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The Life of Voices
The Life of Voices illustrates how human voices have special significance as the place where mind and body collaborate to produce everyday speech. Hannah Rockwell links Russian semiotician Mikhail Bakhtin’s philosophy of dialog with French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s views of the relation between bodies and speech expression to develop a unique theory of communication and bodies.
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Cultivating Cosmopolitanism for Intercultural Communication
This book engages the notion of cosmopolitanism as it applies to intercultural communication, which itself is undergoing a turn in its focus from post-positivistic research towards critical/interpretive and postcolonial perspectives, particularly as globalization informs more of the current and future research in the area. It emphasizes the postcolonial perspective in order to raise critical consciousness about the complexities of intercultural communication in a globalizing world, situating cosmopolitanism—the notion of global citizenship—as a multilayered lens for research.
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Health and Medical Public Relations
Health and Medical Public Relations takes a fresh look at media relations and news values. It examines how information about medical research from the academic, pharmaceutical and charitable sectors is disseminated to target audiences through a variety of PR techniques. Scrutinising a wide range of health-related public relations activities, the book combines a critical, analytical and cultural overview of these methods with helpful guidance on their practical application.
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The Practitioner’s Guide to Child Art Therapy
Even in the face of challenging conditions, art therapy treatment offers meaningful opportunities for growth. It’s not always easy, though, to navigate the complex interplay of art processes, relational states, and developmental theories. For any clinician looking for guidance on the ins and outs of using art therapy with children, there is no better resource than The Practitioner’s Guide to Child Art Therapy.
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Overcoming Masculine Depression
In Overcoming Masculine Depression, psychologists John Lynch and Christopher Kilmartin present a model that provides new ways of understanding men’s behaviors. This unique book does not portray men as victims, but seeks to increase awareness that a great deal of depression in men is misunderstood and quite oftentimes misdiagnosed. Many men "act out" their symptoms through anger, workaholism, and relationship conflict.
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Webinar - The Self Under Siege
Earn 3 CE Credits in the upcoming Webinar with Dr. Lisa Firestone:
The Self Under Siege: A New Model of Differentiation
May 21, 2013 - 4pm to 5:30pm PST
3 CE Credits - $35
Learn more or register here
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Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine: An Open Access Journal
Find out more about our new Open Access journal Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine - the journals' editorial introduction - which asks and answers the question why we need an Open Access journal in this field - is now available online.
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Major Works Giveaway
Routledge Major Works are pleased to offer you the chance to purchase Business and Management collections at a 20% discount.
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An Emergence Approach to Speech Acquisition: Doing and Knowing
The central assertion in this volume is that the young child uses general skills, scaffolded by adults, to acquire the complex knowledge of sound patterns and the goal-directed behaviors for communicating ideas through language and producing speech.
Throughout, an evaluation is made of the research on patterns of typical development across languages in monolingual and bilingual children and children with speech impairments affecting various aspects of their developing complex system.
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Athletes’ Careers Across Cultures
The first book of its kind to bring together a truly global spread of leading sports psychology career researchers and practitioners into one comprehensive resource. This extensive volume traces the evolution of athlete career research through a cultural lens and maps the complex topography of athletes’ careers across national boundaries exploring how social and cultural discourses shape their development.
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