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Culture Shock! Belgium: A Guide to Customs & Etiquette [Paperback]

Mark Elliott (Author)
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December 1, 2001 Culture Shock! A Survival Guide to Customs & Etiquette
Whether you travel for business, pleasure, or a combination of the two, the ever-popular "Culture Shock!" series belongs in your backpack or briefcase. Get the nuts-and-bolts information you need to survive and thrive wherever you go. "Culture Shock!" country guides are easy-to-read, accurate, and entertaining crash courses in local customs and etiquette. "Culture Shock!" practical guides offer the inside information you need whether you're a student, a parent, a globetrotter, or a working traveler. "Culture Shock!" at your Door guides equip you for daily life in some of the world's most cosmopolitan cities. And "Culture Shock!" Success Secrets guides offer relevant, practical information with the real-life insights and cultural know-how that can make the difference between business success and failure.

Each "Culture Shock!" title is written by someone who's lived and worked in the country, and each book is packed with practical, accurate, and enjoyable information to help you find your way and feel at home.



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About the Author

Mark Elliott has been employed by the IBM Corporation since the early 1990s as a software engineer and project manager. As a Lotus® Notes® professional, he has been designing, developing, and implementing commercial Notes and Domino applications for industry clients such as IBM, Eastman Kodak, Qualex, Invensys, and Vanity Fair. Prior to joining IBM, he worked as an Application Programmer for the U.S. Department of Defense and as a Quality Assurance Software Engineer for the McDonnell Douglas (Boeing) Corporation. Mark is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he received an interdisciplinary bachelor of arts degree in computer science. He also has a Master’ s Certificate from George Washington University in Project Management. Mark has been certified as a Project Management Professional by the Project Management Institute (PMI). In addition to application development and project management, Mark has authored and been issued numerous patents for the IBM corporation. One of those patents pertains to distribution of Lotus Domino connection documents across multiple network domains.  

Product Details

  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company (December 1, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1558686061
  • ISBN-13: 978-1558686069
  • Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,154,984 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars True to life!, April 20, 2003
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Joeri Aerts (Silver Spring, Maryland United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Culture Shock! Belgium: A Guide to Customs & Etiquette (Paperback)
When reading this book I was really surprised by its accuracy and liveliness. The author succeeds in putting everything I would like to tell my non-Belgian friends in an extremely readable book (I finished it in one night). The point of view of the author is unique in the sense that he is a foreigner (British) but is married to a Belgian and has been living there long enough to know the small things of life. I would recommend this book to anybody remotely interested in Belgium. For those that are not, I can assure you that your interest will be certainly piqued by reading this book. For me this book is a great gift for a friend interested in my country.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Never visited, but feel like I have, February 16, 2002
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C. Perretta (Wallingford, PA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Culture Shock! Belgium: A Guide to Customs & Etiquette (Paperback)
Mark Elliott has written a very entertaining - and if my Belgian friends are to be believed - accurate account of Belgian culture. Not a classic guidebook with lists of places to visit and restaurants to patronize, this book truly lives up to its title. The book contains a great deal of humor which makes the Belgians come alive for the reader. The book has definitely made me put Belgium on my list of places I wish to visit.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Lots of fun, January 26, 2003
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Carine Melle (On the road in Thailand) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Culture Shock! Belgium: A Guide to Customs & Etiquette (Paperback)
As Belgian myself it was funny read this book which is humorous but too much accurate about many things that we know is true in our people but surprised to read in a book!
Book is a very nice introduction to my country for people coming to live here and know about, but don't worry - not all the drivers are so bad and dangerous!
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