The Sudan Journal of Ismay Thomas

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This is a fascinating portrait of the Sudan 50 years ago during the last days of the British Empire. The author, first a senior lecturer and later a provincial educational officer, traveled widely in her work. With her husband, she mixed professionally and socially with sheiks and local politicians, British officials from the Governor-General down, and with Sudanese of all walks of life. Her affect for the African nation and its people shines through in this chronicle. Foreword by James Callaghan.

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Film scholars often think of movies as cultural mirrors, reflections of their audience's dreams and beliefs. But in this accessible and absorbing book, Darrell William Davis argues that movies can also be an active force, contributing to and even helping to create a nation's sense of its own identity. Concentrating on the Japanese cinema of the 1930s and '40s, particularly on early works by the great director Kenji Mizoguchi, Davis shows how these movies distinguished Japanese culture from all others. Here, Davis argues, were a group of distinctly Eastern craftsmen who created a nationalistic art out of an essentially Western medium. This book provides an excellent and compelling analysis of the cinema, culture, and politics of Japan.

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Explores the role of 1930s Japanese cinema in the construction of a national identity and in the larger context of Japan's encounter-and struggle-with the West and modernity. Davis lends a new perspective to such celebrated films as Gate of Hell, Kagemusha, and Ran.

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Picturing Japaneseness
Darrell William Davis
Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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Picturing Japaneseness
Darrell William Davis
Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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In the fall of 1929 a young man from a small farming town in the swamp country of North Carolina arrived in New York City. Because of a preternatural inaptitude for mathematics, he had failed to receive a college degree from the University of North Carolina and suffered the added misfortune of arriving in the big city at the moment of the stock market crash. For the next eight years, except for a brief period when he got sick of the whole business and went to sea on a freighter to Leningrad, Joseph Mitchell worked first at The World, then as a district man at The Herald Tribune, and then as a reporter and feature writer at The World-Telegram. He covered the criminal courts, Tammany Hall politicians, major murder trials, and the Lindbergh kidnapping. He wrote multi-part profiles of notable figures of the day, among them Eleanor Roosevelt, George Bernard Shaw, and Franz Boas. His byline, appearing two or three times a day in The World-Telegram, would become familiar to almost four hundred thousand readers. But Mitchell discovered that it was not the politicians, business leaders, or noted celebrities of the day that he got the most pleasure out of interviewing, but people whose talk was “artless, the talk of the people trying to reassure or comfort themselves . . . talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels.” He began to frequent gymnasiums, speakeasies, and burlesque houses. He visited storefront churches in Harlem, covered the waterfront, and spent time at the Fulton Fish Market. Fascinated by the bizarre and the strange, he would become, in the words of Stanley Walker, his noted editor at The Herald Tribune, “one of the best newspaper reporters in the city.” In January 1938, My Ears Are Bent, a collection of Mitchell’s newspaper pieces, was published. That book, unavailable for more than sixty years, is now restored to print. A few months after the book’s original publication, Mitchell joined the staff of The New Yorker, where he remained until his death in 1996.

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My Ears Are Bent -- A Little.......2006-11-10

I enjoyed this collection of Mitchell articles, but it is really something that I think is for his hardcore fans. Readers will notice that some of the material -- in some cases, almost word for word -- became more polished articles later that appeared in his better known "Up in the Old Hotel" collection, and others in "Bent" simply aren't as lyrical, as you would expect since he was writing for newspapers and not, as later, The New Yorker.

My Ears Are Bent.......2005-07-28

Joseph Mitchell's newspaper writing is Mitchell at his best; young, fresh and delightful. He tells in 1500 or so words booklength stories made all the more powerful by the brevity.
A text book on writing and reporting.

Any Joesph Mitchell fan will find something here to like.......2002-07-31

A Joseph Mitchell anything is worth my time, but after having read UP IN THE OLD HOTEL, other writings will suffer by comparison. The works in this particular volume are a compilation of Mitchell's newspaper stories from the 1930s. While Mitchell's prose is sharp and illuminating, the subject matter comes off as slight compared to Mitchell's other labors. Mitchell had such a reputation for wanting his magazine stories to be perfect that these newspaper stories have the sense of being rushed to the presses.

