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  • Opening Acts
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    Opening Acts

    Opening Acts provides new, rigorous ways to analyze communication and culture through performance. It offers cutting-edge readings of everyday life, space, history, and intersections of all three, using a critical performance-based approach. Key...
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  • Opening Acts
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    Opening Acts

    Opening Acts provides new, rigorous ways to analyze communication and culture through performance. It offers cutting-edge readings of everyday life, space, history, and intersections of all three, using a critical performance-based approach. Key...
    $233.00

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  • The Usual Mistakes
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    The Usual Mistakes

    These characters may be the usual suspects, making the usual mistakes, but their stories are not the usual fare. Populated by pretenders, ex-cons, and wannabes who bend the rules, break the law, and risk everything to salvage their own hearts, the twelve...
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  • Advertising
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    Advertising

    Advertising is often used to illustrate popular and academic debates about cultural and economic life. This book reviews cultural and sociological approaches to advertising and, using historical evidence, demonstrates that a rethink of the analysis of...
    $153.00

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  • Relational Responsibility
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    Relational Responsibility

    Relational Responsibility replaces tradition al ideas on individual responsibility by giving centre stage to the relational process thereby replacing alienation with meaningful dialogue. '
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  • Research Design
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    Research Design

    Leading social research methodologists and evaluators address the issues of research design in this second of two volumes inspired by the work on Donald Campbell and sponsored by the American Evaluation Association. The book considers issues such as:...
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  • Research Design
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    Research Design

    Leading social research methodologists and evaluators address the issues of research design in this second of two volumes inspired by the work on Donald Campbell and sponsored by the American Evaluation Association. The book considers issues such as:...
    $438.00

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  • Constructing Co-Cultural Theory
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    Constructing Co-Cultural Theory

    Conceptualizing Co-cultural Theory presents a phenomenological framework for understanding the intricate relationship between culture, power and communication - wit h reference to how people traditionally communicate in the l ower ranks of society. '
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  • The Enthymeme
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    The Enthymeme

    Central to rhetorical theory, the enthymeme is most often defined as a truncated syllogism. Suppressing a premise that the audience already knows, this rhetorical device relies on the audience to fill in the missing information, thereby making the...
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  • The Enthymeme
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    The Enthymeme

    Central to rhetorical theory, the enthymeme is most often defined as a truncated syllogism. Suppressing a premise that the audience already knows, this rhetorical device relies on the audience to fill in the missing information, thereby making the...
    $195.00

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  • Metanoia
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    Metanoia

    Western culture is in a moment when wholly new kinds of personal transformations are possible, but authentic transformation requires both personal testimony and public recognition. In this book, Adam Ellwanger takes a distinctly rhetorical approach to...
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  • Health Communication for Health Care Professionals
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    Health Communication for Health Care Professionals

    According to the U.S.'s Joint Commission, over 75% of all serious medical errors result from miscommunication. Based in these adverse realities and philosophy that communication is a clinical skill integral to effective health care delivery, this...
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  • New Directions in Group Communication
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    New Directions in Group Communication

    New Directions in Group Communication takes as its mission the setting of the agenda for the study of group communication in the future. It does so by presenting work that scholars have not previously explored in the current small group communication...
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  • New Directions in Group Communication
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    New Directions in Group Communication

    New Directions in Group Communication takes as its mission the setting of the agenda for the study of group communication in the future. It does so by presenting work that scholars have not previously explored in the current small group communication...
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  • Understanding Data, Culture and Society
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    Understanding Data, Culture and Society

    - How is data shaping our identities? - What was the 'data revolution', and how did it happen? - How will AI change our societies? We live in the age of datafication: every aspect of our lives has been captured and transformed into data, from our...
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  • Political Communication and Deliberation
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    Political Communication and Deliberation

    "Professor Gastil has been a leading voice in the deliberative democracy movement for the last 15 years, and with this book he has created a wonderful resource that adeptly captures the broad, valuable work being done both inside and outside academia...
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  • Authentic (TM)
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    Authentic (TM)

    Brands are everywhere. Branding is central to political campaigns and political protest movements; the alchemy of social media and self-branding creates overnight celebrities; the self-proclaimed "greening" of institutions and merchant goods is nearly...
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  • Authentic (TM)
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    Authentic (TM)

    Brands are everywhere. Branding is central to political campaigns and political protest movements; the alchemy of social media and self-branding creates overnight celebrities; the self-proclaimed "greening" of institutions and merchant goods is nearly...
    $184.00

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  • Health and Medical Geography, Fourth Edition
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    Health and Medical Geography, Fourth Edition

    Why are rainfall, carcinogens, and primary care physicians distributed unevenly over space? The fourth edition of the leading text in the field has been updated and reorganized to cover the latest developments in disease ecology and health promotion...
    $177.00

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  • Group Communication Pitfalls
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    Group Communication Pitfalls

    "They have done this with a rich, provocative, and creative conceptual vocabulary that will resonate for readers who practice, supervise others' practice, teach about or do research in group life and group work." -Paul H. Ephross, MSW, PhD, Professor,...
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  • The Principal's Guide to Managing Communication
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    The Principal's Guide to Managing Communication

    "Schneider and Hollenczer fully understand the principal's critical role as a community relations expert. Establishing good communication is hard work and does not happen automatically-Schneider and Hollenczer get it! This book must get to every...
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  • Facework
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    Facework

    "By "granting the other specificity," authors Domenici and Littlejohn successfully uphold the important values of human dignity, honor, and respect as anchoring points in which the story of the book evolves." -Stella Ting-Toomey, California State...
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  • Facework
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    Facework

