Given the global nature of business today and the increasing diversity within the workforce of so many industries and organisations, a cross-cultural component in management education and training has become essential. This is the case for every type of business education, whether it be for aspiring graduates at the start of their careers or senior managers wishing to increase their effectiveness or employability in the international market.   The 4th edition of Understanding Cross-Cultural Management has been adapted in line with the feedback from our many readers, and boasts new case study material based on recent research, as well as a stronger focus on Asian cultures, thereby providing more non-Western examples.   Understanding Cross-Cultural Management offers a selective but broad view of classic and contemporary thinking on cultural management and encourages you to apply theories and ideas to practice - and to relate them to your own experience - through various examples and cases from the business world as well as through a range of practical activities, including: • Cross-cultural concepts, which explain key ideas from leading theorists, thinkers and practitioners. • Case studies (many of them based on articles from the Financial Times), dilemmas and points for reflection, which enable you to judge internally and interact externally. • Spotlights in every chapter, which briefly illustrate the concepts being described. • Mini-cases with questions and points for discussion, which encourage consistent application of theory to practice. • Activities at the end of each chapter, as well as at the end of each of the book’s three parts, which provide a broader and more integrated perspective on the material in each section. These encourage you to develop both your cross-cultural management skills and a critical view of research done in this area.   This book has been written for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as practising managers and professionals, who are studying cross-cultural and international management as part of either specialist international business programmes or general business-related qualifications. This book is also a valuable resource for self-study, enabling readers to extend and to deepen their cross-cultural awareness.

Boken er en innføring i europeisk filosofihistorie. Boken legger særlig vekt på politiske teorier og fremvekst av vitenskapene. Den er primært skrevet for førstesemesterstudiet på universiteter og høyskoler. Med litteraturliste og register.

Learning a language is a never-ending story. Concepts and idioms that were commonplace just a few decades ago may have disappeared, while others have taken their place. In this sense, languages are living, complex structures. How does this affect the English classroom? This book provides an updated account for teachers of English as a foreign language, and presents key aspects of grammar and phonetics, different varieties of English, and useful learners activities. Main points: an introduction to the most important aspects of English grammar and phonetics comparisons between Norwegian and English grammar and phonetics the importance of grammar and phonetics in communication problem areas in language learning and teaching suggestions for classroom activities test-yourself exercises and sound material online: https://ofcourseyoucan.app.fagbokforlaget.no/ Of Course You Can is primarily intended for teachers who are taking Kompetanse for kvalitet (KFK) courses in English. KFK participants already have valuable experience and understanding of what teaching English to young learners involves. This book aims to acknowledge, strengthen and build on that foundation. Desmond McGarrighan is a lecturer at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Høgskulen på Vestlandet). He has many years of experience from lower and upper secondary school, college and university. McGarrighan has wri en several textbooks and online courses in the subject of English, as well as a concise book on Norwegian grammar. Kåre Per Nitter Rugesæter is a senior lecturer at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Høgskulen på Vestlandet). He has been involved in teacher training for many years, and has been a lecturer at the University of Newcastle as well as director of the Norwegian Study Centre in Great Britain.

