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HOLISTIC ENGLISH WORKBOOKS

Sun Yat-sen University Press will publish a revised Holistic English Workbook in August 2010. Contact: Xiong Xiyuan, <xiyuanx@163.com>

The revised book will combine prior Books 1, 2, 3 and 4 into one volume of 32 chapters. This will allow students to continue with their autonomous learning after the school term(s) expire since only six to ten chapters can be properly utilized during a normal college semester.

One free set of movies will be provided with each bulk book order of one-hundred or more books, on a one time per school basis.


This Workbook is the only oral English acquisition teaching material developed specifically for Chinese College students, published in China to kees costs reasonable, expressly for use by foreign teachers.

Holistic English Workbooks are user-friendly…for all foreign teachers, from backpackers…to PhDs. designed to be used by Chinese English majors and non-English majors at famous 1st tier Chinese universities to 4th tier colleges. This program puts the fun back into teaching and puts the fun back into learning.

源自吉林省哲学社会科学规划项目“英语学习策略本土化研究“，项目编号2008BWX41、

The Holistic English Workbook Series includes the following books:

FRESHMEN I

  • The Terminal (Free sample chapter)
    An Eastern European visitor (Hanks) becomes a resident of a New York airport terminal when a war breaks out and erases his country from the map, voiding his passport. He makes friends with the airport staff and falls in love with a flight attendant.
  • Coach Carter
    COACH CARTER tells the inspiring true story of controversial high school basketball coach making headlines for his emphasis on the importance of academics over athletics.
  • Iron and Silk
    Western conflicts with Chinese culture. Mark Salzman always was interested in Kung-Fu and the Chinese culture, claims to have seen every Kung-Fu movie. 1982, with a degree in Chinese literature, he visits a province university in China for two years to teach Chinese teachers the English language. He learns the refinements of correct behavior among Chinese people, makes friends with his pupils, falls in love with the young doctor Ming, learns Wuschu (similar Kung-Fu) from the famous teacher Pan… but also learns about political repression, especially when he’s forbidden contact with some of his friends.
  • Gung Ho
    Western conflicts with Japanese culture. When a Japanese car company buys an American plant, the American liaison must mediate the clash of work attitudes between the foreign management and native labor.
  • Not Without My Daughter
    Western conflicts with Muslim culture. An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.
  • The War of The Roses
    The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to force each other to leave. In the middle of the fighting is D’Amato, the divorce lawyer. He gets to see how far both will go to get rid of the other, and boy do they go far..
  • The Joy Luck Club
    Four Chinese mothers and their American born daughters, and how the distinct cultural chasm in their upbringing, play into their daily lives.
  • Eat A Bowl of Tea
    A study in culture bridging, including … a new US-born husband, trying to work within the traditional ways, a new China-born wife, eager to join the “dream” of America, two family-minded fathers, lots of gender-related social bifurcations.

FRESHMEN II

  • A Great Wall
    Leo Fang takes his Chinese-American family to Mainland China to visit his relatives for a vacation. The clash of cultures, between the men, wives, and teenagers, leads to some confusion, and misunderstanding.
  • Stand and Deliver (Free sample chapter)
    True-life story of a Los Angeles high school teacher who drives his students on to excellence at calculus.
  • Gandhi
    Biography of the man who changed the world
  • Supersize Me
    McDonald’s will super size you
  • Hotel Rwanda
    Black on Black violence in Africa
  • Walk The Line
    A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash’s life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
  • Freedom Song
    A Father, a Son and a Movement that would Change America Forever.
  • Reversible Errors
    A corporate lawyer’s interest in a decade-old murder case is piqued by a new confession that could clear the convicted killer, who sits on death row.

