{"product_id":"understanding-europeans-9780945465775","title":"Understanding Europeans","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first edition of this work was titled Painted in Blood (LJ 2\/15\/87)  and not much has changed in the new edition. Miller has added a new preface and afterword explaining that the original ideas still apply to post-Communist Europe and in many ways to the rest of the non-American world. Miller contrasts American and European outlooks and behavior  offering anecdotal evidence from his studies and travels  his knowledge of European languages  and his marriage to a Belgian as a foundation for generalizing about the European character. He argues that European thought has been dominated by various concepts of hierarchy  class  gender  family  and so on  while America has been more flexible. Europeans are also more conscious of the value of materials than Americans  who pursue and waste goods more than they value them. The American and European cultures are becoming more similar over time  and the challenge is \"to adopt the others good and leave behind as much of the bad as possible.\" Recommended for European  American studies  and psychology collections that do not own the first edition. William R. Smith  Johns Hopkins Univ. Lib.  Baltimore Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information  Inc.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67931435204661,"sku":"ByrdShop_0945465777","price":65.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780945465775.jpg?v=1794212469","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/understanding-europeans-9780945465775","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}