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Advanced Public Speaking: A Leader's Guide is a comprehensive
textbook designed to serve as a speech-making reference for
upper-level undergraduate students. Now in its second edition, this
volume offers brand new classroom-tested chapter assignments,
updated examples, and new content on speaking to international and
remote audiences. An instructor's manual and test bank are
available for download on the book's companion website, offering
everything from guidance in constructing a syllabus, to lecture
suggestions, to classroom activities. This student-engagement
focused and flexible text offers students the opportunity to
increase their speaking abilities across a variety of more specific
and complex contexts.
"...I recommend this book to any plant researcher who is interested
in incorporating functional genomics approaches or who is looking
to expand their repertoire. I especially liked that most chapters
include detailed 'recipes,' which show that anyone with a standard
wet laboratory can do most of the procedures...a very useful
volume..." -The Quarterly Review of Biology, March 2010 This
handbook spans over several aspects of current and emerging
technologies in the field. The editors - two of the leading experts
in research with a proven track record - combine their expertise to
provide an invaluable reference on the topic. To make it more
inclusive, this second volume in the Molecular Plant Biology
Handbook Series is divided into four main parts:* Transcriptome
Analysis* Gene Silencing, Mutation Analysis, and Functional
Genomics* Computational Analysis* Functional Genomics and Emerging
Technologies Each chapter introduces the subject comprehensively,
and provides state-of-the art experimental protocols. A handy
glossary of relevant technical terms is included to facilitate
reading for researchers, teachers and students.
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Pedagogies of Post-Truth explores the national and international
political developments in what has been called a post-truth
society; specifically, in which conservative groups target media
outlets claiming fabrication of news and that the veracity of
evidence-based reporting should be questioned. Truth has been
reduced to the validation of opinions instead of the presentation
of scientific facts. This collection responds to these issues by
initiating a scholarly dialogue about teaching in the era of
post-truth in which research-based findings that do not align with
political viewpoints are judged, criticized, and often described as
"fake." Contributors evaluate the pedagogical challenges of
post-truth discourse and how post-truth messages negatively affect
instructors and students. By highlighting ways instructors and
students can resist the hegemony of post-truth, this book creates a
dialogue among scholars, illustrates the challenges, and offers
pedagogical techniques to discuss "post-truth," the role of the
educator, the role of media, and the role of other story-makers of
our society.
In recent years, research in the social sciences and cultural
studies has increasingly paid attention to the generative power of
emotions and affects; that is, to the questions of how far they
shape social and cultural processes while being simultaneously
shaped by them. However, the literature on the methodological
implications of researching affects and emotions remains rather
limited. As a collective outcome of the Collaborative Research
Center (CRC) Affective Societies at Freie Universitat Berlin,
Analyzing Affective Societies introduces procedures and
methodologies applied by researchers of the CRC for investigating
societies as affective societies. Presenting scholarly research
practices by means of concrete examples and case studies, the book
does not contain any conclusive methodological advice, but rather
engages in illustrative descriptions of the authors' research
practices. Analyzing Affective Societies unveils different research
approaches, procedures and practices of a variety of disciplines
from the humanities, arts and social sciences. It will appeal to
students and researchers interested in fields such as Qualitative
Research Methods, Emotions, Affect, Cultural Studies and Social
Sciences.
Social values are central to people's lives, guiding behaviors, and
judgments, and defining who we are. This book advances
understanding of consumer social values and their roles in the
global marketplace by refining and directing existing knowledge of
consumer behaviors. With a diverse set of contributors from
different parts of the world, this engaging collection provides a
unique examination of social values through cross-cultural
research. It incorporates input from researchers with varying
academic backgrounds from marketing to psychology and philosophy,
and also focuses on a range of methodological approaches including
surveys, ethnography, interviews, semantic analysis, and
neuroscience. The book introduces innovative concepts and provides
comprehensive coverage of several specialized areas, to offer an
important contribution to values research and discussion. Key
topics include values and choice; means-end chains; relations among
goals; motives; religion and personality; value measurement and
values related to specific services and industries. Consumer Social
Values is an essential resource for scholars, students, and
practitioners of consumer psychology and marketing communications.
