foreign countries

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foreign countries

Opportunities in overseas careers

2005
Surveys career opportunities available overseas, focusing on teaching English as a foreign language, working in the Foreign Service or the Peace Corps, and teaching in Department of Defense Dependents Schools; and provides advice on job hunting, benefits, advantages and disadvantages, job outlook, and salaries.

The ugly American

1999
Describes the errors and short-comings of the United States foreign policy through a series of short stories around a common plot during the 1950s in South East Asia.

You can never find a rickshaw when it monsoons

the world on one cartoon a day
2006
A collection of single panel comics that the author/illustrator used to record his daily impressions of places he visited while on a year-long journey around the world following his college graduation. Annotated by the author.

The prisoner of Zenda

2000
Rudolph Rassendyll, an English gentleman in a foreign land, masquerades as his cousin the King to save Ruritania from vicious Black Michel.

Nightmare abroad

stories of Americans imprisoned in foreign lands
1993
An account of American citizens imprisoned in twenty-one countries abroad.

The prisoner of Zenda

1999
Young Rudolf Rassendyll, an English ne'er-do-well, is the living image of a distant relative, Rudolf, the new king of Ruritania. Having never seen his near-twin, Rassendyll heads for the coronation--only to encounter a fantastic plot to deprive Rudolf of his throne.

Any human heart

a novel
2003
Presents the fictional journals of eighty-five-year-old Logan Mountstuart in which he tells of his boyhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, the publication of his first book, his association with some of history's most famous authors, his World War II service, and other adventures into old age.

The Negritude poets

an anthology of translations from the French
1989

Spain and the Spanish

2005
Examines the history and culture of Spain and provides information on the Golden Age of Spain, education and government, important cities and historical sites, industry and export, and other interesting details about the region.

Italy and the Italians

2005
Examines the history and culture of Italy and includes information on the geography and social history of the region as well as their language, education, government, industry, and important cities and tourist sites.

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