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Expert Expatriate: Your Guide to Successful Relocation Abroad Read the Tales from a Small Planet Review Living and working in another country can be one of the most exciting and enriching experiences of your life -- but also one of the most challenging. Fortunately, this book is here to help. The authors -- who have lived abroad for a total of more than 31 years, in eleven different countries -- have distilled their own experiences and those of many others around the world into a comprehensive, step-by-step guidebook, packed with practical suggestions and real-life examples. -- Publisher's Description For more information about this book, visit the book's website at Expatguide.info. © 2002 ISBN: 1857883209 $19.95 Other books reviewed by Tales from a Small Planet Breaking Through Culture Shock by Elizabeth Marx Foreign At Home and Away: Foreign-Born Wives in the U.S. Foreign Service, by Margaret Bender Homeward Bound: A Spouse's Guide to Repatriation by Robin Pascoe Live & Work Abroad: A Guide for Modern Nomads , by Huw Francis and Michelyne Callan A Moveable Marriage: Relocate Your Relationship Without Breaking It, by Robin Pascoe A Portable Identity: A Woman's Guide to Maintaining a Sense of Self While Moving Overseas by Debra R. Bryson and Charise M. Hoge (reviewed Spring 2004)
Intercultural
Services: A Worldwide Buyer's Guide and Sourcebook
Intercultural competence has become an essential skill for success and interpersonal relations in the global environment in which we must function today. Most corporations and organizations need to provide intercultural training and assistance to their employees and their families. My book provides a comprehensive array of resources for dealing effectively with this challenge and offers guidance in how to use the resources effectively. No other book like it has been published to date. -- Author's Description To preview it at the publisher's web site at (you will need to enter "Intercultural Services" in the online form), click here. © 2000 ISBN: 0877193444 $37.95
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Finance for Overseas Americans Americans living abroad find that managing their finances is no easy matter. Personal Finance for Overseas Americans offers insightful ways for U.S. expatriates to manage their complicated financial affairs. For Americans living abroad, financial planning cannot be reduced to a few simple steps. This book gives U.S. expatriates the tools and information they need to build a workable financial plan. Financial statements, designed specifically for the overseas American, clarify the reader's current financial position. Financial worksheets and tables help the reader determine how much a goal will cost, how much to save, and how to invest the savings. Personal Finance for Overseas Americans contains detailed information on managing cash, debt, financial risk, investments, and taxes. It explains how various treaties can affect not only the taxes U.S. expatriates pay, but also their ability to qualify for U.S. social security benefits. The book gives advice on choosing various U.S. or foreign insurance policies and avoiding situations that could leave their U.S. home uninsured. The appendices contain financial statements, worksheets, and tables referred to in the text. As personal circumstances change the reader will want to refer back to this book, aided by the book's thorough index and comprehensive glossary. In addition, readers can continue to use the procedures and techniques this book presents after they return to the United States.. -- Publisher's Description © 2000 ISBN: 0970065116 $23.95
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Internationalists: Business Strategies for Globalization This book is based on interviews with 65 business professionals and executives on four continents and reveals their challenges and advice for people in the international arena. As you might expect, most of their issues are human centered. My theme is that the "internationalist" is a unique new and identifiable professional group that should be recognized and developed by organizations and institutions that expect to be conducting cross-border activities. -- Author's Description © 1999 ISBN: 1581510403 $24.95
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Expat's Guide to US Taxes The Expat's Guide to US Taxes" is one guidebook no expat should be without! Jane Bruno leads readers through the increasingly complex expat tax maze. Her straigt-forward guide answers all of your most difficult tax questions. --Reviewed by Betsy Burlingame, Editor, Expat Exchange © 2000 Second Printing ISBN: 096628691X $19.95
