Today's brides are bombarded with wedding advice that promises perfection but urges achieving it through selfishness ("It's your wedding, and you can do whatever you like"), greed (choosing the presents that guests are directed to buy), and showing off ("This is your chance to show everyone what you[...]
What do your colleagues, overlords, underlings, clients, and customers have in common? Not knowing how much they annoy you. Not to mention how much you may be annoying them. The route from cubicle to corner office is strewn with etiquette landmines. And now that the boundaries that once cleanly sepa[...]
This is the definitive manual for the hopeless Venetophile.Love of Venice can strike anyone. Among the heavyweights with serious cases were Lord Byron, Richard Wagner, Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway. Symptoms today include: wishing that the stars of films set in Venice would move aside so that you [...]
Introduktion til den uhyre originale, kreative og nyskabende filosof Martin Buber (1878-1965), som har haft stor indflydelse på moderne vestlig tænkning indenfor filosofi, teologi, religion og pædagogik. Bubers centrale lære handler om hvad det vil sige at være menneske og hvad det be[...]
First published in the UK by Sutton Publishing in 1996 (and by Timber Press in the US), this Pimpernel Classic edition has been redesigned and includes new photography. Gertrude Jekyll was probably the most influential garden designer of the early twentieth century. In this classic work Judith Tanka[...]
Addresses the core issues and concerns of intercultural communication by integrating three different perspectives: the social psychological, the interpretive, and the critical. The dialectical framework, integrated throughout the book, is used as a lens to examine the relationship of these research [...]
With the rapid expansion of globalization, intercultural contact is now part of daily life for most of us. Intercultural Communication in Contexts examines conflict and communication in multicultural relationships and provides practitioners with the tools for effective communication amidst cultural,[...]
This introductory level textbook offers students a framework to begin building their intercultural communication skills. "Experiencing Intercultural Communication: An Introduction" provides a number of pedagogical aids to help students achieve fluency in these skills, including chapter outlines, cha[...]
This introductory level textbook offers students a framework to begin building their intercultural communication skills. Experiencing Intercultural Communication: An Introduction provides a number of pedagogical aids to help students achieve fluency in these skills, including chapter outlines, chapt[...]
The award-winning third edition of 'The Underwater Photographer' dragged the topic kicking and screaming in to the digital age and with the fully updated fourth edition highly respected photographer and tutor Martin Edge takes you deeper in to the world of Underwater Photography.
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Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume investigates modern-day family relationships, partnering, and parenting set against a backdrop of rapid social, economic, cultural, and technological change.[...]
Experiencing Intercultural Communication: An Introduction provides students with a framework to begin building their intercultural communication skills. Through understanding the complexities of intercultural interaction, students begin the process of learning about other cultures in their professio[...]
There is increasing awareness of the development of newer smart and more interactive media, at precipitate speed, in many parts of the world. The concept of change - as opposed to continuity - is central to the increasing interest in digital media. However, this focus has not yet been matched by sub[...]
Want to grow food but have nothing larger than a balcony, windowsill or a piece of wall? No problem! This is a gardening book with a difference. It will help you to grow your own fruit, vegetables, herbs and even mushrooms in small spaces in the most ecological way possible. Edible Cities shows you [...]
Vid mitten av 1800-talet skapade en grupp unga konstnärer i England en ny bildvärld som med sina klara färger, sitt allvar och sin utmanande skönhet skakade om det samtida viktorianska konstlivet. De kallade sig prerafaeliter och namnet pekade ut deras inspirationskällor. I konsten före den it[...]