Browsing 05. Culture - Civilization - History by Issue Date

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    • Between past and future : six exercises in political thought 

      Arendt, Hannah (The Viking Press, 1961)
      Arendt's penetrating observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute a major contribution to political philosophy. In this book she describes the perplexing crises which modern society ...

    • Spotlight on the USA 

      Falk, Randee (Oxford University Press, 1993)

    • Telling the truth about history 

      Appleby, Joyce; Hunt, Lynn; Jacob, Margaret (W. W. Norton & Company, 1994)
      "A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the nature, goals, and efficacy of history as a discipline" Booklist.

    • A history of Japan 

      Mason, R. H. P.; Caiger, J. G. (Tuttle Publishing, 1997)
      Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume, complete history of the nation of Japan. Starting in ancient Japan during its early pre-history period A History of Japan covers every important aspect of ...

    • Breaking through culture shock : what you need to succeed in international business 

      Marx, Elisabeth (Nicholas Brealey Publishing Limited, 1999)

    • The cultural studies reader 

      During, Simon (editor) (Routledge, 1999)
      The first edition of this book established itself as the leader in the field, providing the ideal introduction to this exciting and influential discipline. This expanded second edition offers a wider selection of essays ...

    • The handbook of organizational culture and climate 

      Ashkanasy, Neal M. (editor); Wilderom, Celeste P. M. (editor); Peterson, Mark F. (editor) (SAGE Publications, Inc., 2000)
      This book presents the state-of-the-art in the field, ten years after the publication of the award-winning First Edition. Following the Preface by Edgar Schein, 33 entirely new chapters document the development and maturing ...

    • Culture shock! Austria : a survival guide to customs and etiquette 

      Krejci, Julie; Roraff, Susan (Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2001)
      The book also explains the day-to-day realities of living and working in the country. It’s full of information to help you settle in seamlessly: how to find a suitable home, how to do your banking, what schools and facilities ...

    • The psychology of culture shock 

      Ward, Colleen A.; Bochner, Stephen; Furnham, Adrian (Routledge, 2001)
      This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Furnham and Bochner's classic Culture Shock (1986) examines the psychological and social processes involved in intercultural contact, including learning new culture-specific ...

    • Culture and rights : anthropological perspectives 

      Cowan, Jane K. (editor); Dembour, Marie-Bénédicte (editor); Wilson, Richard A. (editor) (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
      The authors of this book move beyond the traditional terms of the universalism versus cultural relativism debate. Through detailed case studies from around the world (Hawaii, France, Thailand, Botswana, Greece, Nepal and ...

    • Cross-Cultural business behavior : marketing, negotiating, sourcing and managing across cultures 

      Gesteland, Richard R. (Copenhagen Business School Press, 2002)

    • Cross-cultural business behavior : negotiating, selling, sourcing and managing across cultures 

      Gesteland, Richard R. (Copenhagen Business School Press, 2005)

    • Popular culture : a reader 

      Guins, Raiford; Cruz, Omayra Zaragoza (SAGE Publications, 2005)
      This book helps students understand the pervasive role of popular culture and the processes that constitute it as a product of industry, an intellectual object of inquiry, and an integral component of all our lives. The ...

    • Re-reading popular culture 

      Hermes, Joke (Blackwell Publishing, 2005)
      This book is an entertaining investigation of the meanings and value of popular culture today. It explores the theme of cultural citizenship by combining textual analysis and media reception theory to analyze popular culture.

    • Telling the truth about Aboriginal history 

      Attwood, Bain (Allen & Unwin, 2005)
      This provocative work grapples with some of the most difficult issues in Aboriginal history, showing how they raise fundamental concerns about the nature of historical knowledge, truth, and authority. Discussions of such ...

    • Between past and future : eight exercises in political thought 

      Arendt, Hannah; Kohn, Jerome (introduction) (Penguin Books, 2006)
      Hannah Arendt’s insightful observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute an impassioned contribution to political philosophy. In Between Past and Future Arendt describes the ...

    • Culture shock and Japanese-American relations : historical essays 

      Asada, Sadao (University of Missouri Press, 2007)
      “Examines historical episodes in the interactions between the United States and Japan from 1890 to 2006, focusing on naval strategy before and during World War II and transpacific racism. Asada analyzes both American and ...

    • Keywords for American cultural studies 

      Burgett, Bruce (editor); Hendler, Glenn (editor) (New York University, 2007)
      This book offers these features and more to its readers, providing indispensable meditations on terms and concepts used in cultural studies, American studies, and beyond. Collaborative in design and execution, Keywords for ...

    • A study of personal and cultural values : American, Japanese, and Vietnamese 

      D’Andrade, Roy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
      This study analyzes American, Vietnamese and Japanese personal values, attempting to understand how it can be ethnographers find large differences in values between cultures, yet empirical surveys find relatively small, ...

    • Britain in close-up : an in-depth study of contemporary Britain 

      McDowall, David (Longman, 2008)
      This full-colour study of contemporary Britain examines aspects of British society from government and politics, to culture and style.