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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

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

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 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

#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...
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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

Where groups of people gather, there is always an elephant in the room: difference. Elephants are remarkable, complex creatures which take up much space. Likewise,...
Category: Communication, Latest Books

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the coauthor of Nudge, a revolutionary exploration of why people make bad judgments and how to make better ones—"a...
Category: Latest Books, Our Reading List, Understanding Human behavior

Culture, Discourse, and the Workplace brings new theoretical and methodological insights to the complex relationship between language, culture, and identity in professional settings. Examining the politics...
Category: Cross Cultural, Cultural Intelligence, Latest Books

This volume introduces the Cross-Cultural Interaction Model (CCIM), a visual tool for studying the exchanges that take place between different cultures in borderland areas or...
Category: Cross Cultural, Latest Books, Understanding our world

The effect of religious dogmatism is widely apparent in many aspects of social and cultural life and has a remarkable influence on shaping, deconstructing, and...
Category: Communication, Cross Cultural, Latest Books

In what ways are Intercultural communication vendors and us interacting to ensure safe and effective use? What is Effective Intercultural communication? Meeting the challenge: are...
Category: Communication, Latest Books

Race(ing) Intercultural Communication signals a crucial intervention in the field, as well as in wider society, where social and political events are calling for new...
Category: Communication, Latest Books, Race

Learning Across Cultures: Locally and Globally is a comprehensive guide to integrating intercultural learning into the fabric of twenty-first century higher education. This updated NAFSA classic...
Category: Communication, Latest Books

In Cross-Cultural Management, the author takes a critical, power-sensitive and culturally-aware perspective that moves beyond the paradigms debate, placing greater emphasis on the holistic nature of...
Category: Latest Books, Management

Intercultural Communication for Global Engagement explores issues and concerns of communication, culture and globalization through incorporating different perspectives including critical, interpretative, psychological, and social. The dialectical...
Category: Communication, Latest Books

What is intercultural communication? How does perspective shape a person’s definition of the key tenets of the term and the field? These are the core...
Category: Communication, Latest Books

This revised and updated fourth edition of this core textbook builds on the text's established success. It provides the basis of knowledge, understanding and practice...
Category: Communication, Latest Books

Develop the mindset and presence to successfully manage others for the first time. If you read nothing else on becoming a new manager, read these...
Category: Latest Books, Management

Speed, social change, historical inheritance and cultural gaps are key factors which have significant impact on global collaboration and global sourcing. The author explains how working...
Category: Communication, Latest Books, Management

From language classrooms to outdoor markets, the workplace is fundamental to socialisation. It is not only a site of employment where money is made and...
Category: Communication, Latest Books

Examining the importance of cultural attitudes on human resource practices, this book addresses an important, but often neglected aspect of cross-cultural leadership. First providing an...
Category: Latest Books, Leadership

Accessible and lively introduction to the management of cross-cultural communication for undergraduate and postgraduate business students. Drawing on the latest research and incorporating the author's...
Category: Communication, Latest Books, Management

In his defining work on emotional intelligence, bestselling author Daniel Goleman found that it is twice as important as other competencies in determining outstanding leadership....
Category: Inter-Cultural, Latest Books

Understanding and Managing Diversity uses applications to clarify the complexity of a diverse workforce, and explains how it can be used as an organizational asset. This...
Category: Diversity, Latest Books

An unforgettable novel about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else. Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid...
Category: Latest Books, Story & Novels

Renowned executive coaches and global leadership strategists Jane Hyun and Audrey S. Lee offer lessons on the vital skill of “Flexing”—the art of switching leadership...
Category: Cross Cultural, Latest Books

What nobody will ever tell you about succeeding in Canada! Matt Adolphe, an internationally-experienced communication expert, explains why certain behaviours don t work in Canada...
Category: Country Specific, Latest Books

The best leaders know how to communicate clearly and persuasively. How do you stack up?If you read nothing else on communicating effectively, read these 10...
Category: Communication, Latest Books

Most teams underperform. Yours can beat the odds. If you read nothing else on building better teams, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds...
Category: Latest Books, Teams

Learn why bad decisions happen to good managers―and how to make better ones. If you read nothing else on decision making, read these 10 articles....
Category: Decision Making, Latest Books

Managing people is fraught with challenges―even if you're a seasoned manager. Here's how to handle them. If you read nothing else on managing people, read...
Category: Latest Books, Management

The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication aims to furnish scholars with a consolidated resource of works that highlights all aspects of the field, its historical inception,...
Category: Communication & Branding, Latest Books

Go from being a good manager to an extraordinary leader. If you read nothing else on leadership, read these 10 articles (featuring “What Makes an...
Category: Latest Books, Leadership

Without ethnography, cross-cultural comparison would not be possible. But without cross-cultural comparison, we would know nothing of what may be universal or variable across human...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Latest Books

After more than two years on the bestseller lists and over four million copies in print, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting...
Category: Latest Books, Story & Novels

Cross-cultural marketing is an important element of the contemporary business environment. Many conventional accounts of the topic have conflated cross-cultural and cross-national marketing, but in...
Category: Latest Books, Marketing & Sales

The #1 New York Times bestselling novel beloved by millions of readers the world over. “A vivid and engaging story that reminds us how long his people...
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The book takes a cross-cultural approach to the study and practice of human resource management by examining the contributions of different cultures in interaction and...
Category: Latest Books, Leadership, Psychology

Crossing cultures can be a stimulating and rewarding adventure. It can also be a stressful and bewildering experience. This thoroughly revised and updated edition of...
Category: Culture Shock, Latest Books

This work looks at the international manager on a professional and personal level, however long- or short-term the assignment may be. It is a practical...
Category: Culture Shock, Latest Books