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Welcome to the CDS International Bookstore in affiliation with Barnes and Noble, the world's largest bookseller online. By choosing to buy products through our site, you will automatically make a donation to CDS International's endowed Scholarship Fund to help support American students and young professionals gain work experience overseas.

It's easy! Any book that you buy, whether on our List of Favorites, in one of the categories listed below, or simply found through a general search, will generate a commision of 5% to CDS International and the proceeds are earmarked for the Scholarship Fund. If none of the books on our site strike your fancy, just make one more click and you can easily browse through Barnes & Nobles' enormous listing of books, magazine subscriptions, music, software programs, gifts, eCards, prints & posters and more! No matter what you buy, or how much you buy, 5% will always be donated to the Scholarship Fund.

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Thanks for your support and be sure to tell all your friends and colleagues about the wonderful opportunity to contribute to international exchange while at the same time finding the books you want to read!

CDS Favorites

Back in the U. S. A.: Reflecting on Your Study Abroad Experience & Putting It to Work by Dawn Kepets.

How to Find Temporary Work Abroad: A World of Opportunities for Everyone by Nick Vandome.

Culture Shock Germany by Richard Lord.

Tearing the Silence: On Being German in America by Ursula Hegi. The bestselling author of STONES FROM THE RIVER tells the one story of the Holocaust we have not heard: the legacy of shame and grief that shadows the lives of postwar German immigrants.

France and Germany at Maastricht: Politics and Negotiations to Create the European Union by Colette Mazzucelli (former Robert Bosch Fellow). An analysis of French and German diplomacy during the intergovernmental conferences (IGCs) on economic and monetary union (EMU) and political union, focusing on the driving force of the Franco-German initiatives in the European Community. Mazzucelli (Director, Budapest Institute for Graduate International and Diplomatic Studies) explores the domestic-international interactions during internal bargaining in Paris and Bonn, and the external negotiations among working groups, personal representatives, ministers, and political leaders in Brussels. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. -Booknews.

Culture Shock! Living & Working Abroad: A Practical Guide by Monica Rabe.

The Stuff Americans Are Made of: The Seven Cultural Forces That Define Americans by Joshua Hammond and James Morrison. In this brilliant examination of the characteristics that make us uniquely American, Hammond and Morrison identify seven cultural forces that define us and determine the way we as Americans respond to everything from new ideas to products and services to public policy. Using quintessentially American metaphors such as baseball, Westerns, and jazz, the authors demonstrate how these seven forces shape attitudes and preferences and how they will distinguish us in the global marketplace.

Business English: U. S. A.: A Textbook of American Business English, Culture & Etiquette for the International Businessperson by Michael Sudlow and Rudy Bischof (Illustrator)

Business & Economics

Job Security in America: Lessons from Germany by Katherine Abraham and Susan Houseman.

The Business Culture in Germany by Collin Randlesome.

Doing Business with Germany by Jonathan Reuvid and Roderick Millar.

Workplace 2000: The Revolution Reshaping American Business by Joseph Boyett and Henry Conn.

Values, Nature and Culture in the American Corporation by William Crittenden Frederick.

Rebuilding America's Workforce: Business Strategies to Close the Competitive Gap by William Kolberg and Foster Smith. Millions of business managers are facing an acute shortage of skilled employees. Rebuilding America's Workforce looks at why the shortage is occurring and offers innovative recommendations for increasing employee performance through new management and training techniques.

World Class: Thriving Locally in the Global Economy by Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Combining well-reasoned arguments with real examples, Kanter describes important opportunities emerging on the local level--from rejuvenating old businesses to developing the cities of the future. World Class is an essential guide to revitalizing businesses and communities. A BOMC alternate selection. 416 pp. Serialized in The Harvard Business Review, Strategy in Business and World Link magazine. National ads/media.

Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe, and America by Lester Thurow

Careers

Trump - The Art of the Winning by Donald Trump, Dennis Conner, Edward Clafin.

100 Best Careers for the 21st Century by Shelly Field. For young people everywhere who want to pick an exciting career, here's an expert's list of all the best choices. In the bestselling tradition of ARCO's 100 Best Careers for the Year 2000, this carefully researched guide describes scores of attractive jobs opportunities in the career areas expected to grow fastest in the first decade of the next century.

How to Get a Job in Europe, 3rd Edition (Insider's Guide Guide Series) by Robert Sanborn.

The Adventure of Working Abroad: Hero Tales from the Global Frontier by Joyce Sautters Osland. Hundreds of thousands of Americans flock to overseas assignments each year in this new global economy. Now, a well-versed expatriate provides insight and important tips that will help expatriates make sense of their experience as a whole, better equipping them to cope with their repatriation.

1998 What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bowles. For more than 25 years, Parachute has been the bestselling job-hunting book in the world, closing in on nearly six million copies in print. This year's edition repeats last's year's successful format--splitting into two books in one binding--making the reference extremely user-friendly with both a job-hunting guide and a workbook and resource guide.

