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21) Culinary Tourism
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Culinary Tourism is the first book to consider food as both a destination and a means for tourism. The book's contributors examine the many intersections of food, culture and tourism in public and commercial contexts, in private and domestic settings, and around the world. The contributors argue that the sensory experience of eating provides people with a unique means of communication. Editor Lucy explains how and why interest in foreign food is expanding...
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When the Rewards Can Be So Great is a selection of craft talks delivered by faculty at the Pacific University MFA in Writing program. The essays in this exciting collection are at times deeply personal, providing insight into the development of the writers in their craft, and at times sharply practical and filled with long-tested approaches for writing with power and effectiveness. All are, characterized by care, generosity, and good humor, and reflect,...
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Adventures Within Another is a collection of writing by ninth-grade students from Como Park Senior High School who spent six months crafting these original works with guidance from the Mid-Continent Oceanographic Institute. This anthology spotlights the next generation of writers whose poetry and prose explore the people, places, and things shaping their burgeoning personal and cultural identities.
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Learn to see the world with the smarts and visual acumen of a great designer. This treasure trove of pithy aphorisms, longer-form essays, and first-person interviews compiles years of design school education into one comprehensive yet compact book. Here are lessons in life and work, learned both in the classroom and on the job, from design teachers, students, and gurus, covering everything from practical know-how to big-picture brilliance. Design...
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Doce ensayos que desde la filosofía, la comunicación y el arte indagan en las transformaciones que la narrativa audiovisual ha tenido en el contexto digital y de Internet Paula Sibilia, Mauricio Durán y Sergio Roncallo, entre otros investigadores, analizan casos como la exhibición de la intimidad, la noción del autor o el uso del video como resistencia social
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Small college professors from across the United States explain why liberal arts institutions remain the gold standard for higher education.
The fevered controversy over America's educational future isn't simply academic; those who have proposed sweeping reforms include government officials, politicians, foundation officers, think-tank researchers, journalists, media pundits, and university administrators. Drowned out in that noisy debate are the...
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What is it like to live and write in Maine? Wesley McNair, Maine's premier anthologist, asked authors who are new to Maine as well as natives to answer this question. They wax lyrical on everything from encounters with neighbors and wildlife to embracing Maine's rich natural landscape, and they take a philosophical look at the state of being in Maine. Among the authors included are Carolyn Chute, Richard Ford, Bill Roorbach, Richard Russo, and Monica...
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¿Cómo afectarán la robótica y las nuevas tecnologías a nuestro trabajo, a nuestras vidas? Una respuesta desde una mirada joven y ecológica
Mires donde mires, hay alguien alabando o criticando el impacto que la interconexión tecnológica está teniendo en nuestras vidas. Pero no se trata de casos aislados o de adicción a las pantallas, sino de algo más grande. Sin que haya finalizado la Tercera Revolución Industrial, nos encontramos en un...
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A multicultural anthology, edited by Susan O'Connor and Annick Smith, about the enduring importance and shifting associations of the hearth in our world.
A hearth is many things: a place for solitude; a source of identity; something we make and share with others; a history of ourselves and our homes. It is the fixed center we return to. It is just as intrinsically portable. It is, in short, the perfect metaphor for what we seek in these complex...
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Dr. Seuss and Philosophy delighted thousands of readers by demonstrating the insights of these children's classics through a playful engagement with the philosophical tradition. In More Dr. Seuss and Philosophy readers will be offered a vision of the good life through the world of Dr. Seuss. Whether it's stoicism and care of the self in Did I ever Tell you How Lucky you Are?, facing our own mortality in You're Only Old Once, or the value of compassion,...
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La pluralidad política revolucionaria de 1968. Ante una conmemoración culturalista y a veces llena de la amnesia que despolitiza el acontecimiento, es importante recordarlo y ubicarlo aunque sea brevemente, en las distintas dimensiones y latitudes donde se produjo. 1968 no es solo el mayo de una revuelta estudiantil, es la huelga general, la sublevación generalizada, la insurgencia en México, la primavera de Praga, como también las luchas de...
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"How can we make South Carolina better? Normally this question is reserved for lawmakers and voters, but Writing South Carolina, volume 3, gives voice to fifty high school juniors and seniors from across the Palmetto State who have offered suggestions. The University of South Carolina Honors College annual writing contest presents a necessary voice for them as well as a revealing portrait of their lives and desires using their own words and insights....
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L'enjeu de cet ouvrage est de comparer les multiples expressions de l'espace continental des Amériques et de l'espace insulaire des Caraïbes qui lui fait face en analysant les modalités de renouvellement des mythes, des narrativités et des perspectives menant à la reconfiguration de cet espace. Les analyses sont structurées autour de quatre axes nourris par des réflexions portant sur les conflits et les croisements culturels, économiques,...
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This volume contains 17 essays with fresh new approaches to cultural history from 17 authors that belong to different academic disciplines, including archaeology, art history, classical languages, ethnology, fashion studies, history, history of ideas, history of religion, literature studies, and media studies. Making Cultural History has sprung out of the Research School for Studies in Cultural History at Stockholm University, an interdisciplinary...
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The 1970s were a heyday for Los Angeles, Hollywood was being revolutionized, the music business was booming, and authors like Joan Didion were producing great novels about the realities of living in the land of eternal sunshine. In Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine, great writers muse on the city in its classic decade. Featuring John Densmore on being a rock star, Matthew Specktor's reflections on The Z Channel, Deanne Stillman on the desert, The...
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Against Death: 35 Essays On Living articulates the personal experiences of each author's "near-deathness," utilizing fresh and inventive language to represent what "magical thinking" proposes. These pieces are incisive and articulate, avoiding the usual platitudes, feel-good bromides, and pep talks associated with near-death encounters. The writing moves past the sob story and confronts the tough circumstance of facing death with truth and compassion,...
37) The Kaufmann Mercantile Guide: How to Split Wood, Shuck an Oyster, and Master Other Simple Pleasures
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Modern living isn't easy. It often seems to require some know-how our parents didn't pass on, or a special tool. Happily, Kaufmann Mercantile has both, and in this comprehensive field guide, they share their expertise on a huge range of topics, from frying an egg, tying a tie, or brewing coffee to things the inner utilitarian in all of us aspires to do, like splitting wood, building a fire, growing our own food, or making our own soap. Fifty how-tos...
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«Un fragmento», escribió Friedrich Schlegel, «ha de estar aislado del mundo que lo rodea y ser completo en sí mismo como un erizo». A eso aspiran las formas breves –el aforismo, el apunte, el fragmento– de la literatura: recogidas en sí mismas, como si se apartasen del mundo, sorprenden a quien las encuentra con esa sensación de aislamiento y, a la vez, de fragilidad. Emparentadas por igual con la precisión de la filosofía y la iluminación...
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In this heartwarming essay collection, dozens of authors, actors, artists and others imagine one last lunch with someone they cherished.
A few years ago, Erica Heller realized how universal the longing is for one more moment with a lost loved one. It could be a parent, a sibling, a mentor, or a friend, but who wouldn't love the opportunity to sit down, break bread, and just talk? Who wouldn't jump at the chance to ask those unasked questions, or...
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Gerald W. Johnson of North Carolina and Baltimore was one of the most prominent American journalists of the twentieth century and one of the outstanding essayists of any age. The author of some three dozen books of history, biography, and commentary on American politics and culture, he was an editorial writer for the Baltimore Sunpapers from 1926 to 1943, a contributing editor of the New Republic from 1954 until his death in 1980, and an advocate...
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