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Writing Pauline: Wisdom From A Long Life
 | author: Gail J. Stearns asin: 0761831215 binding: Paperback list price: $26.00 USD amazon price: $26.00 USD |
Once in awhile we are confronted with a person's life and insight so remarkable, we pause to reflect upon our own beliefs, meaning, maturing, theory and theology. This life history of Pauline Thompson encompasses the astonishing life and career of a twentieth-century woman, a life that variously embraced religious symbolism, Jungian analysis, protests and arrests, careers in education and medicine, as well as relationships ranging from bigamous to bisexual. read more »
Covering China (Media Studies Series)
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The relationship between China and the United States has been marked by a lack of mutual comprehension that stretches from America's missionary paternalism in the early twentieth century to the fears and fascinations of the present. Throughout the twentieth century China has attracted the attention of American journalists, from the first China hands who covered an ancient country lurching into the modern world, to the chroniclers of World War II and the Chinese civil war, to the reporters who today explore the contradictions of China's economy. read more »
Communication Works!
 | author: Alex Whitman Kathy Demarest asin: 0130953857 binding: Paperback list price: $60.00 USD amazon price: $60.00 |
This comprehensive and practical guide to all types of communication explores the skills needed for effective reading, writing, speaking, listening, thinking critically, and collaborating. It also offers sensible advice related to certain aspects of personal development and interpersonal skills. These skills are required for varied numerous technical and business fields—and more importantly, success in them. Topic coverage includes a basic review of grammar, spelling, handwriting and punctuation proficiency, sentence engineering and paragraph forms. read more »
Newswriting in Transition
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This breakthrough text teaches students how to become successful newswriters in a complex scoiety with a changing new media. Laakaniemi begins with an introduction to newswriting, including the nature of news, the newsroom, reader habits, and writer habits. Next, he provides step-by-step instructions on media writing: putting words, sentences, and paragraphs together; organizing stories in the inverted pyramid and other formulas; writing feature stories; and writing for radio and television. Finally, Laakaniemi explores the role of the rewrite.
Student Writing: Access, Regulation, Desire (Literacies)
 | author: Theresa Lillis asin: 0415228026 binding: Paperback list price: $49.95 USD amazon price: $44.80 USD |
Student Writing explores: Access to higher education and to its representational resources-the language and literary resources available for making meaning Regulation of meaning making in academic literacy practices Desire for participation in higher education and for choices over ways of meaning in academic writing.
Errant Journeys: Adventure Travel in a Modern Age
 | author: David Zurick Keith Otterson Tim Krasnansky asin: 0292798067 binding: Paperback list price: $14.95 USD amazon price: $14.95 |
By the year 2000, tourism will be the world's single most important economic activity. Even now, there is hardly a place on earth, no matter how inaccessible, that has not been visited by some traveler seeking adventure, enlightenment, or simply change from the familiar world back home. In this pathfinding book, David Zurick explores the fastest-growing segment of the travel industry--adventure travel. He raises important questions about what constitutes the travel experience and shows how the modern adventure industry has commercialized the very notion of adventure by packaging it as tours. read more »
Inside Passage: A Journey Beyond Borders
 | author: Richard Manning asin: 1559636556 binding: Hardcover list price: $25.00 USD amazon price: $25.00 USD |
"This book is about an idea that rests at the junction of what we call wilderness and civilization. Simply, it is a call for rethinking, and more importantly, reconstructing, our relationship with nature." -from Inside Passage.Protecting land in parks, safe from human encroachment, has been a primary strategy of conservationists for the past century and a half. Yet drawing lines around an area and calling it wilderness does little to solve larger environmental problems. read more »
Writing the Economy: Activity, Genre And Technology in the World of Banking
 | author: Graham Smart asin: 1845530675 binding: Paperback list price: $29.95 USD amazon price: $29.95 USD |
In recent years the economic policies of major financial institutions such as the European Union Central Bank, the U.S. Federal Reserve and other countries' central banks, and the International Monetary Fund have received growing media attention, reflecting increased public awareness of the impact of these institutions on the global economy and, more immediately, on the material conditions of our everyday lives. read more »