Statistikkprogrammet Stata blir stadig mer populært. Lær deg Stata er en lett tilgjengelig og grundig innføring i programpakken. Boka er skrevet for studenter i sosiologi, statsvitenskap og andre samfunnsfag, samt pedagogikk, psykologi og helsefag. Den passer også for alle andre som skal bruke Stata til statistisk dataanalyse. Boka starter med å gjøre leseren kjent med hovedskjermbildet, vinduene, verktøylinjen og menyene. Man får raskt et inntrykk av hvordan Stata kan brukes til enkle analyser. Etter kapitler om klargjøring av data og beskrivende statistikk følger kapitler som tar for seg de vanligste statistiske analyseteknikkene: varians- og regresjonsanalyse, faktoranalyse og strukturlikningsmodeller, flernivåanalyse og logistisk regresjon. Boka avsluttes med et kapittel om mer avansert databearbeiding og programmering. Lær deg Stata er en selvstendig utgivelse. De som allerede bruker Kristen Ringdals Enhet og mangfold, 3. utgave, vil oppleve at de to bøkene fungerer godt sammen: I Lær deg Stata vises det hvordan dataanalysene i Enhet og mangfold kan gjennomføres i Stata. Kristen Ringdal er professor ved Institutt for sosiologi og statsvitenskap ved NTNU og har lang erfaring som foreleser i samfunnsvitenskapelig metode. Han har tidligere publisert bøkene Folkemeininga og den tredje verda (1981), Kausalanalyse i samfunnsvitenskap (1987) og Enhet og mangfold (2001, 3. utg. 2013) samt artikler i internasjonale fagtidsskrifter i sosiologi, statsvitenskap og organisasjonsfag. Han har vært medredaktør av Nordic Social Attitudes in a European Perspective (2008), The Future of the Welfare State (2012), The Aftermath of War: Experiences and Social Attitudes in the Western Balkans (2012) og Small States, Big Challenges: Norway and Slovenia in a Comparative Perspective (2016). Øyvind N. Wiborg er førsteamanuensis ved Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi ved UiO og forsker II ved Senter for profesjonsstudier ved HiOA. Han har erfaring som foreleser i kvantitativ metode på bachelornivå, og har ansvaret for lektorprogrammet i samfunnsfag ved Det samfunnsvitenskapelige fakultet, UiO. Han forsker på profesjoner, sosial ulikhet i utdanning og arbeidsmarked på tvers og innad i generasjoner. Wiborg har publisert vitenskapelige artikler blant annet i European Sociological Review og Work, Employment and Society.

Western aid is in decline. Non-traditional development actors from the developing countries and elsewhere are in the ascendant. A new set of global economic and political processes are shaping the twenty-first century. *BR**BR*This book engages with nearly two decades of continuity and change in the development industry. In particular, it argues that while the world of international development has expanded since the 1990s, it has become more rigidly technocratic. The authors insist on a focus upon the core anthropological issues surrounding poverty and inequality, and thus sharply criticise what are perceived as problems in the field. *BR**BR*Anthropology and Development is a completely rewritten edition of the best-selling and critically acclaimed Anthropology, Development and the Post-Modern Challenge (1996). It serves as both an innovative reformulation of the field, as well as a textbook for many undergraduate and graduate courses at leading international universities.

Lifestyle Medicine: Lifestyle, the Environment and Preventive Medicine in Health and Disease, Third Edition, is an adjunct approach to health practice that seeks to deal with the more complex modern determinants of chronic diseases-primarily lifestyle and the environments driving such lifestyles-in contrast to the microbial `causes' of infectious disease. Our lifestyle choices have a profound effect on our health. As we live longer, one thing is clear: many of us will spend time living with injury and chronic illness due to our own choices. Changes in health patterns typically follow shifts in living conditions. Disease patterns have changed worldwide, from infectious to chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. This change has been so emphatic-nearly 70% of all presentations to a doctor in modern western societies are now chronic disease related-that medical services are being forced to change to accommodate this. New chapters in this third edition explain the link between energy intake and expenditure; consider how modern technology are determinants of chronic disease; show how environmental influences, such as endocrine disruptors, influence our health; and summarize recent research on early childhood experiences and chronic disease.

<p>Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal analyzes political ideologies to help readers understand individual ideologies, and the concept of ideology, from a political science perspective. This best-selling title promotes open-mindedness and develops critical thinking skills. It covers a wide variety of political ideologies from the traditional liberalism and conservatism to recent developments in liberation politics, the emergence of the Alt-Right, and environmental politics. </p><p><p>NEW TO THIS EDITION</p><ul><li><p></li><li>Focus on the recent rise of populism and an "illiberal democracy" and how this poses a real challenge to the pillars of Western Liberal democracy;</li><li><p><p></li><li>A look at early Conservatives and the idea of "natural aristocracy" with focus on the thoughts of Edmund Burke;</li><li><p><p></li><li>A new discussion on whether Donald Trump is really a conservative, and if so, to what extent this is true;</li><li><p><p></li><li>An expanded look at Stalinism and the apparent rebirth of "Mao Zedong thought" in China through "Xi Jinping thought";</li><li><p><p></li><li>A more in-depth look at the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party and how "myth" was crucial to legitimizing both the man and the party; </li><li><p><p></li><li>New section on the history of American Fascism, from its origins to the recent emergence of the "Alt-Right";</li><li><p><p></li><li>Expansion of the discussion around the recent protest movements Black Lives Matter, and #MeToo, along with the repercussions of these movements; </li><li><p><p></li><li>Discussion on the obstacles facing transgender people implemented in recent years, including the bathroom laws and the ban from US military service; </li><li><p><p></li><li>Account of how Donald Trump has galvanized the environmental movement like never before, through his ardent anti-environment policies and appointments; </li><li><p><p></li><li>In-depth look at how the effects of climate change are increasingly turning people into "environmental migrants" and how the presence of these people has fueled far-right movements across Europe and the US;</li><li><p><p></li><li>Additional photos throughout;</li><li><p><p></li><li>An updated, author-written Instructor's Manual and Test Bank.</li></ul>

