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The Basics: Business Communication (The Basics)
 | author: Patricia Merrier asin: 0538722959 binding: Paperback list price: $38.95 USD amazon price: $38.95 USD |
The Basics of Business Communication focuses on the business communication principles and their written applications. Short, concise content delivers a thorough approach, with clear-cut examples and exercises to reinforce learning. Use of current technology and the Internet have been incorporated as well as the SCANS workplace readiness skills. Humor is also added to emphasize key principles and concepts.
Business and Sales Humor Writing and Delivery Skills Guidebook: Business and Sales Skills Development Using Techniques from
 | author: Daniel Farb Md Bruce Gordon asin: 1594912696 binding: Paperback list price: $39.95 USD amazon price: $39.95 USD |
This book is a combination of two works by the authors, Sales Humor Delivery Skills and Sales Humor Writing Skills. Those readers who wish to have an accompanying program with video and interactivity should also purchase the CD version of each one separately. An important skill in sales, and in any business situation, is the proper delivery and use of humor, and it can be learned. Sales Humor Delivery Skills teaches you important elements of delivering effective humor. It will help you in your career. And you'll enjoy the jokes in the book at the same time! read more »
Labor Struggles In The Deep South and Other Writings
 | author: Covington Hall asin: 0882862448 binding: Paperback list price: $14.00 USD amazon price: $14.00 USD |
In the half-century since it was written, Hall's Labor Struggles In The Deep South, published here for the first time, has become an underground classic among activist historians writing on the South and on working people. Hall - journalist, organizer, rebel, professor and poet - brings to life the dramatic early 20th century struggles of the waterfront workers of New Orleans and the militant timber workers of Louisiana and East Texas. read more »
Playwright's Survival Guide: Keeping the Drama in Your Work and Out of Your Life
 | author: Gary Garrison asin: 0325001650 binding: Paperback list price: $14.95 USD amazon price: $14.95 USD |
The Playwright's Survival Guide is written for both aspiring and established writers looking for an emotional, spiritual, or just plain practical connection back to what's important - the writing. It's a "how-to-be" book - with thoughts, stories of inspiration, a few tricks of the trade, a few outlets for venting frustrations, and a reassuring voice that speaks to all the doubts with an "I know. I've been there. This is what you do . . read more »
Crossing Boundaries: Selected Writings
 | author: Albert O. Hirschman asin: 1890951048 binding: Hardcover list price: $32.95 USD amazon price: $24.50 USD |
"Crossing Boundaries is not only characteristic of the physical moves I have undertaken (or had to undertake) in the course of my life: it is also distinctive of the interdisciplinary travels I have engaged in ever since I started to write." --Albert O. Hirschman, from Crossing Boundaries read more »
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Boardroom: Using Humor in Business Speaking
 | author: Michael Iapoce asin: 0471636495 binding: Paperback list price: $14.95 USD amazon price: $14.95 |
This is the first book to offer detailed advice on the effective use of humor in business situations such as presentations, meetings, or seminars. The author is a speech writer who has written for the CEOs of AT&T, Xerox, Monsanto, and the Bank of America. He has also written comedy for entertainers such as Rodney Dangerfield. Presents the basics of writing humorously in a clear, step-by-step fashion, and reveals invaluable tricks of the trade for creating one's own custom-tailored jokes using techniques employed by professional comedy writers. read more »
Business Humor: Jokes & How To Deliver Them
 | author: Gene Perret asin: 0806999047 binding: Paperback list price: $11.95 USD amazon price: $11.95 |
"We have a fellow in our office who accumulates a lot of absenteeism. I said to the boss one day, `Why don't you fire him?' He said, `Fire him? I don't even know what he looks like.'" Have fun with these jokes and jests about the workplace. All the staples come in for a little ribbing: Absenteeism, Ambition, Blue Mondays, and Thank God It's Friday, as well as Golf, Office Parties, and much more!
The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
 | author: Scott L. Montgomery asin: 0226534847 binding: Hardcover list price: $45.00 USD amazon price: $45.00 USD |
Whether you are a graduate student or a senior scientist, your reputation rests on the ability to communicate your ideas and data. In this straightforward and accessible guide, Scott L. Montgomery offers detailed, practical advice on crafting every sort of scientific communication, from research papers and conference talks to review articles, interviews with the media, e-mail messages, and more. read more »
