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 | Fundamentals of Hearing Product# 460679200 Selling for $44.95 "Loyola Univ., Chicago, IL. Introductory textbook covers the subject from sound to sensation, including the structure and function of the auditory system. This edition includes 25 percent new data, with six appendices. Previous edition: c1994." |
 | Boxing Plato's Shadow: An Introduction to the Study of Human Communication Product# 460683745 Selling for $27.72 "Designed to introduce students to the academic discipline of Communication, Boxing Plato's Shadow describes the scope and methods of communication studies, and sketches its history from the work of the early sophists to contemporary research efforts. The authors address the subject inclusively, arguing that communication studies is a sound social science, a humanity, and a practical art. Discussions of methods are balanced, including quantitative and qualitative social science, and modern and postmodern critical approaches. Boxing Plato's Shadow helps explain why, despite its long and venerable history of scholarly endeavor, Communication continues to struggle for recognition of its legitimate place in the academy. Throughout, the authors emphasize the field's durability over more than two millennia and the merits of multiple systematic approaches to the study of communication." |
 | BOXING PLATO'S SHADOW: An Introduction to the Study of Human Communication Product# 460683766 Selling for $20.46 "Designed to introduce students to the academic discipline of Communication, this brief, supplementary text describes the scope and methods of Communication Study, and sketches its history from the work of the early sophists to contemporary research efforts. The authors address the subject inclusively, arguing that Communication Study is a sound social science, a humanity, and a practical art. Discussions of methods are balanced, including quantitative and qualitative social science, and modern and postmodern critical approaches. The book helps explain why, despite its long and venerable history of scholarly endeavor, Communication continues to struggle for recognition of its legitimate place in the academy. Throughout, the authors emphasize the field's durability over more than two millennia and the merits of multiple systematic approaches to the study of communication. This book serves well in introductory Communication courses, and (as an overview) in methodology courses, and may also be useful for beginning graduate students as an orientation to the discip" |
 | Alcohol and Speech Product# 460684156 Selling for $45.95 "'The book provides a comprehensive review of the effects of alcohol on speech while comparing the various theoretical concerns that form this research. A special merit is the truly exhaustive survey of the relevant literature which also takes into account a significant number of studies which were written in and on languages other than English... The book thus serves as a single, unifying up-to-date reference source for those interested in speech motor effects evident in the acoustic records, reaction times, speech communication strategies, and perceptual judgments'. -- Hermann J. Kunzel, University of Trier, Budeskriminalamt Wiesbaden, Germany 'Scientifically characterizing the effects of alcohol on speech has important implications, as exemplified by the case of the Exxon Valdez Alcohol and Speech will be the classic reference text on this important intersection between basic science and social issues'. -- Linda S. Sobell, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 'A very comprehensive treatise on alcohol and speech using the captain of the Exxon Valdez as the anecdotal model... The book is a meld of a brood array of disciplines each of which can contribute to a fundamental understanding of the specific effects of alcohol on speech... This book is unique'. -- Robert F. Borkenstein, Indiana University, Bloomington 'Chin and Pisoni bring to the reader a careful and complete assessment of the effects of alcohol on speech. The result of their scholarship should be of interest to anyone concerned with alcohol and speech, but the book also is a valuable reference for the general study of forensics and the effects of drugs on human behavior. This book sets a standard forthe field and will surety find a secure place in the scientific and legal literature'. -- Ray D. Kent, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison Alcohol and Speech serves as a single, unifying reference source for those interested in speech motor effects evident in the acoustic record, reaction times, speech communication strategies, and perceptual judgments. written by a linguist and a psychologist, the book provides an analytic orientation toward speech and alcohol with an emphasis on laboratory-based research in acoustic-phonetics and speech science. It is a comprehensive review of the effects of alcohol on speech and compares the various theoretical concerns which form this research. Studies of both alcohol and speech have been rare because each field has its own experimental protocols, methodologies, and research agendas. This book fills a long-standing gap and is unique in providing both breadth of coverage and depth of analysis. A case study involving the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound develops some of the implications of this research." |
 | An Introduction to the Physiology of Hearing Product# 460684367 Selling for $73.95 "This book deals with the way that the auditory system processes acoustic signals. Since the first edition appeared, rapid and exciting developments have been made in several areas which bear on this theme, most notably in the understanding of cochlear function, including cochlear mechanics, hair cell function and mechanisms of transduction. The sections of the book dealing with these areas have been completely rewritten. Every chapter has been completely revised in the light of developments in the field. A reading scheme has been provided to guide readers to the sections most appropriate for their interest. The book is written at a level suitable for undergraduates studying the special senses or as a basis for a range of more advanced studies." |