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The Comedy of Errors: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

by Nick Newlin

The Comedy of Errors: The 30-Minute Shakespeare offers five raucous scenes from this extravaganza of mistaken identity.The abridgement begins with a dramatic physical enactment of the twins' separation at sea. The play continues with a series of foibles featuring Antipholus of Ephesus, Dromio of Ephesus, and their identical twin counterparts from Antipholus.Adriana and Luciana receive hysterically misguided attention from the twins. Emilia and Egeon as the long-lost parents, and the riotous conjurer Dr. Pinch round out the cast of characters in Shakespeare's most uproarious comedy.The edition includes a preface by Nick Newlin containing helpful advice on how to put on a Shakespeare performance in a high school class with novice actors, as well as an appendix with suggestions for the specific play and recommendations for further resources.

Comfort is an Old Barn: Stories from the Heart of Maine

by Amy Calder

Amy Calder is an award-winning newspaper reporter and columnist, covering city government and everything from murders and car crashes to fires and drug busts. Her 34-year career started at the Waterville Sentinel bureau in Skowhegan, where she served as bureau chief for several years and chased stories from Jackman to Fairfield and Farmington to Newport. Since 2009, Calder has written a weekly human interest column, “Reporting Aside,” which appears in both the Sentinel and the Kennebec Journal. Comfort is an Old Barn is a curated collection of those columns, which include sketches of the colorful characters, quirky animals she has encountered, and special moments, as well as personal stories that make living in Maine special.

Comic Books Incorporated: How the Business of Comics Became the Business of Hollywood

by Shawna Kidman

Comic Books Incorporated tells the story of the US comic book business, reframing the history of the medium through an industrial and transmedial lens. Comic books wielded their influence from the margins and in-between spaces of the entertainment business for half a century before moving to the center of mainstream film and television production. This extraordinary history begins at the medium’s origin in the 1930s, when comics were a reviled, disorganized, and lowbrow mass medium, and surveys critical moments along the way—market crashes, corporate takeovers, upheavals in distribution, and financial transformations. Shawna Kidman concludes this revisionist history in the early 2000s, when Hollywood had fully incorporated comic book properties and strategies into its business models and transformed the medium into the heavily exploited, exceedingly corporate, and yet highly esteemed niche art form we know so well today.

Coming to Narrative: A Personal History of Paradigm Change in the Human Sciences (Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives #14)

by Arthur P Bochner

Reflecting on a 50 year university career, Distinguished Professor Arthur Bochner, former President of the National Communication Association, discloses a lived history, both academic and personal, that has paralleled many of the paradigm shifts in the human sciences inspired by the turn toward narrative. He shows how the human sciences—especially in his own areas of interpersonal, family, and communication theory—have evolved from sciences directed toward prediction and control to interpretive ones focused on the search for meaning through qualitative, narrative, and ethnographic modes of inquiry. He outlines the theoretical contributions of such luminaries as Bateson, Laing, Goffman, Henry, Gergen, and Richardson in this transformation. Using diverse forms of narration, Bochner seamlessly layers theory and story, interweaving his professional and personal life with the social and historical contexts in which they developed.

Comm 2

by Rudolph F. Verderber Kathleen S. Verderber Deanna D. Sellnow

Created through a "student-tested, faculty-approved" review process, COMM2 is an engaging and accessible solution to accommodate the diverse lifestyles of today's learners.

COMM 4: Speech Communication

by Kathleen S. Verderber Deanna D. Sellnow Rudolph F. Verderber

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Comm 5

by Rudolph F. Verderber Kathleen S. Verderber Deanna D. Sellnow

Learn Communication YOUR Way with COMM5! This easy-reference, paperback textbook presents course content through visually engaging chapters and Chapter Review Cards that consolidate the best review material into a ready-made study tool. With the textbook or on its own, COMM5 Online allows easy exploration of COMM5 anywhere, anytime--including on your device. Collect your notes, browse interactive content and create StudyBits as you go, to remember what's important. Then, either use preset study resources or personalize the product through easy-to-use tags and filters to prioritize your study time. Make and review flashcards, review related content and track your progress with Concept Tracker--all in one place and at an affordable price!

