Improv Yourself features exercises and games specially designed to refine your "improvability"–and make you more comfortable with the process of creation, the skill of spontaneity, and the expert use of humor. You’ll become a more innovative business thinker and have more fun at work and at home. You’ll also learn the fundamentals of improvisation and understand improv theory as it relates to business.
Make no mistake, etiquette is as important in business as it is in everyday life — it’s also a lot more complicated. From email and phone communications to personal interviews to adapting to corporate and international cultural differences, Business Etiquette For Dummies, 2nd Edition, keeps you on your best behavior in any business situation. This friendly, authoritative guide shows you how to develop good etiquette on the job and navigate today’s diverse and complex business environment with great success. You’ll get savvy tips for dressing the part, making polite conversation, minding your manners at meetings and meals, behaving at off-site events, handling ethical dilemmas, and conducting international business. You’ll find out how to behave gracefully during tense negotiations, improve your communication skills, and overcome all sorts of work-related challenges.
Make your e-commerce vision a success with this comprehensive, step-by-step handbook. Whether your company is a startup or well-established, you’ll learn how to plan, implement and operate a successful e-commerce site—from selecting the right software through fulfilling orders. The expanded and updated second edition addresses e-commerce opportunities with online auctions, peer-to-peer file sharing, and weblogs, as well as security issues and search engine marketing. Using this book as a tutorial and reference, you’ll learn how to:
An Introduction to Teaching English by Lucy Pollard
This e-book will help you deal with your first 2 years in teaching. It will give tips and ideas for the situations you’ll encounter. It will help new teachers and will serve as a reminder for those who have followed a course. It describes the main teaching methods and contains practical tips that you can instantly put to use in the classroom. You will find yourself dipping into it constantly. It will allow you to save time because you’ll make the right decisions from the start.
Knowing that the most exciting math is not taught in school, Professor Ian Stewart has spent years filling his cabinet with intriguing mathematical games, puzzles, stories, and factoids intended for the adventurous mind. This book reveals the most exhilarating oddities from Professor Stewart’s legendary cabinet.
Inside, you will find hidden gems of logic, geometry, and probability—like how to extract a cherry from a cocktail glass (harder than you think), a pop-up dodecahedron, and the real reason why you can’t divide anything by zero. Scattered among these are keys to Fermat’s last theorem, the Poincaré conjecture, chaos theory, and the P=NP problem (you’ll win a million dollars if you solve it). You never know what enigmas you’ll find in the Stewart cabinet, but they’re sure to be clever, mind-expanding, and delightfully fun.
