This title addresses the question: Can globalization bring about the standardization of values and modes of behaviour? It discusses how geography, language and religion impact on culture and explores aspects of culture that obliterate rational arguments. Ulla Ladau-Harjulin, Principal Lecturer, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration - Richard Lewis’s approach has been an absolutely marvellous way to get my students to appreciate how and why cultures are different, and how to benefit from this.
Added by: Cheramie | Karma: 275.78 | Fiction literature | 21 December 2009
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In our ever-shrinking world, where popular Western culture seems to have infected every nation on the planet, it is hard to find even a small niche of unspoiled land--forget searching for pristine islands or continents. This is the situation in Alex Garland's debut novel, The Beach. Human progress has reduced Eden to a secret little beach near Thailand.
One of the most dazzling and flamboyant scientists of the 20th century
To his scientific colleagues, Richard Feynman was a magician of the highest caliber. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic critic of the space shuttle commission, Nobel Prize winner for work that gave physicists a new way of describing and calculating the interactions of subatomic particles, Richard Feynman left his mark on virtually every area of modern physics.
Richard Stark - The Man with the Getaway Face (1991) Unabridged Audiobook Crime/Thriller - The 2nd book in the Parker Series
When the bandages came off, Parker looked in the mirror at a stranger. He had come in to the doctor with a face that the New York syndicate wanted to put a bullet in. Now he was going back out with a face that they were going to learn to fear. It cost him a lot. But it would be cheap at twice the price if it kept him alive while he did what he had to do. And what he had to do was steal. Because a new face couldn't keep Parker from his old life of crime and kicks...
Alan Grofield is a part-time actor and part-time thief. When working on a heist with a guy named Parker, he's all business. On his own, he's ready for anything at all, especially if it involves a woman. The first time Grofield sees Belle Danemato at her villa in the Puerto Rican jungle, she makes him an offer he can readily refuse. The next time he sees her, she's dead. And her husband, mob boss B.G. Danemato, can't get it out of his head that Grofield is responsible...
