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What job involves travelling to an exotic location, organising a dentist for a client's broken tooth, or gently breaking the news of a family death? All in a day's work for a tour guide. Travel with the Dream Makers presents an intriguing behind-the-scenes account of the little known world of tour guiding. Tour guides deliver the promise, they bring to life the travel dreams of their clients. In Travel with the Dream Makers, author Lynette Hin...

Beware the blue moon, for on its eve a beast will come. With eight eccentric clients ready to meet-and mate-Dracula's Daughter plans a weekend retreat at her ancestral home in Romania. Everyone's thrilled with the arrangements-until the prophecy comes true. Zev thought he knew-and hated-everything about vampires. But to gain his freedom from a life of servitude he agrees to protect Lavanya while she's in Romania. In more than two hundred years...

Humbert Wolfe (1885-1940) was a poet, wit and high ranking civil servant. The book is a reappraisal of his value and coincides with the creation of 5 sculptural heads to represent aspects of his life and work. Marble (International), Bronze (Bradford), Silver (Oxford), Gold (London Literary) and Granite (London Civil Service). Chapters in the book contain extracts from his poetry, prose and criticism. His poetry has themes of love and death an...

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In a ... portrait of the breathless one hundred days before the game, author Brian W. Boyles unearths the conflicts, ambitions, and secret histories that defined the city as it prepared for Super Bowl XLVII"--Page 4 of cover.

Sample the hearty helpings at the Hungry Dutchman and the dainty morsels at the Denver Dry Goods Tearoom to get a taste of a tradition rich with innovation, hard work, and crazy ideas. Waitresses, chefs, owners, and suppliers bring back the restaurants of yesteryear by sharing success stories and signature recipes. Just don't be surprised by sudden cravings for savory cannolis from Carbones, rich Mija Pie from Baur's, egg rolls at the Lotus Ro...

American history is teeming with unconventional, trailblazing Lone Star women with big, unprecedented achievements outstanding, outrageous, outre women who know all about being Texas Big and being first. Texas s own Bessie Coleman was the first black person in the world to earn a pilot s license. Students and typists the world over breathed a sigh of relief when San Antonio born Bette Nesmith Graham released Mistake Out, now known as Liquid Pa...

Buffalo's appreciation for a frosty pint stretches back more than a century before anyone enjoyed a cold one with a basket of wings. By the middle of the 1800s, the industrial hub counted malt and beer among its most vital and satisfying products. Operations like Simon Pure Beer, Iroquois Beverage and the Magnus Beck Brewing Company brought Buffalo s world-class ales to the rest of the country. Prohibition saw a thriving business in black mark...

Courageous women are to thank for many of Washington's environmental conservation successes. Bonnie Phillips, Melanie Rowland and Helen Engle battled harmful timber cutting. Polly Dyer and Emily Haig worked to expand Olympic National Park and organized efforts to establish North Cascades National Park. Women helped create the Washington Environmental Council and Washington Conservation Voters. As a state representative, Jolene Unsoeld led the ...

Mardi Gras in Mobile began its carnival celebration years before the city of New Orleans was founded. In the 1700s, mystic societies formed in Mobile, such as the Societe de Saint Louis, believed to be the first in the New World. These curious organizations brought old-world traditions as they held celebrations like parades and balls with themes like Scandinavian mythology and the dream of Pythagoras. Today, more than 800, 000 people annually ...

First formed in the early twentieth century, the ANC Women's League has grown into a leading organization in the women's movement in South Africa. The league has been at the forefront of the nation's century-long transition from an authoritarian state to a democracy that espouses gender equality as a core constitutional value.

Brian Norman uncovers a curious phenomenon in American literature: dead women who nonetheless talk. These characters appear in works by such classic American writers as Poe, Dickinson, and Faulkner as well as in more recent works by Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Tony Kushner, and others. These figures are also emerging in contemporary culture, from the film and best-selling novel The Lovely Bones to the hit television drama Desperate Housewives...

Aimed at students with little or no prior knowledge of marketing, this is an engaging introduction to key concepts and best practice in sport marketing. It outlines a step-by-step framework for effective sport marketing, from conducting market analysis and developing a strategy, to planning and implementation. Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, the book has expanded coverage of new media and social marketing, services and relation...

Praise for Change Leadership in HIGHER EDUCATION When it comes to the future of higher education, there are as many different opinions as there are stakeholders. But there is one thing deans, presidents, faculty, staff, students, and parents can agree on: change is needed. Change Leadership in Higher Education starts with this understanding. Instead of presenting yet another opinion about what to change, Jeffrey Buller addresses how leaders ca...

Chart Sense for Writing is the companion to the best-selling Chart Sense: Common Sense Charts to Teach 3-8 Informational Text and Literature. This resource is for elementary and middle school teachers who are ready to create meaningful, standards-based charts with their students. The same charts that Rozlyn creates with students when she models and teaches writing in classrooms across the nation are all included here. Packed with over seventy ...

The book examines issues related to the way modeling and simulation enable us to reconstruct aspects of the world we are investigating. It also investigates the processes by which we extract concrete knowledge from those reconstructions and how that knowledge is legitimated.

A voyage into the unknown world of magic, history and imagination, the story of Hanara and her quest companions will take you on a wild ride that will lead your thoughts into a far off land. Drulian's Saga Of Rebirth is an adventure that will capture your heart, instill valor in your soul and instruct you in the art of knowing your own gifts. Follow Hanara from her youth to the climatic conclusion of a mind disabling battle with Brawol, the Fa...

A voyage into the unknown world of magic, history and imagination, the story of Hanara and her quest companions will take you on a wild ride that will lead your thoughts into a far off land. Drulian's Saga Of Rebirth is an adventure that will capture your heart, instill valor in your soul and instruct you in the art of knowing your own gifts. Follow Hanara from her youth to the climatic conclusion of a mind disabling battle with Brawol, the Fa...