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This work is a compilation of about four thousand quotations on reading, writing, speaking, and listening as well as related topics of advertising, business, computers, education, film, journalism, language, photography, public relations, rhetoric, television, and world communications.

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Joining the debate on gender differences, this book presents a cross-section of current research in communication, language, and gender studies. Examining what researchers mean by gender differences and values implicit in the term is critical to understanding current trends in gender studies.

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This study moves from a general consideration of how computers are changing literacy to a specific consideration of how computers are altering reading and writing fiction. It includes interviews with makers of hypertext fictions, close readings of digital fictions, and analyses of the genre.

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This study moves from a general consideration of how computers are changing literacy to a specific consideration of how computers are altering reading and writing fiction. It includes interviews with makers of hypertext fictions, close readings of digital fictions, and analyses of the genre.

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This collection examines the risks and social opportunities created by the growth of information and communication technologies. In particular, the contributors analyze how digital inclusion is affected by the social and cultural contexts of access around the world.

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This book takes a unique look at not only the presentation of disability in the media but also how image echoes impact individuals with disabilities and their identities and possible stigmatization. It provides an empirical analysis in the form of two case studies including primary research.

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Scholars across several disciplines discuss possible negative economic and social consequences of international military disarmament, including unemployment associated with the conversion from a military industrial economy to a civilian complex, conversion costs and reduced R & D.

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This book provides a careful examination of the discordant narratives that embodied the chaos, tensions, and conflicts in the U.S. pandemic responses. The ultimate goal of this volume is to help groups and individuals understand just what went wrong in the U.S. pandemic responses.

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This book critiques the superiority theory of disparagement humor, rooted in Hobbess definition of laughter. Nathan Miczo offers the agn (Greek for contest) as a metaphor to demonstrate how within- and between-group dynamics shape the creation and reception of disparagement humor.

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Has globalization the phenomenon outgrown 'globalization' the concept This book presents a work of vision that addresses the dizzying anxieties of the post-Cold War, post-September 11 world. It analyses just how complex these profound global changes have become.

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A critique of conventional approaches to communication research, the authors argue that the impact of gender on research practives has been ignored.

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A critique of conventional approaches to communication research, the authors argue that the impact of gender on research practives has been ignored.

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This book looks beyond the apparently united and generally self-congratulatory statements of The United Nations, other major multinational organisations and many large bilateral aid donors to examine what actually happened when they tried to work together in restoring stability and establishing governance in the territory.

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Examines Eisenhower's skills as a communicator, showing how he used language to achieve carefully conceived strategic purposes in the Cold War. If he seemed befuddled, he actually knew exactly what he was doing and why, using half-truths, ambiguity and the right audience to his own ends.

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This edited collection offers a comprehensive examination of theory, research, and practice in crisis (hostage) negotiation from the perspectives of communication, law enforcement, psychology, sociology, and criminology.

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Accounts for the co-emergence of early body ornaments and our semiotic mind, by employing a cognitive semiotic theory based on pragmatism and enactivism.

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The book provides ecocultural perspectives on ethics from a variety of cultural contexts. It argues that any ecological perspectives/issues/conditions cannot be separated from their cultural contexts and thus, we need to employ a culture-specific scrutiny to understand the ethics of ecoculture.

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Unravels the governance challenges preventing Nigeria from diversifying its economy away from oil

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This wide-ranging text introduces the causes of economic growth and stagnation across countries. It combines consideration of proximate causes as well as systemic factors, and provides the historical context and theoretical background to aid understanding of international disparities.

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Economic Injustice and the Rhetoric of the American Dream explores public conversations about why some Americans are rich and others are poor. That question prompts a politically urgent and intellectually valuable inquiry into the rhetorical resources Americans employ to make sense of their peculiar economic arrangements.

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The book is tightly constructed around three sections. The first section identifies the field of global citizenship. The second section identifies a Youth-led Learning approach to global citizenship.

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Electing Madam Vice President presents the presidential bids of the six women who ran for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2020 and the historic, groundbreaking vice-presidential candidacy of Kamala Harris.

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Provides a revealing look at the nature of internal conflicts and explains why appropriate conditions for negotiation and useful solutions are so difficult to find. The authors offer a series of case studies of ongoing conflict in Angola, Mozambique, Eritrea, South Africa, Southern Sudan, Lebanon, Spain, Colombia, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines.