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Crossing Cultures

Intercultural Communication in a Connected World

By: Adam James Fenton,Alfonso Carcinero Izquierdo,Ana Cristina Valdez,Scott Bunton

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Crossing Cultures

Intercultural Communication in a Connected World

By: Adam James Fenton,Alfonso Carcinero Izquierdo,Ana Cristina Valdez,Scott Bunton

The rapid rise of technology, freedom of movement and the boom in mobile communication has connected the world like never before. Cross-cultural communication is now the norm in the worlds of business, politics, and education. Students in all disciplines are likely to study for some period in another country and fresh graduates now roam the world in search of exciting opportunities. But parachuting into an unfamiliar culture represents a myriad of challenges. Misunderstanding verbal and non-verbal communication, unconscious stereotyping, and culture shock can derail what should be a rewarding cross-cultural venture. This book is written by lecturers of intercultural communication from a range of cultural backgrounds, drawing on years of experience to present real-life examples of the challenges and dilemmas presented by intercultural contact. It is also designed as a companion to an undergraduate course of study on intercultural communication and is an ideal preparatory reader for students gearing up for an overseas exchange programme. A student familiar with the concepts and practices described in this book will be much better placed to anticipate, plan for and operate in a new culture, whether for business or study. Complete with hundreds of real-life case studies, strategies, tips, and exercises to reinforce learning, this is your guide-book to confidently cross cultures and achieve your best in a highly connected world.

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LSPR Institute of Communication & Business

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6239284815

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9786239284817

William Blake

Visionary

By: Edina Adam,Julian Brooks

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William Blake

Visionary

By: Edina Adam,Julian Brooks

A richly illustrated, comprehensive introduction to the visionary artist William Blake. William Blake (1757–1827) is a universal artist—an inspiration to musicians, poets, performers, and visual artists worldwide. By combining his poetry and images on the page through radical printing techniques, Blake created some of the most striking and enduring images in art. His personal struggles in a period of political terror and oppression; creativity, inventiveness, and technical innovation; and vision and political commitment keep his work relevant today. Featuring over 130 color images, this accessible yet comprehensive introduction to Blake’s achievements and ambition includes discussions of his legacy in America; relationship to the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque artists who preceded him; visionary imagination; and unparalleled skill as a printmaker.

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Getty Publications

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1606066420

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The Making of Poetry

Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels

By: Adam Nicolson

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The Making of Poetry

Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels

By: Adam Nicolson

Brimming with poetry, art, and nature writing—Wordsworth and Coleridge as you've never seen them before June 1797 to September 1798 is the most famous year in English poetry. Out of it came Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and “Kubla Khan,” as well as his unmatched hymns to friendship and fatherhood, and William Wordsworth’s revolutionary songs in Lyrical Ballads along with “Tintern Abbey,” Wordsworth's paean to the unity of soul and cosmos, love and understanding. In The Making of Poetry, Adam Nicolson embeds himself in the reality of this unique moment, exploring the idea that these poems came from this particular place and time, and that only by experiencing the physical circumstances of the year, in all weathers and all seasons, at night and at dawn, in sunlit reverie and moonlit walks, can the genesis of the poetry start to be understood. The poetry Wordsworth and Coleridge made was not from settled conclusions but from the adventure on which they embarked, thinking of poetry as a challenge to all received ideas, stripping away the dead matter, looking to shed consciousness and so change the world. What emerges is a portrait of these great figures seen not as literary monuments but as young men, troubled, ambitious, dreaming of a vision of wholeness, knowing they had greatness in them but still in urgent search of the paths toward it. The artist Tom Hammick accompanied Nicolson for much of the year, making woodcuts from the fallen timber in the park at Alfoxden where the Wordsworths lived. Interspersed throughout the book, his images bridge the centuries, depicting lives at the source of our modern sensibility: a psychic landscape of doubt and possibility, full of beauty and thick with desire for a kind of connectedness that seems permanently at hand and yet always out of reach.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374721270

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Musical Theatre Histories

Expanding the Narrative

By: Millie Taylor,Adam Rush

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Musical Theatre Histories

Expanding the Narrative

By: Millie Taylor,Adam Rush

Musical theatre is often perceived as either a Broadway based art form, or as having separate histories in London and New York. Musical Theatre Histories: Expanding the Narrative, however, depicts the musical as neither American nor British, but both and more, having grown out of frequent and substantial interactions between both centres (and beyond). Through multiple thematic 'histories', Millie Taylor and Adam Rush take readers on a series of journeys that include the art form's European and American origins, African American influences, negotiations arounddiversity, national identity, and the globalisation of the form, as well as revival culture, censorship and the place of social media in the 21st century. Each chapter includes case studies and key concept boxes to identify, explain and contextualise important discussions, offering an accessible study of a dynamic and ever evolving medium. Written and developed for undergraduate students, this introductory textbook provides a newly focused and alternative way of understanding musical theatre history.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350293776

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9781350293779

Adam Robots

Short Stories

By: Adam Roberts

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Adam Robots

Short Stories

By: Adam Roberts

Gathered together for the first time from a major publisher - a collection of short stories by Adam Roberts. Unique twisted visions from the edges and the centre of the SF genres. Stories that carry Adam Roberts' trademark elegance of style and restless enquiry of the genre he loves so much. Acclaimed stories, some that have appeared in magazines, some in anthologies, some appearing for the first time. Stories to make you think, to make you laugh, to make you wonder, to make you uneasy. Stories that ask questions, stories that sow mysteries. But always stories that entertain.

