ISBNs for national characteristics

ISBN.nu

search for books and compare prices

national characteristics matches 31 work(s)

at beginning | displaying 1 to 25 | next 6 >

show results in order: alphabetically | oldest to newest | newest to oldest

Move Up: Why Some Cultures Advance While Others Don't

Product Description: With an abundance of data and evidence, Move Up explores the societal and biological factors that determine whether cultures are able to ascend socially, economically and intellectually. This provocative, ambitious and entertaining book devises a formula that will allow countries and individuals to assess their own potential for upward mobility...read more

By Andrâs Roemer

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780241186992 | Penguin Uk, July 15, 2015, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: An irreverent and controversial examination of why some nations succeed that will overturn all received wisdom With an abundance of data and evidence, Move UP explores the societal and biological factors that determine whether cultures are able to ascend socially, economically, and intellectually.

Paperback:

9780141980409 | Penguin Uk, October 1, 2016, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: With an abundance of data and evidence, Move Up explores the societal and biological factors that determine whether cultures are able to ascend socially, economically and intellectually.

Cool Nations: Media and the Social Imaginary of the Branded Country

Product Description: Nation branding is the most recent feature of imagined nation-making in the history of nations. Facing global competition, national decision-makers aim to distinguish their countries from others by means of branding. Quite a few nations have considered the term âcoolâ suitable for describing some essence of their countryâs brand...read more

By Katja Valaskivi

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9781138014657 | Routledge, April 1, 2016, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Nation branding is the most recent feature of imagined nation-making in the history of nations.

Commercial Nationalism: Selling the Nation and Nationalizing the Sell

By Mark Andrejevic (editor)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9781137500984 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 19, 2015, cover price $95.00

Food, National Identity and Nationalism: From Everyday to Global Politics

By Ronald Ranta

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9781137483126 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 29, 2015, cover price $100.00

Dynamics of National Identity: Media and Societal Factors of What We Are

By Leonie Huddy (editor)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9781138816428 | Routledge, February 19, 2016, cover price $145.00

Scotland, England and France After the Loss of Normandy, 1204-1296: Auld Amitie

By M. A. Pollock

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9781843839927 | Boydell Pr, March 19, 2015, cover price $99.00

Understanding National Identity

By Frank Bechhofer

See complete details on each edition (3 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9781107100381 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 31, 2015, cover price $90.00

9780405131943, titled "Military Signal Communications" | Ayer Co Pub, February 1, 1980, cover price $40.95 | also contains Military Signal Communications

Paperback:

9781107496194 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 31, 2015, cover price $34.99

Understanding Global Cultures: Metaphorical Journeys Through 34 Nations, Clusters of Nations, Continents, & Diversity

By Martin J. Gannon and Rajnandini Pillai

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9781483340074 | 6 pap/psc edition (Sage Pubns, March 19, 2015), cover price $100.00

National Character: A Psycho-Social Perspective

Product Description: Seen in modern perspective, the concept of national character poses fundamental problems for social science theory and research: To what extent do conditions of life in a particular society give rise to certain patterns in the personalities of its members? What are the consequences? Alex Inkeles surveys various definitions of national character, tracing developments through the twentieth century...read more

By Alex Inkeles

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9781412854962 | Reprint edition (Transaction Pub, December 3, 2014), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Seen in modern perspective, the concept of national character poses fundamental problems for social science theory and research: To what extent do conditions of life in a particular society give rise to certain patterns in the personalities of its members?

Anti-Modernism: Radical Revisions of Collective Identity

By Diana Mishkova (editor), Balazs Trencsenyi (editor) and Marius Turda (editor)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9789637326622 | Central European Univ Pr, December 30, 2014, cover price $60.00

The Past As History: National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Modern Europe

The book provides a synthesis of the development of the genre of national history writing in Europe, in particular it seeks to illuminate the relationship between history writing and the construction of national identities in modern Europe.

By Christoph Conrad (contributor)

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780230500099 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 10, 2014, cover price $135.00

Paperback:

9781137414090 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 10, 2014, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: The book provides a synthesis of the development of the genre of national history writing in Europe, in particular it seeks to illuminate the relationship between history writing and the construction of national identities in modern Europe.

Emotions, Language and Identity on the Margins of Europe

Product Description: When a word describing an emotion is said to be untranslatable, is that emotion untranslatable also? This unique study focuses on three word-concepts on the periphery of Europe, providing a wide-ranging survey of national identity and cultural essentialism, nostalgia, melancholy and fatalism, the production of memory and the politics of hope...read more

By Kyra Giorgi

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9781137403476 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 5, 2014, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: When a word describing an emotion is said to be untranslatable, is that emotion untranslatable also?

Border Crossing in Greater China: Production, Community and Identity

By Jenn-hwan Wang (editor)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780415744850 | Routledge, July 8, 2014, cover price $145.00

Historical Tales and National Identity: An Introduction to Narrative Social Psychology

Product Description: Social psychologists argue that peopleâs past weighs on their present. Consistent with this view, Historical Tales and National Identity outlines a theory and a methodology which provide tools for better understanding the relation between the present psychological condition of a society and representations of its past...read more

By Janos Laszlo

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780415704694 | Routledge, December 5, 2013, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Social psychologists argue that peopleâs past weighs on their present.

