Communication and Culture in Your Life
Author: Shawn T. Wahl
Publisher:
Published: 2014-07-09
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 9781465217523
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Culture Care
Author: Makoto Fujimura
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2017-01-14
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 0830891110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe all have a responsibility to care for culture. Artist Makoto Fujimura issues a call to cultural stewardship, in which we feed our culture's soul with beauty, creativity, and generosity. This is a book for artists and all "creative catalysts" who understand how much the culture we all share affects human thriving today and shapes the generations to come.
Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life
Author: Michael Carrithers
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2009-06-01
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1845459245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInspired by the Rhetoric Culture Project, this volume focuses on the use of imagery, narrative, and cultural schemes to deal with predicaments that arise during the course of life. The contributors explore how people muster their resources to understand and deal with emergencies such as illness, displacement, or genocide. In dealing with such circumstances, people can develop new rhetorical forms and, in the process, establish new cultural resources for succeeding generations. Several of the contributions show how rhetorical cultural forms can themselves create emergencies. The contributors bring expertise from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology and communications studies, underlining the volume’s wider relevance as a reflection on the human condition.
Culture and Everyday Life
Author: Andy Bennett
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2005-07-21
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1446225879
DOWNLOAD EBOOK′Bennett provides a well organized, very readable and interesting discussion of a number of significant everyday cultural forms and I am confident student readers will find the book very valuable′ - Barry Smart, University of Portsmouth Culture and Everyday Life provides students with a comprehensive overview of theoretical models, issues and examples of contemporary cultural practice. Bennett begins by summarising and situating - in everyday settings - the key theoretical models applied in the study of existing cultural practices. This entails a systematic study of how academic thinking about mass culture has changed, from critical accounts of early mass cultural theorists to radical postmodernist critiques of mass cultural accounts and to ′the cultural turn′, which explored how various social identities are culturally constructed. Following this are themed chapters that cover a particular aspect of late modern culture, such as media, music, fashion, tourism and counter-cultural ideologies and movements. In each case a comprehensive literature review is provided and its theoretical and empirical relevance to our understanding of the relationship between culture and everyday life in contemporary society is explained. Lucid, meticulous and illustrated with a host of examples, this is a superb text for teaching and research in the Sociology of Culture and Cultural Studies.
Healing the Culture
Author: Robert Spitzer
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: 2009-10-16
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 168149227X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFather Spitzer, President of Gonzaga University, has been using the principles in this book over the last eight years to educate people of all backgrounds in the philosophy of the pro-life movement. The tremendous positive response he has received inspired him to start the Life Principles Institute. This book is one of the key resources used for this program. This work effectively draws out the connections between personal attitudes toward happiness and the meaning of life, and the larger cultural issues such as freedom and human rights. Relying on the wisdom of the ages and respecting the human persons' unique capacity for rational analysis, this work offers definitions of the key cultural terms affecting life issues, including Happiness, Success, Love, Suffering, Quality of Life, Ethics, Freedom, Personhood, Human Rights and the Common Good.
Culture and Modern Life
Author: David Ricky Matsumoto
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMatsumoto's book is designed to help students appreciate how cultural factors moderate psychological processes and how the viewpoint of one's own culture can distort one's interpretation of the behavior of people from other cultures. At the same time, the book stresses thata behavioral phenomena are characterized by both cross-cultural similarities and differences. Students will thoroughly examine the cultural similarities and differences in psychology, communicaation, work, health, and more. Culture and Modern Life parallels Weiten and Lloyd's PSYCHOLOGY APPLIED TO MODERN LIFE and is available to students in a discount bundle.
