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Contacts and Contrasts in Cultures and Languages
This volume provides descriptions and interpretations of social and cognitive phenomena as well as processes that emerge at the interface of languages and cultures in...
Category: Education, School & Teaching
Diversity and Inclusion in Sport Organizations
This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the ways in which people differ – including race, gender identity, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, and social...
Category: Diversity, Latest Books
Leadership . . . in Crisis
This book focuses on leading through times of crisis as a true measure of authentic and credible leadership, which is often tested during turbulent, inconsistent,...
Category: Latest Books, Leadership
Intercultural Management: Concepts, Practice, Critical Reflection
This textbook explores the reasons for intercultural differences and their effects on the behavior of individuals and organizations within the context of management. The text...
Category: Inter-Cultural, Management
Managing Diversity: Toward a Globally Inclusive Workplace
The award-winning Managing Diversity: Toward a Globally Inclusive Workplace uses an interdisciplinary approach to provide you with an understanding of diversity from a global perspective. Author Michalle...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion, Management
Leading with Cultural Intelligence: The Real Secret to Success
Succeeding in today’s global market requires a new set of skills than it did when the pioneers of the twentieth century were making their mark....
Category: Leadership
Cultural intelligence Complete Self-Assessment Guide
Does cultural intelligence increase work engagement? How do you gain cultural intelligence? Is cultural intelligence different from emotional intelligence and social intelligence? Is your level...
Category: Cultural Intelligence
Success Is What You Leave Behind: Fostering Leadership and Innovation
Success Is What You Leave Behind: Fostering Leadership and Innovation reveals the 16 proven practices that Dr. Cato T. Laurencin has used to build his distinguished...
Category: Leadership
Inter-Cultural Intelligence: From Surviving to Thriving in the Global Space
Moving between cultures has always been a challenge and one that humanity has tried to master by providing dos and don’ts lists for cultures foreign...
Category: Management
Making Sense of Culture
This book lies within two interdisciplinary fields that should be bridged: cross-cultural management and international human resource management. The consequences of globalization lead to a...
Category: Cross Cultural, Human Resource, Management
The Art of Crossing Cultures 3rd Edition
From the author of Why Travel Matters, the third edition of the essential book to bridge cultures and countries. Adjusting to a new culture and getting along...
Category: Culture Shock, Latest Books
Intercultural Communication for Global Business: How leaders communicate for success
This book brings together principles and new theories in intercultural communication in a concise and practical manner, focusing on communication as the foundation for management...
Category: Communication & Branding
Facilitating Breakthrough: How to Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, and Move...
Making progress on complex, problematic situations requires a new approach to working together: transformative facilitation, a structured and creative process for removing the obstacles to...
Category: Organizational Culture and Consulting, Our Reading List
Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use it
Category: Our Reading List, Understanding Human behavior
Understanding Intercultural Communication
Understanding Intercultural Communication, 3rd Edition (UIC3) emphasizes a perspective that integrates intersectional identity complexity with a strong values orientation in shaping intercultural contact. We address...
Category: Communication & Branding
Intercultural Communication: Globalization and Social Justice
Intercultural Communication: Globalization and Social Justice introduces students to the study of communication among cultures within the broader context of globalization. Author Kathryn Sorrells highlights history,...
Category: Communication & Branding
Intercultural Communication in Contexts
Intercultural Communication in Contexts examines communication in multicultural relationships and provides the tools for effective communication amid cultural, ethnic, and religious differences in domestic and global...
Category: Communication, Latest Books
Be a Change Agent: Leadership in a Time of Exponential...
#1 Award Winner (Gold Medal), Business Category - 2021 Next Generation Indie Book AwardsThis book should be integrated into our schools globally. It's that good! -- Next...
Category: Latest Books, Leadership
Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business-Fourth...
The bestselling guide to leading effectively in a global business environment―now updated to address radical changes in politics, society, economics and tech There’s so much...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence: Revisited
This revised edition of Michael Byram’s classic 1997 book updates the text in light of both recent research and critiques and commentaries on the 1st...
Category: Communication & Branding
Cross-Cultural Psychology: Critical Thinking and Contemporary Applications
Written in a conversational style that transforms complex ideas into accessible ones, this international best-selling textbook provides an interdisciplinary review of the theories and research...