Having said that, there are some great moments in the book. The book has a nice profile section of 1930s cartoonists, which is just the kind of subject matter that Mitchell handles well in that it gets past the part that everyone sees to the part Mitchell wants to know about. The section on Voodoo is hysterical and very much like his later New Yorker work. The book ends with a funny profile of playwright George Bernard Shaw.

If you have never read Mitchell, start with UP IN THE OLD HOTEL, but if you are already a fan, there are enough gems in this collection to make it worth your while.

Rather boring.......2001-08-11

Stories are well crafted, but the subject matter didn't interest me. Not bad, but I wouldn't buy it again.

Vintage Mitchell collection worthy of his legend.......2001-07-17

The good news is that all of the Mitchell virtues displayed in "Up In the Old Hotel" are emphatically present in this welcome collection of his earlier work for divers New York newspapers of the Depression era. Whether interviewing boxing promoters, or anyone in else George Bernard Shaw or the purveyors of Harlem "voodoo" products, Mitchell never lost his sense of courtly curiousity or his unerring ability to choose just the right word to express the outre character and often heartbreaking earnestness of his human subjects. Here's a worthy companion to sit on the shelf between A. J. Liebling's "Back Where I Come From" and "Up In The Old Hotel." It it also, by the way, a far better buy than the newly-republished "McSorley's Wonderful Saloon," the lion's share of which was reprinted in "Up In The Old Hotel."

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Bungie's Myth II: Soulblighter builds on all that was good and decent in the original Myth game. Myth II offers a ton of interface refinements that help simplify gameplay. In addition, the game includes a wealth of new multiplayer modes, so that you can meet, greet, and destroy your online friends in new and unusual ways. In order to cover all of the many new features and the intricacies of Myth II, Sybex put together a truly impressive strategy guide. This book covers everything from unit types and descriptions to a complete walkthrough for each of the game's 26 missions (including the hidden levels). Excellent maps and descriptive screen shots help you familiarize yourself with the environments, while convenient bullet lists outline all of the essential steps required to succeed on each level. The section on multiplayer tips and tactics is a bit thin, but the information there is critical to your online survival. Also, the section on troop formations and basic combat tactics could prove invaluable to newcomers and those overwhelmed by Soulblighter and his undead legions. --Michael Ryan

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Myth: The Fallen Lords was widely praised at the best strategy game of 1997--some say the best game period. It gave gamers the first taste of a strategy game set in a true 3D world. Myth II boasts completely new missions and a host of major improvements to an outstanding game. Veteran author Bart Farkas uses his insider status at Bungie to provide readers with the most in-depth and incisive Myth II strategy guide possible.

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good book.......2000-04-11

this was the ultimate guide to myth 2. It showed everything and also gave you hints about multi player. There was some stuff missing but you can still make it through the game with out it:-)

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Market societies have created more wealth, and more opportunities for more people, than any other system of social organization in history. Yet we still have a rudimentary understanding of how markets themselves are social constructions that require extensive institutional support. This groundbreaking work seeks to fill this gap, to make sense of modern capitalism by developing a sociological theory of market institutions. Addressing the unruly dynamism that capitalism brings with it, leading sociologist Neil Fligstein argues that the basic drift of any one market and its actors, even allowing for competition, is toward stabilization.

The Architecture of Markets represents a major and timely step beyond recent, largely empirical studies that oppose the neoclassical model of perfect competition but provide sparse theory toward a coherent economic sociology. Fligstein offers this theory. With it he interprets not just globalization and the information economy, but developments more specific to American capitalism in the past two decades--among them, the 1980s merger movement. He makes new inroads into the ''theory of fields,'' which links the formation of markets and firms to the problems of stability. His political-cultural approach explains why governments remain crucial to markets and why so many national variations of capitalism endure. States help make stable markets possible by, for example, establishing the rule of law and adjudicating the class struggle. State-building and market-building go hand in hand.

