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Slovakia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

Slovakia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Brendan Edwards (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

    $12.60
Synopsis

Brief History - Politics - Economic Life - Traditions - Friendships & Family - Relationships - Bureaucracy - Religion - Humour - Local Holidays - Taboos - Invitations - Gifts - Dress - Business etiquette - Punctuality & Appointments - Team working - Communication - Negotiating - Women in Society - Tips - Eating Out - Traditional Food - Dos and Don't - Making Friends

$12.60

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 168
 Publisher: Kuperard
Published: 01 May 2011
ISBN 10: 185733566X
ISBN 13: 9781857335668

Media Reviews
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,
Author Bio
Brendan Edwards is a Canadian academic and writer with an MA in Canadian Studies and Native Studies from Trent University, a Master of Library and Information Studies from McGill University, and a PhD in History from the University of Saskatchewan. He has spent every summer living and teaching in Slovakia since 2003, and lived in the Slovak city of Trnava in 2005-6, where he taught English to high school, university, and private students. Brendan has also lived and worked in Romania, and has edited several texts on Slovakia and Central Europe, including Pictoria: the Early History of Slovakia in Images by Pavel Dvor k (2006) and Migrating Memories: Central Europeans telling their stories in Canada, published by the Central European Association for Canadian Studies (2010). His published works include Paper Talk: a history of libraries, print culture, and Aboriginal peoples in Canada before 1960 (Scarecrow Press, 2005), several articles on Canada in peer-reviewed academic journals, as well as Invited to the Slaughter in Surany, Slovakia in disClosure: a journal of social theory (2010).