Business English with Electronic Study Guide (Business English)

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Students need both strong language and computer skills to succeed in today's information economy and digital workplace. Building on the success of previous editions, Business English, 7e, continues to provide students with a comprehensive review of English grammar fundamentals and usage. The text allows maximum flexibility for instructors to customize their course around student abilities. Each chapter has been revised to incorporate the most up-to-date Internet coverage. In addition to providing the most comprehensive Web site for business communication students, the new edition retains Mary Ellen Guffey's highly acclaimed three-level approach to teaching course concepts. This unique feature allows students and instructors to measure their progress from basic concepts to more complex language issues. A comprehensive collection of print and electronic resources helps instructors dramatically improve the language skills of their students.

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Excellent Textbook.......2006-12-20

I have been teaching English at the post-secondary level for seven years, and this is one of the best textbooks I have come across. Mary Ellen Guffey's explanations are straightforward, and her examples are relevant and easy to understand. In addition, there are multiple ways that students can practice on the Web or in their textbooks. This book has been invaluable to me and my students.

In fairly good condition.......2005-09-12

It was in fairly good condition and I got it at a reasonable amount of time. :)

Business English 7th Edition AUTHOR MARY ELLEN GUFFEY.......2002-02-27

THIS IS AN EXCELLENT TEXT BOOK.

Business English with Electronic Study INSTRUCTORS MANUAL.......2002-02-26

I WAS SENT THE WRONG BOOK.

Business English review.......2000-03-28

If you speak English, it does not mean that you do it right. This book guides you from the basic to more complex language structures, with a great deal of exercises to practice what you have learned. Besides, at the end of every chapter you can do a self-test in order to measure your performance, since the answers are included at the appendix.

Excellent for non-native English speakers. I give it 5 stars.

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Business English with Electronic Study Guide (Business English)
Mary Ellen Guffey
Manufacturer: South-Western College Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OUFBOQ

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First with the Most biography

First with the Most: Nathan Bedford Forrest
Robert Selph Henry
Manufacturer: Alpine Fine Arts Collection (UK)
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0914427725

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First with the Most biography.......2006-10-05

Alright, I admit it, what first interested me in this particular version was the price. I found it on the discount rack at a bookstore and started reading that night. I found it difficult to put down and finished quickly. It was the first biography of Forrest I had read (some years ago) and I was pleasently surprised to find that he was not demonized but judged in the context of his time. Good biography should do just that - keep the person in the context of their time. Mr. Henry's volume may remain my favorite biography of this brilliant general. There are other good ones but it is always difficult to better your first love.

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A Great Work
Excellent concentration on Forrest's campaigns
A good read...

"First with the Most" Forrest
Robert Selph Henry
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press Reprint
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Binding: Hardcover

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A Great Work.......2004-12-04

Forrest, though contreversial was without a doubt one of the best generals on either side in the Civil War. He was able to do more with less than many others in similar situations. With no education and being looked down upon by most of his peirs that is an especially impressive achievement.

Henry's work is also good in that it allows us to contrast biographies todaywith the ones from previous times. Henry pays little attention to Foresst's role in the Klan and portrays his slave trading and slave holding in the most positive light possible (dim though that may be). A more modern biographer might well blaze a blinding light upon these activities to the exclusion of his battlefield achievements.

I would recomend this work to the reader interested in the Civil War. It does not cover much else in the life of Forrest. It is well written and a good read.

Excellent concentration on Forrest's campaigns.......2003-02-21

Forrest was an amazing man, a complex man, before, during and after the Civil War. Men despised him because he was so bloody effective, but those same men were forced to grudging respect of Forrest's brilliance. This is not a balanced view of his life, but an excellent concentration of his campaigns. I would suggest reading Jack Hurst's work and John Allan Wyeth's in connection to this book. I have seen some grump because Hurst did not have maps and military information in his book. This will give them all the information they need.

Henry work is essential to understanding the whole, but the other two works should be utilised in conjunction to obtain a fully understanding. I cannot recommend them enough for someone starting in the search for a man that is so amazing.

A good read..........1999-08-12

This is a biography of one of the most misunderstood leaders of the Second War for American Independence, Lt. Gen. N. B. Forrest, CSA. While concentrating on the war years, Henry does give light into Forrest's postwar activity, including his official disbanding of the KKK in 1868, a fact generally overlooked by yankee revisionist historians. A good read, and reccommended.

First with the Most: Forrest. [Biography of Nathan Bedford Forrest].

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First with the Most: Forrest. [Biography of Nathan Bedford Forrest].
Robert Selph. Henry
Manufacturer: Konecky & Konecky c
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KIV6HS

First With the Most: Nathan Bedford Forrest

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A+
Very in depth though weak in areas...
This is one of the best histories of Forrest

First With the Most: Nathan Bedford Forrest
Robert Selph Henry
Manufacturer: BDD Promotional Books Company
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 079245605X

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A+.......2007-01-14

A great book. NBF was the real deal. You will enjoy this one.