    "By "granting the other specificity," authors Domenici and Littlejohn successfully uphold the important values of human dignity, honor, and respect as anchoring points in which the story of the book evolves." -Stella Ting-Toomey, California State...
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  • Balkan Identities
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    Balkan Identities

    Balkan Identities brings together historians, anthropologists, and literary scholars all working under the shared conviction that the only way to overcome history is to intimately understand it. The contributors of Balkan Identities focus on historical...
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  • Friedman's Fables
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    Friedman's Fables

    Edwin H. Friedman has woven 24 illustrative tales that offer fresh perspectives on familiar human foibles and reflect the author's humor, pathos, and understanding. Friedman takes on resistance and other "demons" to show that neither insight, nor...
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  • The Cultural Industries
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    The Cultural Industries

    Written by leading scholar David Hesmondhalgh, The Cultural Industries remains the definitive text for understanding the ever-evolving world of culture, creativity, and commerce. This textbook provides a coherent and accessible analysis of cultural...
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  • Public Relations Writing
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    Public Relations Writing

    With a focus on storytelling, social media, and socially-conscious content, Public Relations Writing: Essential Skills for Effective Storytelling is a step-by-step "how-to" guide that helps students develop and hone the skills they need to become strong...
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  • Public Relations Writing
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    Public Relations Writing

    With a focus on storytelling, social media, and socially-conscious content, Public Relations Writing: Essential Skills for Effective Storytelling is a step-by-step "how-to" guide that helps students develop and hone the skills they need to become strong...
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  • Propaganda & Persuasion
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    Propaganda & Persuasion

    Propaganda and Persuasion, Eighth Edition offers a comprehensive history of propaganda along with an introduction to the tools and concepts used to analyze it. New author Nancy Snow ushers in fresh perspectives, experience, and insight as one of the...
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  • Rhetoric in Popular Culture
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    Rhetoric in Popular Culture

    The Sixth Edition of Barry Brummett's Rhetoric in Popular Culture provides readers with in-depth insight into the techniques of rhetorical criticism to analyze the full spectrum of contemporary issues in popular culture. Exploring a wide range of mass...
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  • Media/Society - International Student Edition
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    Media/Society - International Student Edition

    Media/Society: Industries, Images, and Audiences provides a framework to help students understand the relationship between media and society and helps students develop skills for critically evaluating both conventional wisdom and one's own assumptions...
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  • Effective Crisis Communication
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    Effective Crisis Communication

    In the fully updated Fifth Edition of Effective Crisis Communication: Moving From Crisis to Opportunity, three of today's most respected crisis/risk communication scholars provide the latest theory, practice, and innovative approaches for handling crisis...
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  • Gender in Communication
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    Gender in Communication

    Gender in Communication: A Critical Introduction embraces the full range of diverse gender identities and expressions to explore how gender influences communication, as well as how communication shapes our concepts of gender for the individual and for...
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  • The Rhetorical Power of Popular Culture
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    The Rhetorical Power of Popular Culture

    Can television shows like Stranger Things, popular music by performers like Taylor Swift, advertisements for products like Samuel Adams beer, and films such as The Hunger Games help us understand rhetorical theory and criticism? The Fourth Edition of The...
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  • Explaining and Arguing
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    Explaining and Arguing

    This text offers a critical review of the major approaches to the study of everyday explaining and arguing. Illuminating the range of contemporary approaches with concrete examples, the author's concern is to test theory against practice. He draws a...
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  • Explaining and Arguing
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    Explaining and Arguing

    This text offers a critical review of the major approaches to the study of everyday explaining and arguing. Illuminating the range of contemporary approaches with concrete examples, the author's concern is to test theory against practice. He draws a...
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  • Finding Out
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    Finding Out

    Finding Out, Fourth Edition introduces readers to lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-queer (LGBTQ) studies. By combining accessible introductory and explanatory material with primary texts and artifacts, this text/reader explores the development and growth...
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  • Finding Out
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    Finding Out

    Finding Out, Fourth Edition introduces readers to lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-queer (LGBTQ) studies. By combining accessible introductory and explanatory material with primary texts and artifacts, this text/reader explores the development and growth...
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  • Finding Out
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    Finding Out

    Finding Out, Fourth Edition introduces readers to lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-queer (LGBTQ) studies. By combining accessible introductory and explanatory material with primary texts and artifacts, this text/reader explores the development and growth...
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  • Discursive Psychology
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    Discursive Psychology

    This introduction to discursive psychology uses discourse analytic terms to examine some of psychology's most fundamental concepts. Taking memory and attribution, central notions in cognitive and social psychology respectively, the book shows the way...
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  • Representing Reality
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    Representing Reality

    `This is an admirable book which can be recommended to students with confidence, and is likely also to become an indispensable source of reference for those researching fact construction' - Discourse & Society How is reality manufactured? The idea of...
    $156.00

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  • Representing Reality
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    Representing Reality

    `This is an admirable book which can be recommended to students with confidence, and is likely also to become an indispensable source of reference for those researching fact construction' - Discourse & Society How is reality manufactured? The idea of...
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  • Social Accountability in Communication
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    Social Accountability in Communication

    Contributing to linguistics and discourse analysis, this book examines how individuals construct themselves and their actions through the transformative power of language. The first three chapters assess the established literature on accountability...
    $170.00

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  • Lacanian Theory of Discourse
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    Lacanian Theory of Discourse

    This collection introduces and develops Lacanian thought concerning the relations among language, subjectivity, and society. Lacanian Theory of Discourse provides an account of how language both interacts with and constitutes structures of subjectivity,...
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  • People Skills for Policy Analysts
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    People Skills for Policy Analysts

    Policymaking is of its very nature a people-centered business-a good reason why highly effective policy analysts display not only superb technical expertise but excellent people skills as well. Those "people skills" include the ability to manage...
    $116.00

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