Accounting carries with its history a vast number of ideas which
have slowly developed along with it. This volume relates this
history as it took place during the first three decades of the
twentieth century in the United States. In particular it deals with
those individuals who were for the most part responsible for it. It
was these pioneers who recorded their observations of the actual
workings of the myriad adaptations and new devices which had slowly
eased their way into accounting theory and practice in the USA in
the early twentieth century.
The Causes and Consequences of Group Violence: From Bullies to
Terrorists offers a transnational and transdisciplinary
investigation of the causes and consequences of violence, ranging
from bullying and hate crimes to revolutions, genocide, and acts of
terrorism. Editors James Hawdon, John Ryan, and Mark Lucht bring
together empirical investigations of these specific types of
violence as well as theoretical discussions of the underlying
similarities and differences among them. Focusing on both the
perpetrators and targets of violence, The Causes and Consequences
of Group Violencethis book is a valuable resource for sociologists,
criminologists, political scientists, behavioral scientists, peace
studies scholars, and psychologists.
This book showcases papers presented at the annual Advertising and
Consumer Psychology Conference. The contributors -- active scholars
with both practitioner and academic backgrounds -- share an
interest in the general area of psychographics, values, and
lifestyle in advertising. The interdisciplinary and international
mix of authors bring a diverse perspective to this volume, which is
divided into four nonorthogonal sections. The first section deals
with theoretical and conceptual issues in advertising research,
while the second section presents chapters devoted to improving
methodology. The final two sections illustrate how value,
lifestyle, and psychographic research have been used to understand
differences among people. The first of these final two sections
emphasizes differences among people at different times (commonly
called trend research), and the second emphasizes differences among
people across national boundaries. Collectively, these chapters
illustrate how practical state-of-the-art research in values,
lifestyles, and psychographics can be. Thoughtful consideration of
values, lifestyles, and psychographics as they are manifested in
quality research can improve advertising and marketing practice,
and can help the business community deliver products and services
that are more in line with consumers' needs.
This book offers a transnational and transdisciplinary
investigation of the causes and consequences of violence, ranging
from bullying and hate crimes to revolutions, genocide, and acts of
terrorism. Editors James Hawdon, John Ryan, and Mark Lucht bring
together empirical investigations of these specific types of
violence as well as theoretical discussions of the underlying
similarities and differences among these forms of violence to
further a comprehensive understanding of the topic. The collection
addresses hate crimes committed by one or two individuals, riots,
revolutions, and terroristic acts committed by well-organized
groups. It also focuses on the perpetrators as well as the targets
of violence. While each chapter stands alone as a cutting-edge
piece of scholarship, taken together the collection provide a
comprehensive, multi-disciplinary approach to group violence.
Addressing a phenomenon affecting every area of the modern world,
From Bullies to Terrorists: The Causes and Consequences of Group
Violence is a valuable resource for sociologists, criminologists,
political scientists, behavioral scientists, peace studies
scholars, and psychologists."
With chapters written by experts in their field, this volume
advances the understanding of theory and successful practice of
marketing and promoting environmental sustainability. Some experts
predict that the next big trend in business will involve the green
economy. Yet, communicating sustainability to consumers provides a
set of challenges for marketers that do not necessarily follow all
the rules of other types of marketing communication. In many ways
the concept of sustainability challenges the core ideals of
promoting consumption. Accordingly, this book identifies for
researchers and practitioners the barriers that keep customers from
engaging in environmentally sustainable consumption and find ways
to overcome those barriers. The book includes topics such corporate
advertising strategy related to sustainability, corporate social
responsibility advertising, greenwashing, advertising related to
values, persuasion and persuasion knowledge in sustainability
marketing, social media and sustainability, and advertising and
public policy.
