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  • Book of the Dead

    by Philip Stone ...
    Twenty-year old Paul has just gotten a job as guard at the History Museum. A few weeks in, a new Egyptian exhibit will be displayed. It is the mummy of pharao Khamutep. Paul soons learns the story of the pharao's young lover Setarion, tragically killed in a hunting acceident. Soon, Paul begins to have strange dreams of Khamutep, blurring the line between fantasy and reality. The dreams become ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Routledge Handbook of Dark Events

    Celebrations, Heritage, and Customs of Death and the Macabre

    This handbook explores and critically evaluates key debates and controversies in the emerging field of Dark Events. It brings together leading specialists from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and geographical regions to provide state-of-the-art theoretical reflection and empirical research on celebrations, heritage and customs of death (events) and the macabre.Divided into ten parts, the book ... Read more

    $474.99 CAD

  • The Darker Side of Travel

    The Theory and Practice of Dark Tourism

    Series Book 41 - Aspects of Tourism
    Over the last decade, the concept of dark tourism has attracted growing academic interest and media attention. Nevertheless, perspectives on and understanding of dark tourism remain varied and theoretically fragile whilst, to date, no single book has attempted to draw together the conceptual themes and debates surrounding dark tourism, to explore it within wider disciplinary contexts and to ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Future of Dark Tourism

    Enlightening New Horizons

    Series Book 8 - The Future of Tourism
    This book offers critical scenarios of dark tourism futures and examines how our significant dead will be remembered in future visitor economies. It aims to inspire critical thinking by probing the past, disrupting the present and provoking the future. The volume outlines key features of difficult heritage and future cultural trauma and highlights the role of technology, immersive visitor ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Children, Young People and Dark Tourism

    Series series Routledge Cultural Heritage and Tourism Series
    This book is the first its kind to offer an innovative examination of the intersecting influences, contexts, and challenges within the field of children’s dark tourism. It also outlines novel conceptualizations and methods for scholarship in this overlooked field.Presently, tourism research, and in dark tourism specifically, relies primarily on adult-centered theories and data collection methods. ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This handbook is the definitive reference text for the study of ‘dark tourism’, the contemporary commodification of death within international visitor economies. Shining a light on dark tourism and visitor sites of death or disaster allows us to better understand issues of global tourism mobilities, tourist experiences, the co-creation of touristic meaning, and ‘difficult heritage’ processes and ... Read more

    $434.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Tourist Experience

    Concepts and Consequences

    Series series Advances in Tourism
    This significant and timely volume aims to provide a focused analysis into tourist experiences that reflect their ever-increasing diversity and complexity, and their significance and meaning to tourists themselves. Written by leading international scholars, it offers new insight into emergent behaviours, motivations and sought meanings on the part of tourists based on five contemporary themes ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Tourist Experience

    Contemporary Perspectives

    Series series Advances in Tourism
    To consume tourism is to consume experiences. An understanding of the ways in which tourists experience the places and people they visit is therefore fundamental to the study of the consumption of tourism. Consequently, it is not surprising that attention has long been paid in the tourism literature to particular perspectives on the tourist experience, including demand factors, tourist motivation, ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Sensory Tourism

    Senses and SenseScapes Encompassing Tourism Destinations

    Tourism offers countless global locations, providing a multitude of sensory experiences. These include commercialised tourism products such as saunas and floatation tanks through to natural phenomenon such as mountains and wilderness destinations. Consequently, sensory elements are a curious concept within tourism because every destination provides a sensory experience of one kind or another. The ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Safeguarding Cultural Property and the 1954 Hague Convention

    All Possible Steps

    Significant attention today focusses on heritage destruction, but the key international laws prohibiting it - the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its First and Second Protocols (1954/1999) - lay out two core strands to limit the damage: the measures of respect for armed forces, and the safeguarding measures states parties should put ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Displaced Heritage

    Responses to Disaster, Trauma, and Loss

    The essays in this volume address the displacement of natural and cultural heritage caused by disasters, whether they be dramatic natural impacts or terrible events unleashed by humankind, including holocaust and genocide. Disasters can be natural or human-made, rapid or slow, great or small, yet the impact is effectively the same; nature, people and cultural heritage are displaced or lost. Yet ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Building Beloved Community in a Wounded World

    Is the beloved community local, national, global, or universal? What kind of love is required for the beloved community? Is such a community only an ideal, or can it be actualized in the here and now? Tracing the phrase beloved community from Josiah Royce through Martin Luther King Jr. to a variety of contemporary usages, Goodson, Kuehnert, and Stone debate answers to the above questions. The ... Read more

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