Long Live the South!!! yeeeee hhhaaaaaa

Very in depth though weak in areas..........2002-09-30

This is one of those books that certainly captures the military career of Nathan Bedford Forrest without getting into much of his personal life history. For trying to understand the man I would suggest Hursts' biography on Forrest. This book was a rather in depth study of every situation Forrest was in during the Civil War. It is strictly military and though thorough, it's lack of maps was troubling. The maps used in the book rarely define the movements or are complicated to understand and poorly demonstrated. Often they are used for a multiple of operations and are completely vague. Had they been better implemented with information and used more often it would have truly completed this book. I found this book by Henry to be less detailed in more popular matters of surrender and enemy deception compared to other books on Forrest. It was easy to get lost at times in regards to reading about generals under Forrest and their movements throughout the western campaign. Is this the best book on Forrest? Military speaking I rank it high, though as a well rounded biography it certainly isn't one as I don't think the author intended to bring that part of the man forward. This book I found boring at times and I wondered how 465 of pages could be filled when detail about the man never surfaced except trivial military matters.

This is one of the best histories of Forrest.......2002-01-18

This is the standard for Nathan Bedford Forrest history. One of the most brilliant generals of all time. This book really gets into his campaigns and life. Great book and must read for any Civil War history buff; especially one from Tennessee.

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FIRST WITH THE MOST FORREST
Nathan Bedford. Robert Henry Forrest
Manufacturer: Konecky & Konecky
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000RAVHVO

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First with the Most: Nathan Bedford Forrest
Robert Selph Henry
Manufacturer: Konecky & Konecky
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J2HTWQ

Book Description

Paul Greenberg's word portraits of significant political, historical, and literary figures are gathered together here for the first time. This nationally syndicated columnist and winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing has a flair for capturing in a brief span the essence of a personality and the mark that person has made on the world. Includes essays on Beckett, Faubus, Fulbright, Gromyko, Kennan, Lincoln, Mencken, Moyniham, Orwell, and Swaggart, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Isasc Bashevis Singer, Jesse Jackson, Richard Nixon, Ayn Rand and Robert E. Lee. Greenberg's column appears in the "Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Louisville Courier, Seattle Post-Intelligencer," and some fifty other papers.

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Paul Greenberg at his best.......2000-04-10

For those who have not read Paul Greenberg (or have never heard of him), this book is a good place to start. It is a collection of his newspaper editorials about famous, infamous, and little-known people from across the spectrum - politicians, authors, actors, sports figures, and more. Paul brings both sympathetic insights and subtle incisions into each biographical sketch. The chapter on Ayn Rand alone is worth the price of the book, and it is only a typical example of Paul's ability to combine character assessments with observations having moral value.

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Resonant Lives

Manufacturer: Ethics & Public Policy Center
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0896331547

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As in his earlier work, Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant and Noel Coward: A Biography, Hoare proves himself to be an incisive social critic and a vigorous historian who illuminates the paradoxes of the recent past with insight and passion. But the real power of Oscar Wilde's Last Stand (that Hoare makes clear again and again) is its understanding that Wilde--social rebel and martyr to artistic and sexual freedom--remains, in so many ways, under attack by conservative social forces even today. --Michael Bronski END

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Even though Oscar Wilde--playwright, wit, critic, and convicted sodomite--died exiled and disgraced in 1900, his memory and influence remain central to British culture. In 1918 the specter of Wilde manifested itself in what social historian Philip Hoare calls "the trial of the century." This shocking libel case was brought by American actress Maud Allan, who had just appeared in a production of Wilde's Salome, against Noel Pemberton Billing, an arch-conservative M.P., who accused her of being a member of "the cult of the clitoris": his catch phase for a sexual and social degeneracy that he saw as destroying England. Billing also claimed that the German government (with whom, you will recall, England was at war) had "a black book" containing the names of 47,000 prominent members of the British society who were "in the cult of Wilde"--a euphemism for quot;degenerate" homosexuals--and who were potential blackmailees, subversives, and traitors. As in the Wilde trials 23 years earlier, the real issue here was an attack by conservatives and moralists against social and sexual freedom. As in his earlier work, Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant and Noel Coward: A Biography, Hoare proves himself to be an incisive social critic and a vigorous historian who illuminates the paradoxes of the recent past with insight and passion. But the real power of Oscar Wilde's Last Stand (that Hoare makes clear again and again) is its understanding that Wilde--social rebel and martyr to artistic and sexual freedom--remains, in so many ways, under attack by conservative social forces even today. --Michael Bronski END

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The "Fourth" Oscar Wilde Trial........1999-08-20

