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Book Across Cultures

Download or read book Across Cultures written by Sheena Gillespie and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 1993 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to offer an appealing anthology where there is an increased interest in connections between and among cultures, "Across Cultures," strives to promote understanding of diverse cultures among students. The book advocates acceptance of the diversity of voices, while suggesting ways to probe the correspondences, interrelationships, and mutual benefits of that diversity. Diversity and the interrelationship General Interest

Book Managing Across Cultures

Download or read book Managing Across Cultures written by Susan C. Schneider and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2003 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A solid theoretical framework, thoroughly integrated with research, should provide students with invaluable insight into application in the real world and there is a framework for analyzing national culture which can also be applied to other cultural spheres - regional, industry, corporate and functional/professional - providing students with an understanding of how any business encounter represents the interaction of several cultural spheres. Case studies are drawn from around the world.

Book Managing Across Cultures

Download or read book Managing Across Cultures written by Susan C. Schneider and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2014-06 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He has published in lead-ing aca-demic and practitioner-oriented journals and has designed and taught cross-cultural management courses at the Masters, MBA, and Executive MBA levels for universities and business schools around the world

Book Leading Across Cultures

    Book Details:
  • Author : James E. Plueddemann
  • Publisher : InterVarsity Press
  • Release : 2012-10-04
  • ISBN : 0830866302
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Leading Across Cultures written by James E. Plueddemann and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Missiologist James E. Plueddemann presents a roadmap for crosscultural leadership development in the global church. With keen understanding of current research on cultural dynamics, he integrates theology with leadership theory to apply biblical insights to practical issues in world mission.

Book Teaching and Learning across Cultures

Download or read book Teaching and Learning across Cultures written by Craig Ott and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing the fruit of a lifetime of reflection and practice, this comprehensive resource helps teachers understand the way people in different cultures learn so they can adapt their teaching for maximum effectiveness. Senior missiologist and educator Craig Ott draws on extensive research and cross-cultural experience from around the world. This book introduces students to current theories and best practices for teaching and learning across cultures. Case studies, illustrations, diagrams, and sidebars help the theories of the book come to life.

Book When Cultures Collide  Third Edition

Download or read book When Cultures Collide Third Edition written by Richard Lewis and published by Nicholas Brealey International. This book was released on 2010-11-26 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic work that revolutionized the way business is conducted across cultures around the world.

Book Communicating Across Cultures  Second Edition

Download or read book Communicating Across Cultures Second Edition written by Stella Ting-Toomey and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Description: This highly regarded text--now revised and expanded with 50% new material--helps students and professionals mindfully build their knowledge and competencies for effective intercultural communication on any setting. The authors' comprehensive, updated theoretical framework (integrative identity negotiation theory) reveals how both verbal and nonverbal communication are affected by multilayered facets of identity. Written in a candid, conversational style, the book is rich with engaging examples illustrating cultural conflicts and misunderstandings that arise in workplace, educational, interpersonal, and community contexts. Readers learn how to transform polarized conversations into successful intercultural engagements by combining culture-specific knowledge with mindful listening and communication skills. Key Words: intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication, human communication, communication skills, cultural competence, ethnic relations, ethnic studies, multicultural counseling, international business relations, cultural diversity, cross-cultural psychology, ethnography, mindful communication, mindfulness, intergroup communication, integrative identity negotiation theory, acculturation, adjustment, immigration, immigrants, listening skills, textbooks, texts, college classes, college courses, college students, undergraduates, graduates, foreign students, refugees, social psychology, sociolingustics, international competence"--

Book Communicating Across Cultures  First Edition

Download or read book Communicating Across Cultures First Edition written by Stella Ting-Toomey and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2012-04-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From high-level business negotiations to casual conversations among friends, every interpersonal interaction is shaped by cultural norms and expectations. Seldom is this more clearly brought to light than in encounters between people from different cultural backgrounds, when dissimilar communication practices may lead to frustration and misunderstanding. This thought-provoking text presents a new framework for understanding the impact of culture on communication and for helping students build intercultural communication competence. With illustrative examples from around the globe, the book shows that verbal and nonverbal communication involves much more than transmitting a particular message--it also reflects each participant's self-image, group identifications and values, and privacy and relational needs. Readers learn to move effectively and appropriately through a wide range of transcultural situations by combining culture-specific knowledge with mindful listening and communication skills. Throughout, helpful tables and charts and easy-to-follow guidelines for putting concepts into practice enhance the book's utility for students.

Book Astronomy Across Cultures

    Book Details:
  • Author : Helaine Selin
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 9401141797
  • Pages : 678 pages

Download or read book Astronomy Across Cultures written by Helaine Selin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astronomy Across Cultures: A History of Non-Western Astronomy consists of essays dealing with the astronomical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Polynesian, Egyptian and Tibetan astronomy, among others, the book includes essays on Sky Tales and Why We Tell Them and Astronomy and Prehistory, and Astronomy and Astrology. The essays address the connections between science and culture and relate astronomical practices to the cultures which produced them. Each essay is well illustrated and contains an extensive bibliography. Because the geographic range is global, the book fills a gap in both the history of science and in cultural studies. It should find a place on the bookshelves of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars, as well as in libraries serving those groups.

Book Managing Across Cultures

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  • Author : Charlene Marmer Solomon
  • Publisher : Tata McGraw-Hill Education
  • Release : 2009-12
  • ISBN : 9780070677357
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Managing Across Cultures written by Charlene Marmer Solomon and published by Tata McGraw-Hill Education. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the increase of new global clients, customers, and suppliers and the advent of collaborative software and global teams, more businesses than ever are interacting with cultures around the world.This essential guide offers a complete course in the business styles unique to each culture. Filled with need-to-know advice and practical tips, this book shows business people how to ecognize and interpret seven universal behaviors and adapt their own style for worldwide success.

