Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“xin an lu”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “xin an lu”
Skip side bar filters

  • Reflections on Communication, Education, Scholarship, and Life

    by Xin-An Lu ...
    Our actions in education, business, and government are no longer guided by conscious ideals, but by entrenched practices that are products of expediency, indolence, and even tyranny. Inveterate and ubiquitous problems abound. Students hate school. Employees dislike their jobs. Professors become disinclined toward teaching. Boredom and procrastination are everywhere. There are promotion ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Public Secrets as a Phenomenon in Organizational Communication: How Public Knowledge Fails to Become Organizational Action

    by Xin-An Lu ...
    There seem to be two realms in our waking time: work and life. However, work is often juxtaposed against life, which is found in anything but work. Organizational work has become nothing more than the necessary evil, the means for a livelihood. Work has ubiquitously become the enemy of life. What culprit has dichotomized work and life? Public secrets!Empirically based, this book explores and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Gems from the Top 100 Speeches

    A Handy Source of Inspiration for Your Thoughts and Language

    by Xin-An Lu ...
    Public speaking is one of the things many fear the most. This fear is justified-Many eyes to look into and many minds to contend with. Thoughts are elusive. The catcher of powerful thoughts-the apt words-are even more elusive. Yet, you do not need to despair. By standing on the shoulders of great orators, you can also speak with facility, felicity, cogency, and potency.Great orators have produced ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A Concise Collection of College Students' Slang

    For a Better Understanding of and Closer Connection with College Students

    by Xin-An Lu ...
    Language is a passport to a culture. Slang, probably the most lively part of a language, is especially so. Understanding of a culture's slang is a great lens through which to know the authentic life of the members in that culture. Slang can also serve to spice up conversations with these members.In this light, a collection is made of undergraduate college students' slang-by college students ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Cases of Problematic Communication from College Students

    by Xin-An Lu ...
    There is a mistaken assumption in many social sciences that knowledge will automatically translate into action. Based on this assumption, textbooks for basic oral communication, a required course in many college campuses, attempt to ameliorate students' communicational behaviors by teaching them knowledge about communication: theories, concepts, and terms. Not only failing their attempt, these ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A Manual of Guidelines, Quotations, and Versatile Phrases for Basic Oral Communication

    by Xin-An Lu ...
    Rather like the nerves in human body, communication forms the sinew and tendon of any social body. The quality of everyday life is not only affected by the way we design our work and institutions, but also (perhaps more importantly) by the way we interact and communicate with each other. This booklet attempts to help its readers to become more effective oral communicators in various scenarios ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • MWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search for a New Best Friend

    My Yearlong Search for a New Best Friend

    by Rachel Bertsche ...
    When Rachel Bertsche first moves to Chicago, she’s thrilled to finally share a zip code, let alone an apartment, with her boyfriend. But shortly after getting married, Bertsche realizes that her new life is missing one thing: friends. Sure, she has plenty of BFFs—in New York and San Francisco and Boston and Washington, D.C. Still, in her adopted hometown, there’s no one to call at the last minute ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Organization Theory

    by Ann L Cunliffe ...
    Series series SAGE Course Companions series
    The SAGE Course Companion on Organization Theory is an accessible introduction to a challenging subject area. This book helps readers to extend their understanding of theories and make the connection between them and organizational practice. It will enhance their thinking skills in line with course requirements and provides support on how to revise for exams and prepare for and write assessed ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Managing Change, Creativity and Innovation

    by Costas Andriopoulos, Patrick Dawson ...
    A fresh approach to managing organizational change by looking at it as complex, dynamic and messy as opposed to a series of neat, linear stages and processes leading to success.Key to the approach is the idea that change, creativity and innovation all overlap and interconnect rather than being three separate areas of study and that managing the three together is central to organizations having the ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • The Secrets of Happy Families

    Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More

    by Bruce Feiler ...
    In The Secrets of Happy Families, New York Times bestselling author Bruce Feiler has drawn up a blueprint for modern families — a new approach to family dynamics and modern parenting, inspired by cutting-edge techniques gathered from experts in the disciplines of science, business, sports, and the military.Don't worry about family dinner.Let your kids pick their punishments.Ditch ... ... Read more

    $8.49 USD

  • How To Talk So Kids Can Learn

    by Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish ...
    Series series The How To Talk Series
    The leading experts on parent-child communication show parents and teachers how to motivate kids to learn and succeed in school.Using the unique communication strategies, down-to-earth dialogues, and delightful cartoons that are the hallmark of their multimillion-copy bestseller How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish show parents and teachers ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Creating Significant Learning Experiences

    An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses

    by L. Dee Fink ...
    “Dee Fink challenges our conventional assumptions and practices and offers an insightful approach to expanding our learning goals, making higher education more meaningful. This is a gem of a book that every college teacher should read.”—Ken Bain, author, What the Best College Students DoSince the original publication of L. Dee Fink’s Creating Significant Learning Experiences, higher education has ... Read more

    $37.00 USD