Comma Sense: A Fun-damental Guide to Punctuation

by Richard Lederer John Shore

“A clear, entertaining, and just plain helpful guide to the American rules of punctuation.” —Lynne Truss, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Eats, Shoots & LeavesAre you confounded by commas, addled by apostrophes, or queasy about quotation marks? Do you believe a bracket is just a support for a wall shelf, a dash is something you make for the bathroom, and a colon and semicolon are large and small intestines? If so, language humorists Richard Lederer and John Shore (with the sprightly aid of illustrator Jim McLean), have written the perfect book to help make your written words perfectly precise and punctuationally profound.With buoyant wit and erudition, Comma Sense reveals the power and importance of each mark of punctuation. Lederer and Shore demonstrate what each has in common with a great American icon: the underrated yet powerful period with Seabiscuit; the jazzy semicolon with Duke Ellington; even the rebel apostrophe with famed outlaw Jesse James. When you’ve finished Comma Sense, you’ll not only have mastered everything you need to know about punctuation, you’ll have had fun doing so.

Commando

by Chris Terrill

Chris Terrill is a man in search of his limit. He's 55 years old. He is not a soldier. He is being trained by the Royal Marines and he is going to Afghanistan. The only difference is that instead of a gun, Chris will be holding a camera and filming the whole ordeal for a major TV series.The Royal Marines Commando training base in Lympstone Devon, has a famous motto: '99.9% need not apply'. Of those who start training, after a very tough selection process, nearly 50% fail to make it through the most gruelling physical tests of any armed forces in the world in an eight month training regime. The elite who do eventually pass out are generally eighteen years old and at the peak of physical condition. But Chris Terrill is the exception: this book will tell of his heroic struggle to become the oldest man to win the coveted Royal Marines Commando Green Beret and enter the record books.And after six months of hell, what next? Chris will follow the raw recruits on a tour to Southern Afghanistan. He will tell the story in book and film of the fears and hopes of the youngsters as they are plunged into one of the planet's most dangerous wars in the outlaw mountain terrain of Helmand Province. He will tell of ferocious battles against the Taliban, of firefights, of jaw-dropping heroism, British sang froid and humour and tragedy as causalities are suffered -- all from the unique perspective of a civilian who has achieved the ultimate accolade: to be accepted as an honorary Royal Marines Commando. Commando is a brilliant account of modern war on the front line.

Comment bâtir un empire d’écriture en 30 jours ou moins

by Sam Kerns Laura Dinraths

Vous voulez vraiment gagner votre vie en tant qu’écrivain ? Alors vous allez devoir oublier tout ce que vous savez ! Laissez-moi deviner – vous êtes un auteur talentueux et prêt à tout faire pour gagner votre pain en écrivant. Vous avez lu d’innombrables articles et livres sur le sujet, suivi leurs suggestions, mais ne semblez pas parvenir à augmenter vos revenus. Ou alors vous êtes un écrivain débutant convaincu que quelque chose vous échappe car votre propre expérience ne correspond pas du tout à ce que d’autres affirment possible. Ou peut-être que ça fait des années que vous travaillez comme écrivain freelance amateur, et vous êtes convaincu qu’il est tout simplement impossible de quitter votre ‘vrai’ boulot pour faire ce que vous aimez à plein-temps. Laissez-moi vous confier un secret. On vous a menti. Oui, vous m’avez bien entendu. MENTI. La vérité, c’est que seuls 10 pourcents des écrivains gagnent suffisamment en écrivant à temps plein pour subvenir à leurs besoins. Dix pourcents. Ce n’est pas quelque chose que les autres livres sur ‘comment écrire’ abordent en détail, si ? Heureusement, il existe une solution. Je le sais parce que ça fait des années que je la pratique. Mais afin de réussir dans ce métier, vous allez devoir renverser votre modèle de l’écrivain freelance. En fait, vous allez devoir jeter presque tout ce que vous savez par la fenêtre. Je veux parler d’un nouveau système. D’un système qui ne limite pas la capacité à gagner sa vie d’un écrivain à des contraintes de temps. Je veux parler de gagner des revenus dont tout le monde serait fier. Dans mon nouveau livre, je vais vous montrer comment créer votre propre empire d’écriture en 30 jours ou moins. Vous apprendrez : •Pourquoi la plupart des freelances ne gagnent pas bien leur vie – et que faire pour changer ça •Com

