Authors:Michael K. Lindell, Ronald W. Perry,
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: communicating, multicultural, contexts, effectively, multiethnic, environmental, risk, communities
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-12-11
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0761906509
ISBN-13: 9780761906506

9/11. Tornadoes. Emergency preparedness. Whether explaining parts per million to a community exposed to contaminated groundwater or launching a campaign to encourage home carbon monoxide testing, an effective message is paramount to the desired result: an increased understanding of health risk.   How people interpret and respond to risk messages related to potential immediate or long-term environmental danger is largely influenced by such factors as age, ethnicity, community, and proximity to the health risk in question. Communicating Environmental Risk in Multiethnic Communities is the fi

Author: Committee on Estimating and Communicating Uncertai
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: using, weather, climate, forecasts, decisions, uncertainty, forecast, characterizing, communicating, completing
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 2006-10-10
List price: $31.75
ISBN-10: 0309102553
ISBN-13: 9780309102551

Uncertainty is a fundamental characteristic of weather, seasonal climate, and hydrological prediction, and no forecast is complete without a description of its uncertainty. Effective communication of uncertainty helps people better understand the likelihood of a particular event and improves their ability to make decisions based on the forecast. Nonetheless, for decades, users of these forecasts have been conditioned to receive incomplete information about uncertainty. They have become used to single-valued (deterministic) forecasts (e.g., ’the high temperature will be 70 degrees Farenhe

Authors:Ge Gao, Stella Ting-Toomey,
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: communicating, effectively, contexts, chinese, multicultural
Number of Pages: 119
Published: 1998-06-10
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 080397003X
ISBN-13: 9780803970038

Utilizing the `self-OTHER’ perspective as a conceptual foundation, the authors portray and interpret some of the distinctive communication practices in Chinese culture. They examine how self-conception, role and hierarchy, relational dynamics and face affect ways of conducting everyday talk in Chinese culture. They explain why miscommunication between Chinese and North Americans takes place and suggest ways to improve communication. By incorporating instances of everyday talk, the authors offer a realistic and clear illustration of the specific characteristics and functions of Chinese co

Author: Ted Baer
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Series
Keywords: communicating
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0764107585
ISBN-13: 9780764107580

"The Philadelphia Inquirer’s" reviewer called the previous edition ". . . the best canine behavior-correction book I’ve ever read". This new, slightly larger edition is even better, with information on how dog owners can test their pet’s IQ and instructions for teaching a dog to respond to 20 basic words. Full-color photos throughout help to clarify training details.

Author: Mark H. McCormack
Publisher: Dove Entertainment
Keywords: communicating
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1999-02-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0787118389
ISBN-13: 9780787118389

Writing as a true traditionalist, the bestselling author of What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School presents tools for achieving the goals of introduction, instruction, persuasion and the assertion of authority. Whether using yesterday’s handwritten note or today’s e-mail, the architecture of effective communication remains the same--know your medium. Simultaneously released with Dove Books hardcover. 4 cassettes.

Author: Ralph E. Wileman
Publisher: Educational Technology Publications
Keywords: communicating, visual
Number of Pages: 147
Published: 1993-01
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0877782482
ISBN-13: 9780877782483

Author: Suzanne Romaine
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: gender, communicating
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0805829261
ISBN-13: 9780805829266

Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, Suzanne Romaine’s main concern is to show how language and discourse play key roles in understanding and communicating gender and culture. In addition to linguistics--which provides the starting point and central focus of the book--she draws on the fields of anthropology, biology, communication, education, economics, history, literary criticism, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. The text covers the "core" areas in the study of language and gender, including how and where gender is indexed in language, how men and women speak, how children acquir