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This book is a comprehensive guide and reference for students and professional people. It contains topics and examples relating to banking, insurance and personnel, and also includes guidance on commercial communications such as telex, invoices and email messages.
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A Handbook of Commercial Correspondence
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A. Ashley
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Oxford University Press
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B2
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1998
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1
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This book tells the remarkable story of the Benetton family and the business empire they have built. It is a story of hard work and risk-taking as this Italian family became the international success it is today
2 |
Benetton
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Jonathan Mantle
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Pearson Education Ltd
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B2, C1
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2000
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1
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Best Practice is a four-level business English series designed for both pre-work and in-work students. Its topic-based modules train students in the skills needed to communicate in the professional and personal sides of modern business life.
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Best Practice - Upper Intermediate
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Bill Mascull & Jeremy Comfort
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Thomson
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B2
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2008
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1
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This book provides an introduction to some of the key influences affecting different business organisations such as culture, structure, ethics and the external environment. It provides an overview of the different functions within a business and how they work together and offers an insight into some of the issues facing small businesses and entrepreneurs.
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Book 1: What Is Business?: Bk. 1
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D. Preston, G. Watson, and M. Fryer
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Open University Worldwide
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C1, C2
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2007
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1
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This book introduces managing people and the role of the human resource management (HRM) function within business. In addition to discussing some of the main HRM activities such as recruitment, job design and managing performance, it also tackles the more fundamental issue for businesses of why people might want to go to work in the first place.
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Book 2 : An Introduction to Human Resource Management in Business: Bk. 2
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D. Preston
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Open University Worldwide
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C1, C2
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2007
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1
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This book provides an introduction to accounting and financial management in business and looks at why the raising of funds and the management of financial resources is crucial to business success.
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Book 3: An Introduction to Accounting and Finance in Business: Bk. 3
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J. Day, L.D. Preston, and G. Watson
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Open University Worldwide
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C1, C2
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2006
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1
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This book is an introduction to marketing. It covers some of the key concepts in marketing such as the marketing mix and relationship marketing but also looks at what is marketing, why business needs it, whom are its stakeholders and how marketing can affect both society and the natural environment.
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Book 4: An Introduction to Marketing in Business: Bk. 4
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A. Schaefer
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Open University Worldwide
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C1, C2
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2006
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1
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This book introduces some different ways of thinking about business. The development of business ideas, power and globablisation are all used as perspectives on business. The intention is to encourage readers to start questioning some of the established 'truths' about what a business is.
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Book 5: Different Ways of Looking at Business: Bk. 5
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K. Ball, D. Watson, G. Myers, and A. Schaefer
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Open University Worldwide
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C1, C2
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2006
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1
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This book teaches more than 1000 words and phrases in a wide range of business contexts. The graded exercises and careful choice of words and topics encourage efficient vocabulary extension.
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Build Your Business Vocabulary
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John Flower
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Language Teaching Publications
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B1, B2, C1
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1990
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1
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Business English is a comprehensive self-study and reference book of business language for learners of English at an upper-intermediate or advanced level.
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Business English Handbook - Advanced
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Paul Emmerson
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Macmillan
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B2, C1, C2
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2007
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1
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This book is suitable as a reference and practice book for intermediate to advanced learners of business English. Includes 350 idiomatic expressions commonly used in business, as well as reference sections in which the idioms are put in context
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Business Idioms International
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Christopher Goddard
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Phoenix ELT
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B2, C1, C2
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1994
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1
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This book is aimed at practising managers and students on MBA and other business courses.
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Business Management English - Finance
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Jeremy Comfort & Nick Brieger
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Prentice Hall International
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B2, C1, C2
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1998
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1
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This book is aimed at practising managers and students on MBA and other business courses.
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Business Management English - Marketing
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Jeremy Comfort & Nick Brieger
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Prentice Hall International
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C1, C2
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1992
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1
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This book is aimed at practising managers and students on MBA and other business courses.
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Business Management English - Personnel
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Jeremy Comfort & Nick Brieger
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Prentice Hall International
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B2, C1
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1992
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1
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Business Objectives is a course for managers or students of business who have reached a lower intermediate level of English.