Category: Cross Cultural, Psychology
Transnational Organizations and Cross-Cultural Workplaces
This work explores everyday face-to-face interactions between expatriate and host national employees in cross-cultural offices of transnational organizations and corporations. Applying the concepts of cosmopolitanism,...
Category: Transition
An Introduction to Intercultural Communication – International Student Edition: Identities...
The Tenth Edition of An Introduction to Intercultural Communication prepares today’s readers to successfully navigate our increasingly global community. Fred E. Jandt introduces essential communication skills and concepts that...
Category: Communication & Branding
Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them
n a world of unrelenting change and unprecedented challenges, we need organizations that are resilient and daring. Unfortunately, most organizations, overburdened by bureaucracy, are sluggish...
Category: Organizational Culture and Consulting, Our Reading List
Gilead (Oprah’s Book Club): A Novel
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award, GILEAD is a hymn of praise and lamentation to the God-haunted existence that Reverend...
Category: Fiction, Biographies, Our Reading List
Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then...
"[Putin's People] will surely now become the definitive account of the rise of Putin and Putinism." ―Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic "This riveting, immaculately researched book is arguably the...
Category: Our Reading List, Understanding our world
African Americans in Higher Education: A Critical Study of Social...
While there is a wealth of scholarship on Africana Education, no single volume has examined the roles of such important topics as Black Male Identity,...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Race
Getting Teamwork Right: The key to happy, successful and resilient...
Today’s teams are working in an agile, interconnected and complex world, but despite the opportunities for collaboration, many teams are held back by poor communication,...
Category: Our Reading List, Teams
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
One of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has captivated readers for nearly three decades. It has transformed...
Category: Leadership, Our Reading List
Intercultural Communication – International Student Edition: A Contextual Approach
This resource looks at every aspect of intercultural communication from extensive number of insightful angles, including of contexts such as cultural or ethnic, geographic and...
Category: Communication & Branding
MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman
“Revelatory . . . a vivid portrait of how MBS has altered the kingdom during his half-decade of rule.”—The Washington Post Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline...
Category: Our Reading List, Understanding our world
Class Inequality in the Global City: Migrants, Workers and Cosmopolitanism...
In striving to become cosmopolitan, global cities aim to attract highly-skilled workers while relying on a vast underbelly of low-waged, low status migrants. This book...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Latest Books, Transition
Class Action: Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools
The picture of school desegregation in the United States is often painted with broad strokes of generalization and insulated anecdotes. Its true history, however, is...
Category: Diversity
Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
A watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies “There...
Category: Character, Virtue & Habits
Managing Diversity and Inclusion: An International Perspective
Written and edited by leading experts in the field, this authoritative account sets UK and European practices firmly within a global context. It offers an in-depth...
Category: Diversity, Latest Books
Education, Law and Diversity: Schooling for One and All?
This new edition of Education, Law and Diversity provides extensive updated analysis, from a legal perspective, of how the education system responds to social diversity and how...
Category: Diversity, Education, School & Teaching
The Neurodiverse Workplace
Estimates suggest that up to 20% of employees, customers and clients might have a neurodivergent condition - such as dyslexia, autism, Asperger's, ADHD or dyspraxia...
Category: Diversity
Torah and Nondualism: Diversity, Conflict, and Synthesis
Torah and Nondualism is a commentary on the Torah, or Pentateuch, meaning “five books,” written in the form of five essays―one for each book. It reconciles...
Category: Conflict
Emotional Intelligence: Raise Your EQ (Mastering Self Awareness & Controlling...
Do you often find yourself struggling to get a handle on your emotions? How many times have you found yourself feeling guilt, regret even over...
Category: Management
The Character Gap: How Good Are We?
We like to think of ourselves, our friends, and our families as decent people. We may not be saints, but we are still honest, relatively...
Category: Character, Virtue & Habits, Our Reading List
Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a...
While Washington, D.C., is still often referred to as "Chocolate City," it has undergone significant demographic, political, and economic change in the last decade. In...
Category: Latest Books, Race
Supporting People Living with Dementia in Black, Asian and Minority...
Focusing on individual Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities such as Irish, Caribbean, South Asian, Chinese and Jewish, this accessible guide brings together key...
