Wing Tang Wong

It Starts With Opening One's Mouth...

Let's face it. We're creatures of habit. No matter how well we think we are pro-active and establishing strong lines of communications... we can always do better. Usually, much better. Whether in the workplace, at home, or just when you're out and about, communicating is a key part of life. And it seems that the majority of people take a pretty laid back approach to it.

Learning to talk as a child is hard. But it was only one of a few things that truly occupied your attention. Learning to talk as a teen is hard. But that is because of the social and cultural pressures that are present. Learning to talk as an adult is hard. This is due to the fact that we are busy with so many other things.

So, when do we really learn to talk? To communicate?  read more »

This digital document is an article from American Journalism Review, published by University of Maryland on January 1, 1996. The length of the article is 2058 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: The Internet offers unparalleled access to information and can greatly enhance reporting and journalism, most easily through its World Wide Web portion.  read more »

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 »

This collection of Chakravarty's major papers was assembled by the author himself before his death and examines some of the major ideas and concerns of development theory. Papers highlight Chakravarty's effort to create an 'operationally meaningful development paradigm' as well as thesignificant contributions made to development economics by Chakravarty's contempororaries including Joan Robinson, John Hicks and Gunnar Myrdal. Also included is a discussion of the neo-classical paradigm of a market solution to developmental problems and a section that links theoretical discussions  read more »

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Most of us have to write formally as part of our work and, as we know, effective writing gets results. Few of us, however, have been trained to write effectively and many of us see writing as a tedious chore. This interactive CD-ROM aims to correct that misperception.  read more »

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Has your program suffered from a lack of funding? Do you find that your fund-raising efforts are not yielding a healthy share of the resource pie?  read more »

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Roger Fry, a core member of the Bloomsbury Group, was involved with all aspects of the art market as artist, critic, curator, historian, journalist, advisor to collectors, and gallery operator. He is especially remembered as the person who introduced postimpressionist art to Britain.  read more »