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Business Grammar Builder. Intermediate to Upper Intermediate. Second Edition +CD - Учебное пособие серии « Business Grammar and Vocabulary» • Если вам нужен справочник по грамматике и учебное пособие по практике, а также вы хотите улучшить свой деловой английский, то Business Grammar Builder для вас. Основанный на реальном языке бизнеса 21 века, Business Grammar Builder поможет вам обогатить свой деловой словарный запас, методично практикуя и совершенствуя грамматику • Это пересмотренное и обновленное издание Business Grammar Builder содержит • - 50 грамматических модулей, которые охватывают наиболее важные структуры и функции делового английского языка • - Аудио-компакт-диск, который поможет вам развить навыки распознавания языка и произношения • - 16 тестов для вас, чтобы проверить свой прогресс • - Полный ключ к ответам на все упражнения и тесты • - Руководство по ключевым грамматическим терминам и полный грамматический указатель с возможностью поиска • Business Grammar Builder is a grammar and reference book for professional adults who need to maintain and practice their English in a business context

Business Vocabulary Builder. Intermediate to Upper Intermediate (+CD) - Учебное пособие серии « Business Grammar and Vocabulary» • Business Vocabulary Builder - это курс деловой лексики и практики для студентов со средним уровнем владения английским языком или выше • Использование курса обогатит ваш деловой словарный запас и позволит вам более свободно и уверенно выражать свои мысли в профессиональном контексте • Словарный запас организован по бизнес-темам (первая часть) и деловым навыкам (вторая часть), что упрощает вам ориентацию на нужный вам язык и навыки. Творческое разнообразие практических упражнений облегчает усвоение и запоминание словарного запаса. Темы и навыки рассматриваются с точки зрения 21-го века, преподавание ведется на современном языке в условиях современного бизнеса

What can Alice in Wonderland teach us about childhood? Could reading Conversations with Friends guide us through first love? Does Esther Greenwood’s glittering success and subsequent collapse in The Bell Jar help us understand ambition? And, finally, what can we learn about death from Virginia Woolf? • Literature matters. Not only does it provide escapism and entertainment, but it also holds a mirror up to our lives to show us aspects of ourselves we may not have seen or understood. From jealousy to grief, fierce love to deep hatred, our inner lives become both stranger and more familiar when we explore them through fiction • Josh Cohen, a psychoanalyst and Professor of Modern Literary Theory, delves deep into the inner lives of the most memorable and vivid characters in literature

Has something gone wrong with your parents? • There are hundreds of books for parents about how to deal with their teenagers. For the first time, neuroscientist and international bestselling author, Dean Burnett has written a book for YOU to understand just what on earth is going on. From why parents are obsessed with tidiness, to why they won't let you get enough sleep and generally why they don't seem to get anything, this guide covers all the major parental dramas • imagine what you'd be capable of if you weren't wasting all that time and energy arguing about tidying your room

Want to get those difficult colleagues off your back and restore your sanity? NYU psychology professor Tessa West shows you how • Have you ever watched a colleague charm the pants off management while showing a competitive, Machiavellian side to the lower ranks? They don't hesitate to throw peers under the bus, but their boss is oblivious to their bad behaviour. What about a constantly interrupting colleague? Or an over-bearing manager? While these jerks stress us out in small ways throughout the day, they aren't technically breaking any rules, so we're expected just to put up with them • Until now. Tessa West has already helped thousands of people resolve their most pressing workplace issues. And here she draws on a decade of original research to profile classic workplace archetypes, including the Gaslighter, the Bulldozer, the Credit-Stealer, the Neglecter, and the Micromanager, giving advice to anyone who's ever hidden in the bathroom to cry at work

In the sequel to the best-selling 50 States, 5,000 ideas, National Geographic turns to the United States' and Canada's most pristine--and adventure-filled--national, state, and city parks with 5,000 ideas for the ultimate vacation. Showcasing the best experiences, both obvious and unexpected, each entry in this robust guide provides an overview of the park, detailed travel advice, fascinating facts, insider knowledge about wildlife, and expert tips for hiking, biking, camping, and exploring. From the geysers of Yellowstone National Park to the Everglades' Nine Mile Pond Canoe Trail and the stunning peaks of Banff and Jasper in Alberta, each page will fuel your wanderlust. Plus, explore the natural beauty tucked away in cities like New York's Central Park and Boston Commons, and find bonus parks with day-trip suggestions to nearby neighbors

How can we raise children in a world that appears to have gone so wrong? • We all want our children to grow up in a world where they feel safe, and where people are kind to each other and the planet. But when we hear about climate change, a mental health crisis, war, it's hard not to worry about the future and how they will cope • Drawing on over 20 years of helping children and families, psychotherapist Louis Weinstock is here to help. Combining case studies, playful meditations and simple exercises with life-changing insights from history, science, psychology and anthropology, this is a parenting book like no other • Whether your child is struggling with mental health issues already, or you want to build their capacity to handle change and uncertainty, this book is a safe place to catch your breath and develop the skills to help your child through life's challenges

A fascinating investigation into how leaders' confidence can transform into hubris, which has the devastating potential to lead not only to their own downfall, but also to the collapse of entire organizations • While confidence is a vital attribute for any successful business leader, it is often taken too far – they fall into the pitfalls of hubris and, like Icarus, find themselves flying too close to the sun. Laying out the dangers of arrogant overconfidence for both individuals and organizations, this book explores both the economic and psychological costs of this destructive behaviour, and boldly argues for a new, revolutionary approach to leadership • Written by three world-renowned experts, Too Proud to Lead provides readers with the essential arsenal of tools for understanding, identifying, anticipating and coping with hubris, in both themselves and in their workplace

Netflix, Spotify, and Salesforce are just the tip of the iceberg for the subscription model. The real transformation--and the real opportunity--is just beginning • Today's consumers prefer the advantages of access over the hassles of ownership. It's not just internet services like Netflix and Spotify; even industrial firms like GE and Caterpillar are reinventing themselves as solutions providers. Whether you sell software, clothes, insurance, or industrial machines, you need to master the transition to the subscription model • Adapting to the subscription economy takes more than just deciding to sell subscriptions instead of products. You'll have to reinvent your company from the inside out -- from your accounting to your entire IT architecture

A revelatory model explaining how exponential technology is eroding our societies • We are entering the exponential age • New inventions are created at a dazzling speed; our homes and workplaces are remade by technological forces we barely understand; centuries-old tenets of politics and economics are upturned by new technologies. It all points to a world that is getting faster at a dizzying pace • Azeem Azhar knows this better than most. Over the last three decades he has served as the Economist's first ever internet correspondent, founded companies bought by Amazon and Microsoft, and created Britain's leading tech newsletter and podcast, Exponential View • Now, Azhar offers a revelatory new model for understanding how technology is changing the world

Если вы вступили в новую должность или только собираетесь стать руководителем, на вас неизбежно обрушивается лавина новых вопросов. Вам придется разбираться с длинным перечнем новых обязанностей - от найма до увольнения сотрудников, от организации совещаний до рассылки приказов, от планирования до презентаций - и находить решения тысяч проблем. В чем секрет уверенного лидерства в сложных и непредвиденных ситуациях? • Эта книга представляет собой современное руководство для менеджеров и содержит множество интересных примеров и важных идей • Будь вы менеджер-новичок, опытный руководитель или еще только мечтаете им стать, книга Джули Чжо "Из чего сделан менеджер, или Что предпринять, когда все смотрят на тебя?" поможет вам развить качества, необходимые настоящему лидеру