22 must-read nonfiction books like Spain - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture by Marian Meaney

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Spain - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture

By: Marian Meaney

3.85

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different count…

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Cover of A Concise History of Spain (Cambridge Concise Histories) by None, Carla Rahn Phillips, William D. Phillips Jr.

1. A Concise History of Spain (Cambridge Concise Histories)

By: None , Carla Rahn Phillips , William D. Phillips Jr.

3.69

Format: 359 pages, Paperback

The rich cultural and political life of Spain has emerged from its complex history, from the divers… read more

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  • travel
  • spain
  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

By: Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh

4.22

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

In Persepolis, heralded by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the freshest and most original memoirs … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

"Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion?"

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

"Prosperity consists of two things: tea after a meal, and a cigarette after tea."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

"In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!"

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

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3. Iberia

By: James A. Michener , Robert Vavra

3.84

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Here, in the fresh, vivid prose that is James Michener's trademark, is the real Spain as he experie… read more

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  • travel
  • spain
  • audiobook
Cover of Switzerland - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs  Culture by Kendall Maycock

4. Switzerland - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs Culture

By: Kendall Maycock

3.80

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different count… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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5. Japan - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture

By: Paul Norbury

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different count… read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • reference
Cover of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert by John M. Gottman, Nan Silver

6. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert

By: John M. Gottman , Nan Silver

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

John Gottman has revolutionized the study of marriage by using rigorous scientific procedures to ob… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Culture Smart! Germany: A Quick Guide to Customs & Etiquette

By: Barry Tomalin

4.18

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different count… read more

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  • travel
  • cultural
  • nonfiction
  • reference

8. In a Sunburned Country

By: Bill Bryson

3.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER Every time Bill Bryson walks out… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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9. Interpreter of Maladies

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

4.17

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here Navigating between the Indian tra… read more

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"Sexy means loving someone you do not know."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

"You got cats at home?" "No cats. Only a husband."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

"A woman who had fallen out of love with her life"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

"In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless at the same time."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

10. H is for Hawk

By: Helen Macdonald

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writ… read more

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11. Italy - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs Culture

By: Barry Tomalin

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

Italy delights and stimulates with its magnificent cities and monuments, its stunningly beautiful l… read more

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12. The Real Madrid Way: How Values Created the Most Successful Sports Team on the Planet

By: Steven G. Mandis

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

The untold story of Real Madrid: one of the most incredible turnarounds in sports and business hist… read more

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13. Daughter of Fortune

By: Isabel Allende , Margaret Sayers Peden

3.94

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-… read more

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"حيث توجد النساء ، توجد الحضارة"

-Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune

"Quien se complace en pensar en lo malo, acaba por convocarlo"

-Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune

"Non c'è niente di più pericoloso del demone della fantasia acquattato nell'animo femminile."

-Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune

"You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell."

-Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune

14. Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past

By: Giles Tremlett

3.66

Format: 32 pages,

The appearance, more than sixty years after the Spanish Civil War ended, of mass graves containing … read more

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15. Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture

By: Matt Goulding

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

2016 Travel Book of the Year by the Society of American Travel WritersFinalist for the 2016 IACP Aw… read more

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16. Korea - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Culture & Customs

By: None

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different count… read more

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Cover of Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain by Andrew McCarthy

17. Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain

By: Andrew McCarthy

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, funny, and poignant travel memoir following  New York Times  bestselling author and ac… read more

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  • travel
  • spain
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

By: Malcolm Gladwell

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Ma… read more

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  • history
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"Revolutions are birthed in conversation, argument, validation, proximity, and the look in your listener’s eye that tells you you’re on to something."

-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

"I'm drawn again and again to obsessives. I like them. I like the idea that someone could push away all the concerns and details that make up everyday life and just zero in on one thing - the thing th…"

-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

"The more you invest in a set of beliefs - the greater the sacrifice you make in the service of that conviction - the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggests that you are mistaken. You do…"

-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

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19. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of A Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000 by John Gibney

20. A Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000

By: John Gibney

3.73

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the daw… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
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21. Travellers in the Third Reich

By: Julia Boyd

4.05

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret what’s right in front of your eyes? The e… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934"

-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

"One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become since he was last there. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934"

-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

"In Dresden, Sylvia Morris witnessed the ransacking of the Jewish department store - Etam's [on Kristallnacht, 9 November 1938]. 'Dresden had been peaceful and not pro-Nazi so this was a major event,'…"

-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

"[William Edward Burghardt] Du Bois saw things rather differently. He argued that it was entirely because of Hitler that Germany had in fact already ‘lapsed into Bolshevism’. In his view, the Nazi gov…"

-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

Cover of How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island by Egill Bjarnason

22. How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island

By: Egill Bjarnason

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The untold story of how one tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic has shaped the world for cent… read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey through the Art and Craft of Humor by Keegan-Michael Key

23. The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey through the Art and Craft of Humor

By: Keegan-Michael Key

3.90

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

"A boisterous debut … the authors are as funny as one would expect … this is a hoot.” ― Publishers … read more

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  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of USA - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Gina Teague

24. USA - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

By: Gina Teague

4.08

Format: 172 pages, Kindle Edition

Who can afford not to understand the USA? Many facets of American life have been embraced around th… read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Nepal - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (16) by Tessa Feller

25. Nepal - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (16)

By: Tessa Feller

3.95

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different count… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Work Optional: Retire Early the Non-Penny-Pinching Way by Tanja Hester

26. Work Optional: Retire Early the Non-Penny-Pinching Way

By: Tanja Hester

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A practical action guide for financial independence and early retirement from the popular Our Next … read more

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  • audiobook
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27. Spain: The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country

By: Michael Reid

3.93

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond … read more

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  • spain
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Round Here and Over Yonder: A Front Porch Travel Guide by Two Progressive Hillbillies (Yes, that’s a thing.) by Trae Crowder

28. Round Here and Over Yonder: A Front Porch Travel Guide by Two Progressive Hillbillies (Yes, that’s a thing.)

By: Trae Crowder

4.22

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Join Southern comedian duo Trae Crowder and Corey Ryan Forrester in this hilarious and irreverent t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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29. Spain - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture

By: Marian Meaney

3.85

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different count… read more

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  • reference
  • audiobook
Cover of Indonesia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (9) by Graham E. Saunders

30. Indonesia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (9)

By: Graham E. Saunders

4.19

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different count… read more

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  • travel
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31. Vietnam - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture

By: Geoffrey Murray

3.81

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different count… read more

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12 Best audiobook books like Spain - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture by Marian Meaney

Transform Your Habits

Iberia

James A. Michener , Robert Vavra

3.84

In a Sunburned Country

Bill Bryson

3.42

Transform Your Habits

Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain

Andrew McCarthy

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

Malcolm Gladwell

4.03

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7 must-read audiobook books like How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island by Egill Bjarnason

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Island on Fire

Alexandra Witze , Jeff Kanipe

3.85

Transform Your Habits

How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island

Egill Bjarnason

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Little Book of Tourists in Iceland: Tips, tricks, and what the Icelanders really think of you

Alda Sigmundsdóttir

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Museum of Whales You Will Never See: And Other Excursions to Iceland's Most Unusual Museums

A. Kendra Greene

3.75

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