Book Designing Across Cultures

Download or read book Designing Across Cultures written by Ronnie Lipton and published by HOW Books. This book was released on 2002-03-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing Across Cultures shows designers how to create effective advertisements and designs for other ethnic groups by understanding which symbols, images, colors and typography they find most appealing--and which they don't. Freelancers and graphic design agencies alike will find this book invaluable. It features examples, case studies, before & after comparisons and the dos and don'ts of designing for other cultures. Also included are interviews with heads from some of the leading agencies, providing even more great advice for designers.

Book Coaching Across Cultures

Download or read book Coaching Across Cultures written by Philippe Rosinski and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2010-11-26 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Philippe Rosinski is a leader in the coaching field. Coaching Across Cultures reveals his pioneering multi-cultural approach and innovative global perspective. His book is a treasure for anyone eager to learn how to effectively facilitate human fulfillment and responsible growth." - Laura Berman Fortgang, Author of Take Yourself to the Top and Living Your Best Life As coaches and clients increasingly realize, the demands of business mean that it is now vital to integrate, understand and leverage cultural differences across countries and corporations. Coaching Across Cultures bridges the gap between coaching and interculturalism.

Book Nature Across Cultures

    Book Details:
  • Author : Helaine Selin
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-04-17
  • ISBN : 9401701490
  • Pages : 482 pages

Download or read book Nature Across Cultures written by Helaine Selin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures consists of about 25 essays dealing with the environmental knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Thai, and Andean views of nature and the environment, among others, the book includes essays on Environmentalism and Images of the Other, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Worldviews and Ecology, Rethinking the Western/non-Western Divide, and Landscape, Nature, and Culture. The essays address the connections between nature and culture and relate the environmental practices to the cultures which produced them. Each essay contains an extensive bibliography. Because the geographic range is global, the book fills a gap in both environmental history and in cultural studies. It should find a place on the bookshelves of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars, as well as in libraries serving those groups.

Book Cross Cultures

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dennis T. Jafffe
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-02-09
  • ISBN : 9781517626600
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Cross Cultures written by Dennis T. Jafffe and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prosperous families around the world face unexpected challenges as they encounter the modern global environment. It is natural for the wealth-creating generation to cherish the cultural roots that led to their success, advocating for the family's heritage. But, as subsequent generations are educated and trained in faraway lands and diverse cultures, new influences enter the family. The resulting conflicts can bring significant stress to the family and risk to the family enterprise, especially at times of generational transition. Cross Cultures: How Global Families Negotiate Change Across Generations outlines the latest insights from two internationally-renowned family business consultants, Dennis Jaffe PhD and James Grubman PhD. It explains the practical, commonsense strategies that families in each culture (and their advisors) can use to resolve the differences threatening the fabric of the family. Building on Dr. Grubman's first book, Strangers in Paradise: How Families Adapt to Wealth Across Generations, and Dr. Jaffe's 100 Year Family Enterprise Research project for Wise Counsel Research Associates, Cross Cultures outlines the current sociological research identifying three fundamental cultural styles around the world. It then provides insight into how families can overcome their cross-cultural stresses using proven negotiation techniques. Cross Cultures is a ground-breaking explanation of culture, its hidden dimensions, and the important new ways in which families must think, communicate, and solve problems together.

Book Negotiating Across Cultures

Download or read book Negotiating Across Cultures written by Raymond Cohen and published by Washington, D.C. : United States Institute of Peace. This book was released on 1991 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Happiness Across Cultures

Download or read book Happiness Across Cultures written by Helaine Selin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Different cultures experience happiness differently. Traditionally, the West is considered materialistic, and happiness is said to come from achievement and acquisition. The East is said to be more people-oriented, where happiness is a result of deep personal interactions. Thus, poor people can be happier in the East than the West, because they are not so concerned with possession and more with society. This book considers happiness and quality of life in non-Western countries and cultures. Its coverage is diverse and spans the breadth of the non-Western world, revealing unique perspectives of happiness and life quality embedded in rich cultural traditions and histories.

Book Cinderella across Cultures

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère
  • Publisher : Wayne State University Press
  • Release : 2016-06-01
  • ISBN : 081434156X
  • Pages : 440 pages

Download or read book Cinderella across Cultures written by Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cinderella story is retold continuously in literature, illustration, music, theatre, ballet, opera, film, and other media, and folklorists have recognized hundreds of distinct forms of Cinderella plots worldwide. The focus of this volume, however, is neither Cinderella as an item of folklore nor its alleged universal meaning. In Cinderella across Cultures, editors Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère, Gillian Lathey, and Monika Wozniak analyze the Cinderella tale as a fascinating, multilayered, and ever-changing story constantly reinvented in different media and traditions. The collection highlights the tale’s reception and adaptation in cultural and national contexts across the globe, including those of Italy, France, Germany, Britain, the Netherlands, Poland, and Russia. Contributors shed new light on classic versions of Cinderella by examining the material contexts that shaped them (such as the development of glass artifacts and print techniques), or by analyzing their reception in popular culture (through cheap print and mass media). The first section, “Contextualizing Cinderella,” investigates the historical and cultural contexts of literary versions of the tale and their diachronic transformations. The second section, “Regendering Cinderella,” tackles innovative and daring literary rewritings of the tale in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, in particular modern feminist and queer takes on the classic plot. Finally, the third section, “Visualising Cinderella,” concerns symbolic transformations of the tale, especially the interaction between text and image and the renewal of the tale’s iconographic tradition. The volume offers an invaluable contribution to the study of this particular tale and also to fairy-tale studies overall. Readers interested in the visual arts, in translation studies, or in popular culture, as well as a wider audience wishing to discover the tale anew will delight in this collection.