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Envisioning Collaboration: Group Verbal-Visual Composing in a System of Creativity
Geoffrey A. Cross
The first book-length investigation of the composing processes of graphic artists and writers preparing advertising (in this case to retain a vital national account), analyzing their audience analysis, branding, collaborative "moves," power and conflict management, uses of humor, mindfulness, and effectiveness; concludes with a pedagogical/training unit.
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"Who is Nursing Them? It Is Us": Neoliberalism, HIV/AIDS and the Occupational Health and Safety of South African Public Sector Nurses
Jennifer R. Zelnick
In an exploration of the perspectives of frontline public health personnel on the HIV/AIDS epidemic, three case studies of provincial hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, are analyzed against a historical backdrop to explore the question: what would it mean to address a global health crisis from a labor/work environment perspective?
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Culture, Communication and Cyberspace: Rethinking Technical Communication for International Online Environments
Edited by Kirk St.Amant and Filipp Sapienza
This examination of how cultural factors affect online communication practices addresses ways of adapting online content for culturally diverse audiences, addressing linguistic and cultural factors in online communication contexts, and developing strategies for successfully teaching international groups online.
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Complex Worlds: Digital Culture, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication
Edited by Adrienne P. Lamberti and Anne R. Richards
An anthology of scholarly essays by researchers, teachers, and industry practitioners in professional communication and technology-oriented fields, offering insights into the difficulties and opportunities attending postmodern technology-mediated communication.
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Northern Exposures: A Canadian Perspective on Occupational Health and Environment
David Bennett
This book is a description, analysis, and critique of the thought and action of the Canadian labor movement in public health, workplace health, and environmental protection from 1980 to the present. It covers a wide range of social, health, and environmental issues of public policy from a labor perspective.
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Teaching Intercultural Rhetoric and Technical Communication: Theories, Curriculum, Pedagogies, and Practice
Edited by Barry Thatcher and Kirk St.Amant
The book presents perspectives on how to integrate intercultural communication in various educational contexts. By balancing theory, research, and industry practices, the collection provides academic audiences, industry practitioners, educational administrators, and corporate managers with insights and approaches to teaching aspects of intercultural communication in different settings.
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Nuclear Servitude: Subcontracting and Health in the French Civil Nuclear Industry
Annie Thébaud-Mony
This sociological study demonstrates the danger of the “disorganization” of work through the outsourcing of risky work, for workers’ health and for nuclear safety. The problem, a terrible contradiction at the heart of the French nuclear industry, has been socially constructed to render it invisible.
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Death Education in the Writing Classroom
Jeffrey Berman
An interdisciplinary book that is the first to demonstrate how love and loss can be taught in a college writing class, and the first to describe the week-by-week changes in students’ cognitive and affective responses to death.
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Stalinist Genetics: The Constitutional Rhetoric of T. D. Lysenko
Dmitri Stanchevici
This book is an analysis of the rhetoric of T. D. Lysenko, the founder of a doctrine that dominated biology in the Stalinist Soviet Union, draws on Kenneth Burke and other rhetorical scholars and demonstrates how Lysenko's rhetoric emerged on the borderline between science and politics.
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From Critical Science to Solutions: The Best of Scientific Solutions
Editor: Richard Clapp
A collection of articles by progressive public health scientists, first published in New Solutions (1994-2010), that focus on scientific solutions to problems of worker and environmental exposures.
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Tortured Science: Health Studies, Ethics and Nuclear Weapons in the United States
Editors: Dianne Quigley, Amy Lowman, and Steve Wing
Community health activists and researchers reflect on the research program for addressing health impacts of U.S. nuclear weapons production, focusing on conflicts of interest, data suppression, technical inadequacies, and other failures in social responsibility to affected human populations.
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Robbery and Redemption: Cancer as Identity Theft
Craig Fiedler, Edited and with an Epilogue by Kent Koppelman
A description of the author's journey initiated by a diagnosis of lung cancer, which takes him through self-pity, depression, and despair. Reflecting on his life experiences before and after his diagnosis, he articulates the lessons learned from this devastating experience and achieves a sense of peace.
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Spiritual Resiliency and Aging: Hope, Relationality, and the Creative Self
Janet L. Ramsey and Rosemary Blieszner
A theorizing on narratives of strong, courageous older adults who locate the roots of their resiliency in religious beliefs and practices. Personal
narratives are filled with references to spiritual community, affective faith, ongoing vocational discernment, interpersonal relationships, forgiveness,
and insightful evaluations-all of which facilitate coping and growth.
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A Cop Doc’s Guide to Understanding Terrorism as Human Evil: Healing from Complex Trauma Syndromes for Military, Police and
Public Safety Officers and Their Families
Daniel Rudofossi
A Cop Doc’s perspective on the War on Terrorism, for military, police, and public safety officers and families, and any intelligent reader.
Military and police/public safety complex trauma syndromes are tackled in the psychiatric-psychological background of Dr. Rudofossi’s ecological-ethological
existential analytic treatment of combat syndromes of terrorism as human evil.
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A Unified Theory of Information Design: Visuals, Text & Ethics
Nicole Amare and Alan Manning
A theory of information design and ethics, based on the semiotics of C. S. Peirce, is used to explain the major
properties of visual communication in all its forms and provides a unifying description of grammatical text with
a grammar of traditional visual elements: color, shape, texture, imagery, action signals, diagrams, charts, and
tables.
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Online Education 2.0: Evolving, Adapting, and Reinventing Online Technical Communication
Editors: Kelli Cargile Cook and Keith Grant-Davie
This edited collection explores the current state of higher education online (distance) technical communication instruction. Chapters examine how instructors and program administrators have innovated computer-assisted internet instruction to respond to changing post-secondary student needs and abilities, economic constraints, and new technologies.
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Designing Texts: Teaching Visual Communication
Edited by Eva Brumberger and Kathryn Northcut
Designing Texts is an edited collection dedicated to teaching visual communication in non-visual disciplines, with a particular focus on the fields of technical and professional communication, rhetoric, and composition. The collection offers readers theoretically motivated, research-supported, classroom-tested insights on the teaching of visual communication.
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