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Communication Competence
Almost everything that matters to humans is derived from and through communication. Just because people communicate every day, however, does not mean that they are communicating competently. In fact, evidence indicates that there is a substantial need for better interpersonal skills among a significant proportion of the populace. Furthermore, "dark side" experiences in everyday life abound, and features of modern society pose new challenges that make the concept of communication competence increasingly complex. The Handbook of Communication Competence brings together scholars from across the globe to examine these various facets of communication competence, including its history, its essential components, and its applications in interpersonal, group, institutional, and societal contexts. The book provides a state-of-the-art review for scholars and graduate students, as well as practitioners in counseling, developmental, health care, educational, intercultural, and human resource management contexts, illustrating that communication competence is vital to health, relationships, and all collective human endeavors.
Dedicated to the People of Darfur
A collection of essays on the acts of genocide taking place in twenty-first-century Darfur and explore how fear can be fought through speech and decisive actions.
Curating Africa in the Age of Film Festivals
Tracing the history of Africa's relationship to film festivals and exploring the festivals' impact on the various types of people who attend festivals (the festival experts, the ordinary festival audiences, and the filmmakers), Dovey reveals what turns something called a "festival" into a "festival experience" for these groups.
Communication Incompetencies
Gerald M. Phillips draws on his twenty-five-year, five-thousand-client experience with the Pennsylvania State University Reticence Program to present a new theory of modification of "inept" communication behavior. That experience has convinced Phillips that communication is arbitrary and rulebound rather than a process of inspiration. He demonstrates that communication problems can be described as errors that can be detected and classified in order to fit a remediation pattern. Regardless of the source of error, the remedy is to train the individual to avoid or eliminate errors--thus, orderly procedure will result in competent performance. Inept communicators must be made aware of the obligations and constraints imposed by deep structures that require us to achieve a degree of formal order in our language, without which our discourse becomes incomprehensible.
The ^AUniverse Is on Our Side
In The Universe Is On Our Side, Bruce Ledewitz argues that there has been a breakdown in American public life that no election can fix -Americans struggle to even converse about politics and the usual explanations for our condition have failed to make things better. America's future requires that we begin a new story by each of us asking a question posed by theologian Bernard Lonergan: Is the universe on our side? According to Ledewitz, when we commit to live honestly and fully by our answer to that question, even if our immediate answer is no, America can begin to heal.
Rewriting Leadership with Narrative Intelligence
Rewriting Leadership with Narrative Intelligence draws on a range of disciplines and scholarly traditions to build a compelling case for a new perspective on leadership, seeing it as a deeply embodied, intuitive skill of curating shared narratives in influence relationships.
Waking Up Pregnant
Waitress Darcy Penn is the smart, sensible type – flirting with the extremely cute guy in the bar just isn't her usual style. As for ending up in his hotel room? Definitely not! Sneaking out to avoid the post–sex awkwardness? Much more like it. But if Darcy had stuck around, Jeff Norton could have told her about their 'epic latex fail'... So he shouldn't be quite so shocked when months later, Darcy turns up with a bad case of morning sickness. And she's here to find out what he's going to do about it!
Wild Fling Or A Wedding Ring?
On her first night in Chicago, Cali McGovern meets seriously sexy surgeon Jake Tyler. Still sore after her last relationship, her head's yelling, 'run'– but her body's screaming for his touch... For the first time ever, her head gets overruled! Jake isn't looking for a wife– been there, done that, but his hot new neighbour is in town just long enough for a wild fling... perfect! Yet when the time's up, he can't say goodbye. Is that just because of their sizzling chemistry– or something a whole lot scarier?
