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

The recently coined term digital religion refers to the understanding that contemporary religion is practiced in both online and offline contexts and these contexts intersect with one another Scholars of digital religion recognize that religion is increasingly influenced and informed by its interactions with computer mediated digital technologies including not only the different manifestations of the internet but other emerging forms of technology such as mobile phones and video games The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion will provide a comprehensive overview of religion as seen and performed through these various media platforms and cultural spaces The text will cover religious engagement with a wide range of digital media forms including social media websites gaming environments virtual and augmented realities etc and highlight examples of technological engagement and negotiation within the major world religions i e Buddhism Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaism as well as significant subgroups And because of the interdisciplinary nature of the field the Handbook will be led by co editors representing the fields of religious studies and communications both with experience in how those disciplines intersect

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.

La edición 2025 de EXPERIENCIAS INMERSIVAS EN EL MUNDO: Formatos y Tendencias, abarca el período de 5 años que va desde la pandemia del Covid hasta la actualidad. El libro analiza 13 formatos experienciales que van desde las artes escenicas y el cine inmersivo hasta las visitas guiadas y el teatro inmersivo, incluyendo exposiciones, instalaciones, pop-ups, eventos, mappings, salas de espejos infinitos, tours, museos y mas. Consta de 785 paginas y 550 imagenes correspondientes a los formatos seleccionados y clasificados en 14 tematicas. La singularidad del libro reside en que analiza, teoriza y ofrece tablas, que permiten cuantificar el grado experiencial e inmersivo de las distintas experiencias, y, en consecuencia, identificar las mas inmersivas.

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.

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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