Foreign to Familiar: A Guide to Understanding Hot-and Cold-Climate Cultures

by Sarah Lanier

Overview

Author Sarah Lanier explains how cultures around the world can fit into two basic categories and how these categories differ. Whether you are a missionary, a diplomat, a cross-cultural worker or simply live in a cross cultural neighborhood, you'll find this book to be a valuable resource for understanding and relating to others from a different "climate."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781581581614
Publisher:	McDougal Publishing
Publication date:	11/01/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	260,730
File size:	571 KB

About the Author

SARAH A. LANIER was born in Georgia, USA, and moved with her family to the Middle East at the age of nine. Since 1980, she has worked with an international and its university system. Her expertise is in the field of leadership and personnel development. She worked interculturally for eleven years in the Netherlands , ten years in Israel, and one year in Chile. She has also taught and lived for extended amounts of time in Africa, the Middle East, Europe and New Zealand and is conversant in five languages. Sarah currently travels internationally as a consultant and lecturer on culture, leadership, and team dynamics.