How to Speak, How to ListenFrom the author of the bestselling How to Read a Book comes a comprehensive and practical guide 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 Book in 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

love and tragedy

with a dazzling command of the sources

and other major powers in facilitating mass murder and incarceration

Tens of thousands poured into the streets to protest

while his analysis of drama remains a mainstay of literature courses around the world

Exploring the dialectic between historical determinism and the exercise of free will

what Smith calls “bookhood”: the smell

philosophy

with a particular focus on Islamic Studies and Sufism

Determined to escape from the life of toil and humiliation to which he has been born

Sam Leith offers a humane portrait of a genre and celebrates the power of books to inspire and console entire generations

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