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Gollancz

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0575130369

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The Delighted States

A Book of Novels, Romances, & Their Unknown Translators, Containing Ten Languages, Set on Four Continents, & Accompanied by Maps, Portraits, Squiggles, Illustrations, & a Variety of Helpful Indexes

By: Adam Thirlwell

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The Delighted States

A Book of Novels, Romances, & Their Unknown Translators, Containing Ten Languages, Set on Four Continents, & Accompanied by Maps, Portraits, Squiggles, Illustrations, & a Variety of Helpful Indexes

By: Adam Thirlwell

Having slept with a prostitute in Egypt, a young French novelist named Gustave Flaubert at last abandons sentimentality and begins to write. He influences the obscure French writer Édouard Dujardin, who is read by James Joyce on the train to Trieste, where he will teach English to the Italian novelist Italo Svevo. Back in Paris, Joyce asks Svevo to deliver a suitcase containing notes for Ulysses, a novel that will be viscerated by the expat Gertrude Stein, whose first published story is based on one by Flaubert. This carousel of influence shows how translation and emigration lead to a new and true history of the novel. We devour novels in translation while believing that style does not translate. But the history of the novel is the history of style. The Delighted States attempts to solve this conundrum while mapping an imaginary country, a country of readers: the Delighted States. This book is a provocation, a box of tricks, a bedside travel book; it is also a work of startling intelligence and originality from one of our finest young writers.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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1429963867

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In the Shadow of Zion

Promised Lands Before Israel

By: Adam L Rovner

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In the Shadow of Zion

Promised Lands Before Israel

By: Adam L Rovner

From the late nineteenth century through the post-Holocaust era, the world was divided between countries that tried to expel their Jewish populations and those that refused to let them in. The plight of these traumatized refugees inspired numerous proposals for Jewish states. Jews and Christians, authors and adventurers, politicians and playwrights, and rabbis and revolutionaries all worked to carve out autonomous Jewish territories in remote and often hostile locations across the globe. The would-be founding fathers of these imaginary Zions dispatched scientific expeditions to far-flung regions and filed reports on the dream states they planned to create. But only Israel emerged from dream to reality. Israel’s successful foundation has long obscured the fact that eminent Jewish figures, including Zionism’s prophet, Theodor Herzl, seriously considered establishing enclaves beyond the Middle East. In the Shadow of Zion brings to life the amazing true stories of six exotic visions of a Jewish national home outside of the biblical land of Israel. It is the only book to detail the connections between these schemes, which in turn explain the trajectory of modern Zionism. A gripping narrative drawn from archives the world over, In the Shadow of Zion recovers the mostly forgotten history of the Jewish territorialist movement, and the stories of the fascinating but now obscure figures who championed it. Provocative, thoroughly researched, and written to appeal to a broad audience, In the Shadow of Zion offers a timely perspective on Jewish power and powerlessness. Visit the author's website: http://www.adamrovner.com/.

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NYU Press

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1479845817

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Race & Democracy

The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972

By: Adam Fairclough

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Race & Democracy

The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972

By: Adam Fairclough

From the foundation of the New Orleans branch of the NAACP in 1915 to the beginning of Edwin Edwards' first term as governor in 1972, this is a wide-ranging study of the civil rights struggle in Louisiana. This edition contains a new preface which brings the narrative up-to-date, including coverage of Hurricane Katrina.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820331147

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9780820331140

Capital of Mind

The Idea of a Modern American University

By: Adam R. Nelson

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Capital of Mind

The Idea of a Modern American University

By: Adam R. Nelson

In the second volume of his planned trilogy that will recast the history of the university in a fresh and surprising light, Adam R. Nelson aims to show how knowledge, which had been commodified starting in the late eighteenth century, became industrialized in the nineteenth century. Nelson explains how the idea of the modern university arose from a set of institutional and ideological reforms designed to foster the mass production and mass consumption of knowledge--that is, the industrialization of ideas. Fusing the history of higher education with the history of capitalism, Nelson suggests that this "marketization" of knowledge propelled the institutionalization of the university, far earlier than previously understood"--

