About this title: More and more companies and individuals are realising that to compete effectively abroad, they need to address the problems of spoken and written language/culture barriers. The existence of such problems is an indication of market opportunities - or threats. There has also been a proliferation of providers promising to meet the language-training and translation needs of these companies. This book offers practical advice for all those involved in this area and equips the reader with the tools to make informed decisions about how to develop an integrated and high quality language strategy.
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Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN-13:9780804109994ISBN:0804109990
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Binding: MASS MARKET PAPERBACK
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN-13:9780804109994ISBN:0804109990
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Binding: MASS MARKET PAPERBACK
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN-13:9780804109994ISBN:0804109990
Description: Very Good. 0804109990 Mass Market Paperback, Condition: Very Good; this book is in very good condition with light curve to the spine / light reading creases to the covers. read more
Binding: MASS MARKET PAPERBACK
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN-13:9780804109994ISBN:0804109990
Description: Very Good. 0804109990 Mass Market Paperback, Condition: Very Good; this book is in very good condition with light discoloration due to aging and other light wear. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1992-07-28
ISBN-13:9780449908082ISBN:0449908089
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
"A great book, journalist David Simon spends a year with the Baltimore Homicide unit and writes from the inside out about a city and it's impulsive, calculated and downright deranged inhabitants. Whether it's drug dealers, domestic violence or dope fiends on the make this book has it all. A Year on the Killing Streets....the subtitle says it all,there aint no respite from the streets for the reader or detectives.It's superbly written and the main homicide detectives come to life as the cases develop. Gallows humour is never far away, as the detectives go about their unenviable tasks of making sense of inner-city Baltimore or Bawlmer as the locals say, in the late 1980s. Simon larger than life characters. A real page turner and the source of two great police dramas on American television.Recommended."
"An excellent, in depth look at the detectives of Baltimore's homicide department.
This book also spawned an excellent TV show, "Homicide: Life on the Street". Fans of the show will recognize a lot of the cases and characters that were used in the show.
However, this book won't suit everyone. If you have no interest in reading about the real life workings of investigating a homicide, this book is not for you. If you expect a CSI ending to a majority of the homicide cases these detectives come across, you will be sorely disappointed as well."
"If you are a fan of the TV show the Wire, you should read this book. David Simon started making the transition from Baltimore Sun beat reporter to creator of the greatest TV show ever made (IMO) by taking a year off and writing this book about a year in the life of the Baltimore city homicide department. This book covers 1988 so it is before the crack epidemic took over the city and turned it into the Baltimore you know from The Wire, but they still had close to 300 murders and a lot of tragedy and dysfunction.
David Simon is obviously a first-class reporter as well as an expert at creating compelling characters and telling a story. Reading this book really paints a great picture of what the life of a homicide detective is like: the hard work, the crazy hours, the departmental politics, and the "red-ball" cases. I found this to be quite a page-turner which is odd for non-fiction.
I immediately ordered his next book which is the actually book that became The Wire - can't wait for it to show up."
"(I will start with a complaint: Terry Gross gushes over anything even vaguely related to David Simon -- a search of Fresh Air's show descriptions returns 66 results for a search on his name. Meanwhile, she hasn't done a single story on Battlestar Galactica. Don't forget about middlebrow science fiction, Terry!)
In this book David Simon chronicles the events of a Baltimore homicide detective squad during the year 1988. The book begins on Jan 1 and ends on Dec 31. In between there are 234 murders. As if that's not enough to keep them busy, they also have to investigate suicides, unattended deaths, police-related shootings, and the occasional political hot potato.
This is a dark, dark book, which means it will be funny to the less delicate among us. (We know who we are.) The description of the Christmas decorations in the homicide offices left me shaking with laughter. Some of it is decidedly unfunny to the detectives, like the murder of children and "taxpayers," as contributors to society are called. But everything else is fair game.
Some cases are "red balls," which means they have the maximum amount of attention from the supervisors and the press. Throughout the book one detective becomes obsessed with a red ball. It's interesting to watch the effect on him. He works 18 hour days for a month, his health deteriorates, he starts to burn out, he obsessively pursues any clue no matter how small. All for about $35k a year plus overtime.
There are a lot of characters to follow, but they are all described in such detail that they are easy to keep track of. You get a good sense of the squad room and what goes on at multiple crime scenes. Lengthy passages take place in other areas important to the detectives' jobs -- the morgue, the courthouse, emergency rooms. Toward the end of the book we visit the pauper's cemetery and find no comfort or meaning.
The Kindle edition has a very interesting section at the end that describes how the book was received, the making of it into a TV show, and a little bit about The Wire. (I haven't seen either.)
This book is slightly overwritten but still highly recommended. Before you start reading it clear out your schedule because you won't want to do anything else but click on the Next Page button for the next 48 hours."
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