Communication Studies

• White
  In this final installment of Ted Dekker's groundbreaking Circle trilogy, Thomas Hunter has only days to survive two separate realms of danger, deceit, and destruction. The fate of the both worlds now rests on his unique ability to shift realities through his dreams, the charge given to a small ragt...
• Digital Techniques in Broadcasting Transmission
  Digital Techniques in Broadcasting Transmission 2E is a practical guide for the broadcast engineer making the transition from analog to digital. Emphasis is on digital communication at the level of the practicing broadcast engineer and the application of digital principles to high-powered broadcast...
• Advertising
  Advertising is a comprehensive and highly accessible textbook, providing both an understanding of the application of the principles of advertising from a practitioner perspective, as well as a sound academic underpinning, and illustrated with examples of contemporary practice. This text is suitable...
• Trust
  Can we trust our elected representatives or is public life so corrupted that we can no longer rely on governments to protect our interests or even our civil liberties? Is the current mood of public distrust justified or do we need to re-evaluate our understanding of trust in the global age? In this...
• Communicating Across Cultures
  From high-level business negotiations to casual conversations among friends, every interpersonal interaction is shaped by cultural norms and expectations. Seldom is this more clearly brought to light than in encounters between people from different cultural backgrounds, when dissimilar communicatio...
• Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet
  The revolution will not be televised. But will it be online instead? When the Internet first took off, we heard a lot about its potential for social change. We heard it would revitalize democracy. We heard it would empower us. We heard we would all be publishers, working together to create a new pu...
• Bilingualism
  Since it was first published in 1989, Suzanne Romaine's book has been recognized as the most authoritative introduction to the sociolinguistics of bilingualism. The new edition has been completely revised to incorporate recent work in this fast developing field.Throughout the book, bilingualism is ...
• Body and Language
  An argument that activity provides a useful template for thinking about representation and that deeds are themselves representational: our representing of the world consists, in part, in certain sorts of deeds that we perform in the world. In "Body Language", Mark Rowlands argues that the problem o...
• More Than Words
  Good books inspire the imagination, jump-start creativity, and kindle new ideas. So it's no surprise that for these twenty-one members of the Chrysostom Society (a renowned contemporary Christian writers' group) the works of classic literary masters have played an influential role in shaping their ...
• Communicating Prejudice
  A new integrative conceptual model of prejudice - the layered perspective of cultural intolerance - is presented in the volume. This model is used to analyze the communication of prejudice in a variety of guises such as racism, sexism, homophobia, ageism and classism. Drawing on multidisciplinary p...
• Art and Ventriloquism
  In his intriguing new book, David Goldblatt examines what he calls "the complex logic of ventriloquism" and its relationship with art, philosophy and the artistic process. In the conversational exchange between ventriloquist and dummy, Goldblatt recognizes a speaking in other voices, illu...
• The Body Language Phrasebook
  While the art of speech, is of course, the most accepted form of communication, and sign language has been developed for the deaf, body language is no less important. Speech is no substitute for physical expression. Quite the opposite (evidence suggests that 55 per cent of people's opinions of us a...
• Communication Skills Handbook for Accounting
  The Communication Skills Handbook for Accounting, 2nd edition has been designed to develop the written and oral communication skills of university accounting students. The authors introduce successful approaches to researching, writing and referencing, and review the main problems accounting studen...
• Communication Theories
  This comprehensive and readable text applies communication theories to the mass media with an abundance of current examples from journalism, broadcasting, advertising and public relations to make concepts clear to students. The new edition of Communication Theories addresses the ongoing changes in ...
• Human Communication
  The second edition of "Human Communication" is an engaging reflection of the contemporary field of communication studies. The authors' writing mantra ("Make It Smart; Keep It Real") leads to a text that strikes a practical balance of definitive content and everyday applicat...
• Making the Grade
  Making the Grade is a comprehensive reference for university students and staff on all aspects of higher education study and communication. It offers advice on completing university assignments and assessment tasks in a way that will help students make the grade. Covering all aspects of university ...