The new updated edition of Children, Youth and Development explores the varied ways in which global processes in the form of development policies, economic and cultural globalisation, and international agreements interact with more locally specific practices to shape the lives of young people living in the poorer regions of the world. It examines these processes, and the effects they have on young people's lives, in relation to developing theoretical approaches to the study of children and youth. This landmark title brings together the stock of knowledge and approaches to understanding young people's lives in the context of development and globalization in the majority world for the first time. It introduces different theoretical approaches to the study of young people, and explores the ways in which these, along with predominantly Western conceptions of childhood and youth, have influenced how majority world children have been viewed and treated by international agencies. Contexts of globalisation and growing international inequality are explored, alongside more immediate contexts such as family and peer relationships. Chapters are devoted to groups of children deemed to be in need of protection and to debates concerning children's rights and their participation in development projects. Young people's health and education are considered, as is their involvement in work of various kinds, and the impacts of environmental change and hazards (including climate change). The book introduces material and concepts to readers in a very accessible way and within each chapter employs features such as boxed case studies, summaries of key ideas, discussion questions and guides to further resources. This edition has been updated to take account of significant changes in the contexts in which poor children grow up, notably the financial crisis and changing development policy environment, as well as recent theoretical developments. It is aimed at students on higher level undergraduate and postgraduate courses, as well as researchers who are unfamiliar with this area of research and practitioners in organisations working to ameliorate the lives of children in majority world countries.

Boka er en grundig og pedagogisk innføring i programpakken Stata, og er skrevet for studenter, forskere og alle andre Stata- brukere. Denne andre utgaven er omskrevet og oppdatert til siste versjon av Stata. Boka har fått et nytt kapittel om analyse av paneldata, som viser hvordan fasteffektmodellen («fixed effects model») kan benyttes ved årsaksanalyser. Det er lagt mer vekt på mulighetene Stata gir for visuell fremstilling, og hvordan nye kommandoer i Stata 17 kan benyttes til å lage formaterte tabeller. Andreutgaven har også fått en detaljert stikkordsliste. Forfatterne starter med å gjøre leseren kjent med hovedskjermbildet, vinduene, verktøylinjen og menyene. Man får raskt et inntrykk av hvordan Stata kan brukes til enkle analyser. Etter kapitler om klargjøring av data og beskrivende statistikk følger kapitler som tar for seg de vanligste statistiske analyseteknikkene: varians- og regresjonsanalyse, faktoranalyse og strukturlikningsmodeller, flernivåanalyse, logistisk regresjon og analyse av paneldata. Lær deg Stata er en selvstendig utgivelse. De som allerede bruker Kristen Ringdals Enhet og mangfold (4. utgave), vil oppleve at de to bøkene fungerer godt sammen: I Lær deg Stata vises det hvordan dataanalysene i Enhet og mangfold kan gjennomføres i Stata. Kristen Ringdal er professor emeritus ved Institutt for sosiologi og statsvitenskap ved NTNU, og har lang erfaring som foreleser i samfunnsvitenskapelig metode. Han har tidligere publisert bøkene Folkemeininga og den tredje verda (1981), Kausalanalyse i samfunnsvitenskap (1987) og Enhet og mangfold (2001, 4. utg. 2018) samt artikler i internasjonale fagtidsskrifter i sosiologi, statsvitenskap og organisasjonsfag. Han har vært medredaktør av Nordic Social Attitudes in a European Perspective (2008), The Future of the Welfare State (2012), The Aftermath of War: Experiences and Social Attitudes in the Western Balkans (2012) og Small States, Big Challenges: Norway and Slovenia in a Comparative Perspective (2016). Øyvind Wiborg er førsteamanuensis ved Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi ved UiO. Han har erfaring som foreleser i kvantitativ metode på bachelor-, master- og ph.d.-nivå, og har ansvaret for lektorprogrammet i samfunnsfag ved Det samfunnsvitenskapelige fakultet, UiO. Han forsker på profesjoner, sosial ulikhet i utdanning og arbeidsmarked på tvers av og innad i generasjoner. Wiborg har publisert vitenskapelige artikler blant annet i American Behavioral Scientist, Social Science Research, Demography, European Sociological Review og Work, Employment and Society.

