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How to Be in a Personal Relationship
HRD Press 2007; US$ 34.95Master the fundamental skills necessary to maintain a personal relationship. There are many books out there on relationships. But this one is different. It teaches social, intellectual and emotional skills you can actually apply in your life to create a lasting and intimate relationship whether youre married, engaged or in a committed... more...
Powerful People Skill
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Ptd Ltd 2009; US$ 12.80This book provides easy to follow methods for building people skills, providing dos, donts, fast facts, common myths, and simple mental checklists to help you form strong, long-lasting, and powerful relationships in work and life. more...
Acquaintances
McGraw-Hill Education 2009; US$ 186.00The distinction between friends and acquaintances is often made in everyday conversation but the significance of this distinction is under-explored. This book argues that acquaintanceship is a topic worthy of investigation in its own right and assesses the overall significance of acquaintances in late modern society. more...
Governing Ethnic Conflict
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 146.00This book offers an intellectual history of an emerging technology of peace and explains how the liberal state has come to endorse illiberal subjects and practices. The idea that conflicts are problems that have causes and therefore solutions rather than winners and losers has gained momentum since the end of the Cold War, and it has become more... more...
Bloodlust
Free Press 2011; US$ 24.00THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND ACROSS CULTURES, the most common form of violence is that between family members and neighbors or kindred communities?in civil wars writ large and small. From assault to genocide, from assassination to massacre, violence usually emerges from inside the fold. You have more to fear from a spouse, an ex-spouse, or a coworker... more...
Weltanschauliche Orientierungsversuche im Exil / New Orientations of World View in Exile
Editions Rodopi 1905; US$ 104.00Die Radikalität der Exilerfahrung führte viele ausgewanderte Intellektuelle, Schriftsteller und Künstler dazu, ihre Weltanschauung neu zu orientieren. Dies wirkte sich in vielfacher Hinsicht aus, u.a. philosophisch, psychologisch, sozial, politisch und re more...
Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interaction
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2008; US$ 158.00Animated interactive characters and robots that are able to function in human social environments are being developed by a large number of research groups worldwide. Emotional expression, as a key element of human social interaction and communication, is often added in an attempt to make them appear more natural to us. How can such artefacts be given... more...
Calling for Help
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2005; US$ 180.00Telephone helplines have become one of the most pervasive sites of expert-lay interaction in modern societies throughout the world. Yet surprisingly little is known of the in situ , language-based processes of help-seeking and help-giving behavior that occurs within them. This collection of original studies by both internationally renowned and emerging... more...
Gender in Interaction
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2002; US$ 180.00In this volume, gender is seen as a communicative achievement and as a social category interacting with other social parametres such as age, status, prestige, institutional and ethnic frameworks, cultural and situative contexts. The authors come from a variety of backgrounds such as sociology of communication, anthropological linguistics, sociolinguistics,... more...
Making Minds
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007; US$ 143.00Social stimuli are important proximate determinants of human thought, action, and behaviour. But does the social environment also have deeper, profounder, and possibly more distal impact on more lasting psychological structures and forms, generalizing across time and domains, such as traits, self-consciousness, abilities, and talents? This volume takes... more...









