Foreign to Familiar – a guide to understanding hot- and cold-climate cultures
Forlagets omtale:
Foreign to Familiar is a splendidly written, well-researched work on cultures. Anyone traveling abroad should not leave home without this valuable resource! I highly recommend it as required reading for cross-cultural workers. Sarah Laniers love and sensitivity for people of all nations will touch your heart. This book creates within us a greater appreciation for our extended families around the world and an increased desire to better serve them. --
Dr. Kingsley A. Fletcher
President, Hope for Africa, Inc.
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
The 'Foreign' in the title of this most-helpful book once meant people and cultures 'overseas.' Today that has all changed. Sarah Lanier has captured the keys to understanding our own -- and others' -- ways of doing and saying things. I guarantee that if you follow the principles in this book that the boundaries of your worldview will expand, and you will begin to comprehend your own cultural ways in the process. This book is a quick read and a must read in todays world where 'cross-cultural' may simply mean 'across the street' where you live. --
Peter Jordan
Author of Re-Entry
Sarah Lanier is not only a perceptive author, but she has also lived and worked cross-culturally worldwide. I have observed Sarah professionally, as a teacher and consultant, on six continents. She has character, insight and experience that qualify her to share intercultural wisdom that will be life-changing for her readers. --
Loren Cunningham
President, University of the Nations
Lanier, Sarah
Sarah A. Lanier was born in Georgia, USA, and moved with her family to the Middle East at the age of nine. Since 1980, she has worked with an international and interdenominational Christian organization and its university system, the University of the Nations. Her expertise is in the field of leadership and personnel development. She worked interculturally for eleven years in the Netherlands, ten years in Israel, and one year in Chile. She has also taught and lived for extended amounts of time in Africa, the Middle East, Europe and New Zealand and is conversant in five languages. Sarah currently travels internationally as a consultant and lecturer on culture, leadership, and team dynamics.