Comment écrire un Blog, Comment gagner sa vie en Bloguant

by Richard G Lowe Jr Laura Dinraths

C’est un art d’écrire un article qui encourage le lecteur à prendre la décision d’agir. Voici la vision étroite du livre que vous lisez en ce moment sur votre Kindle. Vous apprendrez à créer un article qui intéresse le lecteur, l’interpelle, l’informe, et l’entraîne à prendre une décision à la fin de sa lecture. Le livre que vous lisez pour le moment décrit la méthode que j’utilise pour créer des articles de blogs dont l’intention spécifique est de pousser le lecteur du moment où il clique sur le lien jusqu’à ce qu’il clique sur le bouton ‘acheter’ ou ‘souscrire’ au bas de la page. Vous apprendez : * Comment créer un titre qui attire des lecteurs vers votre article * Quoi inclure au-dessus de la ligne de flottaison * Comment ajouter des déclencheurs émotionnels * Comment pousser vos lecteurs à partager votre article * Quelles autres informations inclure dans le texte * Comment les pousser à cliquer sur ‘acheter’ * L’importance des bonnes images * L’intérêt des vidéos

Comment Ecrire un Livre Electronique en un Mois: Étapes et astuces pour rester concentré, pour se motiver et être créatif

by Beautrice Norfolk

Vous cherchez à écrire un livre sans effort et en peu de temps? Apprenez les stratégies et les astuces que les auteurs professionnels à succès utilisent pour écrire des chefs-d'œuvre littéraires! À l'intérieur, vous apprendrez: - Écrivez un livre rapidement en un mois ou moins! - Démarrage. - Préparer la scène. - Créer un contour. - La génération d'idées. - Rédaction et mise au point.

Comment écrire un roman: Surmonter le blocage

by Sophie Martin Clara Tiscar

Vous avez envie d’écrire ? Vous avez déjà eu l’impression d’être bloqué ? Vivez-vous l’angoisse de la page blanche ? Ce livre est fait pour vous si vous vous reconnaissez dans l’une des situations suivantes : ✓ J’ai envie d’écrire, mais je ne trouve pas le moment de le faire. ✓ Je suis bloqué, je ne sais pas comment continuer mon roman. ✓ Je sais quelle histoire je souhaite raconter, mais je n’arrive pas à l’écrire. ✓ Je ne suis pas vraiment bloqué, mais je manque de motivation pour continuer d’écrire mon roman. Conçu comme un guide de référence pratique et interactif, cet ouvrage vous offre méthodes et ressources pour surmonter l'angoisse de la page blanche et éviter le blocage de l'écrivain.

Commercial Space Technologies and Applications: Communication Remote Sensing Gps And Metrological Satellites Second Edition

by Mohammad Razani

This new edition introduces and examines the space technologies that benefit our everyday lives. Each chapter now includes exercises and problems, and the content covers new satellites and emerging technologies. It explores the ever-improving quality of satellite systems and services, and also investigates ways to bring about higher resolution satellite imagery and lower satellite costs. The focus is on man-made satellites, which are becoming smaller, smarter, cheaper, and easier to launch, having a longer life span, and are less susceptible to interference. Furthermore, the book considers advances in several key technologies that affect the satellite industry. Includes extensive study questions and exercises after each chapter. Explains present commercial space technology and its future outlook. Explores the many applications of space technologies and their impact on our lives, including real world examples. Presents a future outlook on robotics, communications and navigation, and human health and nanotechnology. Provides a clear understanding of space, space technologies, space applications, space security, space regulations, a space roadmap, and their impact on the lives of humans now and for generations to come.

Common Discourse Particles in English Conversation (RLE: Discourse Analysis)

by Lawrence C. Schourup

First published in 1985, this book studies several common items in English conversation known variously as ‘discourse particles’, ‘interjections’, ‘discourse markers’, and, more informally, ‘hesitations’ or ‘fillers’. While the analysis primarily focuses on ‘like’, ‘well’ and ‘you know’, the larger concern is the entire set of items of which these are members and as such ‘I mean’, ‘now’, ‘oh’, ‘hey’, and ‘aha’ are also examined. These discourse particles are analysed at length and then a framework is proposed in which their use individually makes sense and allows revealing comparisons to be made between them. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics

