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Wrestling With the Angel: Literary Writings and Reflections on Death, Dying and Bereavement
Kent Koppelman
Wrestling with the Angel addresses the human struggle to cope with death, dying, grief, and bereavement. The book includes essays, a one-act play, a short story, and poetry, including shape poems, rhyming, structured verse, and free verse.
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New Perspectives on Technical Editing
Edited by Avon J. Murphy
This book examines the thriving discipline of technical editing from several viewpoints:
research methodologies, history of technical editing, course development, editing within
organizations, copyediting, electronic editing, science editing, and editing of technical
journals; includes an annotated bibliography.
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From Black Codes to Recodification: Removing the Veil from Regulatory Writing
Miriam F. Williams
A critical discourse analysis of historical regulations and a contextual inquiry into contemporary public policy writing demonstrate how regulatory invention has evolved and how these changes affect the perceptions of a contemporary African-American audience—one negatively affected by historical regulations and one for whom regulations were an introduction to technical documents.
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Suicide and Homicide-Suicide Among Police
Antoon Lenaars
This book investigates in evidence-based detail the probable epidemic of suicide and homicide-suicide among police. Not only does the book present effective predictions and controls to stop the epidemic, it also offers best practices. The officer and forensic specialist will understand better what they are investigating and what we can do about it, to prevent further deaths.
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Northern Exposures: A Canadian Perspective on Occupational Health and Environment
David Bennett
This book is a description, analysis, and critique of the thought and action of the Canadian labor movement in public health, workplace health, and environmental protection from 1980 to the present. It covers a wide range of social, health, and environmental issues of public policy from a labor perspective.
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Teaching Intercultural Rhetoric and Technical Communication: Theories, Curriculum, Pedagogies, and Practice
Edited by Barry Thatcher and Kirk St.Amant
The book presents perspectives on how to integrate intercultural communication in various educational contexts. By balancing theory, research, and industry practices, the collection provides academic audiences, industry practitioners, educational administrators, and corporate managers with insights and approaches to teaching aspects of intercultural communication in different settings.
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Complex Worlds: Digital Culture, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication
Edited by Adrienne P. Lamberti and Anne R. Richards
An anthology of scholarly essays by researchers, teachers, and industry practitioners in professional communication and technology-oriented fields, offering insights into the difficulties and opportunities attending postmodern technology-mediated communication.
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Nuclear Servitude: Subcontracting and Health in the French Civil Nuclear Industry
Annie Thébaud-Mony
This sociological study demonstrates the danger of the “disorganization” of work through the outsourcing of risky work, for workers’ health and for nuclear safety. The problem, a terrible contradiction at the heart of the French nuclear industry, has been socially constructed to render it invisible.
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Envisioning Collaboration: Group Verbal-Visual Composing in a System of Creativity
Geoffrey A. Cross
The first book-length investigation of the composing processes of graphic artists and writers preparing advertising (in this case to retain a vital national account), analyzing their audience analysis, branding, collaborative "moves," power and conflict management, uses of humor, mindfulness, and effectiveness; concludes with a pedagogical/training unit.
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Stalinist Genetics: The Constitutional Rhetoric of T. D. Lysenko
Dmitri Stanchevici
This book is an analysis of the rhetoric of T. D. Lysenko, the founder of a doctrine that dominated biology in the Stalinist Soviet Union, draws on Kenneth Burke and other rhetorical scholars and demonstrates how Lysenko's rhetoric emerged on the borderline between science and politics.
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The Point of Consumption
Charles Levenstein
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