Communication Between Cultures (Samovar Larry A.)(Paperback)

Communication Between Cultures (Samovar Larry A.)(Paperback)

Emphasizing the roles that family, religion, and history play in intercultural communication, COMMUNICATION BETWEEN CULTURES, 9E helps you increase your understanding and appreciation of different cultures while developing practical skills for improving your communication with people from other

Conflict, Culture and Communication (Stadler Stefanie)(Paperback)

Conflict, Culture and Communication provides a coherent, research-informed overview of conflict and intercultural communication. Aimed at encouraging and enabling conflict prevention, this book contributes to a better understanding of the factors that create, foster and exacerbate conflict in

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions (Mitchell Larry)(Paperback)

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry Mitchell with lush illustrations by Ned Asta, published by Calamus Press in 1977. Part-fable, part-manifesto, the book takes place in Ramrod, an empire in decline, and introduces us to the communities

Understanding Intercultural Communication: Negotiating a Grammar of Culture (Holliday Adrian)(Paperback)

Understanding Intercultural Communication provides a practical framework to help readers to understand intercultural communication and to solve intercultural problems. Each chapter exemplifies the everyday intercultural through ethnographic narratives in which people make sense of each other in

Bridging the Communication Gap: Specification by Example and Agile Acceptance Testing (Adzic Gojko)(Paperback)

Bridging the Communication Gap is a book about improving communication between customers, business analysts, developers and testers on software projects, especially by using specification by example and agile acceptance testing. These two key emerging software development practices can

American Businesses in China: Balancing Culture and Communication, 3D Ed. (Street Nancy Lynch)(Paperback)

Communication Theory and Millennial Popular Culture; Essays and Applications (Roberts Kathleen Glenister)(Paperback)

Writing in a highly accessible yet compelling style, contributors explain communication theories by applying them to artifacts of popular culture. Using this book, students will become familiar with key theories in communication while developing creative and critical

Performed Ethnography and Communication: Improvisation and Embodied Experience (Madison D. Soyini)(Paperback)

Performed Ethnography and Communication explores the relationships between these three key terms, addressing the impact of ethnography and communication on the cutting edge of performance studies. Ranging from digital performance, improvisation and the body, to fieldwork and staged collaboration,

Communication Protocol Specification and Verification (Lai Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Communication protocols are rules whereby meaningful communication can be exchanged between different communicating entities. In general, they are complex and difficult to design and implement. Specifications of communication protocols written in a natural language (e.g. English) can be unclear or

John Dewey Between Pragmatism and Constructivism (Hickman Larry A.)(Paperback)

Many contemporary constructivists are particularly attuned to Dewey's penetrating criticism of traditional epistemology, which offers rich alternatives for understanding processes of learning and education, knowledge and truth, and experience and culture.This book, the result of cooperation between

The Simple Truths about Leadership: Creating a People-Centric Culture (Peters Larry)(Pevná vazba)

Biometrics: A Very Short Introduction (Fairhurst Michael)(Paperback)

We live in a society which is increasingly interconnected, in which communication between individuals is mostly mediated via some electronic platform, and transactions are often carried out remotely. In such a world, traditional notions of trust and confidence in the identity of those with whom we

Musical Notation in the West (Grier James)(Paperback)

Musical notation is a powerful system of communication between musicians, using sophisticated symbolic, primarily non-verbal means to express musical events in visual symbols. Many musicians take the system for granted, having internalized it and their strategies for reading it and translating it

Communicating Across Cultures at Work (Guirdham Maureen)(Paperback)

This new edition examines intercultural communication in the workplace. Firmly grounded in theory, it offers practical suggestions on how people can develop cultural awareness and communication skills. Fully updated with the latest research, this makes an ideal core

Culture Smart!: Georgia: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (Abramia Natia)(Paperback)

Georgia lies between Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Black Sea. This small Caucasian country is used to playing a significant role in global geopolitics, and its strategic location at the crossroads of different civilizations has been a curse as

Curating Biocultural Collections: A Handbook (Salick Jan)(Paperback)

Biocultural collections cross the boundary between nature and culture, documenting the remarkable richness and diversity of human engagement with the natural world. With materials ranging from blocks of wood to DNA, and from ancient books to new websites, they play a diverse role in research and

Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns (Ashby Stephen P.)(Paperback)

Crafting Communities explores the interface between craft, communication networks, and urbanization in Viking-age Northern Europe. Viking-period towns were the hubs of cross-cultural communication of their age, and innovations in specialized crafts provide archaeologists with some of the best

Networked Theology: Negotiating Faith in Digital Culture (Campbell Heidi A.)(Paperback)

2018 Clifford G. Christians Ethics Research AwardThis informed theology of communication and media analyzes how we consume new media and technologies and discusses the impact on our social and religious lives. Combining expertise in religion online, theology, and technology, the authors synthesize

Intercultural Communication and Language Pedagogy (Abrams Zsuzsanna Ittzs)(Paperback)

Learning a new language offers a unique opportunity to discover other cultures as well as one's own. This discovery process is essential for developing 21st-century intercultural communication skills. To help prepare language teachers for their role as guides during this process, this book uses

Tulsa (Clark Larry)(Paperback)

Into the Universe of Technical Images (Flusser Vilm)(Paperback)

Poised between hope and despair for a humanity facing an urgent communication crisis, this work by Vil m Flusser forecasts either the first truly human, infinitely creative society in history or a society of unbearable, oppressive sameness, locked in a pattern it cannot change. First published in

A Tapestry of Light (Duffy Kimberly)(Paperback)

Calcutta, 1886.Ottilie Russell is adrift between two cultures, British and Indian, belonging to both and neither. In order to support her little brother, Thaddeus, and her grandmother, she relies upon her skills in beetle-wing embroidery that have been passed down to her through generations of

Ethnopsychiatry, 56 (Delille Emmanuel)(Paperback)

What is the relationship between culture and mental health? Is mental illness universal? Are symptoms of mental disorders different across social groups? In the late 1960s these questions gave rise to a groundbreaking series of articles written by the psychiatrist Henri Ellenberger, who would go on

Literary Theory (Culler Jonathan)(Paperback)

What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? These are some of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in this new edition of his highly popular Very Short Introduction. Culler, an extremely lucid commentator and much admired in the field of literary theory, uses