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      • Frayed Edge Press

        Frayed Edge Press is a small independent publishing house based in Philadelphia. We publish literary fiction and poetry, as well asnon-fiction titles in history and political science. We also publish the Street Smart Series of Short Fiction, consisting of contemporary, urban-set novelette-length works. We especially welcome marginalized voices, both historical and contemporary, including women, people of color, ethnic and religious minorities, the LGBTQ+ community, and progressive political viewpoints. We particularly seek to publish works that wrestle with important questions challenging contemporary society, including political and environmental concerns, civil rights, women's rights, and sustainability.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        May 2017

        Mass Tourism in a Small World

        by David Harrison, Richard Sharpley, Hazel Andrews, Julio Aramberri, Gregory Ashworth, Raoul Bianchi, Sue Bleasdale, Kelly Bricker, Jim Butcher, Erik Cohen, David T. Duvall, Martin Farr, John Heeley, Andrew Holden, Stanislav Ivanov, Heather Jeffrey, Gabriele Manella, Chris Ryan, Asterio Savelli, Hongdi Shen, John E Tunbridge, David Weaver, Paul F Wilkinson

        This new book reviews all aspects of the phenomenon of mass tourism. It covers theoretical perspectives (including political economy, ethics, sustainability and environmentalism), the historical context, and the current challenges to domestic, intra-regional and international mass tourism. As tourism and tourist numbers continue to grow around the world, it becomes increasingly important that this subject is studied in depth and best practice applied in real-life situations. This book: - Is the first to address a range of theoretical issues relating to mass tourism; - Uses a wide selection of case studies to translate theory into practice, covering the historical rise and fall of UK seaside resorts, the increase in Chinese tourism, conflict between different mass tourism groups, destination transformation from mass to niche tourism, and specific problems facing cruise ships; - Is written by a range of international, established authors to give a global perspective on the subject. Finishing with a speculative chapter identifying potential future trends and challenges, this book forms an essential resource for all researchers and students within tourism studies. ; Section 1: Introduction1: Introduction: Mass Tourism in a Small WorldSection 2: Theoretical Approaches to Mass Tourism2: Mass Tourism Does Not Need Defending3: The Morality of Mass Tourism4: The Political Economy of Mass Tourism and its Contradictions5: A Theoretical Approach to Mass Tourism in Italy6: Sustainability and Mass Tourism: A Contradiction in Terms?7: Mass Tourism and the Environment: Issues and DilemmasSection 3: Historical Studies of Tourism Development8: The Dynamics of Tourism Development in Britain: The Profit Motive and that ‘Curious’ Alliance of Private Capital and the Local State9: From Holiday Camps to the All-inclusive: the ‘Butlinization’ of Tourism10: Decline Beside the Seaside: British Seaside Resorts and Declinism11: Mass Tourism and the US National Park Service System12: Transport and Tourism: The Perpetual LinkSection 4: Case Studies in Modern Mass Tourism13: Mass Tourism and China14: Mass Tourism in Thailand: The Chinese and Russians15: Mass Tourism in Bulgaria: The Force Awakens16: Mass Tourism in Mallorca: Examples from Calivià17: Tunisia: Mass Tourism in Crisis?18: From Blue to Grey? Malta’s Quest from Mass Beach to Niche Heritage Tourism19: Cruise Ship Tourism in the Caribbean: The Mess of Mass TourismSection 5: The Future20: Conclusion: Mass Tourism in the Future

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        Health & Personal Development
        May 2016

        How to Deal with Anxiety and Panic

        by Michael Rufer, Heike Alsleben, Angela Weiss

        Are you or a loved one suffering from anxiety and panic and you are wondering what you can do? To whom you can turn? What the options for treatment are? And how relatives can help? This self-help book gives affected people and their relatives: • clear and comprehensive information based on up-to-date research findings • concrete self-help strategies and exercises with worksheets • descriptions of recognized treatment methods • instructions on coping with stress and using relaxation techniques • detailed answers to frequently asked questions • a helpful list of useful contacts and websites • an idea of how mindfulness can be incorporated. The authors have first-hand knowledge of these problems from their extensive experience of counseling and treating people with anxiety disorders and their relatives. This book summarizes their knowledge in clear and comprehensible form. It is ideal both for self-help and to complement ongoing treatment. Target Group: affected people and their relatives and friends; psychologists, therapists, doctors, counseling centers.

