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Relocation Publications

This section provides links to publication resources on the web, along with outstanding books and other materials specific to relocation from Amazon.com.

Publication Resources on the Web

The Interchange Institute
The Interchange Institute is a not-for-profit research organization whose mission is to promote dialogue and facilitate understanding between people who move to a new country and their new communities. The Interchange Institute conducts research on the process of intercultural transition, produces publications to assist newcomers to the US, designs and delivers specialized cross-cultural training workshops, and trains and consults to professionals in the field.
www.interchangeinstitute.org

BR Anchor
BR Anchor Publishing's books differ from many other relocation publications in that they focus on the corporate employees' entire family, providing cost-effective and practical relocation information. Beverly D. Roman, publisher of BR Anchor Publishing, has written twenty relocation books and publishes an online newsletter. The priceless information she imparts is derived from personal experieince, comprehensive research and interaction in the relocation industry.
www.branchor.com

Books and Other Materials Available from Amazon.com

The following books, articles and kits are available from Amazon.com. Click on any item listed below for details and to order online.

The League of Super Movers: My Moving Adventure
Let’s Make a Move
Let’s Move Overseas: The International Edition of Let’s Make A Move!
Footsteps Around the World: Relocation Tips for Teens, 2nd Edition
Home Away from Home: Motels in America
Relocation 101: Making the Most of Your Move
Understanding American Schools, 2nd Edition
International Newcomer’s Guide to Boston
Smooth Move: An Article from Inside Business
Moving Tips to Combat Costs: An Article from American Salesman
The Complete Relocation Kit: Everything You Need to Know About Changing Homes, Jobs and Communities
The Phantom Spouse: Helping You and Your Family Survive Business Travel or Relocation
Tips for a Successful Relocation: An Article from Strategic Finance
Pulling Up Stakes: A Relocation Guide for Families
29 Days To A Smooth Move: Your Complete Moving Manual
The Essential Moving Planning Kit

    
The League of Super Movers
My Moving Adventure

Author: Beverly D. Roman
Illustrator: Michael J. Cadieux
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Edition: Paperback
Publisher: BR Anchor Publishing (Oct. 2001)
Language: English
ISBN: 1888891335

Book Description:
A domestic and international moving book for preteens

About the Author:
Beverly D. Roman is recognized and quoted as an expert in the field of relocation. She has authored 20 books with moving advice and has been featured on several major television programs, including CNN’s "Parenting Today" with advice for families who are moving. She also writes for many industry magazines and is a regular contributor to Mobility Magazine.
Let's Make a Move
Author: Beverly D. Roman
Illustrator: Michael J. Cadieux
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Edition: Paperback (32 pages)
Publisher: BR Anchor Publishing
2nd edition (Oct. 2000)
Language: English
ISBN: 1888891262

Book Description:
A creative visualization activity book for young children. The story line, games, safety tips and Internet resources are included to help children learn about their new city.

From the Author:
Let's Make A Move! was written and designed with illustrations to help children deal with their feelings about a move, as well as give them positive reinforcement and ways to visualize a happy experience in their new home and school.

From the Back Cover:
The back cover has a travel game for children who are moving. The book has a fully illustrated wrap around book cover featuring a family, house, automobile and a mover.

Let's Move Overseas
The International Edition of Let's Make A Move!

Author: Beverly D. Roman
Illustrator: Michael J. Cadieux
Reading level: All Ages
Edition: Paperback (32 pages)
Publisher: BR Anchor Publishing (Jan. 1999)
Language: English
ISBN: 1888891165

Book Description:
Let's Move Overseas was written and designed with illustrations to help children deal with their feelings about a move, as well as give them positive reinforcement and ways to visualize a happy experience in their new home and school in a foreign country.

From the Back Cover:
The back cover has a billboard with travel games for children who are moving. The book has a fully illustrated wrap around book cover featuring an airplane, airport and a family who is moving overseas.
Footsteps Around the World
Relocation Tips for Teens, 2nd Edition

Author: Beverly D. Roman
Reading level: Young Adult
Edition: Paperback (96 pages)
Publisher: BR Anchor Publishing
2nd edition (Oct. 2001)
Language: English
ISBN: 1888891351

Book Description:
A one-of-a-kind international and domestic book for teenagers! This book covers everything from predeparture planning to how to adjust smoothly to a new location. It is filled with advice and activities that assist teens with their special concerns, plus it offers a comprehensive Internet Resource Directory with teen-appropriate web sites.

From the Author:
Having moved domestically and internationally with children, I believe I have an understanding of what is important for teenagers to realize relocation success. This book also included input from experts who deal specifically with teens who are moving.

From the Back Cover:
Footsteps Around the World focuses on teenagers' unique relocation challenges. Domestic and international advice to help teens maximize their experience whether they are moving across town, across the country or around the world.

