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Categories and types of tourism: adventure, leisure, and agro-tourism

What are the many and varied categories of tourism and travel? What specific advantage does one form of tourism have over another, and what are the most coveted venues for the business traveler, the leisure traveler, or the adventure traveler?

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Psychodynamic and dialectic perspectives on marital intimacy and communication issues

The subject clearly expresses a lack of intimacy, communication, and fulfillment in his primary intimate partnership with his wife. He indicates that he has little contact with his relatives and is dissatisfied with his marital relationship which he describes as lacking emotional intimacy.

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Origins and tactics of the Islamic Jihad Union

The Islamic Jihad's "…founders chose the group's name purposefully, to convince other Muslims of the legitimacy of their ideology and methods.

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Consumer behavior and attitudes toward hydrogen fuel cell vehicles

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car is the new clean energy vehicle for personal transportation. The power plants of the hydrogen fuel vehicle is either to burn hydrogen in an internal combustion engine or convert hydrogen with oxygen in a fuel cell to run.

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Constitutional principles and Fourth Amendment search and seizure procedures

Chapter 1 provides an excellent background of constitutional principles that are necessary when dealing with criminal procedure.

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Depression in elderly Americans: causes, effects, and treatments

Many American adults are living longer and healthier lives than ever before, and the elderly segment of the population is rapidly growing. Current U.S.

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Dark and adult themes in J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan

Is Peter Pan really only a children's story -- or is it, as Michel W. Pharand states, "…also a surprisingly -- often shockingly -- adult story" (Pharand, 2007, p. 227)? After reading through the fifteen essays in the book J.M.

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Strategic planning frameworks for private hospital management

What is a Strategic Plan? Dr. Dan Beckham explains strategic planning like this: "The allocations of scarce resources to your best opportunities" (Beckham, 2010, p. 6).

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Soft power in travel and tourism: Saudi Arabia's global tourism strategy

America's tactics during the Cold War, the term "soft power" has come to mean the use of policies at the national, regional and local levels that can achieve a wide range of desirable outcomes.

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Military rule's lasting impact on Chilean and Latin American democracy

In their theoretical overview Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan go to some lengths to point to the differences between mere liberalization and actual democratization.

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