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Business Roles - 12 Simulations for Business English

Business Roles is a photocopiable resource book containing 12 simulations for Business English students. The main aim of the material is to get learners talking in genuinely communicative contexts. In each of the 12 simulations students participate in a meeting to discuss and resolve a realistic company issue or problem.
 
 
 
Key features:
  + students adopt prescribed roles in the simulation.
  + all simulations are concise. They can be carried out with a minimum of preparation.
  + In addition to the photocopiable pages for students which include preparatory tasks, a briefing on the situation, roles and follow-up questions, there are through and user-friendly teacher's notes at the beginning of each section.
 

21st Century Communication - A Reference Handbook

Via 100 entries or "mini-chapters," the SAGE 21st Century Reference Series volumes on Communication will highlight the most important topics, issues, questions, and debates any student obtaining a degree in the field of communication ought to have mastered for effectiveness in the 21st Century.


The purpose is to provide undergraduate majors with an authoritative reference source that will serve their research needs with more detailed information than encyclopedia entries but not as much jargon, detail or density as a journal article or a research handbook chapter.


Blooms Literary Themes - THE TRICKSTER

The trickster, whether in the form of a benign practical joker or a malevolent charlatan, has been a popular literary character for centuries. This volume examines the role of the trickster in works such as 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn', 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', 'On the Road', 'The Wife of Bath's Tale', and many other works frequently studied by high school students.
 
 
 
Featuring original essays and excerpts from previously published critical analyses, this addition to the Bloom's Literary Themes series gives students valuable insight into the title's subject theme.
 
 
 
CONTENTS
Series Introduction by Harold Bloom: Themes and Metaphors
Volume Introduction by Harold Bloom
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
- The Works of Sherman Alexie
- The Confidence-Man (Herman Melville)
- Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
- The Novels of William Golding
- Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
- House Made of Dawn (N. Scott Momaday)
- "A Hunger Artist" (Franz Kafka)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare)
- Odyssey (Homer)
- On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
- Orlando (Virginia Woolf)
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Tom Stoppard)
- Tar Baby (Toni Morrison) and Praisesong for the Widow (Paule Marshall)
- The Tempest (William Shakespeare)
- A Thousand and One Nights
- Uncle Remus (Joel Chandler Harris)
- "The Wife of Bath's Tale" (Geoffrey Chaucer)
Acknowledgments
Index


Blooms Literary Themes - The Taboo

From a Polynesian word meaning 'prohibition', a taboo is a social more that should not be broken by society's participants, for doing so can mean punishment. This volume discusses the role of the taboo in "Howl", "Lolita", "Lord of the Flies", "The Miller's Tale", and many more works.
 

 
Featuring original essays and excerpts from previously published critical analyses, each book in the new Bloom's "Literary Themes" series gives students valuable insight into the title's subject theme.

Blooms Literary Themes - The Sublime

The sublime in literature is described as the sense of awe that is evoked in the presence of great power and grandeur in nature or in art. In this engaging new volume, the role of the sublime is discussed in "Emma", "Ode to the West Wind", "Song of Myself", and many other works.
 

 
Featuring original essays and excerpts from previously published critical analyses, each book in the new Bloom's "Literary Themes" series gives students valuable insight into the title's subject theme.

Blooms Literary Themes - The Labyrinth

Discusses the role of the labyrinth in "The Garden of Forking Paths", "Great Expectations", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Paradise Lost", and other works of literature.
 
 
This title unravels this theme for literature students through 20 essays and critical analyses.
 

Blooms Literary Themes - THE HERO JOURNEY

The hero's journey, a quest that leads to self-discovery, has been central to literature since the earliest epics. Covering the role of the hero’s journey in 'Beowulf', 'The Lord of the Rings', 'Moby-Dick', 'Pride and Prejudice', and many others.
 
 
 
The Hero’s Journey contains about 20 original and reprinted essays and critical analyses that discuss the role of the title’s subject theme in great works of literature.
 
 
 
CONTENTS
Series Introduction by Harold Bloom: Themes and Metaphors
Volume Introduction by Harold Bloom
- The Aeneid (Virgil)
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
- Beowulf
- David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
- Don Quixote (Cervantes)
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
- Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
- Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare)
- The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
- A Man for All Seasons (Robert Bolt)
- Middlemarch (George Eliot)
- Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
- The Odyssey (Homer)
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
- Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
- The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Maxine Hong Kingston)
- "The Worn Path" (Eudora Welty)
Acknowledgments
Index