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"Foolproof International Communication" riktar sig till människor, företag och organisationer som interagerar i en global miljö. I en värld där virtuella möten över kulturgränserna blivit vardagsmat, är det viktigt att kommunikationen sker effektivt och utan missförstånd.<br/>Boken presenterar en metod som baseras på teori och praktik från bl.a. flygets värld, där felfri kommunikation är en nödvändighet.<br/>Praktiska verktyg och övningar att applicera på konkreta dagliga situationer gör boken lämplig som utbildningsmaterial för individer och team på en global arena.<br/><br/>Pia Moberg arbetar som coach, konsult och utbildare på Japco. Hon har doktorerat i ämnet Japanska studier vid Göteborgs universitet.<br/><br/>Peter Chadwick arbetar som coach, konsult och utbildare. Peter är i botten ingenjör och pilot.<br/><br/> Can you afford not to get your message across?<br/>The potential for international cooperation is growing exponentially, supported by rapidly developing communications technology. This expansion brings many opportunities, but only if we can develop our intercultural communication skills.<br/>For decades, in aviation, pilots have used a foolproof communication standard to ensure flight safety. In this domain, communication failure is not an option!<br/>Foolproof International Communication applies the same mind-set to business communication, drawing on tried and tested techniques from aviation, linguistics, non-verbal communication and culture.<br/>This book will show you how to rapidly improve your communication effectiveness in international virtual meetings, face-to-face meetings and other global interactions.<br/>You will find helpful tools, hands-on examples and practical exercises.<br/><br/>Pia Moberg holds a PhD in Japanese Studies. She works out of Sweden as an intercultural coach, trainer and consultant.<br/><br/>Peter Chadwick has a background in engineering, international business and aviation. He works out of France as an intercultural coach, trainer and consultant.

<p>Introduction by Amal Clooney From the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, an impassioned and inspiring memoir of a career spent holding power to account. Maria Ressa is one of the most renowned international journalists of our time. For decades, she challenged corruption and malfeasance in her native country, the Philippines, on its rocky path from an authoritarian state to a democracy. As a reporter from CNN, she transformed news coverage in her region, which led her in 2012 to create a new and innovative online news organization, Rappler. Harnessing the emerging power of social media, Rappler crowdsourced breaking news, found pivotal sources and tips, harnessed collective action for climate change, and helped increase voter knowledge and participation in elections. </p><p>But by their fifth year of existence, Rappler had gone from being lauded for its ideas to being targeted by the new Philippine government, and made Ressa an enemy ofher countrysmost powerful man: President Duterte. </p><p>Still, she did not let up, tracking government seeded disinformation networks which spread lies to its own citizens laced with anger and hate. Hounded by the stateand its allies using the legal system to silence her, accused of numerous crimes, and charged with cyberlibel for which she was found guilty, Ressa faces years in prison and thousands in fines. There is another adversary Ressa is battling.How to Stand Up to a Dictatoris also the story of how the creep towards authoritarianism, in the Phillipines and around the world, has been aided and abetted by the social media companies.</p><p>Ressa exposes how they have allowed their platforms to spread a virus of lies that infect each of us, pitting us against one another, igniting, even creating, our fears, anger, and hate, and how this has accelerated the rise of authoritarians and dictators around the world. Shemaps a network of disinformationa heinous web of cause and effectthat has netted the globe: from Dutertes drug wars to America's Capitol Hill; Britains Brexit to Russian and Chinese cyber-warfare; Facebook and Silicon Valley to our own clicks and votes. Democracy is fragile. How to Stand Up to a Dictatoris anurgent cry for Western readers torecognize and understand the dangers to our freedomsbefore it is too late. It is a book for anyone who might take democracy for granted, written by someone who never would. And in telling her dramatic and turbulent and courageous story, Ressa forces readers to ask themselves the same question she and her colleagues ask every day: What are you willing to sacrifice for the truth?</p>

