Whether visiting family, exploring other cultures, or simply having grand adventures, this comprehensive guide includes practical information on how moms can make the most out of traveling with their kids. Mothers will find useful tips on safety, economical travel, eco-friendly trips, and the benefits of technology. Combining anecdotes and experiences from nearly 50 mothers, this positive and inspirational guide reveals how to overcome some of the more difficult barriers to traveling with children with ease and convenience in mind. This handy travel reference also includes up-to-date recommendations for helpful gadgets and tips on using the internet for planning and booking. An appendix features more than 100 essential websites for further research.

Traveling with Kids

Travel

Forsberg, Leslie

Duffy, Michelle

Specialty Travel

Dispatch Travels

Festival Encounters: Theoretical Perspectives on Festival Events (Routledge Advances in Event Research Series)

Festivals and events are of enormous significance to many communities around the world. They can have historic, religious, cultural and traditional significance, and they are also important parts of community building. This book focuses on these small-scale, non-metropolitan events (i.e. rural, regional and peri-urban) to explore the complex relationships between place, community and identity and the ways in which festival events bring these into being. By drawing on the notion of 'encounter', this book examines how festivals and events can be seen primarily as spaces where different people meet. This notion of encounter helps us to understand how conviviality and social relations are developed, and what this then means in terms of social cohesion and social justice. It also draws on current theoretical and methodological approaches that can tell us about the role of festivals in contemporary life, and it includes the sensual approach, the geographies of affect and emotion, the notion of the right to the city and nonrepresentation theory. The book brings together these perspectives and examines their relevance in the community events context, identifying and discussing theoretical frameworks drawn from (including but not limited to) human geography, sociology, anthropology, leisure studies and urban planning, as well as tourism and event studies. For these reasons, Festival Encounters will be a valuable read for students and academics working on a wide range of disciplines.

Business & Money

Mair, Judith

Industries

Routledge

Festivals and events are of enormous significance to many communities around the world. They can have historic, religious, cultural and traditional significance, and they are also important parts of community building. This book focuses on these small-scale, non-metropolitan events (i.e. rural, regional and peri-urban) to explore the complex relationships between place, community and identity and the ways in which festival events bring these into being. By drawing on the notion of ‘encounter’, this book examines how festivals and events can be seen primarily as spaces where different people meet. This notion of encounter helps us to understand how conviviality and social relations are developed, and what this then means in terms of social cohesion and social justice. It also draws on current theoretical and methodological approaches that can tell us about the role of festivals in contemporary life, and it includes the sensual approach, the geographies of affect and emotion, the notion of the right to the city and nonrepresentation theory. The book brings together these perspectives and examines their relevance in the community events context, identifying and discussing theoretical frameworks drawn from (including but not limited to) human geography, sociology, anthropology, leisure studies and urban planning, as well as tourism and event studies. For these reasons, Festival Encounters will be a valuable read for students and academics working on a wide range of disciplines.

"An essential read for any 80s kid - or indeed anyone that enjoys fun, well-crafted characters and a page-turner plot." 5* Amazon.co.uk Kindle review "There are many reasons to pick up this book and read it; If you love the films of John Hughes, I am confident you'll love this novel!" 5* Amazon.co.uk Kindle review "A fun romp through an 80s movie - this is escapism, romance, comedy and action. I loved this book!" 5* Amazon.co.uk Kindle review "...a fun and witty romp through scenarios familiar to anyone who enjoyed films like Pretty in Pink during the 1980s...Highly Recommended." 5* Amazon.co.uk Kindle review "a short, funny read about two women who've been best friends forever but who haven't really achieved what they wanted with their lives. They get the chance to do it again, but this time as the main characters in an 80s teen movie!...a mash up of every great 80s teen movie...you'll love it." 5* Amazon.com Kindle review "This was a really fast, fun read. It's all about the girls really, but I was impressed that the male characters actually did feel like real guys...I was a teenager in the 80s and I loved all those films, so this was a great quick nostalgic escape before getting back to the real life of being a grown up." 5* Amazon.com Kindle review When lifelong friends Julie and Rosanna are electrocuted by an ancient Betamax VCR, they wake up as the main characters in their favorite 1980s teen movie. How will they get back to reality... and do they really want to? For Rosanna – eternal adolescent, reluctant single mom and frustrated artist – being zapped into an eighties teen movie is a dream come true. She’s the coolest girl in school with a hot, mysterious boyfriend, a doting father who’ll give her anything she wants and a scholarship to study art in Paris. Why would she ever want to leave? For Julie – Miss Responsibility – this is her worst nightmare. She’s the sidekick in her own favorite movie and the boy of her dreams - Johnnie - is hopelessly, unrequitedly in love with Rosanna. Julie is determined to get back to reality. But things start to change when Johnnie falls for Julie and offers her everything her real-life husband isn’t giving her; and Rosanna has to choose between her over-protective father, her 'perfect' boyfriend and her spoilt-brat real-life son. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll learn to shotgun beer without blowing it out your nose. Trapped in an 80s Teen Movie is a comedy fantasy about inter-dimensionality, parenthood, kidulthood and the lasting qualities of Twinkies.

Trapped in an 80s Teen Movie

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

This is a delightful, whimsical book that teaches children the importance of being kind to one another through the eyes of 2 friends. It shows that anyone can be kind to anyone and how special and needed these gestures are. Through very simple yet relatable examples, these title characters go on a journey of kindness together. At the end of the book, these characters challenge their audience to try some simple ways to make people feel better. Your children will not even realize they are learning at the same time that they are laughing and enjoying solving the mystery of who was doing all of these kinds deeds!!

The Anonymous Hippopotamus

Children's Books

Xlibris US

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