Ross C Brownson Livres

The long buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the official and cultural barriers to women covering war.

The Khmer Rouge revolution brought unprecedented terror and destruction to Cambodia. In this account, often told in the words of those who escaped, Becker captures the nightmare: a capital city emptied; the intelligentsia hunted down; scant food, poor shelter; and routine torture and death.

"Travel is no longer a past-time but a colossal industry, arguably one of the biggest in the world and second only to oil in importance for many poor countries. One out of 12 people in the world are employed by the tourism industry which contributes $6.5 trillion to the world's economy. To investigate the size and effect of this new industry, Elizabeth Becker traveled the globe. She speaks to the Minister of Tourism of Zambia who thinks licensing foreigners to kill wild animals is a good way to make money and then to a Zambian travel guide who takes her to see the rare endangered sable antelope. She travels to Venice where community groups are fighting to stop the tourism industry from pushing them out of their homes, to France where officials have made tourism their number one industry to save their cultural heritage; and on cruises speaking to waiters who earn $60 a month--then on to Miami to interview their CEO. Becker's sharp depiction reveals travel as a product; nations as stewards. Seeing the tourism industry from the inside out, the world offers a dizzying range of travel options but very few quiet getaways"--

Sheds light on Palestinian Muslim women's agency in shari`a courts from the British Mandate period to the present. Brownson's archival research on wife- initiated maintenance claims, divorce, and child custody cases deepens our understanding of women's position in the courts, demonstrating Muslim... číst celé

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Geschichte der Revolutionären Pariser Kommune - in den Jahren 1789 bis 1794 ist ein unveränderter, hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe aus dem Jahr 1875. Hansebooks ist Herausgeber von Literatur zu unterschiedlichen Themengebieten wie Forschung und Wissenschaft, Reisen und Expeditionen, Kochen und Ernährung, Medizin und weiteren Genres. Der Schwerpunkt des Verlages liegt auf dem Erhalt historischer Literatur. Viele Werke historischer Schriftsteller und Wissenschaftler sind heute nur noch als Antiquitäten erhältlich. Hansebooks verlegt diese Bücher neu und trägt damit zum Erhalt selten gewordener Literatur und historischem Wissen auch für die Zukunft bei.