Fligstein shows that market actors depend mightily upon governments and the members of society for the social conditions that produce wealth. He demonstrates that systems favoring more social justice and redistribution can yield stable markets and economic growth as readily as less egalitarian systems. This book will surely join the classics on capitalism. Economists, sociologists, policymakers, and all those interested in what makes markets function as they do will read it for many years to come.

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Not very revealing.......2003-12-18

I had high hopes for this book.

It really let me down.

As I read through the book I kept saying "duh" to myself. Unless you are a conservative with a fantasticailly naive ideal of capitalism wherein business acts perfectly rationally and only to maximize profit, there is little to be gained from this book. Anyone with a basic knowledge of the realities of capitlism will not be learning much that wasn't already known - though they may lack the terminology and rigor of his sociological definitions.

There is an interesting chapter near the end about how the ideology of corporate control has changed, and with it how corporations have functioned. This is the only real chapter that I found interesting.

The last chapter of the book is a weak defense of globalization. His "political-cultural approach" fails to offer any explanation for why the economy has undergone so many significant changes in the past twenty five years. He defines the amount of "globalization" as the amount of trade flows across borders and then insists that globalization has not caused an increase in inequality because Japan and Europe, who are less dependent on foreign trade than America have not suffered the same increase in inequality!

look for a better book.

The market as a social field.......2002-08-17

Over past decades, what has bestowed the identity on economic sociology is the shared hostility to neoclassical economics. But besides it, unfortunately, they have agreed on nothing. And worse, economists simply pass over their arguments. They are no more than fusses about nothing. The reason is simple: there are no potent enough alternatives in sociological camp. Fligstein argues that this is because sociological approaches lack a organizing frame to explain economic processes as generic social processes. To make it effective, there should be a simple and powerful enough theoretical frame. Offering such an approach is what Fligstein intends with this book.
Economic action takes place in the market. Fligstein holds that there is no reason to treat the market differently. Social action takes place in organized social space, or field in Bourdieu¡¯s term. Fields is the space where one try to dominate others. But the domination in that space is systemized and routinized. It defines local relations between actors. Once in place, the interactions in fields become ¡®games¡¯ where groups in filed who have more power use the acceptable rules to reproduce their power: the domination system is institutionalized. This process makes action in fields inherently political. Studying field is about opening of new social space, how it becomes and remains stable (become a field), and the forces that transform fields.
Fligstein replaces profit-maximizing actor with one who takes care of the survival of their firm. Managers and owners are trying enhance the survival of the firm by reducing the uncertainties they face in the market. Managing uncertain environment is a sizable task. It¡¯s about the search for stable and predictable interactions with competitors, suppliers, and workers. Relationship between seller and buyer is fleeting. Stability in the market lies in the relationship between sellers, then. Relationships between them delineate the market as a field. The social relations are oriented toward maintaining the advantage of largest seller firms in the face of their challengers. They define how the market works and how competition is structured. Although the firms compete, they have produced an equilibrium whereby they survive by following the accepted tactics of competition. As forms of social relation, market systems involve both shared understanding and concrete social relations. The shared understandings structure the interactions between competitors but also allow actors to make sense of their competitors actions. There are four types of rules relevant to producing social structure in markets: property rights, governance structures, rules of exchange, and conception of control. These categories are the essential analytic tools in Fligstein¡¯s approach. They enable researcher to dissect empirically. But definition and details are intricate to propose here. I¡¯ll skip it.
Part I of this book sketch out the theoretical outline of Fligstein¡¯s approach. Part II support it with case studies of labor market, corporate governance, and globalization. On the whole, this book is readable and persuasive. Points are clear, lines are easy to follow. In my opinion, it¡¯s a breakthrough in economic sociology.

