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Super-Scenic Motorway
by Anne Mitchell WhisnantThe most visited site in the National Park system, the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway winds along the ridges of the Appalachian mountains in Virginia and North Carolina. According to most accounts, the Parkway was a New Deal "Godsend for the needy," built without conflict or opposition by landscape architects and planners who traced their vision along a scenic, isolated southern landscape. The historical archives relating to this massive public project, however, tell a different and much more complicated story, which Anne Mitchell Whisnant relates in this revealing history of the beloved roadway.
Supernatural and Mysterious Japan
by Catrien Ross"To write this book on Japan's ghosts and other freaky phenomena, Catrien Ross collected accounts of the eerie and terrifying from around Japan. Along the way, she braved frightening locales including the uniquiet grave of the beautiful, betrayed Oiwa, and sacred Mount Osore, a gateway for communicating with the dead. The result of her journeys is a glimpse into hidden aspects of the Japanese world of the paranormal: a world of blind, women shamans, trees that grow human hair, weeping rocks, and even a graveyard where Jesus is reputed to have been buried. Covering ancient and modern times, Supernatural and Mysterious Japan offers not only some good, old-fashioned scary stories, but some special insights into Japanese culture and psychology. It delivers terrific entertainment - and some good chills - for the Japanophile and aficionado of the supernatural, alike. "--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Supervision in the Hospitality Industry: Applied Human Resources (Fifth Edition)
by John R. Walker Karen Eich Drummond Jack E. MillerThis Fifth Edition provides comprehensive coverage of the principles, theories, human relations techniques, and decision-making skills that are required to manage a workforce to profitable results. It helps managers satisfy obligations to owners, customers, and employees while maintaining a positive work climate, developing job expectations, disciplining marginal employees, and addressing workplace diversity.
Supply Chain Management of Tourism Towards Sustainability (SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science)
by Kullapa Soratana Amy E. Landis Fu Jing Hidetsugu SutoThis book discusses applied life cycle and supply chain management approaches for the sustainable development of tourism in Asian countries. The book describes the current state of the tourism industry in Asia from a perspective of sustainability, and analyzes the trade-offs between the three pillars of sustainability (environment, society, economy) as they pertain to the implementation of sustainable tourism. In 5 chapters, this book offers guidance for students, researchers and corporations interested in applying sustainability in tourism related activities.Chapter 1 introduces readers to the life cycle and supply chain approaches to driving sustainable development in tourism, and discusses the need for these strategies in the face of current issues with the tourism industry in Asia. Chapter 2 provides more details on the role of life cycle approaches in the sustainable development of tourism, including proper practices and implications. Chapter 3 presents how knowledge and best practices among stakeholders in the tourism sector can be shared. Chapter 4 discusses how promoting sustainable tourism can improve tourists' experience, and chapter 5 concludes the book by addressing how life cycle and supply chain approaches can be used together for tourism enterprises.
Surf Fishing the Atlantic Coast
by Eric B BurnleyFrom the outdoor writer and The Fisherman magazine field editor, &“a fine—nay, necessary—addition to any serious surf fisherman&’s library&” (George Reiger, author of Profiles in Saltwater Angling). Surf Fishing the Atlantic Coast is the guide every surf fisher, beginner to veteran, needs. Expert surf caster Eric Burnley offers the most up-to-date information available on tackle, baits, and casting technique. With information on: The how and why of rods, reels, line, and lures All about baits Casting basics that will get your line and lure to the fish Rigging and driving a surf-fishing vehicle Where the fish are and how to find them Where and when various species of fish show up along the surf Access points along the coast from Maine to Florida
Surf Is Where You Find It
by Gerry LopezSurf Is Where You Find It, by Gerry Lopez, is a collection of stories about lessons learned during a lifetime of surfing.
Surf Mules
by G. NeriWhen Logan goes searching for the Perfect Monster Wave, he doesn't expect his former best friend to be killed by it. Add to this a deadbeat dad who bankrupted his family and the possibility of college going down the drain, and Logan is suddenly in a tailspin. So when small-time dealer Broza offers Logan and his dropout pal, Z-boy, a summer job that could make them rich, it seems his problems might be solved. But between Z-boy's constant screw-ups, a band of Nazi surfers out for blood, and a mysterious stranger on their tail, Logan is starting to have some serious doubts about hauling contraband across country, and hopes just to make it home alive.
