communication

Bill Nye the Science Guy answers questions about communication, and conducts an experiment that demonstrates how codes are created.

Describes the elements of successful presentations, discussing content, format, structure, proofreading and revision, effective speaking skills, multimedia, and self-evaluation.

Provides an introductory handbook on writing, including sections on sentences, paragraphs, personal writing, subject writing, research writing, and speaking skills, and listening skills.

Describes how technology in communication has changed from the earliest times to the modern era.

Examines America's growing disinterest in science, a social trend the authors suggest is perpetuated by weak education systems, science-phobic politicians, religious ideologies, and the corporate media; and offers solutions and initiatives to reverse the course.

Presents more than seventy 4-to-8-line conversations between an American and a person from another culture--Arab/Middle Eastern, British, Chinese, French, German, Hispanic, Indian, Japanese, Mediterranean/European, or Russian--in which a subtle faux pas is committed, and asks readers to figure out what the breach of cultural norms was. Includes explanations.

News travels quickly through a small village when a wolf is seen in the hills, compelling animal friends to warn one another and, in the process, turn hearsay into an increasing inaccurate rumor.