books about: expatriates

books about: expatriates

books:

Expatriates

The Arrival (Bangkok Diaries)

annvremont.com, 2008

When Shane Aelis is kicked out of college following a drunken, mostly nude stroll through campus in search of his dorm mate, his father decides it's time to "straighten" him out. And so he naively loads his son onto a plane bound for the best or worst place an emerging homosexual could go, placing Shane in the care of a family friend he doesn't ...

Expatriate Games: My Season of Misadventures in Czech Semi-Pro Basketball

David Fromm

Skyhorse Publishing, 2008

Fromm is in a Zone
Are you a former high school basketball player? Pretty solid game, but not good enough to actually play ball at the college level? Maybe spent your college years and/or grad school years as a gym rat? Probably realized when you were 24 or 25, playing pick-up games ...

Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926-1933 (Whitney Museum of American Art)

Joan Simon, Brigitte Leal

The Whitney Museum of American Art, 2008

The Artistic Genius of Alexander Calder's Paris Years.
Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was an American sculptor and artist, perhaps best known for inventing the mobile. He moved from New York to Paris in 1926, where he established a studio in the Montparnasse Quarter. His articulated toys (particularly the "Cirque Calder") ...

Rain Fall

Barry Eisler

Signet, 2003

Discovering Rain Fall
Searching for a new author is an adventure wrought with time spent reading jacket blurbs or rear covers. Personally, I like to do this in bookstores. Nothing is better than walking the aisles, randomly lifting a book from a shelf, and reading the first page if the ...

Bangkok Babylon: The Real-Life Exploits of Bangkok's Legendary Expatriates are often Stranger than Fiction

Jerry Hopkins

Periplus Editions, 2006

Brings me back to Bangkok
I lived in Bangkok for a year and experienced many of the things written in this book first hand. Fortunately my wife is Thai and explained a lot of them but this book goes the extra mile and is an interesting and fun read. It's easy to be a "fish out of water" in ...

Raising Global Nomads: Parenting Abroad in an On-Demand World

Robin Pascoe

Expatriate Press Limited, 2006

At last an answer to 'are we doing the right thing?' in relocating with children
Perhaps no life decision is so wrought with uncertainty and apprehension as the one to relocate your children overseas, whether temporarily for an overseas assignment, sabbatical or extended world travel or permanently as emigrants. Will we be damaging them? Will they ...

Hide Your Assets and Disappear: A Step-by-Step Guide to Vanishing Without a Trace

Edmund Pankau

Collins Business, 2000

Hide Your Assets and disappear
Great book, had lots of useful insights. Book arrived in a timely manner and in condition promised.

The Plain Truth About Living in Mexico: The Expatriate's Guide to Moving, Retiring, or Just Hanging Out

Doug Bower, Cynthia M. Bower

Universal Publishers, 2005

Thank goodness for this book!
As a young person moving to Mexico for work, I found this book to be extremely helpful. It has eased my worries about such mundane things as obtaining safe prescriptions and assisted me in deciding whether to move my possessions or sell and purchase new ones when I ...

Leaving America: The New Expatriate Generation

John R. Wennersten

Praeger Publishers, 2007

The New Migration
John Wennersten's book 'Leaving America' is a great book for those seeking to understand the current wave of emigration from the United States, a wave contrary to the arc of history of this country. Wennersten weaves together anecdotes, data, and discussion to not ...

Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story

Amanda Vaill

Broadway, 1999

The Murphys: maybe more interesting than their pal Fitzgerald
Zelda Fitzgerald died on March 10, 2005. Hers was a terrible death --- she was a patient at the Highland Mental Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, and the building caught fire, and because the patients were locked in, Zelda and eight others died. She was 48. Her ...

Bamboo Network: How Expatriate Chinese Entrepreneurs Are Creating a New Economic Superpower in Asia

Murray Weidenbaum

Free Press, 1996

Good insight into the Asian-Chinese corporate system.
If you believe in the economic miracle in the new 21st Pacific Century, this is the book to read. It is the "New Industrial Revolution" in the making. It is essential to understand how the "Guanxi" or "network" system works in Asian-run ...

Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream

M. Jeffrey Hardwick

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003

this is american culture at its best
A great read and remarkable that no one has written about Gruen before now. if American retail and architecture is your thing, this is a must have. Hardwick captures Gruen in an objective light, in his time, for the reader to judge. can't wait for the next Hardwick ...

I Am Happier to Know You

Jeanne M. Eck

Angel Wings Publishing Partners, 2005

i am happier to know u
loved it, loved it, loved it...my kind of book....easy to read, extremely interesting & informative...if you have a desire to learn more about the muslim culture & to have a greater understanding of the people of egypt this is the book you must read. the author with ...

Living Well Is the Best Revenge (Modern Library)

Calvin Tomkins

Modern Library, 1998

Lives of Charm and Grace
It's been nearly 30 years since I read this book and I remember it with delight. Sara and Gerald Murphy made living an art form. Sure, it's fun that they knew the famous writers and artist of the age, but it is their love for each other, their children, and their ...

A Moveable Marriage: Relocate Your Relationship without Breaking It

Robin Pascoe

Expatriate Press Limited, 2003

When you're done reading it, leave it on his nightstand.
Did you know that the divorce rate among expatriates is an additional 50% higher than the national average? Kudos to Robin Pascoe for serving up a reality check on a sensitive subject with a side dish of humor. As a person who has "been there, done that" I highly ...