This text offers a challenging laboratory component for undergraduate digital logic and computer design courses. The more advanced topics and exercises also make this text useful for upper level courses in digital logic or programmable logic. Design engineers working in industry should find this text useful as a rapid introduction to PPLD ...
The Academic Learning Series (ALS) provides comprehensive solutions for the academic instructor-led environment teaching networking and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 technologies. Each title includes in-depth, yet easy to understand text and labs rich with real-world application and hands-on activities. Packed with authoritative and accurate ...
Wine tourism is a rapidly growing field of industry and academic interest with changes in the consumer markets in recent years, showing an enormous interest in 'experiential' travel. "Wine Tourism Around the World" is therefore an invaluable text for both students and practitioners alike and provides: the first comprehensive introduction to wine ...
This revision of a timeless classic in the field of landscape architecture provides a glorious visual tour of the gardens created by Thomas Church, a modern master of landscape design. Combining rich photographs with a readable and witty text, the authors reveal how the qualities of Church's gardens reflect the best principles of contemporary ...
Grandma Moses and her paintings first came to public attention in 1940, when she was 80 years old. Her folk art, down-home personality, and background as a farmer and homemaker charmed the American public. By the time she died at the age of 101, she had completed over 1600 works of art and had established an international reputation. The work of ...
The new edition of this text is positioned - through its broad coverage, accessible style and presentation, and practical application - as the core learning resource for students of tourism planning. With an increased applied focus, a wider range of international case studies and examples, and two new chapters highlighting sustainability as a core ...
Food and wine are vital components of the tourism experience, and are increasingly being seen as prime travel motivators in their own right. "Food Tourism Around The World: Development, Management and Markets" offers a unique insight into this phenomenon, looking at the interrelationship between food, the tourism product and the tourist experience ...
"Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems: Quartus II Edition" provides an exciting and challenging laboratory component for undergraduate digital logic and computer design courses using FPGAs and CAD tools for simulation and hardware implementation. The more advanced topics and exercises also make this text useful for upper level courses in digital ...
"World Geography of Travel and Tourism" addresses the need to understand the cultural, environmental, historical and political context in which international tourism takes place. The expert author team has included major themes and issues in tourism, and positioned them in a regional context. In this way, this text takes a major step into a more ...
Architect, museum curator, and industrial designer Emilio Ambasz is renowned for projects that fuse architecture and landscape -- high-rise buildings enveloped in verdant screens of trees and plants, houses that virtually disappear beneath mounds of earth. His highly original work defies easy categorization and analysis, and Ambasz has himself ...
This text contains the essence of Thomas Church's design philosophy, as well as practical advice. It is illustrated by site plans and photographs of some of the 2000 gardens that Church designed during his career. Called "the last great traditional designer and the first great modern designer", Church was one of the central figures in the ...
After a long and accomplished career in scientific illustration, Bonnie Hall turned with wonder and determination to the art of screenprinting. Resolved to "share the privileged close scrutiny of nature" that she had enjoyed, Hall created her first screenprint in 1992 while undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer. Over the next twelve years, she ...
Second homes are an integral component of tourism in rural and peripheral areas. This volume represents a major international review of second homes for over 25 years. The volume represents helpful information for those interested in rural regional development processes.
"Tourism in South and South East Asia" is a comprehensive and solid introduction to tourism in South and South East Asia with a specific appeal both to institutions in the region, and other institutions who wish to expose students to one of the most dynamic tourism regions in the world. Despite downturns in outbound tourism (due to the current ...
Whilst "Wine Marketing: A Practical Guide" also looks at theory and existing research, the main focus of this book is on the practicalities of wine marketing. Each chapter includes the following invaluable features: 'How to' and 'how not to' case studies based on international examples; a guide to further reading and websites; 'issues to consider ...
Allegations of fraud have marred recent elections around the world, from Russia and Italy to Mexico and the United States. Such charges raise fundamental questions about the quality of democracy in each country. Yet election fraud and, more broadly, electoral manipulation remain remarkably understudied concepts. There is no consensus on what ...
Sex Tourism! For most people these two words conjure up an image of red light districts in places like Amsterdam and Bangkok, or seedy images of men in raincoats boarding buses for massage parlours away from home. Sex Tourism , however, argues that these images are only part of a wider social context. Tourists are socially condoned, feted, ...
There are few occupations more dangerous than flying an X-wing fighter for the Rebel Alliance, but Rogue Squadron is about to discover that diplomacy can be more deadly than a fleet of Star Destroyers! Sate Pestage, the interim Emperor, is losing his grip upon the Galactic Empire and seeks contact with Princess Leia to negotiate his defection to ...
This groundbreaking Companion offers readers an opportunity to reassess key themes in contemporary tourism studies in the light of recent theoretical developments in tourism studies and the social sciences, as well as dramatic changes in the operating environment for tourism. A critical overview of current research in tourism studies, this work: ...
In this newly reformatted and updated volume, discover the magic of Meta-Programs as perceptual lens and the power of figuring out where others are coming from. Everyday we spend time mind-reading and second-guessing the people with whom we live, work, associate, negotiate, parent, and love. We guess at their intentions, motives, future actions, ...
Wine, Food, and Tourism Marketing is an overview of contemporary practices and trends in food and wine tourism marketing. International in scope, the book draws on studies from Canada, England, France, New Zealand, South Africa, and Scotland for analyses of contemporary practices and trends that explain how to develop, implement, and maintain ...
This is the last word in quick effective NLP and yoga techniques to reduce stress at work and at home. Debra has been teaching these techniques for many years and sums them up as her state-of-the-art methods for 'flying into a powerful and resourceful state of calm'. The book offers a seven-day programme enabling the reader to access their own ...
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