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Shock! Successful Living Abroad: A Wife's Guide At one time or another, almost everyone has entertained the fantasy of living abroad. In one's dreams, language is no problem, the natives are always friendly, and every day is another adventure in paradise. The reality, however, is quite different--especially for the dependants of people whose careers take them overseas. Suddenly, the tag-along spouse finds him or herself in a strange land, without friends or family, and often without a job. There's a household to be set up and run, social events to be navigated, and often children to be raised--all in a foreign culture whose rules the spouse may be struggling to understand. For those transplanted better halves, help is on the way in Robin Pascoe's Culture Shock! A Wife's Guide. Though Pascoe has obviously written her book with traveling wives in mind, the sound advice she gives is applicable to partners of either sex. From dealing with pre-departure jitters to hiring household help, from making the cultural transition to fighting off boredom, Pascoe's suggestions are equal opportunity. So if your life's partner is about to head overseas for a long-term assignment, get Culture Shock! A Wife's Guide to help ease you over the rough spots of getting adjusted. --Reviewed by Amazon.com © 1993 ISBN: 1-5586812-3-X $12.95 Culture
Shock! Successful Living Abroad: A Parent's Guide You and your spouse have just been screened for that important posting overseas. Now it's all systems go. But HOLD IT! Who screened the children? Raising happy, well-adjusted children is always a challenge for parents, regardless of where they live. But overseas, parenting issues are magnified because traditional life supports are absent. Parents, trust your instincts. But first, read this book, because it offers sound advice on some critical issues, such as: Do your children have a learning disability that won't be catered to by an international school? Are you setting them up for loss of self-esteem or an unsuccessful adjustment? Are you helping them to appreciate and discriminate among the new experiences, and relate them to what they know about their own culture? Robin Pascoe, author of Culture Shock-A Parent's Guide, knows what it's like to be a traveling wife and mother. Her children have been on the move since they were born, and her family has lived in a community of traveling families. The advice in this book is the result of her cumulative experience, as well as consultation with child psychologists. --Reviewed by Amazon.com © 1999 ISBN: 1-5586842-5-5 $12.95
Expat: Women's True Tales of Life Abroad (Adventura Travel Series) Edited by Christina Henry de Tessan Tales told by women living abroad. © 2002 ISBN: 1580050700 $16.95
Culture Shock! Successful Living Abroad: Living and Working Abroad by Monica Rabe Whether for the career opportunities, the chance to experience a new culture or a combination of the two, living and working in a foreign country can be a rewarding experience for the expatriate family. But for the unwary and unprepared, it can be an unpleasant experience, as it strains relationships and tests the tolerance of the new foreigner. Culture Shock!: Living and Working Abroad will give anyone contemplating a move to another country a headstart in avoiding and absorbing the effects of culture shock in their new home. From finding accommodation to operating effectively in the workplace, Monica Rabe identifies the problems commonly encountered by the expatriate and offers ways of overcoming and avoiding them--Book Description by Amazon.com © 1997 ISBN: 1-5586830-4-6 $12.95
Women's Guide to Overseas Living by Nancy J. Piet-Pelon, Barbara Hornby This perceptive book was written by two women who have lived abroad for many years. In it they examine issues critical to women (and their families) who relocate abroad. They also provide sound advice on how to cope effectively with the problems that arise. For the veteran or the first-time sojourner, this book illuminates the rich potential of living overseas and offers practical suggestions that help women take advantage of one of life's greatest opportunities, that of sharing in another culture. In response to comments on the first edition, the authors added sections addressing reentry and the special concerns of women who are members of minority groups. Information is also provided for women seeking employment overseas. This book helps women in examining motives for an overseas move, learning about culture shock and other adjustments, handling stress and loneliness, managing the household, helping children adjust, and staying healthy. --Description by the publisher © 1992 ISBN: 1-8778640-5-6 $15.95
Survival
Kit for Overseas Living: For Americans Planning to Live and Work
Abroad After fifteen years and sales of over l40,000 copies, Survival Kit For Overseas Living is still one of the most popular books ever published on an intercultural subject. In this third edition, Robert Kohls has extensively updated and revised the book and elaborated on a number of critical elements in the cross-cultural adaptation process--reactions to culture shock, for instance. As in previous editions, the book offers practical information and penetrating insights into the process of cross-cultural adaptation combined with hands-on suggestions for coping with the overseas experience. It explains how to avoid stereotypes and explore the mysteries of culture and how different values and ways of thinking influence behavior. It offers basic strategies for getting to know your hosts, managing culture shock, and developing intercultural communication skills. Finally, it gives the reader guidelines on how to deal with reverse culture shock upon returning home. --Description by the publisher © 1996 ISBN: 1-8778643-8-2 $14.25
