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Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism
Tourism, fast becoming the largest global business, employs one out of twelve persons and produces $6.5 trillion of the world’s economy. In a groundbreaking book, Elizabeth Becker uncovers how what was once a hobby has become a colossal enterprise with profound impact on countries, the environment, and cultural heritage.
... | | Database Nation (Hardback)Forget the common cold for a moment. Instead, consider the rise of "false data syndrome," a deceptive method of identification derived from numbers rather than more recognizable human traits. Simson Garfinkel couples this idea with concepts like "data shadow" and "datasphere" in Database Nation, offering a... | | Crop Improvement Under Adverse Conditions
Plant development and productivity are negatively regulated by various environmental stresses. Abiotic stress factors such as heat, cold, drought, and salinity represent key elements limiting agricultural productivity worldwide. Thus, developing crop plants with the ability to tolerate abiotic stresses is a critical need which demands modern... |
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LightWave 3D 8 Texturing (Wordware Game and Graphics Library)Before we begin to explore all the theory and techniques that are involved in the process of texturing, it is vital to observe the world around you in such a way as to enable you to understand exactly what you need to create within the computer-generated environment in which you work. Merely observing the world on a superficial... | | Pro VB 2005 and the .NET 2.0 Platform, Second EditionThe initial release of the .NET platform (circa 2001) caused quite a stir within the Visual Basic programming community. One the one hand, many die-hard VB 6.0 developers were up in arms at the major differences between VB 6.0 and Visual Basic .NET. Individuals in this group were a bit stunned to see that VB .NET was not in fact “VB... | | Heroes: David Bowie and Berlin (Reverb)
In 1976, David Bowie left Los Angeles and the success of his celebrated albums Diamond Dogs and Young Americans for Europe. The rocker settled in Berlin, where he would make his “Berlin Trilogy”âthe albums Low, Heroes, and Lodger, which are now considered some of the most critically ... |
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