Market Leader Advanced is the fifth level in this five level series. It features authentic texts and listenings throughout and provides students with the professional communication and language skills necessary for a wide range of business situation such as problem-solving, managing meetings, networking, brainstorming and telephone strategies.
The Course Book has 12 main units and four revision units and retains the dynamic and effective approach that has made this series so successful in business English classes worldwide. There is also a Grammar reference section with practice exercises, Writing file, Activity file, and Audio scripts.
Market Leader: Business Grammar and Usage Business Grammar and Usage contains extensive reference and practice of the most essential structures and functions in business English. Examples of usage are drawn from a variety of authentic sources. The learner can use this book to support their study of the main course or for stand-alone practice
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business By Neil Postman (audiobook)
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985), is a controversial book by Neil Postman in which he argues that mediums of communication inherently influence the conversations carried out over them. Postman posits that television is the primary means of communication for our culture and it has the property of converting conversations into entertainment so much so that public discourse on important issues has disappeared. Since the treatment of serious issues as entertainment inherently prevents them from being treated as serious issues and indeed since serious issues have been treated as entertainment for so many decades now, the public is no longer aware of these issues in their original sense, but only as entertainment. ("Conversations" in the sense here of a culture communicating with itself).
Harvard Business School - Project Management Manual Concise manual for project management practitioners. Because of its consisting of only 42 pages, material is easier to master than other books describing this area. I personally enjoyed it also as a source of American - English business related vocabulary.
The Joy of Money - "jargon - free" practical dictionary of business vocabulary
Having worked for a long time in the City and written an investment column for the Financial Mail on Sunday, the overwhelming feedback I got from readers and my non-City friends was that I should write an easy-to-read book clearly explaining finance and its terminology, which wouldn’t put them to sleep. There are already a lot of highly respected, competent technical books available about share markets, economics, accounting, etc. My purpose in writing this book is not to compete with them. I just want to make finance fun! Use this guide when you come across some financial phrase or word that you don’t understand in the papers or on telly, look it up in the book and, hopefully, gain instant enlightenment! Entries are in alphabetical order, and I have aimed to explain what the words in the world of money actually mean. However, anything that’s related to pensions is to be found under the heading of pensions. The same treatment has been applied to mortgages, health insurance and derivatives.
