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The Hidden Dimension

The Hidden Dimension

Edward Twitchell Hall

Introducing the science of "proxemics," Hall demonstrates how man's use of space can affect personal business relations, cross-cultural exchanges, architecture, city planning, and urban renewal.
An anthropology of everyday life: an autobiography

An anthropology of everyday life: an autobiography

Edward Twitchell Hall

Now, in a remarkably candid and personal book, he tells the story of the first fifty years of his fascinating life.
Beyond Culture

Beyond Culture

Edward Twitchell Hall

Calls for and speculates on an extensive transcendence of individual cultures, of material and verbal extensions of the ego, and of the alienating denial of individual talents and powers
Ralph Emerson Twitchell: New Mexico's Forgotten Giant

Ralph Emerson Twitchell: New Mexico's Forgotten Giant

Daniel Jason Twitchell

The sources consulted for this project include the books and personal correspondence of Twitchell himself, historical monographs covering a variety of New Mexico subjects, the relevant general histories, a number of newspapers and websites, ...
Hidden differences: doing business with the Japanese

Hidden differences: doing business with the Japanese

Edward Twitchell Hall

An analysis and explanation of the unstated rules of Japanese-American business relations. By drawing Western readers into the world in which they must function, the Halls simplify the process of adapting Western ways to a new environment.
New York Magazine

New York Magazine

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Ghosts BRUCE EDWARD HALL As you might surmise, Mr. Bruce Edward Hall is from Connecticut. But his ancestors (left) are not. A fourth- generation Chinese American, Hall's a preppy white guy. As a child, he would pile into the car with his  ...
A reader's repertoire: aims and perspectives

A reader's repertoire: aims and perspectives

Gwendolyn Gong

Bruce Edward Hall Bruce Edward Hall describes himself as a "preppy white guy from Connecticut. My mother is blonde and blue-eyed, the very image of a Donna Reed. . . . Except that, unlike Alex Stone, my father is Chinese." In "Ghosts," Hall ...
The Leading Facts of New Mexican History, Vol. II (Hardcover)

The Leading Facts of New Mexican History, Vol. II (Hardcover)

Ralph Emerson Twitchell

Put succinctly by former State Historian Robert J. Torrez, Twitchell's work (of which this is one of the first two volumes Sunstone Press is reprinting in its Southwest Heritage Series) has "become the standard by which all subsequent books ...
The Leading Facts of New Mexican History, Vol. I (Hardcover)

The Leading Facts of New Mexican History, Vol. I (Hardcover)

Ralph Emerson Twitchell

Put succinctly by former State Historian Robert J. Torrez, Twitchell's work (of which this is one of the first two volumes Sunstone Press is reprinting in its Southwest Heritage Series) has "become the standard by which all subsequent books ...
Ralph Emerson Twitchell Letter to the Secretary of the ...

Ralph Emerson Twitchell Letter to the Secretary of the ...

Ralph Emerson Twitchell

A detailed report on land litigation involving the Pueblo Indians, written as Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States.
Living It Up: Our Love Affair with Luxury

Living It Up: Our Love Affair with Luxury

James B. Twitchell

In the pages of Living It Up, Twitchell commits the academic heresy of paying respect to popular luxury consumption as a force that has united the country and the globe in a way that no war, movement, or ideology ever has.
Lead Us Into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism

Lead Us Into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism

James B. Twitchell

Twitchell counters the notion of the "used and abused consumer" with a witty and unflinching look at commercial culture, starting from the simple observation that "we are powerfully attracted to the world of goods (after all, we don't call ...
Encyclopedia of Business in Today's World: A - C

Encyclopedia of Business in Today's World: A - C

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A - C Charles Wankel ... 2002); Edward T. Hall and Mildred R. Hall, Understanding Cultural Differences (Intercultural Press, 1990); Susan C. Schneider and Jean-Louis Barsoux, Managing Across Cultures (Prentice Hall/ Financial Times, 2003).
Tea That Burns: A Family Memoir of Chinatown

Tea That Burns: A Family Memoir of Chinatown

Bruce Hall

father of Bruce Edward Hall), 1-3, 9, 121, 189, 202-3, 229, 233-34, 251, 255-56 birth of, 186 described, 5-6, 22 1 , 245-46 education of, 6, 22 1 , 223-24 marries Jane Anne McConnell, 227-28 name Anglicized to Hall from Hor, 6, 234-35, ...
Breaking the Chains: The Crusade of Dorothea Lynde Dix

