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Product Description: Discusses the skills and characteristics that are used to display business ettiqutte when applying for jobs.

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By his choice of title Gaskell relates the present work to McKerrow's Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students of 1927. This is a new and different book, since it surveys of the machine-press period up to I950, whereas McKerrow had stopped at 1800. Although Gaskell agrees with McKerrow that 'bibliography's over-riding responsibility must be to determine a text in its most accurate form', he is concerned with printing and book-trade history and related only indirectly to the establishment of the text. A masterly consolidation of the results of authoritative research during the past half century, the New Introduction is an invaluable work of reference which no library concerned with literary studies, printing history, or librarianship can afford to do without. Although described by the author as a 'manual', it is a most readable, fascinating book, in which a large amount of technical information has been digested and presented with superlative skill. For lucidity and precision Gaskell cannot be faulted; he writes vividly and with zest, and his descriptions of the production routines of the printing house have an actuality which derives from his own practical knowledge and expertise as a printer. CONTENTS: The hand-press period 1500-1800: The hand-printed book -- Printing type -- Composition -- Paper -- Imposition -- Presswork -- The warehouse -- Binding -- Decoration and illustration -- Patterns of production -- The English Book Trade to 1800 --- The machine-press period 1800-1950: Introduction -- Survival and change -- Plates -- Type 1800-1875 -- Paper in the machine-press period -- Edition binding -- Printing machines -- Processes of reproduction -- Mechanical composition, and type 1875-1950 -- Printing practice in the machine-press period -- The book trade in Britain and America since 1800 --- Bibliographical Applications: Identification -- Bibliographical description -- Textual bibliography -- Appendixes --- Reference bibliography.

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Prepare future managers to face the differences in business communication across cultures. With the globalization of the world economy, it is imperative for current and future managers to be sensitive to the differences they will encounter in intercultural communication. To help make readers aware of these differences, Intercultural Business Communication contains practical guidelines and information on how to conduct negotiations across countries, write business letters in different societies, and includes the general “dos” and “don’ts” in international business. The fifth edition contains new cases, updated examples, and information from ten newly published books and journal articles.  

Describes the essential qualities of news writing, and covers style, leads, tone, attributive verbs, quotes, color, cliches, features, and word usage

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Second printing, Oak Knoll edition. Ronald B. McKerrow's An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students has been the classic manual on bibliography, showing how the transmission of texts might be affected by the processes of printing, but he concentrated almost exclusively on "Elizabethan" printing - the period from 1560 to 1660. However, in recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the textual problems of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, and although McKerrow covered the period up to 1800, he did not describe the technology of the machine-press period. Gaskell incorporates work done since McKerrow's day on the history of the printing technology of the hand-press period, and he breaks new ground by providing a general description of the printing practices of the machine-press period. Little has been previously published about the techniques and routines of nineteenth- and twentieth-century book production, making this book essential to students of literature, scholars, printing historians, librarians, and booklovers. xxiv , 438 pages. paperback.. 8vo..