This the one book on American English that every English speaker – American, British, Australian, or wherever – should read.
Category Archive: Life
It took 22 years to turn the telegraph into a useful commercial system, 16 years to do the same with the telephone, only 8 years for the transistor, and 6 years for the mobile phone. How long before computers transform homeworking and healthcare?
We are only too painfully aware of the continuing drive to increase powers of surveillance in the name of the ‘war on terror’. Just don’t let the electorate know that precious little surveillance has anything to do with that.
Six simple questions to make your messages more effective.
She was reduced to giving her half-hour talk whilst pointing at successive thumbnails in PowerPoint’s overview. Members of the audience tucked into flasks of coffee, or rose and strode out.
It is hard to understand why traditional publishers are so recalcitrant in making electronic editions worth their comparatively high prices.
Do the huge fines for Big Bad Banks serve any useful purpose?
Most systems in everyday life had readily accessible fallbacks that you could rely on when the system of first choice was not available. We seem to have lost those now.
Whilst we can improve our technology to enhance our abilities, our anatomical and physiological limitations also determine what we can and cannot do.
This is a book to dip into only if you have good self-control: one word will lead to another, until you have visited each of the 500 or so.
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