Merriam-Webster's Guide to International Business Communications, Second Edition [Paperback]

Toby D. Atkinson (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0877796084 | ISBN-13: 978-0877796084 | Publication Date: January 1999 | Edition: 2 Pap/Cdr

Utterly practical, engagingly written, comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date, this volume is a must for anyone working in global communications. It includes instructions on using mail, e-mail, phones, and faxes, with specific information about communicating with 47 countries. Also included: A CD-ROM for Windows that contains sample letters and global addressing information.

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About the Author

Since 1937. Merriam-Webster is America's foremost publisher of language-related reference works. The company publishes a diverse array of print and electronic products, including Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition – America's best-selling desk dictionary – and Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster can be considered the direct lexicographical heir of Noah Webster. In 1843, the company bought the rights to the 1841 edition of Webster's magnum opus, An American Dictionary of the English Language, Corrected and Enlarged. At the same time, they secured the rights to create revised editions of the work. Since that time, Merriam-Webster editors have carried forward Noah Webster's work, creating some of the most widely used and respected dictionaries and reference books in the world.

Product Details

• Paperback: 420 pages
• Publisher: Merriam-Webster; 2 Pap/Cdr edition (January 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0877796084
• ISBN-13: 978-0877796084
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,483,079 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended by "The Practical Nomad", May 25, 2000

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Edward Hasbrouck "The Practical Nomad" (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Merriam-Webster's Guide to International Business Communications (Hardcover)

When you need help figuring out how to dial a phone number in another country, what goes on which lines of an address, or how to find the physical location in a foreign city corresponding to a mailing address, this is the book to look for in the library. I wish I had read this book sooner. By the time I found it, I didn't need it, having learned its lessons by sometimes-painful and costly experience. Be sure to read the introductory chapters on "How to Get Phone Calls and Faxes Through" and "How to Make Your English More Understandable" to nonnative speakers, before you leave home. Gives detailed information on address, telephone, etc. formats only for selected countries, mostly First World, but notes correctly that, "An awareness of the terminology and practices in these countries will help you understand those in many others." I hope that future editions will expand coverage of the more populous or often-visited countries in the rest of the world. Most travelers probably won't find it worth buying, but every library and every office that ever does international business should have a copy. If yours doesn't, get them to buy it.

(from the resource guide to "The Practical Nomad: How to Travel Around the World", by Edward Hasbrouck)

0 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars disapointment..., May 19, 2000

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Kadir Aksu - See all my reviews

This review is from: Merriam-Webster's Guide to International Business Communications, Second Edition (Paperback)

Yes, this book is a guide. But it is not a guide to international business communications. It describes how to write the international addresses very deeply. It might be a helpful book to a secretary who writes addresses to envelopes. But it won't help to any businessman at all. Merriam-Webster do not deserve this "one star" rating. The rating is there for amazon.com. Because the information about the book was quite open to misunderstand the content and I had to return the book.