Language Arts & Disciplines : Communication

Neustadt uses the term political confusion in a number of ways, most broadly to describe the generalized disorientation associated with Latin America in an age of postmodernity characterized by the coexistence of indigenous, mestizo, and European cultures, juxtaposed with the uneven effects of mass media and high technology more...

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"It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word." -- Andrew Jackson Weird or wierd? Necessary or neccessary? Recomend or recommend? English spelling is fiendish, but that doesn't mean you can't have fun with it. Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary is at once a celebration of spelling and a solace to anyone who has ever struggled with the arcane rules of the English language. As amusing as he is informative, Vivian Cook thrills the reader with more than a hundred entries -- from photographs of hilariously misspelled signs to quizzes best taken in private to schadenfreude-rich examples of spelling errors of literary greats -- that will tickle the inner spelling geek in every reader. more...

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2007, held in Kuching, Malaysia, in December 2007. The 33 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 223 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on number theory and elliptic curve, protocol, hash function design, group/broadcast cryptography, mac and implementation, multiparty computation, block ciphers, foundation, public key encryption, and cryptanalysis. more...

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Since the appearance of the authors' first volume on elliptic curve cryptography in 1999 there has been tremendous progress in the field. This second volume addresses these advances and brings the reader up to date. Prominent contributors to the research literature in these areas have provided articles that reflect the current state of these important topics. more...

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A cultural analysis of African-American communication. It emphasizes identity, rules and strategies that characterize communication for group members. Topics covered include communication competence, African-American cultural identity negotiation, and more. more...

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