Discover how your communication conveys your character -- or who you are as a person -- as you learn to make effective written and oral communication choices in your professional and personal life.

Master your own natural, conversational style to earn trust and respect, to differentiate yourself in your career, or to gather funding. This edition addresses today's most important business communication concepts as new self-reflection questions help you develop a deeper understanding of yourself to better communicate and reach personal and professional goals. A new communication model emphasizes character check, audience analysis, message and medium (CAM) within in-person, online or social media communication. Intriguing examples from real companies illustrate principles at work.

You also learn to communicate within a team, resolve conflict and maximize the latest communication and collaboration technology tools.

Camera Lyrica navigates the intersection between realism and naturalism, locating moment by moment--the only way it can--the artful, necessary, and always mysterious transformation that occurs between the perceiver and perceived. Amy Newman's subjects range from Audubon's drive for precision, Michelangelo's unfinished Pieta, Darwin and forty-year old Barbie, to a meditation on the diversity of Type itself. With grace and dexterity, her intelligent eye dips into Catholic Mysteries, and the quiet but momentous domesticity of a backyard quince tree. Hers is a language both lush and spare, as she filters it and the world through a lucid imagination, transforming both into something beautiful, challenging, and wholly new.

Discover a realistic approach to communication in today's organizations with BUSINESS COMMUNICATION: IN PERSON, IN PRINT, ONLINE, 10E. You learn today's most important business communication concepts in detail and within the context of how communication happens in organizations today. Company examples and situations demonstrate how principles work in the real business world. In addition to refining core written and oral communication skills, you learn to navigate complex relationships and use current, sophisticated technologies. You master the skills to create PowerPoint (R) decks, manage your online reputation with LinkedIn and other tools, engage customers using social media, lead web meetings and conference calls, and more. With self-reflection questions throughout the book, you develop a deeper understanding of yourself and how to communicate most effectively to reach your personal and professional goals.

COMMUNICATING IN BUSINESS, 8E, International Edition offers a realistic approach to communication in today's organizations. The text covers the most important business communication concepts in detail, and thoroughly integrates coverage of today's social media and other communication technologies. Building on core foundational written and oral communication skills, the 8th edition helps readers make sound medium choices and provides guidelines and examples for the many ways people communicate at work. Readers learn how to create PowerPoint decks, use instant messaging and texting effectively at work, engage customers using social media, lead web meetings and conference calls, and more.

Extending beyond traditional leadership books to offer readers a path for developing their own character, this compelling new text uses a storytelling approach and real-world cases to explore different dimensions of leadership character. With a clear, student-friendly writing style, bestselling author Amy Newman deftly captures various approaches in which corporations and people respond to situations in difficult times and learn from mistakes. Using real companies and situations, each chapter examines a leadership character dimension such as accountability, integrity, authenticity, and courage. Readers will learn to develop their own character, emotional intelligence, and leadership skills as they engage with assessments, reflection opportunities, and exercises.

BUSINESS COMMUNICATION: IN PERSON, IN PRINT, ONLINE, 9E offers a realistic approach to communication in today's organizations. The text covers the most important business communication concepts in detail and thoroughly integrates coverage of today's social media and other communication technologies. Building on core written and oral communication skills, the ninth edition helps readers make sound medium choices and provides guidelines and examples for the many ways people communicate at work. Readers learn how to create PowerPoint (R) decks, use instant messaging and texting effectively at work, engage customers using social media, lead web meetings and conference calls, and more.

This new book by award-winning author Amy Newman explores as its formal structure the 72 definitions for the word "fall." These lovely, accessible poems span a narrative drama--from the creation of the world and the subsequent exile of its first inhabitants, through the downward movement of the human body in its surrender to illness and the world's gravitational pull, to the beauty in the descent of spent foliage in autumn.
Each definition of "fall" engenders its own poem, and the definitions serve as poem titles. Section one explores the theological sense of The Fall, and section two focuses on the present world, addressing how the blemish of that Fall--real or imagined, religious or cultural--exists in us as homesickness, physical illness, and domestic and spiritual dissolution. The third section attends to the very gesture of defining, of finding ways to name and live in a world where both the landscape and the language are vividly alive yet saturated with memory and loss.

Each prose poem in this extraordinary volume is an impassioned letter to a nameless editor from a poet seeking publication for her collection about chess, sainthood, and the poet's lonely childhood. Taken individually, the poems display a dazzling originality; together, they form an exquisite exploration of memory and longing.