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University of Chicago Press

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0226829200

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9780226829203

King of Thieves

By: Adam Shand

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King of Thieves

By: Adam Shand

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1458716686

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9781458716682

The Stormy Present

Conservatism and the Problem of Slavery in Northern Politics, 1846–1865

By: Adam I. P. Smith

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The Stormy Present

Conservatism and the Problem of Slavery in Northern Politics, 1846–1865

By: Adam I. P. Smith

In this engaging and nuanced political history of Northern communities in the Civil War era, Adam I. P. Smith offers a new interpretation of the familiar story of the path to war and ultimate victory. Smith looks beyond the political divisions between abolitionist Republicans and Copperhead Democrats to consider the everyday conservatism that characterized the majority of Northern voters. A sense of ongoing crisis in these Northern states created anxiety and instability, which manifested in a range of social and political tensions in individual communities. In the face of such realities, Smith argues that a conservative impulse was more than just a historical or nostalgic tendency; it was fundamental to charting a path to the future. At stake for Northerners was their conception of the Union as the vanguard in a global struggle between democracy and despotism, and their ability to navigate their freedoms through the stormy waters of modernity. As a result, the language of conservatism was peculiarly, and revealingly, prominent in Northern politics during these years. The story this book tells is of conservative people coming, in the end, to accept radical change.

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UNC Press Books

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1469633906

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Bodmin Moor: An archaeological survey: Volume 2

The industrial and post-medieval landscapes

By: Peter Herring,Adam Sharpe,John R. Smith,Colum Giles,Nicholas Johnson

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Bodmin Moor: An archaeological survey: Volume 2

The industrial and post-medieval landscapes

By: Peter Herring,Adam Sharpe,John R. Smith,Colum Giles,Nicholas Johnson

Bodmin Moor is an upland landscape, heavily protected, farmed extensively and with an increasingly light touch, and enjoyed by many as a retreat from busier modern worlds. But it is also a place of industry and the home of busy agricultural communities. Well-preserved remains of streamworking, mining, quarrying, clay working, turf cutting and more intensive farming were subjected to archaeological survey and historical research as part of the wider-ranging survey partly covered in the first volume (on prehistoric and medieval landscapes). Supplementing the survey text are aerial photographs and detailed line drawings, mainly plans and elevations, but also reconstructions of sites and schematic representations of processes as well as large-scale maps of key areas

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Liverpool University Press

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1848021380

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9781848021389

Science Fiction

By: Adam Roberts

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Science Fiction

By: Adam Roberts

In Science Fiction Adam Roberts offers a clear and critically engaging account of the phenomenon illustrating the critical terminology and following the contours of its continuing history.

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Routledge

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1134652305

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Mathematics in Victorian Britain

By: photographer and broadcaster Foreword by Dr Adam Hart-Davis

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Mathematics in Victorian Britain

By: photographer and broadcaster Foreword by Dr Adam Hart-Davis

During the Victorian era, industrial and economic growth led to a phenomenal rise in productivity and invention. That spirit of creativity and ingenuity was reflected in the massive expansion in scope and complexity of many scientific disciplines during this time, with subjects evolving rapidly and the creation of many new disciplines. The subject of mathematics was no exception and many of the advances made by mathematicians during the Victorian period are still familiar today; matrices, vectors, Boolean algebra, histograms, and standard deviation were just some of the innovations pioneered by these mathematicians. This book constitutes perhaps the first general survey of the mathematics of the Victorian period. It assembles in a single source research on the history of Victorian mathematics that would otherwise be out of the reach of the general reader. It charts the growth and institutional development of mathematics as a profession through the course of the 19th century in England, Scotland, Ireland, and across the British Empire. It then focuses on developments in specific mathematical areas, with chapters ranging from developments in pure mathematical topics (such as geometry, algebra, and logic) to Victorian work in the applied side of the subject (including statistics, calculating machines, and astronomy). Along the way, we encounter a host of mathematical scholars, some very well known (such as Charles Babbage, James Clerk Maxwell, Florence Nightingale, and Lewis Carroll), others largely forgotten, but who all contributed to the development of Victorian mathematics.

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Oxford University Press

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0191627933

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9780191627934

Dionysus after Nietzsche

The Birth of Tragedy in Twentieth-Century Literature and Thought

By: Adam Lecznar

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Dionysus after Nietzsche

The Birth of Tragedy in Twentieth-Century Literature and Thought

By: Adam Lecznar

Explores how, after Nietzsche, Dionysus and the ancient Greeks would never be the same again.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108482562

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Crossing Cultures

Crossing Cultures

William Blake

William Blake

The Making of Poetry

The Making of Poetry

Musical Theatre Histories

Musical Theatre Histories

Adam Robots

Adam Robots

The Delighted States

The Delighted States

In the Shadow of Zion

In the Shadow of Zion

Race & Democracy

Race & Democracy

Capital of Mind

Capital of Mind

King of Thieves

King of Thieves

The Stormy Present

The Stormy Present

Bodmin Moor: An archaeological survey: Volume 2

Bodmin Moor: An archaeological survey: Volume 2

Science Fiction

Science Fiction

Mathematics in Victorian Britain

Mathematics in Victorian Britain

Dionysus after Nietzsche

Dionysus after Nietzsche

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