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Author : Julius Althaus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (748 download)
Download or read book The Spas of Europe written by Julius Althaus and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Clay Large
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442222379
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book The Grand Spas of Central Europe written by David Clay Large and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grand Spas of Central Europe leads readers on an irresistible tour through the grand spa towns of Central Europe—fabled places like Baden-Baden, Bad Ems, Bad Gastein, Karlsbad, and Marienbad. Noted historian David Clay Large follows the grand spa story from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present, focusing especially on the years between the French Revolution and World War II, a period in which the major Central European Kurorte (“cure-towns”) reached their peak of influence and then slipped into decline. Written with verve and affection, the book explores the grand spa towns, which in their prime were an equivalent of today’s major medical centers, rehab retreats, golf resorts, conference complexes, fashion shows, music festivals, and sexual hideaways—all rolled into one. Conventional medicine being quite primitive through most of this era, people went to the spas in hopes of curing everything from cancer to gout. But often as not “curists” also went to play, to be entertained, and to socialize. In their heyday the grand spas were hotbeds of cultural creativity, true meccas of the arts. High-level politics was another grand spa specialty, with statesmen descending on the Kurorte to negotiate treaties, craft alliances, and plan wars. This military scheming was just one aspect of a darker side to the grand spa story, one rife with nationalistic rivalries, ethnic hatred, and racial prejudice. The grand spas, it turns out, were microcosms of changing sociopolitical realities—not at all the “timeless” oases of harmony they often claimed to be. The Grand Spas of Central Europe holds up a gilt-framed but clear-eyed mirror to the ever-changing face of European society—dimples, warts, and all.
Author : Sarah Woods
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1743371578
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (433 download)
Download or read book The Spa Lover's Guide to Europe written by Sarah Woods and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to around 50 of the most beautiful and historic spa destinations in Europe, taking in day spas, getaway spas and medical spas. Unlike so many spa guides, this title focuses on destinations with natural spas, where wellness treatments have been a part of the heritage and culture for hundreds of years. From Bath to Budapest, the Spa Lover's Guide examinesthe fascinating history and curative powers of the spa towns, explaining what makes each special and giving detailed information on individual venues and the range of treatments on offer. Feature boxes give essential booking and price information. As well as spa treatments, a range of suggestions for things to do in the local area are given for each historic destination.
Author : Hermann Weber
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The Spas and Mineral Waters of Europe written by Hermann Weber and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ginger Lee
Publisher : Weatherhill, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780834805477
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Spa Style Europe written by Ginger Lee and published by Weatherhill, Incorporated. This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its early emphasis on healing waters, Europe's rich spa tradition has evolved to incorporate different healing practices and therapies-not just from Europe, but from around the world.Spa Style Europeis a comprehensive guide to the intricate tapestry of popular modern spa treatments in Europe and those quality spas where you can enjoy them. Spa Treatments presents the historical, social and cultural background of spas in Europe, and tells you what you can expect from present-day spa treatments and therapies. Also included in this section are tips on how to benefit most fully from your spa experience, and recipes for do-it-yourself treatments that you can easily try at home. The spa therapies are organized according to the key elements of Water, Fire, Earth, Air, and Harmony. Spa Cuisine brings some of the secrets of healthy eating into your home, with delicious, nutritious and innovative recipes provided by two French spas: La Cuisine Synergique, a three-day programme from Royal Parc Evian; and Cuisine Minceur, a one-day programme from Les Preacute;s d'Eugeacute;nie. You will discover how a synergy of ingredients and cooking methods can provide tasty and inventive meals that help to balance your body and optimize your energy levels. Spa Digest, arranged geographically, is an illustrated guide to 49 of Europe's quality spas. It provides insights into the character of each property and highlights their key treatments to help you plan your next spa visit. A fact-packed Spa Statistics column helps you establish at a glance the spa type, spa size, facilities, treatments and therapies, provisions for couples, availability of spa cuisine, services, recreation options, and contact details of each spa.