Western countries invest billions in healthcare, yet mental illness and chronic diseases are on a seemingly unstoppable rise. Nearly 70% of Americans are now on prescription drugs. Over four decades of clinical experience, renowned physician and addiction expert Dr Gabor Mate has seen how health systems neglect the role that trauma exerts on our bodies and our minds. Medicine often fails to treat the whole person, ignoring how today's culture stresses our bodies, burdens our immune systems and undermines emotional balance. Now, in his most ambitious and urgent book yet, Dr Mate connects the dots between our personal suffering and the pressures of modern-day living - with disease as a natural reflection of a life spent growing further and further apart from our true selves. But, with deep compassion, he also shows us a pathway to health and healing. Filled with stories of people in the grip of illness or in the triumphant wake of recovery, this life-affirming book, co-written with his son Daniel, proves true health is possible - if we are willing to reconnect with each other and our authentic selves.

Eilert Knutsen er berre seksten og eit halvt år gammal da han går om bord i dampskipet S/S Juno i Kristiansund, med kurs for Amerika. På kaia står far hans, slåttekaren Knut Hansen Nesje, sterkt prega av stunda. Seks veker seinare bankar Eilert på døra hos tante Gjertine i Day County, Sør-Dakota. Eilert er ein vakker ung mann, godt over seks fot høg, og jentene i det nye landet set blikket rett på han. Da han kysser den romantiske Rosa Edelblad, er det med både sterk lyst og frykt for å bli bunden. Eilert forsøker å la arbeidet styre han. Det skal kome ei stor og gjennomgripande vending i Eilerts liv, som om han har vore på feil spor. Etter tolv år som fri arbeidshand i Sør-Dakota, Minnesota og Wisconsin bryt han opp - slik 50 000 andre nordmenn i si tid gjorde - og startar på den lange reisa til prærien i Canada. Hausten 1905 tar han land ved Eidswold (Donalda), Alberta. Heime i Norge ser Nesje at åra går, og han uroar seg for om han skal få sjå sonen sin att i dette livet. "Bror din på prærien" er ein slektsroman og ein westernroman, fortalt på same sanselege vis og i same poetiske språk som Hoems roman frå 2014, den lovpriste "Slåttekar i himmelen".

While the Western world adheres to a beauty ideal that says women can never be too thin, the semi-nomadic Moors of the Sahara desert have for centuries cherished a feminine ideal of extreme fatness. Voluptuous immobility is thought to beautify girls' bodies, hasten the onset of puberty, heighten their sexuality and ripen them for marriage. From the time of the loss of their first milk teeth, girls are directed to eat huge bowls of milk and porridge in one of the world's few examples of active female fattening. Based on fieldwork in an Arab village in Niger, Feeding Desire analyses the meanings of women's fatness as constituted by desire, kinship, concepts of health, Islam, and the crucial social need to manage sexuality. By demonstrating how a particular beauty ideal can only be understood within wider social structures and cultural logics, the book also implicitly provides a new way of thinking about the ideal of slimness in late Western capitalism. Offering a reminder that an estimated eighty per cent of the world's societies prefer plump women, this gracefully written book is both a fascinating exploration of the nature of bodily ideals and a highly readable ethnography of a Saharan people.

This textbook provides a systematic and up-to-date introduction to political, public service and civic leadership. Drawing on a wide range of examples from across the Western world, it elegantly unpacks the dilemmas and complexities that leaders inevitably face, therefore clearly illustrating the distinctive character of public leadership. Written by one of the most respected figures in the field internationally, this text offers an erudite perspective on leadership that avoids superimposing business strategies onto public institutions. With emphasis on both established approaches and cutting-edge research - including his own - the author provides an intellectually sophisticated but accessible assessment of the nature, limitations and potential of public leadership in the twenty-first century. Packed with fascinating insights, questions, ideas and examples throughout, the text is the ideal theoretical and practical guide to public leadership. Engaging and thought-provoking, it is clear to see why this state-of-the-art textbook has become essential reading for students, academics and practitioners alike.

