Experiencing Intercultural Communication: An Introduction provides students with a framework to begin building their intercultural communication skills. Through understanding the complexities of intercultural interaction, students begin the process of learning about other cultures in their professional endeavors and personal relationships.
Since its debut in 2005, Avatar: The Last Airbender has been one of Nickelodeon's most talked about and highest-rated animated series. Offering an epic storyline, engaging characters, action, adventure, and a powerful message about the importance of hope in a world besieged by war, it is also beautifully executed, harmonizing Western influences with aesthetic inspiration drawn from a diverse ar…
For undergraduate courses in Corporate Finance and Financial Management.This text provides the theory you need with the practice you want. With its exciting integration of the Harley-Davidson company theme, this text continues to provide a solid, enduring foundation of the tools of modern theory in practice while at the same time developing the logic behind their use. This text uses "10 Princip…
This text addresses the core issues and concerns of intercultural communication by integrating three different perspectives: the social psychological, the interpretive, and the critical. The dialectical framework, integrated throughout the book, is used as a lens to examine the relationship of these research traditions. This text is unique in its emphasis on the importance of histories, popular…
New Media: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive introduction to the culture, history, technologies and theories of new media. Written especially for students, the book considers the ways in which 'new media' really are new, assesses the claims that a media and technological revolution has taken place and formulates new ways for media studies to respond to new technologies.
For courses in Object-Oriented Design, C++ Intermediate Programming, and Object-Oriented Programming. Written for software engineers in the trenches, this text focuses on the technology-the principles, patterns, and process-that help software engineers effectively manage increasingly complex operating systems and applications. There is also a strong emphasis on the people behind the technology.…
Pring exposes individual investors to the value and legitimacy of technical analysis and provides the basic knowledge needed to understand, interpret, and predict major market moves. 250 illustrations.
This introductory text covers the core concepts of intercultural communication and offers students a basic skill-building framework designed to be used every day for communicating across cultures. By using the "building blocks" of the framework in different ways, students will understand the complexities of intercultural interaction and learn about other cultures as well as their relationships …
Ethics in Engineering provides an introduction to the issues in engineering ethics by placing those issues within a philosophical framework, and it seeks to exhibit their social importance and intellectual challenge. The goal is to stimulate reasoning and to provide the conceptual tools necessary for responsible decision making. Appendix : page 292-297. Index : page 298-317.
Martin and Schinzinger's Ethics in Engineering, now in its fourth edition, is for use in courses devoted to engineering ethics, either at the introductory level or at the senior level. Current and thorough, it promotes critical thinking and discussion about moral and ethical issues that engineers face. The up-to-date content provides real world examples and cases and, by offering a framework fo…
Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change by Martin Silberberg has been recognized in the general chemistry market as an unparalleled classic. The seventh edition keeps pace with the evolution of student learning by adding and significantly enhancing sample problems, a key resource of students. The text still contains unprecedented macroscopic-to-microscopic molecular illustrations, …
Refactoring is gaining momentum amongst the object oriented programming community. It can transform the internal dynamics of applications and has the capacity to transform bad code into good code. This book offers an introduction to refactoring.
This invaluable resource demystifies the complex, rapidly changing, and sometimes confusing world of digital print technologies. It describes the major digital printing processes used by photographers and artists over the past forty years, explaining and illustrating materials and their deterioration, methods of identification, and options for acquiring and preserving digital prints. A removabl…
Designed with serious job hunters in mind, this handbook tackles the fear of every interviewee - being asked a question he can't find an answer to, such as: what can you do for us that someone else cannot do?; what are the reasons for your success?; and what decisions are most difficult for you?