Surf: 100 Greatest Waves
by Casey Koteen The Editors of TransWorld SurfThe editors of TransWorld SURF share inside information and jaw-dropping photography in this comprehensive guide to the one-hundred best surf spots on Earth.The editors of TransWorld SURF magazine have been all over—from Australia and California to emerging destinations in West Africa, Japan, Norway and beyond—searching for the best beaches and waves with some of the world’s top surfers. This book collects amazing photos of the one-hundred top spots around the world, along with the pro tips and travel details you need to go there yourself. SURF: 100 Greatest Waves takes you from classic locales, such as Mexico, Fiji, and Thailand, to inside secret spots like Iceland, India, and Wales. Whether you’re a globetrotting barrelhunter chasing the perfect wave, or a weekend wave-rider dreaming of the perfect vacation, let SURF: 100 Greatest Waves take you there.
Surfacing
by Kathleen Jamie“[Kathleen Jamie’s] essays guide you softly along coastlines of varying continents, exploring caves, and pondering ice ages until the narrator stumbles over — not a rock on the trail, but mortality, maybe the earth’s, maybe our own, pointing to new paths forward through the forest.” —Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing, “By the Book” in The New York Times Book Review.An immersive exploration of time and place in a shrinking world, from the award-winning author of Sightlines.In this remarkable blend of memoir, cultural history, and travelogue, poet and author Kathleen Jamie touches points on a timeline spanning millennia, and considers what surfaces and what reconnects us to our past. From the thawing tundra linking a Yup'ik village in Alaska to its hunter-gatherer past to the shifting sand dunes revealing the impressiely preserved homes of neolithic farmers in Scotland, Jamie explores how the changing natural world can alter our sense of time. Most movingly, she considers, as her father dies and her children leave home, the surfacing of an older, less tethered sense of herself. In precise, luminous prose, Surfacing offers a profound sense of time passing and an antidote to all that is instant, ephemeral, unrooted.
Surfing Hawaii
by Lorca Lueras Leonard LuerasIndispensable guides to some of the best diving, surfing and bird-watching destinations in the world. Each guide is fully colour illustrated throughout and presents the top sites for diving, surfing or bird-watching using world-class photographers and local experts.
Surfing Hawaii
by Lorca Lueras Leonard LuerasJoin Periplus' team of knowledgeable authors-photographer-surfers as they take you on an action-filled tour of the remarkable island of Hawaii. Drop into stoking wave circumstances-hopping from north to south across the Hawaiian Islands-through the extraordinary birthplace of surfing.More than 140 action-charged photographsInsightful essays by surfers for surfersDetailed maps of important surf spotsUp-to-date travel advisoriesSurf, suft and more surf
Surfing Hawaii
by Lorca Lueras Leonard LuerasSurfing Hawaii is a guidebook to surfing at some of the most incredible surfing destinations in the world.Join Periplus' team of knowledgeable authors-photographer-surfers as they take you on an action-filled tour of the remarkable island of Hawaii. Drop into stoking wave circumstances-hopping from north to south across the Hawaiian Islands-through the extraordinary birthplace of surfing.This surfing guide contains:More than 140 action-charged photographsInsightful essays by surfers for surfersDetailed maps of important surf spotsUp-to-date travel advisoriesSurf, suft and more surfIf you like surfing or you are an inspiring surfer; this book will help guide you through the tips and tricks of the sport, including travel advisories, medical precautions, and safety hazards signs. And of course the spectacular views and places to surf in Indonesia are will be made aware to you.
Surfing Hawaii
by Lorca Lueras Leonard LuerasSurfing Hawaii is a guidebook to surfing at some of the most incredible surfing destinations in the world.Join Periplus' team of knowledgeable authors-photographer-surfers as they take you on an action-filled tour of the remarkable island of Hawaii. Drop into stoking wave circumstances-hopping from north to south across the Hawaiian Islands-through the extraordinary birthplace of surfing.This surfing guide contains:More than 140 action-charged photographsInsightful essays by surfers for surfersDetailed maps of important surf spotsUp-to-date travel advisoriesSurf, suft and more surfIf you like surfing or you are an inspiring surfer; this book will help guide you through the tips and tricks of the sport, including travel advisories, medical precautions, and safety hazards signs. And of course the spectacular views and places to surf in Indonesia are will be made aware to you.
Surfing Indonesia
by Lorca Lueras Leonard LuerasIndonesia is well-known to surfers the world over as "The Last Frontier" of their sport. Indeed, except for Hawaii, where the ancient Polynesian sport of surfing orignated and was refined, no other maritime nation on Earth is so righ in challenges for accomplished waveriders. Periplus' team of renowned authors-photographers-surfers takes you on a safari that is the stuff of dreams-from the huge island of Sumatra in the west and on east through Java, Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa and Indonesia's Far East.More than 120 action-pumped photographsInsightful essays by surfers for surfersDetailed maps of important surfing sitesUp-to-date travel advisoriesSurf, surf, surf and more surf!
