Heritage is a social construction rooted in modern and contemporary societies. It is commonly a positive assessment of many elements of the physical and human environment (e.g. ecosystems and landscapes, monuments, customs, gender norms, religious practices, gastronomy, and livelihoods). Heritage and tourism are strongly related to each other in that heritage gives rise to tourist attractions and activities, and tourism enhances the designation of heritage sites. Non-human animals (hereaft...

The future of business growth is digital. Are you prepared?Digital marketers tap into an unprecedented ability to discover and reach motivated customers at scale. Now more than ever, digital marketing strategies are the key for emerging brands, new and veteran entrepreneurs, and businesses of all sizes to convert customers in digital spaces.In Digital Marketing for Business 2023, the author distills a decade’s worth of marketing experience into a crash course that covers ever...

Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham is an engrossing compendium that invites readers into the burgeoning world of Birmingham during a time of significant cultural transition and historical development. The anthology boasts a rich tapestry of entries that range from terse factuality to eloquent anecdotes, presenting a vivid tableau of the city's life and history. Within its pages, one discovers a multiplicity of genres, styles, and voices, all converging to depict the cultural and industrial...

Set in Hardy's Wessex, Far from the Madding Crowd follows Bathsheba Everdene—newly independent mistress of Weatherbury farm—and three men who orbit her: steadfast Gabriel Oak, haunted farmer William Boldwood, and dazzling Sergeant Troy. The novel renews the Victorian pastoral through granular detail, an ironic yet compassionate narrator, and motifs in which weather, toil, and chance govern fate. Its serially crafted design moves from festivity to catastrophe to chastened balance, fusing ly...

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785) seeks the supreme principle of morality by moving from common moral cognition to a pure metaphysics of morals. In dense, architectonic prose, Kant distinguishes acting from duty from mere conformity, elevates the good will, and articulates the Categorical Imperative in its core formulations—Universal Law, Humanity as End, and the Kingdom of Ends—grounding obligation in autonomy. Situated in the Enlightenment, it counters sentimentalist and con...

The contributors to Cocaine analyze the contemporary production, transit, and consumption of cocaine throughout the Americas and the illicit economy's entanglement with local communities. Based on in-depth interviews and archival research, these essays examine how government agents, acting both within and outside the law, and criminal actors seek to manage the flow of illicit drugs to both maintain order and earn profits. Whether discussing the moral economy of coca cultivation in...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.One of the greatest American poets, Emily Dickinson wrote more than 1,700 poems during her lifetime (1830-1886). Very few of them were published while she was alive, though. These poems on the subject of eternity were published after her death in three volumes by her friends Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. These editions were published between 1891 and 1896. Dickinson was so far ahead of her time in the mid-Victorian e...