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        Travel & Transport
        January 2018

        Exploring Paths in Nanyue Mountain

        by Tan Minzheng

        Nanyue Mountain, one of the Five Great Mountains in China, enjoys a long history. The ancient paths in Nanyue Mountain are main spots for transportation and sightseeing with profound culture. In this book, the author has carried out a systematic and comprehensive study of these trails, and vividly presented natural scenery, places of interest, customs, along with ancient and modern changes of the Nanyue Mountain in a readable way. Eleven travel notes about ten main ancient paths are selected with corresponding pictures to show the beauty of Nanyue Mountain.

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        2021

        Nutritional Practice Elderly People

        Concise advisory knowledge

        by Prof. Dr. Martin Smollich (ed.)

        The physiology and living conditions of people change as they grow old, whereas it is often more difficult to adapt eating habits to the new requirements. Psychological aspects come to the fore. The challenge for giving specific nutritional advice is therefore particularly great. This volume in the book series Nutritional Practice provides all the information needed for the competent care of elderly people. It deals with general aspects of nutrition in old age, as well as specific nutritional situations such as poor diet, dehydration, chewing and swallowing problems, dementia, mobility, oral and food hygiene or nutrition at the end of life. A further section is concerned with communal catering.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        June 2019

        China-Africa Economic and Trade Cooperation:

        Case Studies and Plans

        by Secretariat of the First China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo Organizing Committee

        China-Africa Economics and Trade Cooperation: Case Studies and Plans comes in 3 languages: Chinese(2 volumes), English(2 volumes), and French(2 volumes). This book series include 101 excellent case studies , which related to 21 Chinese provinces and cities and 31 countries in Africa, containing agriculture, manufacturing, commerce and trade, infrastructure, industrial parks, energy and mining, financing and other fields in China-Africa economic and trade cooperation. This set of books is practical and useful for all readers. In addition, the book gives the vivid interpretation on the concept of common prosperity, win-win cooperation, mutual negotiation and construction, shared innovation and progression of Belt and Road Initiative.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2024

        Politicising and gendering care for older people

        Multidisciplinary perspectives from Europe

        by Anca Dohotariu, Ana Paula Gil, Lubica Volanská

        This book offers a new critical framework for understanding the processes of politicising and gendering care for older people and their manifestations in several European contexts. It interrogates how care for older adults varies across time and place while searching for an in-depth comprehension of how it becomes an arena of political struggle and the object of public policy in different countries and at various societal and political levels. It brings together multidisciplinary contributions that examine the issue of care for older people as a political concern from many angles, such as problematising care needs, long-term care policies, home care services, institutional services and family care. The contributions reveal the diversity of situations in which the processes of politicising and gendering care for older adults overlap, contradict or reinforce each other while leading to increased gender (in)equalities on different levels.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2019

        The genesis of international mass migration

        by Eric Richards

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        March 2022

        Der denkwürdige Fall des Mr Poe

        Kriminalroman | Die Buchvorlage zum Netflix-Film-Hit

        by Louis Bayard, Peter Knecht, Edgar Allan Poe

        1830: An der angesehenen West Point Academy wird ein junger Kadett tot aufgefunden – er wurde erhängt und sein Herz herausgeschnitten. Keinesfalls darf die Öffentlichkeit von dem grauenhaften Verbrechen erfahren, so beauftragt man Augustus Landor, einen ehemaligen New Yorker Polizeidetektiv, mit den Ermittlungen. Schon bald folgen weitere brutale Morde, und der Fall wird immer rätselhafter. Doch Landor erhält unerwartet Hilfe – von einem jungen Kadetten mit dunkler Vergangenheit, Hang zum Trinken und poetischen Ader: Edgar Allan Poe … »Bestechend klug und zutiefst unsentimental … es liest sich wie ein neu entdeckter Klassiker. Bayard haucht dem historischen Kriminalroman neues Leben ein.« New York Times Book Review