Author : Mirjam Zadoff
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812207556
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Next Year in Marienbad written by Mirjam Zadoff and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the last decades of the nineteenth century through the late 1930s, the West Bohemian spa towns of Carlsbad, Franzensbad, and Marienbad were fashionable destinations for visitors wishing to "take a cure"—to drink the waters, bathe in the mud, be treated by the latest X-ray, light, or gas therapies, or simply enjoy the respite afforded by elegant parks and comfortable lodgings. These were sociable and urbane places, settings for celebrity sightings, match-making, and stylish promenading. Originally the haunt of aristocrats, the spa towns came to be the favored summer resorts for the emerging bourgeoisie. Among the many who traveled there, a very high proportion were Jewish. In Next Year in Marienbad, Mirjam Zadoff writes the social and cultural history of Carlsbad, Franzensbad, and Marienbad as Jewish spaces. Secular and religious Jews from diverse national, cultural, and social backgrounds mingled in idyllic and often apolitical-seeming surroundings. During the season, shops sold Yiddish and Hebrew newspapers, kosher kitchens were opened, and theatrical presentations, concerts, and public readings catered to the Jewish clientele. Yet these same resorts were situated in a region of growing hostile nationalisms, and they were towns that might turn virulently anti-Semitic in the off season. Next Year in Marienbad draws from memoirs and letters, newspapers and maps, novels and postcards to create a compelling and engaging portrait of Jewish presence and cultural production in the years between the fin de siècle and the Second World War.
Author : Augustus Bozzi Granville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Spas of Germany. By the Author of “St. Petersburgh” (A. B. Granville). written by Augustus Bozzi Granville and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian C. Bradley
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195327349
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Water Music written by Ian C. Bradley and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2010 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores the music making that went on in the spas and watering places in Europe and the United States during their heyday between the early-18th and the mid-20th centuries.
Author : Lori Thein Brody
Publisher : Human Kinetics
ISBN 13 : 073607130X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Aquatic Exercise for Rehabilitation and Training written by Lori Thein Brody and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2009 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DVD contains demonstration of basic stroke problems and corrections discussed in the book.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Geological Survey Professional Paper written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne Williams
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN 13 : 9780781755788
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (557 download)
Download or read book Spa Bodywork written by Anne Williams and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2007 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook guides massage therapists through each step of delivering a spa treatment—from consideration of the indications and contraindications to scope of practice issues, supplies, room set-up, specific procedure steps, and ideas for integrating massage techniques, spa products, and enhancing accents. While wet-room treatments are discussed, the focus is on dry-room treatments, which can be delivered in a wider variety of settings. More than 250 full-color photographs illustrate each technique and treatment. Treatment Snapshot boxes provide a quick overview of the treatment before the detailed step-by-step procedures section. Sanitation Boxes offer clean-up and sanitation tips. Sample Treatments include promotional descriptions, product recommendations, and recipes for creating inviting smell-scapes.
Author : Marina Soroka
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351813471
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The Summer Capitals of Europe, 1814-1919 written by Marina Soroka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the European health spas of the nineteenth century: what they were, how they operated, what life was like there and how their functions evolved to the point where their original medicinal purpose was relegated to a secondary place by the unintended uses of spas as stages of social and political interactions. These popular resorts were nicknamed ‘the summer capitals of Europe’ because of the tendency of nations’ governing classes to gather there. Every summer between 1814 and 1914 (and in a few cases during World War I) continental watering places became a microcosm of cosmopolitan aristocratic Europe, incorporating its conventions, tastes, concerns and interests. As the nineteenth century advanced, fashionable watering stations increasingly became associated with social bonding, matchmaking, pleasure, career building, conspicuous consumption and diplomatic activity that took place during the high season.
