the author Xuemo . This is what is different from Desert Rites.In Desert Hunters, every section is a vivid scene of life,and every chapter is a grand depiction of the society；It forms an epic historical picture in the whole work .There are more than 50 characters, and depicts more than 20 species of animals in the book features.The stories of the book revolve around a place called the Pig Belly Well.All people and all life in the area, including wolves and sheep, falcons and rabbits, birds and bugs, foxes and rats, rely on this water well for survival. Images of all figures demonstrated fierceness and kindness,suffering and joy, helplessness and endurance,nature and feud, greed and strife.all scenes seem to be distant but familiar, vast but subtle. Every character, every animal seems to be the mouth of God in these book,telling stories about their own transgressions and the following aftermath.Through layers and layers of conflicts between humans and animals, humans and nature, and humans for their own fate,the book tells us that tragedies of humanity are rooted in greed, hatred, and ignorance.Those who transgress, those who break the laws of nature, are bound to be punished, bound to suffer in the dessert of the soul,and bound to become a prey that is being hunted on the hunting field of the soul. It is like the coronavirus spreading around the world,ruthlessly attacking everybody around us,paralyzing industries and forcing countries into long-term lock down, spreading fear and anxiety among all people.However, through the actions of the heroes and heroines, the book also tells us how to create a harmonious conservation between people and their inner selves, between different people, and between human and nature. The following people will like this book: those who love animals and those who wonder about how to create balance between human and nature, how to make a living ,and how to form a harmonious conservation between people’s life and their own inner world .
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Literature & Literary StudiesSeptember 2016The Infinity of the Universe Inside You
by Marie Franz, Catrin Welz-Stein
Dive into a universe full of magic, fantasy and unlimited possibilities.This poetic postcard book is an inspiration for women of all ages – it reminds them of their endless potential and the unrestrained power that lives inside of them. This is a powerful encouragement to go their own way – without compromises. Let yourself get carried away, fascinated and enchanted. So much beauty awaits you.
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Children's & YALilo
And the secret of eternal happiness
by Nana Pure, Jerry Dave
The little panda mouse Lilo wants to find the secret of eternal happiness. She sets out on a journey full of adventures and has to overcome many challenges. In the end, she discovers that the answers to all of her questions are already within herself. This book encourages children to go their own way and to live a happy life.
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Children's & YAMarch 2021Potoshnik
A story about broccoli, life and the power of the sun
by Karoline Elke Löffler
Accompany Potoshnik on his walk from the grey streets of the city to the lightfloodedsun terrace. This is a story about a man who enjoys his shadowy existence until one day a mysterious plant helps him to invite sunlight back into his life... And not just the sun – but also a friend. An inspiration for everyone to leave their comfort zone (once in a while) and totake a look at all the miracles that arise when you encounter new ways.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2022 - June 2027Into the Desert
A Story of Two Women
by Xue Mo
Into the Desert is the story of two village women in Western China in the 1990s, on the edge of the Gobi Desert, near the site of the ancient Silk Road. Bound together by both poverty and tradition, they embark upon a perilous journey to change their fates. This short novel was adapted and co-translated by Howard Goldblatt, a preeminent American sinologist and translator of Chinese literature, as well as his wife Dr. Sylvia Li-chun Lin, from two volumes of Xue Mo’s Desert Trilogy: White Tiger Pass and Desert Rites. In June 2022, Into the Desert was first published by Long River Press, a San Francisco-based imprint of Sinomedia International Group. In February 2023, Into the Desert won the Best Translated Book Award by China International Communications Group.
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FictionSeptember 2018Desert Rites (English Edition)
by Xue Mo
Desert Rites is the first of a three volume “Desert Series,” set in China’s far West Gansu Province. The series is set in the late twentieth century. Residents in China’s major cities and the coastal provinces are enjoying newfound prosperity after a decade of economic growth, but not the impoverished villagers of Liangzhou. They must eke out a living by training hawks to catch rabbits, hunting foxes for their pelts, and squeezing out meager wheat harvests from largely barren, sandy land. The lives and deaths of the village characters are related in the trials of surviving in this neglected part of China. Two fathers will kill their own children, a young man will die of cancer, a protest against heavy taxes and fees will be staged with no result, and two married women will have extramarital affairs. The desert gives these people life; it also brings death and hardship. In hospitable conditions compounded by a relentless government tax system comprise the daily realities of the villagers, who often turn to shamans to lessen their suffering and hope in vain to mitigate their problems. Xue Mo writes with compassion and produces a vivid picture of village life in the desert.
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Business, Economics & LawAugust 2020Beyond Confrontation
Globalists, Nationalists and Their Discontents
by Phil Mullan
Reactions to the Coronavirus pandemic have escalated the pre-existing tensions between the US and China and among different Western nations. Confrontations between political globalists and mercantilist nationalists - between supporters of the rules-based international order and proponents of overt protectionism - are fueling ever-stronger international resentments. Coupling argumentative rigor with a pragmatic, plainspoken approach, Phil Mullan charts out a novel, democratic way past dangerous and self-defeating confrontations towards a future of open international collaboration based on popular participation within nation states. With its clear-eyed assessment of the opportunities and challenges of a more interconnected world - an assessment in which the economic internationalisation underpinning globalisation theories is neither romanticised nor vilified - Beyond Confrontation sets a judicious tone for the big geopolitical themes of our times.
