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Book Synopsis Talking to Strangers by : Monteagle Stearns
Download or read book Talking to Strangers written by Monteagle Stearns and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stearns has not written an apologia for the American Foreign Service, however. Indeed, his criticism of many of its weaknesses is biting. Ranging from a description of Benjamin Franklin's mission to France to an analysis of the Gulf War and its aftermath, he offers a balanced critique of how American diplomacy developed in reaction to European models and how it needs to be changed to satisfy the demands of the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis The Gift of the Stranger by : David Smith
Download or read book The Gift of the Stranger written by David Smith and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering look at the implications of Christian faith for foreign language education. It has become clear in recent years that reflection on foreign language education involves more than questioning which methods work best. This new volume carries current discussions of the value-laden nature of foreign language teaching into new territory by exploring its spiritual and moral dimensions. David Smith and Barbara Carvill show how the Christian faith sheds light on the history, aims, content, and methods of foreign language education. They also propose a new approach to the field based on the Christian understanding of hospitality.
Book Synopsis Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference by :
Download or read book Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference written by and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Encyclopaedia Perthensis, Or, Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, Etc. : Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference by :
Download or read book Encyclopaedia Perthensis, Or, Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, Etc. : Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference written by and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Way of the Strangers by : Graeme Wood (Journalist)
Download or read book The Way of the Strangers written by Graeme Wood (Journalist) and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Way of the Strangers is an intimate journey into the minds of the Islamic State's true believers. From the streets of Cairo to the mosques of London, Wood interviews supporters, recruiters, and sympathizers of the group...Wood speaks with non-Islamic State Muslim scholars and jihadists, and explores the group's idiosyncratic, coherent approach to Islam...Through character study and analysis, Wood provides a clear-eyed look at a movement that has inspired so many people to abandon or uproot their families.
Book Synopsis Strangers in Their Own Land by : Arlie Russell Hochschild
Download or read book Strangers in Their Own Land written by Arlie Russell Hochschild and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller that became a guide and balm for a country struggling to understand the election of Donald Trump "A generous but disconcerting look at the Tea Party. . . . This is a smart, respectful and compelling book." —Jason DeParle, The New York Times Book Review When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation turned to Strangers in Their Own Land to understand what Trump voters were thinking when they cast their ballots. Arlie Hochschild, one of the most influential sociologists of her generation, had spent the preceding five years immersed in the community around Lake Charles, Louisiana, a Tea Party stronghold. As Jedediah Purdy put it in the New Republic, "Hochschild is fascinated by how people make sense of their lives. . . . [Her] attentive, detailed portraits . . . reveal a gulf between Hochchild's 'strangers in their own land' and a new elite." Already a favorite common read book in communities and on campuses across the country and called "humble and important" by David Brooks and "masterly" by Atul Gawande, Hochschild's book has been lauded by Noam Chomsky, New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu, and countless others. The paperback edition features a new afterword by the author reflecting on the election of Donald Trump and the other events that have unfolded both in Louisiana and around the country since the hardcover edition was published, and also includes a readers' group guide at the back of the book.
Book Synopsis All Strangers Are Kin by : Zora O'Neill
Download or read book All Strangers Are Kin written by Zora O'Neill and published by HMH. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American woman determined to learn the Arabic language travels to the Middle East to pursue her dream in this “witty memoir” (Us Weekly). The shadda is the key difference between a pigeon (hamam) and a bathroom (hammam). Be careful, our professor advised, that you don’t ask a waiter, ‘Excuse me, where is the pigeon?’—or, conversely, order a roasted toilet . . . If you’ve ever studied a foreign language, you know what happens when you first truly and clearly communicate with another person. As Zora O’Neill recalls, you feel like a magician. If that foreign language is Arabic, you just might feel like a wizard. They say that Arabic takes seven years to learn and a lifetime to master. O’Neill had put in her time. Steeped in grammar tomes and outdated textbooks, she faced an increasing certainty that she was not only failing to master Arabic, but also driving herself crazy. She took a decade-long hiatus, but couldn’t shake her fascination with the language or the cultures it had opened up to her. So she decided to jump back in—this time with a new approach. In this book, she takes us along on her grand tour through the Middle East, from Egypt to the United Arab Emirates to Lebanon and Morocco. She’s packed her dictionaries, her unsinkable sense of humor, and her talent for making fast friends of strangers. From quiet, bougainvillea-lined streets to the lively buzz of crowded medinas, from families’ homes to local hotspots, she brings a part of the world thousands of miles away right to your door—and reminds us that learning another tongue leaves you rich with so much more than words. “You will travel through countries and across centuries, meeting professors and poets, revolutionaries, nomads, and nerds . . . [A] warm and hilarious book.” —Annia Ciezadlo, author of Day of Honey “Her tale of her ‘Year of Speaking Arabic Badly’ is a genial and revealing pleasure.” —The Seattle Times
Book Synopsis Commerce and Strangers in Adam Smith by : Shinji Nohara
Download or read book Commerce and Strangers in Adam Smith written by Shinji Nohara and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers unique insights into how Adam Smith understood globalization, and examines how he incorporated his knowledge of the world and globalization into his classical political economy. Although Smith lived in society that was far from globalized, he experienced the beginning of globalization. Smith considered the most developed society the commercial society: the society that results from people meeting with strangers. Among Enlightenment thinkers, Smith was one of the most important figures with respect to interaction in the world, and it is through his lens that the authors view the impact of the mixing of diverse peoples. Firstly, the book describes how Smith was influenced by information from around the world. Leaving eighteenth-century Europe, including Smith’s native Scotland, people travelled, traded, and immigrated to far-flung parts of the globe, sometimes writing books and pamphlets about their travels. Informed by these writers, Smith took into consideration the world beyond Europe and strangers with non-European backgrounds. Against that background, the book reinterprets Smith’s moral philosophy. In The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith developed his moral philosophy, in which he examined how people form opinions through their meetings with strangers. He researched how encounters with strangers created the sharing of social rules. As such, the book studies how Smith believed that people in dissimilar communities come to share common concepts of morality and justice. Lastly, it provides an innovative reading of Smith’s political economy. In The Wealth of Nations, Smith established the market model of economic society. However, he saw the limitations of that model since it does not consider the impact of money on economy and international trade. He also recognized the limitations of his own equilibrium theory of market, the theory that is still influential today.
