Joe Lurie, "Perception and Deception: A Mind-Opening Journey Across Cultures" English | 2015 | ISBN: 1512113263 | 180 pages | EPUB | 1.6 MB "Perception and Deception" is an engaging and insightful introduction to cross-cultural communication in a globalized world. Joe's infectious curiosity in uncovering and understanding cultural differences will help readers, no matter their profession, age or cultural background, gain a fuller appreciation for the richness of human diversity, and the multiple things that can go wrong when trying to communicate across cultures. "Perception and Deception: A Mind Opening Journey Across Cultures," is an entertaining, eye-opening and easy-to-read book that contains dozens of intriguing intercultural experiences, gathered from Joe's research and his decades living abroad and managing Berkeley's International House, one of the largest, most diverse living centers on the planet. In an informative and enticing manner, the author explains how he discovered that his perception of a situation could be "deceptive" when he looked at it simply through his own Lens. Joe's growing self-awareness of the Passion Kiillers: The Art of Passion Killing in the Age of Stress and Anxiety (Cognitive Science and Psychology) by Phillip Walden Bowen English | July 23, 2021 | ISBN: 1648890423 | PDF | 520 pages | 3.7 MB There is growing pressure and stress placed on organisations to fight for customers and service/product placement in an increasingly competitive global marketplace. It has, therefore, never been more important to get the best out of the workforce. To achieve this, the role of the leader can be a fundamental factor in organisational success or failure. Outright Assassination: The Trial and Execution of Antun Sa'adeh, 1949 By Adel Beshara 2010 | 332 Pages | ISBN: 0863723489 | EPUB | 1 MB No other political trial in Lebanon and, indeed, the Arab World has been more controversial than the trial and execution of Antun Sa'adeh just before sunrise on July 8, 1949. The case is inescapably a tragedy. It was and still is the shortest and most secretive trial given to a political offender. Indicted for treason and for creating dissension, Antun Sa'adeh was tried on trumped-up charges based on falsified evidence and deliberate misapplication of the law. It was really nothing more than an open-and-shut exercise in accusation and punishment - a trial more appropriate to the cruel days of the Middle Ages than the supposedly civilized world of the 20th century. Since the trial was held, many complex issues have been raised, many more crucial than the actual fate of the accused: Why the secrecy and haste? Was it a fair trial? Was the offense political and, if so, why did the Lebanese State refuse to treat it as such? What did the Khoury regime hope to achieve from the trial? Did the penalty fit the crime? This book answers these and many more questions that, until now, have received cursory treatment as part of a general history rather than the thorough analysis they deserve.
Jeanne M. Brett, "Negotiating Globally: How to Negotiate Deals, Resolve Disputes, and Make Decisions Across Cultural Boundaries" English | 2014 | ISBN: 1118602617 | 320 pages | EPUB | 1.4 MB A framework for anticipating and managing cultural differences at the negotiating table Neglected or Misunderstood: The Radical Feminism of Shulamith Firestone By Victoria Margree 2018 | 168 Pages | ISBN: 1785355392 | EPUB | 1 MB Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex proved immediately controversial upon its publication in 1970. The book's thesis is that the origins of women's oppression lie in biology: in the fact that it is women and not men who conceive and give birth to children. Firestone's solution is revolutionary: since it is biology that is the problem, then biology must be changed, through technological intervention that would have as its end the complete removal of the reproductive process from women's bodies. With its proposal for the development of artificial wombs, its call for the abolition of the nuclear family and its vision of a cybernetic future, Firestone's manifesto may seem hopelessly out-dated, a far-fetched, utopian hangover of Swinging Sixties radicalism. This book, on the contrary, will argue for its importance to the resurgent feminism of today as a text that interrogates issues around gender, biology, sexuality, work and technology, and the ways in which our imaginations in the 21st century continue to be in thrall to ideologies of maternity and the nuclear family.
Robert Charles Azar, "Navigating Japan's Business Culture: A Practical Guide to Succeeding in the Japanese Market" English | 2016 | ISBN: 1946425044, 0997607629 | 360 pages | MOBI | 1.3 MB Page-turning practical and essential tips for success in the Japanese market-from communicating to negotiating, product selection to distribution, management to sales
Michigan Month-by-Month Gardening: What to Do Each Month to Have A Beautiful Garden All Year by Melinda Myers English | November 1, 2014 | ISBN: 1591864321 | PDF | 240 pages | 48.9 MB The when-to and how-to schedule for growing, caring for, and maintaining your Great Lakes State garden! Medicine Between Science and Religion: Explorations on Tibetan Grounds By Vincanne Adams; Mona Schrempf; Sienna R. Craig 2013 | 386 Pages | ISBN: 1782381228 | PDF | 3 MB There is a growing interest in studies that document the relationship between science and medicine - as ideas, practices, technologies and outcomes - across cultural, national, geographic terrain. Tibetan medicine is not only known as a scholarly medical tradition among other Asian medical systems, with many centuries of technological, clinical, and pharmacological innovation; it also survives today as a complex medical resource across many Asian nations - from India and Bhutan to Mongolia, Tibet (TAR) and China, Buryatia - as well as in Western Europe and the Americas. The contributions to this volume explore, in equal measure, the impacts of western science and biomedicine on Tibetan grounds - i.e., among Tibetans across China, the Himalaya and exile communities as well as in relation to globalized Tibetan medicine - and the ways that local practices change how such "science" gets done, and how this continually hybridized medical knowledge is transmitted and put into practice. As such, this volume contributes to explorations into the bi-directional flows of medical knowledge and practice. Losing Control: Global Security in the Twenty-first Century by Paul Rogers English | ISBN: 0745343678 | 344 pages | EPUB | July 20, 2021 | 0.73 Mb 'Outstanding ... combines a glimpse behind the security screens with a sharp analysis of the real global insecurities - growing inequality and unsustainability' - New Internationalist Written in the late 1990s, Losing Control was years, if not decades, ahead of its time, predicting the 9/11 attacks, a seemingly endless war on terror and the relentless increase in revolts from the margins and bitter opposition to wealthy elites. Now, more than two decades later and in an era of pandemics, climate breakdown and potential further military activity in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Paul Rogers has revised and expanded the original analysis, pointing to the 2030s and '40s as the decades that will see a showdown between a bitter, environmentally wrecked and deeply insecure world and a possible world order rooted in justice and peace. David Hampshire, "Living and Working in Germany: A Survival Handbook, 5th Edition" English | 2017 | ISBN: 1909282901 | 320 pages | PDF | 7 MB [center] |