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Saying Goodbye
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Saying Goodbye to Someone You Love:
Your Emotional Journey Through
End of Life and Grief

Co-authored with Fredda Wasserman, Director of Adult Programs and Medical Education,
Our House Grief Support Center. 

"Saying Goodbye to Someone You Love" consists of moving narratives about end of life and grief.  These personal histories are complemented by practical guidelines for those caring for their loved ones through the last stages of life.  For those who are grieving, the true-to-life-stories demonstrate how others have navigated through the tidal wave of emotions and reactions that characterize the grief process.  For health care professionals and those who are offering support to grievers, Saying Goodbye to Someone You Love provides a new perspective on the challenges of caring for the dying and living with grief.

Published by Demos Health/Medical Publishers, New York.

 

Review from Library Journal:

"Dresser (Multicultural Manners) and licensed marriage and family therapist Wasserman draw from their experience as hospice workers to illustrate how people have brought up the subject of death with the dying, made end-of-life decisions, and planned (or not held) a funeral service. Dresser and Wasserman not only offer comfort and companionship but provide practical suggestions for conversation starters, ideas for memorials, and a whole section on handling the grief of children. Essential for anyone experiencing end-of-life issues."

 
 

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Come As You Aren't!
Feeling at Home with Multicultural Celebrations

(M. Evans, 2006)

Whether you are a new member of a multiracial/interfaith family, the father of a same-sex bride, or the mother of an adopted daughter from China, in her new book, "Come As You Aren't!" Norine Dresser offers suggestions for mixed families in avoiding social pitfalls at holidays and rituals for birth, coming of age, marriage, death, and other significant life events.

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Come As You Aren't!

 

 
Multicultural Manners:
Essential Rules of Etiquette for the 21st Century More Real-Life Dilemmas with Special Emphasis on Post 9/11 Conflicts
(Revised and Expanded Edition, Wiley, 2005)

Brand New Global Section

Culturally Deconstructs 70 Different Countries Making Headlines and Impacting our Lives

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Multicultural Manners: New Rules of Etiquette for a Changing Society
(Wiley, 1996)

Informative, entertaining, humorous, “Multicultural Manners” gives readers a new understanding of our changing society. Included are appropriate words to say in different cultural settings as well as warnings about taboos for a wide range of situations. “Manners” received the 1998 Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations, John Anson Ford Award for improving intergroup harmony.

Inside “Multicultural Manners” :
Q: Why does the female Korean shopkeeper refuse
to put change into the hands of her male customer?

A: It is disrespectful to touch strangers, particularly those of the opposite sex.
 
Multicultural Celebrations

Multicultural Celebrations: Today’s Rules of Etiquette for Life’s Special Occasions
(Three Rivers Press, 1999)

Multicultural Celebrations advises what to wear, how to act, what gifts to give at a variety of ethnic and religious weddings, funerals, coming of age, pregnancy, birth, and healing rituals.

Inside “Multicultural Celebrations”:
Q: If Chinese wedding guests give the couple money
in a red envelope, is it acceptable to give money
in a white envelope if I can’t find a red one?

A: No way! White envelopes enclosing money are
only used at funerals.
 
I Felt Like I Was From Another Planet

I Felt Like I Was from Another Planet: Writing from Personal Experience
 (Addison-Wesley, 1994)

This book features a teacher resource guide as well as students’ stories of cultural adjustment. Helps students with the process writing as they explore cultural differences and their own feelings of alienation or confusion.

Inside “I Felt Like I Was From Another Planet”:
When the new Cambodian student starts school for the first time in the U.S., her classmates pinch her. Shocked and in pain, she bursts into tears. Why?

It’s St. Patrick’s Day, an unknown holiday in Cambodia, and she isn’t wearing green. Pinching is a reminder that you’re supposed to observe the wearin’ of the green on March 17th.

 

Our Own Stories

Our Own Stories: Readings for
Cross-cultural Communication -
Second Edition (Longman/Addison-Wesley, 1995)

For Intermediate English as a Second Language classes, this book presents cultural issues through the eyes of students. It is written from the heart- student essays—sad, funny, and inspiring—are the centerpiece of each unit.

Inside “Our Own Stories”:
Indian-born Gopal invites his high school classmate, Rafael, to visit his home. En route, Rafael purchases two hamburgers and gives one to Gopal. Gopal’s family looks at Rafael in horror.
Why?

Gopal’s family is Hindu and they don’t eat beef.
They are stunned that Rafael would bring a taboo food into their home.

Our Own Journeys

Our Own Journeys
(Longman/Pearson, 2003)

For Beginning English as a Second Language classes. Compelling true stories about colliding cultures. Turns cultural differences into classroom assets.

Inside “Our Own Journeys”:

An American doctor is startled when he discovers ten red circles on his patient’s back.
Why?

He’s never heard of the Russian folk treatment for chest colds in which hot glass cups called banki are placed on the back, leaving red circles on the skin when removed.
 
   

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