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Biotechnology and Communication : The Meta-Technologies of Information (LEA's Communication Series)

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

This collection, limited as it is to a single volume, is far from exhaustive.
A complete research agenda for biotechnology’s impact on and implications
for information, communication, and culture would also include the
changing nature of individual and social identity, changes in organizational
form and financial...

Internet Television

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003

Internet television is the quintessential digital convergence medium, putting together television, telecommunications, the Internet, computer applications, games, and more. It is part of a historic move from individualized narrowband capacity, measured by kilobits per user, to one of broadband with a capacity of megabits per user. This move will...

Addiction Counseling Review: Preparing for Comprehensive, Certification, and Licensing Examinations

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

Addiction Counseling Review: Preparing for Comprehensive, Certification, and Licensing Examinations offers a clear, readable overview of the knowledge and skills those training as alcohol or other drug counselors need to pass their final degree program, certification, and licensing examinations. It is organized into six sections: Addiction...

The Behavioral Genetics of Psychopathology: A Clinical Guide

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005

New discoveries about the genetic underpinnings of many kinds of human experience are now constantly being made. This book explores the impact of these discoveries on the ways in which the common mental disorders are best conceptualized and treated.

Most people think of research in genetics as the search for genes. This is only one focus of...

Misbehavior in Organizations: Theory, Research, and Management (Applied Psychology Series)

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003

Ideas for new constructs come from different sources. The idea for Organizational
Misbehavior (OMB) came from a surprise at being caught off guard. The incident
was recorded in Vardi’s personal file and is quoted from there. It happened
during the fall term of 1990 when he taught a course in an Executive MBA program
at...

Applications of Nonverbal Communication

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005

Each and every day, in every social interaction, we communicate our feelings, attitudes, thoughts, and concerns nonverbally. Nonverbal communication is used to convey power and status, it is used to express love and intimacy, it is used to communicate agreement, to establish rapport, and to regulate the flow of communication. Nonverbal...

Latino Language and Literacy in Ethnolinguistic Chicago

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

This volume--along with its companion Ethnolinguistic Chicago: Language and Literacy in the City's Neighborhoods--fills an important gap in research on Chicago and, more generally, on language use in globalized metropolitan areas. Often cited as a quintessential American city, Chicago is, and always has been, a city of immigrants. It...

The Child's Creation of A Pictorial World

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003

A decade has passed since the publication of the first edition of The Child's Creation of a Pictorial World, and it seemed time to reassess the status of child art and review studies that were published in the intervening years.

The outcome of this review...

The Handbook of Task Analysis for Human-Computer Interaction

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003

The most widely cited reference on task analysis has been Task-Analysis for Human-
Computer Interaction, edited by Dan Diaper, who must take the main blame for this new
Handbook of Task Analysis for Human-Computer Interaction, as his motive was in part to
stem the trickle of requests from around the world for chapters from the...

Critical Social Issues in American Education: Democracy and Meaning in a Globalizing World

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

This volume, like the editions that preceded it, is predicated on the following assumption: Educators must see their work as inextricably linked to conflicts, stresses, and crises of the social world—whether these appear in forms that might be cultural, moral, political, economic, ecological, or spiritual. It is impossible to make sense of...

How Professionals Make Decisions (Expertise: Research and Applications)

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

The essays in this collection are the product of the 2000 Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM) Conference. They attempt to discover progress made in the field since the first volume was published in 1993. Individual paper address topics such as planning under time pressure, managing complex dynamic systems and making ethical decisions.
...

The Moral Media: How Journalists Reason About Ethics (Lea's Communication Series)

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

The Moral Media provides readers with preliminary answers to questions about ethical thinking in a professional environment. Representing one of the first publications of journalists' and advertising practitioners' response to the Defining Issues Test (DIT), this book compares thinking about ethics by these two groups with the...

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