communication

Questions and answers explore the world of animal and human communication, under such headings as "When did a picture first tell a story," "Do languages change?" and "How does a telephone work?".

Examines developments in the history of written communication, discussing prehistoric cave drawings, the invention of the alphabet, the creation of the printing press, early libraries, written communication for the blind, computers, and other topics.

This secondary school text on conflict resolution presents a radical idea: conflict is positive and can serve to enhance important relationships. In this text, teachers and students will learn how to become empowered to express and resolve their own conflicts. This text does not focus on the process of using courts, lawyers, or arbitrators to make decisions when disagreements arise. Rather, it is about how to mine the "gold" in a conflict through direct communication between disputants themselves (from guide).

Promote caring and cooperation in your classroom. Book and CD provide everything you need to foster positive social skills such as caring, cooperatopn, communications, and appreciation for diversity through music, movement, and language arts (from cover).

Examines the history of communication, discussing the development of printing, mass media, and computers.

Describes direct speech, telephone, radio, records, and tapes as means of communication by the spoken word; letters, newspapers, magazines, books, and signs as written forms of communication; and photographs, movies, television, and illustrations as pictorial means of communication.

Simple text and photographs describe how communication in the twenty-first century is different from the past.