Free Download Cultures of Growth: How the New Science of Mindset Can Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations by Mary C. Murphy
English | March 12th, 2024 | ISBN: 1982172746 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 6.86 MB
Award-winning social psychologist Mary Murphy offers a groundbreaking reconsideration of individual and team success-showing how to create and sustain a growth mindset in any organization's culture.

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English | ISBN: 9004519092 | 2024 | 272 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Serial killers are popular-culture icons, selling books, movies and podcasts in every country in the world. This innovative and timely book uses methods in Media and Cultural Studies to analyse why global audiences are mesmerised by representations of serial killing. Unique in its transnational case studies, it addresses serial murder through a new perspective of the "serial spectator."

Free Download Peoples and cultures of the world By Fischer, Edward F
2004 | 114 Pages | ISBN: 1565859200 | PDF | 2 MB
In this course of lectures Prof. Fischer surveys anthropology, the study of human societies and comparative customs with a special emphasis on pre-capitalist societies and the things which pre-capitalist societies and modern societies have in common.

Free Download Hugh Shapiro, "Medicine Across Cultures: History and Practice of Medicine in Non-Western Cultures"
English | 2003 | pages: 441 | ISBN: 9048162386, 1402011660 | EPUB | 9,3 mb
This work deals with the medical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Egyptian, and Tibetan medicine, the book includes essays on comparing Chinese and western medicine and religion and medicine. Each essay is well illustrated and contains an extensive bibliography.

Free Download Interventions Into Modernist Cultures: Poetry From Beyond the Empty Screen By Amie Elizabeth Parry
2007 | 202 Pages | ISBN: 0822338181 | PDF | 20 MB
Interventions into Modernist Cultures is a comparative analysis of the cultural politics of modernist writing in the United States and Taiwan. Amie Elizabeth Parry argues that the two sites of modernism are linked by their representation or suppression of histories of U.S. imperialist expansion, Cold War neocolonial military presence, and economic influence in Asia. Focusing on poetry, a genre often overlooked in postcolonial theory, she contends that the radically fragmented form of modernist poetic texts is particularly well suited to representing U.S. imperialism and neocolonial modernities.Reading various works by U.S. expatriates Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, Parry compares the cultural politics of U.S. canonical modernism with alternative representations of temporality, hybridity, erasure, and sexuality in the work of the Taiwanese writers Yü Kwang-chung and Hsia Yü and the Asian American immigrant author Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Juxtaposing poems by Pound and Yü Kwang-chung, Parry shows how Yü's fragmented, ambivalent modernist form reveals the effects of neocolonialism while Pound denies and obscures U.S. imperialism in Asia, asserting a form of nondevelopmental universalism through both form and theme. Stein appropriates discourses of American modernity and identity to represent nonnormative desire and sexuality, and Parry contrasts this tendency with representations of sexuality in the contemporary experimental poetry of Hsia Yü. Finally, Parry highlights the different uses of modernist forms by Pound in his Cantos-which incorporate a multiplicity of decontextualized and ahistorical voices-and by Cha in her 1982 novel Dictee, a historicized, multilingual work. Parry's sophisticated readings provide a useful critical framework for apprehending how "minor modernisms" illuminate the histories erased by certain canonical modernist texts.

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English | ISBN: 1443846104 | 2013 | 190 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The intense circulation of people, contents and goods that characterises the current process of globalisation has led to unprecedented cultural encounters, which can be perceived either as the source of conflicts or opportunities for dialogue. This volume adopts a multidisciplinary approach to address issues that emerge at the confluence of identity and culture ; and in their articulation, with the involvement of distinct geographic factors, by means of analyses of the notions and discourses involving such concepts, and the examination of specific intersectional contexts. From the macro- to the micro-level, from the collective to the individual, and the real to the constructed, then to the imagined and back to the real; from ideology to utopia, isolation to integration, and from belonging to possessing , the book discusses the role of shared spatialities in the forging of commonalities, and the multiple aspects that influence the formation of identity and the legitimation of cultural practices, as well as introducing conceptual tools like dialogue zones and homely landscapes .

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English | 2012 | pages: 528 | ISBN: 9400726996, 9400799292 | PDF | 11,1 mb
Different cultures experience happiness differently. Traditionally, the West is considered materialistic, and happiness is said to come fromachievement and acquisition. The East is said to be more people-oriented, where happiness is a result of deep personal interactions. Thus, poor people can be happier in the East than the West, because they are not so concerned with possession and more with society. This book considers happiness and quality of life in non-Western countries and cultures. Its coverage is diverse and spans the breadth of the non-Western world, revealing unique perspectives of happiness and life quality embedded in rich cultural traditions and histories.

Free Download Geographies of Rural Cultures and Societies By Lewis Holloway
2004 | 326 Pages | ISBN: 0754635716 | PDF | 23 MB
The last decade or so has witnessed a flourishing of research in rural geography; in particular, approaches which have developed socio-cultural perspectives on rural issues. This book brings together well-established and newer researchers to examine the position of rural social and cultural geography at the beginning of the 21st century and to suggest new research agendas. It offers critical evaluations of theoretical positions and advances, introduces new conceptual and methodological tools and reports on recent empirical work on a variety of topical issues in a number of countries. With diverse theoretical and empirical content, the book makes a valuable contribution to the development of research into changing social and cultural geographies of rurality in 'developed' or 'Western' countries.

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English | ISBN: 1440877416 | 2024 | 256 pages | EPUB, PDF | 925 KB + 20 MB
There's far more to British food than fish and chips. Discover the history and culture of Great Britain through its rich culinary traditions.

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English | ISBN: 0367697297 | 2023 | 148 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 6 MB
This book analyses the implementation and challenges of using Geographical Indications in Norway.