Rome and the Barbarians tells the story of the complex relationships between Celts, Goths, Huns, Persians and their Roman conquerors as they intermarried, exchanged ideas and, in the ensuing provincial Roman cultures, formed the basis of European civilization.
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 cultures, or why variation exists. Cross-Cultural Research Methods is an introductory teaching tool that shows students and potential researchers how to describe, compare, and analyze patterns that occur in different cultures, that is, how to form and test anthropological, sociological, psychological, medical, or political hypotheses about cultural variation.
Some in the social sciences argue that the same logic applies to both qualitative and quantitative methods. In A Tale of Two Cultures, Gary Goertz and James Mahoney demonstrate that these two paradigms constitute different cultures, each internally coherent yet marked by contrasting norms, practices, and toolkits. They identify and discuss major differences between these two traditions that touch nearly every aspect of social science research, including design, goals, causal effects and models, concepts and measurement, data analysis, and case selection.
Over the past three decades, translation has evolved from a profession practiced largely by individuals to a cottage industry model and finally to a formally recognized industrial sector that is project-based, heavily outsourced and that encompasses a wide range of services in addition to translation. As projects have grown in size, scope and complexity, and as project teams have become increasingly distributed across geographies, time zones, languages and cultures, formalized project management has emerged as both a business requirement and a critical success factor for language service providers.
The world's most trusted source on travel, Lonely Planet has now made its way to India. Through vivid writing and stunning colour spreads from celebrated and seasoned travellers-writers and photographers, Lonely Planet Magazine (India) inspires travellers to sample different cultures first-hand, discover new people, and learn fascinating stories about every place.
