Table Of Contents - Istanbul International Community School

Expatriatism
Turkish Culture & Society
Travel in Turkey
Turkish History & Politics
Literature, Language, Music, Media
(To help you adjust to living in a foreign place, and to Turkey in particular, check out some of these books
(available from online bookstores like Amazon.com).
Managing Cross-Cultural Transition by Steven Shepard
The Expert Expatriate by Patricia Linderman
The Art of Crossing Cultures by Craig Storti
Raising Global Nomads: Parenting Abroad in an On-Demand World; A Moveable Marriage:
Relocate Your Relationship without Breaking It; Homeward Bound: A Spouse's Guide to
Repatriation; A Borad Abroad by Robin Pascoe
Third Culture Kids by David Pollock
Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey edited by Anastasia M. Ashman and
Jennifer Eaton Gökmen
Turkish Culture For Americans by Hasan Dindi and others (this book is helpful for people from other
Western cultures as well)
Turkish Reflections: A Biography of a Place by Mary Lee Settle
Turkish Embassy Letters by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
A Handbook for Living in Turkey by Pat Yale
Culture Smart! Turkey by Charlotte McPherson
• Culture Shock! Turkey: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette by Arin Bayraktaroğlu Lonely Planet Turkey (Country Guide) by Verity Campbell
Lonely Planet Istanbul (City Guide) by Virginia Maxwell
The Best Small Hotels of Turkey by Sevan Nişanyan Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds by Stephen Kinzer
Turkey Unveiled by Nicole Pope and Hugh Pope
Gray Wolf Mustafa Kemal: an Intimate Study of a Dictator by H. C. Armstrong
Atatürk: a Biography of Mustasfa Kemal, Father of Modern Turkey by Lord Kinross
Classic Turkish Literature
Poems of Nazim Hikmet by Nazim Hikmet, Randy Blasing, Mutlu Konuk Blasing, and Mutlu Konuk
Memed, My Hawk by Yashar Kemal and Edouard Roditi
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