Dilbert (first published April 16, 1989) is an American comic strip written and drawn by Scott Adams. Dilbert, which predates Office Space and all versions of The Office, is known for its satirical humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office featuring the engineer Dilbert as the title character. The strip has spawned several books, an animated television series, a computer game, and hundreds of Dilbert-themed merchandise items. Adams has also received the National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award and Newspaper Comic Strip Award in 1997 for his work on the strip. Dilbert appears in 2000 newspapers worldwide in 65 countries and 25 languages.
In recent years the lack of a suitable legal and financial framework in Libya has deterred foreign investors. The Libyan government has now demonstrated its commitment to reform and to attracting foreign investment to increase oil production capacity and to diversify the economy. Initiatives such as Law No 5 have encouraged investment in the agricultural, services, healthcare, and industrial sectors and Law No 7 in the tourism sector. Tthis important report provides an authoritative update on the commercial law, and on banking and accounting practices in Libya.
Всем страждущим от недостатка литературы по интеллектуальной собственности на английском посвящается! An impressive and reader friendly compendium of information and instruction... the ideal introduction to the patenting process. -- Bookwatch A clear and simple guide to the entire patent process. Do you toil away in an office, garage or basement lab in the hopes of bringing a new widget to life? What will you do when it's alive and kicking?
Exploring the characteristics of different types of workplace conversations, including decision-making, training, briefing or making arrangements, this enthralling account pays particular attention to interactions with a more social focus, such as small talk or office gossip.
Presenting a range of approaches to analyzing such workplace discourse, Almut Koester argues for a combination of quantitative corpus-based methods, to compare specific linguistic features in different genres and qualitative methods involving a close analysis of individual conversations, to explore such issues as politeness, power, conflict and consensus-building. A corpus of conversations recorded in a variety of office environments both in the UK and the USA is used throughout to demonstrate the interplay between speakers accomplishing tasks and maintaining relationships in the workplace.
In her debut adult novel, Cabot (known for her extremely successful young adult fiction series the Princess Diaries, published under the name Meg Cabot) relies entirely on highly amusing e-mails to tell a fetching meet-cute story.The Boy Next Door is a romantic comedy done in form of emails between the characters. The story is about a break-in, mistaken identity, love, friendship and office mayhem.
