Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Cultures and societies in transition Cultures and societies in transition International Seminar on Cultures and Societies in Tradition: India, Russia, and other CIS Countries (2008 Centre of Russian Studies, JNU) Contributed articles presented at the International Seminar on Cultures and Societies in Tradition: India, Russia, and other CIS Countries from February 8-10, 2008 at Centre of Russian Studies, Schoo… OL13645441W
Heritage, memory & identity Heritage, memory & identity Helmut K. Anheier,Yudhishthir Raj Isar "Heritage, memory, and identity are closely connected keywords of our time, each endowed with considerable rhetorical power. Different human groups define certain objects and practices as 'heritage';… OL16517803W
Bastard Bastard José F. A. Oliver,André Rösler,Lars Harmsen,Sudabeh Mohafez,Christian Ernst,Ruediger John,Uli Weiss,Selim Özdoğan What happens when the world fuses into a global village, when cultures mix, traditions dissolve, and something new arises? In search of cultural identity and cultural bastardizing, the authors let th… OL16816769W
The Seventeenth Century and the dawn of the global world The Seventeenth Century and the dawn of the global world Timothy Brook Offers an understanding of Vermeer's paintings and of the era they portray. OL16999153W
Globalisation and its discontents Globalisation and its discontents Stan Smith "Unlike most readings of globalisation, these essays depict not an irresistible juggernaut but a process that, in generating its own resistances, opens up the possibility of an alternative world orde… OL18478702W
The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations Tsedal Neeley 1 online resource (vii, 188 pages) OL19367160W
Universalism without Uniformity Universalism without Uniformity Usha Menon,Julia Cassaniti 1 online resource (1 volume) OL20227558W
Traveling Back Traveling Back Susan McWilliams xii, 217 pages ; 25 cm OL20345744W
The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing Debbie Lisle To what extent do best-selling travel books, such as those by Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson, Bruce Chatwin and Michael Palin, tell us as much about world politics as newspaper articles, policy documents … OL8332632W
Global Linguistic Flows Global Linguistic Flows Awad Ibrahim "The book engages complex processes such as transnationalism, (im)migration, cultural flow, and diaspora in an effort to expand current theoretical approaches to language choice and agency, speech st… OL9585615W