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This text introduces readers to the ethnographic study of intercultural and social interactions through the analysis of conversations in which different cultural orientations are operating.

A collection of essays on the theory of education are featured in this volume, which portray the author's influence in a number of areas, including the political, phenomenological, the aesthetic, and the theological.

In the author's words: "This book is an honest attempt to understand what it means to be educated in today's world." Schank's argues that no matter how important science and technology are, as a society we believe that those educated in literature, history and other humanities are more worthy of the descriptor "well educated."

A realistic look at what it takes to develop leadership competencies. Its intended for graduate or undergraduate students of leadership, project managers, supervisors, senior executives, school principles, health care officers, or legislators.

Discusses playwriting from a language based approach. Includes chapters on dialogic applications and practices, monologic structure, language based character and establishing new approaches to character.

This essential sourcebook organises the age-old wisdom of the Bible into episodes that can shed light on specific psychological issues.

This is a current and complete summary and synthesis of what is known about the media's role in and impact on children's cognitive, social and emotional development.

This text challenges the way communication is categorized and described. The author's infraphonological model permits reconceptualizations of the ways infant vocalizations progress toward speech, comparisons with vocal systems of other species, and speculations about the origins of language.

This book is about language and how language is typically structured when it is used in the context of schooling. It demonstrates that the variety of English expected at school differs from the interactional language that students use for social purposes, and provides a linguistic analysis of the challenges of the school curriculum.

This updated edition aims to provide a framework for thinking about the act of writing in both theoretical and practical ways. A chapter on computers and writing is included, as well as more about the role of reading in learning to write, and about learning to write at all ages.

Offers a view of leadership as a multicultural phenomenon that moves beyond dualistic notions of "masculine" and "feminine" leadership, and focuses more specifically on leadership as the management of meaning, including the meanings of the notion of "organizational leader."

A practical guide to an often neglected aspect of dentisty, the contributions of the behavioural sciences to dental research and practice. Enahanced doctor patient relationships will lead to improved quality of care and reduce some of the stress of practice.

Job analysis procedures have been considered important builders of platforms of information that can be used to support a range of human resource applications. This text evaluates the state of practice and provides a framework for delivering modelling projects which integrate new ideas.

Integrating cognitive and sociological aspects of reading and writing this text covers: educational research on reading and writing; rhetorical research on writing in the discipline; cognitive research on expertise in ill-defined problems; and sociological and historical research on the profession.

Focusing on the issues of Jewish women in the context of counselling and psychotherapy from the perspective of both client and therapist. The text draws attention to the historical and political realities of the Jewish heritage and acknowledges the oppression of both Jews and women.

This work proposes a new approach to welfare: a social policy that goes beyond simple income maintenance to foster individual initiative and self-sufficiency. It argues for an asset-based policy that would create a system of saving incentives through individual development accounts (IDAs).

Presents ten tales featuring Lord Bau, a wise judge who was a champion of righteousness and protector of the weak against the powerful.

A synthesis of insights gleaned from linguistic, semiotic, sociological and management theories. It presents an argument for communication-based organizational analysis that takes into account the structuring capacities of discourse.

Intended primarily for application in developing and transitional countries, this book compares the accumulated experiences of the use of economic policy instruments in the US and Europe, as well as in select rich and poor countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

A practical, hands-on guide for actors and performers, written by an experienced stand-up comic. Covers writing, character, delivery, performance, set structure, audiences, professional work and includes helpful tips.

This title provides a summary of current scholarship in the areas of market strategy, leadership roles and executives in teams. It emphasises how to align your team with your strategy, how to build up skills of team leaders and how to enhance the effectiveness of executive teams.

This work demonstrates how managers can be effective in gathering and processing performance information about subordinates, making ratings on performance appraisals and multisource feedback surveys and feeding back this information in a way that is nonthreatening and leads to productive change.

The history of Harbin, ruled by the Russians, by an international coalition of allied powers, by Chinese warlords, by the Soviet Union and finally by the Chinese Communists - all in the course of 100 years - is presented here as an example of Chinese local-history writing.

This novel offers a contemporary and explosive picture of the nuclear family, which pivots on the bizarre odyssey of a Japanese father and son.

What are the implications of teaching phonics via a systematic direct intense programme that mandates all children to experience the same scripted lesson at the same time? This book addresses the question through an in-depth description of a phonics lesson as it occurred in a classroom.