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Author : Richard Saul Wurman
Publisher : Ted Conferences
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Understanding USA written by Richard Saul Wurman and published by Ted Conferences. This book was released on 1999 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of statistical graphs that explain the state of America at the Millenium.
Author : Peter Funke
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783878083368
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (833 download)
Download or read book Understanding the USA written by Peter Funke and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1989 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Planaria J. Price
Publisher : University of Michigan Press ELT
ISBN 13 : 9780472033041
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Life in the USA written by Planaria J. Price and published by University of Michigan Press ELT. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in the USA is not quite like it is in the movies or on TV. For people who are unfamiliar with its culture, there is the potential for confusion and embarrassing situations. This book, Life in the USA, has been written to help those new to the United States. Nine broad topics (first impressions of America, body language, social customs and manners, relationships, celebrations and gifts, surviving the city, the workplace, schools, and health and personal matters) are covered through an engaging and easy-to-read question-and-answer format in form of letters from immigrant students to their teacher. Students are also advised to read comic strips, listen to popular music, and read classic American children’s stories in order to become familiar with the many the nuances of American culture and to better understand Americans. From tips for job interviews to garage sales and dating, Life in the USA offers immigrant students helpful hints and answers for becoming comfortable in the United States of America.
Author : Lance Johnson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781478131120
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (311 download)
Download or read book What Foreigners Need To Know About America From A To Z written by Lance Johnson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book paints a revealing picture of America and its people for those foreigners who will benefit from a better understanding of America. It will also inform Americans who want to learn more about the U.S. and how it compares to other countries around the world. World traveler and teacher Lance Johnson studies cultural differences and the difficulties foreigners have understanding crazy America, as some call it. Foreigners might come to the U.S. to work for American employers, to open branch offices or factories for their homeland employers, to start their own businesses, or go to school. Others might work for American organizations in their homelands or have American teachers there. An understanding of American culture and language will contribute to their success. As the title suggests, this book is for "foreigners." Dictionaries say they are people who are not citizens of a country. For this book they are defined as anyone who is not sufficiently familiar with American culture to achieve success. This includes the multitudes of foreign-born, naturalized citizens who have lived in the U.S. for years and still struggle with the ways and the language. A foreigner could also be a first-generation American whose immigrant parents did not fully expose their children to American culture and they now pay the price in mainstream U.S. There are lots of other examples, too. FORMAT Each of the 26 chapters' brush strokes contributes to the final painting of what America is all about. The chapters are grouped into four books. (An all-in-one book is also available.) *Book 1 (A to G) - America's Heritage. This defines the historical background of why America and its people became who and what they are today. *Book 2 (H to T, this book) - America's Culture. This section describes everyday life in America, ranging from customs and etiquette, to what's on the minds of Americans, to education. Practical advice is provided for the one million foreign applicants who seek and gain admission to U.S. colleges and universities each year. Pointers are provided on the cultural differences students should expect, and how to get the most from their education once enrolled. *Book 3 (U to X) - America's Business. This explains the complex business environment, operations, and people-related customs and why the U.S. is an economic juggernaut. Information is provided for starting a business of your own in the U.S. as well as how to increase the chances of your getting hired by an American firm in the U.S. or abroad. *Book 4 (Y to Z) - America's Language. These chapters discuss practical ways to improve English grammar, speech, writing, communication skills, and reducing accents. Common English grammar and speech errors made by foreigners are identified and simple tips are provided for overcoming them. ENDORSEMENTS "I congratulate you on writing this timely work. This will promote better mutual understanding between America and Asia." - Tommy Koh, Singapore Ambassador to the U.N. and U.S. "Your book covers a broad range of topics that I am sure many...will find very useful." - Clark T. Randt, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to China. "I greatly appreciate your efforts in sharing with other people your opinion and experience on the exchanges between different peoples and cultures. It is so important for us to better understand each other while striving to build a better world for all." - Zhou Wenzhong, China Ambassador to U.S. " I found this book refreshingly different from the general run of books in this genre." - Mohammad Vazeeruddin, India journalist. "The A to Z chapters are nicely written and...the language is simple and lucid." - Jay Gajjar, India language professor. "I love this book's generous use of helpful hints. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to learn more about America like I did." - Sarah Kim, Korean American business owner.
Author : U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160831188
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Learn about the United States written by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Learn About the United States" is intended to help permanent residents gain a deeper understanding of U.S. history and government as they prepare to become citizens. The product presents 96 short lessons, based on the sample questions from which the civics portion of the naturalization test is drawn. An audio CD that allows students to listen to the questions, answers, and civics lessons read aloud is also included. For immigrants preparing to naturalize, the chance to learn more about the history and government of the United States will make their journey toward citizenship a more meaningful one.
