The Clash of the Cultures

Recommended Reading by Warren Buffet in his March 2013 Letter to Shareholders How speculation has come to dominate investment--a hard-hitting look ...

Reducere. When he left his Spanish base one spring day in 218 B.C. with his 100, 000-man army of mercenaries, officers, and elephants, Hannibal was launching...

The Vietnam War was in many ways defined by a civil-military divide, an underlying clash between military and civilian leadership over the conflict...

An epic novel telling the story of a clash of cultures from New York Times bestselling author Sharon Penman.

An epic novel telling the story of a clash of cultures from New York Times bestselling author Sharon Penman.

A classic of Canadian literature and a vivid, moving story of the clash - and coming together - of cultures.

Reducere. In a world of increasing globalization, we live amidst a clash of cultures, religions, and worldviews - each battling for the human heart and mind....

Reducere. The Conquest of America is a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America. ...

"In his highly influential 1996 book, Huntington offers a vision of a post-Cold War world in which conflict takes place not between competing ideol...

It is not an easy life for an English juggler in Twelfth Century Spain. Survival means juggling, not only his knives, but dancing nimbly between th...

Reducere. Set along the Pacific Northwest Coast in the 1950s, Ravensong tells the story of an urban Native community devastated by an influenza epidemic. Sta...

Challenging the view that globalization signifies a 'clash' of cultures, this book here develops friction in its place as a metaphor for the confli...

Reducere. 'Why they are complaining?' 'Why do they treat me this way?' 'Why are they offending my team?'Intercultural misunderstandings are a pain. Fact-orie...

A prescient heart in mouth thriller. Called the Chinese 'Luther' Inspector Stanley Low is a walking contradiction. He's a Chinese-Singaporean with ...

A concise history of warfare between Ancient Middle Eastern cultures in the age of the Old Testament using archaeology and evidence from the Bible....

When traditional Chinese parents attempted to bring up a family in Britain in the old ancestral tradition, the two worlds of East and West collide ...

Reducere. Prador Moon is one of Neal Asher's most explosive excursions into the Polity universe - a vivid, visceral, brilliantly intense space opera that you...

Traces the roots of Nottingham's gangs, revealing how economic dislocation and the clash of cultures between working class white residents and blac...

Reducere. On 14 September 1862, four Brits encountered the procession of the nobleman Shimazu Hisamitsu at a village called Namamugi along Japan's ancient Tō...

Reducere. Crosscultural communication and interconnection have never been greater in the history of the world. Yet the potential for intercultural conflict a...

Reducere. Carmela D'Amore, explores her Sicilian heritage and finds her true cultural identity through the Italian cooking style of Cucina Povera.Readers are...

Reducere. E. M. Forster's exquisitely observed novel about the clash of cultures and the consequences of perception, set in colonial India Among the greatest...

Reducere. "Through Woods on Water" is a novel, an historic fiction: the life of Étienne Brûlé "as it might have been."Set in the first decades of the 17th ce...

Reducere. Learning to Bow has been heralded as one of the funniest, liveliest, and most insightful books ever written about the clash of cultures between Ame...

Reducere. As far back as she can remember, Azadeh Moaveni has felt at odds with her tangled identity as an Iranian-American. In suburban America, Azadeh live...

1873: An intrepid family of British settlers are determined to make a deserted Pacific island their own. But hope crumbles and what, to them, is a ...

Reducere. 105 A.D. King Decebal of Dacia stubbornly defends the freedom of his people and continues to defy the rule of the Roman Empire. Emperor Trajan marc...

Reducere. Now, for the first time, a philosopher undertakes a systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic issues to which cultural appropriation give...

DescriptionHow gender inequality is built into the conception of modern secular nation-statesJoan Wallach Scott's acclaimed writings have been foun...

Reducere. 85 A.D. The Roman Empire expanded its conquered territories north to the Danube River. One kingdom is still a serious threat - the third most power...

Reducere. Growing up in a poor New York neighbourhood, Cedric Errol appears to be a normal American boy. However, as he discovers when he meets his grandfath...

Reducere. "A bubbling caldron of ideas . . . Enlightening and valuable." Mervyn Jones, New Statesman. The political and social revolutions of the nineteenth ...

Reducere. DescriptionCenturies ago, Europeans desperate for gold and a route to the East found a lush, green paradise populated by native tribes in the New W...

Reducere. The death of a seemingly respectable missionary draws Denis Nayland Smith and his devoted companion, Dr. Petrie, back into the web of the diabolica...

Reducere. Forbidden love knows no bounds in this heart-rending story about the Cherokee and the Trail of Tears. When Andrea Sanders moves to the hills of Geo...

Misogyny across Global Media argues that, although women's experiences under misogyny are by no means universal, patriarchal social and institution...

