This accessible introductory textbook in persuasive communication speaks directly to the student by focusing on real-life experiences in personal, social, and professional contexts. It is a student-friendly introduction suitable for use in undergraduate courses in persuasion, health communication, and business communication.
This timely new textbook lays bare the ways in which disease and disaster can turn politicians into global leaders or national liabilities. It explains the impact of crises on development and human security and explores how states and societies can respond more effectively.
This timely new textbook lays bare the ways in which disease and disaster can turn politicians into global leaders or national liabilities. It explains the impact of crises on development and human security and explores how states and societies can respond more effectively.
A go-to, practical resource for peacebuilders, people working in conflict situations or people studying conflict transformation within a variety of disciplines.
This book investigates pharmaceutical regulation and the public health issue of fake or illicit medicines in developing countries. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in India, Kenya and Europe, it analyses the evolution of pharmaceutical capitalism, showing how the entanglement of market and health interests has shaped global regulation.
This book is a collection of original, interdisciplinary essays on the topic of medical error. The contributors include top scholars and practitioners working in bioethics, communication, law, medicine and philosophy.
This Very Short Introduction describes the new field of cognitive neuroscience - the study of what happens in the brain when we perceive, think, reason, remember, and act. Focusing on the human brain, Passingham looks at the most recent research in the field, the modern brain imaging technologies, and what the images can and can't tell us.
David Bohm identified creative dialogue, a sharing of assumptions and understanding, as a means by which the individual, and society as a whole, can learn more about themselves and others and achieve a renewed sense of purpose.