Co-founders of the Montreal-based Centre for Reproductive Loss, Gray (a counselor) and Lassance (a nurse), draw from stories of their clients and colleagues to help people deal with miscarriage, still
The essays collected in Science and the Internet consider the effects of digital technologies on scientific argumentation and the circulation of scientific knowledge. In Communicating Science, Gross,
While Aristotle acknowledges the connection between rhetoric, biology, and cognitive abilities, scholarship continues to struggle to integrate the fields of rhetoric and neurobiology. Drawing on recen
In the field of technical communication, academics and industry practitioners alike regularly encounter the same question: “What exactly is it you do?” Their responses often reveal a fundamental diffe
In Lawrence, Massachusetts, fully one-half of the population 14 years of age or over is employed in the woolen and worsted mills and cotton mills. Thus begins the federal government's Report on Strike
Scholars, teachers, and practitioners of organizational, professional, and technical communication and rhetoric are target audiences for a new book that reaches across those disciplines to explore the
The book describes three kinds of writing on the Internet—user-centric, persuasion-centric, and quality-centric, of which the current model for evaluating content recognizes only user-centric—and prov
The purpose of this book is to move our field's discussion beyond issues of diversity in the practice of technical communication, which is certainly important, to include discussions of how race and e
An overview of legal aspects that might lead to problems or confusion when individuals work in international settings. By examining the situation from various perspectives, the text provides an initia
Academic administrators of professional/technical communication programs narrate their day-to-day challenges and solutions. Topics include institutional context, curriculum, program design/redesign, a
A review of developments in the governance of occupational health and safety (OHS) in Australia, Canada, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and more generally; examines economic restructuring, precarious wor
ABOUT THE BOOK Not since the great military suicide epidemic of the American Civil War have we seen so many of our heroes, our soldiers and veterans, die by suicide. Why? War is violence. There is int
The editors undertook this project to promote the International Conference on Death, Grief, and Bereavement in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Throughout its history, the conference has attracted internationall
As the first text to bring the field of technical communication and disability studies into conversation with each other, this collection expands both fields by drawing attention to issues of accessib
"He was my best friend." "I feel like I've lost that one person I could always count on." Siblings know each other in ways friends and other blood relatives do not. They have shared bedrooms, bathroom
One of the unspoken aspects of mourning concerns the ways that loss affects our intimate relationships and our sexual expressiveness. This text opens these subjects for conversation, with the aim of p
Designing Web-Based Applications for 21st Century Writing Classrooms brings together, for the first time, a group of scholars and teachers who have been developing, on their own initiative, web-based
Online Education 2.0: Evolving, Adapting, and Reinventing Online Technical Communication continues the work of Kelli Cargile Cook and Keith Grant-Davie's first collection, Online Education: Global Que
A theory of information design and ethics, based on the semiotics of C. S. Peirce, is used to explain the major properties of visual communication in all its forms and provides a unifying description
Designing Texts is an edited collection dedicated to teaching visual communication in non-visual disciplines, with a particular focus on the fields of technical and professional communication, rhetori
ABOUT THE BOOK Spiritual Resiliency and Aging offers a corrective to anxious, dichotomized visions of aging that either deny the realities of growing old (leading to exclusion, patronization, and labe
ABOUT THE BOOK The U.S.A.'s nuclear weapons program has exposed workers and the public to health hazards since World War II. In the 1980s and 1990s, federal health agencies responded to new revelation
ABOUT THE BOOK This book is a selection of New Solutions articles, published over the past two decades, from the Scientific Solutions section of the journal. The section is intended as a forum for the
David Bennett is the retired National Director of Health, Safety and Environment of the Canadian Labour Congress and the Book Review Editor of the journal New Solutions. Northern Exposures is the resu
Complex Worlds: Digital Culture, Rhetoric, and Professional Communicationis a collection of thought-provoking scholarly essays by teachers and industry practitioners in professional communication and
ABOUT THE BOOK This book explores the impacts of HIV/AIDS and neoliberal globalization on the occupational health of public sector hospital nurses in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, where HIV/AIDS preval
Four hundred police officers die by suicide every year in the United States. Lt. Michael Piggot died by suicide following a Taser incident. Police Chief Thomas Moffatt was found dead of a self-inflict
This is one of the most innovative and original books I have read on the subject of death and dying, one that will both stimulate and challenge the reader with compelling insights and perceptive under
This book examines Texas regulations from the Texas Black Codes of 1866, some of the most deceptive regulations in Texas history, to contemporary Texas Child Care Licensing regulations, which perhaps
This collection of essays focuses on both how and why assessment serves as a key element in the teaching and practice of technical and professional communication. The collection is organized to form a
Train Your Brain was written to provide older adults, and the people who work with them, with practical and scientifically based suggestions and interventions on how to maintain and even improve memo
This book describes working conditions in informal-sector shoe production in Indonesia and the Philippines, their gender dimensions, and national and international policy implications. The use of orga
ABOUT THE BOOK Work, so fundamental to well-being, has its darker and more costly side. Work can adversely affect our health, well beyond the usual counts of injuries that we think of as "occupational
The beginning of psychological aesthetics is normally traced back to the publication of Gustav Theodor Fechner's seminal book Vorschule der Aesthetik in 1876. Following in the footsteps of this rich t
Nursing is vital to millions of people worldwide. This book details the ebb and flow of its fascinating history and politics through case studies from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Canad
During the 1970s and 1980s, a hazardous waste management industry emerged in the U.S., driven by government and polluting industry responses to a hazardous waste crisis. In 1979, labor unions began to
ABOUT THE BOOK The workplace is not immune to the problems, pressures, and challenges presented by experiences of loss and trauma and the grief reactions they produce. This clearly written, well-craft
This final volume of Death and Bereavement Around the World reflects on some major themes: death and after-life, religion and spirituality, rites and rituals, secularist approaches, cultural variation
Lukens Steel was an extraordinary business that spanned two centuries of American history. The firm rolled the first boiler plate in 1818 and operated the largest rolling mills in America in 1890, 190
At the Point of Production, a compilation of contributions to New Solutions Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health Policy, locates workers' health and safety problems in the broad political
