<b>Practical information for learning how to speak and listen more effectively.</b><BR><BR>With over half a million copies in print of his “living classic” <i>How to Read a Book</i> 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 his first book.<BR><BR> In <i>How to Speak How to Listen</i>, Adler explains the fundamental principles of communicating through speech, with sections on such specialized presentations as the sales talk, the lecture, and question-and-answer sessions and advice on effective listening and learning by discussion.