How to Speak How to Listen

by Mortimer J. Adler

Overview

From the author of the bestselling How to Read a Book comes a comprehensive and practical guide 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781439104897
Publisher:	Touchstone
Publication date:	04/01/1997
Series:	A Guide to Effective Communication
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	488,565
File size:	4 MB

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.