This new edition of Professional and Business Communication is an ideal core communications textbook for students on business, management, and professional courses preferring a practice-focused and colloquial approach that combines accessibility with key theory. Techniques and processes detailed in the book include planning and preparing written communication, effective structures in documents, diverse writing styles, managing face-to-face interactions, using visual aids, deliveri...

This book provides an accessible introduction to a wide range of concerns that have preoccupied historians over time. Global in scope, it explores historical perspectives not only from historiography itself but from related areas such as literature, sociology, geography and anthropology which have entered into productive dialogues with history.Clearly written and accessible, this third edition is fully revised with an updated structure and new areas of historical enquiry and themes...

We are living in the Golden Age of Data Visualization. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated how we increasingly use data visualizations to make sense of the world. Business analysts fill their presentations with charts, journalists use infographics to engage their readers, we rely on the dials and gauges on our household appliances, and we use mapping apps on our smartphones to find our way.This book explains how and why this has happened. It details the evolution of information ...

Interactions between drug particulates are crucial in determining drug dispersion and deaggregation, and ultimately delivery efficiency. This book combines principles established in surface and colloidal chemistry with pharmaceutical powder technology. It discusses some of the factors affecting particulate interactions, and particle-fluid interaction in the respiratory tract. It review some of the studies carried out in dry powder formulation development, and proposes possible strategies i...

Schwarzer Freitag: New York. Wall Street. Schwarzer Freitag. Just an diesem Tag treffen fünf Personen aus Europa ein. Noch bevor die Börse baden geht, tut es einer unserer Besucher. Im Gegensatz zum Finanzmarkt erholt sich dieser allerdings nie mehr ... Deadly Load: Fitness boomt! Nicht so das Studio von Katja Kettler. Da trifft es sich gut, dass es im benachbarten High-Tech-Studio kurz vor der Eröffnung einen Unfall mit tödlichem Ausgang gibt. Doch - war es wirklich ein Unfall?

Lost in Space: Fünf Raumfahrer stranden auf einem abgelegenen, zivilisationslosen Planeten. Kurz darauf ist einer von ihnen tot. Warum, weshalb - und viel wichtiger: WER WAR DER TÄTER? Finden Sie es heraus. Tödliches Dinner: Das Fernsehen kommt. Prominenten-Kochshow, Klappe 1, die erste. Und schwupps: Schon kippt einer der Promis tot vom Stuhl. Wurde er vergiftet? Und wenn - von wem? Sie ermitteln. Die entscheidende Frage bei jedem Krimi ist: Wer hat's getan? Diese zu beantworten braucht e...

European railways are characterized by a huge and contrasting range of locomotives, liveries, rolling stock, stations and infrastructure. In addition, the network incorporates standard, narrow and broad gauges, private and nationalized railways, high-speed corridors, single-track branch lines and rack systems. If that was not appealing enough for the railway modeller, these fascinating railways are also located in dramatically diverse landscapes ranging from the industrial Ruhr to the maje...

Do you enjoy running model trains but want to improve your layout? Do you want to gain expertise over a wider range of railway modelling skills and acquire the confidence to tackle modelling tasks that you have previously shied away from? If so, this is the book for you. Brimming with advice and tips, this well-illustrated book covers a wide range of modelling skills, including designing a layout, choosing the right scale, building baseboards, selecting the right track, controlling the tra...