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Claiming individuality the cultural politics of distinction /

Table of Contents: “…On claiming individuality : an introduction to the issues / Vered Amit, Noel Dyck -- In the aftermath of death : presenting self, individuality and family in an Iyangar family in Chennai, 1994 / Mattison Mines -- Growing up in the Caribbean : individuality in the making / Karen Fog Olwig -- Distinction and co-construction : diaspora Asian fashion entrepreneurs in London / Parminder Bhachu -- Claiming individuality through "flexibility" : career choices and constraints among traveling consultants / Vered Amit -- A personalized journey : tourism and individuality / Julia Harrison -- Becoming educated, becoming and individual? …”
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Claiming individuality the cultural politics of distinction /

Table of Contents: “…On claiming individuality : an introduction to the issues / Vered Amit, Noel Dyck -- In the aftermath of death : presenting self, individuality and family in an Iyangar family in Chennai, 1994 / Mattison Mines -- Growing up in the Caribbean : individuality in the making / Karen Fog Olwig -- Distinction and co-construction : diaspora Asian fashion entrepreneurs in London / Parminder Bhachu -- Claiming individuality through "flexibility" : career choices and constraints among traveling consultants / Vered Amit -- A personalized journey : tourism and individuality / Julia Harrison -- Becoming educated, becoming and individual? …”
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Mapping Shangrila : Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands /

Table of Contents: “…Yeh -- Part I. Shangrilazation : Tourism, Landscape, Identity -- Vital Margins : Frontier Poetics and Landscapes of Ethnic Identity / Li-hua Ying -- Dreamworld, Shambala, Gannan : The Shangrilazation of China's "Little Tibet" / Chris Vasantkumar -- A Routine Discovery : The Practice of Place and the Opening of the Yading Nature Reserve / Travis Klingberg -- Part II. …”
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Mapping Shangrila : Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands /

Table of Contents: “…Yeh -- Part I. Shangrilazation : Tourism, Landscape, Identity -- Vital Margins : Frontier Poetics and Landscapes of Ethnic Identity / Li-hua Ying -- Dreamworld, Shambala, Gannan : The Shangrilazation of China's "Little Tibet" / Chris Vasantkumar -- A Routine Discovery : The Practice of Place and the Opening of the Yading Nature Reserve / Travis Klingberg -- Part II. …”
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Las ciudades intermedias y el desarrrollo regional en México / by Aguilar, Adrián Guillermo

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Kyiv, Ukraine - Revised Edition : The City of Domes and Demons from the Collapse of Socialism to the Mass Uprising of 2013-2014 / by Cybriwsky, Roman Adrian 1945-, Cybriwsky, Roman Adrian 1945-

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Kyiv, Ukraine - Revised Edition : The City of Domes and Demons from the Collapse of Socialism to the Mass Uprising of 2013-2014 / by Cybriwsky, Roman Adrian 1945-, Cybriwsky, Roman Adrian 1945-

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Las ciudades intermedias y el desarrrollo regional en México / by Aguilar, Adrián Guillermo

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Ethics in health services and policy a global approach / by Harris, Dean M., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…. -- Ethical Issues in Medical Tourism. -- 11 Ethical Issues in the Movement of Health Care Professionals Across National Borders. -- Ethical Issues in the Migration of Health Professionals. -- Proposed Solutions and Their Ethical Implications. -- Fair Treatment of Health Care Workers from Other Countries. -- 12 Corruption and Informal Payments in Health Systems. -- Payment of Informal Fees by Patients and Their Families. -- Is Corruption Bad for Your (and Other People's) Health? …”
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Ethics in health services and policy a global approach / by Harris, Dean M., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…. -- Ethical Issues in Medical Tourism. -- 11 Ethical Issues in the Movement of Health Care Professionals Across National Borders. -- Ethical Issues in the Migration of Health Professionals. -- Proposed Solutions and Their Ethical Implications. -- Fair Treatment of Health Care Workers from Other Countries. -- 12 Corruption and Informal Payments in Health Systems. -- Payment of Informal Fees by Patients and Their Families. -- Is Corruption Bad for Your (and Other People's) Health? …”
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Oceanic New York /