There are a number of ways to count the trials of Oscar Wilde, but what's becoming widely known as the "fourth" Oscar Wilde trial is a fascinating incident which occurred after his death. It is certainly must reading for anyone wanting to be acquainted with the Wilde story; especially if you're American. Maud Allen, the Canadian-American who brought about the libel action which initiated the trial, is familar to Canadians and some Americans since Felix Cherniavsky's 1991 book "The Salome Dancer" was published and mentioned this incident. And now Philip Hoare, a Briton, provides us with a fuller treatment of the trial's flow. Hoare's book is nicely written and has some stunning photographs of Maud Allan performing on stage. My only criticism is that Mr. Hoare says Ms. Allan's opponent, Noel Pemberton Billing, was "Mosley Before His Time." He refers to Sir Oswald Mosley, a later leader of the British fascists. If Mr. Hoare really knew his fascists, rather than his sterotypes, he would know that Mosley affiliated with the left wing tradition as a moderate member of parliment. Mosley continued to advocate those economic remedies as a fascist, continued his interest and associations with Britains's cultural vanguard, and was remarkably tolerant about homosexuals. In fact, it's no secret that Mosley's son by a first marriage, Nicolas, was homosexual, and to that son Mosley left the papers detailing his long, extraordinary, and tragic career. Today Nickolas is a prominent and respected liberal novelist, and his books about his father, Rules of the Game and Beyond the Pale, indicate that respect was mutual.

Rule, Britannia.......1998-08-31

This is how history should be written: exhaustively researched, well organized, good command of the language. This book goes way beyond what the title promises, giving us an encompassing social history of the "upper classes" of Britain from 1900 to 1918. Many surprises here, all of them believable. The only request: to give us, in an appendix, a more thorough vitae of the players.

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The first volume in William Kloefkorn's four-part memoir which, when completed, will cover the four elements: water, fire, earth, and air.

This Death by Drowning is a memoir with a difference—an artfully assembled collection of reminiscences, each having something to do with water. The book's epigraph, from Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It, proclaims, "I am haunted by waters." So—and in most rewarding ways—is William Kloefkorn.

The first chapter recalls the time when, at age six, the author "came within one gulp of drowning" in a Kansas cow-pasture pond, only to be saved by his father. A later chapter recounts Kloefkorn's younger brother's near death by drowning a few years later; still another envisions the cycle of drought and torrential rains on his grandparents' Kansas farm. There are fanciful memories of the Loup and other Nebraska rivers, interlaced with Mark Twain's renderings of the Mississippi and John Neihardt's poetic descriptions of the Missouri. And there are stories of more recent times—a winter spent in a cabin on the Platte River, and an often amusing Caribbean cruise that Kloefkorn took with his wife.

Throughout, Kloefkorn takes his memories for a walk, following each recollection into unexpected, fruitful byways. Along the way he pauses at larger themes—of nature, death, family, and renewal—that gradually gather irresistible force and authority.

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In the drink . . ........2007-09-11

This is a collection of memoir-like essays by Nebraska poet William Kloefkorn, all of them related in one way or another with water - from a near-drowning at the age of four to accounts of river rafting on central Nebraska's Loup River. There is also a baptism in a creek near a small Kansas town where the author grew up. Perhaps most absorbing is the description of life on a hard-scrabble homestead, as lived by Koefkorn's grandparents, without electricity or plumbing, though not without "running water" as provided by runoff from the roof into an underground cistern.

Memories of his young years as a schoolboy include the sinking of ships at Pearl Harbor and drownings at sea during WWII. Granting himself a degree of poetic license, the author weaves together multiple narrative threads and vividly remembered images and epiphanies so that the result is a kind of awed stream of consciousness, laced at points with irony and humor best described as "midwestern". Not a far cry from Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion, and fans of that show should enjoy this book.

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This Death By Drowning
William Kloefkorn
Manufacturer: Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 1997
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NX89SE

Sunken story: why are you just now hearing this? (the minimal reporting of the possible drowning deaths of 283 Third World immigrants being smuggled into ... An article from: Columbia Journalism Review

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Sunken story: why are you just now hearing this? (the minimal reporting of the possible drowning deaths of 283 Third World immigrants being smuggled into ... An article from: Columbia Journalism Review
Sasha Abramsky
Manufacturer: Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00097M6E2
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Columbia Journalism Review, published by Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism on May 1, 1997. The length of the article is 510 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The sinking of a ship smuggling about 300 illegal immigrants from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka off the coast of Sicily generated scant attention from the world media and leads to questions of the media's treatment of immigrant issues. The immigrants payed an allegedly abusive and drunken ship captain up to $8,000 to smuggle them into Europe and the boat overturned killing most of the passengers. Only Britain's "Observer" reported the story in depth. Critics believe the media ignored the story because of the growing dehumanization and lack of concern for illegal immigrants.

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Title: Sunken story: why are you just now hearing this? (the minimal reporting of the possible drowning deaths of 283 Third World immigrants being smuggled into Europe)
Author: Sasha Abramsky
Publication: Columbia Journalism Review (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 1997
Publisher: Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism
Volume: v36 Issue: n1 Page: p20(2)

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Three young men drowned!: Read this, o youth, for it is concerning death! death! death!

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Three young men drowned!: Read this, o youth, for it is concerning death! death! death!
Reuel Lothrop
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