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Americans At Work
A Guide to the Can-Do People
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2004
Restless and driven, casual and direct - Americans are a challenge! Learn how Americans behave at work and how to deal with them.
Whether you work with Americans face-to-face, communicate with them by telephone or e-mail or interact together in a virtual team, Americans at Work reveals the...
by Olivier Morin
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Of all the things we do and say, most will never be repeated or reproduced. Once in a while, however, an idea or a practice generates a chain of transmission that covers more distance through space and time than any individual person ever could. What makes such transmission chains possible? For two...
by Max Weber
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Max Weber, widely recognized as the greatest of the founders of classical sociology, is often associated with the development of capitalism in Western Europe and the analysis of modernity. But he also had a profound scholarly interest in ancient societies and the Near East, and turned the youthful...
The Sun Never Sets
South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
The Sun Never Sets collects the work of a generation of scholars who are enacting a shift in the orientation of the field of South Asian American studies. By focusing upon the lives, work, and activism of specific, often unacknowledged, migrant populations, the contributors present a more comprehensive...
by Donna M. Stringer, Patricia A. Cassiday
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2003
Stimulate lively discussions with activities for a variety of situations
In 52 Activities for Exploring Values Differences, Donna Stringer and Patricia Cassiday have written and adapted sound, ready-to-use activities for settings where the exploration of values differences is beneficial: the...
The Art of Community
Seven Principles for Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Create a Culture of Belonging!
Strong cultures help people support one another, share their passions, and achieve big goals. And such cultures of belonging aren't just happy accidents - they can be purposefully cultivated, whether they're in a company, a faith institution or among friends and...
Dinner with a Cannibal
The Complete History of Mankind's Oldest Taboo
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Presenting the history of cannibalism in concert with human evolution, Dinner with a Cannibal takes its readers on an astonishing trip around the world and through history, examining its subject from every angle in order to paint the incredible, multifaceted panoply that is the reality of cannibalism....
by Artemio de Valle Arizpe
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Inmersos en vidas ajenas, envueltos en un atuendo que no es el nuestro y viviendo la vida de otros, los lectores de este libro poco a poco nos adentramos en los arcanos de la urbe. Aprendemos, en un paseo a la vez geográfico y temporal, que el origen del nombre antiguo de ciertas calles puede hallarse...
Digination
Identity, Organization, and Public Life in the Age of Small Digital Devices and Big Digital Domains
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
The shift from orality to literacy that began with the invention of the phonetic alphabet, and which went into high-gear with Gutenberg’s printing press more than 500 years ago, helped make the modern world. Some commentators have argued that this shift from orality to literacy marked a much broader,...
Eat the Year
366 Fun and Fabulous Food Holidays to Celebrate Every Day
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Everyone loves food.
But did you know that every day is a national food or drink holiday? It's true! There's National Bloody Mary Day, National Cheese Lover's Day, and even National Blueberry Pancake Day-just to name a few.
Based on the popular blog Almanac of Eats, Eat the Year is a...
Identities Through Fashion
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Fashion has become a fertile field of study for academics across disciplines, now that the rules, once tightly fixed, have been deconstructed. This volume brings together academics from various disciplines - philosophy, sociology, medicine, anthropology, psychology and psychiatry - to examine fashion's...
Curatorial Conversations
Cultural Representation and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Since its origins in 1967, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival has gained worldwide recognition as a model for the research and public presentation of living cultural heritage and the advocacy of cultural democracy. Festival curators play a major role in interpreting the Festival's principles and shaping...
Gratuity
A Contextual Understanding of Tipping Norms from the Perspective of Tipped Employees
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Gratuity is based on interviews with 425 people in more than 50 occupational categories. The respondents from across the U.S. reflect the diversity of the population but have one thing in common: they earn tips. A tip is a price set almost entirely by a customer, less connected to demand than to social...
Handbook of Research on Transformative Online Education and Liberation
Models for Social Equality
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Online education has the potential to utilize cutting-edge technologies in order to bring together learners, e-facilitators, and e-contents. The Handbook of Research on Transformative Online Education and Liberation: Models for Social Equality discusses the potential for transformative models to liberate...