Book Synopsis The Pertinence of Exodus: Philosophical Questions on the Contemporary Symbolism of the Biblical Story by : Sandro Gorgone
Download or read book The Pertinence of Exodus: Philosophical Questions on the Contemporary Symbolism of the Biblical Story written by Sandro Gorgone and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Exodus has a risky and combative character that links individuals to their unconscious, to the uncertainty of their reality, and to the possibility of the disturbing event of the incalculable arrival of the Other. This encounter with the unknown does not expect a messianic salvation but a human solution, which is aware that change requires the abandonment of self-referential identities. This eccentricity is more than evasive desertion or escapism, but an experiment with new modes of organizing community that grows on the responsibilities that go with it. This collected volume gathers contemporary philosophical perspectives on the Exodus, examining the story’s symbolic potentials and dynamics in the light of current social political events. The imagination of the Promised Land, the figure of the migrant, the provisional and precarious dwelling of the camp, the promise of a better future or the gradual estrangement from inherited habits are all challenges of our time that are already conceptualized in the Exodus. The authors reaffirm the pertinence of the story by addressing the fundamental link between the ancient narrative and the human condition of the 21st century.
Book Synopsis Notes From a Big Country by : Bill Bryson
Download or read book Notes From a Big Country written by Bill Bryson and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an old friend asked him to write a weekly dispatch from New Hampshire for the Mail on Sunday's Night and Day magazine, Bill Bryson firmly turned him down. So firm was he, in fact, that gathered here are nineteen months' worth of his popular columns about the strangest of phenomena -- the American way of life.Whether discussing the dazzling efficiency of the garbage disposal unit, the mind-boggling plethora of methods by which to shop, the exoticism of having your groceries bagged for you, or the jaw-slackening direness of American TV, Bill Bryson brings his inimitable brand of bemused wit to bear on the world's richest and craziest country.
Book Synopsis A new dictionary of the French and English languages compiled from the dictionaries of the French Academy, Bescherelle, Littré, Beaujean, Bourguignon, etc., etc., and from the most recent works on arts and sciences by : Ebenezer Clifton
Download or read book A new dictionary of the French and English languages compiled from the dictionaries of the French Academy, Bescherelle, Littré, Beaujean, Bourguignon, etc., etc., and from the most recent works on arts and sciences written by Ebenezer Clifton and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Dictionary of the English Language by : Samuel Johnson
Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 1444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Baltimore written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annual report of the Baltimore Association of Commerce included in February issues, 1935-1962
Download or read book Missions written by Howard Benjamin Grose and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A new law-dictionary ... The fifth edition, with great additions and improvements, and the law-proceedings done into English. To which is annexed, a table of references to all the arguments and resolutions of the Lord Chief Justice Holt, etc by : Giles Jacob
Download or read book A new law-dictionary ... The fifth edition, with great additions and improvements, and the law-proceedings done into English. To which is annexed, a table of references to all the arguments and resolutions of the Lord Chief Justice Holt, etc written by Giles Jacob and published by . This book was released on 1744 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the President and Directors of the Corn and Flour Exchange of the City of Baltimore ... by : Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Baltimore
Download or read book Annual Report of the President and Directors of the Corn and Flour Exchange of the City of Baltimore ... written by Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Baltimore and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Pictorial History of England: Being a History of the People, as Well as a History of the Kingdom ... by : George Lillie Craik
Download or read book The Pictorial History of England: Being a History of the People, as Well as a History of the Kingdom ... written by George Lillie Craik and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
