Now in its third edition, Making Out in Japanese is your indispensable guideto contemporary Japanese as it's really spoken. This best-selling phrasebook is the perfect introduction to everyday interactions in Japan, andincludes colorful slang that'll help rev up your social life.

Being a citizen is not just about holding a passport or being allowed to vote. It is also about how we communicate with each other about common societal issues. Rhetorical citizenship is about how we as citizens participate in society by means of discourse. How do we talk and write about civic issues? How are we addressed? How do we listen?

This book presents studies from different academic fields of theoretical issues raised by public discourse, focusing on understanding and evaluating how it...

Choices & Connections combines current scholarship and effective pedagogy, developed by a diverse community of expert voices, to provide all students with foundational communication skills to support their succes in the classroom, their lives, and their communities.

Ths new edition has been revised with the continuing guidance of Macmillan Learning's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Editorial Board to equitably support the learning of all students. The text has been thoroughly updated with do...

Colloquial Amharic: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Amharic as it is written and spoken today. This third edition offers new and updated vocabulary and key revisions to the text to reflect changes in language and culture.

Alif Baa is the first volume of the best-selling Al-Kitaab Arabic Language Program, now in its third edition. In this edition of Alif Baa: Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds with Website, English-speaking students will use the integrated method of learning colloquial and formal (spoken and written) Arabic together. Alif Baa provides learners with all the material necessary to learn the sounds of Arabic, write its letters, and begin speaking Arabic.The accompanying companion website–i...

Tony Robbins returns with the final book in his financial freedom trilogy by unveiling the power of alternative investments. Robbins, and renowned investor Christopher Zook, take you on a journey to interview a dozen of the world’s most successful investors in private equity, private credit, private real estate, and venture capital. They share their favorite strategies and insights in this practical guidebook.

For decades, trillions of dollars in “smart money” has bee...

Navigate the chaos of information overload and supercharge your efficiency with Lean Learning, a groundbreaking guide that reveals a counterintuitive approach to success: winning by learning less.

From an early age, we’re taught that more is better. More money, more information, more skills. But times have changed. What was once valuable has now become a burden, and if information alone were the answer, we’d all be exactly where we want.

In today’s fast-moving...

For fans of The Ministry of Time and The Midnight Library, a sweeping, unforgettable novel following two remarkable women moving between postwar and Cold War-era America and the mysterious time space, a library filled with books containing the memories of those who bore witness to history.

Enter the time space, a soaring library filled with books containing the memories of those have passed and accessed only by specially made watches once passed from father to son—but mostly now...

The Complete Guide to Japanese Kanji is a unique study guide that provides acomprehensive introduction to all the kanji characters on the Japanese Ministryof Education's official Joyo (General Use) list.