This text introduces the field of communication to students who may have little or no background in communication theory. Its three overriding goals are to help students understand the pervasiveness of theory in their lives, to demystify the theoretical process, and to help students become more systematic and critical in their thinking about ...
West and Turner's "Understanding Interpersonal Communication: Making Choices in Changing Times, Second Edition", empowers you by providing both the knowledge and practical skills you need to be effective communicators in today's rapidly changing and technologically advanced society. An innovative theory-skill framework, integrated in every chapter ...
This accessible and engaging text, written by well-known and respected child development researchers and teachers, emphasizes applying research to practice. Discovering Child Development focuses on the many ways in which children are affected by their environments. The authors illustrate the ways in which children are unique and the impact that ...
Today's educators experience diversity challenges within their curricula, schools, and school systems on a daily basis - yet most lack the knowledge to turn those challenges into positive outcomes that enrich learning and establish strong, inclusive learning communities. "Diversity Matters" offers proven, research-based strategies that will help ...
A best-selling, seminal manual on treating a wide range of clinical problems briefly and effectively. Explores the principles of brief therapy and discusses the basic elements of treatment. Examines common situations in therapy and what therapists can do to initiate change.
The Tao-te Ching is one of the central texts of the Asian tradition. The title translates as "the classic of the way and the virtue" and it originally was a guide for rulers. Over the centuries, it has gained universal appeal as a useful source for good living. Scholar Richard John Lynn translates and provides extensive notes for The Tao-te Ching ...
Emphasizing the role that communication plays in both creating and solving family issues, this new edition of "Perspectives on Family Communication" thoroughly reflects the explosion of research literature in the area of family communication - on such topics as the broadened definition of family; current demographic aspects of family types; and up ...
The CD-ROM in this set contains images from the French Revolution, including: primary documents, songs, maps, caricatures, portraits, sculptures, and photographs of artifacts. Whilst the text is a narrative of the revolution through to the defeat of Napoleon. Given the centrality of visual artifacts (imagery, symbolism, and print culture) to the ...
This book presents for the first time in English the fascinating commentary on the I Ching written by Wang Bi (226-249), who was the main interpreter of the work for some seven hundred years. Wang Bi interpreted the I Ching as a book of moral and political wisdom, arguing that the text should not be read literally, but rather as an expression of ...
This text focuses on the diversity of environmental, biological, and cultural factors, and their dynamic interplay in child and adolescent development. The authors have integrated examples of diversity throughout the text, in the domains of physical, psychological and cultural differences, gender, race, ethnicity, and social and economic status. ...
The Wolfriders lived for ten thousand years on the World of Two Moons, before Cutter, Blood of Ten Chiefs, was born to lead them to freedom. A lot can happen in ten thousand years . . .
Part I: Foundations; Chapter 1. Identified and Realized; Chapter 2. As a Specialized Field; Chapter 3. A Management Model; Chapter 4. A Developmental Approach; Chapter 5. Career Implications; Part II: Program Delivery Systems; Chapter 6. Instructional Sport; Chapter 7. Informal Sport; Chapter 8.
Carefully documenting the deceptions and excesses of television news coverage of the so-called cocaine epidemic, "Cracked Coverage" stands as a bold indictment of the backlash politics of the Reagan coalition and its implicit racism, the mercenary outlook of the drug control establishment, and the enterprising reporting of crusading journalism. ...
The authors look at how divorce lawyers work to address the question of legal professionalism in practice. Through a systematic study of legal practice at the micro-level, they show how lawyers create their own controls over work through their social relationships, formal and informal norms, common knowledge, and shared values. While much of the ...
This text explores the way sexual divisions are constituted, regulated and transgressed, through an analysis of cultural representations of sexuality, expecially through the media. It studies the contradictory ways that sexual identities are constructed and affirmed, and how this informs our reading of history, science and popular culture. This ...
Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann's "2005-2006 CIM Coursebook" series offers you the complete package for exam success. Comprising fully updated Coursebook texts that are revised annually, and free online access to the MarketingOnline learning interface, it offers everything you need to study for your CIM qualification. It is co-written by the CIM ...
After eight years of research, Lynn and Reilly, two business professors, present their findings on successful product development, extrapolated from data gathered from 20 teams, including iMac, Colgate Total Toothpaste, and Palm Pilot. Reflecting both winning and failing scenarios, these case studies detail how each team approached its ...
This is the paperback edition of a title that has sold 1481 copies in hardback since 2000. This unique book draws its a inspiration from the belief that the role of cognition in emotion is an important yet relatively neglected aspect of cognitive neuroscience. By carefully examining underlying assumptions and the nature of the phenomena under same ...
In The Science of Human Diversity, Richard Lynn gives an account of the research sponsored by the Pioneer Fund of New York. The Fund was established in 1937 by the textile millionaire Wickliffe Draper to support research in genetics, heredity and eugenics.
The latest anthology set in the bestselling world of Elfquest, The Blood of Ten Chiefs takes readers to a time when the Wolves and Wolfriders were forming tribal bonds.
After eight years of research, Lynn and Reilly, two business professors, present their findings on successful product development, extrapolated from data gathered from 20 teams, including iMac, Colgate Total Toothpaste, and Palm Pilot. Reflecting both winning and failing scenarios, these case studies detail how each team approached its ...
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