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The Comprehensive Postal Exam for 473/473-C (Barron's Comprehensive Postal Exam)
by Jerry Bobrow

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'This all-new test preparation manual presents six full-length practice tests for Postal Exams 473 and 473C. Tests come with answer sheets for self-scoring. The book also provides an overview of the tests, followed by extensive information and advice on... (read more)
 
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Speak the Culture: France: Be Fluent in French Life and Culture
by Andrew (edt) Whittaker

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A guidebook can show you where to go, a phrase-book what to say when you get there. Only Speak the Culture: France will lead you to the nation's soul. This easy-to-use cultural companion reflects what it means to have grown up with Camus, Cezanne, De... (read more)
 
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China - Culture Smart!: A Quick Guide to Customs and Etiquette (Culture Smart! A Quick Guide to Customs & Etiquette)
by Kathy Flower

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Culture Smart guides offer illuminating and essential insights into culture and society, helping you turn your visit - whether for business or pleasure - into a memorable and enriching experience.... (read more)
 
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Thinking Points : Communicating Our American Values and Vision (06 Edition)
by Lakoff

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Two years ago George Lakoff published the bestselling Don’t Think of an Elephant! Its account of the conservative monopoly on effective framing touched off a national discussion about political language. It also gave rise to a chorus of pleas for... (read more)
 
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People Skills (79 Edition)
by Robert Bolton

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A wall of silent resentment shuts you off from someone you love....You listen to an argument in which neither party seems to hear the other....Your mind drifts to other matters when people talk to you.... People Skills is a communication-skills handbook... (read more)
 
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Media Control the Spectacular 2ND Edition
by Noam Chomsky

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Chomsky's classic back-pocket primer on U.S. government propaganda and media bias, now available in an edition expanded to include his comments regarding media coverage of terrorism and U.S. foreign policy in a post-September 11 world.... (read more)
 
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Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong : Why We Love France But Not the French (03 Edition)
by Jean-benoit Nadeau

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The French... -Smoke, drink and eat more fat than anyone in the world, yet live longer and have fewer heart problems than Americans -Work 35-hour weeks, and take seven weeks of paid holidays per year, but are still the world's fourth-biggest economic... (read more)
 
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Envisioning Information
by Edward R Tufte

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This book celebrates escapes from the flatlands of both paper and computer screen, showing superb displays of high-dimensional complex data. The most design-oriented of Edward Tufte's books, Envisioning Information shows maps, charts, scientific... (read more)
 
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Field Guide to Gestures: How to Identify and Interpret Virtually Every Gesture Known to Man with Other
by Melissa Wagner

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A handbook of more than one hundred body language signs and gestures includes illustrations of each accompanied by a detailed synopsis of their meanings, origins, and more subtle nuances as they vary among cultures and through time. Original.... (read more)
 
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Going Dutch in Beijing: How to Behave Properly When Far Away from Home Going Dutch in Beijing: How to Behave Properly When Far Away from Home
by Mark Mccrum

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What to do and what not to do when traveling almost anywhere—an entertainment for the armchair or the intrepid traveler Why shouldn’t you offer to pay for your share of the meal in China? Or use the thumbs-up sign to mean “that... (read more)
 
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Au Contraire: Figuring Out the French Au Contraire: Figuring Out the French
by Gilles Asselin

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This work provides readers with the critical tools to effectively develop creative and appropriate responses to any situation, based on a deep understanding of unique cultural dynamics. There is also a quick and useful guide to social behaviour and... (read more)
 
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Botswana - Culture Smart!: A Quick Guide to Customs and Etiquette (Culture Smart! A Quick Guide to Customs & Etiquette)
by Mike Main

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Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to... (read more)
 
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Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
by Kate Fox

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A bestseller in the UK, Watching the English is a biting, affectionate, insightful and often hilarious look English Society. Putting the English national character under her anthropological microscope, Fox finds a strange and fascinating culture... (read more)
 
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Express Yourself!: The Essential Guide to International Understanding (Insiders' Guide)
by Michael Powell

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Did you Know:  Brazilians are very optimistic and resourceful people with jeito - a belief that there is always a solution to every problem, even if it means bending the rules or employing a little well-placed nepotism. In 1989 the peaceful... (read more)
 
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Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and the Future of Media
by Robert W Mcchesney

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In this brilliant new book, Robert W. McChesney, one of America's leading media scholars and activists, brings both his authoritative analysis and unparalleled historical knowledge to bear on the growing but only fitfully successful field of media... (read more)
 
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The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do
by Clotaire Rapaille

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Why are people around the world so very different? What makes us live, buy, even love as we do? The answers are in the codes. In The Culture Code, internationally revered cultural anthropologist and marketing expert Clotaire Rapaille reveals for the... (read more)
 
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The Art of Civilized Conversation: A Guide to Expressing Yourself with Style and Grace
by Margaret Shepherd

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In our fast-paced, electronic society, the most basic social interaction—talking face-to-face—can be a challenge for even the most educated and self-assured individuals. And yet making conversation is a highly practical skill: those who do it... (read more)
 
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