Author: Ronald B. Adler,Russell F. Proctor II

Publisher: Cengage Learning

ISBN: 1305076516

Category: Social Science

Page: 448

View: 7026

A longtime favorite with millions of readers, LOOKING OUT, LOOKING IN, 15th Edition maintains its market-leading tradition of linking the latest research and theory to learners' everyday lives. Its accessible approach motivates readers to learn and apply communication principles in both personal relationships and on the job. Expanded emphasis on social media includes an all-new chapter devoted to the role of mediated communication in interpersonal relationships as well as integrated coverage throughout the book. In addition, diverse examples, new readings, compelling cartoons, lively photos, and popular culture references bring principles to life. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Adventures of an Observer

Author: Garry Wills

Publisher: Penguin

ISBN: 110144441X

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 208

View: 2092

"One of the country's most distinguished intellectuals [and] one of its most provocative." -The New York Times Bookish and retiring, Garry Wills has been an outsider in the academy, in journalism, even in his church. Yet these qualities have, paradoxically, prompted people to share intimate insights with him- perhaps because he is not a rival, a competitor, or a threat. Sometimes this made him the prey of con men like conspiratorialist Mark Lane or civil rights leader James Bevel. At other times it led to close friendship with such people as William F. Buckley, Jr., or singer Beverly Sills. The result is the most personal book Wills has ever written. With his dazzling style and journalist's eye for detail, Wills brings history to life, whether it's the civil rights movement; the protests against the Vietnam War; the presidential campaigns of Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton; or the set of Oliver Stone's Nixon. Illuminating and provocative, Outside Looking In is a compelling chronicle of an original thinker at work in remarkable times.

The Art of Viewing

Author: Mieke Bal,Norman Bryson

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 1135208689

Category: Art

Page: 308

View: 4786

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

An African Perspective on American Pluralistic Society

Author: Kofi Konadu Apraku

Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group

ISBN: 9780275942076

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 120

View: 1530

The reader is given an outsider's analysis of the good and bad elements that make up the U.S.

My Life With Social Anxiety Disorder

Author: Daniela Grazia

Publisher: Booklocker.Com Incorporated

ISBN: 9781609104559

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 178

View: 1388

Imagine feeling extremely uncomfortable and out of place no matter where you go where there are people - panicked to the point you're immobilized and unable to speak. Your only thought is that of fleeing to somewhere you can be alone and yet, when you get there, you can't stand to be alone. This is Daniela Grazia's detailed account of living with Social Anxiety Disorder and accepting her sexuality after 30 years of silence.

Short Stories

Author: P. Chandy Mathew

Publisher: unisun publications

ISBN: 9788188234042

Category:

Page: 251

View: 6673

A collection of 19 short stories set in different places about different people: young and old, simple and venal, nostalgic and naughty, melancholic and magical. Probing and provocative, never dull.

Author: Deanna Breen-Ball

Publisher: BookBaby

ISBN: 1620958945

Category: Fiction

Page: 355

View: 7013

Looking In is an intriguing twisting story about the frailty of a struggling marriage and the evolution of a new found companion. Susan has been sinking into complacency for many years, but when she decides to start making changes in her life, she feels like she is being watched. First fear consumes her, and then intrigue compels her. Confident in her skills as an ex-soldier, she thinks she can protect herself from her stalker. She warns her husband Jerry about what has been going on but he dismisses her concern for paranoia. She is on a mission to find out who is watching her, and perhaps stalking her. During her quest to find her stalker, she befriends a homeless man that turns out to be more-than-meets-the-eye. The research into the homeless man’s last name turns up numerous possibilities but one seems to stand out, a technology company with ties to the government. While she focuses her time and energy on helping him, her marriage plummets further. Susan wonders if her marriage is going to survive or even if she wants it to. Susan’s curiosity is piqued during her research and after she gets hired on to Johnson Tech she finds some alarming information. You never know who can see you, or how they can see you; just know you’re always being watched. Susan is torn between the physical connection she has for her new companion, and the bond she once had with her husband. When too many warning signs surface, Susan and her long-time friend Jennifer try to figure out why people are being singled out on secret video files at Johnson Tech. Jennifer is leery of Susan's new friend and constantly reminds her to be careful. Will Susan listen to her friend, or will she let her inhibitions go?

Robert Frank's The Americans

Author: Sarah Greenough,Robert Frank,Stuart Alexander

Publisher: Steidl / Edition7L

ISBN: 9783865218063

Category: Photography

Page: 506

View: 2064

Edited and text by Sarah Greenough. Additional text by Anne Tucker, Stuart Alexander, Martin Gasser, Jeff Rosenheim, Michel Frizot, Luc Sante, Philip Brookman.

