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Umberto Eco's latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the "linguistics of the lunatic," stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinary people in order to make sense of the world. Exploring the "Force of the False," Eco uncovers layers of mistakes that have shaped human history, such as Columbus's assumption that the world was much smaller than it is, leading him to seek out a quick route to the East via...

"Written for mainstream managers, supervisors, and employees who work with Latinos, Latino Culture is the first book to fully explore the nuances of Latino culture in the workplace. First-generation Latinas and successful professionals, Chong and Baez bring a profound understanding of the experience of working with Latinos and working as Latinos in the United States."--Jacket.

Using cross-cultural research as a platform to evaluate psychology as we know it, Matsumoto shows readers how to develop their own critical thinking skills in relation to psychology. He encourages readers to raise questions about traditional knowledge and theories, and to investigate the world around them so they can reap the benefits of diversity and turn its challenges into assets.

"Richard Lewis provides a truly global and practical guide to working and communicating across cultures, explaining how our own culture and language affect the ways in which we organise our world, think, feel and respond, before going on to suggest both general and specific ways of making our influence felt across the cultural divide." "There are penetrating insights into how different business cultures accord status, structure their organisations...

"Wedding as Text: Communicating Cultural Identities Through Ritual is a distinctive study of those who have accepted cultural difference into their daily lives and how they have managed to do so successfully. As such, it is suitable for students and scholars in semiotics, intercultural communication, ritual, material culture, family communication/family studies, and will be valuable reading for anyone facing the issue of cultural difference."--Jacket....

In America today there is a little-known explosion of creative art by women and men from many different ethnic backgrounds. Mixed Blessings is the first book to discuss the crosscultural process taking place in the work of Latino, Native-, African-, and Asian-American artists. Rich with illustrations of artworks in many different mediums, and filled with incisive quotes and unsettling reports, it is more than a book about art, it is a complex meditation...

This collection offers fascinating studies of deaf people worldwide. Mala Kleinfeld and Noni Warner investigate variation in the use of gay, lesbian, and bisexual signs in the Deaf community; Jan Branson, Don Miller, and I Gede Marsaja, assisted by I Wayan Negara, profile a deaf village in Bali, Indonesia in which hearing people are fluent in both sign and spoken languages. Alejandro Oviedo comments on bilingual deaf education in Venezuela, and Sara...