Mempelajari Bahasa Inggris di sekolah, kampus dan kursusan ternyata tidak cukup membekali kita berkomunikasi secara natural dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Sebagian besar materi percakapan Bahasa Inggris yang kita kuasai bersifat formal dan justru jarang digunakan oleh masyarakat penggunanya. Akibatnya 'You talk like a renob, dudes!' Nah, buka buku ini. Ada ribuan kosakata urban dan slang yab…
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too is Robbie Turner who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have benn changed for ever, as Briony commits a crime for which sh…
When the Taliban took control of the SWAT Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. In October 2012, when she was fifteen, Malala almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in her head while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an …
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic - a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until th…
If your delivery of presentations is all too variable and you don't know why, don't despair - help is at hand. Learn how to get your message and your personality across with the easy-to-follow instructions in this book. The expert advice in this guide, illustrated with a host of relevant examples, will show you how to use simple techniques and disciplines to ensure successful presentations, …
Advanced Negotiation Skills in a Week is a straightforward guide to taking your negotiating to the next level, giving everything you really need to know in just seven short chapters. It identifies the key steps in the negotiations process from preparation, partnering, and influencing to trading concessions, problem solving and closing. You'll also find exercises to help you put it all into action.
A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned - a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolutions against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. When A…