Port of Last Resort
Title | Port of Last Resort PDF eBook |
Author | Marcia Reynders Ristaino |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780804750233 |
This book examines two large and generally overlooked diaspora communities, one Jewish, the other Slavic, who found refuge in Shanghai during the tumultuous first half of the twentieth century.
Zuflucht in Shanghai
Title | Zuflucht in Shanghai PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Adess Grossman |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Port of Last Resort
Title | Port of Last Resort PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 2004* |
Genre | Jewish refugees |
ISBN |
Last Resort
Title | Last Resort PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Port |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 550 |
Release | 2020-02-26 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1684718880 |
Why would Abigail Bissett suddenly resign as an FBI profiler to take a position with Carnival Cruise lines revamping shore excursions in Mediterranean ports? Why would she embark on a new life thousands of miles from Brookline, Massachusetts, her hometown? "I don't understand why you'd leave a job that you spent years training for and clearly love for a position that is inconsequential in the scheme of things," her mother pleads over coffee hours before Abby departs. "Because I can no longer deal with psychologically sick people out there," Abby responds. "The serial killers. The serial rapists. The child molesters. You get the point, Mom." "I do," Carole grudgingly responds. "But I've never known you to run from a challenge." "Maybe my FBI career has changed me," says Abby. "Look at it this way, Mom. I'm taking on a new challenge-one that's less stressful." In LAST RESORT, travel with Abby on an anything but typical cruise aboard the Carnival Liberty.
Run
Title | Run PDF eBook |
Author | A. Book A Book by Me |
Publisher | |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 2018-08-11 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781724472663 |
Run
Title | Run PDF eBook |
Author | Amen Gabre |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2021-09-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781947901384 |
Young Doris was very small when the Nazis began attacking the Jewish people. She and her widowed mother thought it best to try to leave Germany. They went by ship to Shanghai, China where they spent eight long years. Their neighbors went with them and they supported one another in the "ghetto" conditions endured by the Jews. When the war ended, Doris and her mother boarded a ship bound for America. Thirteen-year-old Doris weighed a mere 65 pounds. They started life over in Peoria, Illinois. Young author Amen Gabre and young artist Faith Mutum have brilliantly brought her story to life for young readers.
Last Resorts
Title | Last Resorts PDF eBook |
Author | Polly Pattullo |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2005-11 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 158367117X |
The Caribbean has the fortune—and the misfortune̬to be everyone's idea of a tropical paradise. Its sun, sand and scenery attract millions of visitors each year and make it a profitable destination for the world's fastest growing industry. Tourism is increasingly touted as its only hope of creating jobs and wealth—literally, the island's last resort. Last Resorts examines the real impact of tourism on the people and landscape of the Caribbean. It explores the structure of ownership of the industry and shows that the benefits it brings to the region do not live up to its claims. New developments in ecotourism, sex tourism, and the burgeoning cruise industry are not changing this pattern of short-term exploitation of the region's resources. The book shows how Caribbean societies are corrupted by tourism and its culture turned into floorshow parody. This new edition has been extensively revised and updated. It gives voice to people inside the tourism industry, its critics, and tourists themselves, and offers vital insights into a phenomenon that is central to the globalized world of today.