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Author: Zanna Davidson Publisher: ISBN: 9781474978415 Category : Languages : en Pages : 80
Book Description
Billy and his family are off to the seaside. The MINI MONSTERS are very excited to be going too. Soon they're building sandcastles and enjoying their picnic. It's all going so well until Trumpet is STOLEN by a seagull! How is Billy ever going to get him back? The Billy and the Mini Monsters books have now been selected for The Reading Agency's Summer Reading Challenge for three years in a row (2018, 2019, 2020). Packed with comic strips, maps and speech bubbles, with full-colour illustrations by Melanie Williamson and an action-packed plot, this series will appeal to even the most reluctant reader.
Author: Zanna Davidson Publisher: ISBN: 9781474978415 Category : Languages : en Pages : 80
Book Description
Billy and his family are off to the seaside. The MINI MONSTERS are very excited to be going too. Soon they're building sandcastles and enjoying their picnic. It's all going so well until Trumpet is STOLEN by a seagull! How is Billy ever going to get him back? The Billy and the Mini Monsters books have now been selected for The Reading Agency's Summer Reading Challenge for three years in a row (2018, 2019, 2020). Packed with comic strips, maps and speech bubbles, with full-colour illustrations by Melanie Williamson and an action-packed plot, this series will appeal to even the most reluctant reader.
Author: Zanna Davidson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Beaches Languages : en Pages : 75
Book Description
Billy and his family are off to the seaside. The Mini Monsters are very excited to be going too. Soon they're building sandcastles and enjoying their picnic. It's all going so well until Trumpet is stolen by a seagull! How is Billy ever going to get him back?
Author: Jean-Didier Urbain Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 9780816634507 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 362
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Around the world, when people think of vacation it's the beach they want--even when long distances must be traversed, the seashore is the place to escape the rigors of modern life. How did this come to be, and what does our ongoing love affair with the beach mean? How do shore vacations differ from traditional tourism, and what does this tell us about our fears and dreams? In At the Beach, Jean-Didier Urbain offers witty and insightful answers to these questions. Urbain traces the transformation of the beach from a place of mythological threats and a demanding workplace fraught with danger to a destination for medical treatment and the pursuit of pleasure. He looks to the emergence of the modern vacation in the nineteenth century, examines representations of beachgoing in literature and the arts, and shows the transgressive side of beach culture--from nudism to hedonism to various "scandals" about costume, behavior, and sexuality that make the beach the site of social spectacle as well as leisure. Urbain's ultimate focus is the paradoxical enterprise of the residential seaside vacationer, who travels in order to stay in one place and who leaves the everyday world behind to reconstruct an idealized version of it at the shore. He argues that unlike tourists, who move from place to place, beach vacationers are not seeking to explore nature, to discover other cultures, or even to "get away from it all"; rather, they are attempting to re-create their own identities through a simplified community they can no longer find elsewhere. Blending history with social observation, Urbain presents an original, incisive, and entertaining account of this enduring ritual of escape and recreation.
Author: Fred Inglis Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134786484 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 224
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Our holidays lie near the heart of our emotional life, enjoyed for a fortnight, fed on imagination for eleven months of the year. What we want from our holidays tells a lot about who we are and what we wish we were. In this charming account, Fred Inglis traces the rise of the holiday from its early roots in the Grand Tour, through the coming of Thomas Cook and his Blackpool packages, to sex tourism and the hippie trail to Kathmandu. He celebrates the bodily pleasures of generations of tourists - from Edwardian banquets in Paris to fish and chips on the beach, from the Bright Young Things on the Riviera to the chosen hardships of the sea, the desert wastes and the mountain tops. He considers the ideals and the spiritual aspirations which are part of what we look for in a holiday, but he also warns of a darker current - how we have increasingly destroyed what we take most pleasure in and how the dealings between those who have much and those who have little, can seldom, however good our intentions, avoid the taint of exploitation.
Author: Zanna Davidson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Beaches Languages : en Pages : 75
Book Description
Billy and his family are off to the seaside. The Mini Monsters are very excited to be going too. Soon they're building sandcastles and enjoying their picnic. It's all going so well until Trumpet is stolen by a seagull! How is Billy ever going to get him back?
