Nepal - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture - Softcover

Feller, Tessa

 
9781857334586: Nepal - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1857334582 ISBN 13: 9781857334586
Verlag: Kuperard, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

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

"Culture Smart has come to the rescue of hapless travellers." Sunday Times Travel

"... the perfect introduction to the weird, wonderful and downright odd quirks and customs of various countries." Global Travel

"...full of fascinating-as well as common-sense-tips to help you avoid embarrassing faux pas." Observer

"...as useful as they are entertaining." Easyjet Magazine

"...offer glimpses into the psyche of a faraway world." New York Times

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tessa Feller studied German and Spanish at Edinburgh University before training as a teacher and translator. She has worked in several countries, including Austria, Russia, and Germany, where she is now based. She lived in Nepal from 2002 to 2004, when her husband was posted there with the German Development Service (Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst). Her youngest son was born in Kathmandu.

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Verlag
Kuperard
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1857334582
ISBN 13 
9781857334586
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
168
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