Rome: An Empire of Many Nations - New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity(Pevná vazba)

Rome: An Empire of Many Nations - New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity(Pevná vazba)

Explores the nature of the vast multinational Roman Empire through the identities of ethnic groups and the experiences of single individuals. The chapters range across the many cultures, languages, religions and literatures of the Empire, with a special focus on the Jews as a test-case for the

Race Discrimination and Management of Ethnic Diversity and Migration at Work: European Countries' Perspectives (Vassilopoulou Joana)(Pevná vazba)

The sixth volume of International Perspectives on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion addresses workplace discrimination of ethnic minority people and migrants in Europe. Race Discrimination and Management of Ethnic Diversity and Migration at Work analyses perspectives from nine countries: France,

Management and Diversity: Perspectives from Different National Contexts (zbilgin Mustafa)(Pevná vazba)

International Perspectives on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion examines the complex nature of equality, diversity and inclusion in the world of work through interdisciplinary, comparative and critical

Identity, Hybridity and Cultural Home: Chinese Migrants and Diaspora in Multicultural Societies (Liu Shuang)(Pevná vazba)

The Chinese have been one of the oldest and largest ethnic communities across the world with well over 35 million people living overseas. Despite their relatively large cultural distance from the host countries, and the ordeals faced by generations of Chinese immigrants due to stereotypes,

Sunday Best: A Celebration of Diversity (Waggett Katie)(Pevná vazba)

- A photographer's celebration of London's cultural and religious diversity In the wake of a terror attack and determined not to let the voices of separatism win out, photographer Katie Waggett embarked on an intimate survey of London's many religions. Her portraits, set alongside personal quotes,

Positive Nations and Communities: Collective, Qualitative and Cultural-Sensitive Processes in Positive Psychology (gueda Marujo Helena)(Pevná vazba)

This book approaches the field of positive psychology from a post-modern perspective. The book brings a more collective, qualitative, culturally sensitive and transformative approach to the processes of making sense and implementing the science of positive

Varieties of Ethical Reflection - New Directions for Ethics in a Global Context(Pevná vazba)

Varieties of Ethical Reflection brings together new cultural and religious perspectives--drawn from non-Western, primarily Asian, philosophical sources--to globalize the contemporary discussion of theoretical and applied ethics. The work pushes ethics beyond a Western philosophical tradition

The Cultural Nature of Attachment: Contextualizing Relationships and Development (Keller Heidi)(Pevná vazba)

Multidisciplinary perspectives on the cultural and evolutionary foundations of children's attachment relationships and on the consequences for education, counseling, and policy.It is generally acknowledged that attachment relationships are important for infants and young children, but there is

Traitors of Rome (Eagles of the Empire 18) (Scarrow Simon)(Pevná vazba)

The enthralling new Cato and Macro adventure in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Eagles of the Empire series. Not to be missed by readers of Conn Iggulden and Bernard Cornwell. AD 56. Battle-hardened veterans of the Roman army Tribune Cato and Centurion Macro are garrisoned at the eastern border, aware

Cultural Linguistics and World Englishes (Sadeghpour Marzieh)(Pevná vazba)

This book interrogates the study of World Englishes from the perspective of Cultural Linguistics, a theoretical and an analytical framework of cultural cognition, cultural conceptualisations and language that draws on and expands the analytical tools and theoretical advancements in a number of

Other Voices: Three Centuries of Cultural Dialogue Between Russia and Western Europe (Roberts Graham H.)(Pevná vazba)

This volume highlights the diversity and complexity of cultural dialogue between Russia and Western Europe since the end of the eighteenth century. Part one contains contributions which focus on how these cultures have viewed each other. There are chapters on the myth of Dumas pere in Russia, the

European Stamp Issues and the First World War - Fall of Empires, Rise of Nations (Parker David)(Pevná vazba)

Planting: A New Perspective (Oudolf Piet)(Pevná vazba)

Planting: A New Perspective is an essential resource for designers and gardeners looking to create plant-rich, beautiful gardens that support biodiversity and nourish the human spirit. An intimate knowledge of plants is essential to the success of modern landscape design, and Planting makes

Rome Victorious: The Irresistible Rise of the Roman Empire (Hoyos Dexter)(Pevná vazba)

Rome - Urbs Roma: city of patricians and plebeians, emperors and gladiators, slaves and concubines - was the epicentre of a far-flung imperium whose cultural legacy is incalculable. How a tiny settlement, founded by desperate adventurers beside the banks of the River Tiber, came to rule vast tracts

Identity, Society and Transformative Social Categories: Dynamics of Construction, Configuration and Contestation (Singharoy Debal Kumar)(Pevná vazba)

Identity is central to the understanding of human social, cultural, and political expressions. In recent times, it has become a major topic for intellectual discourse to represent the processes of dynamic social change and transformation such as the expansion of information and communication

Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents (Selwood Dominic)(Pevná vazba)

From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's mongrel, magpie language - this is Britain's past. But, today, Britain is experiencing an acute trauma of identity, pulled simultaneously towards its European, Atlantic and

A New History of Yachting (Bender Mike)(Pevná vazba)

An overview of the history of yachting in its social, cultural, political and economic contexts. Shortlisted for the Maritime Foundation's Mountbatten Award 2018 This book, by a leading expert in the field, is the first major history of yachting for over a quarter of a century. Setting

The Cultural Life of Machine Learning: An Incursion Into Critical AI Studies (Roberge Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

This book brings together the work of historians and sociologists with perspectives from media studies, communication studies, cultural studies, and information studies to address the origins, practices, and possible futures of contemporary machine learning. From its foundations in 1950s and 1960s

The Individual in Business Ethics: An American Cultural Perspective (Kavaliauskas T.)(Pevná vazba)

Today we are witnessing social and political dominance of large corporations. They provide for its employees moral values and business principles. Moreover, they institutionalize their codes of ethics. The theory of Business Ethics provides the moral guideline and standards for corporate life and

I Am So Many Things - NIV Journalling Bible (Version New International)(Pevná vazba)

An NIV Bible with joyful, identity-affirming illustrations and devotional activities from Christian artist and author of I Am So Many Things, Thea

The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire (Harper Kyle)(Pevná vazba)

How devastating viruses, pandemics, and other natural catastrophes swept through the far-flung Roman Empire and helped to bring down one of the mightiest civilizations of the ancient world Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the

Europe and the Roma - Klaus-Michael Bogdal

The first full, comprehensive account of the cultural representation of the Roma in European historyThis remarkable book describes a dark side of European history: the rejection of the Roma from their initial arrival in the late Middle Ages to the present day. To Europeans, the Roma appeared to be

Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty (Barrett Anthony a.)(Pevná vazba)

Drawing on new archaeological evidence, an authoritative history of Rome's Great Fire--and how it inflicted lasting harm on the Roman EmpireAccording to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire to his majestic imperial capital on the night of July 19, 64 AD and fiddled while the city burned. It's a

The Rise and Fall of Jewish American Literature: Ethnic Studies and the Challenge of Identity (Schreier Benjamin)(Pevná vazba)

Benjamin Schreier argues that Jewish American literature's dominant clich of 'breakthrough'--that is, the irruption into the heart of the American cultural scene during the 1950s of Jewish American writers like Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, and Grace Paley--must also be seen as the