Author : Harry A. Sultz
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1449694527
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Health Care USA written by Harry A. Sultz and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health Care USA, Eighth Edition, offers students of health administration, public health, medicine, and related fields a wide-ranging overview of America’s health care system. Combining historical perspective with analysis of current trends, this expanded edition charts the evolution of modern American health care, providing a complete examination of its organization and delivery while offering critical insight into the issues that the U.S. health system faces today. From a physician-dominated system to one defined by managed care and increasingly sophisticated technology, this essential text explains the transformation underway and the professional, political, social, and economic forces that guide it today and will in the future. Balanced in perspective and comprehensive in its coverage, Health Care USA, Eighth Edition, provides students with a clearly organized, straightforward illustration of the complex structures, relationships and processes of this rapidly growing industry, including thoroughly updated information throughout, on the progress and impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The Eighth Edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect recent developments in this dynamic industry. The latest edition features: • A comprehensive overview of the complex and evolving U.S. health care system, plus revised data, material and analysis throughout. • Updated information on the progress and impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) • New information on the efforts of hospitals to reduce medical errors, such as the Institute for Health Care Improvement’s 100,000 Lives Initiative • Update Department of Labor estimates of number and types of health care personnel. • Provide an historical overview of Medicare and Medicaid programs: definitions and history • Explain the role of Managed Care as the primary mode of US health insurance coverage • Updated long term care industry trends • A thoroughly revised chapter on Mental Health services including a new discussion of preventive behavioral services, and recent developments from the “Freedom Commission on Mental Health”
Author : Joseph M. Lookofsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789041138200
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (382 download)
Download or read book Understanding the CISG written by Joseph M. Lookofsky and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earlier editions of this incomparable guide came in separate volumes for the United States, Europe, and Scandinavia, as these three areas represent significant segments of CISG practice and also notable variations in the application of the Convention. Today, however, the CISG has gained greater prominence in dozens of jurisdictions worldwide, and similarities as well as differences in how the Convention is understood and applied have become increasingly relevant for all CISG practitioners. Hence, a 'worldwide' edition, focused on the rules and case law of greatest practical importance in all Contracting States, is here provided--although this new edition continues to account for regional anomalies insofar as they impact on the interests of merchants (and their lawyers) in the real CISG world. With this book as their guide, lawyers handling international sales contracts and disputes in any jurisdiction will confidently navigate such areas of practice as the following: * determining when the CISG applies; * freedom of contract under Article 6; * interpretation and good faith; * formation, validity, defenses to enforcement; * notice of non-conformity; * damages for breach, mitigation; * Article 79 liability exemptions; * agreed remedies, disclaimers; and * key reservations under Articles 92-96. Understanding the CISG includes a representative sampling of the more than 2,000 CISG court judgements and arbitral awards that have been reported. Concrete illustrations are provided to help clarify the (sometimes complex) way CISG rules work. Five appendices offer a wealth of reference material, including the complete text of the Convention and an extensive table of cases and arbitral awards. For virtually all cases likely to invoke the CISG, this valuable book will render sterling service to practitioners anywhere, just as it will provide law students with an effective CISG learning tool. No other CISG source is at once so authoritative and so succinct.
Author : Adam J. Berinsky
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226043460
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book In Time of War written by Adam J. Berinsky and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From World War II to the war in Iraq, periods of international conflict seem like unique moments in U.S. political history—but when it comes to public opinion, they are not. To make this groundbreaking revelation, In Time of War explodes conventional wisdom about American reactions to World War II, as well as the more recent conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Adam Berinsky argues that public response to these crises has been shaped less by their defining characteristics—such as what they cost in lives and resources—than by the same political interests and group affiliations that influence our ideas about domestic issues. With the help of World War II–era survey data that had gone virtually untouched for the past sixty years, Berinsky begins by disproving the myth of “the good war” that Americans all fell in line to support after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The attack, he reveals, did not significantly alter public opinion but merely punctuated interventionist sentiment that had already risen in response to the ways that political leaders at home had framed the fighting abroad. Weaving his findings into the first general theory of the factors that shape American wartime opinion, Berinsky also sheds new light on our reactions to other crises. He shows, for example, that our attitudes toward restricted civil liberties during Vietnam and after 9/11 stemmed from the same kinds of judgments we make during times of peace. With Iraq and Afghanistan now competing for attention with urgent issues within the United States, In Time of War offers a timely reminder of the full extent to which foreign and domestic politics profoundly influence—and ultimately illuminate—each other.
Author : Bethany Jay
Publisher : Harvey Goldberg Series for Und
ISBN 13 : 9780299306649
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Understanding and Teaching American Slavery written by Bethany Jay and published by Harvey Goldberg Series for Und. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No topic in U.S. history is as emotionally fraught, or as widely taught, as the nation's centuries-long entanglement with slavery. This volume offers advice to college and high school instructors to help their students grapple with this challenging history and its legacies.
Author : Leslie Cruz Rodríguez
Publisher : Guantanamera
ISBN 13 : 8417283374
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (172 download)
Download or read book The USA: Understanding Traditions and Culture written by Leslie Cruz Rodríguez and published by Guantanamera. This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know the stories that are hidden behind the traditions, celebrations, and commemorations that we celebrate annually in the United States? This book brings you 28 of those memories. By reading it you can discover ancient legends, curious customs, and relevant personalities linked to these stories. Don’t miss this book where fantasy meets reality, as this is all part of the history of humanity.
