Authors:Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren,
Publisher: Touchstone
Keywords: book, touchstone, read
Number of Pages: 426
Published: 1972-08-15
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0671212095
ISBN-13: 9780671212094

How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated. You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve them -- from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading, you learn how to pigeonhole a book, X-ray it, extract the author’s message, criticize. You are taught the different reading techniques for reading practical books, imaginativ

Author: Mortimer J. Adler
Publisher: Touchstone
Keywords: listen, speak
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1997-04-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0684846470
ISBN-13: 9780684846477

Adler here gives the listener a short course in effective communication. Both instructive and practical, this work is invaluable to professionals as well as families seeking to improve communication among themselves.

Author: Paul Fussell
Publisher: Touchstone
Keywords: system, status, american, guide, class
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1992-10-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0671792253
ISBN-13: 9780671792251

In Class Paul Fussell explodes the sacred American myth of social equality with eagle-eyed irreverence and iconoclastic wit. This bestselling, superbly researched, exquisitely observed guide to the signs, symbols, and customs of the American class system is always outrageously on the mark as Fussell shows us how our status is revealed by everything we do, say, and own. He describes the houses, objects, artifacts, speech, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from the top to the bottom and everybody -- you’ll surely recognize yourself -- in between. Class is

Author: Larry Kahaner
Publisher: Touchstone
Keywords: business, top, information, analyze, intelligence, gather, competitive
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1998-02-11
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 0684844044
ISBN-13: 9780684844046

This book takes readers beyond the Information Age and into the Age of Intelligence, explaining how to turn the raw facts, statistics, and numbers about competitors’ activities and market trends into practical guidelines for making the right business decisions. "Help separate the useless from the useful".--"USA Today". BOMC Selection National print & radio publicity. .

Author: Robert L. Heilbroner
Publisher: Touchstone
Keywords: economic, thinkers, ideas, times, philosophers, lives, worldly
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1999-08-10
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 068486214X
ISBN-13: 9780684862149

The Worldly Philosophers is a bestselling classic that not only enables us to see more deeply into our history but helps us better understand our own times. In this seventh edition, Robert L. Heilbroner provides a new theme that connects thinkers as diverse as Adam Smith and Karl Marx. The theme is the common focus of their highly varied ideas -- namely, the search to understand how a capitalist society works. It is a focus never more needed than in this age of confusing economic headlines. In a bold new concluding chapter entitled "The End of the Worldly Philosophy?" Heilbroner reminds us t

Author: Jeffrey Toobi
Publisher: Touchstone
Keywords: scandal, brought, president, sex, story, conspiracy, real, vast
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2000-10-13
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0743204131
ISBN-13: 9780743204132

What--another book about the messes Bill Clinton got himself into? Well, yes, but with a difference: Jeffrey Toobin’s A Vast Conspiracy is the first to provide readers with comprehensive behind-the-scenes details of the machinations of independent counsel Kenneth Starr’s team of prosecutors, lawyers for Monica Lewinsky and Paula Jones, and congressional members as the president’s "inappropriate relationship" snowballed into the country’s first impeachment proceedings in over a century. Toobin’s narrative is one of the most levelheaded versions of the 1998 scandal

Author: Colin Turnbull
Publisher: Touchstone
Keywords: people, forest
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1987-07-02
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0671640992
ISBN-13: 9780671640996

The Forest People -- Colin M. Turnbull’s best-selling, classic work -- describes the author’s experiences while living with the BaMbuti Pygmies, not as a clinical observer, but as their friend learning their customs and sharing their daily life. Turnbull conveys the lives and feelings of the BaMbuti whose existence centers on their intense love for their forest world, which, in return for their affection and trust, provides their every need. We witness their hunting parties and nomadic camps; their love affairs and ancient ceremonies -- the molimo, in which they praise the forest