Brit-Think, Ameri-Think

Author: Jane Walmsley
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0142001341
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
When it comes to understanding the great cultural ocean that divides Brits and Yanks, it's not just our vocabulary but also our attitudes that differ. This irreverent guide surveys a whole gamut of British-American divergences, from sex to food, from pets to religion, from sports to money, and from war to-most divergent of all-humor. Entertaining and invaluable, Brit-Think, Ameri-Think has been updated to reflect changes in political, cultural, and social trends, and includes new chapters on cultural icons Oprah Winfrey and Bridget Jones, and on Brit-cool vs. Ameri-cool.

Brit-think - Ameri-think

Author: Jane Walmsley
Publisher: Chambers
ISBN: 9780245547218
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description

Brit-think, Ameri-think

Author: Jane Walmsley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780245543371
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 173

Book Description

Living & Working in America

Author: Steve Mills
Publisher: How To Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781857039139
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
Updated and revised for the sixth edition, this guide is packed with information on immigration, employment and living conditions, as well as useful names and addresses, including websites.

British Think-Tanks And The Climate Of Opinion

Author:
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135364303
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description

Brit-Myth

Author: Chris Rojek
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861893369
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
Chris Rojek explores the myths, misconceptions, and stereotypes of the British.

Bright-sided

Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805087494
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
Exposes the downside of America's penchant for positive thinking, which the author believes leads to self-blame and a preoccupation with stamping out "negative" thoughts on a personal level, and, on a national level, has brought on economic disaster.

Achieving Our Country

Author: Richard Rorty
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674003125
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 159

Book Description
One of America's foremost philosophers challenges the lost generation of the American Left to understand the role it might play in the great tradition of democratic intellectual labor that started with writers such as Walt Whitman and John Dewey.

American English

Author: Zoltan Kovecses
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1551112299
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 362

Book Description
This book is a cultural-historical (rather than purely linguistic) introduction to American English. The first part consists of a general account of variation in American English. It offers concise but comprehensive coverage of such topics as the history of American English; regional, social and ethnic variation; variation in style (including slang); and British and American differences. The second part of the book puts forward an account of how American English has developed into a dominant variety of the English language. It focuses on the ways in which intellectual traditions such as puritanism and republicanism, in shaping the American world view, have also contributed to the distinctiveness of American English.

The Anglo-American Model of Neoliberalism of the 1980s

Author: Nathalie Lévy
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031120744
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
This book studies neoliberalism's features in the UK and USA in the 1980s in relation to the philosophical, historical, political, legal, and economic concepts. It analyses the model's legacy in the "Anglosphere," its acceptance, rejection, proliferation in France and Europe - the EU often emulating and disseminating neoliberal processes and techniques via hard and soft law -, its scope, its spread throughout EU countries characterised by "illiberalism," highlighting the model's need to adapt. It fills a historiographical gap regarding a concept which remains acutely topical.