The informative, often highly entertaining essays in this first volume of Borgo Perspectives on Intercultural Communication includes sixteen essays by writers from Britain, Bulgaria, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Kenya, Spain, and the United States. The pieces describe their authors' personal encounters with "The Other"--and studies their interactions in everyday life with flirtation, sex, and war. The contributors include: Francis Jarman, Peter Graf, Ellin Burnham, Rainer Barczaitis, Juergen Einhoff, Hans Schmidt, Silvia Grimmsmann, Mayuri Odedra-Straub, Manju Ramanan, Paul Harrison, Emilia Slavova, Guadalupe Ruiz Yepes, Anne-Kristin Langner, Isabelle Kross, and T. W. Geraghty.