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The shrinking dance world remains a hidden one, receiving little to no media attention, especially when compared to music or film. Although dance exists in all cultures and in various styles, chance encounters with dance are few and far between. Only those with adequate resources and foreknowledge can access dance...
But as the economy rebounded in the past several years, many executives began to wonder if they had gone too far. Introducing dog-eat-dog values into corporate cultures that continue to prize the organization over the individual generated worker dissatisfaction. Trying to rebuild company loyalty and decrease turnover, major...
Chanda's essential ideas - that globalization has been a gradual historical process and that we are connected to the past - are hardly the stuff of dazzling scholarly insight. But his encyclopedic survey of the forces and events that have connected individuals, societies and cultures is nimbly paced and punctuated by...
Most of the authors previously had work published in each other's countries. That puts them in a select group: only 3% of new titles appearing in the U.S. each year are translations (vs. about 20% in France). As You Were Saying is proof that foreign writers can be every...
But I’d rather they didn’t just choose to accept one part of me and turn a blind eye to the others. In conversations with Mongolians about my national and ethnic backgrounds, I reaffirm all their positive sentiments about Americans and try to present a...