The Least You Should Know about English offers an unbeat and comprehensive study of how to express your ideas well, because, regardless of where you see yourself headed in life, the ability to communiate correctly and effectively will make a significant contribution to your professional and personal success.
The book continues its rich traditions of providing assistance to students who need to review basic English skill and who may profit from a simplified approach. The first five parts of the book cover the essentials of spelling, sentence structure,, and punctuation. Part 6 offers meaningful templates for building effective paragraphs and multi-paragraph compositions.
Things You Should Know about Your Mate (1000 Questions for Couples)
-- If you and your partner answer these 1000 questions, it's guaranteed that you will know each other better than 99% of couples on the face of the earth.
How to Write
This is not a writing manual, nor a guide to grammar, nor to rhetoric. Obviously not: look at its length, or lack of it. It is only a small book aiming to help you form ideas about writing, and to write whenever you want to. Writing need not be an ordeal nor an impossible feat. It is a do-able task: one that becomes a pleasure when you get into it. Reading this book should make writing easier, and should keep you from breaking your head in attempts on the impossible. But I don’t guarantee masterpieces. In fact, I don’t mean to deal with creative writing. How could one ever generalize about the ways of creative writers? Their methods are individual to a fault: some pursue total spontaneity; some mull over poems for months and then
write them in a day
Princeton University Press 1995
ISBN 0691037760
1 MB
325 pages
This investigation of the overwhelming appeal of quantification in the modern world discusses the development of cultural meanings of objectivity over two centuries. How are we to account for the current prestige and power of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is seen as desirable in social and economic investigation as a result of its successes in the study of nature. Theodore Porter is not content with this. Why should the kind of success achieved in the study of stars, molecules, or cells be an attractive model for research on human societies? he asks. And, indeed, how should we understand the pervasiveness of quantification in the sciences of nature? In his view, we should look in the reverse direction: comprehending the attractions of quantification in business, government, and social research will teach us something new about its role in psychology, physics, and medicine.
78 Important Questions Every Leader Should Ask and Answer
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78 Important Questions Every Leader Should AskandAnswer
"I believe that you'd rather be a good leader than a poor one and
that being a great leader would be even better. This book will help you
wherever you are on your journey as a leader-if you are willing to take
some risks, practice some new skills, and endure the discomfort of
change. As you read, make sure you have a pen handy and take lots of
notes. Transform the questions into your own words. Use these questions
as springboards to create your own list. But, most of all, ask them!
You'll be rewarded by the answers."