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National agendas and the English divide. (international aspects of the discipline of business communication)(Forum:

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This digital document is an article from Business Communication Quarterly, published by Association for Business Communication on September 1, 1998. The length of the article is 2175 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.  read more »

Culture, Social Norms, and Economics (International Library of Critical Writings in Economics)

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Economists have often been accused of failing to take full account of culture and social norms in their explanations of human behavior. Cultural factors are playing an increasingly important role in economic theorizing and are achieving greater recognition as determinants of economic performance. These volumes will therefore be a landmark and will provide easy access to the most important articles in this expanding field. The first volume focuses on modeling the social and cultural aspects of an individual's behavior.  read more »

Escape from Iraq: how long can the occupation last?(Columnists)(military aspects): An article from: Commonweal

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This digital document is an article from Commonweal, published by Thomson Gale on June 3, 2005. The length of the article is 926 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.Citation DetailsTitle: Escape from Iraq: how long can the occupation last?(Columnists)(military aspects)Author: William Pfaff  read more »

Writing and Materiality in China: Essays in Honor of Patrick Hanan (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series)

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Lydia H. Liu
asin: 0674010981
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Speaking about Chinese writing entails thinking about how writing speaks through various media. In the guises of the written character and its imprints, traces, or ruins, writing is more than textuality. The goal of this volume is to consider the relationship of writing to materiality in China's literary history and to ponder the physical aspects of the production and circulation of writing. To speak of the thing-ness of writing is to understand it as a thing in constant motion, transported from one place or time to another, one genre or medium to another, one person or public to another.  read more »

Grant Proposal Writing: A Handbook for School Library Media Specialists

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asin: 0313244405
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This volume is specifically designed to assist the library media specialist in developing skills for project proposal writing. Blanche Woolls meticulously covers all steps, from developing an idea, finding a source of funding, writing and submitting a proposal, through managing a resource project. Beginning with an overview of the current funding situation, Woolls moves to the proposal itself. She discusses such aspects as stating a need, writing goals and objectives, and covers topics such as choosing personnel, itemizing the budget, evaluating the project, and reviewing the proposal itself.  read more »

Writing with Purpose and Passion: A Writer's Guide to Language and Style

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Michael Rovasio
asin: 0134376099
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Written with a love for writing that transcends to its readers, this book helps users develop their writing skills and learn how to read even the most basic of forms by combining an overview of the five most commonly used modes of rhetoric with a similar overview of the most common elements of grammar, punctuation, style and usage. It includes many samples of student writing to demonstrate the rhetorical modes and principles of style and usage.Arranges chapters in a graded progression of easier to more difficult concepts, and stresses the inter-relatedness of all aspects of writing.  read more »

Triumph from Failure: Lessons from Life for Business Success

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Kate Dixey
asin: 1587991810
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Alistair McAlpine and Kate Dixey plumb the depths of happiness and come up with what it takes to achieve that elusive goal and be successful in life, business and relationships with coworkers, bosses, employees and people in general.  read more »