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Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story

Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story

by Christina Thompson

An extraordinary love story between a Maori man and an American woman, that inspires a graceful, revelatory search for understanding about the centuries-old collision of two wildly different cultures. Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All is the story of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand, told partly as a history of the complex and bloody period of contact between... (more)

Katka

by Stephen Ross Meier

Katka by Stephen Meier is a gritty, edgy novel of greed, love, and swindles gone very wrong. When Gavin and his girlfriend team with her best friend Simona to pull a phony mail order bride scam in the Czech Republic, Gavin gets in way over his head in the high-stakes and dangerous business of selling wives. When Gavin talks Katka, his girlfriend, into becoming part of the merchandise, planning to bait-n-switch... (more)

True Mates

by Zena Wynn

TRUE MATES: Kiesha Morgan is a plus-sized, bi-racial business woman who lives life on her own terms. Her life is all about control... her control. She owns her own business, her own condo, and conducts her relationships the same way she runs her business--by her rules. Any man that doesn't like it is welcome to leave. Alex Wolfe is the town of Refuge's only veterinarian. He's also a shape-shifter, and... (more)

Three Cups of Tea

One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations... One School at a Time

by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin

The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyard Anyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and... (more)

Culture and Social Behavior

by Harry Charalambos Triandis

Harry Triandis is the godfather of cross cultural psychology and this is the synthesis of the state-of-the-field in the 1990's that brings together decades of research and expertise from one of the giants. This brief overview focuses on social behavior and culture's influence on how people interact. Employing the latest social psychological research, this text will serve as the core on the subject. A great... (more)

Talking to High Monks in the Snow: An Asian American Odyssey

Talking to High Monks in the Snow: An Asian American Odyssey

by Lydia Y. Minatoya

Winner of the 1991 PEN/Jerard Fund Award, Talking to High Monks in the Snow captures the passion and intensity of an Asian-American woman's search for cultural identity.

Cross-Cultural Medicine

by Judyann Bigby

As the United States population becomes increasingly diverse, the need for guidelines to assure competent healthcare among minorities becomes ever more urgent. Cross-Cultural Medicine provides important background information on various racial, ethnic, and cultural groups, their general health problems and risks, and spiritual and religious issues. Individual chapters are devoted to the special concerns of... (more)

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