• Signs and Symbols
  Contains a visual directory of more than 1000 icons, graphic motifs, ideograms and symbols and 150 stunning colour photographs and fine art paintings....
• Human Communication: Principles and Contexts
  Intended for the introductory communication concepts course, this text focuses on the principles and contexts of communication studies. The award-winning authors link theory and research with fundamental concepts and create plentiful opportunities for students to apply their understanding and devel...
• Introduction to Communication Research
  This introductory research text trains students to gather research evidence, develop research arguments, and think critically about them. This textbook is ideal for the student with little or no research background. Fundamental research issues are discussed in detail and provide building blocks for...
• Intercultural Communication
  Serves as a guide to the main concepts and problems of intercultural communication. This work includes sections that: sets out the authors' distinction between cross-cultural communication and intercultural communication and outlines the methodology of ethnography that is the practical basis of the...
• Media Law
  Media Law is an essential and accessible introduction to the subject that will assist media journalism and law students understand key concepts and aid their revision. This book, designed to complement existing textbooks will advise readers on how best to utilise the vast and ever growing array of ...
• Health Communication in the 21st Century
  This book presents an extensive overview offering insight into both the current thinking and some lesser researched topics in the field of health communications. It is a new textbook exploring the rapidly growing area of health communication theory and practice, integrating health communication res...
• People Smarts
  Become a more productive manager. Learn how to bring out the best in everyone and gain the cooperation of even the most difficult people. The key is determining behavior styles. PeopleSmarts shows you how to decipher your own style first, then identify the styles of others, and finally adjust your ...
• Body Language for Dummies
  If you are puzzled by other people or want to improve the impression you give, knowing about body language could be the key. In this book you'll discover how the body reveals what people really mean and how you can use your body and your expressions to improve your self-image to others. It explores...
• The Basics of Interpersonal Communication
  The Basics of Speech Communication is a low cost, clear and concise introduction to the basics of interpersonal communication. This text focuses on the nuts and bolts without providing excessive detail, ensuring that students master the fundamentals and allowing instructors ample time to integrate ...
• The Fine Art of Small Talk
  Communication expert Debra Fine reveals the techniques and strategies anyone can use to make small talk - in any situation. Do you spend an abnormal amount of time hiding in the bathroom or hanging around the buffet table at social gatherings? Does the thought of striking up a conversation with a s...
• People Skills
  The second edition of this text continues to offer a thoughtful and supportive introduction to the diverse and complex field of people skills, but in extended and updated form. New to this edition are four completely new chapters, on decision making, influencing people and dealing with bullies, and...
• Making it Real
  Featuring state-of-the-art soccer skills training tips, the story behind the David Beckham academies, and with insights from Beckham on his unique lifestyle, this book captures the essence of what it's like to be England football captain and one of t...
• Writing
  "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" (1912), James Weldon Johnsonas first book and the first modernist novel written by an African American, is a groundbreaking and subtle account of racial passing, initially published as an anonymous memoir. Its veracityamany believed it to be a genuine autobi...
• Jane Campion
  Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. Jane Campion is one of the ...
• Communicate Effectively
  Get your message across -- and understood -- with this book. Addressed to salespeople, club officers, teachers, after-dinner speakers, and anyone with information to convey, the book sets forth practical instructions for better understanding in all situations. Making speeches, conducting meetings o...
• Ethics in Journalism
  The reputation of journalists is continually being questioned. Nearly every public opinion poll shows that people have lost respect for journalists and lost faith in the news media. In this fully updated and expanded 6th edition of Ethics in Journalism, author Ron F. Smith provides a highly readabl...
• Interviewing
  The most widely-used text for the interviewing course, Interviewing: Principles and Practices offers comprehensive coverage of a wide range of interviews, as well as the most thorough treatment of the basics of interviewing (including the complex interpersonal communication process, types and uses ...
