Handshake is a pre-intermediate course for people in work. It is immediately apparent the it isn't a Business English course, so in what way does it differ from a standard General English course book? This is an interesting book that brings to the learning of English originality in its approach and its wealth of interactive activities based, in particular, around conversation.
This programme is specially designed for business people who have reached an intermediate level, and who wish to improve their proficiency in business English. This programme is designed to improve the language and communication skills you need in a variety of business situations. Business Topics consists of eight units dealing with general business topics, such as giving presentations, managing projects, making forecasts, and so on. One of the key features of Business Topics is the emphasis on interactive communication in the form of role plays.
Good communication skills are vital in today's workplace. Whether you need to keep the interest of a large audience, impress a potential employer, or simply win the argument at an important meeting, sounding the part is key. Improve Your Communication Skills shows how to improve conversations and build rapport with colleagues; hold interviews and staff appraisals; learn the skills of persuasion; give effective presentations; write emails, letters and reports; and write for the web.
The Psychology of Graphic Images: Seeing, Drawing, Communicating
This book explores the nature of one of the most ancient tools for nonverbal communication: drawings. They are naturally adaptable enough to meet an incredibly wide range of communication needs. But how exactly do they do their job so well? Avoiding the kinds of aesthetic rankings of different graphic domains so often made by art historians and critics, Manfredo Massironi considers an extensive and representative sample of graphic applications with an open mind. He finds a deep mutuality between the material components of images and the activation of the perceptual and cognitive processes that create and decipher them.
Parchment, Paper, Pixels: Law and the Technologies of Communication
Technological revolutions have had an unquestionable, if still debatable, impact on culture and society—perhaps none more so than the written word. In the legal realm, the rise of literacy and print culture made possible the governing of large empires, the memorializing of private legal transactions, and the broad distribution of judicial precedents and legislation. Yet each of these technologies has its shadow side: written or printed texts easily become static and the textual practices of the legal profession can frustrate ordinary citizens, who may be bound by documents whose implications they scarcely understand.
