"Skills for Communicating with Patients, Third Edition is one of two companion books on improving communication in medicine which together provide a comprehensive approach to teaching and learning communication skills throughout all levels of medical education in both specialist and family medicine. Since their publication, the first edition of this book and its companion, Teaching and Learning Communication Skills in Medicine, have bec ..."
Nine Choices Johnny Cash and American Culture by JonathanSilverman Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2010 by Univ. Of Massachusetts Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55849-827-3, ISBN: 1-55849-827-3
"For much of his career, Johnny Cash opened his shows with the tagline, "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash." This introduction seemed unnecessary, since everyone in the audience knew who he was -- the famous musical artist whose career spanned almost five decades, whose troubled life on and off the stage received wide publicity, and whose cragged face seemed to express a depth and intensity not found in any other artist, living or dead.For Cash, as ..."
Fandom and Culture Ser.(1st Edition) Johnny Cash International : How and Why Fans Love the Man in Black by Michael Hinds, JonathanSilverman Paperback, 270 Pages, Published 2020 by University Of Iowa Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-60938-701-3, ISBN: 1-60938-701-5
"... by Jungmin Kwon Aussie Fans: Uniquely Placed in Global Popular Culture edited by Celia Lam and Jackie Raphael Austentatious: The Evolving World of Jane Austen Fans by Holly Luetkenhaus and Zoe Weinstein Sherlock's World: Fan Fiction ..."
The World is a Text(Updated) Writing About Visual and Popular Culture: Compact Edition by JonathanSilverman, Dean Rader Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2018 by Broadview Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55481-379-7, ISBN: 1-55481-379-4
"Wherever we look today, popular culture greets us with “texts” that make implicit arguments; this book helps students to think and write critically about these texts. The World Is a Text teaches critical reading, writing, and argument in the context of pop-culture and visual examples, showing students how to “read” everyday objects and visual texts with basic semiotics. The book shows how texts of all kinds, from a painting to a univers ..."
"Skills for Communicating with Patients, Second Edition is one of two companion books on improving communication in medicine which together provide a comprehensive approach to teaching and learning communication skills throughout all levels of medical education and in both specialist and family medicine. Since their publication, the first edition of this book and its companion, Teaching and Learning Communication Skills in Medicine, have ..."
" This full-color popular culture reader helps students see the world as a text and equips them with the analytical and composing tools to become strong academic writers. This full-color, richly illustrated cultural studies reader directly engages the process of reading and writing about the “texts” one sees in everyday life. Using the lenses of rhetoric, semiotics and cultural studies, students are encouraged to become effective ac ..."
The World is a Text(3rd Edition) Writing, Reading and Thinking About Visual and Popular Culture by JonathanSilverman, Dean Rader Paperback, 768 Pages, Published 2008 by Prentice Hall ISBN-13: 978-0-13-603345-5, ISBN: 0-13-603345-8
" The book teaches readers the usefulness of learning to actively "read" their surroundings. The new edition features a greatly expanded section on writing, editing, and making arguments. This cultural studies reader directly engages the process of reading and writing about the “texts” one sees in everyday life. Using the lenses of rhetoric, semiotics and cultural studies, students are encouraged to become effective academic writers whi ..."
The World is a Text(2nd Edition) The Writing, Reading, and Thinking About Culture and Its Contexts by JonathanSilverman, Dean Rader Paperback, 864 Pages, Published 2005 by Prentice Hall ISBN-13: 978-0-13-193198-5, ISBN: 0-13-193198-9
" The book teaches readers the usefulness of learning to actively "read" their surroundings. The new edition features a greatly expanded section on writing, editing, and making arguments. This cultural studies reader directly engages the process of writing about the "texts" one sees in everyday life. Its comprehensive and inclusive approach focuses on the relationship between reading traditional works–such as short stories, and poems–an ..."
"The Simply Series features cuisine-style food made easy with delicious dishes that you'll want to share with family and friends. Prepared with only the freshes ingredients, these books promise to make the flavors shine in your kitchen. With beautiful photography, plus useful tips and resources, cooks will enjoy bringing new tastes, from cuisines and cultures around the world, into their home cooking. Healthy, delicious, and perfect for ..."
The World Is a Text(1st Edition) Writing, Reading, and Thinking About Culture and its Contexts by JonathanSilverman, Dean Rader Paperback, 792 Pages, Published 2002 by Prentice Hall ISBN-13: 978-0-13-094984-4, ISBN: 0-13-094984-1
" This popular, culture-oriented book is devoted to teaching its readers how to “read” all kinds of texts. Its comprehensive and inclusive approach focuses on the relationship between absorbing traditional works—such as novels, short stories, and poems—and other less-traditional ones—such as movies, the Internet, art works, and television. More importantly, the book teaches learners the usefulness of actively reading their surroundings ..."
"This text and its companion, "Teaching and Learning Communication Skills in Medicine", provide a comprehensive approach to improving communication in medicine. Exploring in detail the specific skills of doctor-patient communication, the book provides evidence of the improvements that these skills can make in health outcomes and everday clinical practice."
"The built and landscaped spaces of colleges and universities radiate and absorb the values of the cultures in which they were created. As economic and political forces exert pressure on administrators and as our understanding of higher education shifts, these spaces can transform dramatically. Focusing on the utopian visions and the dystopian realities of American campus life, this collection of new essays examines campus spaces from t ..."
"This book and its companion, Skills for Communicating with Patients, Second Edition, provide a comprehensive approach to improving communication in medicine. Fully updated and revised, and greatly expanded, this new edition examines how to construct a skills curricular at all levels of medical education and across specialties, documents the individuals skills that form the core content of communication skills teaching programmes, and ex ..."
Nine Choices(Updated) Johnny Cash and American Culture (Hardback) by JonathanSilverman Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Massachusetts Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55849-826-6, ISBN: 1-55849-826-5
"A revealing cultural biography of a self-made American icon."
"This book is a brilliant blend of health policy and nursing practice. It identifies the forces that have dominated change in the national health systems of industrialised countries - the shift of priorities from hospital to ambulatory care, the vast expansion in modern technology, the rise in expenditures and efforts at cost-containment, the renewed emphasis on disease prevention and health promotion. At the same time, this book brings ..."
The Simulated Patient Handbook(1st Edition) A Comprehensive Guide for Facilitators and Simulated Patients by Fiona Dudley, JonathanSilverman Paperback, 236 Pages, Published 2011 by Crc Press ISBN-13: 978-1-84619-454-2, ISBN: 1-84619-454-7
"A simulated patient is an individual who, by pretending to be a patient in a consultation, offers health professionals an opportunity to learn, explore and develop their expertise. Simulated patients are also highly effective when used as an aid for consultation skills assessment. In recent years the rapid rise of simulated patients in healthcare training has led to many more people working as and with simulated patients. There is now a ..."
"Here Cash is seen as somebody not only worth admiring, but worth fighting for, and this book shows that Cash fandom is a more active field of politics and commitment than might routinely be assumed"--"