The Beauty Myth

The Beauty Myth
Author: Naomi Wolf
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2009-03-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 006196994X

The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of "the flawless beauty."

Trends and Issues in Global Tourism 2010

Trends and Issues in Global Tourism 2010
Author: Roland Conrady
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2010-02-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3642108296

This book offers insights into important trends and future scenarios in the global tourism and travel industry and analyses current challenges in the aviation and hospitality industry, destination management and general travel behaviour. Well-known notabilities share their points of view. For example, Norbert Walter, chief economist of the Deutsche Bank, writes about the financial crisis and its impact on the tourism industry. Top executives of international operating airlines like C. Karlitekin (Turkish Airlines), J. Hunold (Air Berlin) and E. Sims (Air New Zealand) have much to say about the future of airlines and aviation management. Corporate Social Responsibility is one of the top themes to-be and therefore a focus of this book, offering the perspective of the UN Foundation and the social inclusion concept of RUHR.2010, European Capital of Culture. The articles are based on presentations and panel discussions presented at the world ́s largest tourism congress, the ITB Berlin Convention.

Incomes from the Forest

Incomes from the Forest
Author: Eva Wollenberg
Publisher: CIFOR
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Forest conservation
ISBN: 9798764196

Documentation and comparation methods to assess options for forest-based livelihoods and their outcomes. The contributions are based on the premise that livelihood and conservation goals can be best achieved by improving information flow about changes in the environment, and the impacts of forest use. The authors report on the strengths and weaknesses of methods that have been tried in the field.

Clinical Engineering Handbook

Clinical Engineering Handbook
Author: Joseph F. Dyro
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 696
Release: 2004-08-27
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 012226570X

As the biomedical engineering field expands throughout the world, clinical engineers play an ever more important role as the translator between the worlds of the medical, engineering, and business professionals. They influence procedure and policy at research facilities, universities and private and government agencies including the Food and Drug Administration and the World Health Organization. Clinical engineers were key players in calming the hysteria over electrical safety in the 1970s and Y2K at the turn of the century and continue to work for medical safety. This title brings together all the important aspects of Clinical Engineering. It provides the reader with prospects for the future of clinical engineering as well as guidelines and standards for best practice around the world.

Commonwealth Caribbean Land Law

Commonwealth Caribbean Land Law
Author: Sampson Owusu
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 824
Release: 2021-01-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1000116441

The first textbook to address land law as it relates to the Commonwealth Caribbean, it encompasses all areas covered in an undergraduate course on the law of real property in the Caribbean. Primary and secondary source material on the law of property in the whole of the Commonwealth Caribbean is made easily and readily accessible to law students and legal practitioners. Statutory provisions from all States are discussed in relation to each topic and the similarities and differences are highlighted. Extensive discussion and analysis of the decisions of the courts in the region are also included alongside an in-depth analysis and critical discussion of English case law that is relevant to the Caribbean. The examination of whether or not English case law should be followed in the region is relevant and interesting to anyone studying or practising law in other Commonwealth jurisdictions. Essential reading for undergraduate law students in the Caribbean, this text will also prove useful to those studying for the certificate of proficiency in the practice of law in the Commonwealth Caribbean, while the footnote references to statutory provisions are an invaluable aid to any researcher of Caribbean land law.

Macmillan Directory of Lloyd’s of London

Macmillan Directory of Lloyd’s of London
Author: John Rew
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1989-07-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1349108618

For the first time, we have a directory which explains the working of Lloyd's without technical jargon. The book is written by three acknowledged experts from the world of insurance. Essential reading to anyone who is involved in insuring assets for private or corporate benefit.

The Library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf

The Library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf
Author: Julia King
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2003
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

Originally part of the Woolfs' personal library, the Leonard and Virginia Woolf Collection at Washington State University reveals valuable biographical information about the Woolfs themselves, as well as writers and artists associated with the Bloomsbury Group. The catalog consists of brief citations that describe all of the circa 6,000 volumes in the repository.

Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers Directory of Members and Member Firms

Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers Directory of Members and Member Firms
Author: The Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 724
Release: 2016-01-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1349135402

This is the official publication for members and member firms of the Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers (ISVA). The directory contains the names and addresses of every member, and a complete list of practising firms and commercial concerns with member firms.

The Writing on the Wall

The Writing on the Wall
Author: Lindsey V. Sharman
Publisher: Art in Profile: Canadian Art a
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781552389492

The Writing on the Wall tells the story of the art and life of Siksika (Blackfeet) artist, curator, writer and activist Dr. Joane Cardinal-Schubert, RCA.