How to Speak How to Listen [Paperback]

Practical information 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 Bookin 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.

InHow 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.