Multicultural Manners: Essential Rules of Etiquette for the 21st Century
10 best books like Multicultural Manners: Essential Rules of Etiquette for the 21st Century (Norine Dresser): Hungry Woman in Paris, Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds, Fried Eggs with Chopsticks: One Woman's Hilarious Adventure into a Country and a Culture Not Her Own, Changing Zip Codes: Finding Community Wherever You're Transplanted, Solo: On Her Own Adventure, Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World, Chicken Soup for the Traveler's Soul: Stories of Adventure, Inspiration and Insight to Celebrate the Spirit of Travel (Chicken Soup for the Soul), New York, Etiquette Guide to Japan: Know the Rules That Make the Difference!, Hipster Christianity: When Church and Cool Collide
| Author | Josefina López |
| ISBN | 0446699411 |
A journalist and activist, Canela believes passion is essential to life; but lately passion seems to be in short supply. It has disappeared from her relationship with her fiancé, who is more interested in controlling her than encouraging her. It's absent from her work, where censorship and politics...
Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds
| Author | David C. Pollock |
| ISBN | 1857882954 |
In this publication, the authors explore the experiences of those who have become known as third culture kids (TCKs) - children who grow up or spend a significant part of their childhood living abroad. The book is rich with real-life anecdotes and examines the nature of the TCK kid experience and its...
| Author | Polly Evans |
| ISBN | 0385339933 |
Polly Evans’s itinerary for China was simple: travel by luxurious high-speed train and long-distance bus, glide along the Grand Canal and hike up scenic mountains. Instead, the linguistically impaired adventurer found herself on a primitive sleeper-minibus where sleep was out of the question;...
Changing Zip Codes: Finding Community Wherever You're Transplanted
| Author | Carol G. Stratton |
| ISBN | 0984765557 |
When your entire life drives off in a moving van it's easy for doubts to flood your mind. Will I ever be organized again? Will I find good friends? Will My children like their new school? Carol Stratton has experienced twenty-two moves and counsels others seeking stability in a sea of change. In Changing...
| Author | Susan Fox Rogers |
| ISBN | 1580051375 |
Back by popular demand, this second edition of Solo adds new stories to the ones readers already lovewomen pedaling across New Zealand, hiking in the Adirondacks, bodyboarding with dolphins off the California Coast, and driving through the northwestern United States. With plenty of alone-time...
| Author | Rita Golden Gelman |
| ISBN | 0307588017 |
In 1987, Rita, newly divorced, set out to live her dream. She sold all her possessions and became a nomad. She wrote a book about her ongoing journey and, in 2001, insisted on putting her personal e-mail address in the last chapter—against all advice. It turned out to be a fortuitous decision. She has...
| Author | Jack Canfield |
| ISBN | 1558749705 |
Whether your idea of travel at its finest is trekking through Europe with a backpack, a map and a foreign-language dictionary; road-tripping across America in a fully loaded RV; or cruising the Caribbean aboard a luxury liner, Chicken Soup for the Traveler's Soul celebrates the people you'll meet,...
Drawing on the same standards of accuracy as the acclaimed DK "Eyewitness Travel Guides," each book in DK's "Top 10" series uses evocative color photography, excellent cartography, and up-to-date travel content to create a reliable and useful pocket-sized travel guide.
Dozens of Top 10 lists...
| Author | Boyé Lafayette de Mente |
| ISBN | 0804834172 |
I am so glad I read this little book before I visited Japan, I can’t tell you. It’s actually more for people there on business, but for me, travelling for pleasure, it gave me a brilliant insight into the Japanese culture and saved me the world of embarrassment too.
I learned how to know when to...
| Author | Brett McCracken |
| ISBN | 0801072220 |
Insider twentysomething Christian journalist Brett McCracken has grown up in the evangelical Christian subculture and observed the recent shift away from the "stained glass and steeples" old guard of traditional Christianity to a more unorthodox, stylized 21st-century church. This change raises...
A Life Like Mine: How Children Live Around the World
| Author | UNICEF |
| ISBN | 0756618037 |
After ten years of study and consultation, UNICEF, the premier organization devoted to the care and welfare of the world's children, published the results of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Using these tenets as a base, A Life Like Mine profiles children from all over the globe leading their...
How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms
| Author | Carol Ann Tomlinson |
| ISBN | 0871205122 |
In this 2nd edition of a book that has provided inspiration to countless teachers, Carol Ann Tomlinson offers three new chapters, extended examples and information in every chapter, and field-tested strategies that teachers can use in today's increasingly diverse classrooms. Tomlinson shows...
