Industry and industrial studies

This book explores the events, attractions, and places that comprise magical tourism.

Ernsting's Aviation and Space Medicine applies current understanding in medicine, physiology and the behavioural sciences to the medical challenges and stresses that are faced by both civil and military aircrew, and their passengers, on a daily basis.

ICOLD Bulletin 194, Tailings Dam Safety, aims to assist the international community to further develop and adopt safe practices for tailings dam planning, design, construction, operation, and closure with a focus on the technical aspects that are mentioned but not fully developed in other recent National and Industry Guidelines and Standards.

Contemporary sport is big business.

In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) drives unprecedented change, Debiasing AI examines the vital intersection of technology, innovation, and sustainability.

This volume focuses on the broad scope of systems engineering and recent energy technology developments as they relate to the oil and gas industry, which remains a lifeline to communities around the world.

Design and Construction of Concrete Floors recognizes that a good floor must do far more than support its intended loads.

This companion brings together an internationally and interdisciplinarily diverse group of emerging and established fan studies scholars to reflect on the state of the field and to chart new directions for research.

This book introduces the fundamental principles of accessible and inclusive sport venue management, with a focus on people with disability.

Learning from Near Misses can provide opportunities to improve safety without the need for harm to have first occurred.

This book reviews the historical trajectory of economic studies on institutions and points out their limitations.

Safety and Wearable Technology tackles the profound issue of workplace safety, as each day unacceptable numbers of workers lose their lives in accidents, with even more succumbing to work-related illnesses across the globe.

This timely and innovative book provides a comprehensive introduction to the concept of the associational tourism economy, exploring the collaborative nature of tourism as an interconnected system, with a focus on tourism clusters, networks, and ecosystems.

During the second half of the 19th century, a new global market for wheat came to the fore.

In Zeiten von Klimawandel, Pandemien und weltweiter Ungleichheit polarisieren Reisen und Tourismus stark - während deren wirtschaftliche Bedeutung weiter steigt.

Newspapers are a tough business, and no one knows that better than Rob Christensen, who was chief political reporter at North Carolinas capital newspaper, the News and Observer, for decades.

For forty years and more Alma Guillermoprieto has wandered tirelessly over the countries of Latin America, interviewing assassins and the families of their victims, talking to street sweepers and artists, rowdy carnival makers and thoughtful politicians (and plenty of rowdy politicians as well).

This timely and innovative book offers an inspirational and thought-provoking journey into the future world of hospitality by conceptualizing an innovative future where hotels transcend traditional boundaries and evolve into dynamic hubs of innovation, environmental stewardship, community engagement, and personal growth at the guest, employee, and local resident level.

Das gottesdienstliche Leben der evangelischen Kirchen in Deutschland befindet sich in einem tiefgreifenden Umbruch.

During global capitalismslong ascent from 16001850, workers of all kindsslaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailorsrepeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects.

Everybody climbs up or down for some reason or other.

Stats Means Business is an introductory and comprehensive textbook written especially for hospitality, business and tourism students who take statistics or quantitative methods modules.

This book explains the concerted efforts being implemented to promote environmentally and socially responsible practices within Africa's finance and insurance sectors.

Fatigue Prediction for Random Loads serves as a comprehensive treatise for methods for fatigue estimation and fatigue life prediction in randomly excited structural systems using the rainflow cycle counting method.

This volume presents new research and trends in applied macroeconomics.

This groundbreaking book demystifies generative AI's transformative impact on media, socio-cultural dynamics, ethics, and policy.

The importance of addressing security issues in communication devices, networks, and computing models in Industry 5.

This book offers new insights into the wider socioeconomic impacts of high-speed rail (HSR).

Religious tourism is a phenomenon dating back thousands of years, that engages people from all walks of life, from across the entire globe.

Recording technologies shaped the sound and meaning of 20th-century folk music in Britain, constructing a sonic aesthetics of authenticity in an era of rapid technological and social transformation.

In this in-depth and wide-ranging study, Shirzad Azad explores the changing relationship between post-Saddam Hussein Iraq and the People's Republic of China.

As oil-rich Mexico faces the 1980s, conflicts between agrarian populism and capitalist industrialization call for resolution.

In today's cybersecurity landscape, the role of a cybersecurity leader goes beyond technical expertise.