Author: Vladimir Zhelvis
Publisher: Xenophobe's Guides
ISBN: 9781906042462
Category : National characteristics, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A guide to understanding the Russians which goes behind the curtain of bearishness to reveal their soft underbelly and highlights the unique character and behavior of the nation. Frank, irreverent, funny--almost guaranteed to cure Xenophobia.
Xenophobe's Guide to the Russians
Author: Vladimir Zhelvis
Publisher: Xenophobe's Guides
ISBN: 9781906042462
Category : National characteristics, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A guide to understanding the Russians which goes behind the curtain of bearishness to reveal their soft underbelly and highlights the unique character and behavior of the nation. Frank, irreverent, funny--almost guaranteed to cure Xenophobia.
Publisher: Xenophobe's Guides
ISBN: 9781906042462
Category : National characteristics, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A guide to understanding the Russians which goes behind the curtain of bearishness to reveal their soft underbelly and highlights the unique character and behavior of the nation. Frank, irreverent, funny--almost guaranteed to cure Xenophobia.
The Xenophobe's Guide to the Danes
Author: Helen Dyrbye
Publisher: Oval Projects
ISBN: 190812024X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
A guide to understanding the Danes that highlights their character and behaviour with warmth and wit.
Publisher: Oval Projects
ISBN: 190812024X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
A guide to understanding the Danes that highlights their character and behaviour with warmth and wit.
The Xenophobe's Guide to the Russians
Author: Vladimir Zhelvis
Publisher: Oval Projects
ISBN: 1908120789
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
A guide to understanding the Russians which goes behind the curtain of bearishmess to reveal their soft underbelly.
Publisher: Oval Projects
ISBN: 1908120789
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
A guide to understanding the Russians which goes behind the curtain of bearishmess to reveal their soft underbelly.
The Xenophobe's Guide to the Russians
Author: Elizabeth Roberts
Publisher: Ravette Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
This is one of a series of guides designed to tell the truth about other nations, using sweeping generalizations and observations as a base, detailing what to expect and how to cope with it. The guides try to explain why things are done the way they are and they try to allay the feelings of trepidation with which the xenophobe approaches new territory. This particular book looks at the Russians.
Publisher: Ravette Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
This is one of a series of guides designed to tell the truth about other nations, using sweeping generalizations and observations as a base, detailing what to expect and how to cope with it. The guides try to explain why things are done the way they are and they try to allay the feelings of trepidation with which the xenophobe approaches new territory. This particular book looks at the Russians.
The Xenophobe's Guide to the Canadians
Author: Vaughn Roste
Publisher: Oval Projects
ISBN: 1908120150
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
A guide to understanding the Canadians which shows the quirks of personality that set them apart from their neighbours to the south in the United States of America.
Publisher: Oval Projects
ISBN: 1908120150
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
A guide to understanding the Canadians which shows the quirks of personality that set them apart from their neighbours to the south in the United States of America.
The Xenophobe's Guide to the Brazilians
Author: Paulo Barauna
Publisher: Oval Projects Ltd
ISBN: 1908120983
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
What makes Brazilians BRAZILIAN: A witty guide to the beliefs and behaviour that define the Brazilians.
Publisher: Oval Projects Ltd
ISBN: 1908120983
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
What makes Brazilians BRAZILIAN: A witty guide to the beliefs and behaviour that define the Brazilians.
The Xenophobe's Guide to the Finns
Author: Tarja Moles
Publisher: Oval Projects
ISBN: 1908120363
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
A guide to understanding the Finns that explores their national characteristics with humour and style.
Publisher: Oval Projects
ISBN: 1908120363
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
A guide to understanding the Finns that explores their national characteristics with humour and style.
Xenophobe's Guide to the Russians
Author: Vladimir Ilʹich Zhelʹvis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908120793
Category : National characteristics, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908120793
Category : National characteristics, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
The Xenophobe's Guide to the Japanese
Author: Sahoko Kaji
Publisher: Oval Projects
ISBN: 1908120630
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
A guide to understanding the Japanese which goes beyond the etiquette to uncover the real nature of the people of the rising sun.
Publisher: Oval Projects
ISBN: 1908120630
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
A guide to understanding the Japanese which goes beyond the etiquette to uncover the real nature of the people of the rising sun.
Xenophobe's Guide to the Austrians
Author: Louis James
Publisher: Xenophobe's Guide
ISBN: 9781906042219
Category : Austria
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.)""""
Publisher: Xenophobe's Guide
ISBN: 9781906042219
Category : Austria
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.)""""