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Winner of the Blogger's Book Prize, 2021 Shortlisted for the
People's Book Prize, 2021 Winner of Best Literary Fiction and Best
Multicultural Fiction at American Book Fest International Book
Awards, 2021 'An epic account of Viet Nam's painful 20th-century
history, both vast in scope and intimate in its telling... Moving
and riveting.' Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
The Sympathizer Selected as a Best Book of 2020 by NB Magazine *
BookBrowse * Buzz Magazine * NPR * Washington Independent Review of
Books * Real Simple * She Reads * A Hindu's View * Thoughts from a
Page One family, two generations of women and a war that will
change their lives forever Ha Noi, 1972. Huong and her grandmother,
Tran Dieu Lan, cling to one another in their improvised shelter as
American bombs fall around them. For Tran Dieu Lan, forced to flee
the family farm with her six children decades earlier as the
Communist government rose to power in the North, this experience is
horribly familiar. Seen through the eyes of these two unforgettable
women, The Mountains Sing captures their defiance and
determination, hope and unexpected joy. Vivid, gripping, and
steeped in the language and traditions of Viet Nam, celebrated
Vietnamese poet Nguyen's richly lyrical debut weaves between the
lives of a grandmother and granddaughter to paint a unique picture
of a country pushed to breaking point, and a family who refuse to
give up. 'Devastating... From the French and Japanese occupations
to the Indochina wars, The Great Hunger, land reform and the
Vietnam War, it's a story of resilience, determination, family and
hope in a country blighted by pain.' Refinery29
This book explores the issue of graduate employability in regional
Vietnam. It provides a critical discussion of not only the demands
of the labour market but also the practices and challenges in the
development of graduate employability and career capacity building
at the national, institutional and individual levels. It discusses
graduate employability in Vietnam by analysing government and
institutional policies and taking into account the perspectives and
experiences of three key stakeholders: employers, graduates and
universities. The book highlights the development of 'employability
in context' for graduates in regional Vietnam to be able to adapt
to the specific social, cultural and demographic conditions of the
region and tackle new employment challenges.
This timely volume opens a window on issues related to English
language education in Vietnam. The authors consider that teacher
quality is the key factor to be considered if the national English
language curriculum outcomes are to be achievable. Aiming to shed
light on key issues recently observed in the Vietnamese landscape
of English language education, it examines the complexity of the
institutionalization of the standardized English proficiency
policy, which has been in force since 2008. That policy uses the
Common European Framework of References for Languages (CEFR) as the
model to set the standards and levels of proficiency for teachers,
learners and state employees. The book presents both the
theoretical and practical aspects of the standardization movement
in English language education. The contents comprise a series of
extended research-based chapters written by experts of
language-in-education policy and planning in and about Vietnam from
a range of perspectives including teachers, English language
curriculum developers, teacher educators and researchers. The rich
coverage of the book includes current discussion on English
language education in Vietnam ranging from policy to practice,
making it highly relevant to English teachers, teacher educators,
and scholars, in Vietnam and worldwide, who aspire to broaden their
horizons and professionalism.
Cross-Cultural Management: With Insights from Brain Science
explores a broad range of topics on the impact of culture in
international business and vice versa, and the impact of businesses
and individuals in shaping a culture. It provides critical and
in-depth information on globalization, global/glocal leadership,
cross-cultural marketing, and cross-cultural negotiation. It also
discusses many other topics that are not typically found in the
mainstream management textbooks such as diversity management, bias
management, cross-cultural motivation strategies, and change
management. While most literature in the field is dominated by the
static paradigm, that is, culture is fixed, nation equates to
culture, and values are binary, this book takes a different
approach. It regards national values as a first-best-guess and
balances it with an introduction of the dynamic paradigm. This
school of thought posits that culture is not static, context is the
software of the mind, opposing values coexist, change is constant,
and individuals can develop a multicultural mind. A unique feature
of this book is the contribution of an interdisciplinary approach.
It's the first textbook of cross-cultural management that
incorporates latest findings from the emerging discipline of
cultural neuroscience and evolutionary biology in the discussion.
Such a holistic approach is meant to help readers gain a deeper and
broader understanding of the subjects.