Consciousness and Cosmos

Author: Minas C. Kafatos

Publisher: Quest Books

ISBN: 9780835606745

Category: Philosophy

Page: 290

View: 5445

Most books on science and mysticism attempt to link modern physics to philosophic views of consciousness. This book explores the two as parallel processes-one outer, one inner. Our outward search is for objective reality- "out there" in the world. But what we experience as outer is linked to what we can know in ourselves subjectively. The inward search is for that level of consciousness that underlies all subjective experience, spoken of by the mystics. Like other recent others, Drs. Kafatos and Karatou find parallels between Eastern thought and recent scientific developments in quantum theory and cosmology. But they go farther and hold that the realms of consciousness and the objective world are complementary aspect of the same reality. Their approach is fresh and unique and shows how we are involved in the cosmic process.

A Year in an Inner-City High School

Author: Cristina Rathbone

Publisher: Turtleback

ISBN: 9780613167895

Category: Education

Page: N.A

View: 1874

Chronicles a reporter's year at West Side High School in New York City.

The Rossettis Then and Now

Author: David Clifford,Laurence Roussillon

Publisher: Anthem Press

ISBN: 9781843311065

Category: Literary Collections

Page: 284

View: 1326

This new interdisciplinary collection of writing explores the achievements of the Rossettis in the context of the Victorian era and in the light of modern cultural and literary criticism. 'Outsiders Looking In' considers the position that the Anglo-Italian Rossettis occupied in the cultural melee of mid-Victorian London, a status that was both central and fringe owing to their dual nationality.

Being an Expat Tween

Author: Sainoor Premji

Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing

ISBN: 1618975684

Category: Self-Help

Page: 60

View: 8689

Looking In: Being an Expat Tween discusses the challenges faced by expatriate tweens ages 9 to 12 years old. It is designed as a self-help book. Each chapter discusses and expands on a topic, and provides exercises to help the tween gain a better understanding of who he is and how to deal with issues in a peaceful and empowering manner. At the back of the book is a chapter titled "Deepen Your Knowledge," which contains extra details for some of the topics discussed in various chapters. The chapter titled "How To ..." offers quick tips on dealing with stress, parents, and projects. Born in Uganda, first-time author Sainoor Premji lives in Canada. She taught for many years and now works in the alternate health care field. "When I was teaching in Tokyo, we found it very difficult to find self-help books for young adults between the ages of 9 to 12. Most books were either too young or geared toward teenagers. This got me thinking about how this age group, especially the expat children, could use a self-help book that would meet their needs." Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/SainoorPremji

Adventures of an Observer

Author: Garry Wills

Publisher: Penguin

ISBN: 110144441X

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 208

View: 7820

"One of the country's most distinguished intellectuals [and] one of its most provocative." -The New York Times Bookish and retiring, Garry Wills has been an outsider in the academy, in journalism, even in his church. Yet these qualities have, paradoxically, prompted people to share intimate insights with him- perhaps because he is not a rival, a competitor, or a threat. Sometimes this made him the prey of con men like conspiratorialist Mark Lane or civil rights leader James Bevel. At other times it led to close friendship with such people as William F. Buckley, Jr., or singer Beverly Sills. The result is the most personal book Wills has ever written. With his dazzling style and journalist's eye for detail, Wills brings history to life, whether it's the civil rights movement; the protests against the Vietnam War; the presidential campaigns of Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton; or the set of Oliver Stone's Nixon. Illuminating and provocative, Outside Looking In is a compelling chronicle of an original thinker at work in remarkable times.

The Long Journey

Author: S. Glenn Wakefield

Publisher: AuthorHouse

ISBN: 9781414038193

Category: Education

Page: 208

View: 9838

This is the autobiography of a little boy of mixed racial background. He was born in 1938, in rural Georgia, the child of sharecroppers in abject poverty .The story takes the reader inside the thoughts of this boy and allows them to view his feelings and actions as he becomes a man. The little boy experiences the American process of character genocide as practiced by benevolent adults. He refuses to accept the boundaries, the subhuman treatment and his stated inferiority in a racist society .His inner strength and genetics enable him to obtain many of his set goals. The boy finds that all things come at a price and he comes to a conclusion. Although he is; he views himself not as a Caucasian, not as a Native American or an African American but as a fortunate and gifted human being. He breaks 15,000 years of Native American tradition and shares his experiences with the reader. "Just because the white man says it. That don't make it so. Don't explain yourself to the whites because they will never understand you anyway." Y ou come to feel and understand the little boy's curiosity about adult behavior and his determination to persevere and survive at a high personal cost as the rite of passage takes him through his childhood. He learns the lessons of life that good as well as bad people come in all colors. All people must be judged as individuals and on personal merit. The reader becomes aware of the acuteness ofhis pain and the unfairness of life as the boy reaches for the American dream.

