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This book will be a unique source for cross-cultural business and management practices, helping people of both industry and academia to understand the cross-cultural business environment and improve management practices.
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Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance, Volume 1: From the Lab to the Streets is the first of two volumes dedicated to the diverse sociocultural work of science-oriented performance. A…
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Taking a broad definition of British culture, this collection of essays explores the significance of style to issues such as colonialism, race, gender and class, embracing topics as diverse as…
This edited collection considers various meanings of the "Spotification" of music and other media. It represents the latest research and theory on the conversion of mass markets for recorded music…
Yuka Moriguchi Tsuchiya
Tsuchiya presents a new insight into the political roles of science and technology during the Cold War era in Asia. The Cold War was not only a battle of conflicting…
This collection of multi-disciplinary essays offers a fresh, perspective on Central Asian art and culture as it gains increased attention on both the local and international stage.
Nathan J. Hogan
This book develops a new concept - 'martial culture' - with which to problematize and reframe thinking surrounding the lifeways of US servicemembers, following the values, beliefs, norms, and rituals…
D Howitz
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Mahdi Ganjavi
WINNER OF THE 2023 MIDDLE EAST LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION BOOK AWARD.
The Franklin Book Programs (FBP) was a private not-for-profit U.S. organization founded in 1952 during the Cold War and was…
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Stephen Muecke
There is a quarrel about whose antiquity is at the foundation of Australian culture, and why contemporary forms of Aboriginality are marginal to Australia’s modernity. These are the starting points…
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Milos Milenkovic
This book considers the sensitive heritage elements linked to the very issue of the origins of nations. Beliefs, rituals, and traditional knowledge are examples of intangible cultural heritage (ICH), which…
This volume focuses on the circumstances of women's music-making in the diverse environment of Habsburg Central Europe, especially Bohemia and Lower Austria, during the 19th century. It sheds light on…
This book engages with ageing masculinities in Irish literature and visual culture, including fiction, drama, poetry, painting, and documentary.
This volume explores how Colombian novelists, artists, performers, activists, musicians, and others seek to enact-to perform, to stage, to represent-human rights situations that are otherwise enacted discursively.
This is the third in a three-volume collection of primary sources which examines philosophy and literature in nineteenth-century Britain. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great…
Christianity is more than a religion. Like Judaism and Islam, it is a people-Christianus populus-and a civilization. This book explores different aspects of the legal, religious, and clerical culture of…
Nicholas de Cruz
This book explores the psychosocial issues surrounding elite sport and psychological practice in Singapore. It presents a blueprint to any researcher, national institute, or practitioner, to systematically explore the culture…
This book investigates the thematic and conceptual dimensions of insidious trauma in contemporary eastern African literatures and cultural productions. Transdisciplinary in scope, this volume will be an important guide for…
The first in a collection of essays and book reviews devoted to vital aspects of South Carolina history and culture.
Joe Anderson
Gun Rights Activism and the US Culture War explores how firearms can become associated with processes of identity formation, as well as acting as symbols of national belonging and embodied…
Amy Tziporah Karp
In this book, Amy Tziporah Karp illuminates that Jewish American assimilation is still an unfinished project for many Jewish LGBTQIA+ characters in popular culture. Many of the characters considered in…
Joshua King
From the outside, it looks like America sold us a dream and quickly ripped off the bandaid. However, in reality, the capitalists sold us a costly goal.
The American dream…
Laura Raicovich
A leading activist museum director explains why museums are at the center of a political storm and how they can be reimagined
In exploring social capital, material cultures, and reading at this pivotal moment in European cultural history, the volume provides both a succinct introduction and an overview to different ways of…
Steve Chan
A country's culture influences its economic growth and its competitiveness. Confucian heritage has promoted China's rapid economic growth, and East Asia is poised to become the most important region of…
Sabitra Kaphle
This book analyses the significant socio-cultural factors impacting childbirth experiences of women living in remote and complex social settings.
Jham Lal, Sahil, H. S. Mogalekar
This book discusses fisheries and aquaculture as crucial contributors to nutritional security and the need for sustainable practices to meet the growing demand.
Adopting a unique historical approach to its subject and with a particular focus on the institutions involved in the creation, dissemination, and reception of literature, this handbook surveys the way…
Through international case studies, this book explores the causes and effects of historical and contemporary cultural changes in art education.
Adopting an intersectional lens, this timely volume explores the lived experiences of members of the queer and trans community in post-secondary STEM culture in the US to provide critical insights…
Ulf Poschardt
The thinking man’s sports car: a symbol of the relentless desire for peak power and limitless performance. The Porsche 911 inspires a worldwide ripple effect.
This is the first volume in a three-volume collection of primary sources which examines philosophy and literature in nineteenth-century Britain.
This is the second volume in a three-volume collection of primary sources which examines philosophy and literature in nineteenth-century Britain.
Cultural Heritage and Mobility from a Multisensory Perspective bridges the gap between cultural heritage and mobility studies through the
The book operates on the premises that the centuries preceding the colonial conquest of India, which in scholarship influenced by orientalist concepts has often been referred to as medieval, already…
Juliane House, Daniel K d r
Provides a new ground-breaking framework for the study of foreign language learning
The long nineteenth century-stretching from the start of the American Revolution in 1776 to the end of World War I in 1918-was a pivotal period in the history of disability…
Frank Dikoetter
Frank Dikotter casts China’s most tumultuous era in a wholly new light in The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962-1976.
Essays dedicated to the cultural achievements and politics of one of the most important ruling houses of late medieval Europe.
John Allan
This book explores the conservation, regeneration and adaptive re-use of Modern architecture.
Ian Lynam
Nicholas Thomas
A timely re-examination of European engagements with indigenous art and the presence of indigenous art in the contemporary art world.
Graphic Novels and Visual Cultures in South Asia explores the shifting landscapes of the graphic narratives and related visual cultures scene in South Asia today. This book was originally published…
Sungmin Kim
Analyses the history of how Japanese culture has been accepted into Korean society, citing numerous animated and visual works as examples. The book is a unique attempt to rethink postwar…
Against the backdrop of insurgent far-right tendencies, various cultural practitioners have written far-right violence into Germany's collective memory and imagined more inclusive futures in its wake. This volume explores contemporary…
The Handbook of Latin American and Caribbean Intelligence Cultures provides a comprehensive analysis of the contemporary efforts of Latin American and Caribbean nations to develop an intelligence culture that converts…
Joe Tye, Bob Dent
In the aftermath of the pandemic, preexisting challenges in healthcare organizations have intensified. Stress, burnout, staffing shortages, and even the erosion of trust in organizational leadership are pressing issues that…