Advanced Communication Skills

In this textbook you'll will take your communication skills to another galaxy! You'll discover how people think, how they process information and what goes on behind the scenes (i.e in everyone's brain) so you can tailor your communications to get what you need and the desired outcomes.

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science

With forty-four newly commissioned articles from an international cast of leading scholars, The Companion to Literature and Science traces the network of connections among literature, science, technology, mathematics, and medicine.

Extendable Rationality: Understanding Decision Making in Organizations

“How do people make decisions in organizations?” is the question at the core of this book. Do people act rationally? Under what conditions can information and knowledge be shared to improve decision making? Davide Secchi applies concepts and theories from cognitive science, organizational behavior, and social psychology to explore the dynamics of decision making. In particular, he integrates “bounded rationality” (people are only partly rational).

Managing Projects

All throughout your life, whether at work, rest or play, you’ll need to organise and manage projects. 
Whether it'’s completing some course work for your studies, a new implementation at work or even if you're organising a holiday! In order to be successful you'’ll need to be well organised and you need to be able to manage resources, time and costs.

Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion

Thank You for Arguing is your master class in the art of persuasion, taught by professors ranging from Bart Simpson to Winston Churchill. The time-tested secrets the book discloses include Cicero’s three-step strategy for moving an audience to action as well as Honest Abe’s Shameless Trick of lowering an audience’s expectations by pretending to be unpolished. But it’s also replete with contemporary techniques such as politicians’ use of “code” language to appeal to specific groups and an eye-opening assortment of popular-culture dodges.