• Consumer Culture Reborn
  Consumer Culture Reborn focuses on consumption as the point at which economy and culture combine. The book draws the often polarised discourses of political economy and cultural studies closer together in a historical context as a means of understanding our social situations as we approach the end ...
• Brands
  Brands are everywhere: in the air, on the high-street, in the kitchen, on television and, maybe even on your feet. But what are they? The brand, that point of connection between company and consumer, has become one of the key cultural forces of our time and one of the most important vehicles of glo...
• Effective Personal Communication Skills for Public Relations
  Make ideas contagious through every channel of communication Viral marketing — word-of-mouth marketing that spreads rapidly — is now mainstream, but some of its concepts are still catching on in the realm of public relations. Drawing partly on the theories of evolutionary biologist Ri...
• The Making of Citizens
  Originally published as Cities of Peasants, this highly-acclaimed account of the expansion of capitalism in the developing world has now been extensively rewritten and updated. Focusing on Latin America, Bryan Roberts traces the evolution of developing societies and their economies to the present. ...
• The Wise Advisor
  Giving advice is an essential task in all professions. Doctors, lawyers, management consultants, financial planners, consulting engineers, and accountants are called on every day to give wise advise to their clients on what they should do. Some professionals carry out this task well; others do it p...
• Communication at Work
  Modern electronic communications may have transformed office life, but there is a danger that interpersonal skills are being neglected. It is essential that everyone is confident in their ability to communicate effectively using the variety of methods available. Communication at Work discusses the ...
• Internet
  Lorenzo Cantoni and Stefano Tardini's absorbing introduction considers the internet as a communication technology; the opportunities it affords us, the limitations it imposes and the functions it allows. From music to gaming, information gathering to eLearning; eCommerce to eGovernment. "...
• ICT
  These clear and accessible new Success titles cover the 2006 subject specifications for all exam boards. Letts carried out focus groups with teachers and students to develop this format and content style. With their help, we refined all the elements of these books to meet their needs and requiremen...
• Time
  What is time? How has our relationship to time changed through history and how does time structure our social lives? In this lively introduction, Barbara Adam explores the changing ways in which time has been understood and how this knowledge is embedded in cultural practices. She takes the reader ...
• America First
  Collection of one hundred action-packed stories, covering the range of American history, from the first visit of Leif the Lucky to the exploits of Sergeant York in World War I. In relating the long, thrilling story of the trials and triumphs of the pioneers and patriots, the author aims to gratify ...
• Communication for Information Technology
  An Australian text for IT and computer students keen to develop communication skills. This second edition uses plenty of illustrations, case studies and workplace activities to help students understand basic communication concepts as they relate to the workplace. Features cross references to the IC...
• Multidisciplinary Approaches to Visual Representations and Interpretations
  The value of multi-disciplinary research lies in the exchange of ideas and methods across the traditional boundaries between areas of study. It could be argued that many of the advances in science and engineering take place because the ideas, methods and the tools of thought from one discipline bec...
• Reading Digital Culture
  Reading Digital Culture brings together key essays that have established the terms of the debate about the future of information technology. Definitive essays by many of the field's most widely read commentators - Virilio, Haraway, Landow, Castells, Aronowitz, Plant, Ross, Zizek, Guattari - range a...
• Advances in Natural Multimodal Dialogue Systems
  The main topic of this volume is natural multimodal interaction. The book is unique in that it brings together a great many contributions regarding aspects of natural and multimodal interaction written by many of the important actors in the field. It is a timely update of "Multimodality in Language...
• Interlanguage Pragmatics
  This edited volume brings conversational analysis into the study of second language pragmatics as an analytic paradigm. A well-regarded team of researchers addresses a difficult area for the interlanguage pragmatics research community - the balance between experimental method and the use of convers...
• Campus Companion
  Orientation to college courses and programs provide a foundation for students to help them achieve success in higher education. In these courses and programs, students learn about campus services and academic programs, gain knowledge of the new language of higher education and are exposed to critic...
