Culture from the Inside Out: Travel and Meet Yourself Book

EBook Description: Who would have thought that the first person you meet when you travel abroad is yourself?In this age of international travel, businesspeople and visitors alike must rise to the challenge of fitting into different cultures. Yet feeling at ease in a new culture requires more than simple adaptability and knowledge of foreign etiquette and customs. In order to travel successfully, you must first have a clear understanding of your own personality.In Culture from the Inside Out: Travel and Meet Yourself, an innovative approach to understanding culture and succeeding abroad, Alan Cornes outlines how an individual's characteristics play a fundamental part in how they encounter a new environment. Culture from the Inside Out takes readers on a personal journey to discover what it is about them that affects how they fare abroad.

We live in a culture in which sports play an important role. The growth in broadcasting, merchandising, iconography and the commercialization of sports has led to an increasing interest in the emerging field of sports culture. This book examines individual issues, people, artefacts, events and organizations in their historical, social and cultural contexts. Coverage is wide-ranging with more than 170 entries; including, Aggression; Corruption; Drugs; Field of Dreams; Michael Jordan; and Racism. The book also includes suggestions for further reading and a comprehensive index.

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Between Religion and Rationality: Essays in Russian Literature and Culture Book

In this book, acclaimed Dostoevsky biographer Joseph Frank explores some of the most important aspects of nineteenth and twentieth century Russian culture, literature, and history. Delving into the distinctions of the Russian novel as well as the conflicts between the religious peasant world and the educated Russian elite, Between Religion and Rationality displays the cogent reflections of one of the most distinguished and versatile critics in the field.

Myths About Doing Business in China (Repost) Book

China is rapidly becoming an economic superpower, yet has a very different business culture that is often misunderstood outside of China. This can result in costly financial and strategic errors. This book confronts the myths about China and Chinese business practice and gives the reader a clear understanding of the culture and how to engage with it successfully.

Digital Visual Culture: Theory and Practice Book

Digital Visual Culture presents the latest research into the relationship between theory and practice across digital media and technology in the visual arts and investigates the challenges of contemporary research and art curation, particularly in regard to new media artworks. The contributors to this volume discuss the impact of technological advances on visual art and the new art practices that are developing as a result. Many aspects of new interdisciplinary and collaborative practices are considered, such as net art and global locative environments, , and installations that are themselves performance, or games that often take place simultaneously online and in reality. Digital Visual Culture is an important addition to the ongoing discussion surrounding postmodern art practice in art and digital media.

Children, Consumerism, and the Common Good Book

The children are full, interdependent members of the communities of which they are a part; they have a claim on our resources and our solidarity, as well as a right to participate in social life. Their participation easily becomes exploitation in the context of consumer culture. The tradition of the common good within Christianity moves communities toward practices of resistance and transformation to this culture in a spirit of solidarity with children.

Virus Culture: A Practical Approach (Practical Approach Series) {Repost} Book

Univ. of Leicester, UK. Describes the latest tried-and-tested methodology for virus culture. Step-by-step protocols and hints and tips for success are provided. Halftone illustrations are included throughout the text. For students and virologists in academic, industrial,and clinical research. Softcover, hardcover also available.

Art, Myth and Ritual: The Path to Political Authority in Ancient China Book

If you are a serious student of Chinese history and culture, you must own, not just read, this book. Its cross-disciplinary perspective makes it a book you will find yourself returning to on a regular basis as your own knowledge and understanding of Chinese history and culture grows. Passages once oblique or of little interest to you previously, will suddenly become the glue of new associations and insights.
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The Political Culture of Judaism by Martin Sicker Book

Sicker examines the fundamental issues of the relationship of the individual to society and state, the implications for public policy of the Judaic focus on social justice, and the rabbinic approach to the problems of national security, from the perspective of a distinctive Judaic political culture that emerges from the source documents and traditions of classical Judaism.

Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940 Book

The U.S. invasion of Haiti in July 1915 marked the start of a military occupation that lasted for nineteen years--and fed an American fascination with Haiti that flourished even longer. Exploring the cultural dimensions of U.S. contact with Haiti during the occupation and its aftermath, Mary Renda shows that what Americans thought and wrote about Haiti during those years contributed in crucial and unexpected ways to an emerging culture of U.S. imperialism.

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