Surfing Indonesia
by Lorca Lueras Leonard LuerasIndonesia is well-known to surfers the world over as "The Last Frontier" of their sport. Indeed, except for Hawaii, where the ancient Polynesian sport of surfing orignated and was refined, no other maritime nation on Earth is so rich in challenges for accomplished waveriders. Periplus' team of renowned authors-photographers-surfers takes you on a safari that is the stuff of dreams-from the huge island of Sumatra in the west and on east through Java, Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa and Indonesia's "Far East."More than 120 action-pumped photographsInsightful essays by surfers for surfersDetailed maps of important surfing sitesUp-to-date travel advisoriesSurf, surf, surf and more surf!
Surfing Indonesia
by Lorca Lueras Leonard LuerasSurfing Indonesia: A Search for the World's Most Perfect Waves is a guidebook to surfing at some of the most incredible surfing destinations in the world. Explore the history of Indonesia surfing and gain some insight from surfers alike. Surfing Indonesia takes you on a safari, an ultimate surfers dream; from the huge island of Sumatra in the west and Indonesia's "Far East" through Java, Bali, and Lombok Sumbawa.Detailed maps of important surfing sitesInsightful essays by surfers for surfersMore than 120 action pumped photographsIf you like surfing or you are an inspiring surfer; this book will help guide you through the tips and tricks of the sport, including travel advisories, medical precautions, and safety hazards signs. And of course the spectacular views and places to surf in Indonesia are will be made aware to you.
Surfing in New Smyrna Beach (Images of America)
by Kate CumiskeyNew Smyrna Beach is a lovely slip of island off Central Florida's east coast, an inlet below the bustle of Daytona and worlds away. Legend tells us Ponce de Leon landed here before sailing to St. Augustine to found North America's oldest city. Bordered on the west by the Indian River and Mosquito Lagoon, the south by Cape Canaveral, the north by the notorious inlet of Crane's The Open Boat, and the east by the Atlantic, New Smyrna is paradise found. The town has fostered more world-class surfers than any other on earth. Here surfing is not a sport, hobby, or pastime. Surfing is a way of life with its own rules, language, culture, and customs. Open these pages to meet the pioneers and the professionals, the grommets, and maybe a kook or two.
Surfing in San Diego (Images of America)
by Jane Schmauss California Surf Museum John C. ElwellSan Diego County has nearly 75 miles of picturesque coastline on the mighty Pacific Ocean, and for decades, San Diego has boasted of producing some of the world's finest surfers. But here surfing is morethan a sport--it is a Southern California lifestyle--and as such has heavily influenced the beach towns throughout the county. Much research points to surfing having come to Southern California in 1907,and it may have taken hold in San Diego as early as 1910. Join with us in this wonderful pictorial journey through San Diego's little-known surfing past.
Surfing in South Carolina (Images of Modern America)
by Foster Folsom Lilla O'Brien FolsomFor centuries, the ocean waters of the Atlantic have impacted the daily lives of those on the South Carolina coast. Beginning in the 1960s, those waves caught the imagination of young beachgoers who studied magazines and Super 8 films and refined their moves on rent-a-floats until the first surfboards became available in the area. The buildup to the Vietnam War brought GIs and their families from the West Coast and Hawaii to South Carolina, and their surfboards came along with them. Unbeknownst to each other, local surfers concentrated in the beach and military base areas of Beaufort/Hilton Head, Charleston, and Pawley's Island/Grand Strand began to conquer nearby surf breaks. When contests finally brought these groups together, a statewide sport was born.
Surfing the Menu
by Dan Churchill Hayden QuinnEscape on an epic adventure around Australia with Dan Churchill and Hayden Quinn, as seen on ABC TV Discover the spectacular natural diversity of the north of Australia, from Broome to Byron, with two of Australia's favourite food lovers and cooks, and enjoy 80 amazing recipes inspired by local growers and food producers. Along with Gigi, an intrepid vintage VW Beetle, MasterChef stars Dan Churchill and Hayden Quinn travel from the west coast, to the north, and then to the east coast of Australia to explore what's cooking and the incredible produce of each spectacular region -- and being surfer dudes, to catch some waves too! In this full colour, 240-page cooking and travel extravaganza, cook with Dan and Hayden's inspiring recipes and enjoy the colour, life and tastes that the west, north and east of our great country has to offer. From Shark Bay thorugh to Wooramel, Carnarvon, Exmouth and Broome in Western Australia, to Kununurra and Katherine in the Northern Territory, to Cairns and Townsville, The Whitsundays and Bundaberg in Queensland, and finally Noosa Toowoomba and Bryon Bay in New South Wales, their journey is showcased with stunning photography of each lush location and the mouthwatering produce and recipes they discover and cook with along the way. In association with the ABC, the television series of Surfing the Menuwill be aired in early 2016. The first two series introduced us to Curtis Stone and Ben O'Donoghue, and now it's time to hit the surfing trail again with a new generation of food lovers and cooks - Dan Churchill and Hayden Quinn. Get cooking and share in the trip of a lifetime!