Author: Alan Cohen

Publisher: Hay House, Inc

ISBN: 1401941168

Category: Self-Help

Page: 224

View: 8161

Alan Cohen shares this thoughts, dreams, humor, and compassion in fifty-two engaging essays. Looking In for Number One, Cohen says, is about "taking our power back from external authorities and living the life we would choose, the life that calls us by virtue of the voice of joy within us."

Author: Pete Mitchell

Publisher: The Derwent Press

ISBN: 9781846670114

Category: Music

Page: 104

View: 492

The autobiography of a struggling musician, working over 30 years gigging on the road. Life has its price, and one way or another; we will all have to pay for it. On invitation, I went to see a famous clairvoyant called, 'Madame Faye'. Her prediction of the assassination of president J.F. Kennedy brought her worldwide recognition. I was a total sceptic and we had never met before. In retrospect, everything she told me about my past was true, and what is stunning beyond belief, is the fact that all the major events in this book, were predicted in detail by 'Madame Faye' to me, at her house in the summer of 1966. The last thing she said to me was, 'you will be successful with your music, but only after a long hazardous journey, and you'll have to sacrifice everything for it. For most musicians, it's usually a case of playing for fun. Some play professionally, and others make the 'Big time'. I take the view, that a real musician is rarer still. He doesn't play to survive - HE SURVIVES TO PLAY. My only credentials for having this point of view are some thirty years playing on the pub and club scene and still gigging strong.

Author: Audrey Clark

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

ISBN: 1783061103

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 120

View: 9335

Have you ever bared your soul? Have you ever tried to be so honest it hurts? Then Outside Looking In will strike a chord. As the reader on the outside, looking in, you are taken on a very personal and painful journey through the eyes of the author; Aud Clark, as a seven-year-old child helpless at the hands of a tyrannical father, is systematically abused. “They say when you experience a traumatic experience your mind blocks it out for your protection and to a degree that’s true, but it didn’t quite block it out enough for me when one afternoon aged just seven that protection theory was put to the test.” Forced to keep it a secret, she learns to suppress her emotions until they spill over into her day-to-day life, resulting in anger and outbursts against those she loves most. She loses her daughter and the man that she loved. “At that point in my life I believed I was nothing more than a liability to those I loved. I had got used to bottling everything up. It was easier than alarming people.” She pushes away anyone who tries to get close. Her whirligig of emotions results in many a love lost. Despite the trauma, a career in entertainment and a difficult friendship with a celebrity follows. That friendship takes many twists and turns, but none more so than when she discovers he is dying, which takes her so very close to the edge of death. Outside Looking In is a true and harrowing autobiography that will resonate predominantly with women who have suffered personal traumas in their life or those who have loved and lost. “I constantly try to forget my past. I don’t want to be a victim. I am a survivor like many, many others.”

Viewing First Nations Peoples in Canadian Dramatic Television Series

Author: Mary Jane Miller

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

ISBN: 0773574875

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 503

View: 3259

Using recent scholarship in ethnography and popular culture, Miller throws light on both what these series present and what is missing, how various long-standing issues are raised and framed differently over time, and what new issues appear. She looks at narrative arc, characterization, dialogue, and theme as well as how inflections of familiar genres like family adventure, soap opera, situation comedy, and legal drama shape both the series and viewers' expectations. Miller discusses Radisson, Forest Rangers and other children's series in the 1960s and early 1970s, as well as Beachcombers, Spirit Bay, The Rez, and North of 60 - series whose complex characters created rewarding relationships while dealing with issues ranging from addiction to unemployment to the aftermath of the residential school system.

Author: James Lincoln Collier

Publisher: AudioGO

ISBN: 1620646870

Category: Juvenile Fiction

Page: 101

View: 9392

At fourteen, Fergy is tired of his family’s life style. He’s tired of living in a van with his parents, J. P. and Gussie, and his younger sister, Ooma. He’s sick of peddling honey and pamphlets of his father’s writings. And most of all he hates stealing things, even though J. P. says it’s all right to “reclaim” necessities from society. Fergy listens to J. P. talk about the evils of “the system,” and gradually Fergy realizes that he no longer believes or respects his father. In fact, Fergy longs more than anything to be a part of that system! One day, when Fergy’s father steals a motor home from an elderly couple who have befriended them, Fergy knows the time has come to act. He’s fed up, and he has to escape. Early one morning, with Ooma in tow, Fergy runs away. Gussie’s wealthy parents live in Boston, and Fergy hopes that if he can find them he and Ooma can have the “regular and normal” life he longs for. How Fergy comes to grips with his relationship with his parents and his own expectations makes a provocative, at times painful, but always absorbing story about a boy’s determination to make a better life for himself.