Reviews for Business Venture 1

The average rating for Business Venture 1 based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-05-07 00:00:00 Dirk Henne good for group lessons. gives a good example of the business situations and the phrases to be used. reccommended for English learners who want to master the basic communication skills they need. the decision making, and meeting conversation was very useful and gives a really good idea of a basic meeting style. beginners can read and understand it, and intermediate students can memorize it and then do some variations. fits a wide range of levels of non-English-speaking learners.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-09-11 00:00:00 Rocco Siffredi It is something of a mystery why this book is so very neglected. Most historians are exceptionally dull writers, and we really ought to be more thankful that as colorful and as logically clear a writer, nay, one of the masters of English prose, such as Hume, took on the monumental task of transmitting the entire English history up to James II. It is perhaps to be said in the naysayer's defense that this history is disgustingly sympathetic to that man who warred upon his own people, Charles I; but the cloying comments are few, and I dare say there are just as many, if not more, cloying comments in Gibbon, concerning the matters of race and sex, that in our liberal age yet do not prevent our reading him voraciously. It is interesting to note that the first two books of this history, like the last two books of Gibbon's history, are written without much vigor, and with quite a few lapses in style; it seems, then, that whereas the former believed the closer we got to the present, the more edifying the history would be, the latter thought the opposite. I will refrain from speaking about the many memorable incidents that occur in the English history, and instead dwell on why histories like Gibbon's and Hume's, which are so inspiring and informative, as long as one knows how to read between the lines, are not written anymore. The Enlightenment, as everyone knows, believed extremely in the impartiality of reason, copying the Ancient Greeks, and not in the nonsensical Hegelian sense, wherein particular human beings must be partial, in order to achieve the reality of a universal, impartial reason. Gibbon and Hume truly believed they were being universal, as did Herodotus and Thucydides, their great Greek predecessors. Our age, however, absolutely cannot admit this point of view, because of the extreme speed with which advances in knowledge are now made; hence, no one feels, when s/he writes, that their writing will be, as Thucydides said, "for all time". This is very good in terms of science, but it is absolutely catastrophic for human beings; as Rousseau noted, with seeming insight, the farther in breadth humanity travels in its quest for knowledge, the greater the loss in depth for our understanding of ourselves. The greatest motivation, I can perceive, behind human endeavor is the feeling for humanity's relationship to eternity; this age practically scorns the thought. It is difficult both to know whether it is desirable, or whether it is redeemable. As long as we are in doubt concerning that, however, the likes of Herodotus, Thucydides, Gibbon and Hume will be very far away from us indeed.