Global Englishes

Few are prepared for managing across cultures, and the costs of cultural blind spots can spin out of control - from lawsuits to lost opportunities. Forged in the fire of clashing cultures and living on four continents, Dr. Zweifel developed a fool-proof methodology for managing successfully across borders.

While today’s business world is dominated by technology and data analysis, award-winning financial journalist and anthropology PhD Gillian Tett advocates thinking like an anthropologist to better understand consumer behavior, markets, and organizations to address some of society’s most urgent challenges.

How do you find talent with a creative spark? To what extent can you predict human creativity, or is human creativity something irreducible before our eyes, perhaps to be spotted or glimpsed by intuition, but unique each time it appears? Obsessed with these questions, renowned economist Tyler Cowen and venture capitalist and entrepreneur Daniel Gross set out to study the art and science of finding talent at the highest level: the people with the creativity, drive, and insight to transform an organization and make everyone around them better.

Is the financial collapse just one of several signs that we are living in the final days of Earth's history? In The Coming Economic Armageddon, David Jeremiah says we can know the meaning behind what we see in the daily news - and understand and prepare for living in the New Global Economy.

We live in an interconnected world, where security problems like terrorism are spilling across borders, and globalized data networks and e-commerce platforms are reshaping the world economy. This means that states' jurisdictions and rule systems clash. How have they negotiated their differences over freedom and security? Of Privacy and Power investigates how the European Union and United States, the two major regulatory systems in world politics, have regulated privacy and security, and how their agreements and disputes have reshaped the transatlantic relationship.

Discover the principles that are transforming teams and leaders worldwide. Running a business or department in today's high-pressure business landscape gets more difficult every year. Given the level of competition, as well as market ups and downs, it seems that you either sacrifice your personal life for your job or you lose everything. Steve Shallenberger has an important message for you: it doesn't have to be this way. You can succeed in business and live a happy life at the same time.

Join the adventure as 33-year-old Rene Cormier politely removes himself from the working world that surrounds him and cashes in what few possessions he has to finance a three-year-long motorcycle journey around the world. Never one to let excessive planning get in the way of a good ride, Rene runs out of money half way through the tour and ultimately takes five years to cover the 41-country, 154,000 kilometer (95,000 mile) route.

What explains the massive worldwide success of video games such as Fortnite, Minecraft, and Pokemon Go? Game companies and their popularity are poorly understood and often ignored from the standpoint of traditional business strategy. What lessons can we draw from its major successes and failures about the future of entertainment?

CONTENTS: I. GENERAL ASPECTS 1. GOODS TRANSPORTATION HISTORY 2. INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE HISTORY 3. LOGISTICS DEFINITIONS II. INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE LEGAL AND REGULATORY FRAMEWORK 1. INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK 2. MEXICAN FRAMEWORK 3. CUSTOMS REGIMES 4. REQUIRED DOCUMENTS FOR CUSTOMS CLEARANCE 5. TARIFFS AND TARIFF CODES III. CARGO 1. TYPES OF CARGO 2. PACKING AND PACKAGE 3. MEASURE OF QUANTITY IV. TRANSPORTATION MODES A. Selection Criteria for Transportation Mode 2. ROAD TRANSPORTATION 3. RAIL TRANSPORTATION 4. WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION 5. AIR TRANSPORTATION 6. MULTIMODAL OR INTERMODAL ...

What does it mean to return to the purest expression of faith? Salafism for Beginners invites you on an eye-opening exploration into one of Islam’s most compelling and controversial movements. From its historical origins to its profound influence on millions of believers worldwide, this book offers a clear and captivating guide to Salafism—its principles, its practices, and its enduring relevance. Discover the Roots of Islamic Purism Unpack the origins of Salafism and its call to return to the Quran and Sunnah as practiced by the earliest Muslim generations. This is not just a ...

"An unbeatable military thriller that's explosive and one you don't want to end." –BestThrillers.com After CIA contract pilot, Duncan Hunter eliminated virtually every man from the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist List, it’s time for celebration and some down time. Hunter’s counterterrorism successes in Africa and the Middle East have propelled the CIA Director and America's most decorated military man, Bill McGee, to national prominence. At the annual Pumpkin Papers Irregulars Dinner, McGee announced he will seek the Office of the President. The chief financier of terrorism and the ...

After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as being 'to hell and back', the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. Enormous economic improvements transformed the continent. The catastrophic era of the world wars receded into an ever more distant past, though its long shadow continued to shape mentalities. Yet Europe was now a divided continent, living under the nuclear threat in a period intermittently fraught with anxiety.

The phenomenon of “conspiracy” or “fringe” theories has always been with people, which makes sense since captivating and entertaining hypotheses arouse the public interest with seemingly sound conclusions that are often based on incomplete, unrelated, or erroneous suppositions. However, with the correct tweaking, they often appear to propound airtight arguments. Conspiracy theories make good use of real or imagined individuals or organizations operating behind a curtain of secrecy manipulating the action.

Enter the deadlands. The SEALs of Shark Platoon accompanied by cadets from Macon-Hill push towards Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek. Their mission: recover watercraft from that installation. The secondary objective is to make contact with other survivors and gauge the state of the east coast. Encountering a survivor group requesting their assistance, the joint unit agrees to help retake and secure the Radford Arsenal. However, the installation is already occupied and those occupants aren’t eager to leave. After a costly battle, the SEALs discover they’ve been misled. In northern ...

Hitler offers a deeply learned and radically revisionist biography, arguing that the dictator's main strategic enemy, from the start of his political career in the 1920s, was not communism or the Soviet Union, but capitalism and the United States. Whereas most historians have argued that Hitler underestimated the American threat, Simms shows that Hitler embarked on a preemptive war with the United States precisely because he considered it such a potent adversary.

A freighter carrying top-secret computers of unparalleled capability disappears in the Western Pacific. While searching for a lost treasure that once belonged to the famous Chinese pirate queen, Ching Shih, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are redirected to look for the missing vessel. Discovering that the sinking of the ship is just part of an intricate web of deception, they find themselves in the middle of a cyber-war between rival groups of hackers, both of whom want to control the flow of data around the world.

Humans are venturing up and out, and we’re taking our competitive spirit with us. Soon, what happens in space will shape human history as much the mountains, rivers, and seas have impacted civilizations around the world. It’s no coincidence that Russia, China, and the USA are leading the way. The next fifty years will change the face of global politics and the world order as we know it. In this must-listen work, bestselling author Tim Marshall navigates the new astropolitical reality to show how we got here and where we’re heading.

From trade to technology to military might, competition between the United States and China dominates the foreign policy landscape. But this battle for global influence is also playing out in a strange and unexpected arena: the movies. The film industry, Wall Street Journal reporter Erich Schwartzel explains, is the latest battleground in the tense and complex rivalry between these two world powers. In recent decades, as China has grown into a giant of the international economy, it has become a crucial source of revenue for the American film industry.

Can faith, family and new bonds withstand the weight of a heartbreaking lie? For Sarah Lambright, returning home to Lancaster from her teaching apprenticeship in Ephrata is as sweet and warm as her mamm's special Friendship Bread, but when a false friend threatens Sarah's fledgling love for Jebediah Stoltzfus, will faith, family and new bonds withstand the weight of a heartbreaking lie? Find out in Amish Friendship Bread, book one of Amish Grace by Amazon bestseller Ruth Price.

Ann Armbrecht describes her journeys to herb collection sites, farms, and factories in North America, Europe, and India to tell the stories of the people and places behind the bottles of herbal products on grocery store shelves. The Business of Botanicals is the first resource of its kind for listeners who wish to take the extra step in curating ethically sourced products.