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You can't not have a reaction to this book! Based on over thirty years of conversations and interactions with Americans and Asians, Korean American Eun Kim presents American virtues and vices from an Asian perspective, using the ancient Asian concepts of yin and yang, which coexist in everything...

Explore the Cultural Schism between Ancient and Modern Times: What is the state of culture in the world today? In general, is culture changing? At age twenty, is Johnny, Juan, or Johan as financially and socially stable as when their grandfather turned twenty? Is Mary, Mia, or Maria teaching their...

The 'Tribal Culture in India' is a collection of research papers mostly based on the empirical facts collected by the author through various anthropological techniques over a span of thirsty years: the problems faced by Chota Nagpur, the Student’ unrest with its effects is a paper on "village...

In Indian Givers and Native Roots, renowned anthropologist Jack Weatherford opened the eyes of tens of thousands of readers to the clash between Native American and European cultures. Now, in his brilliant new book, Weatherford broadens his focus to examine how civilization threatens to obliterate...

Part reportage, part travelogue, this is a fascinating introduction to contemporary Danish culture for anyone who wants to know more about the world’s happiest nation. Denmark is the country of the moment. Recently named the happiest nation in the world, it’s the home of The Killing and...

Viva Mexico! Border sharer. Major trade partner. Exporter of culture and citizens. Tourist destination. Mexico has always been of the utmost significance to the United States, with the shared 2,000-mile border, historical ties in mutual territory, and history of Mexican labor coming north and American...

The citizens of the Marshall Islands have been told that climate change will doom their country, and they have seen confirmatory omens in the land, air, and sea. This book investigates how grassroots Marshallese society has interpreted and responded to this threat as intimated by local observation,...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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....

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...