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Jonathon E. Mote
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The Badlands

The "Indian" in our US culture's background

Introduction to the Native-American Shaman

Gift of Power

One Of the Greatest books I ahve ever read.

Gift of Power: The Life and Teachings of a Lakota Medicine Man
Chief Archie Fire Lame Deer , and Richard Erdoes
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Release Date: 1992-10-01

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Gift of Power is a classic story of one man's journey through alienation and struggle to epiphany and redemption. Archie Fire Lame Deer embodies the Native American struggle for survival in a homeland that has become foreign. In vivid first- person narrative, Lame Deer recalls his tumultuous life in a stereotypical Indian world of bottles, feathers, and horses. After enough booze and fighting to kill an average man, he transcends his self-destructive tendencies by reclaiming the spiritual elements of his traditional culture. We learn along with Lame Deer the power and secrets of native medicine and the gifts that they bring to the beholder. This Lakota medicine man is a teacher and a model.

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With surprising candor, Archie Fire Lame Deer describes the magic and power of the Native American spirit life. Archie's compelling narrative recaptures his boyhood years under the tutelage of his medicine-man grandfather on a South Dakota farm. We follow him from Catholic school runaway to Army misfit, from bartender to boozer, from Hollywood stuntman to chief rattlesnake catcher of the state of South Dakota. And we exult with him when he comes home to the world of spirit.

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The Badlands.......2007-05-25

Growing up nurtured in the many faces and realities of nature - and the beauties & dangers therein - provided a school of knowledge for Archie Fire Lame Deer. Along side of this, were the brutalities and horrors of another type of school; this school sought to shame, beat, and abuse the native spirit out of him. This place was one of the many much written about Christian Indian Schools. Within both settings were men who set examples for Archie of humans who realized they had to do nothing else but provide him with acceptance and kindness: his grandfather and a priest at the Indian School. Archie was sent to this school by his Grandfather for the knowledge to be gained there. Grandfather was a Shaman;he knew that Archie would be one someday,too. I think the real reason he sent him to that school was to expose him - first hand - to the ugliest parts of human nature that he knew about. Archie going to Indian School was tantamount to hurricane Katrina being stopped by the frivolous levy systems in New Orleans. Despite all this violence, Archie was able to learn...the kindly Priest at the school was there, right on time, to provide support when Archie needed it most. After freeing himself from this place, his journey was soaked by alcohol. It accompanied Archie everywhere: with lots of women; in lots of fights; in just as many jail cells. It then took him to Hollywood where he became a stuntman. Under all of this was his calling as a healer and a Shaman: this is a terrifying calling. The physical and emotional demands are overwhelming. Here are the facts: only someone willing to throw away, time and again, friends, relatives, jobs, and opportunites is fit for such a job. It seems that such a person would be a narcissist; on the contrary, this kind of person walks with death and loss every day. They have no ego; they have no feelings. We have called them sociopaths. The difference between a sociopath and someone who grabs THE GIFT OF POWER is simple; the former dies or goes insane, while the latter somehow recognizes the destruction in him/herself - and in the wake they cast - as only another possession to be tossed aside. Then that empty hole is filled with the GIFT OF POWER. Archie's natural Father died. In this dying he passed the gift on to his son. Archie was born and raised in the Badlands; but other lands were just as bad. There is beauty in the Badlands...you just have to recognize it. This book should be on all required reading lists.

