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The Making of a Transnational Community: Migration, Development, and Cultural Change in the Dominican Republic
A detailed analysis of the effects of political and economic change on Los Pinos, a rural community in the Dominican Republic.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1990 -
The Work of Hospitals: Global Medicine in Local Cultures
by Eugenia Georges • John M. Janzen • Cheryl Mattingly • Thomas L. Leatherman • William C. Olsen • Carolyn Sargent • Anita Hannig • Mark Nichter • Adrienne E. Strong • Vania Smith-Oka • Morgan K. Hoke • Samya R. Stumo • Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh • Roch Christian Johnson • Anita Chary • Peter Rohloff • Kayla Hurd • Elisa Ej Sobo • Emma Varley • Claire WendlandIn the context of neoliberalism and global austerity measures, health care institutions around the world confront numerous challenges in attempting to meet the needs of local populations. Examples from Africa (including, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Congo), Latin America (Peru, Mexico, Guatemala), Western E... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Rhetorical Exercises From Late Antiquity: A Translation of Choricius of Gaza's Preliminary Talks and Declamations
by George A. Kennedy • Robert J. Penella • Eugenio Amato • Malcolm Heath • Terry L. Papillon • William W. Reader • D. A. Russell • Simon SwainThe first translation, produced by a team of eight scholars, of the Declamations and Preliminary Talks of the sixth-century sophist Choricius of Gaza. Declamations, deliberative or judicial orations on fictitious themes, were the fundamental advanced exercises of the rhetorical schools of the Roman ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Managing Visitor Experiences in Nature-based Tourism
by Haywantee Ramkissoon • Brent Lovelock • Mary E. Allen • Robert C. Burns • Azizul Hassan • Peter Fredman • Ali Thompson • Mick Abbott • Karl Agius • George Ariya • Rocío Blanco-Gregory • Cameron Boyle • Kadir Çakar • Eugenio Conti • Fernando Enseñat-Soberanis • Sonia Ferrari • Stuart Hayes • Nicolaia Iaffaldano • Woody Lee • Tiago Lopes • Andrés Ried Luci • Lusine Margaryan • Johnathan Mondragón-Mejía • Ana Goytia Prat • Francisco Silva • Jeffrey C. Skibins • Ismail UzutThis book focuses on the experiences of tourists visiting nature-based destinations, exploring current knowledge and providing insights into conceptual issues through the use of empirical evidence from five continents. Presented as three topics, the contents discuss tourism and nature-based expe... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021