BUSINESS I

  • Erin Brockovitch
    Environmental Pollution, Corporate Culture, Corporate Responsibility, Punitive Damages, Integrity, Class Action Lawsuit, Justice, Arbitration
  • Wall Street
    Insider Trading, Integrity, Ethics, Morality, Virtue, Reliability, Loyalty, Honesty, Corporate Culture, Corporate Responsibility, Confidentiality Agreement, Tough Love, Stock Market Manipulation, Revenge, Labor Union, Greed, Corporate Espionage
  • Other People’s Money
    Mergers and Acquisitions, Shareholder Meetings, Corporate governance
  • Disclosure (Free sample chapter)
    Sexual Harassment, Corporate Responsibility, Corporate Culture, Human Resource Management, Corporate Governance, Mediation
  • Working Girl
    Intellectual Property, Copyright, Trademark, Patent, Integrity, Trade Secrets, Human Resource Management
  • Rainmaker
    Insurance Fraud, Unfair Business Practices
  • Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
    Business Ethics
  • Enron: The smartest guys in the room
    Accounting, Business Ethics

BUSINESS II

  • Barbarians at the Gate
    The president of a major tobacco company decides to buy the company himself, but a bidding war ensues as other companies make their own offers.
  • North Country
    A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States
  • Runaway Jury
    A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.
  • Class Action
    A father and a daughter, divided by a case, endangered by the truth.
  • The Constant Gardner
    A widower is determined to get to the bottom of a potentially explosive secret involving his wife’s murder, big business, and corporate corruption.
  • McLibel
    McLibel is the story of two ordinary people who humiliated McDonald’s in the biggest corporate PR disaster in history.
  • An Inconvenient Truth
    A documentary on Al Gore’s campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.
  • Life and Debt (Free sample chapter)
    How the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and WTO bankrupted the economy of Jamaica.

CHINESE CROSS-CULTURE

  • Sand Pebbles
  • Farewell My Concubine
  • The Last Emperor
  • Iron and Silk
  • Tai Pan
  • Great Wall
  • Joy Luck Club
  • Black Sun
  • Eat a Bowl of Tea

INTERNATIONAL  POLITICS

  • Hidden Wars
  • Syriana
  • Salvador
  • Constant Gardner
  • Hotel Rwanda
  • Blood Diamonds
  • Beyond Borders

JEWISH  CULTURE

  • Ben Hur
  • The Ten Commandments
  • King of Kings
  • King David
  • Fiddler on the Roof
  • Exodus
  • O’Jeruselem
  • Sand Pebbles
  • Judgment at Nuremburg
  • Munich
  • Schindler’s List
  • The Pianist
  • Defiance

JOURNALISM

  • The People vs. Larry Flint
    A controversial pornography publisher fought the government and became a defender of free speech for all people
  • Good Night and Good Luck
    In the early 1950’s, the threat of Communism created an air of paranoia in the United States and exploiting those fears was Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin. A free press reigned him in.
  • All The President’s Men
    The Watergate scandal set the stage for President Richard Nixon’s eventual resignation
  • Broadcast News
    Take two rival TV reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one producer, female. Mix well and watch the sparks fly.
  • Up Close and Personal
    This is a telling of the Jessica Savitch story, the newswoman who, in the 1970’s, became the “First Woman Anchor”.
  • Absence of Malice
    Suppose you picked up this morning’s newspaper and your life was a front page headline… And everything they said was accurate… But none of it was true.
  • The Insider
    Media manipulation vs. tobacco industry manipulation
  • Outfoxed
    A conservative TV station presents biased news
  • The Pentagon Papers
    Stolen secret government documents appear in the newspapers
  • Control Room
    The story of Al Jazeera, an Arab TV station feared and hated around the globe.
  • Anchorman
    TV gone terribly wrong

OTHER  CULTURES

  • 8 Mile
  • Australia
  • Born Into Brothels
  • Camerena
  • Easy Rider
  • Hells Angels on Wheels
  • Maria
  • Osama
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
  • Motorcycle Diaries
  • Slumdog
  • Yes Men

US POLITICS

  • Truman
  • 13 Days
  • Fahrenheit 911
  • JFK
  • Nixon
  • Frost/Nixon
  • Hunting the President
  • Milk
  • The Pentagon Papers
  • Obama Deception
  • The Whole Truth About the Iraq War

VIET NAM WAR ERA

  • Deer Hunter
  • Born on the 4th of July
  • Coming Home
  • Heaven and Earth
  • Good Morning Viet Nam
  • Apocalypse Now
  • We Were Soldiers
  • Platoon
  • The Killing Fields

WORLD  WAR  II (Pacific theater)

  • Black Sun
  • Tora, Tora, Tora
  • Empire of the Sun
  • Pearl Harbor
  • Rape of Nanking
  • Run Silent Run Deep
  • Bridges of Tokyo Ri
  • War for China
  • Midway
  • The Flying Tigers