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        December 2004

        Edgar Allan Poe - Folge 5

        Sturz in den Mahlstrom. Hörspiel

        by Poe, Edgar Allan / Gelesen von Pleitgen, Ulrich

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2022

        People power

        by Robert Ingram, Christopher Barker

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        February 2016

        Bull Mountain

        Roman

        by Brian Panowich, Johann Christoph Maass

        Der Burroughs-Clan ist der größte Anbieter von Schwarzgebranntem, Hasch und Crystal Meth in Georgia und Umgebung. Seit Generationen hat er Bull Mountain fest im Griff. Und er verteidigt seine Stellung mit allen Mitteln. Um sich aus diesem Familiensumpf zu ziehen, wurde Clayton Burroughs Sheriff. Doch er weiß, dass er und Bull Mountain erst dann Frieden gefunden haben werden, wenn es ihm gelingt, seinen Brüdern endgültig das Handwerk zu legen. Schon einige Male haben das FBI und die Drogenbehörde versucht, die Burroughs-Brüder hinter Schloss und Riegel zu bringen. Nie ist es ihnen gelungen. Jetzt scheint ein junger, ehrgeiziger Agent den perfekten Plan zu haben. Doch er braucht Clayton Burroughs' Hilfe. Damit bricht ein Kampf los, an dessen Ende es nur einen Sieger geben kann – und viele Tote. »Ich kann dieses Buch nicht oft genug empfehlen. Es wird die Fans von Daniel Woodrell ebenso begeistern wie die von Dennis Lehane und William Gay. Erstklassig!« Tom Franklin »Bruder gegen Bruder im drogenverdammten Süden.« James Ellroy

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        February 2016

        Bull Mountain

        by Brian Panowich

        Der Burroughs-Clan ist der größte Anbieter von Schwarzgebranntem, Hasch und Crystal Meth in Georgia und Umgebung. Seit Generationen hat er Bull Mountain fest im Griff. Und er verteidigt seine Stellung mit allen Mitteln. Um sich aus diesem Familiensumpf zu ziehen, wurde Clayton Burroughs Sheriff. Doch er weiß, dass er und Bull Mountain erst dann Frieden gefunden haben werden, wenn es ihm gelingt, seinen Brüdern endgültig das Handwerk zu legen. Schon einige Male haben das FBI und die Drogenbehörde versucht, die Burroughs-Brüder hinter Schloss und Riegel zu bringen. Nie ist es ihnen gelungen. Jetzt scheint ein junger, ehrgeiziger Agent den perfekten Plan zu haben. Doch er braucht Clayton Burroughs' Hilfe. Damit bricht ein Kampf los, an dessen Ende es nur einen Sieger geben kann – und viele Tote. »Ich kann dieses Buch nicht oft genug empfehlen. Es wird die Fans von Daniel Woodrell ebenso begeistern wie die von Dennis Lehane und William Gay. Erstklassig!« Tom Franklin »Bruder gegen Bruder im drogenverdammten Süden.« James Ellroy

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        August 2018

        Bull Mountain Burning

        by Brian Panowich

        Sie wollte sich nie in die Geschäfte der Familie einmischen. Doch als die Familie zu zerfallen droht, bleibt ihr keine ander Wahl. Kate Burroughs hat schon einmal ihre dunkle Seite zeigen müssen. Um ihren Mann und ihren Sohn zu schützen, muss sie es wieder tun. Jahrzehntelang herrschte der Burroughs-Clan über Bull Mountain – ein Drogenimperium im Norden Georgias. Die Macht wurde von Vater zu Sohn und von Bruder zu Bruder weitergegeben. Jetzt sind fast alle Burroughs-Brüder tot. Der letzte Überlebende, Clayton, ist ein gebrochener Mann im Kampf mit seinen Dämonen.Als konkurrierende Clans zur feindlichen Übernahme von Bull Mountain ansetzen, ist es Claytons Frau Kate, die als erste erkennt, dass es nur einen Weg gibt, sich und ihren neugeborenen Sohn zu schützen: Sie muss den Burroughs-Clan einen und in seine vielleicht letzte große Schlacht führen.

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        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        2016

        Happy Naked People

        by Kateryna Babkina

        "Happy Naked People" is a thematically united cycle of stories about happiness or rather about what precedes happiness. These are stories about the generation of Ukrainians who had a chance to see the last days of the Soviet Union and the recession that followed it, about those who grew up and became the strogest versions of themselves, in spite of everything that happened to them. It is about how these people live now and interact with the world, in which there is war, and love, and emigration, and Hanoi, and New York, and the dead, and the living, and the blind, and the unwise; and, most importantly, how to be happy with this all.

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