For years, Danny Silk has been teaching, writing, speaking, and coaching on honor and how to express it in our families, churches, organizations, and communities. And for years, he has received the same feedback and questions around this powerful, challenging, and frequently misunderstood and misapplied concept, such as:· “You say that people of honor must be powerful, but to a lot of people, ‘powerful’ means dominating and selfish. What does it mean to be powerful?”· “If respecting our freedom and the freedom of others is crucial to practicing honor, what do we do when people cannot handle their freedom?”· “We tried to honorably confront someone, and the person refused to ‘clean up his mess.’ What do we do now?”· “I really don’t like confrontation. Doesn’t honor mean we should get along without conflict?”· “If we’re all trying to honor one another equally, does that mean there shouldn’t be any leaders?”· “Why does ‘honor’ always seem to turn into ‘entitlement’?”The Foundations of Hono
Adham Hamed explores how a metaphoric understanding of the Middle East as an open space full of resonating sound bodies can be applied to the Middle East Conflict. Through inquiring into the experienc
In the context of ongoing or historical violence, people tell stories about what happened, who did what to whom and why. Yet frequently, the speaking of violence reproduces the social fractures and de
Kashmir has been, for some years, a key issue on the Indian political map. More than a decade of conflict has deeply affected people‘s livelihoods and living environments, their health, their eating h
Kashmir has been, for some years, a key issue on the Indian political map. More than a decade of conflict has deeply affected people‘s livelihoods and living environments, their health, their eating h
It seems that conflict, negativity, and criticism are just a way of life, and we just need to learn to accept them as a way of life. We do our best to deal with them, either by speaking our minds or b
Wars dehumanize. This book humanizes. To those who have been silenced by the trauma of conflict, gagged by fear and conformity, and muted by the world’s indifference, this book gives a voice. And it i
Recent years have witnessed a significant growth of interest in the consequences of political violence and displacement for the young. However, when speaking of "children" commentators have often tak
Speaking from their respective disciplines in the humanities, theology, and education, thirteen Holocaust scholars— both Jewish and Christian— candidly address the challenges, risks, and p
First published in 1954, and now re-issued with a fresh preface, Cavour and Garibaldi remains the single most important contribution yet made by an English-speaking historian to the study of the Risor
Located in the war-torn eastern province of Sri Lanka, this book provides a rich ethnography of how Tamil-speaking communities in Batticaloa live through and make sense of a violence that shapes every
Based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explores life in and around a Luo-speaking village in western Kenya during a time of death. The epidemic of HIV/AIDS affects every aspect of
Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Honduras are four Spanish speaking countries in Central America that possess uniformed military institutions. These four countries represent different approaches
The literary culture of the Spanish-speaking Southwest has its origins in a harsh frontier environment marked by episodes of intense cultural conflict, and much of the literature seeks to capture the
本書為商務英語專業系列教材中的跨文化交際教程，旨在面向商務英語專業學生高年級掌握一定的跨文化交際知識，提高綜合素質。全書共12個單元，包括Introduction to Intercultural Communication，Culture and Intercultural Communication，Culture and language，Verbal Communication: The Way People Speak，Nonverbal Communication: Speaking Without Words，Intercultural Conflict and Adjustment，Relationships: Friends and Acquaintances，Work: Practices and Attitude，Intercultural Communication in Business Context，Intercultural Negotiation，Intercultural Communication in Education Context，Intercultural Communication Competencies。
The focus here is on the Chinese speaking Muslims known as the Hui or Huihui, their religion and communities being found mainly in northwest and southeast China. The contents include the conflict betw
"Standardized tests demand Standard English, but secondary students (grades 6-12) come to school speaking a variety of dialects and languages, thus creating a conflict between students' language of nu
