small to LARGE: Growing Social Impact Organizations Against All Odds

Author(s): Zoot Velasco

Small to LARGE: Growing Social Impact Organizations Against All Odds is the culmination of a lifetime of experience, coupled with a year of research. Author Zoot Velasco, shares knowledge from his time working for the “industry,” community organizations, and colleges. The year of research shared was...

Group Dynamics: Connecting Through Communication

Author(s): Nicole Blau

As group dynamics are constantly changing, the need for up-to-date research and real-life examples are crucial learning tools.  Group Dynamics: Connecting Through Communication features practical application of important group communication concepts in way that will grab the reader’s attention.  ...

Integrated Marketing Communication: A Consumer-Centric Approach for the Digital Era

Author(s): THOMAS R. FLYNN, James R. Smith, Michael Walsh

The entire Integrated Marketing Communication ecosystem is alive 24/7 every day. Data skills and knowing metrics are more important than ever. Integrated Marketing Communication: A Consumer-Centric Approach for the Digital Era is a data-driven, consumer centric approach that’s in sync with today’...

Communicating Ethically in Our Everyday Lives

Author(s): Sally Vogl-Bauer

When it comes to interpersonal communication ethics, ignorance is not bliss. We learn our ethics, and we can choose to develop, enhance, or modify our behaviors to reflect that type of person we are capable of being in our interactions with others. Communicating Ethically in Our Everyday Lives...

Training and Development: Enhancing Talent for the 21st Century

Author(s): Steven Beebe, Timothy Mottet, K. David Roach

Communication competencies are among the most coveted skills on the planet—whether applied in the workplace, social settings, or at home. Training and Development: Enhancing Talent for the 21st Century teaches people how to develop essential communication and leadership talent.  It is not just a...

Argumentation: Critical Thinking in Action

Author(s): David Lapakko

Argumentation: Critical Thinking in Action explores a wide variety of issues and concepts connected to making arguments, responding to the arguments of others, and using good critical thinking skills to analyze persuasive communication. Based on feedback from users and instructors, the new fifth ...

Media Relations: Tactical Preparation for Life

Author(s): Kelly A. McBride

Many of the text and trade books look at media relations from a journalist’s viewpoint, which is vastly different than what the practitioner should be aware of. Sure, there are deadlines and writing…lots of it, but the methodology in which we approach the communication exchange needs to be different...

Risk & Crisis Communication: Communicating in a Disruptive Age

Author(s): Kenneth A Lachlan, Patric Spence, Corey Liberman, Theodore Avtgis

Risks are all around us. From catastrophic weather events to gun violence, from infrastructure failings to financial devastation…we live with the threat of risk every day. How do we get those who are at risk, or who have already been impacted by crisis, to do what they need to do to minimize the ris...

Lying and Deception in Human Interaction

Author(s): Mark Knapp, William Earnest, Darrin Griffin, Matthew McGlone

The emergence of social media, the digital revolution, and the today’s political climate have all brought renewed attention to deception as a human communication phenomenon. Lying and Deception in Human Interaction presents deception from a variety of perspectives.  The text primarily focuses on ...

Total Pay: Compensation and Benefits: Now and Into the Future

Author(s): Matthew DeLuca

New Publication Now Available! Total Pay: Compensation and Benefits - Now and Into the Future is an opportunity to explore the field of employee compensation—with its five components— from both practical, as well as academic, perspectives. This book treats an important HR area—sometimes considere...