Exploring how each Chinatown is different, this book explains how a unique culture developed and outlines their basic cultural, social, and political features. It highlights the unique features of the different Chinatowns surveyed. It includes a photo essay of historical snapshots of Chinatowns across the globe.
Financial Communication is the fastest growing discipline within the corporate communication function, particularly in the resilient markets and financial hubs of Asia. The need for talent and for a professional body of knowledge is high. Very frequently, financial journalists and public relations executives are retrained for financial communication. Or, lacking those, university graduates are quickly equipped to perform entry-level tasks and ...
This book examines and compares the identity, power and L2 Chinese teaching and learning of two ethnic minority groups in China: ethnic Koreans in Northeast China and South Asians (e.g. Indian, Pakistani, and Nepalese) in South China - Hong Kong.
Beaker Burials in Britain and North-West Europe 2600-1800 BC provides a comprehensive account of the current interpretations of Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Beaker burials, monuments and their social and cultural contexts in Britain, Ireland and the maritime zone of North-West Europe, from Brittany to Jutland.Burials of the Beaker people have long held a special place in the European imagination because of their highly distinctive and exo...
Beaker Burials in Britain and North-West Europe 2600-1800 BC provides a comprehensive account of the current interpretations of Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Beaker burials, monuments and their social and cultural contexts in Britain, Ireland and the maritime zone of North-West Europe, from Brittany to Jutland.Burials of the Beaker people have long held a special place in the European imagination because of their highly distinctive and exo...
The purpose of this book is to provide the rationale, guidelines, and evidence-based methods that educational specialists (school psychologists, school counselors, speech/language specialists, special educators, and school administrators) can use to support teachers and, thereby, school effectiveness.
The purpose of this book is to provide the rationale, guidelines, and evidence-based methods that educational specialists (school psychologists, school counselors, speech/language specialists, special educators, and school administrators) can use to support teachers and, thereby, school effectiveness.
This book discusses the models used to explain economic growth and introduces the economic factors that could potentially lead to conflict, offering insights into the applicability of economic development theories to post conflict reconstruction.
This book is an attempt to restore the connection between education and issues within analytic philosophy, and to humanize the analytic style of philosophizing, so that it becomes an activity involving persons, within a community of inquiry (CoI).
Adrian Scahill's seminal study traces the evolution of the accompaniment of instrumental Irish traditional music from its roots in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the highly refined and classicized music of the contemporary tradition. A key theme of the text is that the hybridity evident in accompaniment is not novel in itself, but related to the hybrid nature of the melodic tradition. The book is structured in two parts: the first...
Despite its successful image, Japan has long seen its own education system as problematic. This book analyzes the trials and errors in Japanese education reforms during the last three decades, and is a call for wider exploration of the goals of education reform in our contemporary, interconnected global age.
Considers the role of both wages and unions in economic theory. This work asks whether wages are merely a mechanical outcome of the economic process or a political variable subject to influence by organized labour?
Draws from interpretive analysis to dissect the consumer identity frames used by NGOs in their various marketing campaigns and analyse how they contest and subvert traditional commercially-oriented consumerist pursuits.
Exploring how knowledge management can affect both the behaviour and performance of small businesses, this book examines the significance of knowledge management over the different stages of the life-cycle of a business, looking at its importance during the emergence, growth and development of a small firm.
Building upon the foundations of business network theory introduced in "Business Networks: Strategy and Structure", this work covers a range of management issues including: co-ordination, governance, and evolution of business networks across borders. It is of interest to those studying or researching ownership or organization of enterprises.
