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by: Mortimer Adler See Larger Image Used Price: $0.01 Collectible Price: $10.85 Third Party New Price: $7.00 Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780020795902 ISBN: 0020795904 Label: Touchstone Manufacturer: Touchstone Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: April 01, 1985 Publisher: Touchstone Sales Rank: 537215 Studio: Touchstone Related Items: How to Read a Book (A Touchstone book) How to Think About the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization A Rulebook for Arguments The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had Six Great Ideas see more Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Must Read this book Adler's book on speaking and listening will prepare you to have a proper conversation with others. You must read this book. Stan Faryna Rating: - Useful but very long-winded Just like the title promises, this book teaches how to communicate via speaking and listening (as compared to writing and reading). If you'd read Adler's previous hit, How to Read a Book, you already know what to expect: a bit of useful advice, a lot of belabouring the obvious, all smothered in a huge amount of wordy generalities. If Strunk & White wrote like Adler, their seemingly timeless brochure would have been a two-thousand-page monstrosity long out of print and out of minds. Read More Rating: - Long on commentary Adler is obviously a very learned man and a very successful teacher. I found his argument that listening and speaking were critical skills left ignored by most educational institutions to be very well structured, and, as confirmed by my own experiences, very accurate. That said, I listened to the unabridged audio version of this book and found it a long treatise on oral communications in society rather than a practical book on self-improvement. I did find parts of it valuable, ... Read More Rating: - A Fabulous Teacher I was hoping that this would be the only book I would need as a guide to developing my knowledge and skill as a public speaker. Rather, the book is about the oral communication process in all contexts. Thus delivering prepared speeches, in particular the lecture, was just one element of it. There is considerable emphasis on the listening component--rightfully so, given that Adler argues that listening well is the component of verbal communication that is the most difficult to learn and teach, ... Read More Rating: - The first 90 pages are worth their weight in gold! This is the best book, bar none, that I have ever seen on this subject. Adler takes some of the classical Greek writers ideas about persuasive speaking and "updates" them, makes them more understandable, and provides concrete illustrations of how it is done. He helps you to better grasp the process of outlining, and provides an example of a speech he had given that employs the "methodology" of the text. Very readable, very insightful Browse for similar items by category: Psychology & Counseling - Health, Mind & Body - Subjects - Books - General Psychology & Counseling - Health, Mind & Body - Subjects - Books - General AAS Sociology - Social Sciences - Nonfiction - Subjects - Books - General Sociology - Social Sciences - Nonfiction - Subjects - Books - General AAS Words & Language - Reference - Subjects - Books - Public Speaking