How to order individual Culture Briefings

Culture Briefings give you current, in-depth information found in no other single source on the customs, culture, traditions and ways of life of people in other countries. In today's increasingly smaller world, understanding the ways of the world's other peoples is an essential skill. And the Geotravel Research Center's Culture Briefings will help you develop that expertise.

Culture Briefings help you figure out the natives by penetrating below a society’s surface to reveal the customs and established ways of life in a particular country.

Culture Briefings show the enduring qualities of a people as well as their present preoccupations. They analyze a country's culture and show why things are the way they are. They delve into a people’s character, values, beliefs and customs. You discover the people’s home, family and religious life as well as how they make a living, educate their children and spend their leisure time. You find out about the culture’s artistic endeavors and its political ways. And you learn of the problems the people face and how they handle them.

Culture Briefings, each covering a particular foreign country, are essential tools for:

• Travelers, whether on a tour or traveling independently, who are curious about the ways of life of the people they meet in foreign countries.
  
  
• Business travelers seeking success in their business travel through knowledge of the character, values, beliefs and business ways of their contacts in another culture.
  
  
• Researchers needing current information on the customs, ways of life and lifestyle of people in foreign countries.
  
  
• Teachers requiring up-to-date data on other cultures.
  
  
• Students wanting to learn about the character, customs, values, lifestyle and beliefs in world cultures.
  
  
• Study-abroad students desiring in-depth information on the customs and ways of life in the foreign culture where they will live and study.
  
  
• Military personnel requiring knowledge of a people's customs and lifestyle for an assignment overseas.
  
  
• Travel agencies needing insight into current events, issues, culture and customs in the foreign countries to which they are sending travelers.
  
  
• Anyone striving to understand world cultures through insight into a people's character, values, beliefs and lifestyle.

Travelers get to know the people

If you're traveling abroad, a Culture Briefing lets you enrich your trip, gaining more knowledge, enjoyment and insight — and more financial success when traveling on business.

By giving you knowledge of the local people’s customary ways, a Culture Briefing helps you feel comfortable in what might otherwise be a strange environment. You gain the wisdom necessary to talk intelligently with people in a foreign culture, discussing the life they live, deciphering and interpreting how they think and behave. No longer will you run the risk of embarrassment when talking because you brought up a taboo subject, couldn’t comment on an aspect of local life or knew nothing of the local form of government. And if you're a business traveler, you'll get tips on conducting business.


Frequent updates assure current information

Research is ongoing and the Culture Briefings are frequently updated, assuring you they contain current information.


Special features improve usefulness

Culture Briefings offer special features that increase their usefulness.

• Culture Briefings cover the world's cultures in depth, ranging from 5,000 to 15,000 words each.
  
  
• A complete table of contents, linked to the text, allows you to quickly find specific information.
  
  
• A list of “Do's and Don’ts” helps keep you on the right foot.
  
  
• A “Fast Facts” box gives you quick reference to the names of the country’s current head of government and head of state as well as quality-of-life statistics such as: life expectancy, infant mortality, gross domestic product per capita and rates of literacy, unemployment and inflation.
  
  
• Two maps show: 1) the country’s position on its continent, 2) the country’s major features, regions, rivers and cities.
  
  
• Each country’s briefing and map pages depicts its national flag.

Experts prepare each Culture Briefing

Culture Briefings offer solid, authoritative information on world cultures. They are produced by a team that brings together backgrounds in cultural geography and cultural anthropology as well as extensive experience living for extended periods in a variety of foreign cultures and writing about travel, geography and culture for both the popular press and college-level textbooks.


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