• Communication Skills Handbook
  This handbook has been designed to assist students to effectively prepare and present written and verbal material. It provides practical tips and deals with the major problems students are likely to encounter in the preparation and presentation of material for assessment. The objectives of this han...
• Managing Interpersonal Conflict
  This book explores the process of interpersonal conflict - from the initial decision as to whether or not to confront differences through to how to plan the actual confrontation. It deals extensively with negotiation and, where negotiation proves unsuccessful, with third-party dispute resolution. T...
• Troika
  This communicative, natural approach to introductory Russian emphasizes reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. Everyday topics are presented to allow readers to begin communicating immediately. Grammar is presented as a necessary tool for communication and is introduced throughout. The b...
• Exploring Risk Communication
  Exploring Risk Communication presents a systematic planning approach to risk communication. Risk communication is seen by many as an important tool for managing technological, environmental, and natural risks. The book's goal is to improve risk communication processes in these areas between private...
• Communication and Empire
  Filling in a key chapter in communications history, Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike offer an in-depth examination of the rise of the 'global media' between 1860 and 1930. They analyze the connections between the development of a global communication infrastructure, the creation of national tel...
• Creative Industries
  Bringing together seminal essays written across traditional and new media, industry sectors, and national contexts, Creative Industries chronicles the way mass culture is produced, packaged and circulated in a technology-enabled and globalized world. The volume samples the subjects that have come t...
• Feature and Magazine Writing
  Feature and Magazine Writing: Action, Angle and Anecdotes genuinely models its message through lively writing, touches of humor and a conversational tone. Sumner and Miller cover a complete range of topics too often missing in existing texts. The topics include: finding original ideas developing st...
• Communication
  How The Future Began is an exciting new series that takes an illuminating look at the technological and scientific advances that have transformed our lives and are shaping tomorrow's world. Communications examines not only the developments that have brought us such conveniences of the information a...
• Communication and Cultural Literacy
  This text introduces the key concepts and skills needed by students of communication studies, cultural studies and textual studies. From Saussure to Bourdieu, the authors present a range of theoretical approaches to the study of communication and culture. Concepts are introduced in particular conte...
• Interpersonal Communication
  Interpersonal Communication introduces students to the core concepts that underpin interpersonal communication in theory and practice. Trenholm and Jensen introduce a 5 point model of Communication Competence in chapter one, and use it throughout the book to help keep students focused on the key el...
• Luv N Txt
  This is the first published guide to the new phenomenon of txt dating, a witty and edgy romp through the love crazed world of SMS messaging. Covering everything from how to use txt to get a d8, to the joy of txt and txt-etiquette....
• Making Social Worlds
  Making Social Worlds: A Communication Perspective offers the most accessible introduction to the tools and concepts of CMM - Coordinated Management of Meaning - one of the groundbreaking theories of speech communication. It draws upon advances in research for the most up-to-date concepts in speech ...
• Think Like Chinese
  Sun Zi said "know yourself and your enemy, then you will never lose a battle". Zhang and Baker say, "know the Chinese mind so you can prosper!" Think Like Chinese explains Chinese thought and business culture from the Chinese perspective. It gives first-hand insight into what Chinese are really thi...
• Communication and Culture
• Scholastic Journalism
  For more than 50 years, Scholastic Journalism has served as a comprehensive textbook and guide for high school journalism students, teachers, and advisors. This landmark 11th edition now includes updated information on the dynamic changes taking place in the field. It is the ideal textbook to teach...
• Media Ethics
  Concerns about the role and responsibilities of the media have become an increasingly important part of public debate. "Media Ethics" brings together philosophers, academics and media professionals to debate pressing ethical and moral questions for journalists and the media and to examine...
• Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy
  Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy, investigates the meanings and uses of literacy in different cultures and societies. In contrast to previous studies, where the focus of research has been on aspects of cognition, education and on the economic 'consequences' of literacy, these largely ethnograp...
