WADSWORTH Cengage Advantage Books: Looking Out, Looking In

Product Description Used by more than a million students, LOOKING OUT/LOOKING IN, Fourteenth Edition, maintains its outstanding tradition of combining current information with a fun, reader-friendly voice that links course topics to your everyday life. You'll discover how you will benefit from improving your interpersonal skills and sharpening your critical understanding of the communication process. Diverse and compelling examples illustrate and reinforce how communication skills can affect both the world around you and your own lives. Improve your relationships and your future career success with this engaging text that teaches interpersonal concepts through popular music, art, movies, and television. Review 1. A First Look at Interpersonal Communication. 2. Communication and Identity: Creating and Presenting the Self. 3. Perception: What You See Is What You Get. 4. Emotions: Feeling, Thinking, and Communicating. 5. Language: Barrier and Bridge. 6. Nonverbal Communication: Messages beyond Words. 7. Listening: More Than Meets the Ear. 8. Communication and Relational Dynamics. 9. [NEW TOPIC] Communication in Close Relationships. (subsections: Communication in the Family. Communication among Friends. Communication in Intimate Relationships.) 10. Improving Communication Climates. 11. Managing Interpersonal Conflicts. About the Author Ron Adler is professor emeritus at Santa Barbara City College, where he developed programs in interpersonal communication, business and professional communication and communication theories. He has co-authored and edited several textbooks that address communication contexts and topics including interpersonal communication, small group communication, public speaking, assertiveness and social skills. In addition to writing and teaching, Professor Adler works with professional and business people to improve their communication on the job. Russell F. Proctor II is a professor at Northern Kentucky University, where he has taught since 1991. He primarily teaches courses in interpersonal communication, interviewing and communication pedagogy. In 1997 he won the university's Outstanding Professor Award. Professor Proctor is the author of numerous articles and textbooks focusing on interpersonal communication and communication education, with a particular interest in the use of feature films as instructional resources.