This first comprehensive guide to helping mentors and mentees bridge gaps between and among cultures—a growing issue in today's diverse workplace—is coauthored by the founder and CEO of the Center for Mentoring Excellence.
This book provides an overview of anthropology and shows in 15 wide-ranging case studies how anthropological concepts and methods can be applied to public health problems.
Anthropologists also work as evaluators, examining the activities of public health institutions and the successes and failures of public health programs.
Ellen Goodman, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, tackled difficult conversations in founding The Conversation Project to respect people's end-of-life wishes. She offers the following wisdom on the topic of closure: “There's a trick ...
This accessible text on social research methodology teaches students of sociology and related disciplines how standard methods can be adapted toward critical ends.
This timely book will appeal to researchers, students, and practitioners who design across disciplines, paradigms, and boundaries to bridge differences in this increasingly globalized world.
This volume, the first dedicated entirely to intergroup dialogue facilitation, draws on the experiences of contributors and on emerging research to address the multi-dimensional role of facilitators and co-facilitators, the training and ...
New to this edition is a substantially expanded section on understanding group differences and more material on nonverbal communication.
Here is a new framework for understanding others-a map for making progress through differences that can otherwise overwhelm us. Conflict across Cultures offers hope in countering the view that differences must divide us.
In this book, Yi argues that increasing diversity can revitalize social and civic connectedness if our institutions rise up to the challenge of finding common ground and shared enterprise for people of different backgrounds.