This series uses authoritative authentic sources to explore topical business issues and builds the professional standard of language needed to communicate in the modern world of business.
When your doctor uses terms like intraductal carcinoma or akathisia, do you understand and can you ask the right questions? If you, like most Americans, are taking a more active role in your family’s healthcare, the fully revised and updated Webster’s New World™ Medical Dictionary, Third Edition will help you understand and communicate your medical needs when it matters the most.
A Lower-Intermediate > Intermediate course for people working in – or planning to work in – the tourist industry. Contains 50 x 90-minute lessons which are organized thematically. Specific emphasis is placed on encouraging students to communicate in typical tourism-related contexts.
Make your ailing vocabulary go from merely good to exceptionally splendid and stupendous! Your brain holds an impressive vocabulary of more than 20,000 words, but chances are you only use a small fraction of them. That fraction is usually filled with worn-out oldies that have lost their impact, such as interesting, good, and nice.. Now you can rejuvenate your vocabulary and rehab your verbal skills with this guide for using language to communicate more effectively in writing and speech.
How is technology changing the way we write? In the fast-moving world of email, content is far more important than spelling and punctuation. Is it time to throw away the old rules—or should we hurry to the rescue? From pen-and-parchment to the email revolution, Naomi S.Baron’s provocative account shows how a surprising variety of factors—not just technology, but also religious beliefs, the law, nationalism, and economics— shape the way we read, write and communicate. Along the way, readers will discover that: • Long before keyboards and carpal tunnel syndrome, monks grumbled about the ergonomics of the medieval scriptorium. • In 1902 the Times of London proclaimed of the telephone: ‘An overwhelming majority of the population do not use it and are not likely to use it at all.’ • Many children who seldom spoke to their parents at home now communicate with them through email. • And much more. This fascinating, anecdotal foray through the history of language and writing offers a fresh perspective on the impact of the digital age on literacy and education, and on the future of our language.
