Non-native English speakers know the importance of English writing skills to their career development. They may feel worried that asking for help would expose a weakness or lack of confidence. They may feel embarrassed about getting things wrong, and about coming over as ill-educated and unprofessional. They know that, unlike speech, the written word can be unforgiving if one gets it wrong. Executive Writing Skills for Managers focuses on writing as a key business tool and deals with the English writing skills needed to keep one’s career rising.
Language in the World: A Philosophical Enquiry (Studies in Philosophy)
What makes the words we speak mean what they do? Possible-worlds semantics articulates the view that the meanings of words contribute to determining which possible worlds would make a sentence true, and which would make it false. In the first book-length examination from this viewpoint, M.J. Cresswell argues that the nonsemantic facts on which semantic facts supervene are facts about the causal interactions between the linguistic behavior of speakers and the facts in the world that they are speaking about.
Climate change from a philosophical and ethical perspective. This book is about climate change. It will contribute to your understanding of what is happening and why it is happening. The objective is to show how climate change raises not only a number of questions to do with natural science, but also many questions of a more universal nature that are based on philosophical, political, ethical and religious assumptions about how the world is and how it should be.
China to Chinatown examines one of the most notable examples of the globalization of food. J.A.G. Roberts recounts how the West’s attitudes to Chinese food have changed from the time of Marco Polo to now. Early travelers in China too often avoided the local food and chronicled the "disgusting" diet of dogs, cats, and snakes. Others, for example Jesuit mission-aries, were more enthusiastic about Chinese food. In the 20th-century with the spread of Chinatowns in the West, Chinese restaurants, food, and recipe books gradually took off, and in the last 20 years there has been an explosion in their popularity.
