Sustainable Tourism
Author: Rob Harris, Peter Williams, Tony Griffin
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ISBN: 0750689463
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann (15 August, 2002)
Sales Rank: 826,940
Average Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
Wholly commendable, a magic carpet of sorts
A bravura display of acumen. A wholly commendable discourse on the exigencies of survival in the academic trade. Buried in this venerable rehash, the kind of book known in the trade as "dollops of warmed over lectures that once burdened students and now gather dust sedately on bookshelves but at least we can cadge a
few library sales - to whit from the benighted institutions that employ and subsidise these prattling clowns," buried in this tedious tome is an essay by the gloriously garlanded David Johnson, who is - wait for it - "Professor of Coastal Management and Head of the School of Maritime and Coastal Studies at Southampton Institute" a man who is rumoured to be "published widely." Hmm. In fact, Joker Johnson is one of those widely ridiculed Southampton Institute professors who do not have a single book publication to their name. He is also a typical committee hugging and humbugging sycophant, dashing from one committee to another and mouthing off platitudinous PC recycled garbage (a must for the ecologically minded pseudo-professor). But how, I hear you asking, can this be? How is all that done? And why is it allowed? Dear reader. Shake not thine head in perplexity. Know this. It is for you to wonder and for Prof Johnson to wander. In circles. From one "meeting" to the next, from one grant to the other, from one freebie to the next freebie. And in his wanderings he will pick up I verily tell thee a tidy sum, a small fortune in the guise of a professorial salary, paid for by you and I and the low browed shuffling and glumly menacing students that Southampton Institute recruits so desperately. The recipe is thus. Take a coterie of back scratching nonentities, infuse with a dose of provincial turpitude, and heat slowly in the oven of a Masonic gang for - Oh, at least a year or two. Then, hey presto! A Southampton Institute "professor!"
Rating: 5 out of 5
A masterpiece in its own fashion
A bravura display of acumen. A wholly commendable discourse on the exigencies of survival in the academic trade. Buried in this venerable rehash, the kind of book known in the trade as "dollops of warmed over lectures that once burdened students and now gather dust sedately on bookshelves but at least we can cadge a few library sales - to whit from the benighted institutions that employ and subsidise these prattling clowns," buried in this tedious tome is an essay by the gloriously garlanded David Johnson, who is - wait for it - "Professor of Coastal Management and Head of the School of Maritime and Coastal Studies at Southampton Institute" a man who is rumoured to be "published widely." Hmm. In fact, Joker Johnson is one of those widely ridiculed Southampton Institute professors who do not have a single book publication to their name. He is also a typical committee hugging and humbugging sycophant, dashing from one committee to another and mouthing off platitudinous PC recycled garbage (a must for the ecologically minded pseudo-professor). But how, I hear you asking, can this be? How is all that done? And why is it allowed? Dear reader. Shake not thine head in perplexity. Know this. It is for you to wonder and for Prof Johnson to wander. In circles. From one "meeting" to the next, from one grant to the other, from one freebie to the next freebie. And in his wanderings he will pick up I verily tell thee a tidy sum, a small fortune in the guise of a professorial salary, paid for by you and I and the low browed shuffling and glumly menacing students that Southampton Institute recruits so desperately. The recipe is thus. Take a coterie of back scratching nonentities, infuse with a dose of provincial turpitude, and heat slowly in the oven of a Masonic gang for - Oh, at least a year or two. Then, hey presto! A Southampton Institute "professor"! Similar Products
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