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  • Royal Events

    Rituals, Innovations, Meanings

    by Jennifer Laing, Warwick Frost ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Event Research Series
    Royal events such as coronations and jubilees encompass a wide spectrum of planned events involving monarchs and their families that are strategically designed to reinforce the role of royalty within social and political structures. Royal events may have a long heritage, but often involve traditions that are invented, revived or undergoing major innovations in response to changing times or to meet ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Micro and Nanomechanics, Volume 5

    Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics

    Edited by La Vern Starman, Jennifer Hay, Nikhil Karanjgaokar ...
    Micro-and Nanomechanics, Volume 5 of the Proceedings of the 2016 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the fifth volume of ten from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on a wide range of areas, including:MEMS: Materials & InterfacesMicroscale & ... Read more

    $239.99 CAD

  • The Science of the Couple

    The Ontario Symposium Volume 12

    Edited by Lorne Campbell, Jennifer La Guardia, James M. Olson, Mark P. Zanna ...
    Series series Ontario Symposia on Personality and Social Psychology Series
    Although love and relationships have been focal points for poets and philosophers for thousands of years, these topics had not traditionally been the focus of empirical research. As a result, very little was known about how couples maintained happiness and satisfaction in their relationships, or how relationships deteriorated, ultimately ending in separation or divorce. However, since the early ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Exhibitions, Trade Fairs and Industrial Events

    Edited by Warwick Frost, Jennifer Laing ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Event Research Series
    This book is the first to take an in-depth examination of the breadth and scope of exhibitions, trade fairs and other industrial events as a marketing tool or channel. Industrial Events are planned events that are staged with the primary aim of marketing businesses, industries and products. This may lead to direct sales through these events, as well as the development of brand image or building ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Micro and Nanomechanics, Volume 5

    Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics 

    Edited by La Vern Starman, Jennifer Hay, Nikhil Karanjgaokar ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Micro-and Nanomechanics*, Volume 5 of the* Proceedings of the 2016 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the fifth volume of ten from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on a wide range of areas, including:MEMS: Materials & InterfacesMicroscale & ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Rituals and Traditional Events in the Modern World

    Edited by Jennifer Laing, Warwick Frost ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Event Research Series
    Many events have evolved over centuries, drawing on local customs and conditions. However, as the world becomes increasingly globalised, traditional events and the identities they support are increasingly being challenged and rituals may be lost. Reacting against this trend towards homogeneity, communities strive to preserve and even recreate their traditional events, which may require rituals to ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Fashion, Design and Events

    Edited by Kim Williams, Jennifer Laing, Warwick Frost ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Event Research Series
    The importance of fashion and design in an events context remains under-researched, despite their ubiquity and significance from a societal and economic perspective. Fashion-themed events, for example, appeal to broad audiences and may tour the globe. Staging these events might help to brand destinations, boost visitor numbers and trigger popular debates about the contributions that fashion and ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Positive Tourism

    Edited by Sebastian Filep, Jennifer Laing, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Tourism
    Tourism affects millions of individuals, numerous societies and environments in multiple, nuanced and overlapping ways. While it can be viewed as a frivolous leisure pursuit or simply a large industry, with potentially destructive impacts, it might also be understood in terms of its effects on human fulfilment, the good life and greater well-being.This book calls for positive tourism, principally ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Explorer Travellers and Adventure Tourism

    by Dr. Jennifer Laing, Dr. Warwick Frost ...
    Series Book 40 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    This book examines the nexus between exploring and tourism and argues that exploration travel – based heavily on explorer narratives and the promises of personal challenges and change – is a major trend in future tourism. In particular, it analyses how romanticised myths of explorers form a foundation for how modern day tourists view travel and themselves. Its scope ranges from the 'Golden Age' of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Books and Travel

    Inspiration, Quests and Transformation

    by Dr. Jennifer Laing, Dr. Warwick Frost ...
    Series Book 31 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    The books that we read, whether travel-focused or not, may influence the way in which we understand the process or experience of travel. This multidisciplinary work provides a critical analysis of the inspirational and transformational role that books play in travel imaginings. Does reading a book encourage us to think of travel as exotic, adventurous, transformative, dangerous or educative? Do ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Origins of Britain

    by Lloyd and Jennifer Laing ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Anglo-Saxon World
    The Origins of Britain (1980) follows the path of man’s occupation of Britain from the scattered pockets of habitation in the earliest Palaeolithic period through to his growing domination of the landscape and his capacity to mould his environment evident in the late Bronze Age. Among the many subjects which the book discusses in detail are the extent of knowledge of astronomy and mathematics in ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Anglo-Saxon England

    by Lloyd and Jennifer Laing ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Anglo-Saxon World
    Anglo-Saxon England (1979) takes the history and archaeology of Britain from the fifth century AD through to 1066, covering perhaps the most enigmatic period in British history, when post-Roman, native British and Continental influences amalgamated, in a manner often difficult to unravel. Drawing upon archaeology, history, literature, place-names and the results of the latest scientific methods, ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD