Understanding Material Culture (Woodward Ian)(Paperback)

Understanding Material Culture (Woodward Ian)(Paperback)

Why are i-pods and mobile phones fashion accessories? Why do people spend thousands remodelling their perfectly functional kitchen? Why do people crave shoes or handbags? Is our desire for objects unhealthy, or irrational? Objects have an inescapable hold over us, not just in consumer culture but

Material Methods: Researching and Thinking with Things (Woodward Sophie)(Paperback)

How do you research materiality and material culture? How do you use material 'things' to research social life? Exploring a range of tools and approaches, Material Methods: Researching and Thinking with Things is a practical and inspiring guide to researching the material world. Covering the

Understanding Christian Leadership (Parkinson Ian)(Paperback)

Understanding Christian Leadership offers an examination of a distinctly Christian understanding of leadership offering a critical appraisal of insights from secular theories of leadership, exploring biblical and other theological insights into the nature and practice of leadership. Whilst arguing

The Korean Mind: Understanding Contemporary Korean Culture (De Mente Boye Lafayette)(Paperback)

Understanding a people and their culture through code words and language. Today, South Korea is an economic, technological and entertainment superpower. How, as a country, did they rebound from war, poverty and political unrest? And how can that success be replicated in other cultures? The answers

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

Tokyo Romance (Buruma Ian)(Paperback / softback)

Ian Buruma's unflinching account of his journey into the heart of Tokyo's underground culture as a young man in the

Phoenix Encounter Method: Implementation Guide (Woodward Ian)(Paperback / softback)

The hands-on playbook for transforming your business with today's most radically effective leadership thinking In The Phoenix Encounter Method, a dream team of INSEAD professors together with the legendary Ram Charan and provided a radical new game plan for transforming any organization. It's

Understanding Engagement in Transmedia Culture (Evans Elizabeth)(Paperback)

This book offers a new, interdisciplinary model for understanding audience engagement as a type of behaviour, a form of response and a cost to audiences that, combined, offer value to the screen industries.Audience 'engagement' has become the key priority of the screen industries. Understanding

Police Occupational Culture: Research and Practice (Cockcroft Tom)(Paperback)

Taking an evidence-based approach to understanding police culture, this thorough and accessible book critically reviews existing research and offers new insights on theories and definitions. Tom Cockcroft, an authority on the subject, addresses a range of contemporary issues including diversity,

Manliness in Britain, 1760-1900: Bodies, Emotion, and Material Culture (Begiato Joanne)(Pevná vazba)

This book focuses on men's bodies, emotions and material culture to offer a new understanding of masculinities in Britain in the long nineteenth century. Using objects as well as texts and images, it shows how idealised and ugly bodies, and the feelings they stimulated, helped convey ideas about

Contemplative Response - Leadership and ministry in a distracted culture (Cowley Ian)(Paperback / softback)

Following on from the success of The Contemplative Minister, Ian Cowley offers new insight and greater depth for church leaders in a distracted world. Ian emphasises that the true self finds peace in resting in the love of God. He addresses the compulsions of our consumerist culture and calls those

Understanding Arabs, 6th Edition: A Contemporary Guide to Arab Society (Nydell Margaret K.)(Paperback)

The definitive guide to understanding Arab culture for three decades. For nearly three decades, diplomats, students, business people and governments have relied on Dr. Margaret Nydell's seminal work as the essential guide to comprehending an immensely varied culture. Covering all aspects of Arab

Translating Cultures: An Introduction for Translators, Interpreters and Mediators (Katan David)(Paperback)

This bestselling coursebook introduces current understanding about culture and provides a model for teaching culture to translators, interpreters and other mediators. The approach is interdisciplinary, with theory from Translation Studies and beyond, while authentic texts and translations

Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood (Ladd Paddy)(Paperback)

This book assesses the concepts of Deaf culture. It illustrates the pitfalls which have been created for Deaf communities by the medical concept of 'deafness' and contrasts this with a new concept of 'Deafhood', a process by which every Deaf child, family and adult implicitly explains their

Understanding Digital Culture (Miller Vincent)(Pevná vazba)

Understanding Maple (Thompson Ian)(Paperback)

Maple is a powerful symbolic computation system that is widely used in universities around the world. This short introduction gives readers an insight into the rules that control how the system works, and how to understand, fix, and avoid common problems. Topics covered include algebra, calculus,

Celiac Disease for Dummies (Blumer Ian)(Paperback)

The everyday guide to understanding and treating Celiac diseaseCeliac Disease For Dummies is the ultimate reference for people with the disease and their family members. The book helps readers identify symptoms of the disease, and explains how doctors definitively diagnose celiac disease. It

The Japanese Art of War: Understanding the Culture of Strategy (Cleary Thomas)(Paperback)

Military rule and the martial tradition of the samurai dominated Japanese culture for more than eight hundred years. According to Thomas Cleary--translator of more than thirty-five classics of Asian philosophy--the Japanese people have been so steeped in the way of the warrior that some of the

Aqa Business for a Level (Marcouse) (Marcouse Ian)(Paperback)

Develop understanding of business arguments and reasoning, with a clear progression pathway and case studies that illustrate core

Understanding Postmodernism: A Christian Perspective (Kelly Stewart E.)(Paperback)

Postmodernity has matured. But the challenge of navigating our contemporary culture remains. In order for Christians to make wise decisions, we first need to understand the many facets of our postmodern context. If Ren Descartes is often identified as the first truly modern philosopher in light of

Understanding Organizational Culture (Alvesson Mats)(Paperback)

The new edition of this groundbreaking text in Organizational Studies has been revised and updated to keep apace with developments within Organizational Culture. Unlike other prescriptive books about organizations, Understanding Organizational Culture challenges and provokes critical thinking,

Pilgrimage: A Very Short Introduction (Reader Ian)(Paperback)

Pilgrimage is found in most religious cultures, with large numbers of sites - from globally renowned places to regional shrines - flourishing historically and in the modern day. Pilgrimage centres around the world, including Mecca in Saudi Arabia, Guadalupe in Mexico, Lourdes in France, Santiago de

Flatterland: Like Flatland Only More So (Stewart Ian)(Paperback)

Flatterland explores our present understanding of the shape and origins of the universe, the nature of space, time and matter, as well as modern geometries and their applications. The journey begins when our heroine, Victoria Line, comes upon her great-great-grandfather A. Square's diary, hidden in

Trans America: A Counter-History (Reay Barry)(Paperback)

Trans seems to be everywhere in American culture. Yet there is little understanding of how this came about. Are people aware that there were earlier periods of gender flexibility and contestability in American history? How well known is it that a previous period of trans visibility in the 1960s and