Common Sense

by Thomas Paine

The rousing argument for independence that inspired a nation Published anonymously in 1776, this landmark political pamphlet spread across the colonies more rapidly than any document of its kind ever had before. Its words were read aloud in town squares, its pages affixed to tavern walls. Both a clear-eyed, plainly stated case for separation from Great Britain and a stirring call to action, Common Sense sparked the imagination of a fledgling nation and played a decisive role in the march toward revolution. Thomas Paine’s masterpiece is crucial reading for any student of American history. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

Commonplaces of Scientific Evidence in Environmental Discourses (Routledge Studies in Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Culture)

by Denise Tillery

This book focuses on the uses of scientific evidence within three types of environmental discourses: popular nonfiction books about the environment; traditional and social media texts created by a grassroots environmental group; and a set of data displays that make arguments about global warming in a variety of media and contexts. It traces the operations of eight commonplaces about science and shows how they recur throughout these contexts, starting with Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and ending with contemporary blogs and social media. The commonplaces are shown to embed ideological assumptions and simultaneously challenge those assumptions. In addition, the book addresses the potential dangers involved in relying too heavily on aspects of these commonplaces, and how they can undermine the goals of some of the writers who use them.

CommunicAsian: How Asia's Rise Is Shaping the Future of Communications, and How to Plan for It

by Oliver Stelling

The rise of Asia has changed the world, now shaped by greater global connectivity, geopolitics and shifting spheres of influence. Tapping into research and decades of experience in the world’s fastest-moving markets, this book makes a compelling case for a new and future-ready approach to communications planning and implementation, which the Asian Century demands. Facing a new operating environment, policymakers and business leaders have to act quickly. This book outlines the necessary adjustments to long-established practices and value propositions in both corporate and government communications and provides a step-by-step plan for strategy development, laid out in a two-pronged approach designed to appeal to a multicultural audience. It is an essential read for global practitioners and students in international relations and mass communications.

Communicate! (Fourteenth Edition)

by Kathleen S. Verderber Rudolph F. Verderber Deanna D. Sellnow

Now in its 14th edition, this ground-breaking, market-leading fundamentals of human communication text helps readers improve their communication competency by becoming proficient in using theory and research-grounded communication skills. Praised for its clear and concise writing style, this new edition includes increased coverage of how technology and social media are changing communication practices and offers guidelines for best practice. Lively contemporary examples and sample speeches ground theory, increase comprehension, and help readers become skillful communicators. COMMUNICATE! engages students in active learning through theory, application and skill-building exercises including speech action step activities that guide students through the speech preparation process. The role of ethics in communication is integrated throughout the text, and students can also apply ethical principles to case situations.

Communicate in a Crisis: Understand, Engage and Influence Consumer Behaviour to Maximize Brand Trust

by Kate Hartley

Communicate in a Crisis is the definitive guide for any PR or marketing professional to recognize, plan and respond to a sudden wildfire of consumer-led reaction, 'manipulated outrage' sparked from interaction on news feed algorithms, fuelled by social media and the constant demand for an instantaneous response.This book turns the traditional crisis management approach on its head, starting by understanding changing consumer behaviours and the new 'threat' for brands, then outlining practical steps to prepare, synchronize and execute a coordinated brand response across all channels - under pressure. It reveals why we love to hate our favourite brands, how to recognize a day to day problem from a crisis, and offers valuable advice, such as using influencers and brand advocates to address social media trolls, rumours and the impact of fake news. With unique case studies, interviews and anecdotes from global leaders, Communicate in a Crisis will embed a bottom-up culture of long-term reputation management, always ready to face the unexpected.

Communicate Like a Leader: Connecting Strategically to Coach, Inspire, and Get Things Done

by Dianna Booher John Britt Ed Jent

Draw Them In, Don't Drive Them Away!People often get promoted to leadership positions without knowing how to communicate an inspiring strategic vision to the people who report to them. So they focus on what they know: tactics, not strategy. As a result, they become stuck in micromanagement mode. Dianna Booher wants to prevent micromanagement before it happens by providing you with the right leadership communication skills. Grounded in extensive research, this book offers practical guidelines to help professionals think, coach, converse, speak, write, meet, and negotiate strategically to deliver results. In thirty-six brief chapters, Booher shows you how to communicate effectively to audiences up and down the organization so you can fulfill your most essential responsibilities as a leader.