Intercultural Marriage: Promises & Pitfalls by Dugan Romano In this insightful book, newly revised and expanded, author Dugan Romano examines the impact of cultural differences on marriage and offers practical guidelines on how to deal with the complexities and problems involved. Romano suggests that the joys of an intercultural marriage often result as much from overcoming the obstacles and confronting the challenges as from the adventure of crossing cultures. Tthe author relies on the voices of the many intercultural couples she has interviewed over the years. Some of these voices are the same as were heard in the first edition, now ten years further along in their relationships. Some are younger voices--couples facing different challenges from those of their counterparts just a few years ago. It is written in plain, nontechnical English for couples either already in or contemplating an intercultural marriage. After an introduction and overview of the subject, Romano examines the motives of those who marry across cultures and develops a typology that vividly characterizes the kinds of people likely to welcome the uncertainties of intercultural marriage. She goes on to identify nineteen "troublespots" in such marriages, points at which cultural differences raise issues and create problems that are either not present or are less severe in monocultural marriages. These troublespots range from everyday basics like food, finances, sex and politics to such topics as male/female roles, class and religion. The chapter on raising children has been extensively expanded through the author's research with bicultural children. Romano has also added a new chapter at the end of this section that focuses on coping with death or divorce in intercultural marriage. In the final section of the book, Romano includes a new chapter on the promises of an intercultural marriage, allowing the voices of those interviewed to explain why they wouldn't have it any other way, despite the difficulties. --Description by the publisher © 1997 ISBN: 1-8778645-1-X $18.95
Mixed Matches: How to Create Successful Interracial, Interethnic, and Interfaith Relationships Joel Crohn Mixed matches are more complicated relationships than those between people from similar backgrounds. Often, the very qualities that attracted us to our partners ultimately lie at the roots of our most difficult problems. For even when partners don't feel a strong identification with their racial, religious, or cultural groups, they discover that their loyalty to the past goes deeper than they realized. Psychotherapist Joel Crohn has learned in years of counseling couples in cross-cultural relationships that how partners negotiate their cultural and religious differences is as important as what the difference are. Over time, the reserve of a Protestant wife can seem like emotional withholding to her Jewish husband, whose openness seems intrusive to her. An Asian father may feel his children need more discipline, while his American wife thinks they have it harder than she did. A black Trinidadian man is excited about the opportunities in the United States, while his Detroit-born black girlfriend thinks he's naive about racism. The methods in Mixed Matches have helped these and many other couples approach each other compassionately, teaching them to "translate" their different styles of expression and negotiate successful resolutions. Dr. Crohn also offers practical advice on how couples can confront prejudice and stereotypes, deal with in-laws, and help children achieve a sense of identity in a bicultural family. --Description by Amazon.com © 1995 ISBN: ISBN: 0-4499096-1-1 $13.00
U.S. Expatriate Handbook Guide to Living and Working Abroad by John W. Adams The Expatriate Handbook gives the reader an overview of all the issues facing business people when they're asked to take on overseas assignments. While every assignment varies with country and position, there are common issues every American should examine before accepting becoming an expatriate. The author draws on his years of experience working with European expatriates to provide useful guidelines to determine if the assignment is right for the reader. --Description by Amazon.com © 1998 ISBN: 0-9663171-0-6 $20.00
Global Explorers: The Next Generation of Leaders by J. Stewart Black, Allen Morrison, Hal B. Gregerson Corporations today need to look at the world on a global basis and develop products and strategies that work across borders, so today's corporate leaders need to develop business and leadership characteristics that are effective outside of their own national boundaries. Our upcoming book, Global Explorers, confronts this issue head on. The book addresses two major questions: (1) What capabilities do leaders who are charged with directing operations that span an entire world of diverse cultures, capabilities, and customers need to acquire? (2) Given the growing need for global leaders, how can managers most effectively develop these characteristics? You can see the book's answers to these questions in the table of contents below. -- Publisher's Description © 1999 ISBN: 0415921481 $29.95
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