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Anthropology as Intercultural Critique: Challenging the Singularity of Islamic Identity

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Sample Anthropology’s investigative focus has been on understanding cultural differences (Abu-Lughod 1991). Hence, even as critics point out that anthropology as a discipline has been primarily a study of the non-Western “other” by the Western “self” (Abu-Lughod 1991), constructing a divide betwe...

An Introductory Text Book to Study General Psychology with the Integration of Theology, Spirituality, and the Personal Search for Truth and Meaning

Author(s): David Bailey

In An Introductory Text Book to Study General Psychology with the Integration of Theology, Spirituality, and the Personal Search for Truth and Meaning, students learn about the “meat and potatoes” of the study and profession of psychology. This text provides students with structure and a foundation ...

Hearing Doctor, Deaf Patient: Problematic Health Care Interactions

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Abstract Physician–patient communication is central to the field of health communication, with recent work in this area highlighting problems some patients experience during physician–patient interactions. This chapter presents a case about problematic interactions Deaf patients report having wit...

An International Student in the United States: A Case Study of Communication Theory of Identity

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Sample Identity has been a significant concept for well over a hundred years and a focus of empirical research in the social sciences since the late 1970s, especially with the development of Social Identity Theory by Henri Tajfel and John Turner (1979). In the intervening years, with the rise of ...

Disarmingly Funny: The Perils of Television's Political Comedy

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Sample On September 13, 2008 the season premier of Saturday Night Live opened with comediennes Tina Fey and Amy Poehler as Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and New York Senator Hillary Clinton. The sketch aired in the final months of election coverage, and introduced what would become Fey’s most noted...

OpenStax US History softcover prints in 2 parts

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"U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom u...

OpenStax American Government hardcover

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"American Government aligns with the topics and objectives of many government courses. Faculty involved in the project have endeavored to make government workings, issues, debates, and impacts meaningful and memorable to students while maintaining the conceptual coverage and rigor inherent in the su...