Careers in International Business by Edward Halloran.

Careers in Science & Technology: An International Perspective from the NRC Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel.

Education

Preparing Adolescents for the Twenty-First Century: Challenges Facing Europe & the United States by Ruby Takanishi (Editor) and David Hamburg (Editor).

Making the Grade: How a New Youth Apprenticeship System can Change our Schools and Save American Jobs by John McKernan, Jr. Maine Governor John McKernan issues an urgent call for educational reform, advocating the creation of apprenticeship programs that will prepare high school students for the jobs of the future. McKernan argues that a vital new partnership between schools, businesses, and government will give students the employment edge they need in today's tough job market.

From School to Work: A Comparative Study of Educational Qualifications and Occupational Destinations by Yossi Shavit (Editor).

From School to Work by Joseph Littrell.

Apprenticeship for Adulthood: Preparing Youth for the Future by Stephen Hamilton.

Homegrown Lessons: Innovative Programs Linking School and Work (Jossey-Bass Education) by Edward Pauly, Joshua Haimson and Hilary Kopp.

Linking School and Work: Roles for Standards & Assessment by Lauren Resnick and John Wirt.

From High School to Work: 150 Great Tech Prep Careers by Staff Ferguson.

Critical Education for Work: Multidisciplinary Approaches by Richard Lakes.

Foreign Languages

The Oxford-Duden German Dictionary: German - English / English - German by W. Scholze-Stubenrecht and J.B. Sykes. The Oxford-Duden German Dictionary is the product of nearly ten years of joint work by two of the world's foremost dictionary publishers, Oxford University Press and the Dudenredaktion of the Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim. Members of the editorial team were based in their own countries and thus in constant contact with their own language.

Basic Grammar in Use (English) by Raymond Murphy. A self-study reference and practice book for intermediate students (with answers).

Living Language German All the Way: Conversation, Grammar, Culture, Reading, Writing, Business by Helga Schier (ed.) A hardcover book.

Living Language German All the Way: Conversation, Grammar, Culture, Reading, Writing, Business by Heidi Singer. An audio version of the above book.

How to Master Foreign Languages: For Business, Study, Travel, and Living Abroad by Roger Jones.

History

Beyond the Wall: Germany's Road to Unification by Elizabeth Pond.

Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen.

This book created a firestorm of criticism in the German and American press last year. Read it with care - it may come up in conversation.

A Nation on Trial: The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth by Norman G. Finkelstein and Ruth Bettina Birn.

These two authors examine Goldhagen's book and place it under strict historical scrutiny.

The Politics of Memory: Looking for Germany in the New Germany by Jane Kramer.

Kramer is a New Yorker correspondent who occasionally writes the "Letter from Europe." She provides portraits of contemporary Germans and what it means to be "German."

The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts after Communism by Tina Rosenberg.

As told by MacArthur Fellowship-winning journalist Tina Rosenberg, this "definitive account of what the transition away from communism in Eastern Europe has meant in moral terms" (David Rieff, Los Angeles Times Book Review) make up the final chapter in the greatest moral drama of our time. A National Book Award Winner.

Politics and Society

The Clash of Civilizations & the Remaking of World Order by Samual Huntington. This incisive, international bestselling exploration of the conflicts that have erupted since the fall of communism offers a provocative portrait of a future world driven not by ideologies or economics, but by ethnicity, religion, and other cultural forces. "Dazzling in its scope and grasp of the intricacies of contemporary global politics".--"The Wall Street Journal". Maps & diagrams. 368 pp. National ads & publicity.

Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft by Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice (sic).

NATO & the Transatlantic Future: The Atlanticists Debate by Gary Geipel (Editor) and Robert Manning (Editor).

Understanding Contemporary Germany by Stuart Parkes.

I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941 by Victor Klemperer.

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman.

An intellectual dissection of the modern media to show how an underlying economics of publishing warps the news.

Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism & Tribalism are Re-Shaping the World by Benjamin R. Barber.

This groundbreaking sociopolitical study, written in the eye-opening tradition of Future Shock, examines the central conflict of our time: worldwide consumerism versus religious/cultural fundamentalism. "A bold invitation to debate the ... future of society." - Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review.

Europe's New Nationalism: States and Minorities in Conflict by Richard Caplan.

Culture

Beyond Culture by Edward T. Hall.

Toward Internationalism: Readings in Cross-Cultural Communication by Louise Luce and Elise Smith (Editors).

Germany and the Germans by John Ardagh.

The Germans by Gordon Craig.

Breaking the Ice: A Guide to Understanding People from Other Cultures by Daisy Kabagarama.

Cross-Cultural Design: Communicating in the Global Marketplace by Henry Steiner and Ken Haas.

Television Myth & the American Mind by Hal Himmelstein.

Computers & Technology

Technology Transfer Systems in the United States and Germany: Lessons and Perspectives from National Engineering.

Travel

On the Loose, on the Cheap, off the Beaten Path in New York City '97 by Berkeley students and students of the University of California.

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