Written in a conversational tone, this text takes a totally new learning approach to relating business English to the workplace. Up-to-date topics of... telecommunications, customer service, online references, electronic mail, and a host of other real-world subjects connect directly to an assortment of activities and exercises in grammar, punctuation, and writing. The activities in the text and online accommodate different student learning styles. All students regardless of their previous English background have the opportunity to be successful learning grammar in a business context.

Dr. Mary Ellen Guffey's BUSINESS ENGLISH helps students become successful communicators in any business arena with its proven grammar instruction and... supporting in-text and online resources. The perennial leader in grammar and mechanics texts, the 10th edition of BUSINESS ENGLISH uses a three-tiered approach to break topics into manageable units, letting students identify and hone the most critical skills and measure their progress along the way. Packed with insights from more than thirty years of classroom experience in business communications, BUSINESS ENGLISH also includes access to the author's new premier website, www.meguffey.com, and its many resources for building language skills, including all-new, interactive exercises.

Timelines and examples from well-known companies help students gain a better understanding of the important connections among public policy and... businesses, as well as a comparative understanding of business history over time and in recent decades.

This book undertakes a traditional, and inclusive, approach to the law of business organizations. The volume includes materials many books now on the... market omit, such as agency and unincorporated business associations, while at the same time maintaining a wide breadth of coverage. As such, the book permits professors to emphasize closely held and other non-public companies while at the same time offering the basics on public company law and practice. Along these lines, the book includes materials on securities offerings, registration, exemptions from registration, and lawyers' responsibilities under the securities laws. Features that make this book a strong teaching tool and a strong learning tool include: •  Chapter introductions that summarize and highlight the overall and contextual importance of chapter contents (rather than merely list and categorize the parts of the chapter); •  Basic corporate finance nomenclature and other information necessary to an understanding of transactional business law, including individual chapters on basic corporate finance, corporate changes and change of control transactions; •  Materials allowing for a comparison of laws and practices in other countries with those of the United States in key areas of study; and •  Well-selected notes and problems that permit the integration of concepts and foster application skills at key junctures. This single text allows for coverage of law, underlying theory and policy, and practice skills. In one volume, the book contains material sufficient to educate a young lawyer to function in general business law practice. The emphasis has been on creating a teaching resource that is comprehensive in the view of the five experienced business law teacher-practitioner authors.

This book undertakes a traditional, and inclusive, approach to the law of business organizations. The volume includes materials many books now on the... market omit, such as agency and unincorporated business associations, while at the same time maintaining a wide breadth of coverage. As such, the book permits professors to emphasize closely held and other non-public companies while at the same time offering the basics on public company law and practice. Along these lines, the book includes materials on securities offerings, registration, exemptions from registration, and lawyers' responsibilities under the securities laws. Features that make this book a strong teaching tool and a strong learning tool include: •  Chapter introductions that summarize and highlight the overall and contextual importance of chapter contents (rather than merely list and categorize the parts of the chapter); •  Basic corporate finance nomenclature and other information necessary to an understanding of transactional business law, including individual chapters on basic corporate finance, corporate changes and change of control transactions; •  Materials allowing for a comparison of laws and practices in other countries with those of the United States in key areas of study; and •  Well-selected notes and problems that permit the integration of concepts and foster application skills at key junctures. This single text allows for coverage of law, underlying theory and policy, and practice skills. In one volume, the book contains material sufficient to educate a young lawyer to function in general business law practice. The emphasis has been on creating a teaching resource that is comprehensive in the view of the five experienced business law teacher-practitioner authors.

The #1 brief Introduction to Business text.Business Essentials continues to provide a solid foundation of the essential topics that first-semester... business students need to understand. Its focus on practical skills, knowledge of the basics, and important developments in business makes for a brief book, but a rich experience.The recent events in domestic and global economies are presenting unprecedented challenges, excitement, and disappointments for business–and a need for a change in the Introduction to Business course and text. The eighth edition captures the widespread significance of these developments and presents their implications on businesses today. 

Business Essentials'  focus on practical skills, knowledge of the basics, and important developments in business makes for a brief book, but a rich... experience. The recent events in domestic and global economies are presenting unprecedented challenges, excitement, and disappointments for business–and a need for a change in the Introduction to Business course and text. This text captures the widespread significance of these developments and presents their implications on businesses today. 

What do subprime mortgages, Atlantic salmon dinners, SUVs and globalization have in common?They all depend on cheap oil. And in a world of dwindling oil... supplies and steadily mounting demand around the world, there is no such thing as cheap oil. Oil might be less expensive in the middle of a recession, but it will never be cheap again.Take away cheap oil, and the global economy is getting the shock of its life.From the ageing oilfields of Saudi Arabia and the United States to the Canadian tar sands, from the shopping malls of Dubai to the shuttered auto plants of North America and Europe, from the made-in-China products on the shelves of the Wal-Mart down the road to the collapse of Wall Street giants, everything is connected to the price of oilInterest rates, carbon trading, inflation, farmers’ markets and the wave of trade protectionism washing up all over the world in the wake of various economic stimulus and bailout packages – they all hinge on the new realities of a world where demand for oil eventually outstrips supply.According to maverick economist Jeff Rubin, there will be no energy bailout. The global economy has suffered oil crises in the past, but this time around the rules have changed. And that means the future is not going to be a continuation of the past. For generations we have built wealth by burning more and more oil. Our cars, our homes, our whole world has been getting bigger in the cheap-oil era. Now it is about to get smaller.There will be winners as well as losers as the age of globalization comes to an end. The auto industry will never recover from this oil-induced recession, but other manufacturers will be opening up mothballed factories. Distance will soon cost money, and so will burning carbon – both will bring long-lost jobs back home. We may not see the kind of economic growth that globalization has brought, but local economies will be revitalized, as will our cities and neighborhoods.Whether we like it or not, our world is about to get a whole lot smaller.From the Hardcover edition.

Business Essentials'  focus on practical skills, knowledge of the basics, and important developments in business makes for a brief book, but a rich... experience. The recent events in domestic and global economies are presenting unprecedented challenges, excitement, and disappointments for business–and a need for a change in the Introduction to Business course and text. This text captures the widespread significance of these developments and presents their implications on businesses today.