This book seeks to build on the fascination that intercultural communication naturally holds for everyone. The United States is increasingly diverse in a cultural sense. We include numerous case illustrations of communication difficulties encountered because the participants in a communication situation did not share certain cultural assumptions. Many of us have experiencedthe difficulties of communicating effectively with an "unalike" other person, perhaps even a friend or a partner.
Interpreting Cultural Differences: Challenge of Intercultural Communication
When speaker and listener come from different cultural backgrounds, the potential for the message to mean different things is increased greatly. The book explores the cultural differences that affect us all in the way we act, relate to others, think and learn. It addresses ways of improving our individual competencies, fusing some of the major ideas from the great range of scholarship on intercultural communication which has been produced over the last few decades.
Fast Food and Junk Food: An Encyclopedia of What We Love to Eat, 2 Volumes
Fast Food and Junk Food: An Encyclopedia of What We Love to Eat tells the intriguing, fun, and incredible stories behind the successes of these commercial food products and documents the numerous health-related, environmental, cultural, and politico-economic issues associated with them.
The Celts were one of the most important population groups to spread across the ancient European continent. From 800BC to 1050AD their story is one of expanding power and influence followed by contraction and near extinction. Drawing on all possible sources of evidence, from archaeological remains of ancient Greece and Rome to surviving cultural influences, Daithi O hOgain outlines the history of the people known as Celts.
An invaluable introduction to the life and work of one of today's most important cultural critics. Studied on most undergraduate literary and cultural studies courses, Fredric Jameson's writing targets subjects from architecture to science fiction, cinema to global capitalism. Of his works, The Political Unconscious remains one of the most widely cited Marxist literary-theoretical texts, and 'Postmodernism, or the cultural logic of late capitalism', is amongst the most influential statements on the nature of post-modernity ever published. Adam Roberts offers an engaging introduction to this crucial figure, which will convince any student of contemporary theory that Jameson must be read.