Paperback:

9780415704700 | Routledge, November 14, 2013, cover price $52.95

Identities and Modernizations

By Tadeusz Buksinski (editor)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9783631644973 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, October 8, 2013, cover price $70.95

Fish Can't See Water: How National Culture Can Make or Break Your Corporate Strategy

By Kai Hammerich and Richard D. Lewis

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9781118608562 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, September 30, 2013, cover price $40.00

Post-identity?: Culture and European Integration

Product Description: Collective identity, the emotionally powerful sense of belonging to a group, is a crucial source of popular legitimacy for nations. However efforts since the 1990s to politically support European integration by using identity mechanisms borrowed from nationalism have had very limited success...read more

By Richard McMahon (editor)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780415643764 | Routledge, June 5, 2013, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Collective identity, the emotionally powerful sense of belonging to a group, is a crucial source of popular legitimacy for nations.

Locating Urban Conflicts: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Everyday

Product Description: Cities have emerged as the epicentres for many of today's ethno-national and religious conflicts. In twelve multidisciplinary essays, Locating Urban Conflicts: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Everyday brings together key themes that dominate our current political, social and cultural attention: emerging areas of contestation in rapidly changing and modernising cities, the resulting forms of habitation and spatial practice, and the effects of extreme and/or enduring conflicts upon ordinary civilian life...read more

By Britt Baillie (editor)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780230368903 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 29, 2013, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Cities have emerged as the epicentres for many of today's ethno-national and religious conflicts.

Understanding the Self and Others: Explorations in Intersubjectivity and Interobjectivity

Product Description: How do we, as human beings, come to understand ourselves and others around us? This question could not be more timely or pertinent to the issues facing humankind today. At the heart of many of our worldâs most troubling political and social problems lies a divergence, and sometimes a sharp contradiction, in perspectives between nations and cultural groups...read more

By Paul Daanen (editor), Fathali M. Moghaddam (editor) and Gordon Sammut (editor)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780415688864 | Routledge, March 21, 2013, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: How do we, as human beings, come to understand ourselves and others around us?

National Myths: Constructed Pasts, Contested Presents

By Gerard Bouchard (editor)

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780415521321 | Routledge, May 28, 2013, cover price $160.00

Paperback:

9780415631129 | Routledge, May 23, 2013, cover price $47.95

History Education and the Construction of National Identities

Product Description: How is history represented? As just a record of the past, as a part of a present identity or as future goals? This book explores how historical contents and narratives are presented in school textbooks and other cultural productions (museums, monuments, etc) and also how they are understood by students, in the context of increasing globalization...read more

By Maria Rodriguez-moneo (editor)

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9781617359361 | Information Age Pub Inc, November 1, 2012, cover price $85.95 | About this edition: How is history represented?

Paperback:

9781617359354 | Information Age Pub Inc, November 1, 2012, cover price $45.99 | About this edition: How is history represented?

Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region: Exceptionalism, Migrant Others and National Identities

By Lars Jensen (editor)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9781409444817 | Ashgate Pub Co, October 31, 2012, cover price $149.95

Understanding Global Cultures: Metaphorical Journeys Through 31 Nations, Clusters of Nations, Continents, and Diversity

By Martin J. Gannon and Rajnandini Pillai

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9781412995931 | 5th edition (Sage Pubns, March 22, 2012), cover price $93.00

Developing Global Leaders: A Guide to Managing Effectively in Unfamiliar Places

Product Description: This book provides inside information about working outside traditional business environments. It presents nine rules that will serve leaders well no matter where they're stationed in the world. As readers will discover, the rules have emerged from the work of the authors with leading companies in foreign countries...read more

By Bob Johnson and Rob Oberwise

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780230337510 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 15, 2012, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: This book provides inside information about working outside traditional business environments.

Paperback:

9780205271047, titled "Cornerstone: Building on Your Best" | Package edition (Prentice Hall, June 1, 1999), cover price $30.80 | also contains Cornerstone: Building on Your Best

India - Cross-cultural Business Behavior: For Business People, Expatriates and Scholars

Product Description: Divided in two sections, India - Cross-Cultural Business Behavior is based on the authors' 40 years of close involvement with India, including two expatriate assignments and decades of research and teaching. Part I of the book provides answers to 10 questions most often posed by Westerners doing business in India, including: Why do our suppliers in India constantly miss delivery deadlines? When does 'yes' really mean yes in India? Why do project teams and employees need to be micro-managed? Part II is a practical guide for families moving to India...read more

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9788763002226, titled "India-Cross-Cultural Business Behavior: For Business People, Expatriates and Scholars" | 1 edition (Copenhagen Business School Pr, February 23, 2010), cover price $47.00 | About this edition: Divided in two sections, India - Cross-Cultural Business Behavior is based on the authors' 40 years of close involvement with India, including two expatriate assignments and decades of research and teaching.

at beginning | displaying 1 to 25 | next 6 >