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This study presents a picture of Columbia which serves as both an introduction to the country and as background to further study. The final chapter brings the reader up to date.

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Using data on every civil war fought between 1940 and 1992, the author details the conditions that lead combatants to partake in what she defines as a three-step process - the decision on whether to initiate negotiations, to compromise, and, finally, to implement any resulting terms.

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Gives conceptual background and concrete advice on making a major transition from one culture to another. Describes what culture is and why it is so important, outlines processes and strategies of cross- cultural adjustment, and describes essentials of communicating across cultures, looking at both l

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The 1980s witnessed a rapid growth of communication technology and an immense expansion of new media around the globe. The development of new information and communication technologies has emphasized again the importance of economic, social, political, and cultural institutions associated with the definitions of new technologies.

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Focusing on the role communication plays in the process of student socialization at the elementary and secondary school levels, this text examines the underlying theoretic framework. It contains chapters that explore the socialization process by youngsters at various grade levels or with special needs.

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Communication pervades everything managers do. What most people mistakenly assume about communication can and does limit their effectiveness, professionally and personally. Communication is hard work. This book offers advice and thought-provoking questions on how to be an effective communicator.

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(This book) is a clearly written and well-documented review of social communication theory, and an alternative to texts which focus primarily on the psychology of interpersonal communication and tend to exclude the social perspective on understanding interpersonal communication.

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(This book) is a clearly written and well-documented review of social communication theory, and an alternative to texts which focus primarily on the psychology of interpersonal communication and tend to exclude the social perspective on understanding interpersonal communication.

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Investigates the modern history of communication in relation to the thinking of the political community in the United States. This title examines different representations of society and their political implications against the development of communication systems from the telegraph, to the telephone, to computer networks.

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Presenting pedagogical materials useful in the design and delivery of the most frequently taught communications courses, Lederman writes in a clear lucid fashion that assumes no previous knowledge of communication teaching. Part Two provides an expanded course analysis of 13 frequently found courses in undergraduate communications curricula.

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Heyer approaches his subject as a problem in intellectual history and social thought, includes major twentieth-century thinkers who deal with the communications/history question, and concludes his study with an appraisal of the work of several contemporary researchers who have attempted detailed studies of specific media or historical periods.

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Providing perspectives on women's issues and the communication process, this book contends that communications is at important crossroads because of, rather than in spite of, women. A further challenge makes the case for breaking the hold and subsequent control by traditional mass media on women's issues.

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This books examines social aspects of information-oriented society in the United States. Areas covered include: understanding the extent of information work in the United States; defining information in an information-oriented society; and social attitudes and values toward information technology.

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This up-to-date encyclopedia examines the conflict between India and Pakistan from Independence to the present day, with an authoritative treatment that presents the issues evenhandedly and from both countries' perspectives.

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This textbook is dedicated to an analysis of the emergent role of conflict analysis and resolution. Covering theory, research and practice, the authors provide a typology of the types of conflict, and a through examination of influences - uctural, strategic and cultural - on conflict.

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This textbook is dedicated to an analysis of the emergent role of conflict analysis and resolution. Covering theory, research and practice, the authors provide a typology of the types of conflict, and a through examination of influences - uctural, strategic and cultural - on conflict.

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This unique survey examines how the inherent ambivalence of Palestinians and Israeli moderates toward the peace process and one another undermined the Oslo Peace Accords.