Table of Contents: “…Silent Beaches / Elizabeth Albert -- "Miss Newtown Creek" / Granville Ganter -- Arctic-Oceanic New York / Lowell Duckert -- #bottlesNbones tales of oceanic remains / Jamie Skye Bianco -- Groundswell / Alison Kinney -- City in the sea / Bailey Robertson -- Insensate oysters and our nonconsensual existence / Karl Steel -- Super ocean / Matt Zazzarino -- A short history of the Hudsonian Ice Age / Nancy Nowacek and Lowell Duckert -- Wages of water / Steve Mentz -- Instructions in case of immersion / Steve Mentz and Marina Zurkow -- The sea is a conveyance-machine / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen -- Nine soundings / Allan Mitchell -- New York, oceanic city / Dean Kritikos -- Oceanic valuation / Anne Harris -- Tourism, experience, knowledge, action / Julie Orlemanski -- Watery metaphor / Jonathan Hsy -- Building a bridge by hand to cross Buttermilk Channel on foot / Nancy Nowacek -- Oceanic dispatches / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Allan Mitchell.…”
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Oceanic New York /

Table of Contents: “…Silent Beaches / Elizabeth Albert -- "Miss Newtown Creek" / Granville Ganter -- Arctic-Oceanic New York / Lowell Duckert -- #bottlesNbones tales of oceanic remains / Jamie Skye Bianco -- Groundswell / Alison Kinney -- City in the sea / Bailey Robertson -- Insensate oysters and our nonconsensual existence / Karl Steel -- Super ocean / Matt Zazzarino -- A short history of the Hudsonian Ice Age / Nancy Nowacek and Lowell Duckert -- Wages of water / Steve Mentz -- Instructions in case of immersion / Steve Mentz and Marina Zurkow -- The sea is a conveyance-machine / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen -- Nine soundings / Allan Mitchell -- New York, oceanic city / Dean Kritikos -- Oceanic valuation / Anne Harris -- Tourism, experience, knowledge, action / Julie Orlemanski -- Watery metaphor / Jonathan Hsy -- Building a bridge by hand to cross Buttermilk Channel on foot / Nancy Nowacek -- Oceanic dispatches / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Allan Mitchell.…”
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Globalization policies and issues

Table of Contents: “…Kuriakose -- An overview of computational methods in forecasting tourism demand : recommendations and future research / Marcos Álvarez-Díaz and Jaume Rosselló-Nadal -- Shifting locus of influence in the labor union movement : negotiations in international framework agreements / Niklas Egels-Zandén -- Trade policy in the globalizing world : policy modeling and simulations of futures / Akira Onishi.…”
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Pilgrims and travellers in search of the holy

Table of Contents: “…Andreyev -- Pilgrimage as business in traditional India / Klaus Karttunen -- Pouring water on Śiva : the case of Tarakeswar pilgrims / Rikka Uuksulainen -- The way is the goal : Buddhist circulatory pilgrimage in Japan with special reference to selected artefacts / Michael Pye -- Traditional Tibetan pilgrimage and the eight holy sites of Rebgong / Wuqi Chenaktsang -- A dead man's pilgrimage : the legend of the Wutun people in Amdo / Juha A. Janhunen -- Tourism, pilgrimage, and the fluidity of material culture in Labrang/Xiahe / Juha Komppa -- Tibetan Buddhist nuns : Damcho Pema's prostrating pilgrimage to Lhasa / Lhundrub Dorji -- Some remarks on understanding the motives of Tibetan nuns / Mitra Hirkinen.…”
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Globalization policies and issues

Table of Contents: “…Kuriakose -- An overview of computational methods in forecasting tourism demand : recommendations and future research / Marcos Álvarez-Díaz and Jaume Rosselló-Nadal -- Shifting locus of influence in the labor union movement : negotiations in international framework agreements / Niklas Egels-Zandén -- Trade policy in the globalizing world : policy modeling and simulations of futures / Akira Onishi.…”
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Pilgrims and travellers in search of the holy

