The Essential Guides to Customs and Cultures

The ground-breaking Culture Smart! guides are aimed at discerning travelers who want togo beyond the picture-postcard clichés of conventional tourist guidebooks.

They reveal the human dimension of a country, providing visitors with a deeper understanding of the people they will meet at their destinations.

These fascinating books won’t tell you what time a train departs, but they will tell you what thejourney will be like, and how to get on with your fellow passengers.

This popular series has grown at a steady pace and today covers over 90 countries.

Building on this success, Kuperard is creating a new complementary series within the CultureSmart! brand – of regional (multicountry) guides.

The first available regional guide is Culture Smart! Western Europe, and other regional titles tofollow are Northern Europe, The Baltic States, Eastern Europe, Southern Europe, The Caribbean, Latin America, and The Far East.

Culture Smart! WESTERN EUROPEGetting to Know the People, their Cultures and CustomsThe historic countries of Western Europe – Austria, Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy,Portugal, Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland – are the jewels in the crown of European civilization.

Contents include• local customs and traditions • the impact of religion, history, and politics • dos, don’ts, and taboos• the peoples of Western Europe at home, work, and play • eating and drinking – Western Europeanstyles • business practices• communication, spoken and unspoken, and many practical tips formanaging the unexpected.

Published by www.culturesmart.co.uk

Culture Smart! PREPARING FOR YOUR MOVE ABROADDr Rona HartMoving Abroad text - This comprehensive, step-by-step guide is designed to prepare you foryour move abroad and to enable you to manage the transition effectively. Alone in the market,it combines the practical, cultural, and psychological aspects of relocation, and helps to allay thefears and reduce the stresses that accompany this major event in a person’s life.

Contents include• A strong knowledge base for every stage of the relocation journey • A strategy to manage theissues at hand • Psychological preparation • An action plan, presented through exercises,practical steps to consider, checklists and many easy-to-use tools

All Culture Smart! guides priced $9.95 • Size: 169 x 110 mm • Extent: 168 pages • Illustrations throughout.PREPARING FOR YOUR MOVE ABROAD priced $19.95 • 240 pages • Size: 198 x 128 mm

WESTERN EUROPE priced $24.95 • 480 pages• Size: 210 x 148 mm

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Culture Smart! provides rare insights, and practical guidance, into cultures that have, in many cases, been in place for centuries

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New EditionSummer 2012

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____978-1-857-33656-6 ALBANIA Farah Ramadan

