News from Intercultural Press

Nicholas Brealey Publishing appoints new Sales Director

Boston, MA – Nicholas Brealey Publishing announced today the appointment of John Groton as the new Sales Director for the North American operations based in Boston. John will join Editorial Director Erika Heilman and Finance Director Jill Friedlander on the leadership team already in place for US operations.

John comes to Nicholas Brealey Publishing with nearly 30 years experience at Simon & Schuster, Random House and the Globe Pequot Press where he was most recently Executive Director of Sales. His sales and management expertise has been demonstrated in positions of Vice President of Special Markets, where he created the Special Markets department after the acquisition of Random House by Bertelsmann in 1997; Vice President, Sales Director of the Random House Adult Trade Group, and Vice President, Client Development in the Publisher Services Group, where John secured the 20 publisher clients that form the nucleus of that organization today.

“John’s wide ranging experience across multiple channels of sale, combined with his acumen for working with distribution partners, make him the ideal person to lead our future sales, marketing and distribution efforts,” says owner and founder Nicholas Brealey.

New and Forthcoming

Into Africa, Second Edition
A Guide to Sub-Saharan Culture and Diversity

By Yale Richmond & Phyllis Gestrin

“Into Africa is a most revealing book. While it was great to have many of my own impressions of Africa confirmed, it was even better to gain new knowledge and wisdom.”—Herman J. Cohen, U.S. Ambassador to the Gambia and Senegal (retired), former Assistant Secretary of State for Africa.

For more than a decade, Into Africa has provided valuable advice to those who are interested in traveling to, living in or working in sub-Saharan Africa—businesspeople, human rights and development workers, diplomats, academics and trainers—and anyone else who seeks a better understanding of the cultural characteristics of this dynamic part of the world. This new and expanded edition of Into Africa brings a fresh view on sub-Saharan Africa, showing how the nations of Africa have adapted to Western ways while retaining their cultural traditions and diversity. With depth and sensitivity, Into Africa examines the effects of community, ethnicity and language on doing business and establishing professional and personal relationships in African countries. The book explores regional differences, offers detailed guidelines for conducting training programs in Africa and examines issues that reflect the complex relationships involved, including increased trade with the U.S. and Europe, the role of politics and business, changes in mass communication and the continuing threat of HIV/AIDS.

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Coming in March!

Among the Iranians

By Sofia Koutlaki

In the wake of the current media focus on Iran’s nuclear technology development and its place in Middle East politics, the West continues its quest to understand this paradoxical nation: its politics, yes, but also its people, their culture, and even the everyday customs and rituals. Among the Iranians presents an inside look at the hidden “rules” that exist among Iranians, from polite behavior and the underlying cultural notion of face to gender roles to the image that every Iranian wants to project to the world. Western readers may be familiar with a stereotyped view of Iran’s unchanging “high culture” in its great mosques and squares and to some extent its classical literature in the poems of Hafez and Khayyam. However, this book aims to convey the nitty-gritty of everyday life in Iran: how to queue for bread, how to get a job done in a government office, dress codes and degrees of piety, marriage as a connection between families, the elaborate system of Persian politeness.

Written with a mix of personal observation and intercultural theory, the goal of Among the Iranians is to open people’s eyes about the fascinating everyday reality of Iran—in short, the book seeks to explain everything you ever wanted to discover about Iran’s culture and customs, but didn’t even know to ask.

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