Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Poland - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
    Unavailable
    Poland - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
    Unavailable
    Poland - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
    Ebook209 pages1 hour

    Poland - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

    By Greg Allen and Culture Smart

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    The changes in Polish life, culture, economics, and development have been remarkable. And the pace of change shows little sign of abating. Through twenty-five years of post-Communist transformation and ten years as a member of the European Union, some Polish cities, like Warsaw, KrakÓw, Poznan, and Wroclaw, have experienced an economic renaissance thanks largely to direct foreign investment, EU funds, and an influx of tourists. Much of the countryside, and cities like LÓdz and Lublin, however, are shadows of their former selves. The mass emigration of Polish workers following European integration has had as significant an effect on Poland as it has on the destination countries, such as the UK. Despite a crisis of confidence in the country's direction, a swing toward political populism, and the tragic death of the Polish president in the Smolensk disaster of 2010, Poland is the only EU member not to have suffered economic contraction in the years following the 2007–08 global financial crisis. That Poland continues to develop in growth and influence is a testament to the legendary Polish resolve in the face of adversity. This new, updated edition of Culture Smart! Poland provides visitors with an insight into everyday life in today's Poland. From the country's rich and tragic history to the growth of a modern economy, from the rustic rural countryside to the Warsaw hipster scene, the reader will gain an appreciation of Polish culture much deeper than that to be found in conventional travel guides.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKuperard
    Release dateJul 1, 2015
    ISBN9781857337105
    Unavailable
    Poland - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

    Related to Poland - Culture Smart!

    Titles in the series (100)

    View More
    View More

    Related ebooks

    Popular Culture & Media Studies For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Countries & cultures

      May 7, 2020

      Writing about a foreign country or setting your fictional story within a different culture can be fascinating, but your writing can easily become fraught with errors if you haven’t done your research thoroughly. Therefore, before you set your pen to

      3 min read

    • Article

      Heady Brew

      Feb 12, 2024

      It’s not usually a good sign when your suburb turns up in the lead spot on a national newspaper website and stays there for the rest of the day. Yet there it was: the Auckland township that says it’s terrorised by alcoholics. The report on Stuff was

      2 min read

    • Article

      Final Word

      Oct 10, 2020

      What was the original purpose of the archives studied by the One More Voice team? Such archives, very roughly speaking, originally served to preserve the documents of the British Empire. What One More Voice does is shift scholarly focus in these arch

      2 min read

    • Article

      Editor’s Letter

      Dec 16, 2020

      When faced with the prospect of putting together a travel magazine in a year when travel has been curtailed to the degree that walking to the mailbox to check the post constituted a major journey for most, access to fresh just-got-back-and-this-is-wh

      2 min read

    • Article

      Kiwi Cop-out

      Apr 3, 2022

      My wife, Natalie, is half Polish, and although she grew up in Britain, as a child she’d travel with her family every summer to visit cousins and grandparents. She still waxes lyrical about those blessed times in Poland’s forests, lakes and town squar

      2 min read

    • Article

      Meet The Author

      Mar 16, 2020

      Richard Wadley is a retired geologist and mining company executive. In 2005, he moved to the Waterberg Plateau near the town of Vaalwater with his wife Lyn, where he began a 12-year process of researching and writing Waterberg Echoes. At more than 80

      3 min read

    • Article

      Scottish Local History Forum

      Oct 8, 2022

      Scottish Local History Forum
      2 min read

    • Article

      Searching High & Low

      Aug 21, 2022

      Searching High & Low
      3 min read

    • Article

      Spotlight on… Burntwood Family History Group

      Feb 11, 2022

      We draw much of our current membership from a wide area in and around southern Staffordshire. This includes the Burntwood area itself, the three-spired cathedral city of Lichfield, the villages of Cannock Chase, and the northern parts of the Black Co

      3 min read

    • Article

      Spotlight on… Burntwood Family History Group

      Feb 11, 2022

      We draw much of our current membership from a wide area in and around southern Staffordshire. This includes the Burntwood area itself, the three-spired cathedral city of Lichfield, the villages of Cannock Chase, and the northern parts of the Black Co

      3 min read

    • Article

      Squid Game, Hellbound: Will South Korea Displace Japan As The New Cultural Superpower In Asia?

      Dec 6, 2021

      At the beginning of the pandemic, I vowed not to slide into couch-potato mode and crawl out of the television screen looking like Sadako from Ring after a nighttime Netflix binge. But I seemed to be in a minority keeping the streaming addiction at ba

      5 min read

    • Article

      From The Editor

      Jan 10, 2020

      barely a week into 2020 and it’s very difficult to feel optimistic about the new year – let alone the next decade ahead. And it’s not just South Africa that isn’t off to a great start. As fires rage in Australia (let’s not forget the devastation in t

      1 min read

    • Article

      Final Word

      Dec 11, 2021

      What are the themed years and how often do they take place? Scotland has celebrated Themed Years since 2010. They showcase the very best of Scotland, its product, its places and its people and provide an opportunity for lots of partners to come toget

      2 min read

    • Article

      Diary Dates

      Aug 13, 2021

      REGISTER FOR OUR NEWSLETTER FOR WEEKLY NEWS & EVENTS: https://familytr.ee/reg Huguenot Footsteps walking tour, 26 September. Meet outside Christ Church, Spitalfields in London at 2pm for a 90-minute talking tour to discover the history of the Hugueno

      4 min read

    • Article

      Beautiful Currency Never Loses Value

      Jan 12, 2022

      I’ve always maintained that the designs on the euro currency were utterly dreary. So I am gratified that Christine Lagarde, head honcho of the European Central Bank, has announced that euro notes are about to undergo a re-design. The main problem wit

      3 min read

    • Article

      Athena

      Feb 21, 2024

      IN 1844, a group of archaeologists, students and artists eager to preserve the cultural patrimony of Norway established Fortidsminne-foreningen, meaning the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Monuments or the National Trust of Norway. This organ

      2 min read

    • Article

      Final Word

      Apr 11, 2020

      Final Word
      2 min read

    • Article

      Rainbow Coalition

      Mar 9, 2021

      Rainbow Coalition
      5 min read

    • Article

      Spotlight on... CORNWALL FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY

      Oct 14, 2022

      Since its beginning in 1976, the society has aimed to become a centre of excellence by encouraging Cornish family history research. Covid-19 and the enforced lockdowns over the past two years have affected everyone and we found ourselves having to cl

      2 min read

    • Article

      Planet Travel

      Aug 31, 2018

      Planet Travel
      4 min read

    • Article

      TIME to SHINE

      Mar 28, 2019

      TIME to SHINE
      6 min read

    • Article

      Te Reo Is Taonga

      Sep 25, 2023

      Thank you, Listener, for that impressive issue for Te Wiki o te Reo Māori (September 16). But should I feel sorry for your correspondent (Letters, September 23) who was put to the trouble of turning to page 21 for an English translation of Rāniera Pr

      7 min read

    • Article

      Editor's Letter

      Mar 21, 2024

      We're kicking off 24 by marking a golden milestone: our 50th issue. Sister title to domestic travel magazine Australian Traveller, the first issue of International Traveller was launched in 2012; publisher and founding editor Quentin Long casts his m

      2 min read

    Reviews for Poland - Culture Smart!

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words