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Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Description
This new collection of short fiction is only the second in the author's rich career and one that displays her strengths in the genre in many facets. Opening with two novella-length works, "Butter" and "Sophia," this collection features Jones's legendary talents in a range of settings and styles, from the hyperrealist to the mystical, in intricate multipart stories, in more traditional forms, and even in short fragments. Her narrators are women and...
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Language
English
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"Many DEI interventions lack rigor and measurable value beyond staff composition, statistics, and surveys. Data-Driven DEI presents readers with science-based, technology-enabled assessments and tools that will help individuals and organizations achieve measurable lasting impact. With the tools in this book, readers can achieve greater diversity, equity and inclusion by: assessing their current state of DEI with the author's proprietary the Intrinsic...
4) Use your difference to make a difference: how to connect and communicate in a cross-cultural world
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Become more culturally competent in an increasingly diverse world Recent years have seen dramatic changes to several institutions worldwide. Our increasingly interconnected, digitized, and globalized world presents immense opportunities and unique challenges. Modern businesses and schools interact with individuals and organizations from a diverse range of cultural and national backgrounds-increasing the likelihood for miscommunication, errors in strategy,...
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Language
English
Description
Nikki has spent most of her life distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community. After her father's death she takes a job teaching a creative writing course in the heart of the Punjabi community. When one of the women students brings a book of erotica to class, Nicki uses it as the basis for helping these modest women unleash creativity by telling their own stories.
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English
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1885. Ottilie Russell is British and Indian, belonging to both and neither culture. To support her little brother, Thaddeus, and her grandmother, she relies upon her skills in beetle-wing embroidery that have been passed down to her through generations of Indian women. When a stranger appears with the news that Thaddeus is now Baron Sunderson and must travel to England to take his place as a nobleman, Ottilie refuses to give up her brother. Tragedy...
Author
Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
[First edition].
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 audio file (6 hr., 14 min.))
Language
English
Description
"If you are a CEO, global leader, or part of a global organization, you can revolutionize every part of your business by raising your cultural intelligence. Cultural Intelligence in the 21st Century explores nine crucial cultural competencies that will transform every part of your business, including: how you drive inclusion, revenue, and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG); how you lead global teams for better results; how you increase sales...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
This joyful Sesame Street song embraces the notion that no matter where children live, what they look like, or what they do, they're all the same where it counts--at heart.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Across the globe, organizations have begun to appreciate that diverse groups provide superior outcomes; however we do not know how to sustain diversity in the workplace. This book offers relatable vignettes and evidence-based skill building to close this gap"--
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
What do African dance, samosas, and Japanese gardens have in common? They are all gifts the United States received from immigrants: the vibrant, multifaceted people who share their heritage and traditions to enrich the fabric of our daily lives. From Jewish delis to bagpipes, bodegas and Zen Buddhism, this joyful ABC journey is a celebration of immigrants: our neighbors, our friends.
12) My America
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English
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"In this beautiful celebration of immigration, children from around the world tell their stories, sharing their love of where they're from and where they live now--homes old and new. As they describe the foods they eat, the languages they've learned, the sports they play, and more, the differences and similarities that link us all are revealed"--
Author
Publisher
Pearson
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"In the increasingly divided, volatile and often perplexing world we are living in today, organisations are realising that, in order to protect the well-being and maximise the potential of their number one asset, their people, traditional approaches to diversity and inclusion (D&I) need a rethink. This book shows how shifting the focus to building a culture of belonging is the solution that will transform organisations, improve the lives of employees...
14) I am the world
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate the diversity of cultures, languages, countries, and people of the world.
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xlvii, 483 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Provides primary source documents focused on immigration and multiculturalism in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Contains speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art - as well as overview information that places each document in context. International in scope.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Hoodie Rosen's life isn't that bad. Sure, his entire Orthodox Jewish community has just picked up and moved to the quiet, mostly non-Jewish town of Tregaron, but Hoodie's world hasn't changed that much. He's got basketball to play, studies to avoid, and a supermarket full of delicious kosher snacks to eat. The people of Tregaron aren't happy that so many Orthodox Jews are moving in at once, but that's not Hoodie's problem. That is, until he meets...
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