Surfside
by Seth H. Bramson Mayor Daniel DietchSurfside is a delightful town just north of Miami Beach. With business, residential, and tourism sections, it has the proverbial "something for everybody." Founded in 1935, Surfside has developed into one of the most highly desirable places to live, work, and do business in South Florida. Although the town is only one square mile in size, its 6,000 residents, along with its innumerable visitors, enjoy the best of Greater Miami's restaurants, shops, and services. Surfside's proximity to Miami Beach, Bal Harbour, and the Bay Harbor Islands offers residents and visitors the best of both big-city and suburban life.
Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea
by Robert D. KaplanRobert D. Kaplan is one of our leading international journalists, someone who can explain the most complicated and volatile regions and show why they're relevant to our world. In Surrender or Starve, Kaplan illuminates the fault lines in the Horn of Africa, which is emerging as a crucial region for America's ongoing war on terrorism. Reporting from Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Eritrea, Kaplan examines the factors behind the famine that ravaged the region in the 1980s, exploring the ethnic, religious, and class conflicts that are crucial for understanding the region today. He offers a new foreword and afterword that show how the nations have developed since the famine, and why this region will only grow more important to the United States. Wielding his trademark ability to blend on-the-ground reporting and cogent analysis, Robert D. Kaplan introduces us to a fascinating part of the world, one that it would behoove all of us to know more about.
Surry
by Surry History CommitteeLocated in the southwest corner of New Hampshire, Surry is an unspoiled town that in spite of major change retains the qualities of a nineteenth-century village. Framed by natural beauty, Surry was similar to other quiet New England hill towns until the hundred-year floods of the 1930s necessitated a dam. Bidding farewell to its routine of farm and mill, mine and turnpike, the town accepted the construction of the Surry Mountain Dam in 1938 and evolved swiftly into a desirable recreational and residential community.Surry is a stunning compilation of photographs anchored in two core portfolios. One is the work of James E. Harvey, who captured Surry during the transitional first decade of the twentieth century. The second collection is the archive of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which documents the construction of the dam from its initial survey to completion, 1.2 million cubic yards of stone and concrete later. Here is the inside story of how a force of nature-the Ashuelot River-was dammed.
Surry County
by Wilma Hiatt Surry County Genealogical Association Carolyn BoylesFounded in 1771 from parts of Rowan County, Surry County possesses a special charm and an engaging history in the northwest corner of the Tar Heel State--a heritage famous for rolling hills, autumn festivals, and the birthplace of "Mayberry," which attracts countless tourists and visitors each season to the county's 15 townships. This volume, containing over 200 black-and-white images, transports readers into the Surry County of yesteryear, a time when the county's unpaved roads echoed with a cadence of noisy wagons matched with the sounds of early automobiles. Through these historic photographs, readers will explore the landscape of a bygone era, from the 1880s through the 1930s, and travel through each of the county's townships: Franklin, Bryan, Elkin, Marsh, Dobson, Stewarts Creek, Mount Airy, Eldora, Rockford, Siloam, Shoals, Pilot, Long Hill, Westfield, and South Westfield. Surry County uncovers the personal side of the county's history by touching upon many elements of everyday life, from family gatherings, church services, various occupations, daily work on the farm, early rural schoolhouses, and people at play. These scenes serve as fitting testimony to Surry Countians' sheer will and determination to carve successful and lasting communities into this beautiful setting.
Survival Arabic: How to Communicate without Fuss or Fear - Instantly!
by Fethi Mansouri Yousef AlreemawiA handy Arabic phrasebook and guide to the Arabic language, Survival Arabic contains basic vocabulary necessary for getting around.This book contains all the necessary words and phrases for speaking Arabic in any kind of setting.<P><P> Perfect for students, tourists, or business people learning Arabic or travelling to the Arab world, it also contains a beginner guide to the Arabic language, allowing for a deeper understanding of Arabic than a typical Arabic phrasebook or Arabic dictionary. The book is organized by situations where one might need to speak Arabic such as: at the hotel, in a taxi, using numbers, etc. All Arabic words and phrases are written in Romanized form as well as Authentic Arabic script (Naskh) so that in the case of difficulties the book can be shown to the person the user is trying to communicate with.This phrasebook includes:Hundreds of useful Arabic words and expressionsRomanized forms, phonetic spellings, and Arabic script (Naskh) for all words and phrasesAn introduction to the Arabic AlphabetA pronunciation guide for Arabic letters and wordsA guide to Arabic grammarA section on specific titles and place names