Becoming Intercultural
This book explores what it means to be intercultural. It examines how people become intercultural, inside and outside the classroom, and considers ways in which interculturality can be systematically addressed through foreign language education.
Fleeing American prejudice, Black actor Ira Aldridge became Europe’s leading Shakespearean tragedian. A celebrated star and fierce abolitionist, he used his stage to fight for equality. This book reveals Aldridge’s profound and overlooked connection to Ireland.
Becoming Jewish
A worldwide fascination with Judaism has led millions to convert. In this volume, leading scholars explain this global movement towards identification with the Jewish people, from Germany and Poland to China and Nigeria.
Becoming Scientific
Why do some people avidly engage with science while others hate it? This book explores the ‘science identities’ of diverse people through their life stories, providing strategies for educators and parents to foster and support a lifelong journey with science.
Becoming Something Else
This edited collection examines the trends, perspectives and changes witnessed in the previously undocumented communities of India’s northeast, emphasising the continuity and transformations of these societies.
Becoming the Other, Being Oneself
For millennia, the Wangazidja people have absorbed cultural influences from across the Indian Ocean. This book examines their strategies for negotiating this encounter, incorporating a variety of influences while remaining “authentic.”
Becoming Wales
This text explores Welsh identity and culture through an institution that has evolved over twenty-five years. The Assembly/Senedd has incrementally eroded a “democratic deficit,” providing levels of self-determination for a nation in a perpetual state of becoming.
This book reveals how Bede Griffiths’ images for God are relevant for our times. Led by Christ, Griffiths promoted “the marriage of East and West,” the essential value of the feminine, and interreligious dialogue, all grounded in his motto to “always go beyond.”
Before the Burr Conspiracy
Disparaged as a traitor, Aaron Burr was an influential and popular politician in his own time. Charming and charismatic, he almost became president before killing Hamilton in a duel and facing a treason trial that ended his career. This study recaptures his forgotten image.
Before Windrush
This anthology testifies to a British nation that has been multiracial for centuries. Through essays on Asian and Black writers living in Britain before the post-WWII wave of immigration, Before Windrush reveals a hidden literary history.
This book bridges the gap between human behavior and brain physics, aiming to unite the sciences and the humanities. It argues that the origin of our life world, including the immaterial mind, is reconcilable with the known fundamental laws of physics.
This monograph explores the impact of managers’ psychological profiles and life experiences on their financial decisions; as it highlights, having insights into managers’ psychology is essential to understanding their choices and predicting decisions made by competing firms.
Behavioural Science for Students of Science and Technology
Science and technology, while immersed in the enthusiasm for success, can neglect negative human and social effects. Socio-cultural values are essential for curbing this rashness. Could an African example temper past world mistakes and show the benefit of caution?
Behind the Photographic Lens of Sergio Larraín
Unlock the mystery of Sergio Larraín, Chile’s enigmatic photographer. This essential guide reveals the untold narratives behind his iconic works, exploring the intersection of art, politics, and spirituality that defined his profound and lasting legacy.
This is the first book to address the root causes of poor working conditions within global supply chains. From a unique survey of nearly 2,000 suppliers, it presents fresh evidence on how purchasing practices impact wages and identifies changes for more sustainable supply chains.
Behind the Words
Standard English is not a question of class, but of education. This book tears up that falsehood, demonstrating through original texts how the attack on clear English has infected the Foreign Office, leading to a serious loss in Britain’s independence.
Being “On the Margins”
This conference proceedings explores the realities of people who live on the margins of society, positioned as out-of-place and unable to access aspects of mainstream culture, be they education and schooling, welfare, or care services.
Being a Mother in a Strange Land
For too long, the stories of Chinese migrants have been exclusively male. This book provides an alternative narrative, giving voice to 38 women from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China, and bringing their largely unknown lives to the center of Dutch migration history.
Being Amongst Others
Philosophical reflection helps us understand our world. This volume presents a variety of phenomenological views on everyday life, granting precedent to the first-person perspective to explore consciousness, friendship, and religious or political experiences.
Being and Film
This book develops a “solaristic ontology” of film—a philosophical system based on Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi movie Solaris. It explores the nature of film, being, and reality, building on film philosophy and the speculative turn in contemporary philosophy.
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