I just bought the Kindle version of Rick Steves’ Europe Through the Back Door book last week and am reading it now. Wow. Tons and tons and tons of useful…
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Global Business
What leads firms to expand internationally? Obviously, seeking new opportunities. But the reasons can come from such things as seeing orders coming from foreign locations, or internally, from internationally savvy staff whose special knowledge helps identify opportunities and can assist in building international business solutions.
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Book review: “I lived in Shanghai. The China you haven’t seen”
Kaja Kubicka, the author, was born in Poland and moved to Denmark when she was about 12. She later attended Fudan University in Shanghai, grad school in France. She documented her time at Fugan University and continues to document her travels on her Youtube channel
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Book Review: Why the Dutch are Different
The Netherlands is a small country with a large impact on world history and contemporary life. Ideas the Dutch promoted hundreds of years ago became central to the founding of the U.S., for example.
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Book Review: The Shortest History of Europe
Author John Hirst writes a unique history of Europe that gives a quick overview followed by a dive into themes that link elements of the arc of history together.
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Book Review: North: How to Live Scandinavian
This is a humorous look at contemporary life in the Scandinavian countries. I have never been to any of them, but I saw from the reviews that many who live…
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Book Review: History of Norway
Review of History of Norway, by John Yileks. A fast-paced book I did not want to put down – a whirl-wind tour of a complex history spanning thousands of years.
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