<p>An award-winning journalist provides an in-depth account of America's involvement in Vietnam, from the first U.S. participation to the final withdrawal, and places the events within the context of an era preoccupied with communist expansion.</p>

America's Vietnam War: A Narrative History

Becker, Elizabeth

Teen & Young Adult

Clarion Books

When the War Was over: The Voices of Cambodia's Revolution and Its People

<p>Surveys Cambodia's recent history, looks at the rise and fall of the Khmer Rouge, and shares interviews with survivors of and refugees from the government of Pol Pot</p>

History

Asia

Simon&Schuster

Americas

<b>The largest global business in the world today is tourism. Employing one out of twelve people in the world and producing $6.5 trillion of the world’s economy, it is the main source of income for many countries. </b><b>Elizabeth Becker describes the dimensions of this industry and its huge effect on the world economy, the environment, and our culture. </b><br><br>Tourism, fast becoming the largest global business, employs one out of twelve persons and produces $6.5 trillion of the world’s economy. In a groundbreaking book, Elizabeth Becker uncovers how what was once a hobby has become a colossal enterprise with profound impact on countries, the environment, and cultural heritage. <br><br>This invisible industry exploded at the end of the Cold War. In 2012 the number of tourists traveling the world reached one billion. Now everything can be packaged as a tour: with the high cost of medical care in the U.S., Americans are booking a vacation and an operation in countries like Turkey for a fraction of the cost at home. <br><br>Becker travels the world to take the measure of the business: France invented the travel business and is still its leader; Venice is expiring of over-tourism. In Cambodia, tourists crawl over the temples of Angkor, jeopardizing precious cultural sites. Costa Rica rejected raising cattle for American fast-food restaurants to protect their wilderness for the more lucrative field of eco-tourism. <br><br>Dubai has transformed a patch of desert in the Arabian Gulf into a mammoth shopping mall. Africa’s safaris are thriving, even as its wildlife is threatened by foreign poachers. Large cruise ships are spoiling the oceans and ruining city ports as their American-based companies reap handsome profits through tax loopholes. China, the giant, is at last inviting tourists and sending its own out in droves. The United States, which invented some of the best of tourism, has lost its edge due to political battles. Becker reveals travel as product. Seeing the tourism industry from the inside out, through her eyes and ears, we experience a dizzying range of travel options though very few quiet getaways. Her investigation is a first examination of one of the largest and potentially most destructive enterprises in the world.

Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism

Business & Money

Industries

<p>In this “meticulously reported and often disturbing exposé of the travel industry." (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>), Elizabeth Becker describes the dimensions of this industry and its huge effect on the world economy, the environment, and our culture.<br><br>Employing one out of twelve people in the world, the travel and tourism industry exploded at the end of the Cold War. In 2012 the number of tourists traveling the world reached one billion. Now everything can be packaged as a tour: with the high cost of medical care in the U.S., Americans are booking a vacation and an operation in countries like Turkey for a fraction of the cost at home.<br><br>Elizabeth Becker travels the world to take the measure of the business: France invented the travel business and is still its leader; Venice is expiring of over-tourism. In Cambodia, tourists crawl over the temples of Angkor, jeopardizing precious cultural sites. Costa Rica rejected raising cattle for American fast-food restaurants to protect their wilderness for the more lucrative field of eco-tourism.<br><br>Dubai has transformed a patch of desert in the Arabian Gulf into a mammoth shopping mall. Africa’s safaris are thriving, even as its wildlife is threatened by foreign poachers. Large cruise ships are spoiling the oceans and ruining city ports as their American-based companies reap handsome profits through tax loopholes. China, the giant, is at last inviting tourists and sending its own out in droves. The United States, which invented some of the best of tourism, has lost its edge due to political battles. Becker reveals travel as product. Seeing the tourism industry from the inside out, through her eyes and ears, we experience a dizzying range of travel options though very few quiet getaways. Her investigation is a first examination of one of the largest and potentially most destructive enterprises in the world.</p>

Economics

You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War

<p><div><b>The long-buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the barriers to women covering war.</b></div> &nbsp; <div>Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French daredevil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared purpose: to report on the most consequential story of the decade. At a time when women were considered unfit to be foreign reporters, Frankie, Catherine, and Kate &nbsp;&nbsp;challenged the rules imposed on them by the military, ignored the belittlement of their male peers, and ultimately altered the craft of war reportage for generations.<br /> <br /> &nbsp;<br /> <br /> In <i>You Don't Belong Here</i>, Elizabeth Becker uses these women's work and lives to illuminate the Vietnam War from the 1965 American buildup, the expansion into Cambodia, and the American defeat and its aftermath. Arriving herself in the last years of the war, Becker writes as a historian and a witness of the times.<br /> <br /> &nbsp;<br /> <br /> What emerges is an unforgettable story of three journalists forging their place in a land of men, often at great personal sacrifice. Deeply reported and filled with personal letters, interviews, and profound insight, <i>You Don't Belong Here</i> fills a void in the history of women and of war.</div></p>

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

PublicAffairs

<p><div><b>The long buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the official and cultural barriers to women covering war.</b></div> <br /> <div>Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French dare devil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared purpose: to report on the most consequential story of the decade.</div> <div><br /></div> <div>At a time when women were considered unfit to be foreign reporters, Frankie, Catherine and Kate paid their own way to war, arrived without jobs, challenged the rules imposed on them by the military, ignored the belittlement and resentment of their male peers and found new ways to explain the war through the people who lived through it.</div> <div><br /></div> <div>In <i>You Don't Belong Here</i>, Elizabeth Becker uses these women's work and lives to illuminate the Vietnam War from the 1965 American buildup, through the Tet Offensive, the expansion into Cambodia, the American defeat and its aftermath. Arriving herself in the last years of the war, Elizabeth writes as an historian and a witness to what these women accomplished.</div> <div><br /></div> <div>What emerges is an unforgettable story of three journalists forging their place in a land of men, often at great personal sacrifice, and forever altering the craft of war reportage for generations. Deeply reported and filled with personal letters, interviews, and profound insight, <i>You Don't Belong Here</i> fills a void in the history of women and of war.</div> <div><br /></div></p>

<p>Award-winning journalist Elizabeth Becker started covering Cambodia in 1973 for <i>The Washington Post</i>, when the country was perceived as little more than a footnote to the Vietnam War. Then, with the rise of the Khmer Rouge in 1975 came the closing of the border and a systematic reorganization of Cambodian society. Everyone was sent from the towns and cities to the countryside, where they were forced to labor endlessly in the fields. The intelligentsia were brutally exterminated, and torture, terror, and death became routine. Ultimately, almost two million people—nearly a quarter of the population—were killed in what was one of this century's worst crimes against humanity.<i>When the War Was Over</i> is Elizabeth Becker's masterful account of the Cambodian nightmare. Encompassing the era of French colonialism and the revival of Cambodian nationalism; 1950s Paris, where Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot received his political education; the killing fields of Cambodia; government chambers in Washington, Paris, Moscow, Beijing, Hanoi, and Phnom Penh; and the death of Pol Pot in 1998; this is a book of epic vision and staggering power. Merging original historical research with the many voices of those who lived through the times and exclusive interviews with every Cambodian leader of the past quarter century, <i>When the War Was Over</i> illuminates the darkness of Cambodia with the intensity of a bolt of lightning.</p>

When The War Was Over

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America's Vietnam War: A Narrative History

When the War Was over: The Voices of Cambodia's Revolution and Its People

When the War Was over: The Voices of Cambodia's Revolution and Its People

Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism

Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism

You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War

You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War

When The War Was Over