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Business Objectives - Students' Book
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Vicki Hollett
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Oxford University Press
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B1
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1991
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1
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This book is based on a comprehensive language syllabus which is developed in the context of everyday business functions. Its 14 units provide opportunities for practising the language of a range of specific and general professional situations
16 |
Business Opportunities - Workbook
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Vicki Hollett & Michael Duckworth
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Oxford University Press
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A2, B1
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1994
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1
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Business Vocabulary in Use' is aimed at intermediate level learners of business English as a self-study reference and practice book. It covers business topics such as Jobs, People and Organisations, Production, Marketing, Finance and the Economy, Business Culture and more.
The 66 units in the book are designed to help learners develop essential business communication skills, focusing on the language used for Meetings, Negotiations and Presentations. Vocabulary items are presented and explained in context on left-hand pages with a range of practice exercises on right-hand pages.
The book also contains a comprehensive, learner-friendly answer key.
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Business Vocabulary in Use
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Mascull, B.
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Cambridge University Press
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2002
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2
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This book is suitable for Upper intermediate and Advanced level learners of Business English. Primarily designed as a self-study reference and practice book.
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Business Vocabulary in Use - Advanced
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Bill Mascull
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Cambridge University Press
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C1
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2007
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2
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"Cambridge English for Job-hunting" is for upper-intermediate to advanced level learners of English who need to use English during the job application process. The course can be used in the classroom or for self-study.
Ideal for working professionals and those new to the world of employment, the course develops the specialist language knowledge and communication skills that job-seekers need to apply for and secure jobs.
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Cambridge English for Job-hunting
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Colm Downes
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Cambridge University Press
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B1, B2, C1, C2
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2008
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1
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The 'Check Your Vocabulary for Business' workbook has been designed to help students learning English for business to revise and improve their vocabulary.
The book is ideal for self-study: easy to use with clear instructions and a quick-reference contents page. Word games, puzzles, quizzes and crosswords provide further practice and reinforcement of business vocabulary.
20 |
Check Your Vocabulary for Business - A Workbook for Users - Third Edition
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David Riley
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Peter Collin Publishing Ltd
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B2, C1
|
2003
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1
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Key Business terms and vocabulary explained in full. Coverage of vocabulary for main Business English Examinations. Real texts from authentic sources. Suitable for self study and classroom use.
21 |
Collins Cobuild Business Vocabulary in Practice
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Sue Robbins
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Collins Cobuild
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B2, C1, C2
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2006
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1
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This book offers a masterful blueprint for what a company must be doing today if it is to occupy the competitive high ground of tomorrow
22 |
Competing for the Future
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Gary Hamel & C.K. Prahalad
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Harvard Business School Press
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C1, C2
|
1994
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1
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This book presents a comprehensive framework of analytical techniques to help a firm analyse its industry and predict its future evolution, to understand its competitors and its own position, and to translate this analysis into a competitive strategy for a particular business
23 |
Competitive Strategy - Techniques for Analysing Industries and Competitors
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Michael E. Porter
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The Free Press
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C1, C2
|
1980
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1
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English for Banking is a skills-based course designed specificially for students of banking who are about to enter English-medium tertiary level studies. (Please ask at Reception for CD)
24 |
English for Banking in Higher Education Studies:Course Book and Audio CDs
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Marie McClisky
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Garnet
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B2, C1, C2
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2008
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2
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|
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English for Business Sudies is a skills-based course designed specificially for students of management studies who are about to enter English-medium tertiary level studies. (Please ask at Reception for CD)
25 |
English for Business Studies in Higher Education: Course Book and Audio CDs
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Carolyn Walker
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Garnet
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B2, C1, C2
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2008
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1
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|
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The book covers a wide range of topics and practices the skills essential to operating successfully in the finacial Industry. It is suitable for students with an intermediatge or upper-intermediate level of English and provides approximately 50 hours of classroom material.
26 |
English for the Financial Sector - Students Book
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Ian MacKenzie
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Cambridge University Press
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B1, B2
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2008
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1
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|
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This book provides a range of quick and easy ways to improve your business English skills. It is a self-help manual for business people.
27 |
Fifty Ways to Improve Your Business English
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Ken Taylor
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Summertown Publishing
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B1, B2
|
2006
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1
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Financial Markets and Instituutions is appropriate for a wide range of courses in money, banking and finance
28 |
Financial Markets and Institutions
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Peter Howells Keith Bain
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Pearson Education Ltd
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B1
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2007
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1
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This popular book is intended for use in an introductory finance course, covering all the basics as well as the latest developments in the fields of finance, education and publishing
29 |
Fundamentals of Financial Management
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Eugene F. Brigham & Joel F. Houston
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South Western College Publishing
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C2
|
2004
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2
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Goldman Sachs is one of the great financial success stories of the twentieth century. This book is an insider's guide to the firm's real power - its culture and people
30 |
Goldman Sachs - The Culture of Success
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Lisa Endlich
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Pearson Education Ltd
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B2, C1
|
2000
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1
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In Company has edtablished itself as the English course for professionals because of its immediate results through topic- based content, active skills, and real world tasks that are instantly relevant to everyday business life.
