Communication and Organizational Culture: A Key to Understanding Work Experiences
Communication and Organizational Culture: A Key to Understanding Work Experiences is the first book to provide an introduction to different views on and approaches to the study of organizational culture from a communication perspective. This text introduces the basic elements of organizational culture including artifacts that emerge from the interactions of organizational members. Author Joann Keyton uses a variety of lenses for understanding organizational culture and integrates research findings as practical advice about managing, developing, and changing organizational culture.
Cognition in Emotion: An Investigation through Experiences with Art
Emotions are essential for human existence, both lighting the way toward the brightest of achievements and setting the course into the darkness of suffering. Not surprisingly, then, emotion research is currently one of the hottest topics in the field of psychology. Yet to divine the nature of emotion is a complex and extensive task. In this book emotions are approached thought an exploration of the nature of cognition in emotion; the nature of thoughts in feelings.
The Student Life Handbook is a comprehensive guide that looks at every aspect of student life from the perspective of new undergraduates. It outlines what to expect, offers information and practical advice on how to meet the challenges, and suggests strategies to ease lifestyle problems and optimise opportunities and resources. Drawing on the experiences of over 160 students from all over the United Kingdom, this book presents an extensive exposition of contemporary student life.
This book is built around Fred Edward's journals, sent home during his first tour in Vietnam in 1966-67. His own meticulous research fits his individual experiences into a larger context, through Postscripts, extensive notes, and a thorough historical Chronology. The book is formatted so that the reader can move easily between the events in Vietnam in 1967-68 and the broader context as revealed through later research. The reader can thus move between Edward's personal experiences in Vietnam and the larger historical forces that sent him there.
An epic tale of high adventure and deep humanity set in mythic India, this novel by Newbery medalist Lloyd Alexander offers a feast of many flavors--moving experiences, childlike humor, dark tragedy, anguish at promises broken and joy at promises kept.
