A Sociological Study of the Surfing Subculture in the Santa Cruz Area
Author: Stephen Wayne Hull
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 52
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Mecca and Eden
Author: Brannon Wheeler
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006-07
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 0226888045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNineteenth-century philologist and Biblical critic William Robertson Smith famously concluded that the sacred status of holy places derives not from their intrinsic nature but from their social character. Building upon this insight, Mecca and Eden uses Islamic exegetical and legal texts to analyze the rituals and objects associated with the sanctuary at Mecca. Integrating Islamic examples into the comparative study of religion, Brannon Wheeler shows how the treatment of rituals, relics, and territory is related to the more general mythological depiction of the origins of Islamic civilization. Along the way, Wheeler considers the contrast between Mecca and Eden in Muslim rituals, the dispersal and collection of relics of the prophet Muhammad, their relationship to the sanctuary at Mecca, and long tombs associated with the gigantic size of certain prophets mentioned in the Quran. Mecca and Eden succeeds, as few books have done, in making Islamic sources available to the broader study of religion.
Some Like It Hot
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Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Verlag
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Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1841260983
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProceedings of the Third International Network Conference (INC2002)
Author: Paul Dowland
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2012-06-26
Total Pages: 640
ISBN-13: 1841021059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains the proceedings of the Third International Network Conference (INC 2002), which was held in Plymouth, UK, in July 2002. A total of 72 papers were accepted for inclusion in the conference, and they are presented here in 8 themed chapters. The main topics of the book include: Web Technologies and Applications; Network Technologies; Multimedia over IP; Quality of Service; Security and Privacy; Distributed Technologies; Mobility; and Applications and Impacts. The papers address state-of-the-art research and applications of network technology, arising from both the academic and industrial domains. The book should consequently be of interest to network practitioners, researchers, academics, and technical managers involved in the design, development and use of network systems.
Australian Beach Cultures
Author: Douglas Booth
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1136338470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAustralians are surrounded by beaches. But this enclosure is more than a geographical fact for the inhabitants of an island continent; the beach is an integral part of the cultural envelope. This work analyzes the history of the beach as an integral aspect of Australian culture.
Urban Crime Prevention
Author: Miguel Saraiva
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-10-28
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 3031151089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an original cross-thematic and wide scope review of crime prevention processes in urban areas that are explicitly based on the cooperation between different scientific and professional fields. Focusing primarily on environmental and community-based crime prevention, this book compiles a peer-reviewed collection of papers and prospective essays that explore how, and to what extent, multi-disciplinarity can be used as a cornerstone for achieving safer cities. Relying on the input from specialists, researchers, decision-makers, and practitioners from around the world, it covers the various stages from theory to implementation, by discussing theoretical stances, interpreting policy and planning guidelines, uncovering unique educational experiences, and narrating insights and lessons learned from innovative research and practice. Hence, it provides vivid discussions and invaluable insights into processes of partnership building, planning, and management, oriented towards establishing successful mechanism for preventing crime and reducing feelings of insecurity in urban areas.
Consumer Tribes in Tourism
Author: Christof Pforr
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-11-18
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9811571503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book adopts a collectivist perspective on special interest tourism consumption, bringing together research on ‘special interest tourism’ and ‘niche tourism’ as well as more recent research into the interdisciplinary applications of the sociological concept of neo‐tribes. It promotes a shift in perspective away from special interest tourism understood as a sum of similarly motivated individuals, to a collective view of special interest tourists who share common characteristics (e.g., shared values, beliefs and mutual interests) and group structures. This approach provides a better understanding of groupings that are not unified by a common tourism motivation, but brought together by otherwise conditioned commonalities in actual behavior triggered by supply-side contexts (e.g., Airbnb). The book considers tourism micro‐segments as consumer tribes (i.e., as symbolic communities) in which individuals are embedded and loosely bound together. As there is limited research on the collectivist perspective on special interest tourism consumption, in the first part the book’s conceptual/theoretical discourse contributes to a better understanding of ‘groupings’ in tourism behavior but also collectives that are not unified by a common tourism motivation. Presenting international examples, the book explores in Part 2 the group culture of a range of tourist tribes by describing emerging tourism micro-segments, identifying shared identities, and analyzing their collective mechanisms.
Marketing Challenges in a Turbulent Business Environment
Author: Mark D. Groza
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-12-22
Total Pages: 671
ISBN-13: 3319194283
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEdited in collaboration with the Academy of Marketing Science, this book contains the full proceedings of the 2014 Academy of Marketing Science World Marketing Congress held in Lima, Peru. The key challenge for marketers during the last two decades has been assuring high satisfaction and strong customer loyalty. Today, consumers’ ever-changing desires, instantaneous communication through social media and mobile technology and an unstable global economic climate all come together to stir up market turbulence. This volume explores how traditional and modern marketing practices facilitate development of new and innovative products, help create increased product/service differentiation, ensure better service quality, and most of all, create value for stakeholders even in such a turbulent business environment. Showcasing cross-cultural research from academics, scholars and practitioners from around the world, this volume provides insight and strategies for various marketing issues in today’s emerging markets. Founded in 1971, the Academy of Marketing Science is an international organization dedicated to promoting timely explorations of phenomena related to the science of marketing in theory, research, and practice. Among its services to members and the community at large, the Academy offers conferences, congresses and symposia that attract delegates from around the world. Presentations from these events are published in this Proceedings series, which offers a comprehensive archive of volumes reflecting the evolution of the field. Volumes deliver cutting-edge research and insights, complimenting the Academy’s flagship journals, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (JAMS) and AMS Review. Volumes are edited by leading scholars and practitioners across a wide range of subject areas in marketing science.
Some Like it Hot
Author: Allan Edwards
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work is based on extensive research. It involves a synthesis of material that distils a diverse variety of socio-cultural principles into a succinct argument. In doing so, it challenges the traditional view that Australia is a place dominated by a culture of the bush. It presents a series of papers that suggest that Australia is now a ......
Surfing and Social Theory
Author: Nick Ford
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780415334334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on popular surf culture, academic literature and the analytical tools of social theory, this is the first sustained commentary on the contemporary social and cultural meaning of surfing, exploring mind and body, emotions, and aesthetics.