Breaking the Chains: The Crusade of Dorothea Lynde Dix

Penny Colman

Such was the case with Louisa Hall, the wife of Reverend Edward Hall, who had begged Dorothea to come investigate conditions in Rhode Island. Louisa Hall wasn't looking forward to Dorothea Dix's visit. She didn't approve of what she ...
The Christian Remembrancer

The Christian Remembrancer

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Clement Dawson Strong, Magdalen Hall. George Pinhorn, St. Edmund Hall. John R. Reid Humfrys, St. Edmund Hall. John Ellison Bates, Student of Chr. Ch. Edward Hill, Student of Christ Church. Charles Perkins Gwilt, Christ Church. Francis ...
Old City Hall

Old City Hall

Robert Rotenberg

" - Andrew Pyper, author of The Killing Circle “Old City Hall is a wonderfully written and intriguing murder mystery. “ -Edward L. Greenspan, Q.C. 'Apart from evoking the seasonal rhythms of life in the city, the novel offers a ...
The National Magazine

The National Magazine

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v * Charles Winslow Hall was of old Puritan stock; one ancestor, John Hall, came from England with Governor Winthrop in 1630; another was Edward Winslow, first Governor of Plymouth. For five years he presided as trial justice at Winthrop, ...
The Hall genealogy

The Hall genealogy

Helen Linenberger Hall

Helen Linenberger Hall. DESCENDANTS OF ENGELBERT HALL AND ANTONIE SULZMANN FEHRENBACHER NAME BORN BIRTHPLACE MARRIED DIED RELIGION Third Generation 5. Friedrich Hall married Irmgard Deicke Fourth ...
The Brotherhood that Binds the Brave: Contemporary Units of ...

The Brotherhood that Binds the Brave: Contemporary Units of ...

Michael Martin

So, my heartfelt thanks go to Bradley Gottfried, Jeffrey Hall, Earl Hess, Philip Laino, Edward Longacre, David Petruzzi, Harry Pfanz, Noah Trudeau, Jeffrey Wert, and Eric Wittenberg. I especially like Hall's book, because of the way it lays out the ...
Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988–2003

Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988–2003

Roy Strong

17 SEPTEMBER Winslow Hall We'd long ago fixed a date to go to lunch at Winslow Hall with Gill and Edward Tomkins. It was a very crosscountry journey but we had always had an affection for them, ever since those days in the Paris ...
Jet

Jet

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A blind man, Bruce Edward Hall, 48, who police said tried to rob a Memphis, TN, bank as the security guard who helped him to a teller's window stood nearby. Hall entered the bank, accepted the guard's help and then gave the teller a note ...
This is our land

This is our land

Val J. McClellan

... 126, 363 Gutirrez, J., 64 G. W. Todd and Company, 71 1-713, 751 Hadden, 464 Hacllev, James, 575 Hahn's Peak, 78. ... 624 Haley, Ora, 583 Hall, Frank, 526 Hall, Harry, 304, 305 Halton, Edward G., 84 Hamil, William, 89 Han-ho (Han-ko),  ...
Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2003: Film, Television, ...

Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2003: Film, Television, ...

Harris M. Lentz III

Actor Bruce Edward Hall died of cancer in New York City on October 31, 2003. He was 49. Hall worked with Jim Henson on various Muppet projects during the 1980s, and was the voice of Masterson Rat and Beth Bear in the 1984 film The ...
Croydon, N.H., 1866: Proceedings at the Centennial ...

Croydon, N.H., 1866: Proceedings at the Centennial ...

Edmund Wheeler

Stephen Eastman, Rnel Durkee, 1823 Samuel Morse, 1845 Timothy O. Powers, Edward Hall. William Darling. Stephen ... Carlton Barton, E. Darwin Comings, 1836 Lemuel P. Cooper, 1858 Dellavan D. Marsh, Calvin Hall. Albert G. Barton.
Reminiscences of the life and work of Edward A. Lawrence, jr

Reminiscences of the life and work of Edward A. Lawrence, jr

Meta Lander

CORRESPONDENCE WITH ARETHUSA HALL. "Before the mysteries of thy word and will Thy voice can gently bid my heart be still, Since all that now is hard to understand Thou wilt unravel in yon heavenly land." Edward always entered ...
A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of ...

A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of ...

Bernard Burke

John Lloyd-Williams, Esq. of Gweraant Park, co. ... Scut— Gwernant Pork, co. Cardigan. WILLIAMS OF MALVERN HALL. Williams, Francis-Edward, Esq. of Malvern Hall, co. Warwick, and of ... John Williams, Archdeacon of Cardigan, m. Anne ...

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