Word: mifflin
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...office parlance, schmoozing is not just idle chitchat but a way of advancing your career. It deserves to be studied hard, note the authors of Vault Reports Guide to Schmoozing (Houghton Mifflin). Vault Reports is a New York City-based electronic recruiting company, and the five authors of this book feel that job seekers need to offer prospective employers a confident, pleasing touch. How does their version of schmoozing differ from networking? "Conventional networking is the clammy science of collecting business cards ad infinitum," say the authors. "No one particularly likes to network, and no one likes to receive...
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...BREAKAGE By Glyn Maxwell Houghton Mifflin $22, 80pp...
Richard Dawkins is Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. His latest book is Unweaving the Rainbow (Houghton Mifflin). This essay was adapted from his introduction to Susan Blackmore's The Meme Machine (Oxford University Press...