With chapters written by experts in their field, this volume
advances the understanding of theory and successful practice of
marketing and promoting environmental sustainability. Some experts
predict that the next big trend in business will involve the green
economy. Yet, communicating sustainability to consumers provides a
set of challenges for marketers that do not necessarily follow all
the rules of other types of marketing communication. In many ways
the concept of sustainability challenges the core ideals of
promoting consumption. Accordingly, this book identifies for
researchers and practitioners the barriers that keep customers from
engaging in environmentally sustainable consumption and find ways
to overcome those barriers. The book includes topics such corporate
advertising strategy related to sustainability, corporate social
responsibility advertising, greenwashing, advertising related to
values, persuasion and persuasion knowledge in sustainability
marketing, social media and sustainability, and advertising and
public policy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
In recent years, research in the social sciences and cultural
studies has increasingly paid attention to the generative power of
emotions and affects; that is, to the questions of how far they
shape social and cultural processes while being simultaneously
shaped by them. However, the literature on the methodological
implications of researching affects and emotions remains rather
limited. As a collective outcome of the Collaborative Research
Center (CRC) Affective Societies at Freie Universitat Berlin,
Analyzing Affective Societies introduces procedures and
methodologies applied by researchers of the CRC for investigating
societies as affective societies. Presenting scholarly research
practices by means of concrete examples and case studies, the book
does not contain any conclusive methodological advice, but rather
engages in illustrative descriptions of the authors' research
practices. Analyzing Affective Societies unveils different research
approaches, procedures and practices of a variety of disciplines
from the humanities, arts and social sciences. It will appeal to
students and researchers interested in fields such as Qualitative
Research Methods, Emotions, Affect, Cultural Studies and Social
Sciences.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
The purpose of Creating Images and the Psychology of Marketing
Communication is to advance the understanding of the concept of
image as it is applied to various areas of interest. It also serves
to meet the growing interest in image-related studies by the public
and academics, and provides an innovative and holistic approach to
the study of image. The text reflects the importance of brand
leveraging as the sections cover in-depth discussion on
cross-country and tourism images, corporate and sponsorship images,
individual and celebrity images, and cultural and social images. It
provides a comprehensive and holistic look at the concept of image:
the topics range from theories of image creative to other image
studies on a country, corporate, and individual level. The sections
cover the major topics currently being debated in image marketing
and the psychology of communications. Several new and innovative
concepts are also introduced in the book. Creating Images and the
Psychology of Marketing Communication is intended for academics and
scholars (including students) in the interdisciplinary fields of
consumer psychology, marketing, and communication.
This book approaches the concept of lifestyle from a contemporary
scholarly perspective, and subjects it to rigorous theoretical and
conceptual standards from an integrated, applied psychological
point of view. Marketplace Lifestyles in an Age of Social Media is
exceptionally current, demonstrating how recent trends and
developments in social media reflect the importance of lifestyle
research in marketing. Numerous examples, illustrations, and
comprehensive references are provided, making this volume the best
single resource for scholars, students, and marketing experts in
this important area of marketing theory and practice.
The growing complexity and importance of sports and event marketing
has pushed scholars and practitioners to apply sophisticated
marketing thinking and applications to these topics. This book
deals with the professional development in the sense that sports
marketing can be viewed as an application of consumer behavior
research. Readers will learn about new opportunities in using
consumer behavior knowledge effectively in the areas of:
influencing behaviors in society and sports; building relationships
with consumers through sports and events; and providing services to
consumers through sport and event sponsorships. This book, by a
superb group of authors, includes comprehensive reviews, innovative
conceptual pieces, empirical research and rigorous attention to
data.
The essays in Feminist Politics contest some of the prevailing
conceptualizations of identity and difference, as well as the
functions of these concepts in feminist political discourse and
praxis. Doing so, they amply demonstrate that issues of identity
and difference have a central place in contemporary feminist
scholarship. The authors of these essays have worked to develop new
ways of understanding and living out differences which will both
preserve and celebrate them while also fostering the necessary
conditions for opening dialogue and forming new coalitions. The
intent of these efforts has been to thereby engender imaginative
new strategies for the personal, spiritual, and sociopolitical
changes that will enable human growth, wellbeing, and flourishing.