• Writing, a Concise Handbook
• Communication Works
  Written for the introductory communication course, "Communication Works" presents communication principles, interpersonal communication, and public speaking in an engaging and highly interactive manner. Its use of questions in the narrative, margins, boxes, and captions support instructors who pref...
• First Look at Communication Theory
  The most widely-used textbook for the communication theory course, A First Look at Communication Theory analyzes the major communication theories at a level that is appropriate for both lower- and upper-level courses. The 33 theories represented in the text reflect a mix of foundational and recent ...
• The Art of Public Speaking
  The best way to become a confident, effective public speaker, according to the authors of this landmark book, is simply to do it. Practice, practice, practice. And while you're at it, assume the positive. Have something to say. Forget the self. Cast out fear. Be absorbed by your subject. And most i...
• Book Commissioning and Acquisition
  This volume provides a comprehensive guide to all aspects of commisioning, from assessing markets through to the finished product, across every sector of publishing. This book provides guidance on finding successful books; list building and development; working with authors; preparing books for pub...
• African Languages, Development and the State
  Multilingualism is a fact of African life; multilingualism is Africa's lingua franca. Why then is African multilingualism so often seen as a handicap to development? The contributors to African Languages, Development and the State argue that multilingualism needs to be developed as a strength, not ...
• Communication in Personal Relationships Across Cultures
  This innovative book contains studies of personal relationships from a variety of non-western cultures, and leaves behind the western biases that are typical of most research and theorizing done in this expanding area. Chapters focus on personal communication practices in countries including Iran, ...
• Conversation Analysis
  Conversation analysis has contributed enormously to the understanding of social life, social structure, the meaning ascribed by individuals to interaction, and the rules and structures of conversation. George Psathas' succinct introduction outlines its procedures and its major accomplishments, with...
• Law and Regulation of Common Carriers in the Communications Industry
  This revised casebook-plus-commentary offers a basic introduction to the traditional regulation of telephone companies as well as the new lines of businesses they have entered. Drawing on historical and contemporary court decisions as well as on FCC and legislative materials, Brenner documents and ...
• The Best American Science Writing
  Provocative and engaging, this collection brings together the premiere science writing of the year. Featuring the imprimatur of bestselling author and New York Times reporter Gina Kolata, one of the nation's foremost voices in science and medicine, a...
• Elementary Linear Algebra with Applications 9E with WileyPlus Access Card + Summers/ Communication Skills Handbook Revised and Updated Edition
• Living on the Edge
  We are aging from the moment we are born, but often it isn't until our fifties or sixties, when the wrinkles start to appear or a health crisis develops, that we suddenly think, I'm getting old! Even as modern technology keeps us living longer and in better condition than our parents at this age, t...
• Semiotics and Information Sciences
  Very little has been done to show the explicit connection between the representation and the study of information despite the obvious relation that exists between them. The purpose of the conference held at Victoria College at the University of Toronto in October 1998 - titled Semiotics and the Inf...
• The Death of Spin
  Every decade has its own identity, key values and needs. The 1990s were the age of spin, when the materialism of the 1980s, the desire for instant communication and soundbite democracy came together in the spin culture. George Pitcher tells the story of the rise and fall of the spin culture, predic...
• Political Communications in New Zealand
  Political Communications in New Zealand explores the relationship between politics, the media and voters in New Zealand. Since communication is such a central component in the political process, it is important to understand the role that communication plays in this process. Who formulates the mess...
• Interplay
  The tenth edition of Interplay continues the winning method of combining a readable, usable approach to interpersonal communication that students appreciate, with a solid foundation of research that professors know is essential in an academic study of the field. This introductory text presents curr...
• Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim
  Describes organisational behaviour theories and concepts in the context of emerging workplace realities in Australia and New Zealand, Asia and neighbouring Pacific Rim countries, keeping up-to- date with several emerging topics, such as corporate responsibility, Schwartz's values model, and more. M...
• Television
  Written in clear and lively prose, Television explains how television programs and commercials are made, and how they function as producers of meaning. Author Jeremy Butler demonstrates the ways in which cinematography and videography, acting, lighting, set design, editing, and sound combine to pro...
• Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture
  In more than 700 alphabetically-organized entries an international team of contributors captures what is key about the culture which has developed in France since 1945. Entries range from shorter, purely factual contributions of around 100 words to longer overview essays in the range of 2000 words ...
• The Art of Conversation
  Recalling his role in the World War II sorties of the fabled Tuskegee Airmen, General Benjamin O. Davis Jr. describes it as a second front in the black aviators' war for dignity. In contrast to his bold decision-making as Secretary of Defense in the 1960s, Robert McNamara looks back on that era wit...
• Interpreting Quantitative Data
  How do quantitative methods help us to acquire knowledge of the real world? What are the 'do's' and 'don'ts' of effective quantitative research? This refreshing and accessible book provides students with a novel and useful resource for doing quantitative research. It offers students a guide on how ...
• Proposal Writing
  This book is written primarily for students or beginning-to-moderately experienced grantwriters working in nonprofit corporations, school districts, or city or county agencies, and provides a step-by-step guide to writing a successful grant proposal. The third edition has been retitled Proposal Wri...
• Beyond Words
• Cultural Studies
  What has the death of Corporal Patrick D. Tillman of the US Army Rangers in an incident of friendly fire in Afghanistan in 2004 got to do with culture? How has the study of ideology, coding, theming and representation by Cultural Studies helped us to understand Reality TV, the Internet, mobile phon...
• The International Encyclopedia of Communication
  The International Encyclopedia of Communication represents the definitive reference work in this interdisciplinary and dynamic field. This authoritative twelve-volume set is jointly published by Wiley-Blackwell and the International Communication Ass...
• The Audience Studies Reader
  Has political propaganda ever been effective? To what extent do African-American families interpret their favorite TV show differently from their white neighbors? Are romance novels and teenage magazines reactionary fantasies or do they provide women with an important space of their own? "Th...
• Children Talking Television
  Is television harmful to children? Does it destroy imagination, provode delinquency and violence, undermine family life and have other detrimental effects on children? The author, himself a parent, teacher and researcher investigates the complex ways in which children actively make meaning and take...
• Understanding Radio
  With Britain's first two national commercial radio stations - Virgin 1215 and Classic FM - already on the air, the 90s are set to bring unprecedented expansion to the national, regional and local radio station network - and yet more controversy over the role of the BBC. In this new edition of Under...
• Desperately Seeking the Audience
  Millions of people all over the world are avid members of the television audience. Yet, despite the central place television occupies in contemporary culture, our understanding of its complex and dynamic role in everyday life remains surprisingly limited. Focusing on the television audience, Ien An...
• Communication Skills for the Environmental Technician
  Communication Skills for the Environmental technician This book provides environmental technology students with an enjoyable way to quickly master the basic communication skills needed by the environmental technician. Like all the books in the critically acclaimed Preserving the Legacy series, i...
• Public and Professional Writing: Ethics, Imagination and Rhetoric
  This book offers something quite new - an advanced textbook that considers professional writing as a negotiated process between writer and reader. Arguing that ethics, imagination and rhetoric are integral to professional writing praxis, the book encourages students to look critically at various wr...
• Go Figure! New Directions in Advertising Rhetoric
  Rhetorical scholarship has found rich source material in the disciplines of advertising, communications research, and consumer behavior. Advertising, considered as a kind of communication, is distinguished by its focus on causing action. Its goal is not simply to communicate ideas, educate, or pers...
• Michelangelo
  Michelangelo Buonarroti was a very complicated being. Not only was he a multitalented artist - renowned equally as a sculptor, painter, and architect - he was also an impressive military engineer, student of Dante, and poet in his own right. What is more, his behavior was full of contradictions. He...
• Inside Book Publishing
  Book publishing today is a highly competitive and exciting international industry. Inside Book Publishing provides a wealth of essential information for anyone interested in a career in publishing, or in understanding how publishing works. This fully revised, updated and extended edition covers: th...