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Portugal - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Sandy Guedes de Queiroz, Culture Smart!
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017

Culture Smart! Portugal will help you to navigate this multifaceted society. It gives insights into different aspects of life, from sleepy seaside towns to modern, trendy cities, so that you can experience firsthand how this society, which protects family and privacy so fiercely, is eager and proud...
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Serbia - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Lara Zmukic, Culture Smart!
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

Serbia, a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, covers the southern part of the Pannonian plain and the central part of the Balkans. The dominant power in the former Yugoslavia, it has had a bad press in the West. However, the truth is much more nuanced and interesting...
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Kazakhstan - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Dina Zhansagimova, Culture Smart!
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013

Kazakhstan, one of the largest countries on earth, was long hidden from the rest of the world behind the Iron Curtain, and continued to remain unnoticed among the "stans" of Central Asia that gained independence from the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Now, twenty years later, it has emerged...
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Mongolia - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Alan Sanders, Culture Smart!
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016

Mongolia is landlocked between its neighbors China and Russia in the heart of Asia. For centuries after the disintegration of Genghis Khan's empire it was ruled by one or the other, but in 1990 the Mongols embraced democracy. Now, after two centuries of Manchu stagnation and seventy years of Soviet...
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Switzerland - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Kendall Hunter, Culture Smart!
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016

There is far more to Switzerland than beautiful scenery, chocolate, watches, faceless bankers, and spotless cities. The real Switzerland is full of surprises and anything but bland. This small, rugged, landlocked country at the heart of Europe has been a confederation since the first three cantons...
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Nigeria - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Diane Lemieux, Culture Smart!
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012

Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa with an internal market of 150 million people and an economy growing at around 8 percent a year, is potentially Africa's next powerhouse. It is nearly one and a half times the size of Texas, with a landmass varying from sandy beaches and tropical jungles,...
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India - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Becky Stephen, Culture Smart!
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016

India's population of 1.2 billion is as varied and colorful as the spice markets of Old Delhi. Each region, caste, and community has its own culture, reflecting unique histories shaped by conquest, creativity, and religion, expressed in distinct languages, social customs, art forms, and expectations...
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Hungary - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Eddy Kester, Brian McLean, Culture Smart!
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017

A landlocked country in the heart of Europe, Hungary was a powerful medieval kingdom. Intimately involved in European history and culture, the Hungarians have always been proud of their distinctive identity, reinforced by the fact that their language bears no resemblance to that of any of their neighbors....
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Uzbekistan - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Alex Ulko, Culture Smart!
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017

Culture Smart! Uzbekistan will take you beyond the standard descriptions of minarets, kebabs with vodka, embroidered skullcaps, and Soviet-style bureaucracy. It will make you aware of the value systems, attitudes, and behaviors of the different cultural groups in the country, and offer an insider's...
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In Plain Sight

The Startling Truth behind the Elizabeth Smart Investigation

by Tom Smart, Lee Benson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006

This riveting inside story of the intense search for the Salt Lake City teenager reveals never-before-told details of the largest investigation in Utah state history. The firsthand account of Tom Smart, Elizabeth's uncle and one-time suspect, reveals the details of the flawed police investigation,...
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Vietnam - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Geoffrey Murray, Culture Smart!
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016

In the second half of the twentieth century war raged in Vietnam. It was hard to know if it would ever end, and harder still to understand fully the rights and wrongs of the various protagonists. At last, the North Vietnamese turned out to be tough, resilient, and ultimately victorious. Patience in...
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Azerbaijan - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Nikki Kazimova, Culture Smart!
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

For Westerners, the modern state of Azerbaijan may be hard to pinpoint. This small, oil-rich country in the southern Caucasus, on the southwestern shore of the Caspian Sea, only made its way on to the contemporary world map after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. As the world shrinks and...
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Georgia - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Natia Abramia, Culture Smart!
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

Georgia lies between Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Black Sea. This small Caucasian country is used to playing a significant role in global geopolitics, and its strategic location at the crossroads of different civilizations has been a curse as...
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Bulgaria - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Juliana Tzvetkova, Culture Smart!
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015

Bulgaria, situated in southeastern Europe on the Black Sea, is one of Europe's best-hidden secrets. A haven for nature and history buffs, this beautiful sunny country welcomes the traveler with bread and salt, a red rose, and ? wooden vessel full of sparkling wine. These three emblems of ancient treasures,...
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