Writing

Getting a message across on paper and presenting a proposal in a clear and persuasive form are vital skills for anyone in business.Fully revised and updated, How to Write Reports and Proposals provides practical pointers if you need to impress, convince and persuade your colleagues or clients. It wi... More

An invaluable sourcebook to E. M. Forster's easily most challenging and provocative work, "A Passage to India" has stirred up debate on such topics as imperialism, modernism, ethnicity, sexuality and symbolism. This "Routledge Literary Sourcebook" introduces not only the novel but also the key issue... More

‘The Age of Kali is a panorama of the Indian subcontinent, poised between chaos, westernization and immemorial tradition… It is like Dalrymple’s previous books, erudite, engaging and entertaining’—Martin Gayford, Spectator Books of the Year... More

Mohawk haircuts in Bali. In Guangzhou – in the New China – a buffeteria serving dishes called ‘Yes, Sir, Cheese My Baby’, ‘A Legitimate Beef’, and ‘Ike and Tuna Turner’. In Japan, a madder-than-ever baseball madness (favourite team: Yomiuri Giants), while the Japanese enact their own... More

Al-Jazeera, the independent, all-Arab television news network based in Qatar, emerged as ambassador to the Arab world in the events following September 11, 2001. Arabic for "the island," Al-Jazeera has "scooped" the western media conglomerates many times. With its exclusive access to Osama Bin Laden... More

Business plans are needed to raise finance for a new venture, sell a business or to provide a blueprint for management in the future. Without such a plan, no bank, venture capital house or head office will consider finance for start-up or expansion.This fully revised new edition of How to Write a Bu... More

Niall Murtagh spent years as a world traveler--hitchhiking in Istanbul, trekking in Patagonia, crossing the Atlantic in a home-built yacht. In 1986, he closed the door on his life of adventure to settle in Japan. And then, in a breathtaking transition, he joined Mitsubishi as a "Salaryman"--a guy in... More

When do journeys like this really begin? When the author is very young, like the Baudelairean child in love with lamp-lit maps and prints? Nicolas Bouvier thinks that in his case it must have been between the ages of ten and thirteen; lying flat, chin propped in hands, gazing down at the mountains a... More

This book is about writing in the professional mathematical environment. There are few people equal to this task, yet Steven Krantz is one who qualifies. While the book is nominally about writing, it is also about how to function in the mathematical profession. Krantz has produced a quality work whi... More

Writing for the business environment requires special consideration. Limited time, technological advances. And an increased pace of communication make it essential that every written word counts - people today don't have time to dig through your letter to find the important parts. Most of the time y... More

Assembled here for the first time in book form are the very best of several decades' worth of occasional writings from perhaps the best-loved and most-admired of Britain's great female writers.A selection of the very best of Doris Lessing's essays, never before collected together and published in bo... More

The human face of poverty The poor in India are, too often, reduced to statistics. In the dry language of development reports and economic projections, the true misery of the 312 million who live below the poverty line, or the 26 million displaced by various projects, or the 13 million who suffe... More

New Page 1 A good marketing plan is at the core of every successful business, but it is often difficult to know how to take the first steps in creating a plan that is workable, achievable and can deliver the required results. How to write a Marketing Plan makes the arduous task of writing a... More

Beneath the ordinary world and everyday life in Bangalore lies an extraordinary landscape, rich in material, language and innovation. Deccan Traverses explores this depth beneath a city that is today, as it has been for two centuries, a significant force in a global economy.Anuradha Mathur is an arc... More

Your written words are a reflection of you - others will form an opinion of you based on the construction and tone of the messages you send. Taking the time to convey a positive image through proper and effective writing skills will have a direct impact on your ability to influence others, improved ... More