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Using intercultural weddings as its focus, this volume examines what occurs when the signs and codes of different cultures come into contact and influence one another. It is aimed at scholars and advanced level students of interpersonal, non-verbal, intercultural communication and language.

Suitable for language teaching professionals, this title offers a guide to ESL assessment and to fulfilling the testing component of TESOL programs in the US and around the world.

Focuses on cultivating visual and media literacy from both consumption and production points of view and introduces students to the application of intuitive intelligence to a visual context. This book is intended for students in visual literacy and communication courses.

The study reported in this book focuses on the academic performance of Black American students. Not only do these students perform less well than White students at every social class level, but also less well than immigrant minority students, including Black immigrant students.

Colin Ross presents a new theory of the existence of a dissociative subtype of schizophrenia related to psychological trauma, than can be treated with psychotherapy as opposed to medications.

These essays present fresh insights into the history of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), from its founding in 1920 to its assumption of state power in 1949. They draw upon considerable archival resources which have recently become available.

This volume provides an introduction to the basic concepts of chemical reactor analysis and design. It provides a summary of the concepts of thermodynamics that are used, with explanations of reaction kinetics and experimental techniques.

The author recounts her life growing up in the Warsaw ghetto and her experiences in the concentration camps of Majdanek, Auschwitz, Ravensbruck and Neustadt-Glewe. It tells of her remarkable survival and of her life after the horrors of the Holocaust.

Includes 'Precautionary Principle' that has sparked the central controversy over European and US risk regulation. This resource combines case studies of a wide array of risks to health, safety, environment and security; a quantitative analysis; and, chapters on politics, law, and perceptions.

The recent explosion in population ageing across the globe represents one of the most remarkable demographic changes in human history. Population ageing will profoundly affect families.

Challenges traditional, sanctioned, and official histories of reading comprehension by examining how ideological and cultural hegemony work to reproduce dominant ideologies through education in general and reading comprehension research and testing specifically.

Delves into how we come to terms with ourselves, with other people, and with the world in general. This book aims to describe the scope and limits for how we can be seen to think, learn, understand, and remember - but not to "explain" such behavior by recourse to hypothetical inner entities.

This is a guide to everything one needs to know when pursuing a successful career in public relations. It is an introduction to public relations, written for students who want or need a definition of the profession to understand what they are moving into as a career.

Everything you ever wanted to know about King Arthur and his knights is covered in this fascinating volume,

This study explores how leaders gain and use self-knowledge for continuous improvement and career development and describes how leaders help themselves and the people with whom they work, understand themselves, and become more self-determined, continuous learners, and make the most of resources.

This text presents developmental neurobiological findings and insights, and developmental psychological and psychoanalytic studies of infants. The author places emphasis on the application and incorporation of development data from areas such as neurochemistry, neuroanatomy, and neuropsychology.

Suitable for both economist and non-economist audiences, this book describes ways in which economic analysis can be an important tool to inform and improve ecosystem-based management (EBM). It elucidates the different kinds of insights which can be gained from the use of different economic tools.

Given global population growth, rising living standards, and environmental concerns, how seriously should society take the threat of mineral exhaustion? This title explores the methods used to study mineral scarcity, including physical measures of known reserves and total resource base, and economic measures such as extraction and end-user costs.

Seeking the best way to present military history, the perspective of this book is a cross between a professional internalist approach and a civilian contextual view, and shows that these are two fundamental sources from which war derives