Grace Cuddihy, Anna King

Broschiertes Buch

Russia - Culture Smart!

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

Herausgegeben: Chesler, Geoffrey

Beschreibung

Have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life will help you make the most of your visit, while tips on etiquette and communication will help you navigate unfamiliar situations and avoid faux pas.

Autor

Grace Cuddihy is a translator and editor who has lived in Moscow, Ukraine, and in Russia s Mari-El Republic. While completing a degree in History and Russian at Trinity College Dublin, she won a scholarship to Moscow State University. In Moscow she worked as a governess for Russian families, as an English teacher, and for three years as an editor at The Moscow Times newspaper. She was a frontline editor and translator at the 2016 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Grace has worked as a consultant for a British company in Moscow, producing reports and analysis on the Russian education market, and for a number of Russian companies, and has run translation workshops for the Russian Central Bank. She continues to work as a freelance translator and editor for organizations such as Skoltech, the Strelka Institute, and the Russian Academy of Sciences. She is currently pursuing a Master s degree in Russian and Post-Soviet Politics at University College London s School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Anna King is a Russian-born business development consultant specializing in cross-cultural issues, negotiation practices, and conflict management. She speaks seven languages and has an M.Phil. degree from Cambridge University. Anna has worked with key government and decision makers in Britain and across the CIS. She has also interpreted for high-level government visits to the UK and for senior ministerial meetings at the EU in Brussels. Having worked in business development for a number of years for two major British corporations, she is now managing director of the British-based consultancy 3C Negotiations, and is the author of numerous articles and two books on cross-cultural communications.

Produktdetails

• Culture Smart!
• Verlag: Kuperard
• 2th. ed.
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 170mm x 114mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 210g
• ISBN-13: 9781787028685
• ISBN-10: 1787028682
• Artikelnr.: 57841277

Rezensionen

""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," Easy Jet Magazine "offer glimpses into the psyche of a faraway world, - New York Times