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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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Intercultural Communication in Your Life
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
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
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
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
Modeling Cross-Cultural Interaction in Ancient Borderlands
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
Intercultural Communication and Social Identities: A Cross-Cultural Research Through Gender...
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
Intercultural communication Complete Self-Assessment Guide
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: Racial Logics in a Colorblind Era
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
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
A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About...
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
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
Global Perspectives on Intercultural Communication
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
Communicating Across Cultures at Work
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
HBR’s 10 Must Reads for New Managers
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
Global Communication and Collaboration: Global Project Management, Global Sourcing, Cross-Cultural...
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
Language and Intercultural Communication in the Workplace: Critical approaches to...
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
Global Mindset and Cross-Cultural Behavior: Improving Leadership Effectiveness
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
Managing Cross-Cultural Communication: Principles and Practice
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
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence
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: Readings, Cases, and Exercises
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
And the Mountains Echoed
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
Flex: The New Playbook for Managing Across Differences
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
Canadian Workplace Culture: Mastering the Unspoken Rules
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
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Communication
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
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Teams
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
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Making Smart Decisions
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
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing People
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
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
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Leadership
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
Cross-Cultural Research Methods
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
A Thousand Splendid Suns
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: Theory, practice and relevance
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 Kite Runner
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...
Category: Latest Books, Story & Novels
International HRM: A Cross-Cultural Approach
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
The Psychology of Culture Shock
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
Breaking Through Culture Shock: What You Need to Succeed in...
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
