Island Escapes: Tropical Paradise Getaways
Island Escapes: Tropical Paradise Getaways

Author: Georgie Rogers

Publisher: Richards Education

Published:

Total Pages: 93

ISBN-13:

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Escape to paradise with Island Escapes: Tropical Paradise Getaways. This comprehensive guidebook takes you on a journey to some of the world’s most breathtaking islands, offering detailed itineraries, insider tips, and essential travel information. Whether you’re seeking adventure in the Caribbean, tranquility in the South Pacific, or cultural immersion in Southeast Asia, this book has you covered. Discover the hidden gems, luxurious resorts, and natural wonders of each island destination. From planning your trip and packing essentials to sustainable travel practices, this guide ensures your island getaway is unforgettable. Pack your bags and get ready to explore the world’s most idyllic islands!

Tropical Paradise Scenes to Paint Or Color
Tropical Paradise Scenes to Paint Or Color

Author: Dot Barlowe

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2009-01-15

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 0486465624

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Windswept beaches. Swaying palm trees. Gorgeous sunsets. Colorists and other artists can escape to exotic, faraway places with this collection of 23 breathtaking scenes. Perforated pages make it easy to remove each illustration.

Tree
Tree

Author: Ariane T. Alexander

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2002-02-22

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 1462825583

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Tree, grandson of Victory, continues the Blue Thunder saga. Tree initiates as a spiritual warrior to channel the families love and passion as sacred weapons to save Earth through the year 4,000. Earth has become a toxic wasteland, ensuing planetary genocide and dissolution of global culture and government. Yet amongst the horror, the continent of Atlantis has risen. It is upon this emerging continent, that Tree seeks to make a new Eden for the lost children of Earth. But great evil enters paradise. And Tree will have to enter a place that no human being has ever gone before, a place where angels and demons, madmen and harlots, warriors and shamans, and horrors and heroes hold powers beyond his dreams. And the prize, Earth itself.. This is the second book of a trilogy ending in the year 5099.

Ebony
Ebony

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Publisher:

Published: 1992-02

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13:

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EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Ebony
Ebony

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Publisher:

Published: 1990-10

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13:

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EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Beachheads
Beachheads

Author: Gerald Figal

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1442215828

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This original and fresh book explores Okinawa's makeover as a tourist mecca in the long historical shadow and among the physical ruins of the Pacific War's most devastating land battle. Gerald Figal considers how a place burdened by a history of semicolonialism, memories of war and occupation, economic hardship, and contentious current political affairs has reshaped itself into a resort destination. Drawing on an innovative mix of detailed archival research and extensive fieldwork, Gerald Figal considers the ways Okinawa has accommodated war experience and its legacies within the manufacture and promotion of both a "tropical paradise" image and a heritage tourism site identified with the premodern Ryukyu Kingdom. Tracing the postwar formation of "Tourist Okinawa," Figal addresses interrelated issues of economic sustainability, local political autonomy, interregional and international relations, environmental preservation, historical and cultural self-representation, and especially Okinawa's role as a global peace site laboring under the legacies of war. From the end of World War Two to the present, the author follows Okinawa's evolution through three main themes: war memorialization, tourism-influenced environmental and historical restoration, and invasion and occupation represented by U.S. military bases and beach resorts. Creatively, accessibly, and eloquently written, this compelling work highlights a set of islands that represent key issues facing contemporary Japan.

The Terrans
The Terrans

Author: Jean Johnson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2015-07-28

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 0698175786

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Jean Johnson's first novel in an explosive new science fiction trilogy set in the world of the national bestselling Theirs Not to Reason Why series—set two-hundred years earlier, at the dawn of the First Salik War… Born into a political family and gifted with psychic abilities, Jacaranda MacKenzie has served as a border-watcher and even spent time as a representative on the United Planets Council. Now she just wants to spend her days in peace and quiet as a translator—but the universe has other plans… Humans have long known that they would encounter more alien species, and while those with precognitive abilities agree a terrible war is coming, they do not agree on who will save humanity—a psychic soldier or a politician. But Jackie is both. After she is pressured into rejoining the Space Force to forestall the impending calamity, Jackie makes an unsettling discovery. Their new enemy, the Salik, seem to be rather familiar with fighting Humans—as if their war against humanity had already begun…

Consumption and Identity in Asian American Coming-of-Age Novels
Consumption and Identity in Asian American Coming-of-Age Novels

Author: Jennifer Ho

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1135469121

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This interdisciplinary study examines the theme of consumption in Asian American literature, connection representations of cooking and eating with ethnic identity formation. Using four discrete modes of identification--historic pride, consumerism, mourning, and fusion--Jennifer Ho examines how Asian American adolescents challenge and revise their cultural legacies and experiment with alternative ethnic affiliations through their relationships to food.

Transculturation
Transculturation

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-08-01

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 9401201242

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Transculturation: Cities, Spaces and Architectures in Latin America explores the critical potential inherent in the notion of “transculturation” in order to understand contemporary architectural practices and their cultural realities in Latin America. Despite its enormous theoretical potential and its importance within Latin American cultural theory, the term transculturation had never permeated into architectural debates. In fact, none of the main architectural theories produced in and about Latin America during the second half of the twentieth century engaged seriously with this notion as a way to analyze the complex social, cultural and political circumstances that affect the development of the continent’s cities, its urban spaces and its architectures. Therefore, this book demonstrates, for the first time, that the term transculturation is an invaluable tool in dismantling the essentialist, genealogical and hierarchical perspectives from which Latin American architectural practices have been viewed. Transculturation: Cities, Spaces and Architectures in Latin America introduces new readings and interpretations of the work of well-known architects, new analyses regarding the use of architectural materials and languages, new questions to do with minority architectures, gender and travel, and, from beginning to end, it engages with important political and theoretical debates that have rarely been broached within Latin American architectural circles.

Extreme Tourism: Lessons from the World's Cold Water Islands
Extreme Tourism: Lessons from the World's Cold Water Islands

Author: Godfrey Baldacchino

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-08-11

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1136404171

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This book is a pioneering investigation of the tourism practices in the world's other, cold water, islands. Located in extreme latitudes and subject to extreme weather conditions, these islands have been developing their tourism appeal in manners that appear sustainable. They present themselves in images that speak to the pristine, unique and superlative aspects of their natural environment, history and culture. Limited seasonality, difficulty of access, restricted infrastructure, harsh climates and water too cold to swim in, are integral features of the tourism industry, often welcomed as appropriate filters to the slide to the mass market. The collection contains 13 island case studies. A set of seven hail from Northern latitudes: Baffin (Nunavut, Canada), Banks (Northwest Territories, Canada), Greenland/ Kaalaalit Nunaat, Iceland, Luleå (Sweden), Nunivak (Alaska), Solovetsky (Russia) and Svalbard (Norway). A second set of four cover the Southerly islands of Chatham (New Zealand), Falklands, Macquarie (Australia) and Stewart (New Zealand). Two other chapters discuss islands from the particular vantage points of cruise ship tourism, one for the Arctic region and one for the Antarctic. Additionally, five conceptual chapters provide insights into key tourism management issues, as they apply to cold water island experiences:(a) human resources; (b) environment; (c) promotion; (d) seasonality; and (e) access.