Smart: 482 books
Morocco - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Morocco is a land of spectacular scenery, with a rich history, and heady with tantalizing scents and colorful sights. The call of the muezzin seems to draw people from every corner of the globe. In 1956 Morocco gained independence from French colonial rule and was jolted into the 20th century. Today...
Britain - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
"Cool Britannia" is alive and well today. British culture is at the top of its game—in fashion, popular music, art and entertainment, science and technology, new inventions, and in the rediscovered skills and excellence in engineering that make it Germany's leading trading partner in Europe....
Norway - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Culture Smart! Norway steers you through the social and professional encounters of your visit to this new culture. By deepening your understanding it will enable you to establish real friendships and business partnerships. Tips on meeting and communicating make socializing a pleasant experience, and...
Myanmar - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Myanmar, as Burma is now known, is strategically situated between the world's two most populous nations—China and India—and its distinctive ancient culture shares some traditions with both countries. Hidden away from the eyes of the world for half a century by its military rulers' policy of self-isolation,...
Posthumanism
Anthropological Insights
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Designed to explain posthumanism to those outside of academia, this brief and accessible book makes an original argument about anthropology's legacy as a study of "more than human." Smart and Smart return to the holism of classic ethnographies where cattle, pigs, yams, and sorcerers were...
by Ninian Smart
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
World Philosophies presents in one volume a superb introduction to all the world’s major philosophical and religious traditions. Covering all corners of the globe, Ninian Smart’s work offers a comprehensive and global philosophical and religious picture.
In this revised and expanded second...
Laos - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Culture Smart! Laos offers in-depth information to visitors seeking a genuine experience, including essential insights and advice on local customs and lifestyle. The information, collected through research and the experience of living and working in this beautiful country, is also of great use to...
Rwanda - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Culture Smart! Rwanda gives you the tools for a successful visit to this beautiful land. It guides you through daily interactions, cultural dos and don'ts, traditions and cultural practices, etiquette, and the ways in which business is conducted. It provides a brief overview of Rwandan history, and...
Nicaragua - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
More and more travelers are discovering the delights of Nicaragua—a land of lakes and volcanoes. The image has persisted of a country racked by revolution and war, but the reality awaiting travelers couldn't be more different. The largest country in Central America, Nicaragua is also one of the...
Beyond Zero and One
Machines, Psychedelics, and Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Can we build a robot that trips on acid? This is not a frivolous question, according to neuroscientist Andrew Smart. If we can’t, he argues, we haven’t really created artificial intelligence.In an exposition reminiscent of crossover works such as Gödel, Escher, Bach and Fermat’s Last...
The Yogi and the Devotee (Routledge Revivals)
The Interplay Between the Upanishads and Catholic Theology
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
First published in 1968, Ninian Smart’s The Yogi and the Devotee: The Interplay Between the Upanishads and Catholic Theology is based on lectures given in Delhi and explores in a novel way the relation between Hinduism and Christianity. The author puts forward a general theory of the relationship...
by Elizabeth Smart
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Mato-te a ti e à tua família! Foi a frase que Elizabeth Smart ouviu ao acordar no seu quarto, com a lâmina de uma faca encostada ao pescoço, na madrugada do dia 5 de junho de 2002. A irmã dormia calmamente a seu lado. Elizabeth tinha catorze anos. A sua vida mudou para sempre naquele momento....
L’Etat Islamique en Irak et au Levant
La naissance d’un monstre
Language: French
Release Date: September 28, 2014
L’Etat Islamique en Irak et au Levant a fait tristement parler de lui ces derniers mois. L’objectif de ce petit livre est de comprendre simplement la naissance de ce monstre: son origine, ses combattants, son financement, ses objectifs de conquête et ses méthodes de terreur.
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Topgrading for Sales
World-Class Methods to Interview, Hire, and Coach Top SalesRepresentatives
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2008
A concise extension of the business classic Topgrading, targeted to sales managers
Brad Smart?s Topgrading has sold more than 150,000 copies since 1999, making it the definitive book for executives who want to hire, coach, and retain top talent. Now Smart has teamed up with Greg Alexander,...