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Germany - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Barry Tomalin, Culture Smart!
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...
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Austria - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Peter Gieler, Culture Smart!
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...
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France - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Barry Tomalin, Culture Smart!
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...
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Hong Kong - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Vickie Chan, Clare Vickers, Culture Smart!
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,...
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Jamaica - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Nick Davis, Culture Smart!
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...
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China - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Kathy Flower, Culture Smart!
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...
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Slovenia - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Jason Blake, Culture Smart!
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...
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Romania - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Debbie Stowe, Culture Smart!
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017

A land of mountains, hills, and fertile plains, Romania is a tourist destination waiting to be discovered. It is a rich and complex country: a place whose cities are home to beautiful parks and vibrant cultural scenes; whose people welcome guests warmly into their homes, sharing the best of whatever...
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Greece - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Constantine Buhayer, Culture Smart!
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017

When you enter Greece's mountainous peninsula, with its long coastline and unique archipelago, you are returning to the cradle of Western civilization. And while the ancient Greeks fashioned our political, ethical, aesthetic, and scientific values, their descendants down the ages have continued to...
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Canada - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Diane Lemieux, Culture Smart!
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016

Canada is the second-largest country in the world, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific and spanning six time zones. From coast to coast lie vast forests, breathtaking mountains, flat, open plains, and thousands of lakes and rivers. It is also the world's second-most sparsely populated...
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Sri Lanka - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Emma Boyle, Culture Smart!
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2019

Known as the pearl of the Indian Ocean, this resource-rich, lovely island just off the southern tip of India is full of contrast and diversity. Despite the lingering tension between the different religious and ethnic groups in the wake of a bloody civil war, and the glaring inequality between the...
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Chile - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Caterina Perrone, Culture Smart!
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017

Chile is a land of contrast and surprise, flanked by the Pacific Ocean on the west, the Andes to the east, the forbidding salt basins of the Atacama Desert to the north—with a verdant Central Valley and Cape Horn at its southern extremity. The Chilean people, too, are surprising: on one hand reserved,...
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Italy - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Barry Tomalin, Culture Smart!
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016

Italy delights and stimulates with its magnificent cities and monuments, its stunningly beautiful landscapes, the glory of its art and architecture, the richness and variety of its food, the elegance of its design and fashion, and the vitality and charm of its people. Italian style and culture have...
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Brazil - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Sandra Branco, Rob Williams, Culture Smart!
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

For many people Brazil conjures up images of football, Carnaval and fine coffee, but it is much more than beaches and bossa nova. If you could choose only one word to describe Brazil, it would be diversity. The variety of racial types, lifestyles, wealth, landscape and climate is enormous. Jeitinho...
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