The "Indian" in our US culture's background.......2007-01-11

If you like me, before I read this book, are naive to what true American Indian culture is all about (or maybe you won't realize how naive you are until you read the book), then this biography of Archie Fire Lame Deer, a Lakota Indian is definitely an excellent crash course to bring you up to date! Much of American Indian culture, especially their religion and intense beliefs about people, animals and our earth make a lot of sense to me. So many suppressed or simply not understood parts of this culture are clearly explained and described in fascinating detail. Though I don't plan to change my personal Christian beliefs, I'm moved by the depth and intensity of this culture; Archie Fire's descriptions moved me to intense shame regarding the many horrible things that were, and are still being done in the name of Christianity to this culturally rich, intelligent, colorful and generally peaceful people (Archie Fire Lame Deer, somewhat similarly, also expresses his shame of so many false medicine men promoting Indian religion & culture). And we claim to be a free country guaranteeing freedom of religion? As has become apparent to me, so many things that we believe to be a part of our white North American cultures are actually rooted in American Indian tradition. I say thanks very much to Archie Fire for recording this valuable, enlightening information for we, the unindoctrinated. I wish him and the American Indian people the realization of all of the wonderful dreams described here (as I wish to share in them also).

Introduction to the Native-American Shaman.......2006-11-10

This is a first-person account of the life of a "medicine man," or Native-American shaman. The style is personal and engaging. This is a good introduction to the topic for the novice.

Gift of Power.......2006-11-10

This book was totally amazing. Written in Archie Lame Deer's own words. Archie really takes us deep into the Lakota culture and brings us into the world of American Indian life. The style in which Archie teaches instills in the reader the importance of laughter to the American Indian people as a way of dealing with the horror dealt by the government and settlers throughout history.

One Of the Greatest books I ahve ever read........1999-03-06

Lame deer pulls no punches and tellyou how it was and how it is. I wish I could have met him in person. He teachings are carried on through others that he has taught.

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I rate this book with five stars, without hesitation........1998-06-29

In this at once sobering and pragmatic book, Mr Builder brings to the fore a background to an ongoing story that is rarely accessible to the general reader. The modern Air Force continues to evolve due in large part to the sheer force of the personalities wearing the unifiom. Exploiting technology relentlessly while stubbornly clinging to the ways of their upbringing as captains and majors, today's Air Force colonels and generals are hamstrung between new and old. This book expertly and accurately describes the process and its result. The book's core focus is on contemporary leadership and the experiences that shaped them (i.e., the Cold War and Vietnam, in a combination of extremes) If anyone wants to know why the Air Force does the odd things it occassionaly does (in public and private), the answers lie herein, told in unemotional tuths. Thank you, Carl Builder, for providing what Gen McPeak was unable to give you credit for in the book's opening remarks. Strongly recommended for the intelligent student of Air Force history - this book should have been on the Air Force Chief of Staff Reading List. The only improvement would be a reissue in paperback to spare the $44.00 cost.

Senior Master Sergeant Paul D. Helphenstine Directorate of Logistics/Aircraft Maint Policy and Programs, Headquarters, United States Air Forces in Europe

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You are there!

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The floor gets extremely hot and the staircases are collapsing

A reinforcement of stereotypes

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Inside 9-11: What Really Happened
Der Spiegel
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Some of the finest writing and reporting on the events of September 11 was done by Der Spiegel, Germany's magazine of record. With its main office in Hamburg, base of operations for terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta and many of the others, Der Spiegel's journalists were on the front lines of the earliest investigation into the identities of those who, on a cloudless summer's morning, brought Holy War to America.The award-winning team from Spiegel was also at Ground Zero, talking to people, gathering stories, interviewing survivors, seeking the words that might express the interconnections of horror and heroism. The words came to them from those who had been inside and somehow gotten out, and take us as close as we can get to what happened. Combining first-class investigative journalism and writing of extraordinary clarity, Inside 9-11 is a heartbreaking and gripping reconstruction of the events that changed us all. No book can encompass what took place on 9-11. But here is one that gives it human dimension.

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You are there!.......2006-02-14

I read this book soon after it was published in hard cover and to this very day I occasionally think back to the accounts of that horrible event documented in this dazzling recounting of the last day and days in the lives of the people involved.
Not only does it offer the reader painful moment by moment insight into the loss of so many innocents but also takes you through the planning and unstoppable march of the terrorists toward their personal obliteration.
This is not a book to speed read. It is best to absorb, reflect and wonder why, Dubya, why?
Truely heart rendering.