Home Away from Home
Motels in America

Author: John Margolies
Edition: Hardcover (127 pages)
Publisher: Bulfinch Press
1st edition (Nov. 1995)
Language: English
ISBN: 0821221620

Book Description:
A nostalgic celebration of this icon of the American roadscape. A grand tour of motel history and lore from the nations premier chronicler of commercial architecture, John Margolies. In a lively text and more than 200 photographs, most in color, Margolies brings to life the new style of lodging that sprang up to serve automobile tavelers, from auto camps and mom-and-pop tourist cabins early in the century to todays familiar motel chains. Packed with fascinating trivia.

 
Relocation 101
Making the Most of Your Move

Author: Beverly D. Roman
Illustrator: Michael J. Cadieux
Edition: Paperback (128 pages)
Publisher: BR Anchor Publishing
2nd edition (Oct. 2001)
Language: English
ISBN: 1888891343

Book Description:
Personal and professional relocation advice for individuals and families moving in and around their own countries. Topics include dual careers, home sale transactions, insurance, medical and finance. Internet sites, checklists, business card holders and pliable pouches are included.

From the Author:
Having made 18 moves, I believe I have an understanding of what is important for families to achieve relocation success. I also conduct extensive research about the latest relocation trends and challenges so that all my books address current issues that can impede relocation.

From the Back Cover:
Relocation 101 addresses the most current relocation topics. This book offers personal and professional relocation advice for individuals and families moving in and around their own countries. strategies for dual career couples techniques to relocate children and elders tips to maximize home sales and purchases ways to find new physicians and medical care advice to choose relocation insurance, internet sites, checklists and business card holders.

Understanding American Schools, 2nd Edition
Author: Anne P. Copeland, Georgia Bennett
Edition: Paperback (122 pages)
Publisher: Interchange Institute
2nd edition (Mar. 2005)
Language: English
ISBN: 0967293499

Book Description:
This valuable book guides newcomers from around the world through the challenges of understanding the US school system, from pre-school through high school. Written by two internationally-known experts in international relocation and education, this thorough but user-friendly guide is packed with information not found in any other single source.

About the Author:
Dr. Copeland, the Founder and Executive Director of the Interchange Institute, is also Adjunct Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at Boston University. From 1979 to 1997 she was Associate Professor where she conducted research and research supervision in psychological aspects of family process assessment, ethnicity, cultural influences, immigration, development, developmental disabilities and affective development.
 
International Newcomer's Guide to Boston
Author: Karen Rudnick
Edition: Paperback (128 pages)
Publisher: Interchange Institute
3rd edition (Nov. 2003)
Language: English
ISBN: 0967293456

Book Description:
While this guide is written especially for international newcomers, this book provides an amazing wealth of resources for anyone locating to the Boston area. Published by a non-profit research institute, this resource is packed with answers to questions newcomer haven’t even thought of yet.

This unique reference guide is full of practical advice to help the newcomer prepare for and manage their new life in Boston. Everyone from students to professionals to government transferees will find this new and revised edition of International Newcomer's Guide to Boston a wonderful resource. So much more than jus a travel guide or welcome packet, International Newcomer's Guide to Boston contains explanations and information not found in any other publication.

From the Publisher:
This title continues to receive excellent feedback from readers. Many corporations, realtors, and universities purchase this title in bulk and hand copies out to all their newcomers - international and domestic alike.
Smooth Move
An article from Inside Business

Author: Karin Connelly
Edition: electronic document
Publisher: Great Lakes Publishing Company (June 2001)
Format: HTML
Printable: Yes
ISBN: B0008HZYL0

Book Description:
This digital document is an article from Inside Business, published by Great Lakes Publishing Company on June 1, 2001. The length of the article is 24,128 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Relocating for a job is never easy, but companies are smoothing the transition by covering expenses and helping transferees get to know their new home.

Dec. 13, 1996, was a lucky day for Kristopher Sharrar. That was the day a friend called to connect him with a recruiter from Ernst & Young LLP in Cleveland. At the time, Sharrar was on a business trip in West Virginia as director of information-security services for a private Virginia firm. Ernst & Young needed an information-security services...

Moving tips to combat costs
An article from American Salesman

Edition: electronic document
Publisher: National Research Bureau (Sept. 1997)
Format: HTML
Printable: Yes
ISBN: B00097RV38

Book Description:
This digital document is an article from American Salesman, published by National Research Bureau on September 1, 1997. The length of the article is 404 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the Publisher:
Relocation of employees can be a costly undertaking for most companies. A survey conducted by management consulting firm Runzheimer International shows that companies shell out about $6,500 for each employee in shipping household goods. After home sale assistance and home search assistance, the transportation of household goods is the third highest cost related to employee relocation. Runzheimer offers tips on how to minimize costs of household good shipment. Companies are advised to avoid scheduling transfers during the peak season between May and September, avoid deliveries on weekends, make sure that the services charged in invoices were for actual services provided, familiarize themselves with tax laws to learn how to treat moving costs as tax deductions, and carefully select insurance coverage. They are also advised to encourage employees, especially new hires and new college graduates, to consider self-moving of possessions.
The Complete Relocation Kit
Everything You Need to Know About Changing Homes, Jobs and Communities

Author: Reginald R. Honeychurch, Howard K. Battles
Edition: Paperback
Publisher: Dearborn Trade Publishing
(Nov. 1990)
Language: English
ISBN: 0793100879

Book Description:
This guide book includes numerous practical charts and checklists - ready to use - you can photocopy that will help you to remain organized and keep track of all the details, especially during the stressful times of selling one house, buying another and actually moving. A "Resources" section in the book taps readers into a referral network for further relocation information.