<b>A passionate, highly accessible clarion call to a world dangerously threatened by irrational superstitions of all kinds.</b> 'Truly a book for our time' <b>Steven Pinker</b> 'In Sweden's public square, Christer Sturmark has done as much as anyone to uphold reason and humane critical thinking' <b>Richard Dawkins</b> 'As lucid and illuminating as it is warm and inspiring' <b>Rebecca Goldstein</b> In country after country, conspiracy theories and religious dogmas that once seemed to have been overtaken by enlightened thought are helping to lift authoritarian leaders into power. The effects are being felt by women, ethnic minorities, teachers, scientists and students - and by the environment, the ultimate victim of climate change denial. We need clear thinking now more than ever. Christer Sturmark is a crusading secular humanist as well as a Swedish publisher and entrepreneur, and <i>The Flame of Reason</i> is his manifesto for a better world. It provides a set of simple tools for clear thinking in the face of populist dogmas, anti-science attitudes and pseudo-philosophy, and suggestions for how we can move towards a new enlightenment. From truth to Quantum Physics, moral philosophy to the Myers-Briggs test, Sturmark offers a passionate defence of rational thought, science, tolerance and pluralism; a warm and engaging guide for anyone who wants to better navigate the modern world. <b>Translated by and co-written with Douglas Hofstadter, celebrated cognitive scientist, physicist and author of <i>Godel, Escher, Bach</i>.</b>

<p><i>The Chaos Machine</i> is an essential book for our times - <i>Ezra Klein</i><br/><i><br/>The Chaos Machine</i> is the story of how the world was driven mad by social media. The election of populists like Trump and Bolsonaro; strife and genocide in countries like Myanmar; the rampant spread of COVID-19 conspiracy theories as deadly as the pandemic itself; all of these are products of a breakdown in our social and political lives, a breakdown driven by the apps, companies and algorithms that compete constantly for our attention.<br/><br/>Max Fisher is a leading New York Times technology reporter whose work has covered the way that social media sites - driven increasingly by artificial intelligence rather than human ingenuity - push users towards more and more extreme positions, deepening the divisions in society in pursuit of greater engagement and profit. With extraordinary access to the most powerful players in Silicon Valley, and with testimonies from around the world of the havoc being wreaked by our online selves, <i>The Chaos Machine</i> shows us how we got to this uniquely perilous moment - and how we might get out of it.</p>

'A riveting trip down the corridors of Soviet deception' <b><i>Sunday Telegraph </i>(Five-Star Review)</b><p></p><p></p>'Philps' book vindicates the value of truth' <i><b>Washington Post</b></i><p></p><p></p>'Philps has an eye for detail and a heart for those left behind' <i><b>The Times</b></i><p></p><p></p>'A tale of intrigue and suppression' <b><i>The New York Times</i></b><p></p><p></p>'A compelling and often horrifying tale of moral degradation and occasional heroism superbly told' <b><i>The Economist</i></b><p></p><p></p><b>'An engaging and insightful account of foreign correspondents living in the Moscow landmark during the Second World War' <i><b>History Today</b></i></b><p></p><p></p><b><b>Reporters. Translators. Lovers. Spies. </b></b><p></p><b>In <b><i>THE RED</i></b><b><i> HOTEL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF STALIN'S DISINFORMATION WAR</i></b>, former <i>Daily Telegraph </i>Foreign Editor and Russia expert Alan Philps sets out the way Stalin created his own reality by constraining and muzzling the British and American reporters covering the Eastern front during the war and forcing them to reproduce Kremlin propaganda. War correspondents were both bullied and pampered in the gilded cage of the Metropol Hotel. They enjoyed lavish supplies of caviar and had their choice of young women to employ as translators and to share their beds.</b><p></p> <p></p><b>While some of these translators turned journalists into robotic conveyors of Kremlin propaganda, others were brave secret dissenters who whispered to reporters the reality of Soviet life and were punished with sentences in the Gulag. Through the use of British archives and Russian sources, the story of the role of the women of the Metropol Hotel and the foreign reporters they worked with is told for the first time. This revelatory story will finally lift the lid on Stalin's operation to muzzle and control what the Western allies' writers and foreign correspondents knew of his regime's policies to prosecute the war against Hitler's rampaging armies from June 1941 onwards.</b>