Intercultural Competence provides students with the tools to succeed in todays intercultural world.Blending both the practical and theoretical, this text offers students the requisite knowledge, the appropriate motivations, and the relevant skills to function competently with culturally-different others. The text provides a discussion of important ethical and social issues relating to intercultural communication and encourages students to apply vivid examples that will prepare them to interact better in intercultural relationships.Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:Appreciate the impact of cultural patterns on intercultural communicationUse both practical and theoretical ideas to understand intercultural communication competenceUnderstand some of the central contexts in health, education, business, and tourism in which intercultural communication occursDiscuss cultural identity and the role of cultural biases

Intercultural Competence provides students with the tools to succeed in todays intercultural world.Blending both the practical and theoretical, this text offers students the requisite knowledge, the appropriate motivations, and the relevant skills to function competently with culturally-different others. The text provides a discussion of important ethical and social issues relating to intercultural communication and encourages students to apply vivid examples that will prepare them to interact better in intercultural relationships.Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:Appreciate the impact of cultural patterns on intercultural communicationUse both practical and theoretical ideas to understand intercultural communication competenceUnderstand some of the central contexts in health, education, business, and tourism in which intercultural communication occursDiscuss cultural identity and the role of cultural biases

Ofelia FerranThis book examines the development of the feminine cultural tradition in Spain and how this tradition reshaped and defined a Spanish national identity. Each chapter focuses on representations of autobiography, alienation and exile, marginality, race, eroticism, political activism, and feminism within the everchanging nationalisms in different regions of Spain. The book describes how concepts of gender and difference shaped the individual, collective, and national identites of Spanish women and significantly modified the meaning and representation of female sexuality.

En la primavera de 1986, el introvertido y siempre polémico autor austriaco Peter Handke accedió a conversar sobre su trayectoria literaria con el profesor Herbert Gamper durante cuatro días, sin tregua. El resultado fue el presente dialogo, transcrito con suma fidelidad, testimonio unico que permite conocer de primera mano el universo personal y el proceso creativo del prolifico escritor (novelista, dramaturgo, poeta, ensayista, guionista y director de cine), cuya obra se caracteriza por su estilo meditativo e introspectivo, galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 2019.Sin ningun guion, Handke se entrego a la obstinada y sagaz interrogacion de su interlocutor, el tambien critico literario y teatral Herbert Gamper, quien exploro con el todas las incertezas y los abismos de la escritura y logro presentar al Handke mas lucido y personal.

El Anuario ThinkEPI es el resultado de las reflexiones de los miembros del Grupo de Análisis sobre Estrategia y Prospectiva de la Información (ThinkEPI), fundado en mayo de 2005 por profesionales y academicos de la biblioteconomia, la documentacion y la comunicacion. En esta obra se recogen, revisadas y actualizadas, las notas publicadas por el Grupo a lo largo de 2011 y principios de 2012, a traves de distintos canales de difusion, principalmente la lista de discusion IweTel y la propia web de ThinkEPI, donde pasaron un proceso abierto de revision por pares (open peer review). Asimismo se incluyen 10 informes de situacion (states of the art) de encargo, ineditos, elaborados a principios de 2012 por reconocidos expertos, sobre las diferentes materias en las que se han agrupado las notas: formacion, profesion, bibliotecas, archivos, gestion de la informacion en la empresa, comunicacion cientifica, web semantica y bibliotecas digitales, medios, sistemas de informacion, y tecnologias. A continuacion de cada una de las secciones tematicas se presentan mas de 50 resumenes de informes anuales españoles e internacionales, la mayoria de los cuales son de acceso abierto y pueden descargarse libremente.

"This outstanding and much-needed reference work is the product of fine and meticulous scholarly research by a former American-Mideast Educational Training Services....The book is highly recommended to academic and special libraries as well as government agencies dealing with Arabic countries."-Multicultural Review "The most cited author on Middle East media has issued another classic....Arab Mass Media is a must-have for any academic, personal, and professional library byt especially for media scholars and anyone who cares or writes about Middle East media."-Transnational Broadcasting Studies "[A]n essential guide for any who would understand the nature and state of Arab news reporting today."-Internet Bookwatch/The Midwest Book Review "The publication of Ambassador Rugh's latest book is especially good news for those of us who follow Arab media. Rugh's writing skills, language ability, and decades of experience in the Middle East bring the Arab media to life in a way that no other writer/scholar can. This book has my highest recommendation."-Douglas A. Boyd Associate Provost for International Affairs, University of Kentucky "This is one of the most important reference books that has ever been published about media in the Middle East. It has been and will continue to be an important resource for all the players in the field and will be used not only by faculty and students but also by media and development professionals in the Middle East."-Hussein Amin, Ph.D. Chair, Journalism and Mass Communication Department The American University in Cairo

This book explores integration of AI powered chatbots tools such as ChatGPT into higher education for instructional and communication purposes The author emphasizes the responsibility of higher education institutions to equip students with advanced skills for writing with AI assistance and prepare them for an increasingly AI driven world