 
The Phantom Spouse
Helping You and Your Family Survive Business Travel or Relocation

Author: Denise V. Lang
Edition: Paperback (256 pages)
Publisher: Betterway Publications (Apr. 1990)
Reprint edition
Language: English
ISBN: 1558701508

Book Description:
In the last twelve years, the numbers of business trips taken by both men and women have increased – not decreased as expected, families have suffered national scrutiny as angry, violent behavior among adolescents and adults has escalated, and the American worker – from blue collar to executive – has been subjected to multiple studies revealing an alarming increase in mental and physical health issues arising from stress, feelings of powerlessness, and isolation. Hailed as "the definitive guide to surviving business travel & relocation while keeping the family together" when it was published, The Phantom Spouse remains a voice of reason while sharing practical tips and offering reassurance that it can be done.

 
Tips for a Successful Relocation
An article from Strategic Finance

Author: Max Messmer
Edition: electronic document
Publisher: Institute of Management Accountants (June 2003)
Format: HTML
Printable: Yes
ISBN: B0008DNNGW

Book Description:
This digital document is an article from Strategic Finance, published by Institute of Management Accountants on June 1, 2003. The length of the article is 2,862 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
In today's tight employment market, it's not uncommon for accounting professionals to expand their job searches beyond their immediate geographic areas. Once you receive an offer that requires relocating, however, you'll face some tough questions: Am I truly ready for this type of change?
Is the package fair? How can I be sure I'm making the right decision?
Pulling Up Stakes
A Relocation Guide for Families

Author: Angelina B. Laycock
Edition: Paperback (85 pages)
Publisher: Roma Communications (Apr. 2002)
ISBN: 0971803706

Book Description:
This publication is a resource for families with children who are facing the challenges of relocating. It offers suggestions regarding the logistics of moving but more importantly, it offer numerous strategies to help with the emotional aspects. Pulling Up Stakes can help to effectively plan your move, to understand children's' reaction to moving and how to help them adjust to changes and how to meet the needs of an aging dependent.

29 Days To A Smooth Move
Your Complete Moving Manual

Author: Donna Kozik, Tara Maras
Edition: electronic document
Publisher: 29 Days To A Smooth Move
(Mar. 2003)
Format: Adobe Reader (PDF)
Printable: Yes
ISBN: B00009ZWPG

Book Description:
Get organized and get motivated with 175+ pages of the most vital household moving information ever compiled. You'll save time and money -- guaranteed!

Imagine it -- Moving Day Morning:
  • Neatly packed and labeled boxes hold your most valuable and necessary possessions
  • Your precocious teen and precious pet are ready to go
  • Your checkbook has a healthy balance
  • And, with a sigh of relief, you even have time to spare for a relaxing cup of coffee before the movers arrive – right on schedule
The Essential Moving Planning Kit
Author: Godfrey Harris, Mike H. Sarbakhsh
Edition: Paperback: (60 pages)
Publisher: Americas Group (Dec. 2002)
Language: English
ISBN: 0935047433

Book Description:
A step-by-step system to help anyone organize and manage the movement of household goods, office furnishings, and fine arts by using 11 freely reproducible forms and simple instructions—developed by a professional planner and experienced moving company executive. The system is specifically designed to help anyone moving anything any distance for any purpose prepare for every activity, keep track of every detail, visualize every moment, plan for every contingency, and note every detail of a successful move—on time, without stress, and within budget.

About the Author:
Godfrey Harris has been a public policy consultant based in Los Angeles, California, since 1968. He began consulting after working as a university lecturer, U.S. Army intelligence officer, foreign service officer with the Department of State, and organizational specialist in the President’s Executive Office. His career has involved in more than 15 house and office moves. He holds degrees from Stanford University and UCLA.

Mike H. Sarbakhsh has been the owner of Beverly Packing, a Los Angeles-based fine arts and antiques packing, moving, freight forwarding, and storage specialty firm since 1981. Beverly Packing is known throughout the motion picture industry and among leading entertainers as the firm of choice whenever film props, household goods, and other property requires to be moved from location to location. Early in his career, Sarbakhsh used his design training and construction knowledge to develop many of the specialized techniques that are now used by other moving and storage firms in protecting valuable and delicate cargo.

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