Kuperard: 127 books
Estonia - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a...
Germany - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
With the FIFA World Cup in its pocket Germany is feeling its social, political, and economic power once again. After organizing a successful World Cup in 2006 and winning it against Argentina in Brazil in 2014, Germany sees a note of confidence, even triumphalism, permeating the country. As a European...
Austria - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Austria has produced some of the world's finest composers, dazzled us with an imperial Baroque architecture, and led the way with groundbreaking psychoanalysis. It has taught us to waltz, defined what a real coffee house is, and given us one of Europe's most popular winter playgrounds. All this from...
France - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
France has experienced considerable upheaval in recent years. The Eurozone crisis, a new socialist president, rioting by an alienated underclass, a ban on the burqa (full veil) in public places, and an attempt to democratize the elite system of education all point to significant changes in French...
Hong Kong - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Visitors marvel at Hong Kong's breathtaking location, its amazing architecture, its exciting shopping, and its fine dining. And yet it is a land of opposites—of order juxtaposed with chaos, of ancient etiquette and seemingly abrupt manners, a place where rich and poor live in close proximity. Culturally,...
Jamaica - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Laid back, sun-drenched tropical paradise, or hotbed of drug-related crime and violence? Neither stereotype is true. Jamaica suffers from a PR problem, created largely by tabloid headlines written thousands of miles away. The reality is more complex and more fascinating. Despite its small size, Jamaica...
China - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Culture Smart! China puts the latest dramatic changes into a historical context, explains deep-seated cultural attitudes, and guides the visitor through a maze of unfamiliar social situations. It will enable you to discover for yourself the warmth, intelligence, humor, and humanity of this extraordinary...
by Edmund Hartley
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU• to appreciate the significance of one of the largest organized religions in the world• to understand the history of the Church, and what it means to be Roman Catholic• to recognize the Catholic Church's key practices and beliefs• to avoid faux pas in conversation,...
by Ian Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU• to appreciate the significance of Japan's own religion in everyday life• to recognize the key traditions and festivals (matsuri) of the Shinto year• to understand what you will see at Shinto shrines and in Shinto rituals• to gain insights into the controversies surrounding...
by Akasha Lonsdale
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
In today's multicultural society we are increasingly likely to meet and become friends with people from different religious backgrounds, and to find ourselves attending an unfamiliar ceremony. When this happens, there can be few of us who know exactly what to expect, or are confident about how to...
Croatia - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a...
Slovakia - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Slovakia has struggled with a low international profile. Often overlooked as the Czech Republic's little sister, it is a young country with an old culture and history, and a people who are proudly Central (not Eastern) European. Although for much of the twentieth century Czechs and Slovaks lived together...
Slovenia - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Slovenia seems closer to Austria or Italy than to its Balkan neighbors. The richest of the Slavic nation-states, it has an entirely Western tradition, having belonged in the past to the Roman Empire, the Frankish kingdom, the Holy Roman Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Habsburg monarchy, and the...
Russia - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a...