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The Distance to China: Twentieth-Century Italian Travel Narratives of Patriot…
«As Italy tends to be studied increasingly in transnational and transcultural perspective, there is an ever-greater need for studies that explore the country's relationship with other geographical areas and cultural configurations. Linetto Basilone's work is an important contribution to research of this kind. The work provides a panoramic view of how journalists and travel writers from the lat…
- Edition
- 42
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781789975116
- Collation
- 336p
- Series Title
- Italian Modernities
- Call Number
- 850.9 LIN
Travel writings on Asia : curiosity, identities, and knowledge across the Eas…
This open access book provides an analysis of human actors and their capacity to explore and conceptualise their own agency by being curious, gathering knowledge, and shaping identities in their travel reflections on Asia. Thus, the actors open windows across time to present a profound overview of diverse descriptions and constructions of Asia. It is demonstrated that international and transnat…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789811901249
- Collation
- XIV, 310 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 808 CHR t
In the lands of the Romanovs : an annotated bibliography of first-hand Englis…
Over the course of more than three centuries of Romanov rule in Russia, foreign visitors and residents produced a vast corpus of literature conveying their experiences and impressions of the country. The product of years of painstaking research by one of the world’s foremost authorities on Anglo-Russian relations, In the Lands of the Romanovs is the realization of a major bibliographical proj…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783740598
- Collation
- xvi, 422 p. ; ill. ; 23 cm.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 947.04 LAN c
Placing empire : travel and the social imagination in imperial japan
Placing Empire examines the spatial politics of Japanese imperialism through a study of Japanese travel and tourism to Korea, Manchuria, and Taiwan between the late nineteenth century and the early 1950s. In a departure from standard histories of Japan, this book shows how debates over the place of colonized lands reshaped the social and spatial imaginary of the modern Japanese nation. In turn,…
- Edition
- edision 18
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780520967236
- Collation
- xiii. ;ill. :245 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 306.4819089956051. PLA m
The psychosocial reality of digital travel : being in virtual places
When physical travel to a specific place is prohibited or otherwise difficult or impossible, digital travel provides a promising alternative. The technology to do this is now widely available and many people have the possibility to meet with others digitally, and thus alleviate the social effects of physical isolation. Digital travel can also be source of pleasure and entertainment, and man…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030912727
- Collation
- xi, 152 p. ill;
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 302.231 PSY I
A time travel dialogue
Is time travel just a confusing plot device deployed by science fiction authors and Hollywood filmmakers to amaze and amuse? Or might empirical data prompt a scientific hypothesis of time travel? Structured on a fascinating dialogue involving a distinguished physicist, Dr. Rufus, a physics graduate student and a computer scientist this book probes an experimentally supported hypothesis of backw…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783740413
- Collation
- vii. :79 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 530.11 JOH a
Peer-to-peer accommodation networks : pushing the boundaries
Peer-to-Peer Accommodation Networks: Pushing the boundaries is the first book to provide an in-depth analysis of the business model of Airbnb, to discuss factors facilitating the transition of peer-to-peer networks from niche market to mainstream accommodation providers, and to predict that the next step of development for peer-to-peer accommodation networks will be to become online one-stop tr…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978191196536
- Collation
- X, 284 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 647.94 DOL p
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