A few readers of my last two columns may have suspected that something was afoot. Why, they might ask, does he suddenly produce not one, but two confessions? After shamefacedly exposing his tendency to consider book theft as a way of acquiring knowledge and trying to reverse the hint of plagiarism in his works by suggesting that it was the other way around, we might expect anything. Well, the e...

This is a book that deserves to be read for its ambitions. Based on his comprehensive reading close erudition within the field of maritime literary studies, Søren Frank sets out reframe somewhat marginalised genre novel, yet also other forms prose as well visual material. With detailed argument symptomatic significance perspective in history author zooms three dimensions: what calls ‘the world ...

Louis (Lou) J. Guillette, Jr., one of the most influential research scientists in the field of environmental health, died 6 August 2015 at the age of 60. Lou had been battling non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma for almost a decade, but his passing, caused by bacterial pneumonia, came as a shock to everyone who knew him. He was an extremely energetic man with a passion for the natural environ ment. He revel...

This is a brief note on ecotourism typologies as reported by different authors at different points of time. As such, this note tries to throw light on the research done so far on segmentation of ecotourists. One important parameter of ecotourist market segmentation that is receiving increased attention is the concept of a hard-to-soft spectrum that allows for identification of ‘hard’ and ‘soft’...

Objectives: The purpose of the present study was to explore possible multiple motives for participation in different adventure sports. Design: Qualitative design, specifically an inductive-deductive approach informed by reversal theory, was used to analyze participation motivation data. Method: Data was collected using the Scanlan Collaborative Interview Method (SCIM; Scanlan, Russell, Wilson, ...

The anthropology of Pacific cultures spotlights social conflict as a proximate cause suicide. Ethnographic accounts suggest that suicidal behaviors are high-cost conflict-resolution strategies. We investigate parent-child conflicts and the strategies adolescents young adults use to resolve them, using concepts from human behavioral ecology interpret results in-depth, semi-structured interviews ...

I view interactive fiction in its present stage as an immature medium capable of artistic development. [We] are at the beginning what could be explosive development [and while] games like Adventure do not yet have a generally accepted name … “Adventure games” might win out long run, much “Kleenex” is used instead “facial tissue.” (Buckles 6–9) [Adventure games] resemble Donkey Kong, Space Invad...

Brick monuments are one hallmark of emergent political complexity across much of mainland Southeast Asia during the first millennium AD. They first appeared in association with Indic statuary, large nucleated settlements, and the region's earliest states. Chronometric research in the Mekong delta on the earthen and brick wall that surrounds Angkor Borei (southern Cambodia) provides some of the ...