This timely volume opens a window on issues related to English
language education in Vietnam. The authors consider that teacher
quality is the key factor to be considered if the national English
language curriculum outcomes are to be achievable. Aiming to shed
light on key issues recently observed in the Vietnamese landscape
of English language education, it examines the complexity of the
institutionalization of the standardized English proficiency
policy, which has been in force since 2008. That policy uses the
Common European Framework of References for Languages (CEFR) as the
model to set the standards and levels of proficiency for teachers,
learners and state employees. The book presents both the
theoretical and practical aspects of the standardization movement
in English language education. The contents comprise a series of
extended research-based chapters written by experts of
language-in-education policy and planning in and about Vietnam from
a range of perspectives including teachers, English language
curriculum developers, teacher educators and researchers. The rich
coverage of the book includes current discussion on English
language education in Vietnam ranging from policy to practice,
making it highly relevant to English teachers, teacher educators,
and scholars, in Vietnam and worldwide, who aspire to broaden their
horizons and professionalism.
Cross-Cultural Management: With Insights from Brain Science
explores a broad range of topics on the impact of culture in
international business and vice versa, and the impact of businesses
and individuals in shaping a culture. It provides critical and
in-depth information on globalization, global/glocal leadership,
cross-cultural marketing, and cross-cultural negotiation. It also
discusses many other topics that are not typically found in the
mainstream management textbooks such as diversity management, bias
management, cross-cultural motivation strategies, and change
management. While most literature in the field is dominated by the
static paradigm, that is, culture is fixed, nation equates to
culture, and values are binary, this book takes a different
approach. It regards national values as a first-best-guess and
balances it with an introduction of the dynamic paradigm. This
school of thought posits that culture is not static, context is the
software of the mind, opposing values coexist, change is constant,
and individuals can develop a multicultural mind. A unique feature
of this book is the contribution of an interdisciplinary approach.
It's the first textbook of cross-cultural management that
incorporates latest findings from the emerging discipline of
cultural neuroscience and evolutionary biology in the discussion.
Such a holistic approach is meant to help readers gain a deeper and
broader understanding of the subjects.
Cam-Mai Nguyen gibt in diesem Ratgeber praktische Tipps fur den
allgemeinen Umgang mit dem Kunden, liefert konkrete Beispiele zur
Kommunikation per Telefon, E-Mail oder Fax. Ausserdem erteilt sie
gute Ratschlage fur die Behandlung mundlicher und schriftlicher
Beschwerden. Anschaulich und praxisnah!
This book offers a theoretically and empirically robust account of
what is known about the effective approaches that translate theory
to practice in teacher education, presenting evidence from case
studies from a diverse range of contexts informed by various
methodological foundations. It also provides accounts that support
teacher educators involved in both school and university based
teacher education. The book offers insights into the translation of
theory to practice from the long history of teacher education, the
benefit of diverse approaches in terms of the effectiveness of
initial teacher education, and the impact of professional
standards.
High performance liquid chromatogarphy (HPLC) is one of the major
techniques in separation sciences. Faster separation and higher
efficiency are required to meet ever-growing demands. Despite
numerous efforts on improving mass transfer in particulate packings
discontinuity seems to be the cornerstone. Macroporous continuous
beds or monoliths are, therefore, a promising alternative to the
particle medium. The work deals with the preparation of new
monoliths used as support for HPLC stationary phase. Two different
approaches were developed: one based on the polycondensation of
epoxy resins which were dispersed in aqueous polyamine phase with
the aid of a surfactant. The other involved a traverse of linear
polyamides solutions around their upper critical solution
temperatures (UCST). The polymers, dissolved in a solvent at
temperatures higher than their UCSTs followed by slow cooling to
below these temperatures to precipitate the polymers. Partly
re-established hydrogen bonds resulted in the formation of
crystallites that interconnected into a network structure. The
study also deals with surface modifying for chromatographic
applications.
This book is an introduction to Intercultural Communication (IC)
that takes into account the much neglected dynamic paradigm of
culture in the literature. It posits that culture is not static,
context is the driving force for change, and individuals can
develop a multicultural mind. It is also the first IC textbook in
the field that incorporates insight from evolutionary biology and
the newly emerging discipline of cultural neurosciences. Such an
interdisciplinary approach provides readers with new angles,
encourages critical thinking, and sometimes challenges conventional
knowledge in the field. The combination of the author's
multicultural academic and journalistic background contributes to a
balance of diverse perspectives and world views on cultural
theories and discourses. The book is ideal for courses in
Intercultural Communication with study cases, discussion topics and
class activities.
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