New Third Edition Coming Soon!
Designed to fuse a unique balance of theory and application, Nonverbal Communication for a Lifetime translates academic material based on sound research and theory into meaningful applications for the reader to utilize throughout life.
The publication extends learning activities by including What Would You Do vignettes that provide a challenge or dilemma involving nonverbal communication, then pose a question to the reader as to how he/she would handle the situation
The NEW third edition of Diana K. Ivy and Shawn T. Wahl’s Nonverbal Communication for a Lifetime:
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<li>Introduces the Reflexive Cycle of Nonverbal Communication Development Model. This model of five phases that continue over a lifetime was developed from discussions about how people come to learn nonverbal behavior, modify their behavior as they grow and mature, perceive others' nonverbal cues, impact others through their own nonverbal communication, and finally how those behaviors are altered or reinforced as a result of this ongoing process.</li>
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Is student friendly - featuring chapter outlines, chapter objectives, opening case studies and summaries</li>
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Is instructor friendly - Out of the Classroom, Onto the Page vignettes contain snippets of classroom exchanges, followed by questions or challenges to readers to consider how the examples apply to their own lives. An instructor’s manual with chapter outlines, class notes, quizzes, discussion questions, and more are also provided.</li>
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Nonverbal Communication for a Lifetime

Politics & Social Sciences

Diana K. Ivy

Shawn Wahl

Social Sciences

Kendall/Hunt Publishing

Every successful business utilizes good public relations with the media to maintain a positive public opinion.
Designed as a core textbook for introductory public relations courses, Public Relations Principles: Strategies for Professional Success provides students with a solid foundation in public relations in a variety of contexts.
With possible uses in various industries such as health care, education, human resources, and marketing, the public relations practices covered in Public Relations Principles: Strategies for Professional Success are designed to address the needs of today’s students and encourage them to conduct a personal inventory on their public relations skills.
Available in print and eBook versions, Public Relations Principles: Strategies for Professional Success:
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<li>Covers all relevant concepts and theories in the field while engaging today’s students by developing communication skills through application.</li>
<li>Enhances critical thinking skills and improves student’s communication choices and strategies given in the public relations context</li>
<li>Discusses the greatest challenges students will face in the modern world of public relations while also providing communication strategies to overcome each challenge</li>
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Public Relations Principles: Strategies for Professional Success

Business & Money

Michelle Maresh-Fuehrer

Marketing & Sales

Public Speaking: Essentials for Excellence

By providing students theory and practical skills, Public Speaking: Essentials for Excellence prepares students to become effective public speakers in various speaking situations they may encounter in their lives (business presentations, tributes, eulogies, commencement addresses, small group, and more).
Public Speaking: Essentials for Excellence clarifies concepts in three parts:
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<li>Public Speaking in Our Lives</li>
<li>Preparing and Presenting Your Speech</li>
<li>Types of Public Speaking</li>
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Public Speaking: Essentials for Excellence by Shawn T. Wahl, LeAnn M. Brazeal, and Mark J. Butland:
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Is Student Friendly! Each chapter includes online content, tips and best practices for presentation aids, new media, and public speaking in a variety of professional contexts, industries, and occupations.</li>
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Is Interactive! Includes access to GoReact – online software that utilizes the record-and-critique method to help presenters change their habits quickly, set goals for improvement, and measure their progress reliably.</li>
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Is Flexible! The text focuses on theory, research, and application of knowledge related to public speaking so that it can easily be covered in one term across multiple delivery formats.</li>
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Is Organized! Presents Essentials for Excellence vignettes that include speaking tips and best practices within each chapter.</li>
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Emphasizes Ethics!Ethics Matter vignettes throughout the text connect topics to an ethical perspective―a key essential for public speaking excellence.</li>
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Promotes Service Learning!Engaging in Community vignettes encourage civic engagement and communication activism related to public speaking.</li>
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Is Easy To Adopt! Online content integrated chapter by chapter, an online instructor’s manual, chapter outlines, PowerPoint slides, activities/exercises, and test questions (multiple choice and short answer) are provided to all adopters.</li>
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Education & Teaching

Mark Butland

Leann Brazeal

Schools & Teaching

Where groups of people gather, there is always an elephant in the room: difference. 
Elephants are remarkable, complex creatures which take up much space. Likewise, matters of race, culture, and difference require creative and complicated conversations―which moves us beyond “we are all alike” or “we all matter”―to understanding the significance of difference, as both a gift and a challenge. 
Intercultural Communication in Your Life teaches readers the essential nature of difference, what to do with difference, and how to see difference beyond deficiency. It provides a lens for understanding the complex networks of communication in which we dwell.
Readers are invited to study communication and culture as a part of their everyday lived experience including but not limited to popular culture, co-culture, worldview, race, gender, social class, sexual orientation, personal relationships, verbal/nonverbal communication, conflict, new media, and more. 
The NEW second edition of Intercultural Communication in Your Life:
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<li>Streamlines the vast research base for intercultural communication and speaks directly to the reader. </li>
<li>Takes readers on a journey through many rooms, personal and professional. Readers will see many critical topics, theories, and dialogue embedded within this text―providing concrete and complex, but accessible approaches to studying and thinking seriously about culture and everyday life.</li>
<li>Incorporates an In Your Life organizing feature - a process designed to develop the reader’s critical thinking skills and make him/her a more reflexive communicator with the ability to adapt and continually improve. </li>
<li>Is a perfect choice for a variety of face-to-face, hybrid, and online courses - including introduction to intercultural communication, cultural competence, communication and diversity, and more. </li>
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Intercultural Communication in Your Life

Jake Simmons

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Sociology

Organizational Communication: Strategies for Success

Theodore Avtgis

Andrew S. Rancer

Stephen Spates

Skills

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