Reducere. Chris Matlock, a wounded and weary ex-soldier, just wants peace in his life, and he believes he's found it when he visits Matthew and Jenny Bontrag...

The imperial expansion of Europe across the globe was one of the most significant events to shape the modern world. Among the many effects of this ...

Reducere. Prior to European contact, the Choctaw's matrilineal society supported women's contributions in all areas of community life. Evidence of Choctaw wo...

Reducere. The Ohio FrontierCrucible of the Old Northwest, 1720-1830R. Douglas HurtFinally, after nearly twenty-five years, a high-quality general history of ...

DescriptionThis title explains and illustrates the 19th-century transition of Japanese armies from traditional Samurai equipment and tactics to tho...

The thrilling, long-awaited return of the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Revenant In 1866, with the country barely recovered from the ...

DescriptionIn this lavishly illustrated work, Zeina Maasri tells the tumultuous story of the struggle for Lebanon through the poster wars which rag...

Reducere. Among the greatest novels of the twentieth century, and the basis for director David Lean's Academy Award-nominated film, A Passage to India turns ...

Reducere. The conquest and colonization of the Americas marked the beginning of a social, economic, and cultural change of global scale. Most of what we know...

Reducere. DescriptionA bestseller when it was published in 1970 at the height of the Mexican-American civil rights movement, Chicano unfolds the fates and fo...

The official novelization of the biggest battle in movie history Godzilla vs Kong, the latest film in the MonsterverseTM franchise, starring Alexan...

Reducere. Here are three tales of Tarzan at Point Station, a remote English outpost near the Waziri homelands. Set during the advent of World War II, we see ...

Reducere. Here are three tales of Tarzan at Point Station, a remote English outpost near the Waziri homelands. Set during the advent of World War II, we see ...

Reducere. In this classic work, Adler explores how man differs from all other things in the universe, bringing to bear both philosophical insight and informe...

"...Ray Carson Russell mixes the poignant with the preposterous and shines a sharp light on the absurdities of academia."--Douglas Light, author of...

Reducere. 'A vast canvas of memorable characters across a kaleidoscope of cultures... her epic story feels like an authentic reflection of a world full of sa...

Darkover's position on the galactic arm renders it strategically important, a crossroads in space. It's also a place where cultures meet and clash,...

Contributor(s): Author: Michael A. LernerIn 1919, the United States embarked on the country's boldest attempt at moral and social reform: Prohibiti...

Reducere. "A thoughtful, philosophically rich story that probes a still-open wound." --Kirkus Reviews"Maalouf is a thoughtful, humane and passionate interloc...

Reducere. How can North Americans come to terms with the lamentable clash between indigenous and settler cultures, faiths, and attitudes toward creation? Sho...

In this first novel set in award-winning author Marie Brennan's incomparable Driftwood fantasy universe, enter a post-apocalyptic realm where the a...

Reducere. Mexico of five centuries ago was witness to one of the most momentous encounters between human societies, when a group of Spaniards led by Hernando...

Reducere. The Greasy Grass Battle aka the Little Bighorn Battle on June 25, 1876 was an epic encounter and clash of cultures. The experience and display of w...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Laura Lee YatesWhen Meriwether Lewis purchases an enormous Newfoundland dog named Seaman, it's the start of an epic friends...

The Kingdom of Watetu and Songaland is an autobiographical story about Mpeki, the princess of the Watetu tribe who realised early that FGM in her t...

Reducere. The first major battle between the U.S. Army and the Cheyenne Indians took place on the south fork of the Solomon River in present-day northwest Ka...

Reducere. The result of more than 40 years of research, The Amazing Death of Calf Shirt and Other Blackfoot Stories is a unique oral history spanning three h...

Reducere. BAR KOKHBA is the search for the truth of the epic struggle between two strong-willed leaders over who would rule a nation.One was Hadrian, the cos...

Reducere. DescriptionHow could an ordinary fence shape a nation's history? Before the 1870s, much of the American West was an uninterrupted expanse of plains...

Reducere. DescriptionMurder, violence, and intimidation are the bitter grapes of the Becerra and de la Garza families, early day Spanish settlers who had bee...

Reducere. College can be a complex time for Latinas, who are traditionally expected to leave home when they get married. In her essay "Only Daughter, " autho...

Reducere. DescriptionTressa's Tarango's husband lost his soul somewhere on the cold high desert of the Navajo Reservation. She doesn't know who killed him an...

A major rediscovery--the first novel by a Mexican American WomanMar a Amparo Ruiz de Burton was the first Mexican American woman to write novels in...

Reducere. Gemma Jericho is an overworked New York doctor with a handful of a teenaged daughter and a mother who worries that Gemma has no life. So when her m...