Communicate to inspire

by Kevin Murray

Communicate to Inspire answers some of the key practical questions for becoming a better leader, such as: "How do you learn to be yourself, better?" and "What should you examine and how should you articulate your own purpose and values?" Kevin Murray presents a model that charts the leadership process and draws stories from his experience coaching leaders. This book offers principles of leadership communication that address: how to become more audience-centric; how to emphasize values; how to focus on the people leaders need to inspire; what methods and tools to use to try to see the world through their eyes and address their needs; and mastering the art of public speaking. Communicate to Inspire uses charts and information gathered from dozens of successful training programs to determine how to turn a department, division or company into a better listening, faster responding, more innovative entity, just by holding more and better structured conversations.

Communicate with Courage: Taking Risks to Overcome the Four Hidden Challenges

by Michelle D Gladieux

Winner of the 2023 PenCraft Best Book Award for Nonfiction, 2023 Nonprofit Authors Association Silver Award, 2023 Readers' Favorite Bronze Medal Award for Business, and the 2023 Dan Poynter's Global Ebook Awards Gold Award for Communications.Clear communication requires the courage to confront the psychological blocks that are holding you back. Learn how to become a fearless and peerless communicator.As a lifelong communication coach, Michelle Gladieux has discovered the four sneaky obstacles that can keep you from becoming an effective communicator: Hiding-Fearing your low self-confidence will expose your supposed weaknessesDefining-Putting too much stock into your assumptions and being quick to judge right and wrong Rationalizing-Using being realistic to shield yourself from taking chances, engaging in conflict, or doing other scary but potentially rewarding actionsSettling-Stopping at good enough instead of pushing for something better What all these challenges have in common is they require taking risks-to reveal yourself, to question your beliefs, to take a leap of faith, or to move out of your comfort zone. As a response, each chapter includes a Pro Move, or a best practice, and an exercise designed to help you overcome your fears and become a powerful communicator. Courageous communication requires self-knowledge, practice, and a fierce desire to continually improve; this book is like having an expert coach along with you for every step of the journey.

Communicate with Mastery: Speak With Conviction and Write for Impact

by JD Schramm

Develop your leadership communication Communicating with Mastery provides readers with a rich treasure trove of frameworks and tools for leadership communication as developed and taught over the past decade at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Designed for the business leader on the go, it provides you quick access to helpful approaches to vexing communication problems leaders face today in speaking and writing to various audiences. Projects often fail not because of the vision, but in the articulation of that vision. With the help of this book, you’ll learn how to ensure you get the results you desire as a leader and communicator including: Speak with conviction and write with impact Tailor your communication to any goal, setting, or audience Scale your leadership through effective coaching Every time you write or speak, you need to make your words count. And this book shows you how.

Communicating: The Multiple Modes of Human Communication

by Ruth Finnegan

Treatments of human communication mostly draw on cognitive and word-centred models to present it as predominantly a matter of words. This, Finnegan argues, seriously underestimates the far-reaching multi-modal qualities of human interconnecting and the senses of touch, olfaction, and, above all, audition and vision that we draw on. In an authoritative and readable account, Ruth Finnegan brings together research from linguistic and sensory anthropology, material culture, non-verbal communication, computer-mediated communication, and, strikingly, research on animal communication, such as the remarkable gesture systems of great apes. She draws on her background in classical studies and her long anthropological experience to present illuminating examples from throughout the world, past and present. The result is to uncover an amazing array of sounds, sights, smells, gestures, looks, movements, touches, and material objects used by humans and other animals to interconnect both nearby and across space and time She goes on to first explore the extra-sensory modes of communication now being revealed in the extraordinary "new science" research and then, in an incendiary conclusion, to deny the long-prevailing story of human history by questioning whether orality really came before literacy; whether it was really through "the acquisition of language" that our prehistoric cave painting ancestors made a sudden leap into being "true humans"; and finally, astonishingly, to ask whether human communicating had its first roots not, after all, in verbal language but something else. Not to be missed, this highly original book brings a fresh perspective on, among other things, that central topic of interest today – the dawn of human history – and on what being homo sapiens really means. This revised and updated edition has additional illustrations, updated chapters, and a new concluding chapter. A provocative and controversial account that will stir worldwide debate, this book is an essential transdisciplinary overview for researchers and advanced students in language and communication, anthropology, and cultural studies.

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