What's In a Name? Negotiating Marital Names Changes

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Abstract Madeline Anderson took a sip of her iced tea and sighed. It still amazed her that this man who sat across the table smiling and speaking casually in Spanish to the server was going to be her husband in less than six months. “Husband” seemed like such a strong label to assign him. Did tha...

Quantitative Data Analysis: An Introduction

Author(s): Diana L. Mindrila

Quantitative Data Analysis: An Introduction provides an introduction to quantitative research methodology. The first chapters discuss fundamental topics such as developing research questions, stating hypotheses, identifying variables, and commonly used quantitative research designs. The book explain...

Leadership in Intercultural Dialogue: A Discursive Approach

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Sample The emerging scholarship on intercultural dialogue has adopted a working definition of the term as promoting “an open and respectful exchange or interaction between individuals, groups, and organizations” (Ganesh & Holmes 2011, 81). The goal of such exchange is to develop a deeper understa...

Christian Intercultural Communication: Sharing God's Love with People of Other Cultures

Author(s): Tim Chang, Ashley Chang

Designed for anyone considering moving overseas to complete a global church mission, Christian Intercultural Communication: Sharing God’s Love with People of Other Cultures includes meditations on the way one’s faith can help overcome culture shock.  Written by a current professor and veteran missio...

Be A Healthy You! In Dubuque

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There are so many great ways to be healthy. Whether it be through exercise, reading, or even gardening this book encourages children to explore healthy ways of developing their physical, cognitive and social-emotional growth while in their own environment. , basic_html

Classically Speaking

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"Classically Speaking: Dialects for Actors is meant for anyone interested in learning well-spoken Neutral American Speech (aka General American). It is also an effective tool for learning Classical American, Mid-Atlantic and Standard British dialects. Each Neutral American vowel, diphthong and conso...

Depression: Walking from Darkness into the Dawn

Author(s): Isik Abla Ministries

Shallow Talk and Separate Spaces: Dealing with Relational Conflict

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Sample Sarah was frustrated as she drove home from work. Always too much to do and never enough time. She was working way too much and she knew it. But she didn’t know how to say no when asked to do more. She was still not finished with the midyear report and, to make matters worse, she was facin...

The Breast Cancer and Environment Research Centers: A Transdisciplinary Model

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Abstract Breast cancer, a potentially devastating disease that affects hundreds of thousands of women each year, requires comprehensive research approaches to lessen its prevalence and severity. Transdisciplinary research models, such as the Breast Cancer and Environment Research Program (BCERP),...

A Communication Privacy Management Analysis of an End of Life Admission

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Sample As individuals age, privacy concerns adapt and change, in conjunction with developmental and life-course changes (Petronio, 2002). Some of these changes can be identity-threatening and hard to talk about for aging seniors. For example, having to rely more on family for finances and bill pa...