Category: Country Specific, Cultural Intelligence, Latest Books
The SAGE Handbook of Inclusion and Diversity in Education
This handbook examines policy and practice from around the world with respect to broadly conceived notions of inclusion and diversity within education. It sets out to provide...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
Intercultural Crisis Communication: Translation, Interpreting and Languages in Local Crises
Intercultural Crisis Communication poses pertinent questions and provides powerful responses to crises that have characterised the modern world since 2010. Language mediation in situations of...
Category: Communication, Latest Books
The Diversity and Inclusion Handbook
Why should diversity and inclusion matter to you and your organization? The answer lies in that one thing we all strive for: SUCCESS.When team members...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
Race Discrimination and Management of Ethnic Diversity and Migration at...
The sixth volume of International Perspectives on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion addresses workplace discrimination of ethnic minority people and migrants in Europe. Race Discrimination and Management of...
Category: Diversity, Diversity & Inclusion, Race
Bridging Cultural Barriers: How to Overcome Preconceptions in Cross-Cultural Relationships
This book provides readers with a comprehensive guide to other cultures – the often-unfamiliar ways that people from other cultures think, speak and act. As...
Category: Latest Books, Management
Intercultural Studies in Higher Education: Policy and Practice
This book explores the study of policies and practices in Higher Education by comparing systems, institutions, programs, innovations, results and cultures. In a rapidly changing...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Latest Books
Religion, Gender and Citizenship: Women of Faith, Gender Equality and...
How do religious women talk about and practise citizenship? How is religion linked to gender and nationality? What are their views on gender equality, women's...
Category: Character, Virtue & Habits, Latest Books
Intercultural Communication and Science and Technology Studies
This timely and engaging book addresses communicative issues that arise when science and technology travel across socio-cultural boundaries. The authors discuss interactions between different scientific...
Category: Communication & Branding, Technical
The Inclusion Dividend: Why Investing in Diversity & Inclusion Pays...
Tens of thousands of leaders every year attend their award winning inclusion programs. The Inclusion Dividend has continually hit the best-seller list, listed as a...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
Global Communication: A Multicultural Perspective
Global Communication: A Multicultural Perspective, Third Edition brings together diverse issues and expert perspectives of twenty-two notable and accomplished communication scholars, representing eight countries around...
Category: Communication, Latest Books
Encounters with Emotions: Negotiating Cultural Differences since Early Modernity
Spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Encounters with Emotions investigates experiences of face-to-face transcultural encounters from the seventeenth century to the present and the emotional dynamics that...
Category: Cultural Intelligence
Cross-Cultural Explorations: Activities in Culture and Psychology
It is only in recent decades that psychology as an academic discipline has begun to recognize the importance of a cultural perspective. From cross-cultural psychology...
Category: Psychology & Counselling
Multiculturalism as Multimodal Communication: A Semiotic Perspective
This highly readable book develops a numanistic, and specifically semiotic approach to multiculturalism. It reveals how semiotics provides fresh and valuable insights into multiculturalism: in...
Category: Communication, Latest Books
Globalization and Culture: Global Mélange
Now updated with new chapters on culture and on populism, this seminal text disputes the view that we are experiencing a “clash of civilizations” as...
Category: Race
Improving Performance Through Learning: A Practical Guide for Designing High...
There is a revolution underway in employee workforce development, trending away from face-to-face to digital learning and away from event-based multiday workshops to technology-supported “learning...
Category: Communication & Branding, Our Reading List
Diversity Intelligence: Integrating Diversity Intelligence alongside Intellectual, Emotional, and Cultural...
This book analyzes the emerging concept of diversity intelligence, which values the differences in employees without attempting to make everyone alike. Organization leaders need diversity...
Category: Diversity, Leadership
My Story
This important collection of anecdotes and reminiscences from Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is published to mark the occasion of his fifty years in...
Category: Fiction, Biographies, Our Reading List
Mediated Intercultural Communication in a Digital Age (Routledge Research in...
This book focuses on mediated intercultural communication in the context of globalization. Analyzing social and traditional media using qualitative, interpretive, and critical and cultural perspectives,...
Category: Communication
Chinese Culture of Intelligence
With the rise of China in the 21st century, this book offers a trans-cultural and thematic study of key Chinese concepts which influence modern day...
