From Culture Connect

Recruiting, Retaining and Promoting Culturally Different Employees
    By Don Rutherford and Lionel Laroche. ISBN 075068240X
The book is designed for human resource professionals and business leaders who find that the North American talent pool for potential employees is becoming increasingly diverse. It contains practical insights and advice that can help in the recruitment, retention and promotion of recent (and not-so-recent) immigrants to North America. Readers are assisted in distinguishing cultural from competence issues. 
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Cultural Detective: Canada
     By Don Rutherford and Lionel Laroche, 2006.
Intercultural program as part of a series that spans over 50 national cultures and diversity topics.
www.culturaldetective.com/

Business English (book written in Japanese language),
    By Tomoko Gondow and Don Rutherford, Japan Regional Ventures, 2002.
tgsjapan.hp.infoseek.co.jp/author.htm

Driving in Mexico City
    By Don Rutherford, CBC News Viewpoint (online), February 8, 2005.

Who's in charge? Cultural value differences: the concept of Power Distance
    By Don Rutherford, Business Mexico (Magazine/Journal), February 1, 2005, Volume: 15, Issue: 2, Page: 36(2). American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico A.C.

Developed intercultural training program “Managing a Multicultural Team”
    By Don Rutherford and Lionel Laroche, American Management Association, 2005.
www.tregistry.com/ama2592.htm

Cultural Adaptation - Relationships are Priority #1
    By Don Rutherford.
How can you build better relationships and further your business success?

Export Success and the Cultural Connection
    By Don Rutherford.
When going global, knowing the culture you are targeting often makes the difference between early disaster and long-term success.

From the WWW

CIA World Factbook
    Originally developed as a basic intelligence handbook on all areas of the world for the CIA, the current public version of the Factbook is an annual summary and update to the encyclopedic National Intelligence Survey studies.

Country Information
    A Canada Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade collection of data organized by country and topics - a one-stop online country information research environment.

Executive Planet
    EP's mission is to inspire business travelers to travel with greater cultural awareness by providing the most up-to-date and relevant information on international business culture, customs and protocol, gift-giving, negotiating tactics, business entertainment, cross-cultural communication and more.

Lonely Planet
    Contains much of LP's published information from their guidebooks for independent travellers which are known for reliable, insightful, pull-no-punches travel information, maps, photos, and background historical and cultural information.