31 |
In Company - Intermediate
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Mark Powell
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Macmillan
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B1, B2
|
2002
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1
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This course is designed for those studying English in order to work in the areas of the hotel and tourist industries. It offers systematic practice, especially in listening and speaking skills, to enable those in a hotel environment to understand and respond to an international clientele using different varieties of English
32 |
International Hotel English
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Donald Adamson
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Prentice Hall International
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B1, B2
|
1989
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1
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|
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This book is a glossary which deals exclusively with the up-to-date language of human resources and provides definitions in simple English. It is a very useful reference book for anyone whose job involves managing people in English
33 |
Key Terms in Human Resources
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Steve Flinders
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York Associates
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B1, B2, C1
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1999
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1
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This book offers practical advice for all those involved in the business sector and equips the reader with the tools to make informed decisions about how to develop an integrated and high quality language strategy
34 |
Languages In International Business - A Practical Guide
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Doug Embleton & Stephen Hagen
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Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
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B2, C1, C2
|
1992
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1
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|
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This book is a language practice book for students of English who plan to pursue a career in business. While covering basic concepts, the material is adult and covers all the basic language needed by anyone involved in business management
35 |
Management and Marketing
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Ian MacKenzie
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Language Teaching Publications
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B1, B2, C1, C2
|
1997
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1
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|
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This book introduces six gurus of management. Their ideas have had an eefect not just on business but on politics,hospitals and schools and everday lifestyles.
36 |
Management Gurus
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David Evans
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Penguin Books Ltd
|
B1, B2
|
2000
|
1
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|
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Learn from stimulating authentic materials such as the world-renowned Financial Times
Enhance language and business skills through case study tasks. Based on realistic business scenarios, these tasks give students an opportunity to practice
37 |
Market Leader - Intermediate Business English - Course Book
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David Cotton
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Longman
|
B1, B2
|
2001
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1
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|
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Market Leader' offers up-to-date and flexible materials for business English learners. The aim of the book is to develop language skills, increase knowledge of key business concepts and expand vocabulary
38 |
Market Leader - Intermediate Business English - Practice File
|
David Cotton, Simon Kent & David Falvey
|
Pearson Education Ltd
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B1, B2
|
2000
|
1
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|
|
Market Leader' offers up-to-date and flexible materials for business English learners. The aim of the book is to develop language skills, increase knowledge of key business concepts and expand vocabulary.
Market Leader features contemporary topics that are shaping the world such as globalisation, ethics, innovation, risk and selling online. These topics are the focus of each unit and give students plenty to explore, discuss and practice.
The book contains authentic resources from the Financial Times, and interviews with key business people. The case studies bring together the language and business skills in challenging ways to develop not only language skills but also important business skills such as team work, negotiating and discussion.
