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<strong>IICS</strong> <strong>New</strong> Teachers’ <strong>Handbook</strong> <strong>2011</strong>-<strong>12</strong> Page 8 of 72<br />

2.0 TURKEY AND ISTANBUL<br />

To help you adjust to living in a foreign place, and to Turkey in particular, check out some of these<br />

books (available from online bookstores like Amazon.com) and music.<br />

2.1 LITERATURE<br />

Expatriatism:<br />

Managing Cross-Cultural Transition by Steven Shepard<br />

The Expert Expatriate by Patricia Linderman<br />

The Art of Crossing Cultures by Craig Storti<br />

Raising Global Nomads: Parenting Abroad in an On-Demand World; A Moveable Marriage: Relocate Your<br />

Relationship without Breaking It; Homeward Bound: A Spouse's Guide to Repatriation; A Broad Abroad by<br />

Robin Pascoe<br />

Third Culture Kids by David Pollock<br />

Turkish Culture & Society:<br />

Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey edited by Anastasia M. Ashman and<br />

Jennifer Eaton Gökmen (Jennifer is <strong>IICS</strong>’ Development Officer)<br />

Turkish Culture For Americans by Hasan Dindi and others (this book is helpful for people from other<br />

Western cultures as well)<br />

Turkish Reflections: A Biography of a Place by Mary Lee Settle<br />

Turkish Embassy Letters by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu<br />

A <strong>Handbook</strong> for Living in Turkey by Pat Yale<br />

Culture Smart! Turkey by Charlotte McPherson<br />

Culture Shock! Turkey: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette by Arin Bayraktaroğlu<br />

Travel in Turkey:<br />

Lonely Planet Turkey (Country Guide) by Verity Campbell<br />

Lonely Planet <strong>Istanbul</strong> (City Guide) by Virginia Maxwell<br />

The Best Small Hotels of Turkey by Sevan Nișanyan<br />

Turkish History & Politics:<br />

Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds by Stephen Kinzer<br />

Turkey Unveiled by Nicole Pope and Hugh Pope<br />

Gray Wolf Mustafa Kemal: an Intimate Study of a Dictator by H. C. Armstrong<br />

Atatürk: a Biography of Mustafa Kemal, Father of Modern Turkey by Lord Kinross<br />

Classic Turkish Literature:<br />

Poems of Nazim Hikmet by Nazim Hikmet, Randy Blasing, Mutlu Konuk Blasing, and Mutlu Konuk<br />

Memed, My Hawk by Yashar Kemal and Edouard Roditi<br />

Modern Turkish Literature:<br />

My Name Is Red; The Black Book; The White Castle; <strong>Istanbul</strong>: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk<br />

(nonfiction) (Nobel Prize Winning Author)<br />

The Bastard of <strong>Istanbul</strong>; The Flea Palace by Elif Șafak<br />

A Cup of Turkish Coffee; Mediterranean Waltz; Sound of Fishsteps by Buket Uzuner<br />

Last Train to <strong>Istanbul</strong> by Ayșe Külin<br />

Turkish Language:<br />

Lonely Planet Turkish Phrasebook by Arzu Kurklu<br />

Teach Yourself Turkish by Asuman Celen-Pollard, David W. Pollard<br />

<strong>IICS</strong> <strong>New</strong> Teachers’ <strong>Handbook</strong> <strong>2011</strong>-<strong>12</strong> Page 8 of 72

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