Table of Contents: “…Andreyev -- Pilgrimage as business in traditional India / Klaus Karttunen -- Pouring water on Śiva : the case of Tarakeswar pilgrims / Rikka Uuksulainen -- The way is the goal : Buddhist circulatory pilgrimage in Japan with special reference to selected artefacts / Michael Pye -- Traditional Tibetan pilgrimage and the eight holy sites of Rebgong / Wuqi Chenaktsang -- A dead man's pilgrimage : the legend of the Wutun people in Amdo / Juha A. Janhunen -- Tourism, pilgrimage, and the fluidity of material culture in Labrang/Xiahe / Juha Komppa -- Tibetan Buddhist nuns : Damcho Pema's prostrating pilgrimage to Lhasa / Lhundrub Dorji -- Some remarks on understanding the motives of Tibetan nuns / Mitra Hirkinen.…”
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Lifeways in the Northern Maya Lowlands : New Approaches to Archaeology in the Yucatán Peninsula /

Table of Contents: “…Mathews -- Milpas of corn and tourism milpas / Alicia Re Cruz.…”
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Lifeways in the Northern Maya Lowlands : New Approaches to Archaeology in the Yucatán Peninsula /

Table of Contents: “…Mathews -- Milpas of corn and tourism milpas / Alicia Re Cruz.…”
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Journeys into madness mapping mental illness in Austro-Hungary /

Table of Contents: “…The mad objects of fin-de-si�ecle Vienna : journeys, contexts, and dislocations in the exhibition 'Madness and modernity' / Leslie Topp -- Solving riddles : Freud, Vienna, and the historiography of madness / Steven Beller -- Symphonies and psychosis in Mahler's Vienna / Gavin Plumley -- Creating an appropriate social milieu : journeys to health at a sanatorium for nervous disorders / Nicola Imrie -- Travel to the spas : the growth of health tourism in Central Europe 1850-1914 / Jill Steward -- Vienna's most fashionable neurasthenic : Empress Sisi and the cult of size zero / Sabine Wieber -- Peter Altenberg : authoring madness in Vienna circa 1900 / Gemma Blackshaw -- Hell is not interesting, it is terrifying : a reading of the madhouse chapter in Robert Musil's The man without qualities -- Reason dazzled : Klimt, Krakauer, and Eyes of the Medusa / Luke Heighton -- Mapping the sanatorium : Heinrich Obersteiner and the art of psychiatric patients in Oberdbling around 1900 / Anna Lehninger -- The Wuerttemberg Asylum of Schussenried : a psychiatric space and its encounter with literature and culture from the outside / Thomas Mueller and Frank Kuhn.…”
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Journeys into madness mapping mental illness in Austro-Hungary /

Table of Contents: “…The mad objects of fin-de-si�ecle Vienna : journeys, contexts, and dislocations in the exhibition 'Madness and modernity' / Leslie Topp -- Solving riddles : Freud, Vienna, and the historiography of madness / Steven Beller -- Symphonies and psychosis in Mahler's Vienna / Gavin Plumley -- Creating an appropriate social milieu : journeys to health at a sanatorium for nervous disorders / Nicola Imrie -- Travel to the spas : the growth of health tourism in Central Europe 1850-1914 / Jill Steward -- Vienna's most fashionable neurasthenic : Empress Sisi and the cult of size zero / Sabine Wieber -- Peter Altenberg : authoring madness in Vienna circa 1900 / Gemma Blackshaw -- Hell is not interesting, it is terrifying : a reading of the madhouse chapter in Robert Musil's The man without qualities -- Reason dazzled : Klimt, Krakauer, and Eyes of the Medusa / Luke Heighton -- Mapping the sanatorium : Heinrich Obersteiner and the art of psychiatric patients in Oberdbling around 1900 / Anna Lehninger -- The Wuerttemberg Asylum of Schussenried : a psychiatric space and its encounter with literature and culture from the outside / Thomas Mueller and Frank Kuhn.…”
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