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Looks at the question of whether culture determines economics or is instead determined by it. This book questions cultural explanations of much social behavior in Europe, East Asia, the United States, Australia, and the Middle East. It also examines contemporary globalization.

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This volume reports the results of a series of investigations of the properties of writing tasks, their authors' intentions, and the responses that these tasks evoked in student-writers and teacher-raters.

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This volume focuses on the use of dialogue journals in classrooms with students from diverse language and cultural backgrounds whose proficiency with spoken and written English is limited.

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This volume focuses on the use of dialogue journals in classrooms with students from diverse language and cultural backgrounds whose proficiency with spoken and written English is limited.

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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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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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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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This book is about young children and their writing and reading development during their first few years of life. It stops at the point where most books on beginning writing and reading start: when the child is 5-6 years old and is able to write and read in ways recognized as actually being writing and reading.

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Fortners introduction to media ethics challenges students to confront the impact of the digital world on their lives. The second edition includes expanded treatments of truth, politics, identity construction and maintenance, and social change, as well as new chapters on incorporating robots into our lives and virtual and augmented realities impact on human flourishing.

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This book explores how non-denominational evangelical organizations orchestrate commercial-grade entertainment media to amplify religious rhetoric.

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Families of children with special health needs frequently cite difficulties in their communications with physicians and other medical professionals.

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Argues for a food justice-oriented rhetoric and literacy that shifts the emphasis in the local food movement from individualized conscious eater literacies to addressing the broader social, political, and cultural implications, histories, and power relations embedded in the food system.

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