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The field of communication studies probably contains hundreds of books addressing interpersonal communication. This book is different, however. This book on interpersonal communication follows in the spirit of Kenneth Burke's "Representative Anecdote", or in the spirit of a social scientific case study in terms of representative cases.

The first textbook written specifically for students to help them navigate their student agency tenure. It serves as both a comprehensive resource for a complete student agency experience, and as a reference guide as specific client situations arise.

Provides a path that invites readers to not only face, but actually embrace culture shock. The publication uses popular culture metaphors throughout to apply concepts and scenarios to real-life.

Offers a reality check on how to transform yourself into an educational leader. This book acts as a roadmap for all leaders in any organisation to aid in problem solving; handle conflict management; create change; deal with change; manage ethical transparency; enable approachability; guarantee accountability; and prepare for opportunities.

Beginning with a history of the dance found in the civilizations around the Mediterranean, this book explores West Africa's complex dance traditions that came to the New World; offers a history of how the America's became the origin of exciting, new dance forms; and explores the cultural and social environments from which these dances developed.

No matter what our chosen majors or career paths, everyone needs healthcare, and the systems in which we access it reflect the structures and inequalities of society as a whole. This book provides an array of activist and academic perspectives on health and healthcare for women and other marginalized people.

Fuses sociological theories and concepts to give students an applicable skill in applying the sociological imagination to classic and contemporary events of sport. The book provides empirical and uniquely sociological insights into the relationships between sports and societal forces of gender, ethnicity, religion, and other institutions.

Designed for the general methods course, The Act of Teaching provides comprehensive content coverage related to understanding oneself as a teacher. It provides an understanding of one's students and how they learn and understanding of what is known about the act of teaching.

Although cinematic storytelling shares many of the same elements as other art forms, film tells a story in a unique way. Concentrating on careful analysis of the formal aspects of specific films for each chapter, Persistence of Vision is an ideal text for both face-to-face and online introduction to film studies courses.

Showcases the transdisciplinary nature of the academic field of study centred on movement, physical activity and sport. Three major sections of the book provide a comprehensive treatment of this diverse academic field through detailed studies of the many disciplines and professions constituting kinesiology.

Provides an introduction to communication theories, concepts, and research as it applies to Web 2.0 technologies. The unique approach uses theories as lenses to look closely at different types of Web 2.0 technologies, their uses and their effects.

Popular culture surrounds us every day. Pursuing Popular Culture assists instructors by providing both a rich blend of new and relevant popular culture artifacts that appeals to diverse students and the analytical tools needed to understand these artifacts.

Describes the evolving world of the arts and how it impacts our lives. Both fundamentals and more advanced concepts are presented for the visual arts, music, theatre, poetry, dance, architecture, and film. This book considers not only the product but also the process: how work is created, presented, the resources required.

A groundbreaking social problems publication that features an unprecedented fusion of integrated lectures and sociological applications that emphasize critical thinking principles, critical service learning pedagogy, and public sociology.

The world of gender and communication is constantly changing. To meet the needs of this evolving environment, Diana Ivy's GenderSpeak, has been reformatted into a more coherent, three-part structure and includes a new chapter dedicated to nonverbal communication as it relates to sex and gender.

Covers the most important background developments beginning in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to the present that gave rise to what the author believes has been a century of arts renewal in the church.

Designed to fill a significant and widely ignored gap between the theory and the practice of screenwriting. The approach of this text is equally applicable to all modes of writing popular fiction, including movies, television, novels,and stage plays.