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Did Marco Polo reach China? This richly illustrated companion volume to the public television film chronicles the remarkable two-year expedition of explorers Denis Belliveau and Francis O'Donnell as they sought the answer to this controversial 700-year-old question. With his epic book, The Travels of Marco Polo, as their guide, they journeyed over 25,000 miles becoming the first to retrace Polo's entire path by land and sea without resorting to helicopters or airplanes. Surviving deadly skirmishes and capture in Afghanistan, they were the first Westerners in a generation to cross its ancient forgotten passageway to China, the Wakhan Corridor. Their camel caravan on the southern Silk Road encountered the singeing sands of the Taklamakan and Gobi deserts. They lived with the Bronze-Age Mentawai tribes of Sumatra, where Polo was stranded waiting for trade winds, and became among the first Americans granted visas to enter Iran, where Polo had fulfilled an important mission for Kublai Khan.

Accompanied by 200 stunning full-color photographs, the text provides a fascinating account of the lands and peoples the two hardy adventurers encountered during their perilous journey. The authors' story is mirrored by remarkably similar descriptions from Polo's account of his own travels and life. Laden with adventure, humor, diplomacy, history, and art, this book is compelling proof that travel is the enemy of bigotry-a truth that resonates from Marco Polo's time to our own..
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The book is in a class by itself in contemporary travel writing It's not a guide book in the usual sense, nor is it a traditional travelogue.

What Jeannette Belliveau has managed to do is successfully avoid the trappings of the many genres that define how we experience travel. Her Amateur's Guide does not sell the countries it traverses like products nor is it oriented around the self-absorbed first person characteristic of most travel narratives.

Instead, it is committed to the conscientious traveler who questions what it means to move through the world today with a backpack in search of knowledge and understanding, adventure and fun. And while it offers a critical assessment of the economic and political realities that shape the third world, and the role of travel as an industry within those realities, it does so with a rare optimism that can only come from a genuine concern that transcends that of the good Samaritan..
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This book provides a ground-breaking model for the experiential team consulting process. It is a pedagogically sound integrative process model with clear examples from a number of award-winning engagements. Experiential courses are multi-disciplined learning experiences and this book will be most helpful for the integrative demands of such a course. Our model allows for a conceptual understanding of the consulting process and the interactions between and among students, the team, the client, and the instructor; and provides a hands-on guide to completing the consulting project..
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The new volume of an esteemed guide to best practices in new product development

The Product Development & Management Association (PDMA), the leading professional organization for new product development (NPD), presents the second volume of its highly regarded reference on the tools for successful NPD. Complementing the first volume’s focus on NPD process tools, ToolBook 2 reflects the heightened interest in strategic and organizational development and understanding consumer needs. Key innovators in NPD offer best-practice tools that can be implemented immediately by project leaders, process owners, and program and portfolio managers in their own organizations.

ToolBook 2 provides cross-functional coverage of such topics as:

• Enhancing the learning ability and creativity of an organization
• Better understanding customer needs and tailoring NPD to these needs
• Determining the economic value of products and services
• Enabling customers to design their own products
• Integrating new information technology tools into NPD
• Using mapping tools for planning and portfolio decision-making

With sections devoted to organizational issues, the fuzzy front end (FFE), managing the process, and portfolio and pipeline management, ToolBook 2 is an indispensable resource for NPD professionals..
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Expert techniques and effective practices in product development

In this book, the Product Development & Management Association brings together practical, authoritative approaches to every aspect of the product development process, from idea generation to delivery of the final product and commercialization. The ToolBook 1 provides cross-functional coverage of such topics as:

• Dealing with project and portfolio risk
• Improving portfolio management
• Surviving as a project champion
• Modeling the pipeline
• Technology Stage-Gating
• Hunting for winners in the Fuzzy Front End
• Trend mapping and lead-user analysis
• And much more

With effective methods, tools, and techniques in every chapter, The PDMA ToolBook 1 for New Product Development is an essential book for new product development professionals, including project leaders, process owners, and program or portfolio managers in a broad range of industries from heavy manufacturing to services..
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This book is the complete reference for anyone who wants to learn about a hidden phenomenon that affects hundreds of thousands of traveling women and foreign men: Instant vacation love affairs that banish loneliness, provide cultural insights, offer one-on-one, hand-to-hand foreign aid to the world’s poor, create international children and sometimes even change the course of history.

Romance on the Road is bound to become a landmark title revealing how the rules that once bound women to choose only "socially appropriate" mates have begun to crumble, as female executives and heiresses gallivant with penniless but charming beach boys around the world, from Kenya to Jamaica to Thailand.

Author Jeannette Belliveau examines all facets of romance on the road, with chapters on every world region known to attract female sex travelers (from Southern Europe to the Caribbean, Africa, India, Southeast Asia, Latin America,the Middle East and Oceania), an extensive look at the reasons for love journeys, stunning new material on women who traveled for love in centuries past, and roundups on typical experiences, portrayals in film and literature, ethics, etiquette and health, and predictions for the future..
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Jan Belliveau shows readers how to give flea market finds new life or transform unfinished pieces into fabulous and fun focal points for their home. Included among the 10 projects is a rocking chair with flourishes of roses and violets, perfect for the nursery or a shady patio. A black painted desk and slightly aged chair, painted and finished with a glaze, look truly antique. For the avid gardener, a potting table can be created from a vintage sewing machine cabinet - the top opens to reveal a real sink. Also included are a floral footstool finished with a sponging technique, a functional tray table decorated with a wispy wreath, and an old-fashioned wash stand with an up-to-date design. Full colour photos, step by step instructions and patterns make it easy to paint these unique pieces for anyone's home..
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This charming book has been available for several years, but it only now receiving the wide recognition it deserves. It is for younger children (grades 1-4), and illustrates the way one young boy, reluctantly at first, but with increased interest, becomes an important contributor to the life of a fellow student with autism.

Very popular with "normal" students..
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