How to Speak How to Listen - Softcover

Adler, Mortimer J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684846470 ISBN 13: 9780684846477

Publisher: Touchstone, 1997

Synopsis

Practical information for learning how to speak and listen more effectively.

With over half a million copies in print of his “living classic” How to Read a Book in print, intellectual, philosopher, and academic Mortimer J. Adler set out to write an accompanying volume on speaking and listening, offering the impressive depth of knowledge and accessible panache that distinguished his first book.

In How to Speak How to Listen, Adler explains the fundamental principles of communicating through speech, with sections on such specialized presentations as the sales talk, the lecture, and question-and-answer sessions and advice on effective listening and learning by discussion.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Mortimer J. Adler was Chairman of the Board of the Encyclopedia Britannica, Director of the Institute for Philosophical Research, Honorary Trustee of the Aspen Institute, and authored more than fifty books. He died in 2001.

Review:

''[Adler] offers us both a fascinating theoretical analysis of oral communication and practical tips derived from his long years of experience. This book will be appreciated by anyone who ever has to get up before an audience and speak.'' --Chicago Tribune

About this edition

• Publisher: Touchstone
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0684846470
• ISBN 13: 9780684846477
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280