Author: Eric Zuelow Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 0230369669 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 304
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Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world, yet leisure travel is more than just economically important. It plays a vital role in defining who we are by helping to place us in space and time. In so doing, it has aesthetic, medical, political, cultural, and social implications. However, it hasn't always been so. Tourism as we know it is a surprisingly modern thing, both a product of modernity and a force helping to shape it. A History of Modern Tourism is the first book to track the origins and evolution of this pursuit from earliest times to the present. From a new understanding of aesthetics to scientific change, from the invention of steam power to the creation of aircraft, from an elite form of education to family car trips to see national 'shrines,' this book offers a sweeping and engaging overview of a fascinating story not yet widely known.
Author: Alain Corbin Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520066380 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 380
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Corbin argues that with few exceptions people living before the eighteenth century knew nothing of the attractions of the coast, the visual delight of the sea, the desire to brave the force of the waves or to feel the coolness of sand against the skin. The image of the ocean in the popular consciousness was coloured by Biblical and mythical recollections of sea monsters, voracious whales, and catastrophic floods. It was perceived as sinister and unchanging, a dark, unfathomable force inspiring horror rather than attraction. These associations of catastrophe and fear in the minds of Europeans intensified the repulsion they felt towards deserted and dismal shores.
Author: Ellis Weiner Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 0316465283 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 288
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Everybody knows that the schools of the Ivy League -- universally touted as the pinnacle of American higher education -- have graduated countless political leaders, corporate titans, and global power brokers. But did you know these schools have also produced murderers, warmongers, traitors, plagiarists, slave traders, pederasts, and every other variety of moral reprobate? Whether you're a high school student grinding away in the hope of gaining admission to one of these institutions, a parent propelling a child toward Ivy glory, a current Ivy League undergraduate wondering "What the hell is this place?" -- or even an Ivy League alum, professor, administrator, or dropout -- this book was written specifically for you. As a warning. Because there are certain things -- monstrous things -- that go unmentioned in the catalog, campus tour, or employment package. And if your Ivy League application was rejected, here's compelling and consoling evidence of how lucky you are.
Author: Milli-gram Publisher: J-Novel Club ISBN: 1718349025 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages :
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After solving the Radzuel Empire’s miasma problem, and spending half a year recuperating from a mana fever in the Sargent Margraviate, Chelsea returns to the Royal Research Institute as Glen’s fiancée. Making her social debut at a party attended by the kingdom of Chronowize’s royal family, she makes her very first friend, a noble girl named Noel! During a visit to Noel’s home, they’re attacked by men in black—worshipers of the Proxy, who steal strengthening herbs from the greenhouse that can make monsters go berserk. Their true aim is...the destruction of the spirit trees, and the assassination of the Spirit King Element’s contractor, Chelsea! But once he learns the worshipers’ plans, Glen moves to round up all of the criminals targeting Chelsea before their engagement is officially announced!
Author: Lisa Surwillo Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 080479183X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 264
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Transatlantic studies have begun to explore the lasting influence of Spain on its former colonies and the surviving ties between the American nations and Spain. In Monsters by Trade, Lisa Surwillo takes a different approach, explaining how modern Spain was literally made by its Cuban colony. Long after the transatlantic slave trade had been abolished, Spain continued to smuggle thousands of Africans annually to Cuba to work the sugar plantations. Nearly a third of the royal income came from Cuban sugar, and these profits underwrote Spain's modernization even as they damaged its international standing. Surwillo analyzes a sampling of nineteenth-century Spanish literary works that reflected metropolitan fears of the hold that slave traders (and the slave economy more generally) had over the political, cultural, and financial networks of power. She also examines how the nineteenth-century empire and the role of the slave trader are commemorated in contemporary tourism and literature in various regions in Northern Spain. This is the first book to demonstrate the centrality of not just Cuba, but the illicit transatlantic slave trade to the cultural life of modern Spain.
Author: Zanna Davidson
Author: Zanna Davidson
Author: Zanna Davidson
Author: Jean-Didier Urbain
Author: Fred Inglis
Author: Zanna Davidson
Author: Eric Zuelow
Author: Alain Corbin
Author: Ellis Weiner
Author: Milli-gram
Author: Lisa Surwillo