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Dolphin communication and cognition : past, present, and future
"Dolphin researchers have collected an impressive amount of data over the last twenty years, thanks to advances in technology for monitoring, recording, and analyzing dolphin behavior as well as increasing interest in exploring and modeling dolphins' cognitive capacities. This volume offers a comprehensive reference to the latest research on dolphin communication and cognition, reporting on fin…
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- 9780262331852
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 310 pages) :illustrations
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Families at play connecting and learning through video games
"How family video game play promotes intergenerational communication, connection, and learning. Video games have a bad reputation in the mainstream media. They are blamed for encouraging social isolation, promoting violence, and creating tensions between parents and children. In this book, Sinem Siyahhan and Elisabeth Gee offer another view. They show that video games can be a tool for connecti…
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- 9780262344579
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Getting Through: The Pleasures and Perils of Cross-Cultural Communication
Understanding how culture affects the ways we communicate -- how we tell jokes, greet, ask questions, hedge, apologize, compliment, and so much more. We can learn to speak other languages, but do we truly understand what we are saying? How much detail should we offer when someone asks how we are? How close should we stand to our conversational partners? Is an invitation genuine or just pro form…
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- 9780262340601
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- 1 online resource (xx, 276 pages) :illustrations
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White sight :visual politics and practices of whiteness
"How whiteness has been constructed, naturalized, and wielded; and how we can unmake it. By a renowned visual culture scholar; grounded in visual and cultural critique, feminism, and the Black radical tradition"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262373104
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Picture-work :how libraries, museums, and stock agencies launched a new image…
"Argues that our contemporary treatment of the image as a circulating object was forged by three 20th century institutions: the museum, the library, and the stock photography agency"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262377041
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Visualization and interpretation :humanistic approaches to display
"Visusalization argues for the importance of using traditional humanistic methodologies for the interpretation of graphical images (bar graphs, pie charts, network diagrams, etc.)"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262361159
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The infographic :a history of data graphics in news and communications
"The use of infographics is on the rise in newspapers, on television, and on the web. Data visualizations are now ubiquitous in education and corporate life as well. Yet modern communications scholarship has had little to say about this development: the infographic has so far existed on the periphery of communications studies. To date, no serious attempt has been made to explore the historical …
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- 9780262358118
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Evolution of communicative flexibility :complexity, creativity, and adaptabil…
Experts investigate communicative flexibility (in both form and usage of signals) as the foundation of the evolution of complex communication systems, including human language.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281027
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- 1 online resource (x, 356 pages) :illustrations.
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Origins of human communication
"A Bradford book.""In this original and provocative account of the evolutionary origins of human communication, Michael Tomasello connects the fundamentally cooperative structure of human communication (initially discovered by Paul Grice) to the especially cooperative structure of human (as opposed to other primate) social interaction."--Inside jacket.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262285070
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 393 pages) :illustrations.
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The age of electronic messages
What are the frontiers of today's communications technology? The Age of Electronic Messages explains the scientific principles on which this technology is based and explores its capabilities and limitations, its risks and benefits. In straightforward language accompanied by numerous illustrations, Truxal describes the communications technology that has become such an integral part of today's wo…
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- 0262257092
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 487 pages) :illustrations.
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