____978-1-857-33328-2 ARGENTINA Robert Hamwee

____978-1-857-33493-7 ARMENIA Susan Solomon

____978-1-857-33310-7 AUSTRALIA Barry Penney

____978-1-857-33347-3 AUSTRIA Peter Gieler

____978-1-857-33544-6 AZERBAIJAN Nikki Kazimova

____978-1-857-33472-2 BELARUS Anne Coombes

____978-1-857-33322-0 BELGIUM Mandy Macdonald

____978-1-8573-3485-2 BOLIVIA Keith Richards

____978-1-8573-3484-5 BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA Elizabeth Hammond

____978-1-857-33340-4 BOTSWANA Michael Main

____978-1-857-33323-7 BRAZIL Sandra Branco

____978-1-857-33311-4 BRITAIN Paul Norbury

____978-1-857-33471-5 CAMBODIA Graham Saunders

____978-1-857-33454-8 CANADA Diane Lemieux

____978-1-857-33341-1 CHILE Caterina Perrone

____978-1-857-33502-6 CHINA Kathy Flower

____978-1-857-33545-3 COLUMBIA Kate Cathey

____978-1-857-33324-4 COSTA RICA Jane Koutnik

____978-1-857-33459-3 CROATIA Irina Ban

____978-1-857-33338-1 CUBA Mandy Macdonald

____978-1-857-33334-3 CZECH REPUBLIC Nicole Rosenleaf Ritter

____978-1-857-33325-1 DENMARK Mark Salmon

____978-1-857-33527-9 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Ginnie Bedggood & Ilana Benady

____978-1-857-33342-8 EGYPT Jailan Zayan

____978-1-857-33353-4 ESTONIA Clare Thomson

____978-1-857-33494-4 ETHIOPIA Sarah Howard

____978-1-857-33364-0 FINLAND Terttu Leney

____978-1-857-33307-7 FRANCE Barry Tomalin

____978-1-857-33654-2 GEORGIA Natia Abramia

____978-1-857-33306-0 GERMANY Barry Tomalin

____978-1-8573-3474-6 GHANA Ian Utley

____978-1-857-33369-5 GREECE Constantine Buhayer

____978-1-857-33348-0 GUATEMALA Lisa Vaughn

____978-1-857-33368-8 HONG KONG Clare Vickers

____978-1-857-33335-0 HUNGARY Brian McLean

____978-1-857-33525-5 INDIA Becky Stephen

____978-1-857-33343-5 INDONESIA Graham Saunders

____978-1-857-33470-8 IRAN Stuart Williams

____978-1-857-33308-4 IRELAND John Scotney

____978-1-857-33344-2 ISRAEL Jeffrey Geri

____978-1-857-33316-9 ITALY Charles Abbott

____978-1-857-33528-6 JAMAICA Nick Davis

____978-1-857-33614-6 JAPAN Paul Norbury

____978-1-857-33349-7 KENYA Jane Barsby

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____978-1-857-33365-7 KOREA James Hoare

____978-1-857-33453-1 LIBYA Roger Jones

____978-1-857-33350-3 LITHUANIA Lara Belonogoff

____978-1-857-33457-9 MALAYSIA Victor King

____978-1-857-33542-2 MAURITIUS Tim Cleary

____978-1-857-33366-4 MEXICO Guy Mavor

____978-1-857-33337-4 MOROCCO Jillian York

____978-1-857-33644-3 MOVING ABROAD Rona Hart

____978-1-857-33473-9 NAMIBIA Sharri Whiting

____978-1-857-33458-6 NEPAL Tessa Feller

____978-1-857-33312-1 NETHERLANDS Sheryl Buckland

____978-1-857-33330-5 NEW ZEALAND Sue Butler

____978-1-857-33629-0 NIGERIA Diane Lemieux

____978-1-857-33331-2 NORWAY Linda March

____978-1-8573-3475-3 OMAN Simone Nowell

____978-1-857-33339-8 PANAMA Heloise Crowther

____978-1-857-33336-7 PERU John Forrest

____978-1-857-33317-6 PHILIPPINES Graham Colin-Jones

____978-1-857-33367-1 POLAND Greg Allen

____978-1-857-33332-9 PORTUGAL Sandy Guedes de Quieroz

____978-1-857-33452-4 ROMANIA Debbie Stowe

____978-1-857-33352-7 RUSSIA Anna King

____978-1-857-33351-0 SAUDI ARABIA Nicolas Buchele

____978-1-857-33492-0 SCOTLAND John Scotney

____978-1-857-33659-7 SERBIA Lara Zmukic

____978-1-857-33318-3 SINGAPORE Angela Milligan

____978-1-857-33566-8 SLOVAKIA Brendan Edwards

____978-1-857-33600-9 SLOVENIA Jason Blake

____978-1-857-33346-6 SOUTH AFRICA David Holt-Biddle

____978-1-857-33315-2 SPAIN Marian Meaney

____978-1-8573-3476-0 SRI LANKA Emma Boyle

____978-1-857-33319-0 SWEDEN Charlotte J. DeWitt

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____978-1-857-33526-2 SYRIA Sarah Standish

____978-1-8573-3483-8 TANZANIA Quintin Winks

____978-1-857-33314-5 THAILAND Roger Jones

____978-1-857-33543-9 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO Tim Ewbank

____978-1-8573-3477-7 TUNISIA Gerald Zarr

____978-1-857-33326-8 TURKEY Charlotte McPherson

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