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Collins Dictionary of Business
This clear, comprehensive dictionary is a guide to the essential terms of modern business for students, professionals and managers in business and industry. Its guiding principle has been contemporary relevance in the business world.
• Covers all the main areas of business theory and practice: marketing, production, finance, personnel, business policy and international business.
• Comprehensive coverage of everyday business terms such as cash flow and patent, and such increasingly quoted terms as hedge funds.
• Compiled by subject experts in business theory and practice.

Dictionary of Business, Peter Collin Publishing
This comprehensive dictionary clearly defines over 12,500 words and expressions used in all aspects of business. The entries cover topics including office practice, the stock market, trading, and accounting.
• Example sentences show how terms are used in context.
• Quotations from current newspapers and business magazines from around the world show how terms are used.
• Designed for everyday business usage

Dictionary of Hotels, Tourism and Catering Management, Peter Collin Publishing
This dictionary contains over 5,000 headwords with over 20,000 entries covering all aspects of the hotel, tourism and catering management trade. A wide range of topics is covered, including travel, tourism, ticketing, hotels and their staff, kitchens, table settings, cooking, together with general business, accounting and personnel terms.
1. The definitions are in English, with short grammatical notes (e.g. season, cabin)
2. Encyclopaedic comments are used to expand the definitions (e.g. Sekt)
3. Quotations from current journals, magazines and newspapers (e.g. segmentation)

Dictionary of Human Resources & Personnel Management, Peter Collin Publishing
With a basic vocabulary of over 7,500 words and expressions covering all aspects of human resources and personnel management, the Dictionary of Human Resources and Personnel Management provides the reader with a comprehensive, up-to-date and clearly defined guide to the subject. It covers all aspects, including recruitment and selection, assessments, payment systems, dismissals and other items of industrial relations.The main words are explained in simple English, and, where appropriate, examples are also given to show how the words are used in context. Quotations are also given from various magazines and newspapers, which give an idea of how the terms are used in real life (see, for example, hold-up, graduated and executive).

Dictionary of Library and Information Management, Peter Collin Publishing
This dictionary provides the information worker with the vocabulary of information management as it is used in the field. It covers the basic words, with grammatical definitions, used in library organization and management (e.g. microfiche), and the language of classification and cataloguing (e.g. Dewey decimal classification system), as well as the electronic world of information management and communication (e.g. mainframe). Words that are used in special ways are illustrated by examples of use (e.g. generic).
• Includes coverage of computer systems, world-wide-web and online databases
• Basic vocabulary of 4,500 words and expressions used in British, American and international librarianship
• Definitions in simple English
• Examples of words in context

Dictionary of Printing and Publishing, Peter Collin Publishing
The Dictionary of Printing and Publishing includes clear definitions of over 9,000 words and expressions covering a wide range of topics relating to the printing and publishing industries: papermaking, ink, printing and binding machines, typesetting, desktop publishing, editing, commissioning, contracts and rights. The dictionary also covers electronic publishing, multimedia publishing and publishing on the internet.
The main words are explained in simple English (e.g. italic), with many examples of usage (e.g. paste). Encyclopaedic notes expand on the definitions and give further useful information about the person, device or process being defined (e.g. footnote, strike-through).

The Penguin Business Dictionary
This dictionary's aim is twofold: to provide a key to the rules and regulations adopted in the market place, be it in the City of London, the local shopping precinct or country auction room; and to give clear, accurate definitions of the often complex language and jargon used in business and financial practice. Do you know what is meant by 'buffer stock' and 'zero bonds'? What happens when 'poison-pill tactics' are triggered? Are you baffled by 'kites', 'lame ducks' and 'kangaroos'? If so, then this is the book to turn to.
This invaluable reference work has been fully updated to embrace not only changes wrought by the 1986 Financial Services Act but also increasing relevance of rules and requirements introduced by the European community.

The Ultimate Business Library, Wiley
Hundreds of new business and management books have been and continue to be published every year. With time as your most valuable asset how can you ensure that you absorb only the best and most influential thinking from this seemingly inexhaustible supply?
This new edition of worldwide bestseller The Ultimate Business Library is a one-stop guide to the world's leading business thinkers. It is a unique summary of those books which have had the most significant impact on management thinking, drawing out the lessons any business can learn. Navigating the cross-currents of management thinking from Tom Peters to Peter Drucker, Rosabeth Moss Kanter to Charles Handy, The Ultimate Business Library will ensure you are rapidly up to speed with the ideas shaping modern business.


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