Stuff Parisians Like: Discovering the Quoi in the Je Ne Sais Quoi
| Author | Olivier Magny |
| ISBN | 0425241181 |
In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller Stuff White People Like, a tongue-in-cheek homage to Parisians.
To be mistaken for a Parisian, readers must buy the newspaper Le Monde, fold it, and walk. Then sit at a café and make phone calls. Be sure to order San Pellegrino, not any other kind...
When the Cherry Blossoms Fall: My Life as an English Teacher in Japan
This memoir is no longer in active publication.
When Kim Hotzon and her fiancé Bill decided, on the spur of the moment, to take leave of their jobs in Canada to seek work in the far-flung country of Japan, the twenty-two-year-old only imagined swaying cherry blossoms framing elegant bridges....
Paved with Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America
| Author | Jared Taylor |
| ISBN | 0965638340 |
It's an unflinching look at racial issues within 20th century America culminating in a damning sentencing of Affirmative Action, the modern welfare state, and all sorts of reverse racism policies that have been perpetuated in the U.S. from the Civil Rights act onward all in the name of equal opportunity...
"Excuse Me, But I Was Next...": How to Handle the Top 100 Manners Dilemmas
| Author | Peggy Post |
| ISBN | 0060889160 |
Have you ever been annoyed by cell phone yakkers, line cutters, or movie chatterers? Been confused about who pays at a restaurant? Received a gift you hated? Fumed over how to respond to a nosy question? America's etiquette expert Peggy Post comes to the rescue in this concise, readable handbook devoted...
The Civility Solution: What to Do When People Are Rude
| Author | P.M. Forni |
| ISBN | 0312368496 |
Many of us find ourselves confronted with rudeness every day and don't know how to respond. From the intrusive cell-phone user who holds loud conversations in public to the hostile highway driver who cuts one off with a quick swerve of his car, politeness seems to be on a downward spiral, surprising us...
Gestures: The Do's and Taboos of Body Language Around the World
| Author | Roger E. Axtell |
| ISBN | 0471183423 |
Never use your thumb to hitch-hike in Nigeria; it could be hazardous to your health. And under no circumstances should you indicate "OK" to a German using your thumb and forefinger to form a circle--that would be rude. This revised and expanded edition of Gestures covers body language from head to toe--from...
The Great American Detox Diet: Feel Better, Look Better, and Lose Weight by Cleaning Up Your Diet
| Author | Alex Jamieson |
| ISBN | 1594864845 |
Here, for all those eagerly awaiting the paperback edition, is the detox plan featured in the hit movie Super Size Me—the program that reversed the damage filmmaker Morgan Spurlock did to his body in a month of gorging on nothing but fast food
Alex Jamieson, a certified holistic health counselor...
The Unofficial Guide to Disneyland 2016
A great destination and thorough preparation are what make a wonderful vacation, and The Unofficial Guide to Disneyland makes Disneyland one of the most accessible theme parks in the world. With advice that is direct, prescriptive, and detailed, it takes the guesswork out of the reader’s vacation....
The Apron Book: Making, Wearing, and Sharing a Bit of Cloth and Comfort
| Author | EllynAnne Geisel |
| ISBN | 0740761811 |
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From the threadbare treasure that belonged to your grandmother to the kitschy couture from the hippest boutique, aprons are back! In a happy convergence of nostalgia, pop culture, and contemporary fashion, The Apron Book reminds us of everything we once loved about aprons and...
The Angry Island: Hunting the English
| Author | A.A. Gill |
| ISBN | 0297843184 |
The default setting of England is anger. The English are naturally, congenitally, collectively and singularly, livid much of the time. In between the incoherent bellowing of the terraces and the pursed, rigid eye-rolling of the commuter carriage, they reach the end of their tethers and the thin end...
Real Simple: Solutions: Tricks, Wisdom, and Easy Ideas to Simplify Every Day
| Author | Real Simple |
| ISBN | 1932994122 |
Real Simple Solutions doesn't tell us how to achieve world peace, ease the oil crunch, or solve the balance-of-payment crisis. It does, however, provide priceless tips for removing an ink stain, slicing a grapefruit, or painting a room. Inspired by a perennially popular Real Simple magazine feature,...
The Boss of You: Everything A Woman Needs to Know to Start, Run, and Maintain Her Own Business
| Author | Emira Mears |
| ISBN | 1580052363 |
Female entrepreneurs are a growing force to be reckoned with. Each year, more and more women take the initiative and start their own business ventures—at twice the rate of men. Women continue to reshape the business world with innovative models, both large and small. So why is there a lack of clear-cut,...