Author : Kaye Sung Chon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136412883
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)
Download or read book The Tourism and Leisure Industry written by Kaye Sung Chon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out how the ways we live and work are changing the ways in which we play! As populations grow and urbanization increases, social class, income, and ethnicity are influencing where and when people travel. The Tourism and Leisure Industry: Shaping the Future gives you the knowledge and skills you need to keep your business on top of this competitive field. An essential read for all leisure and tourism experts, this book analyzes and explains demographics, global supply and demand, globalization, intercultural behavior, and mobility to help you forecast future consumer needs. This insightful book also predicts new markets and products to help you tailor your business to the tourism and leisure trends of the next generation. The Tourism and Leisure Industry: Shaping the Future evaluates traditional leisure time activities, such as theme parks and sporting events as well as the fastest growing activities, such as leisure-based wellness resorts. Find out what the populations of different countries are expecting from their free time in terms of temporal aspects, benefits, and location. Get up-to-date advice on information technology and see how it will be changing the way you do business. The Tourism and Leisure Industry: Shaping the Future focuses on a variety of factors impacting tourism today, including: changes in social values intercultural technology races changed economic market conditions changing lifestyle trends population growth networked economies the growing market for senior travelers The Tourism and Leisure Industry: Shaping the Future is your contemporary guide to the next steps in the evolution of tourism and leisure. Filled with tables and figures to help you organize and understand the information it presents, this book is easy to read yet suitable for any expert in the leisure field. With case studies, research reports, and extensive bibliographies, it is a vital resource for destination managers, consultants, and teachers alike.
Author : Elisabeth Boesen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317139771
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book European Borderlands written by Elisabeth Boesen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expectations of European planners for the gradual disappearance of national borders, and the corresponding prognoses of social scientists, have turned out to be over-optimistic. Borders have not disappeared – not even in a unified and predominantly peaceful Europe – but rather they have changed, become more varied and, in a certain sense, mobile, taking on an important role in the everyday lives of more people than ever before. Furthermore, it is now widely accepted that borders do not just hinder communication and the formation of relationships, but also channel and prefigure them in a positive way. Presenting a number of studies of everyday life in European borderlands, this book addresses the multifarious and complex ways in which borders function as both barriers and bridges. Focusing on ‘established’ Western European borderlands – with the exception of three contrasting cases – the book attempts a turn from conflict to harmony in the study of borderlands and thus examines the more mundane manifestations of border life and the complex, often unconscious motives of everyday cross-border practices. The collection of chapters demonstrates that even in the case of ‘open’ political borders, the border remains an enduring factor that is not adequately described as either a problematic barrier or a desirable bridge. The studies look at bordering processes, not only approaching them from different disciplinary angles – sociology, anthropology, geography, history, political science and literary studies – but also choosing different scales and making comparisons that range from different borders of one country to the reactions and attitudes of different individuals in a single borderland village.
Author : Patricia Erfurt-Cooper
Publisher : Channel View Publications
ISBN 13 : 1845411110
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Health and Wellness Tourism written by Patricia Erfurt-Cooper and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of natural geothermal springs in the treatment of illness and the promotion of wellness (thermalism, balneology) forms the foundation for a discussion of the development and growth of health and wellness tourism in this book. A range of perspectives are explored, including usage, heritage, management, technology, environmental and cultural features, and marketing.
Author : Gerry Bodeker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136351248
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Understanding the Global Spa Industry written by Gerry Bodeker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-08-20 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spa industry is currently the fastest growing segment of the hospitality and leisure industry with revenues exceeding those from amusement parks, box office receipts, vacation ownership gross sales and ski resort ticket sales. Understanding the Global Spa Industry is the first book to examine management practices in this industry and offers a groundbreaking and comprehensive approach to global spa management, covering everything from the beginnings of the industry through to contemporary management and social and ethical issues. With contributions from internationally renowned business leaders, practitioners and academics, this unique book is packed with case studies, examples and advice for all those working in, and studying, the international spa industry. Understanding the Global Spa Industry brings an analytic lens to the spa movement, examining past, current and future trends and the potential for shaping wellness and health services in the 21st century.