'Orthodoxy claims to be universal . . .'Since its first publication fifty years ago, Timothy Ware's book has become established throughout the English-speaking world as the standard introduction to the Orthodox Church. Orthodoxy continues to be a subject of enormous interest among western Christians, and the author believes that an understanding of its standpoint is necessary before the Roman Catholic and Protestant Churches can be reunited. In this revised and updated edition he explains the Orthodox views on such widely ranging matters as Ecumenical Councils, Sacraments, Free Will, Purgatory, the Papacy and the relation between the different Orthodox Churches.

This book is a new introduction to the history and practice of economic anthropology by two leading authors in the field. They show that anthropologists have contributed to understanding the three great questions of modern economic history: development, socialism and one-world capitalism. In doing so, they connect economic anthropology to its roots in Western philosophy, social theory and world history. Up to the Second World War anthropologists tried and failed to interest economists in their exotic findings. They then launched a vigorous debate over whether an approach taken from economics was appropriate to the study of non-industrial economies. Since the 1970s, they have developed a critique of capitalism based on studying it at home as well as abroad. The authors aim to rejuvenate economic anthropology as a humanistic project at a time when the global financial crisis has undermined confidence in free market economics. They argue for the continued relevance of predecessors such as Marcel Mauss and Karl Polanyi, while offering an incisive review of recent work in this field.Economic Anthropology is an excellent introduction for social science students at all levels, and it presents general readers with a challenging perspective on the world economy today. Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding Academic Title

This accessible book introduces the story of `social science', with coverage of history, politics, economics, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and geography.Key questions include:How and why did the social sciences originate and differentiate? How are they related to older traditions that have defined Western civilization? What is the unique perspective or `way of knowing' of each social science?What are the challenges-and alternatives-to the social sciences as they stand in the twenty-first century? Eller explains the origin, evolution, methods, and the main figures, literature, concepts, and theories in each discipline. The chapters also feature a range of contemporary examples, with consideration given to how the disciplines address present-day issues.

Voyager Classics - timeless masterworks of science fiction and fantasy. A beautiful clothbound edition of the internationally acclaimed Fahrenheit 451 - a masterwork of twentieth-century literature. The terrifyingly prophetic novel of a post-literate future. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books. The classic dystopian novel of a post-literate future, Fahrenheit 451 stands alongside Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World as a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity. Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which, decades on from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.

Clearly written, global in approach, and theoretically broad-minded, this text is an ideal introduction to environmental economics. Assuming no prior knowledge of economics, the international author team introduces fundamental economic concepts as they relate to our environment. They then use the fundamental concepts to explore and assess current and potential policy responses to some of the major environmental issues of our time. Examples are drawn from all over the world and include such vital issues as climate change, natural resource use, waste management, water pollution, and loss of biodiversity. The text is also accompanied by the following online resources:For students:Links to news stories and organizationsExercises For lecturers:PowerPoint slidesSolutions to exercisesGraphs from the bookList of Discussion Questions

<p>Immigrant Faith examines trends and patterns relating to religion in the lives of<br>immigrants. The volume moves beyond specific studies of particular faiths in<br>particular immigrant destinations to present the religious lives of immigrants<br>in the United States, Canada, and Europe on a broad scale. <br><br><br>Religion is not merely one aspect among many in immigrant lives. <br>Immigrant faith affects daily interactions, shapes the future of immigrants in<br>their destination society, and influences society beyond the immigrants<br>themselves. In other words, to understand immigrants, one must understand their<br>faith. <br><br>Drawing on census data and other surveys, including data sources from several countries and<br>statistical data from thousands of immigrant interviews, the volume provides a<br>concise overview of immigrant religion. It sheds light on whether religion<br>shapes the choice of destination for migrants, if immigrants are more or less<br>religious after migrating, if religious immigrants have an easier adjustment,<br>or if religious migrants tend to fare better or worse economically than<br>non-religious migrants.<br><br>Immigrant Faith covers demographic trends from initial migration to<br>settlement to the transmission of faith to the second generation. It offers the<br>perfect introduction to big picture patterns of immigrant religion for scholars<br>and students, as well as religious leaders and policy makers.</p>