Category: Country Specific
Trajectories and Origins: Survey on the Diversity of the French...
This book provides the main findings of a ground-breaking survey on immigrants and the second generation in France. The data, collected from more than 20,...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion, Latest Books
International Management Behavior: Global and Sustainable Leadership
Now in its eighth edition, this is the textbook for current and future global leaders wanting to lead competently and sustainably in their business practices....
Category: Latest Books, Leadership, Management
Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History, 1453-Present
One of the hallmarks of world history is the ever-increasing ability of humans to cross cultural boundaries. Taking an encounters approach that opens up history...
Category: Religion & Spirituality
Intercultural Communication in Asia: Education, Language and Values
This volume presents in-depth studies on leading themes in education policy and intercultural communication in contemporary Asia, covering empirical as well as theoretical approaches, and...
Category: Communication, Latest Books
The Palgrave Handbook of Cross-Cultural Business Negotiation
Global business management issues and concerns are complex, diverse, changing, and often intractable. Industry actors and policy makers alike rely upon partnerships and alliances for...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
Introducing Intercultural Communication: Global Cultures and Contexts
Taking a truly global perspective, this textbook presents concepts, theories and applications from the field of intercultural communication in a lively and easy-to-follow style. Covering...
Category: Communication
Power Moves: Lessons from Davos
Adam Grant, the New York Times best-selling author of Give and Take, Originals, and Option B, went to the World Economic Forum in Davos to find out what the...
Category: Our Reading List, Understanding Human behavior
Understanding Cross-Cultural Management
Managing effectively across national and cultural boundaries is critical to the success of todays organizations, given the global environment of business and increasing diversity of...
Category: Cross Cultural, Management
Intercultural Service Encounters: Cross-cultural Interactions and Service Quality
This book investigates intercultural service encounters (ICSEs) in light of the rapidly globalizing world economy, examining the extant literature on the topic and identifying areas...
Category: Communication
When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures
"An invaluable tool to help in planning practical strategies to work successfully across increasingly diverse business cultures. Riveting and thoroughly researched." - Daily Telegraph A major...
Category: Management
Introducing Intercultural Communication: Global Cultures and Contexts
Taking a truly global perspective, this textbook presents concepts, theories and applications from the field of intercultural communication in a lively and easy-to-follow style. Covering...
Category: Communication
International Business Management (Springer Texts in Business and Economics)
This textbook explores the theoretical and practical aspects of managing international business operations while also dealing with multi-cultural, multi-national and global issues of managing business...
Category: Diversity, Management
Teaching Across Cultures: Contextualizing Education for Global Mission
2020 Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year ("Also Recommended," Cross-Cultural and Missional) In our globalized world, ideas are constantly being exchanged between people of different...
Category: Cross Cultural, Learning
Online Intercultural Education and Study Abroad: Theory into Practice
With the increasing focus on international education and study abroad programmes, Online Intercultural Education and Study Abroad meets the need for a text that addresses ways in...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Latest Books
The Strength of Difference: Itineraries of Atypical Bosses
Bosses and managers from atypical backgrounds have succeeded in avoiding socially pre-determined outcomes by turning their differences into resources. This did not, however, mean that...
Category: Management
A Framework for Understanding Poverty – A Cognitive Approach
New Chapters on the Brain, Intersectionality, and Parents Simple, proven strategies that schools can start using today With a view through an economic lens that...
Category: Our Reading List, Understanding our world
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way To Build Good...
No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies...
Category: Our Reading List
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts
Leadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas, and...
Category: Leadership, Our Reading List
Communicating Across Cultures
Communicating Across Cultures by Stella Ting-Toomey is a foundational book about mindful intercultural communication through the identity negotiation theory. The book applies this theory to...
Category: Communication
Intercultural Business Negotiations: Deal-Making or Relationship Building
Negotiations occupy a prominent place in the world of business, especially when it comes to international deals. In an increasingly global business environment, understanding and...
Category: Management, Marketing & Sales
Cultural Agility: A Practical Guide for Putting Cultural Intelligence into...
Culture is a concept that’s not easily defined, but impacts all of us. Identifying cultural differences or preferences is an important part of cultural intelligence,...
