• The Colors of Us

    A positive and affirming look at skin color, from an artist's perspective.Seven-year-old Lena is going to paint a picture of herself. She wants to use brown paint for her skin. But when she and her mother take a walk through the neighborhood, Lena learns that brown comes in many different shades.Through the eyes of a little girl who begins to see her familiar world in a new way, this book celebrates the differences and similarities that connect all people.Karen Katz created this book for her daughter, Lena, whom she and her husband adopted from Guatemala six years ago.

    • ASIN: 0805071636
    • ASIN: 0805071636
    • ISBN: 0805071636
    • Brand: Macmillan / Mps
    • Manufacturer: Square Fish

  • The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter

    Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals? This book shows that the secret of our success lies not ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B00WY4OXAS
    • ASIN: B00WY4OXAS
    • Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

  • Pele: Birth of a Legend

    Pelé. A name known around the world, a sports legend who changed soccer forever, and a national hero who carried the hopes and dreams of a country on his back. But before he was an icon, he was a kid from the slums of São Paulo, Brazil, so poor that he couldn t afford a real soccer ball. Charting his meteoric rise from scrubbing floors to support his family to honing his electrifying playing style on the streets to leading Brazil s national team to its first World Cup victory at the age of 17 PELÉ vividly brings to life the greatest sports story of the 20th century.

    • ASIN: B01HE9RTJY
    • UPC: 030306946498
    • ASIN: B01HE9RTJY
    • Brand: Ifc Independent Film
    • Manufacturer: MPI HOME VIDEO

  • Children of God Storybook Bible

    Desmond Tutu retells more than fifty of his most beloved Bible stories, artfully highlighting God’s desire for all people to love one another and to find peace and forgiveness in their hearts.Many of the finest artists from around the world—such as Jago, E.B. Lewis, Javaka Steptoe, and Xiao Xin—have been selected to illustrate the stories, portraying the stories with the style and richness of their own culture. Creating the first truly global Bible for children, their stunning full color illustrations allow readers to experience the Bible stories as if they were there—with Adam and Eve... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0310719127
    • UPC: 025986719128
    • ASIN: 0310719127
    • ISBN: 0310719127
    • Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
    • Manufacturer: Zondervan

  • People

    A celebration of diverse world cultures from the brilliant Peter Spier, one of the most beloved children's illustrators of the last fifty years. In this breathtaking tour around the world, young readers can pore over the many details that make each country and culture unique and special—illuminated by Spier's detailed and witty illustrations of festivals and holidays, foods, religions, homes, pets, and clothing. In print since 1980, this classic, boundary-pushing book is a must-have in today's global age—a tribute to the ways in which we as the world's citizens are at once both different a... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 038524469X
    • ASIN: 038524469X
    • ISBN: 038524469X
    • Brand: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
    • Manufacturer: Doubleday Books for Young Readers

  • Connecting Hearts and Minds: Insights, Skills, and Best Practices for Dealing with Differences

    This groundbreaking book uses inspiring stories to integrate the newest findings from the human sciences. By taking an integral approach, it provides the broader perspective needed to manage diversity and build trust. Because much of our cultural conditioning occurs outside of conscious awareness, we are often blind to the ways our identities shape our world views and influence how we speak. As a result, cultural differences can bring out the worst in us, creating stress, misunderstandings, and lost opportunities. By understanding the three-way interaction between cultures, minds, and communic... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0996572996
    • ASIN: 0996572996
    • ISBN: 0996572996
    • Manufacturer: German Connection, Inc, The

  • Interculturalism and Catechesis : A Catechist's Guide to Responding to the Cultural Diversity

    Interculturalism and Catechesis: A Catechist's Guide to Responding to the Cultural

    • UPC: 330311929

  • Everyday Diversity : Developing Cultural Competency and Information Awareness

    Designed to serve as both a textbook and a course guide, Everyday Diversity: Developing Cultural Competency and Information Awareness helps students interrogate their own positionality so that they can better understand others and how they

    • UPC: 712895435

  • Cultural Diversity : A Primer for the Human Services

    Author Jerry Diller's practical text offers you a balance of clinical and theoretical information, focusing on effective methods of providing cross-cultural services. CULTURAL DIVERSITY: A PRIMER FOR THE HUMAN SERVICES, 6th Edition, covers the general

    • UPC: 140225505

  • Montana, a Cultural Medley : Stories of Our Ethnic Diversity

    "A collection of essays concerning the ethnic communities of Montana, including Metis, Chinese, Japanese, Jewish, Irish, Scottish, Scandinavian, Eastern European, African-American, Mexicans, and war

    • UPC: 45965506

  • Teaching the Cultural Multiplicity of Canada as Example for Diversity of Language and Behaviour within a Country - eBook

    Essay from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,5, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Anglistik), course: Academic Writing, language: English, abstract: Whether Canada is as multicultural as

    • UPC: 298621315

  • A Prehistory of South America : Ancient Cultural Diversity on the Least Known Continent

    "A Prehistory of South America is an overview of the ancient and historic native cultures of the entire continent of South America based on the most recent archaeological investigations. For more than 12,000 years, South

    • UPC: 37497823
    • Rating: 3.0

  • Learning from the Stranger : Christian Faith and Cultural Diversity

    9780802824639

    • UPC: 10742108

  • Deep Cultural Diversity - eBook

    Political commentator and public policy analyst Gilles Paquet examines the benefits and drawbacks of Canada's multiculturalism policy. He rejects the current policy which perpetuates difference and articulates a model for Canadian transculturalism, a more fluid

    • UPC: 101326568

  • Cultural integration and workforce diversity - eBook

    Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, , language: English, abstract: This book is written around the idea of cross-cultural integration of values and behaviours,

    • UPC: 248920672

  • Diversity Management - Cultural Issues - eBook

    Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Psychology - Work, Business, Organisational and Economic Psychology, grade: 1,3, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: As a result of the

    • UPC: 218786635

  • Seinfeld Cross Cultural Differences

    How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky

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