Page-turner .......2005-09-19

For those that want detail and inside facts that are missing from other books on this topic, this is the book to read. It lets you look into the last hours of the poor victims and also the criminals. Fast pased, though you may have to put the book aside to gather your emotions from time to time. I've read several books on this tragedy, but this one gives interesting facts that other books did not touch on.

The floor gets extremely hot and the staircases are collapsing.......2005-07-23

After the recent London underground bombing attack [juli 2005] my hometown bookshop displayed, on a special table, literature about terrorism. Here I found 9/11. I wanted to buy it allthough I hesitated, was I ready to read this? Once reading I finished it within days. The German writers-team of Der Spiegel took me through the stories of all kinds of people who were linked directly to 9/11. They interviewed members of the New York Fire Department and people who worked in the Twin Towers and how they all tried to resist the inferno after the planes hit. You also get acuinted with the hijacker's and their dark years before they attacked, as well as persons who knew them well, like landlords, co-workers, friends and family. Every person somehow comes alive by perfect narration, and many details are moving. Its very personal, which makes it touchable. The writers convinced me they are born writers. I can really recommend this book. It gives faces, like me and you, to a very bad event of the recent past. And last but not least, it presents insight in how different people cope with the aftermath of 9/11.

A reinforcement of stereotypes.......2005-07-11

This book starts out interestingly enough, drawing us into the lives of characters whose lives were about to be so tragically affected by the horrendous events of Sept. 11, 2001.
Unfortunately, it gradually deteriorates into that familiar litany suggesting that all Americans are self-sacrificing heroes, and most Muslims are murderous, manipulative, shady characters.
An appalling ignorance of cultural differences -- for example the importance of the Qu'ran, or respect for women that is demanded by Islam -- is demonstrated by the authors. Instead, these are brushed aside as strange quirks of a secretive cult.
If you want a read that confirms the stereotypes of Americans as uniformly brave and caring of others, and Muslims as cowardly terrorists, this would be an excellent book.
If, however, you want a more balanced account of the bigger picture, I'm sure (I hope) there must be better, less-biased information available.
If you must read this, read with awareness of pro-American faultless flag-waving patriotism.

A disappointing piece of flagrant propaganda.
-Mick Loosemore
Surrey, Canada

Rubish.......2004-12-11

Bla bla bla. Read "Inside Job" by Jim Marrs and watch the DVD "9/11 In Plane Sight", maybe you'll learn the truth!

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Der Spiegel (Editor) Magazine
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INSIDE 9-11: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
Writers, and Editors of Der Spiegel Magazine (transl from German by Paul De Angelis and Elisabeth Kaestner) Reporters
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Der Spiegel
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Inside 9-11: What Really Happened
Stefan Aust , and Cordt Schnibben
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* Reveals why we are so fascinated by wild animals, what they mean to us and how as ecotourists we may be loving animals to death
* Richly illustrated with photographs and accompanied by annexes of original research
* Essential and compelling reading for practitioners, students and academics in ecotourism, conservation, environment and cultural studies as well as ecotourists visiting animal encounter sites

Ecotourism is the fastest growing segment of tourism, the worldâ€™s largest industry. Encounters with wild animals, be it swimming with dolphins, going on safari or bird watching, are at the core. Yet little is known about why people seek out these experiences and the meaning for the ecotourism industry, conservation efforts and society at large.

Facing the Wild is the first serious empirical examination of why people seek out animals in their natural environment, what the desire for this experience tells us about the meanings of animals, nature, authenticity and wilderness in contemporary industrialized societies and whether visitors change their environmental perspectives and behaviour, as the custodians of parks would like them to. The book explores the contradictions and ambivalence that so many people experience in the presence of â€~wild natureâ€™--in loving it we may diminish it and in the act of wanting to see it we may destroy it. Ultimately the book makes a case for â€~respectful stewardshipâ€™ of a â€~hybrid natureâ€™ and provides insight for both practitioners and ecotourists alike.

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