Author:
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: cultures, volume, world, topics, women, sex, gender, men, encyclopedia
Number of Pages: 1037
Published: 2003-12-31
List price: $509.00
ISBN-10: 030647770X
ISBN-13: 9780306477706
In many animal species, one can hardly tell the difference between females and males. Their size, coloring, and behavior may be so similar that even experts cannot readily tell the difference until they are ready to reproduce. In contrast, human females and males differ not only in secondary sexual characteristics, but they also generally exhibit differences in height, weight, and ratio of muscle to fat. Given the reproductive differences, as well as differences in appearance between males and females, it is hardly surprising that most, if not all societies conceive of females and mal
Author: Richard D. Lewi
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Keywords: cultures, across, collide, leading
Number of Pages: 599
Published: 2005-10-30
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1904838022
ISBN-13: 9781904838029
The successful managers for the next century will be the culturally sensitive ones. You can gain competitive advantage from having strategies to deal with the cultural differences you will encounter in any international business setting. Richard Lewis provides a guide to working and communicating across cultures, and explains how your culture and language affect the ways in which you think and respond. This revised and expanded edition in paperback of Richard Lewis’s book provides an ever more global and practical guide not just to understanding but also managing in different business cu
Author:
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: cultures, volume, world, topics, illness, medical, anthropology, health, encyclopedia
Number of Pages: 2944
Published: 2003-12-31
List price: $519.00
ISBN-10: 0306477548
ISBN-13: 9780306477546
Illness and death are significant events for people everywhere and no one is spared. Medical beliefs and practices are not the same everywhere. They determine how people understand the causes of illness and death and how they cope with these events. It is not surprising therefore that medical practitioners and others are becoming increasingly aware of the need to understand the influence of society and culture on medical belief and practice. Culture - the customary ways of thinking and acting in society - often affects the outcome of illness, and even which illnesses occur. So those who are ac
Authors:Helmut K. Anheier, Yudhishthir Raj Isar,
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: cultures, globalization, series, identity, heritage, memory
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2011-04-19
List price: $52.95
ISBN-10: 085702390X
ISBN-13: 9780857023902
Bringing together a truly global range of scholars, this volume explores heritage, memory, and identity through a diverse set of subjects, including heritage sites, practices of memorialization, museums, sites of contestation, and human rights.
Author: John Nauright
Publisher: Fitness Info Tech
Keywords: sport, cultures, amp, global, africa, identities, freedom, south
Number of Pages: 227
Published: 2010-05-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1935412043
ISBN-13: 9781935412045
The Long Run to Freedom: Sport, Cultures and Identities in South Africa analyzes the meaning attached to sport in South African societies, past and present. It explores the history and changing meanings attached to particular sports in the old and new South Africas, and the ways in which sport is being used in the present. In particular, it examines the prominent team sports of rugby, soccer, and cricket in the creation of social divisions and unities over the course of South African history.
Author: Christiane Fioupou
Publisher: Editions Rodopi
Keywords: cross, cultures, soyinka, wole, oeuvre, realite, representation, dans, route
Number of Pages: 390
Published: 1994-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9051837313
ISBN-13: 9789051837315
L’image obsdante de la route parcourt toute l’oeuvre de l’crivain nigrian Wole Soyinka, prix Nobel de littrature en 1986. Chemins, pistes et autoroutes, voies construites par des "btisseurs d’empires" restituent un premier niveau de lecture des ralits gographiques, sociales, linguistiques, conomiques et politiques. A partir de La Route (pice charnire publie en 1965), le prsent ouvrage explore toute l’oeuvre de Soyinka (thtre, posie, roman, autobiographie, essais) dans sa mobile complexit et tisse des rseaux de correspondances lis la figure c
Author: Suad Joseph
Publisher: Brill Academic Publisher
Keywords: cultures, islamic, women, volume, encyclopaedia, health, family, encyclopedia, sexuality
Number of Pages: 588
Published: 2005-11-30
List price: $323.00
ISBN-10: 9004128190
ISBN-13: 9789004128194
Volume III of the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, Family, Body, Sexuality, and Health holds 196 articles on 56 topics. It includes articles on aging; the body; breastfeeding; celibacy; child marriage; childhood; courtship; disabilities; food preparation; funerary practices; genital cutting; health policies, practices, and education; poverty; HIV and AIDS; reproduction; incest; love; marriage discourses and practices; reproduction; science; sexual harassment; discourses, education and practices related to sexualities; sports; suicide; and virginity. The articles are organized alphabe
