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Cross-cultural communication: is it Greek to you? (International Technical Communication) (Column): An article from: Technical
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This digital document is an article from Technical Communication, published by Society for Technical Communication on May 1, 1992. The length of the article is 3494 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.From the supplier: Foreign corporations which venture into the international market encounter problems in dealing with totally foreign languages and cultures. read more »
Competitive communication: Classical rhetoric for modern business (College custom series)
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Competitive Communication offers the first full-length treatment of the classical art of rhetoric with applications to the day-to-day needs of modern managers. Based on the belief that clearly reasoned persuasion is indispensable to professionals who must convince others of their points ofview, this text reveals implicit, competitive dimensions of communication to those familiar with contemporary business practices. Concentrating on argumentation--which is viewed both as a process of inquiry and as an act of persuasion--the author reviews principles of reasoning that were central to read more »
The Bellstone: The Greek Sponge Divers of the Aegean
 | author: Michael N. Kalafatas asin: 1584652721 binding: Hardcover list price: $26.00 USD amazon price: $26.00 USD |
For centuries,the young men of the Dodecanese Islands, a string of islands in the Aegean Sea between Greece and the coast of Asia Minor, earned their living by diving for sponges. They would descend to the bottom of the sea on just a single breath of air, using as a weight and rudder a flat, marble diving stone called a bellstone. They used this ancient technique of "naked diving" until 1863 when the deep-sea diving suit was introduced into the sponge-fishing industry. read more »
The Summer of My Greek Taverna: A Memoir
 | author: Tom Stone asin: 0743205413 binding: Hardcover list price: $24.00 USD amazon price: $24.00 |
Tom Stone went to Greece one summer to write a novel -- and stayed twenty-two years. On Patmos, the tiny island where St. John received the apocalyptic visions recorded in the Book of Revelations, he fell in love with Danielle, a beautiful French painter. His novel completed and sold, he decided to stay a little longer. Seven idyllic years later, after the birth of their second child, they left Patmos for Crete, where Stone taught English to civil servants and Danielle painted icons for tourists. read more »
Science on Stage: Expert Advice as Public Drama (Writing Science)
 | author: Stephen Hilgartner asin: 0804736464 binding: Paperback list price: $23.95 USD amazon price: $23.95 USD |
Behind the headlines of our time stands an unobtrusive army of science advisors. Panels of scientific, medical, and engineering experts evaluate the safety of the food we eat, the drugs we take, and the cars we drive. But despite the enormous influence of science advice, its authority is often problematic, and struggles over expert advice are thus a crucial aspect of contemporary politics. Science on Stage is a theoretically informed and empirically grounded study of the social process through which the credibility of expert advice is produced, challenged, and sustained. read more »