A Whole Life's Work
Author: Lewis Richmond
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2005-02-22
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780743451314
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Work is not just a job. It is the sum of all our purposeful activities. Seen in this light, work is our whole life." -- from A Whole Life's Work What is work in the truest sense of the word? For Buddhist priest and acclaimed author Lewis Richmond, work is more than just having a job, or a means to a profitable end. It is the key to cultivating inner life and contributing to the developing consciousness of all humanity. In this companion to his national bestseller, Work as a Spiritual Practice, Richmond applies his Buddhist understanding to address what is perhaps one of the primary struggles of contemporary Western life: how to achieve a healthy balance between professional ambition and personal happiness. Here he adapts Buddhist categories of spiritual virtue in defining eight important modes of work the Earner, the Hobbyist, the Creator, the Monk, the Helper, the Parent, the Learner, and the Elder along with their corresponding eight modes of inner work: Precepts, Vitality, Patience, Calm, Equanimity, Giving, Humility, and Wisdom. How to internalize these modes of work, and lead a more meaningful and spiritual life, is what this groundbreaking guidebook is all about. Whether we are professionals, artists, hobbyists, parents, students, or spiritual leaders, A Whole Life¹s Work can teach us how to reconcile our outer livelihood with our inner lives...and reap the benefits of hard work well done.
Peernovation
Author: Leo Bottary
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Published: 2020-10-16
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 1480895679
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeer•no•va•tion (pir-n-v-shn) combines the words peer (people like me) and innovation (creativity realized). It’s teamwork of the highest order. Leo Bottary follows up on his two earlier books about leveraging the power of peers in business and in life. With its roots in CEO and executive peer groups, the team-building framework presented in these pages is designed for leaders who want to coach engaged, adaptable, and higher-performing teams. Peernovation embraces lessons from more than a decade of academic research, fieldwork, and personal experiences throughout North America and the United Kingdom. Whether you’re a team leader or team member, learn how to: select the right people for your team create psychological safety and inspire greater productivity build a positive culture of accountability become a better team leader foster a robust learning-achieving cycle If you believe “the power of we begins with me” and that meeting future challenges will require building the best teams possible, then Peernovation is for you.
The Ultimate Guide to Finding Your Life's Purpose
Author: Stan Barren
Publisher: InspirationDB
Published: 101-01-01
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Ultimate Guide to Finding Your Life's Purpose Have you ever paused amidst the hustle and bustle, wondering if there's more to life? Ever felt that inexplicable yearning – a call to explore something greater than the everyday? Dive into the transformative journey of discovering your life's true purpose with this ultimate guide. In a world overflowing with choices, pressures, and fleeting pleasures, many of us are left seeking genuine meaning. This guide delves deep into the age-old quest for purpose, bringing together philosophical insights, scientific research, and practical exercises to guide you on a personal journey of discovery. Inside, you'll explore: Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Understand how different societies and luminaries perceive the essence of life's purpose. The Tangible Benefits of Purpose: Delve into research on how purpose impacts mental health, motivation, and longevity. Personal Reflection Exercises: Engage in introspection through journaling, meditation, and in-depth questioning. Case Studies: Be inspired by individuals who've transformed their lives by embracing their true calling. Resources & Tools: Arm yourself with books, workshops, and other aids to keep you on track. Whether you're at a crossroads in life, feeling unfulfilled in your current path, or simply curious about the deeper meaning of life, this guide offers a holistic approach to understanding and finding your unique purpose. Join countless others who've embarked on the most rewarding journey of their lives. It's time to uncover, embrace, and live your true purpose.
Culture: A Drama of Nature and Person
Author: Piotr Jaroszyński
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-12-11
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9004691189
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis monograph represents a rare, classical-philosophical approach to culture. It is grounded in philosophical realism and emphasizes personalism as a true achievement of philosophical anthropology. Employing the apparatus of the history of philosophy, science and religion, the author demonstrates the immense scope of the drama unfolding within human culture. In a classical approach, evaluation is inevitable—with regard to various theories of culture, human culture as such, and all its main actors. Jaroszyński’s work shows that realistic study of what it means to be a human person leads to the most comprehensive understanding of culture as it is and should be.