Author : James A. Johnson
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 1284211606
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (842 download)
Download or read book Sultz and Young's Health Care USA: Understanding Its Organization and Delivery written by James A. Johnson and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2022-03-09 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overview of the United States Health Care System -- Historical and Benchmark Developments in American Health Care -- Public Policy and the Role of Government -- Financing Health Care -- The Healthcare Workforce -- Hospitals and Integrated Delivery Systems -- Ambulatory Care -- Long-term Care and Specialized Services -- Behavioral Health Services -- Public and Population Health -- Health Information Technology and Quality -- Health Services and Systems Research -- Preparedness and Emergency Management -- Rural Healthcare -- Health Care and The Future.
Author : Kristina M. Young
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 1284142086
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Sultz & Young's Health Care USA written by Kristina M. Young and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2017-02-08 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health Care USA, Ninth Edition offers students of health administration, public health, medicine, and related fields a wide-ranging overview of America’s health care system. Combining historical perspective with analysis of current trends, this expanded edition charts the evolution of modern American health care, providing a complete examination of its organization and delivery while offering critical insight into the issues that the U.S. health system faces today.
Author : James Davison Hunter
Publisher : Avalon Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0786723041
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Culture Wars written by James Davison Hunter and published by Avalon Publishing. This book was released on 1992-10-14 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting account of how Christian fundamentalists, Orthodox Jews, and conservative Catholics have joined forces in a battle against their progressive counterparts for control of American secular culture.
Author : David Berreby
Publisher : Hutchinson Radius
ISBN 13 : 9780091801113
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Us and Them written by David Berreby and published by Hutchinson Radius. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: US AND THEM: Understanding your tribal mind reveals how and why we convince ourselves that we belong to differing human kinds - tribe-type categories like races, religions, classes, street gangs and high school cliques. Why do we see these divisions? Why do we care about them so much? Why do we kill and die for them? We see it every day on the news. Why have high schools in the US become killing zones? Why does strife continue in Northern Ireland? How do terrorists learn to torture and kill anyone who isn't one of them? Members Only answers these questions by looking at their common root in human nature. Politics and culture are invoked, of course, but the heart of the book is the individual mind. David Berreby describes how each person creates their own mind map, identifies others with similar mind maps and ostracises all those who are different. Based in solid scientific research, David Berreby exposes new discoveries about the mind and brain that will eventually overturn many of our familiar notions about human kinds and how we perceive them. This is a crucial subject that touches all of our lives in ways both large and small, obvious and subtle. Human kind thinking is part of human nature.
Author : Walter S Sokol CPA, MBA
Publisher : Osmora Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 2765911002
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (659 download)
Download or read book USA History and Concepts Or Understanding Accounting History and Concepts written by Walter S Sokol CPA, MBA and published by Osmora Incorporated. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question to ask is “Why is it important to understand the concepts of accounting? This book does not intend to transform the reader into a CPA or accounting Superstar. But rather provides a platform to individuals who find themselves intimidated by accounting types in a corporate meeting, or a student entering a business program or an individual who wants to follow a dream by opening a business but needs to understand the importance of gathering good information to make good business decisions. Know the difference between Custodial accounting and Managerial accounting. Learn about the Father of Accounting. As we know, the rate of new businesses succeeding is low. New business owners must have good business plans in place and anticipate and plan for new business costs. The author envisions this book to be designed as one small step in helping individuals understand how sound business decisions are made. It is is intended to be the first step in self-education on accounting concepts.
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428936890
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Informing our nation improving how to understand and assess the USA's position and progress : report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, U.S. Senate. written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Imani Perry
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062977385
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)
Download or read book South to America written by Imani Perry and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South—and thus of America—by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration.” —Isabel Wilkerson An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South—and a revelatory argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand America We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there can rattle off a list of signifiers: the Civil War, Gone with the Wind, the Ku Klux Klan, plantations, football, Jim Crow, slavery. But the idiosyncrasies, dispositions, and habits of the region are stranger and more complex than much of the country tends to acknowledge. In South to America, Imani Perry shows that the meaning of American is inextricably linked with the South, and that our understanding of its history and culture is the key to understanding the nation as a whole. This is the story of a Black woman and native Alabaman returning to the region she has always called home and considering it with fresh eyes. Her journey is full of detours, deep dives, and surprising encounters with places and people. She renders Southerners from all walks of life with sensitivity and honesty, sharing her thoughts about a troubling history and the ritual humiliations and joys that characterize so much of Southern life. Weaving together stories of immigrant communities, contemporary artists, exploitative opportunists, enslaved peoples, unsung heroes, her own ancestors, and her lived experiences, Imani Perry crafts a tapestry unlike any other. With uncommon insight and breathtaking clarity, South to America offers an assertion that if we want to build a more humane future for the United States, we must center our concern below the Mason-Dixon Line. A Recommended Read from: The New Yorker • The New York Times • TIME • Oprah Daily • USA Today • Vulture • Essence • Esquire • W Magazine • Atlanta Journal-Constitution • PopSugar • Book Riot • Chicago Review of Books • Electric Literature • Lit Hub
