Culture Smart! Scotland: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Scotney, John H.

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ISBN 10: 1857334922 ISBN 13: 9781857334920

Casa editrice: Kuperard Pub, 2009

Riassunto

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 

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Informazioni sull?autore

JOHN SCOTNEY is an Anglo-Irish writer, producer, teacher, and broadcaster. He was the BBC s Head of Drama in Ireland and later Head of BBCTV Drama Script Unit. He has written books and articles about literature and the media, and written and directed numerous programs for the BBC, many on Irish themes. He is a former Chair of the Writers Guild of Great Britain, Deputy Chair of the National Poetry Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Kuperard Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1857334922
• ISBN 13: 9781857334920
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 168
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile