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This book provides a vivid reader on experiences of mediation throughout history and in many different regional, cultural and legal contexts.

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This book provides a vivid reader on experiences of mediation throughout history and in many different regional, cultural and legal contexts.

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Strasser is a lecturer, supervisor, and psychotherapist in private practice; Randolph has been a practicing barrister for some 30 years and accredited mediator for 15-plus years.

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This book explores the mediatory competence of human communication. By analyzing and enacting rhetorical strategies, the author invites the reader to logical discussion and political discourse.

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Many books covering the introduction to mass communications lean towards the descriptive and social scientific aspects of the media. The book is organized chronologically to facilitate analysis of developments in the art and industry of mass communications within the context of concurrent social, political, economic, and technological changes.

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Mental Health among Higher Education Faculty, Administrators, and Graduate Students argues that mental illness stigma surrounds not being able to cope with the rigors of academia is viewed as personal weakness. It examines the complex mental health issues in higher education and offers best practices for institutions from a communication approach.

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This book makes the tenets of harm reduction more accessible to researchers and practitioners by integrating metatheory, method, and practice, and enhances metatheory development in social science research. Readers will understand how using metatheoretical tenets can facilitate a deeper dialogue with participants throughout qualitative research.

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An authoritative yet accessible introduction to the history, politics, and society of one of Latin America's most enigmatic and culturally diverse countries.

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This volume utilizes interdisciplinary theories, methods, and approaches to study the educational and career experiences of military spouses with advanced degrees. It analyzes the unique career and educational experiences that military spouses with advanced degrees face while trying to attain their goals amidst military relocations and deployments.

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This book provides valuable insights into the millennial generation and how college students, faculty, and staff can effectively communicate and understand one another.

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This book reveals contradictions between the supposed democratizing mission of the social movements in Russia and Ukraine and their actual conduct and its outcomes. It uses cases studies of the White Ribbons movement for fair elections, the Ukrainian Euromaidan (20132014), and anti-corruption protests in Russia organized by Alexei Navalny.

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An exploration of the diverse forms of cultural and economic exchange which connect Africa to the rest of the global South.

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The world is a great place. But there are also great problems. A solution is suggested here.

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Pioneered by M A K Halliday, social semiotic theory sees meaning as created through the interaction of texts (including writing, images, sound and space) within a given context. Divided into five sections, this title features contributors who use social semiotic theory to analyse a range of contexts, including the classroom, museum, and cinema.

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An overview of the new developments and applications of social semiotic theory, pioneered by M.A.K Halliday.

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Drawing upon the works of Marshal McLuhan, Joseph Campbell, Thomas S. Frentz, and Janice Hocker Rushing, this book unpacks U2s long-term success, continued relevance, and popular appeal through the lenses of Agape (spiritual, communal love), Amor (romantic love), and Eros (erotic love).

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Drawing upon the works of Marshal McLuhan, Joseph Campbell, Thomas S. Frentz, and Janice Hocker Rushing, this book unpacks U2s long-term success, continued relevance, and popular appeal through the lenses of Agape (spiritual, communal love), Amor (romantic love), and Eros (erotic love).

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Engaging the reader with a variety of patient narratives and health communication scholarship, this book illustrates how narratives can create change; how differences matter; and how identity, relational, and cultural factors intersect to affect patienthood.

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Engaging the reader with a variety of patient narratives and health communication scholarship, this book illustrates how narratives can create change; how differences matter; and how identity, relational, and cultural factors intersect to affect patienthood.

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This book explores how the realities of three young black women who have experienced eating disorders since childhood were transformed, discussing the larger implications of disordered eating in underrepresented populations. More broadly, this book discusses the need for culturally sensitive prevention, intervention, and care in mental health.

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The collection brings together established and emerging scholars from the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University to reflect on the lived-experience of globalization. It uses a narrative approach to explore how key concepts in the field of globalization studies relate to the experience of everyday life.

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The collection brings together established and emerging scholars from the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University to reflect on the lived-experience of globalization. It uses a narrative approach to explore how key concepts in the field of globalization studies relate to the experience of everyday life.

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This book digs deeply into the meanings systems that make up social groups, addressing contemporary and historical cases both in the U.S. and internationally. Drawing from traditional and social media along with interpersonal communication situations, contributors provide an engaging multicultural narrative.

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Drawing on such varied texts and visual media as daguerrotypes, political cartoons, tourist posters, and religious artifacts, these essays explore how pictures and words combine to illuminate the psyche of the American nation.