Living in the USA

Little Kids-Educational Books

Author/Publisher
Jen Green - Franklin Watts

Format
Paperback

Pages
24 pages

Book Description
This is a guide for corporations, intercultural training firms, international organizations and governmental and non-governmental agencies. New to this edition are sections on housing agreements and leases, college and university education, investment in the US, buying second-hand and relationships. Topics covered include first impressions, customary behaviour patterns and dominant attitudes, business practices and the workplace environment, social manners and courtesies, transportation, money management, medical care, food and dining customs, shopping, communications, and safety and emergencies. For long-term visitors, there are chapters on housing, care of young children, schools, teenage life, household help, religion, friendships and leisure-time activities.

The late Alison Lanier, the original author, brought to the book long experience in briefing foreign managers and professionals coming to work in the U.S.