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Textbook Changes

You may have noticed (or will soon notice) a number of changes in your textbooks and I thought I�d note some of these here. 1.       Quotations that often introduce our chapters or that appear in margins will be a thing of the past unless they�re very old; contemporary quotations will be gone. The reason: permission problems. The same is true of quotations from research studies that occur within the basal text. 2.       Research instruments that have been so common in our basic texts for illustrating the concepts and also for introducing the nature of research (and something that I like to take credit for introducing into our basic texts, tho� I may be wrong here) will be gone. Again, the reason is permission problems, especially the difficulty/impossibility of getting digital rights. NCA journals, for example, will be off limits. You�re likely to see �adapted from� as a way around these restriction but that approach is not likely to ...

The Nonverbal Communication Book TOC

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Here is the Table of Contents for The Nonverbal Communication Book. The Nonverbal Communication Book   Contents in Brief   Welcome to The Nonverbal Communication Book   Part One. Foundations of Nonverbal Communication 1.       Introducing Nonverbal Communication   Part Two. The Codes of Nonverbal Communication 2.       Body Messages 3.       Facial Messages 4.       Eye Messages 5.       Artifactual Messages 6.       Space Messages 7.       Touch Messages 8.       Paralanguage and Silence Messages 9.       Time Messages   Part Three. Putting It All Together 10.   Attraction, Deception, Immediacy, and Power   Appendixes A.     Researching Nonverbal Communication B.      Creating a Video on Nonverba...

The Nonverbal Communication Book Preface

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Recently, I published The Nonverbal Communication Book with Kendall Hunt.  Here is the preface; the TOC will follow in another post. Welcome to The Nonverbal Communication Book     The Nonverbal Communication Book is one of many textbooks currently available for the popular Nonverbal Communication course. This book, however, is different in several important respects. Here I explain the focus of the text, its plan and organization, and the ways it may be used. Focus of The Nonverbal Communication Book This text is designed to cover both the theory and research in nonverbal communication and to help you develop your nonverbal skills. More specifically, this text aims to: �          Explain the channels or codes of nonverbal communication and how you send and receive nonverbal messages. �          Explain the importance and the role of culture in both sending and receiving nonverbal messages. �...