CultureShock! Austria
Author | : Susan Roraff |
Publisher | : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2011-02-10 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9814398683 |
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Author | : Susan Roraff |
Publisher | : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2011-02-10 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9814398683 |
Author | : Susan Roraff |
Publisher | : West Winds Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
A Guide to Customs and Etiquette
Author | : Deborah Swallow |
Publisher | : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2011-02-25 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9814346861 |
CultureShock! Finland guides you on a fun-filled crash course on getting to know this rarely explored country. Find out why the Finns are so proud of their motherland and why others fall in love with it from their first visit. From cosmopolitan Helsinki to traditional Lapland, discover the gems of each region and be charmed by the magical winters and the long summer days. Be acquainted with the Finns and find out what lies behind their silence and the desire for personal space. Understand how environmental consciousness and gender equality play an important role in Finnish society and be initiated into the delights of the Finnish sauna. This book also covers a wide range of practical topics to enable you to settle in seamlessly, such as how to set up home, how to conduct business effectively and what leisure activities are available. CultureShock! Finland is the all-encompassing guide that will help you to find your way in Finland and make it your own.
Author | : Susan Roraff |
Publisher | : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2011-02-15 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9814435309 |
Author | : Alan Allport |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1438104839 |
- Information-packed volumes provide comprehensive overviews of each nation's people, geography, history, government, economy, and culture- Abundant full-color illustrations guide the reader on a voyage of discovery- Maps reflect current political boundaries
Author | : Sean Sheehan |
Publisher | : Marshall Cavendish |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780761414971 |
Presents the geography, history, economy, and social life and customs of Austria, the birthplace of such people as Kurt Waldheim, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sigmund Freud, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Author | : Gitta Honegger |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300129656 |
Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989), a literary figure of international acclaim and arguably Austria's greatest post-World War II writer, became the first of his generation to expose unrelentingly his country's pathological denial of complicity in the Holocaust. Bernhard's writings and indeed his own biography reflect Austria's fraught efforts to define itself as a nation following the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy and the trauma of World War II. Repeatedly he scandalized the nation with novels, plays, and public statements that exposed the convoluted ways Austrians were attempting to come to terms with their Nazi past--or defiantly avoiding doing so. This book, the first comprehensive biography of Thomas Bernhard in English, examines his life and work and their intricate relationship to Austria's geographical, political, and cultural transformations in the twentieth century. While Bernhard was the scourge of his native culture, Honegger explains, he was also a product of that same culture. Appreciation of his controversial impact on his society is possible only through an understanding of the contradictions, the shame, and the achievements that mark Austrians' self-perception in the postwar years. Honegger shows that for Bernhard the theater was not only a profession but also a paradigm for his life, and that performance was the primary force animating his writing and self-construction. Even after his death, Bernhard's carefully constructed biography continues to fascinate, shock, and expose the Austrian culture at large.
Author | : Louis James |
Publisher | : Xenophobe's Guide |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Austria |
ISBN | : 9781906042219 |
A guide to understanding the Austrians that delves into the cultural curiosities and peculiar characteristics of this land-locked nation"""""The Austrian needs lots of persuading to have his traditions tampered with in the name of modernization and efficiency. He is attached to his sausage, his insipid beer, and the young white wine that tastes so remarkably like iron filings. He prefers the familiar, tried, and tested to the novelty, the latter almost certainly being an attempt by persons unknown to make money at his expense.""""""""Home life for the Austrians is a never-ending quest for Gemutlichkeit or coziness, which is achieved by accumulating objects that run the gamut from the pleasingly aesthetic to the mind-blowingly kitsch.""""""""In Austria detonating pretension is a national pastime. It has to do with attitudes to power that date back to an absolutist form of government and with the self-irony developed by people who were (or thought they were) more talented than the authority to which they had to defer.""""""""The paradoxical character of the Austrian mingles profoundly conservative attitudes with a flair for innovation and invention. This creative tension usually takes the form of official obstructionism to good ideas, but sometimes the other way round. For example, the population were outraged by Josef II's attempt to make them adopt reusable coffins with flaps on the underside for dropping out the corpses. (The Emperor was forced to retreat, grumbling as he did so about the people's wasteful attitude.)""""
Author | : John Hooker |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780804748070 |
A guide to adapting and thriving within unfamiliar cultural settings challenges the notion that professional life interacts with culture only at the etiquette level, distinguishing between rule-based and relationship-based cultures while considering the roles of such factors as competition, security, and lifestyle. (Social Science)
Author | : Michael Agar |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0688149499 |
This guide to understanding the culture of conversation is by one of America's foremost linguistic anthropologists. In a fascinating journey through the meaning of language--and the relationship of language to culture--Michael Agar sheds new light on the oceans of language, showing how to keep afloat even when faced with something that seems overwhelmingly foreign.