Category: Cultural Intelligence, Diversity & Inclusion
Cultural Proficiency: A Manual for School Leaders
This is a book for everyone who teaches. Whether you are responsible for your organization’s training and development, you are providing basic education in an...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Leadership
Cultural Psychology: Cross-Cultural and Multicultural Perspectives
Culture comes in many forms. Cultural Psychology: Cross-Cultural and Multicultural Perspectives combines hard science with everyday issues to explore how the intangible forces of our...
Category: Psychology
Alterity, Values, and Socialization: Human Development Within Educational Contexts
This book elaborates on issues regarding alterity, values, and human development in different educational contexts, serving from young children to adolescents to adults, and it...
Category: Character, Virtue & Habits, Education, School & Teaching
Understanding Intercultural Communication: Negotiating a Grammar of Culture
Understanding Intercultural Communication provides a practical framework to help readers to understand intercultural communication and to solve intercultural problems. Each chapter exemplifies the everyday intercultural...
Category: Communication
Getting Through: The Pleasures and Perils of Cross-Cultural Communication
Understanding how culture affects the ways we communicate—how we tell jokes, greet, ask questions, hedge, apologize, compliment, and so much more. We can learn to...
Category: Communication
Popular Culture, Voice and Linguistic Diversity: Young Adults On- and...
This book analyses the language practices of young adults in Mongolia and Bangladesh in online and offline environments. Focusing on the diverse linguistic and cultural...
Category: Diversity
The Critical Turn in Language and Intercultural Communication Pedagogy: Theory,...
This edited research volume explores the development of what can be described as the ‘critical turn’ in intercultural communication pedagogy, with a particular focus on...
Category: Communication, Research
A Client-Vendor Relationship Perspective of Cultural Differences on Cross-Border
This book is a must-have Information Technology (IT) outsourcing contractual management resource that provides insight into the relationships between companies who find a need to...
Category: Management, Technical
The Routledge Companion to Cross-Cultural Management
This Routledge Companion provides a timely and authoritative overview of cross-cultural management as an academic domain and field of practice for academics and students. With contributions from...
Category: Management
Intercultural Communication in Japan: Theorizing Homogenizing Discourse
Japan is heterogeneous and culturally diverse, both historically through ancient waves of immigration and in recent years due to its foreign relations and internationalization. However,...
Category: Communication, Country Specific
Values and Behavior: Taking a Cross Cultural Perspective
What are values? How are they different from attitudes, traits, and specific goals? How do our values influence our behavior, and vice versa? How does...
Category: Communication, Management
The Culture Key: Successful Investing and Entrepreneurship in Frontier and...
Unlock the key to building successful businesses in challenging international markets. Why do so many investors fail in frontier and emerging markets? How can entrepreneurs...
Category: Management, Marketing & Sales
Cultural Intelligence: A Guide to Working with People from Other...
Second Edition - 2018 Sharpen your own cultural intelligence - and increase your professional effectiveness at the same time. Whether traveling abroad or working at...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion
Intercultural Communicative Competence in Educational Exchange: A Multinational Perspective
This book explores the nature of intercultural communicative competence (ICC), a set of abilities required to promote sojourner engagement with diversity during study abroad and...
Category: Communication, Education, School & Teaching, Latest Books
Exploring Intercultural Communication
Exploring Intercultural Communication investigates the role of language in intercultural communication, paying particular attention to the interplay between cultural diversity and language practice. This second edition...
Category: Communication, Latest Books
Cross-Cultural Design. Methods, Tools, and Users: 10th International Conference, CCD...
This two-volume set LNCS 10911 and 10912 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Design, CCD 2018, held as part of...
Category: Management, Technical
Cross Cultural Issues in Consumer Science and Consumer Psychology: Current...
This integrative volume identifies and defines cross-cultural issues in consumer psychology and consumer science as the world becomes an increasingly global marketplace. An international panel...
Category: Psychology & Counselling
The Cross-Cultural Communication Trainer’s Manual: Volume Two: Activities for Cross-Cultural...
The global market means that many organizations now have offices, affiliates, suppliers, call centres, clients and customers in a wide range of countries and cultures....
Category: Coaching & Facilitating, Communication & Branding
