The Self-Discovery Book (Inner Self-Improvement, #1)
by Michael Cavallaro
Toxic Ivory Towers seeks to document the professional work experiences of underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in U.S. higher education, and simultaneously address the social and economic inequalities in their life course trajectory. Ruth Enid Zambrana finds that despite the changing demographics of the nation, the percentages of Black and Hispanic faculty have increased only slightly, while the percentages obtaining tenure and earning promotion to full professor have remained relatively stag...
Empowering Men of Color on Campus (The American Campus)
by Derrick R. Brooms, Jelisa Clark, and Matthew Smith
While recruitment efforts toward men of color have increased at many colleges and universities, their retention and graduation rates still lag behind those of their white peers. Men of color, particularly black and Latino men, face a number of unique challenges in their educational careers that often impact their presence on campus and inhibit their collegiate success. Empowering Men of Color on Campus examines how men of color negotiate college through their engagement in Brothers for United Su...
Life cycle and the events that characterize it - childhood, adolescence, work, couple formation, child birth, retirement, old age, departure from life - as seen through the eyes of the anthropologist that examines the cultural models and their mode of transmission between generations, and of psychologist, which focuses on the dynamics more or less conscious that work within families and the individual. A book written using clear and concise language, aimed not so much to communicate certainties...
Master Your Day Design Your Life (Improve Productivity, #2)
by Som Bathla
Anxiety in and about Africa (Cambridge Centre of African Studies)
How does anxiety impact narratives about African history, culture, and society? This volume demonstrates the richness of anxiety as an analytical lens within African studies. Contributors call attention to ways of thinking about African spaces--physical, visceral, somatic, and imagined--as well as about time and temporality. Through a multidisciplinary approach, the volume also brings histories of anxiety in colonial settings into conversation with work on the so-called negative emotions in dis...
Concept and Method in Cross-Cultural and Cultural Psychology (Elements in Psychology and Culture)
by Ype H. Poortinga
An overview is given of cross-cultural psychology and cultural psychology, focusing on theory and methodology. In Section 1 historical developments in research are traced; it is found that initially extensive psychological differences tend to shrink when more carefully designed studies are conducted. Section 2 addresses the conceptualization of “culture” and of “a culture”. For psychological research the notion “culture” is considered too vague; more focal explanatory concepts are required. Sect...
Subtle Psychology To Read People And Make Them Do What You Want
by Valentin Killmon