Product Description: This is a light-hearted, easily digestible guide with a wealth of handy hints and tips for communicating with the public. For those in the helping professions, communicating with the public can sometimes be a challenge, and different skills are needed to those used when communicating with friends and family...read more

Product Description: Spoken interaction is impossible without prosody. Intonation, pitch register, tempo, rhythm, pausing, loudness and voice quality all contribute to the spontaneous negotiation process that is everyday talk. This highly accessible introduction to the prosody and analysis of everyday conversation explains basic concepts and methods of interpretation using a wealth of examples from real-life conversations...read more

Product Description: A softcover book. Pages are clean. Binding is tigh. Cover little shelf wear... If you are not totally satisfied please return item for a full refund. Please send me a e-mail before leaving me a bad feedback so it can be resolved. We do our best to accurately describe the condition of items that we sell, but we are not the original owners of our items and we are not able to inspect every page so we may miss something...read more

Discusses aspects of bird behavior, including feeding, social displays, navigation, and migration, and explains what is being done to conserve birds (view table of contents)

Product Description: Fun, practical exercises and fascinating case studies will help readers maximize their communication skills  Public speaking, communication, and presenting with power can all be terrifying prospects, even for those with experience, and cultivating a charismatic persona in one's working life is a priceless skill...read more

Product Description: Coming to Terms: The Collected Works of Jane Blankenship, an edited collection from Jane Blankenship and Janette Kenner Muir, is the story of one academic journey through self-discovery, intellectual development, and mentorship. It is a conversation that illustrates how, in Mary Catherine Bateson’s terms, one composes a life that has meaning and makes a significant difference in other lives as well...read more

Explains how to establish a reputation for truthfulness, and discusses persuasion, meetings, communications, question asking and answering, bad news, apologies, criticism, advice, negotiation, praise, and giving instructions

Designed for the Introduction to Communication course, this trusted text presents the foundation of communication studies through numerous examples that range from the campus to the workplace to communities both in the United States and throughout the world. Every chapter contains numerous activities that engage students and promote group work. The eighth edition features a new appendix on computer-mediated communication; a new section, in each chapter, on the impact of the Internet; and coverage of the Integrative Listening Model Framework.

This text is for the Introduction to Communications course, also known as the hybrid course. Students learn the foundation of communication studies through numerous examples ranging from the campus to the workplace to communities both in the USA and throughout the world.

This third edition has continued its staple as a text that relates the student to the concepts. By describing basic communication theories in everyday, non-technical terms, the emphasis on practical situations in the book helps students to connect the examples to their daily lives. Communication: Embracing Difference presents a clear format that stresses the importance of understanding and celebrating inter-relational differences within communication. Up-to-date examples of communication among interpersonal, small group, and public settings, allows the student to apply the concepts and theories learned, enabling them to become more confident and successful communicators. Emphasizing a target audience of a diverse population, the overall approach of this text resonates with the communicator of today. 

Product Description: Communication is a basic behaviour, found across animal species. Human language is often thought of as a unique system, which separates humans from other animals. This textbook serves as a guide to different types of communication, and suggests that each is unique in its own way: human verbal and nonverbal communication, communication in nonhuman primates, in dogs and in birds...read more

A comedy of Petruchio's determination to subdue the irascible Katherine and to make her his wife

Product Description: Email, cell phones, Facebook, texts, letters ... even good old-fashioned face-to-face conversation. Teens today have all kinds of choices when it comes to communication. But did you know that there are unwritten rules that go with every form of communication? Sending a text to a friend, a letter to a future employer, and a thank-you note to your aunt and uncle all come with very different rules...read more

Communication Strategies covers the vocabulary, patterns, and collocations that English language learners need to communicate actively.

Product Description: Compose, Design, Advocate is an innovative genre-based writing guide  that teaches  how to use both words and images, in writing and in speaking.  To be truly successful communicators in today’s world, people need to be fluent in multiple modes of communication: written, visual, and oral...read more

The best-selling author of Food Cop and nutrition consultant to Hollywood's stars presents a collection of 265 easy-to-prepare dishes that allows dieters to revel in flavor while staying healthy and avoiding fat. Reprint.

A guide to writing and speaking expressively offers examples of language grouped under such headings as 'The Power of Tough Talk' and 'Infusions for Tired Vocabularies'