Today, hardly anything moves as fast across the globe as images and media. This fact opens new avenues to explore social and cultural change, but also poses new theoretical challenges of how to grasp and better understand these changes and flows. Moreover, such movements across …
For the 21st century, the often-quoted citation 'past is prologue' reads the other way around: The global present lacks a historical narrative for the global past. Focussing on a transcultural history, this book questions the territoriality of historical concepts and offers a na…
For the 21st century, the often-quoted citation 'past is prologue reads the other way around: The global present lacks a historical narrative for the global past. Focusing on a transcultural history, this book questions the territoriality of historical concepts and offers a narr…
For the 21st century, the often-quoted citation 'past is prologue' reads the other way around: The global present lacks a historical narrative for the global past. Focussing on a transcultural history, this book questions the territoriality of historical concepts and offers a na…
In addition to significant revisions and updates reflecting changes in the field, this Sixth Edition features new chapters on: Multicultural counseling competence for minority mental health professionals. Multicultural evidence-based practice. Culturally competent assessment. Po…
Gestalt therapy around the world
"Cross-cultural research is now an undeniable part of mainstream psychology and has had a major impact on conceptual models of human behavior. Although it is true that the basic principles of social psychological methodology and data analysis are applicable to cross-cultural res…
Contains twelve essays in which religious scholars examine the issues of contraception and abortion as seen from various faith traditions, and present alternative interpretations of restrictive views on family planning.
"Science today is a truly global enterprise. This book is a comprehensive, thematic survey of the history of science from its roots in different cultures around the world through to the present day. James Trefil traces how modern science spread from its roots in Western Europe t…
This book takes a new approach to teaching students to think and learn about issues of race and diversity. Aiming to break down traditional categorisations of racial groupings such as African Americans, it focuses on teaching students to think and learn in a multidimensional, ra…
This groundbreaking work takes a multilayered and multidimensional approach that will help practitioners "walk the talk" of multicultural competency. It introduces a new model that will give practitioners a clearer understanding of the client's worldview for culturally appropria…
