Saving face, losing face, in your face
Subtitle: a journey into the Western heart, mind and soul
By: edited by Rob Goodfellow, Dawn O'Neil, and Peter Smith.
Contributors: Goodfellow, Rob, 1960-; O'Neil, Dawn.; Smith, Peter.
Publisher: Butterworth Heinemann
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Civilization, Western.
Other titles: Journey into the Western heart, mind and soul
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-253) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the road to Marathon / Rob Goodfellow, Dawn O'Neil and Peter Smith; title: Western science and rationalism in perspective / Grant Walker; title: Gender relations in the West / Linda Mere and Nickolas Vakas; title: 'Tastes classical, feels trended' : the English language in the era of globalization / Rob Goodfellow; title: The origins of Western religion and spirituality / Peter Smith; title: Art for art's sake / Gregory Faisal Thomas; title: Celtic influence in the West / Gearoid O'Neill; title: Plato to Pauline Hanson : the curious path of Western politics / Chris Martin; title: Work I : why do Westerners work the way they do? / Dawn O'Neil; title: Work II: 'enter a strange and plodding race' / Mike Donaldson; title: Western education : because it works ... for now / Suzanne Kowalski; title: Human rights, 'Asian values' and the fundamental rights of labour / Chris Nyland and Loong Wong.