39 |
Market Leader - Upper-Intermediate Business English
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David Cotton, Simon Kent & David Falvey
|
Pearson Education Ltd
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B2, C1
|
2001
|
1
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|
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This book provides the critical principles behind the importance of Customer Relations, Customer Service and Customer Care. It considers both internal and external customers and the differences between customer relations' strategies in both the private and public sectors
40 |
Mastering Customer Relations
|
Roger Cartwright
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Macmillan
|
C1, C2
|
2000
|
2
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|
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This book provides detailed information about the European retail fashion buying and merchandising industry. It draws together both practical and theoretical ideas, with clear examples and real-life illustrations that help to understand the subject in a cumulative and logical order
41 |
Mastering Fashion Buying and Merchandising Management
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Tim Jackson & Davis Shaw
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Macmillan
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C1, C2
|
2001
|
1
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|
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This book is a detailed yet easy-to-read guide to matters concerning the day-to-day issues of managing staff. It includes information on recent UK and European legislation and case law, a reference approach for understanding employment law, and has review checklists, diagrams, assignments and questions to reinforce learning and understanding
42 |
Mastering Human Resources Management
|
Kelvin Cheatle
|
Palgrave
|
C1, C2
|
2001
|
1
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|
|
This book is a practical and accessible introduction to importing and exporting. It provides a logical guide to the processes involved in developing an effective export-marketing plan, explaining the basic procedures that ensure success in the global marketplace. Topics covered include marketing, business finance, contract law in an international context, the internet, and payment
43 |
Mastering International Trade
|
Chris Marshall
|
Palgrave
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C1, C2
|
2003
|
2
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|
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A comprehensive introduction to the practical application of management theory. It addresses the common and universal problems of integrity, leadership, presentation and motivation. It uses examples from all spheres of activity to illustrate managerial experience, thus making a direct link between theory, application and practice
44 |
Mastering Management Skills
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Richard Pettinger
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Macmillan
|
C1, C2
|
2001
|
2
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|
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This is an accessible guide to Organisational behaviour, the action and interaction of people in restricted or organised settings, helping you to understand the principles that govern human behaviour. It includes features of leadership and motivation, and examines the impact of technological and social change on working life
45 |
Mastering Organisational Behaviour
|
Richard Pettinger
|
Macmillan
|
C1, C2
|
2000
|
3
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|
|
Mastering Statistics' is a comprehensive guide for students with no previous knowledge of statistics. It includes sections on probability, vital statistics, market research, experiments and scaling, and a section on how to pass statistics examinations
46 |
Mastering Statistics
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Tim Hannagan
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Macmillan
|
C1, C2
|
1997
|
1
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|
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This is a clear, interesting and practical guide for those studying Business and Management. It explores the complex issues faced by managers today, providing an easy-to-read understanding of strategic management and its importance to the success of a wide range of businesses in the private, public and voluntary sectors. It focuses on the key processes of planning and developing strategy, gaining a competitive advantage, creating core competancies, building strategic marketing and managing strategic change
47 |
Mastering Strategic Management
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Tim Hannagan
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Macmillan
|
C1, C2
|
2002
|
2
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|
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This book is for all students on business or management-related courses and for anyone involved in the decisions-making process and business planning within an organisaton. It examines and explores the interrelationship between the external influences that affect all organiusations: social, political, economic, cultural, technological,aesthetic, customer, legal, environmental, and sectoral
48 |
Mastering the Business Environment
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Roger Cartwright
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Macmillan
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C1, C2
|
2001
|
2
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|
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New Business Matters is a stimulating language course for students of business English.
49 |
New business matters business English with a lexical approach Coursebook
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Powell, M.
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Thomson
|
|
2004
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1
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|
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New International Business English is a thoroughly revised and redesigned new edition of the highly successful course International Business English. While maintaining the first edition's flexible learner-centred approach for people who need English in their day-to-day work, New International Business is now easier to use and even more effective in the way it addresses the key Business English language skills such as telephoning, socializing and taking part in meetings. The key features of the new edition are: - bright, open design at large format, and in colour for the Student's Book. - shorter, more manageable units. New International Business English is a genuine 90 hour course. - a new unit on Negotiating.
50 |
New International Business English
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Leo Jones & Richard Alexander
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Cambridge University Press
|
B1, B2, C1
|
1996
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1
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|
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51 |
Presenting (Business Communication Skills)
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Susan Lowe, Louise Pile
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Delta Publishing
|
|
2009
|
1
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|
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Professional English in Use ICT is suitable for intermediate to advanced level learners of English. The book covers a wide range of topics on Information Communications Technology including word processing, financial software and databases, multimedia applications, email, web design and Internet security.
52 |
Professional English in Use - ICT
|
Santiago Remacha Esteras
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Cambridge University Press
|
B1, B2, C1
|
2007
|
1
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|
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Study Companion for the Open University course - B120 An introduction to Business Studies (OU Business School)
53 |
Study Companion for the Open University course - B120 An introduction to Business Studies
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P. Marrington, D. Preston
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Open University Worldwide
|
C1, C2
|
2009
|
1
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|
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This book contains 60 clear and simple tests for students and professionals. The book is organised into 8 sections and covers over 500 key words and expressions in areas such as financial statements, costing, planning and control, and decision-making.
