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THE BASICS OF CROSS CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING
This book is suitable to be utilized as a learning process material for students whose class activity are focused in elaborating cultural communication. A number of quotes on opinions, statements, research results, and other sources from relevant experts are successfully collected and neatly sorted according to the concept of chronological order, which would support the students’ learning. The data exposed are the bases to construct two-way communications among people in a community or society who belongs to the category of different culture groups. The examples of psychological, socio-cultural problems put forward in this book are also highly representative, because they can be used as cu...
Fisheries and Marine Science
I would like to express my appreciation to Dr. Sri Herminingrum, M.Hum. as the author of the book “English for Fisheries and Marine Science”, which is now at our hands. It definitely represents one of her intellectual achievements because she is a lecturer with years’ experience in her field. In the context of Fisheries and Marine Science, this book is suitable for the class of English for Academic Purposes because the content not only expands the academic horizon of the students, but also supports their English skills. It encloses exercises that are tailored to their comprehension on the provided reading texts, structure study in connection with review of the patterns of English grammar, vocabulary building, and most importantly, writing ability.
Genre - Based Reading
This book represents one of the positive responses towards the demand of the output quality of the students from Fakultas Ilmu Budaya – Universitas Brawijaya. Thus, hopefully, after the students finish the “Genre-Based Reading” course, they are not only able to comprehend and notice the meaning of the texts covering procedure, description, recount, narrative-news item, and the factual world, but also able to complete the exercises correctly. Because both of the reading texts and structured exercises available in this “
The Heart and Stomach of a King
In her famous speech to rouse the English troops staking out Tilbury at the mouth of the Thames during the Spanish Armada's campaign, Queen Elizabeth I is said to have proclaimed, "I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king." Whether or not the transcription is accurate, the persistent attribution of this provocative statement to England's most studied and celebrated queen illustrates some of the contradictions and cultural anxieties that dominated the collective consciousness of England during a reign that lasted from 1558 until 1603. In The Heart and Stomach of a King, Carole Levin explores the myriad ways the unmarried, childless Elizabeth r...
Global Goes Local
In Global Goes Local, international scholars from a variety of disciplinary perspectives examine different forms of popular culture in Asia. Covering topics from pop music in Korea to TV commercials in Malaysia, this collection shows how imported cultural forms can be invested with fresh meaning and transformed by local artists to result in new forms of assertion and resistance that also meet the needs of their particular audiences.
External Quality Audit
Whilst external quality audits have been in place for more than a decade in some countries, limited research exists on the extent to which such audits have been effective in improving systems and processes for quality assurance in higher education institutions, and the extent to which such audits have improved academic standards, outcomes and student experience. External Quality Audit looks at the experience of countries where external quality audits have been established by governments, and provides analyses of their effectiveness in improving quality assurance in universities and other higher education institutions. - Brings together the experience of academics and administrators in higher education institutions - Examines international experience on the extent to which external quality audits have improved quality assurance at national, institutional and faculty levels - Gives perspective from a variety of higher education institutions
Knowing Music, Making Music
Using illustrative examples from a variety of traditions, Benjamin Brinner first examines the elements and characteristics of musical competence, the different kinds of competence in a musical community, the development of multiple competences, and the acquisition and transformation of competence through time. He then shows how these factors come into play in musical interaction, establishing four intersecting theoretical perspectives based on ensemble roles, systems of communication, sound structures, and individual motivations. These perspectives are applied to the dynamics of gamelan performance to explain the social, musical, and contextual factors that affect the negotiation of consensus in musical interaction. The discussion ranges from sociocultural norms of interpersonal conduct to links between music, dance, theater, and ritual, and from issues of authority and deference to musicians' self-perceptions and mutual assessments.
Once in a Promised Land
They say there was or there wasn't in olden times a story as old as life, as young as this moment, a story that is yours and is mine. Once in a Promised Land is the story of Jassim and Salwa, who left the deserts of their native Jordan for those of Arizona, each chasing mirages of opportunity and freedom. Although the couple live far from Ground Zero, they cannot escape the dust cloud of paranoia settling over the nation. A hydrologist, Jassim believes passionately in his mission to make water accessible to all people, but his work is threatened by an FBI witch hunt for domestic terrorists. A Palestinian now twice displaced, Salwa embraces the American dream. She grapples to put down roots in an unwelcoming climate, becoming pregnant against her husband's wishes. When Jassim kills a teenage boy in a terrible accident and Salwa becomes hopelessly entangled with a shadowy young American, their tenuous lives in exile and their fragile marriage begin to unravel. Once in a Promised Land is a dramatic and achingly honest look at what it means to straddle cultures, to be viewed with suspicion, and to struggle to find safe haven.
House of Many Gods
From Kiana Davenport, the bestselling author of Song of the Exile and Shark Dialogues, comes another mesmerizing novel about her people and her islands. Told in spellbinding and mythic prose, House of Many Gods is a deeply complex and provocative love story set against the background of Hawaii and Russia. Interwoven throughout with the indelible portrait of a native Hawaiian family struggling against poverty, drug wars, and the increasing military occupation of their sacred lands. Progressing from the 1960s to the turbulent present, the novel begins on the island of O’ahu and centers on Ana, abandoned by her mother as a child. Raised by her extended family on the “lawless” Wai’anae c...
