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 rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships. Culture Smart! offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of a particular country. It will help you to turn your visit-whether on business or for pleasure-into a memorable and enriching experience. Contents include: * customs, values, and traditions * historical, religious, and political background * life at home * leisure, social, and cultural life * eating and drinking * do's, don'ts, and taboos * business practices * communication, spoken and unspoken
Don't just see the sights—get to know the people. Nestling in the foothills of the Himalayas, Nepal is a land of contrasts and incongruities not least in the variety of its cultural, ethnic, and religious weave. The Nepalese attitude to life is essentially religious. Hindu and Buddhist values predominate and help to maintain social harmony despite the divisions between rich and poor, urban and rural, highlands and lowlands. Culture Smart! Nepal sets out to explain the complexities of Nepalese life, from home to business, to the marketplace. It tells you what to expect, and provides insights that will help you to go beyond friendly smiles and turn your visit into an enlightening and rewarding experience. Have a richer and more meaningful experience abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on history, values, attitudes, and traditions will help you to better understand your hosts, while tips on etiquette and communicating will help you to navigate unfamiliar situations and avoid faux pas.
A page-turning thriller and ultimate escape game, this book is about Justin Wayne, a whiz kid who is kidnapped and entrapped on a speeding train. A forcefield and metal monsters, they call Screakers keep them from escaping. Can the players keep their secrets? Will the teens get to the Hidden End of the Line alive? Will the nightmare of The Beast that has them on board ever be over?
A race against time to save a family name . . . - Jenny Corvill, mistress of the Waterside Mill in the Scottish Borders town of Galashiels, was looking forward to taking it easy as a new wife. But when her sister-in-law disappears with a dashing young playboy, the Corvill family is plunged into disaster. Jenny must undertake a terrifying and dangerous journey into the seedy underworld of Victorian London and rescue her sister-in-law before its too late . . .
After spending several years in Denmark, where her architectural designs won many awards, Beth Dayton accepts her father's offer to return home to York and join the family firm. When they win an important contract to rebuild a town center, the proposed redevelopment faces strong opposition from an action group. Beth starts to feel extremely torn when her relationship with Peter Lambot, lawyer for the action group, develops. Should she stand by her father and compromise her own principles, or should she follow the man she has fallen in love with?
The new Crown Prince Gregory mystery from this well-loved author When Gregory Crowne is enlisted to help Gilles Guidon, the eccentric son of a merchant banker, to assemble a jazz quintet for the Montreux Festival, he soon discovers there is something wrong at the bank. Gilles falls in love with Morena, the sister of one of the quintet, and his ancient nurse, Nounou, dies in a mysterious fall. Then Gilles disappears with Morena, and an unusual ransom demand arrives . . .
Cosmetics millionairess Ursula Guyler asks a young solicitor, specializing in family law, to assess a girl who claims to be her daughter. Seventeen years have passed since the girl was abducted and the solicitor knows this will be no easy case.
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