Short-term visitors to the U.S. will find advice for surviving customs and immigration, finding an apartment, business, obtaining health care, and navigating the supermarket, bank and post office. If you plan to stay longer, you will find practical pointers for getting along at work, school, and at home; buying a house; making and keeping American friends; and under-standing dominant American values in a diverse and complex society. Living in the U.S.A. is a comprehensive guide to attitudes, customs, manners and daily life in the United States .

 

JEF C. DAVIS is well recognized as intercultural trainer and teacher. He served as director for international students and study abroad programs at Drexel University , Clark university. University of Miami ( Ohio ) and Ball State University . Since 1995, Davis has also participated and assisted faculty at the renowned Summer Institute of Intercultural Communication. He is currently writing his doctoral dissertation in international higher education at Boston College and lives in Tucson , Arizona , with his wife and twin children.