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Beyond Child's Play: Sustainable Product Design in the Global Doll-Making Industry
Sally Edwards
Sustainable product design is more than eco design: it goes beyond “green” to consider the work environment, community impacts, consumer health, economic viability, and environmental attributes. This concept is explored in the context of the global toy industry, through three case studies of doll-making in China, Germany and Peru.
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Train Your Brain: How to Maximize Memory Ability in Older Adulthood
Robert G. Winningham
Scientifically based suggestions are provided on how older adults can improve their memory ability. Topics such as cognitive stimulation, nutrition, depression, social support, stress, and sleep are addressed in the context of memory and aging. The book contains many activities that can be used in a cognitive enhancement program.
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Lucky Man: A Matter of Life and Death
Written by Kent L. Koppelman with Paul Dominic Heckman
Produced by Jan Koppelman
A one-act play originally performed for the International Death, Grief and Bereavement Conference at La Crosse, Wisconsin, June, 2007. SYNOPSIS: A middle-aged man named Adam Mensch receives a surprise visit from the Angel of Death. Mensch protests that he is not ready to go, but the Angel insists that his time has come. The play presents their discussion before Adam agrees to leave with his visitor.
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Assessment in Technical and Professional Communication
Edited by Margaret Hundleby and Jo Allen
This book presents a broad view of current work in assessment in technical and professional communication, demonstrating differing purposes, uses, methods, and focus for helping faculty and program chairs determine how well students are learning in classrooms and experiential settings. A chapter-and-response format represents the dialogic nature of quality assessment work.
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Step Into Our Lives at the Funeral Home
Jo Michaelson
Interspersed through every chapter are stories and vignettes shared by many funeral directors throughout the Midwest, concerning the lifestyle for the family living in the funeral home and true incidents of specific funerals. Some stories are sad. Others are tragic. A few are humorous. Embracing faith, hope, and love is a primary requisite for healing.
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From Black Codes to Recodification: Removing the Veil from Regulatory Writing
Miriam F. Williams
A critical discourse analysis of historical regulations and a contextual inquiry into contemporary public policy writing demonstrate how regulatory invention has evolved and how these changes affect the perceptions of a contemporary African-American audience—one negatively affected by historical regulations and one for whom regulations were an introduction to technical documents.
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Wrestling With the Angel: Literary Writings and Reflections on Death, Dying and Bereavement
Kent Koppelman
Wrestling with the Angel addresses the human struggle to cope with death, dying, grief, and bereavement. The book includes essays, a one-act play, a short story, and poetry, including shape poems, rhyming, structured verse, and free verse.
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New Perspectives on Technical Editing
Edited by Avon J. Murphy
This book examines the thriving discipline of technical editing from several viewpoints: research methodologies, history of technical editing, course development, editing within organizations, copyediting, electronic editing, science editing, and editing of technical
journals; includes an annotated bibliography.
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Suicide and Homicide-Suicide Among Police
Antoon Lenaars
This book investigates in evidence-based detail the probable epidemic of suicide and homicide-suicide among police. Not only does the book present effective predictions and controls to stop the epidemic, it also offers best practices. The officer and forensic specialist will understand better what they are investigating and what we can do about it, to prevent further deaths.
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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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