After more than thirty years as an expatriate, Irma Kurtz gave in to her growing curiosity about her American roots & set off on a grand adventure to explore `the most baffling of all places`
- by Greyhound bus. Taking only the barest necessitites for travel, she entered the vast network of America`s bus routes & a seething, fleeting world of brief encounters & changing landscapes.
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This lucid introduction to the sociology of consumerism examines the relationship between production & consumption in late capitalist societies. The historical & theoretical discussion provides the student with the tools to examine key themes in the sociology of consumption. After a detailed historical overview of the advent of consumer society, Peter Corrigan examines theoretical accounts of consumption & consumer practice, including: Veblen & conspicuous consumption; Mary Douglas on the world of goods; Jean Baudrillard on the system of objects; & Pierre Bourdieu on cultural capital. This historical & theoretical discussion provides the student with the tools to examine key themes in the sociology of consumption. ...

Great American Railway Journeyswill see the famous brand of social history cum travelogue venture in the New World. First Great Britain, then Old Europe were discovered by Michael Portillo across several seasons of fascinating TV, all with the help of train fanatic George Bradshaw, & the wonderful guide books he wrote over a century ago. Michael now undertakes an epic trip from New York & Boston on the American East coast right down to the Deep South of Atlanta & New Orleans, & then onto Chicago, Colorado, New Mexico, & ultimately finishing in San Francisco. Truly a colourful & exciting enterprise with vignettes of revealing social history concerning America`s rich tapestry of peoples whom have built a life in this vast new world. The new series (8x 1-hour) will transmit in the summer of 2016, & this book will be the official, lavishly illustrated tie-in covering every single journey Portillo will undertake across North America. Capturing all the colour, beauty, excitement & fervour of journeying across this historic continent can muster. A must-have purchase for any armchair fan of unique & award-winning travel programming. ...

Classic walking guide covering the western half of the Great Atlas Traverse. Starting at the western end of the Atlas Mountains & then travelling on to the Toubkal Massif, the Zat-Ourika massif & ending in the Central High Atlas. Sketch maps, black & white photographs & diagrams support detailed route descriptions. ...

Classic walking guide covering the eastern half of the Great Atlas Traverse. Starting at Ayt Bou Wgemmaz & going as far as Midelt across the Middle Atlas & Saghro chains. Sketch maps, black & white photographs & diagrams support detailed route descriptions. ...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef in the Diving & Snorkeling series from Lonely Planet; exploring the diving opportunities in a range of popular international diving sites. Frank & informal in style, the guides offer practical advice to travelers on specific diving holidays or those wanting to dive or snorkel while away. The guides offer practical advice on a large number of diving sites in the region & are suitable for advanced divers & novices alike. Widely recognized for their reliability, each Lonely Planet Diving & Snorkeling guide has the same layout. Extensive introductory chapters cover facts about the region, including history, geography & language, practical guidance on what to bring, the rating system for dives & divers, ...

About this series: Contoured trekking maps detailing maintained & unmaintained trails. Visitor centres & campgrounds are marked with symbols. Advice for hikers & information about the park is printed around the edge of the map. Advice for hikers & information about the park is printed around the edge of the map. ...

Military topographic survey mapping with contours. These maps are designed primarily as flying charts for aircraft, but they are useful as general topographical maps where nothing else is available. Contours are shown in feet, with elevation colouring & spot heights. Towns, villages, major roads, railways & airports are shown (but please note that many of the smaller settlements are not named, & the road information is not necessarily up to date). Some air navigation information also appears on the map, such as radio beacons & restricted flying zones. Double-sided sheet. ...

Great Books of China offers concise introductions
- each of them accompanied by generous"ation (in English) from the book
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Great Bridge & Toll End in 1902 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the Great Bridge & Toll End area, west of West Bromwich, east of Tipton. Other districts include Ocker Hill, Golds Hill, Golds Green, Harvills Hawthorn & part of Horseley Heath (in bottom left corner). Features include LNWR South Staffordshire Line with Great Bridge station, GWR Great Bridge Branch with station, Balls Hill Branch canal, Walsall Canal, Haines Branch Canal, Tame Valley Canal, Toll End Junction, Toll End Locks, Ryders Green Locks, Golds Green Slag Works, Swan Farm Brick Works, tramways, Great Bridge centre with Market Place, Horseley Colliery, Tipton Cemetery, Cotterill Farm Colliery (disused), old coal shafts, remains of old industry & coalfield, Moat Farm, St Martin`s church, etc. On the reverse is a Tipton & District Directory for 1901. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...