While the focus of the work represented here is understandably on
women, the issues that are raised are given additional urgency,
explicitly in some of the papers and implicitly in others, by the
situation of their concerns in the context of the world created by
the Bush administration. Because that administration has
foregrounded issues of identity and difference in ways that are not
only inhumane and often inaccurate but dangerous for all of us, the
new ways of thinking and acting that are proposed here have a much
broader application. Thus these papers truly invite not only
feminists but all people to move in new directions. Taken as a
whole, this volume represents cutting-edge thinking from an
international perspective in these important and pressing areas for
feminist research and praxis.
The essays in Feminist Politics contest some of the prevailing
conceptualizations of identity and difference, as well as the
functions of these concepts in feminist political discourse and
praxis. Doing so, they amply demonstrate that issues of identity
and difference have a central place in contemporary feminist
scholarship. The authors of these essays have worked to develop new
ways of understanding and living out differences which will both
preserve and celebrate them while also fostering the necessary
conditions for opening dialogue and forming new coalitions. The
intent of these efforts has been to thereby engender imaginative
new strategies for the personal, spiritual, and sociopolitical
changes that will enable human growth, wellbeing, and flourishing.
While the focus of the work represented here is understandably on
women, the issues that are raised are given additional urgency,
explicitly in some of the papers and implicitly in others, by the
situation of their concerns in the context of the world created by
the Bush administration. Because that administration has
foregrounded issues of identity and difference in ways that are not
only inhumane and often inaccurate but dangerous for all of us, the
new ways of thinking and acting that are proposed here have a much
broader application. Thus these papers truly invite not only
feminists but all people to move in new directions. Taken as a
whole, this volume represents cutting-edge thinking from an
international perspective in these important and pressing areas for
feminist research and praxis.
InBelief, Bodies, and Being, twelve distinguished contributors
present diverse and illuminating viewpoints on feminist issues of
embodiement, materialism, and agency from feminist and
postmodernist philosophical perspectives. Beginnning by positing
non-traditional ways of approaching ontological concerns (through
the acknowledgement of agential realties and the usage of an
ontology of tropes), the volume concludes by addressing highly
specific, culturally constituted types of postmodern bodies
(monstrous, anorexic, and pharmaceutical bodies).
InBelief, Bodies, and Being, twelve distinguished contributors
present diverse and illuminating viewpoints on feminist issues of
embodiement, materialism, and agency from feminist and
postmodernist philosophical perspectives. Beginnning by positing
non-traditional ways of approaching ontological concerns (through
the acknowledgement of agential realties and the usage of an
ontology of tropes), the volume concludes by addressing highly
specific, culturally constituted types of postmodern bodies
(monstrous, anorexic, and pharmaceutical bodies).
The purpose of "Creating Images and the Psychology of Marketing
Communication" is to advance the understanding of the concept of
image as it is applied to various areas of interest. It also serves
to meet the growing interest in image-related studies by the public
and academics, and provides an innovative and holistic approach to
the study of image. The text reflects the importance of brand
leveraging as the sections cover in-depth discussion on
cross-country and tourism images, corporate and sponsorship images,
individual and celebrity images, and cultural and social images. It
provides a comprehensive and holistic look at the concept of image:
the topics range from theories of image creative to other image
studies on a country, corporate, and individual level. The sections
cover the major topics currently being debated in image marketing
and the psychology of communications. Several new and innovative
concepts are also introduced in the book.
"Creating Images and the Psychology of Marketing Communication" is
intended for academics and scholars (including students) in the
interdisciplinary fields of consumer psychology, marketing, and
communication.
A compilation of articles about Intensionality in philosophy,
logic, linguistics, and mathematics. The articles approach the
concept of Intensionality from different perspectives. Some
articles address philosophical issues raised by the possible worlds
approach to intensionality; others are devoted to technical aspects
of modal logic. The volume highlights the particular
interdisciplinary nature of intensionality with articles spanning
the areas of philosophy, linguistics, mathematics, and computer
science.
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