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Picard, David.
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338.4791 PIC
Publication Date
2014
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This book explores the paradoxes of Self-Other relations in the field of tourism. It particularly focuses on the 'power' of different forms of 'Otherness' to seduce and to disrupt, and, eventually, also to renew the social and cosmological orders of 'modern' culture and everyday life. Drawing on a series of ethnographic case studies, the contributors investigate the production, socialisation and symbolic encompassment of different 'Others' as a political and also an economic resource to govern social life in the present. The volume provides a comparative inductive study on the modernist philosophical concepts of time, 'Otherness', and the self in practice, and relates it to contemporary tourism and mobility.
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Picard, David.
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338.4791
Publication Date
2014
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The book provides unique insights into the culture of computer-mediated hospitality and how this has begun to transform contemporary tourism and travel practice. Focusing on Couchsurfing.org, one of the largest online hospitality communities worldwide, the authors explore how social relations, intimacy and trust are built in the online environment and then extended into the offline contexts of actual tourism and travel. Being active couchsurfers themselves, the authors scrutinise the candid claim by much of the online hospitality community that couchsurfing creates a »better world«. The book is key reading for anyone interested in how computer mediated communication is changing contemporary forms of contact, travel and hospitality, and the kinds of cosmopolitism it brings into being. Authors: David Picard, Sonja Buchberger, Jennie Germann Molz, Dennis Zuev, De-Jung Chen, Bernard Schéou, Jun-E Tan, Paula Bialski and Nelson Graburn. Rezension »Being skillfully written, making use of a narrative approach, and enriched by exciting and originial chapters 'Couchsurfing Cosmopolitanism' is a recommanded read for those who are eager to delve deeper and better understand the phenomenon of promoting cosmopolitanism as a desire for and openess to difference.« Variety Fair, 7 (2014) Reviewed in: Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde, 2 (2013), Regina F. Bendix www.urbanophil.net, 08.08.2013, Paula Salomo http://popanth.com, 22.10.2013.
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510.92 23
Publication Date
2013
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Contains biographies of great mathematicians such as Euclid, Pythagoras, and Descartes. Selected from Salem Press' Great Lives from History series.
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Pierson, David, 1958-
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791.4572 23
Publication Date
2012
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Salem Press.
Call Number
004.0922
Publication Date
2013
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"This volume presents biographies of over 120 individuals who had an innovative impact on the development of computer technology, culminating with the advent of the Internet, including the Dot Com Era and beyond, with an emphasis on early pioneers, such as inventors and engineers, and influential founders and executives of computer companies. This content details the lives of these innovators in the area of computer technology and business, with accompanying sidebars describing the company, organization, online service, or website that they founded, for which they worked, or with which they are affiliated. (Examples would include IBM, Microsoft, Xerox, Oracle Corporation, Apple, Atari, Dell, Intel, Texas Instruments, Hewlett-Packard, Adobe, and Gateway) In particular, sidebars will describe why the company was influential. Each article will also have an accompanying photo. The Innovators series follows the model of previous Great Lives sets and offers an international focus."--Provided by publisher.
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Earnheardt, Adam C.
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306.483
Publication Date
2011
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Identity and socialization among sports fans are burgeoning areas of study among a growing cadre of scholars in the social sciences and beyond. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization, edited by Adam C. Earnheardt, Paul Haridakis, and Barbara Hugenberg, is an eclectic collection of new studies from accomplished and emerging scholars in the fields of communication, business, geography, kinesiology, psychology, and more, who employ a wide range of methodologies including quantitative, qu.
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