54 |
Test Your Professional English - Accounting
|
Alison Pohl
|
Pearson Education Ltd
|
B2, C1
|
2002
|
1
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|
|
This book contains 60 clear and simple tests for business students and professionals who use English in their work. The book is organised into 8 sections and covers over 500 key words and expressions in areas such as marketing, finance, human resources, computing, meetings, presentations and business travel
55 |
Test Your Professional English - Business: General
|
Steve Flinders
|
Pearson Education Ltd
|
B2, C1
|
2002
|
2
|
|
|
This book contains 60 clear and simple tests for business students and professionals who use English in their work. The book is organised into 8 sections and covers over 500 key words and expressions in areas such as business strategy, project management, business jargon, meetings, presentations, the Internet and business culture
56 |
Test Your Professional English - Business: Intermediate
|
Steve Flinders
|
Pearson Education Ltd
|
B2, C1
|
2002
|
2
|
|
|
This book contains 60 clear and simple tests for students and professionals in the world of finance. The book is organised in to 8 sections and covers over 500 key words and expressions in areas such as financial planning, managing company finances, banking and insurance, and investment
57 |
Test Your Professional English - Finance
|
Simon Sweeney
|
Pearson Education Ltd
|
B2, C1
|
2002
|
1
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|
|
This book contains 60 clear and simple tests for management students and professionals. The book is organised into 8 sections and covers over 500 key words and expressions in areas such as management styles, team-building, organizational culture, managing change, management control and systems management, and international management
58 |
Test Your Professional English - Management
|
Simon Sweeney
|
Pearson Education Ltd
|
B2, C1
|
2002
|
2
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|
|
This book contains 60 clear and simple tests for students and professionals. The book is organised into 8 sections and covers over 500 key words and expressions in areas such as product management, pricing, promotion, market research, plannning and international marketing
59 |
Test Your Professional English - Marketing
|
Simon Sweeney
|
Pearson Education Ltd
|
B2, C1
|
2002
|
2
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|
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The syallabus is organised by topic and is particularly suitable for students studying business at college or university. Includes an integrated self study DVD Rom .
60 |
The Business - Intermediate - Students' Book
|
John Allison & Paul Emmerson
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Macmillan
|
B1, B2
|
2008
|
1
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|
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The syallabus is organised by topic and is particularly suitable for students studying business at college or university. Includes an integrated self study DVD Rom .
61 |
The Business - Intermediate - Students' Book
|
John Allison & Paul Emmerson
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Macmillan & Co Ltd
|
B1, B2
|
2008
|
2
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|
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The syallabus is organised by topic and is particularly suitable for students studying business at college or university. Includes an integrated self study DVD Rom.
62 |
The Business - Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book
|
John Allison & Jeremy Townend
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Macmillan
|
B2, C1
|
2008
|
1
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|
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The Business is a major new course for the next generation of business leaders. Initial research into the development of the course looked at university syllabi from over 14 countries and developed The Business syallabus to better reflect business students' needs.
Each unit is divided into 6 modules- business knowledge, vocabulary, grammar, writing, speaking and case study. Its modularity allows you to choose a learning path which will complement your academic syllabus.
63 |
The Business Advanced Student's Book
|
Allison, J.
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Macmillan
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|
2009
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1
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This book provides the language necessary to present an argument, ask/express and opinion, agree/disagree, interrupt, question, clarify, support, oppose and persuade.
64 |
The Language of Meetings
|
Goodale, M.
|
Language Teaching Publications
|
|
1994
|
1
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At the time when Marc Andreessen said that his software was going to change everything, the Internet was just a hobby for most of the people who used it. The Internet began as a very small part of America's struggle with the USSR in the Cold War. But it starts the 21st century as the technology that will change the lives of almost every person on the planet
65 |
The Story of the Internet
|
Stephen Bryant
|
Pearson Education Ltd
|
B2
|
2000
|
1
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|
|
This book is not designed as a comprehensive theoretical study. Its approach is essentially a managerial one concerned with how basic concepts can be applied to particular types of organisational problems
66 |
Understanding Organizations
|
Charles B. Handy
|
Penguin Books Ltd
|
B2, C1, C2
|
1985
|
1
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|
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What does it take to get to the top in international business? Courage, drive, hard work, talent, intelligence, creativity, contacts? Or a combination of all these things?
67 |
Women in Business
|
David Evans
|
Penguin Books Ltd
|
B1, B2
|
2001
|
1
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|
|
Words at Work offers vocabulary development for learners who want to use English more effectively in their working lives. The 17 topic-based units cover a wide variety of business themes and include useful learning tips.
68 |
Words at Work - Vocabulary Development for Business English
|
David Horner & Peter Strutt
|
Cambridge University Press
|
B1, B2, C1
|
1996
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1
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