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Building Your Social World: Constructing Reality through Interpersonal Communication

Author(s): ANASTACIA KURYLO

Building Your Social World: Constructing Reality through Interpersonal Communication gives students the key to unlocking the full explanatory value of interpersonal communication to better understand and navigate their personal and professional lives. The social constructionist approach of the text ...

Slaves in Algiers

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"First published in 1794, Slaves in Algiers dramatizes the story of Americans held captive in North Africa. The play uses the existence of white slavery abroad to celebrate the freedoms provided to citizens of the recently constituted United States. Though denigrating Jews and promoting some anti-Se...

When Love is Not Enough: Communication Challenges and Social Support Experienced When Placing a Spouse with Dementia in a Residential Care Facility

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Abstract Negative health impacts of caregiving for a person with dementia are well established, and placing a person with dementia in a residential care facility may become a necessary option. The decision to place a spouse with dementia in a residential care facility, and the difficult relationa...

Every Day is Game Day

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Abstract When her mother’s obsession with televised sports collides with family gatherings, Lindsay Walters encounters a complex conflict situation. Her experience studying family communication provides opportunities to explore the issues and help her family find compromise and understanding.  ,...

Ethics and Ethical Decision Making in the Criminal Justice System

Author(s): Steven W. Minard

Ethics and Ethical Decision Making in the Criminal Justice System is a textbook written with students in both undergraduate and graduate ethics courses in mind. Some of the latest case studies include examples of unethical conduct within the three major components of our criminal justice system (pol...

The Evolution of Hip-Hop: A Hip-Hop Nation Story

Author(s): Donald Harrell

The Evolution of Hop-Hop: A Hip-Hop Nation Story is an inter-disciplinary telling of the story of a generation of youth who development a music genre and attendant culture, against all odds. It is a comprehensive accounting of the transformative and nation-building power of hip-hop, as well as the t...

The Beard Buster: Applying the Theory of Independent Mindedness to the Barbasol Company

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Sample If you have ever worked in an organization where you have been fearful of communicating to/with those in hierarchically-superior positions, believe us: you are not alone. The more important questions, however, are why employees are fearful of upward communication and what can be done to in...

Write It: A Process Approach to College Essays, with Readings

Author(s): Linda Strahan, Kathleen M Moore

Recently Revised Seventh Edition Now Available!Write It: A Process Approach to College Essays, with Readings focuses on the academic essay and its conventions. It contains activities that directly involve students in reading critically, generating ideas on a topic, developing a thesis statement, fin...

Africana Paradigms, Practices and Literary Texts: Evoking Social Justice

Author(s): Clenora Hudson-Weems

Many critical events occurred during the 20th & 21st centuries, but nothing more compelling than the global demonstrations among a diverse population, physically & spiritually demoralized by racial dominance, symbolized by “Till’s bloated face, the embodiment of the ugliness of American racism,” all...