Find Background Information

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Reference area (first floor)

Encyclopedia of children, adolescents, and the media — Reference 302.23083 E563
Encyclopedia of conflict resolution — Reference 303.6903 BUR
Encyclopedia of major marketing campaigns — Reference 659.10973 ENC
Encyclopedia of new media—Reference 302.23403 ENC
Encyclopedia of rhetoric —Reference 808.003 ENC

Find Books & Videos at the Landmark College Library

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Book stacks (second floor or LD Library)

Animal talk: Breaking the codes of animal language — Tim Friend — 591.59 FRI
The art of connecting: How to overcome differences, build rapport, and communicate effectively with anyone — Claire Raines — 302.2 R155A
Beyond buzz: The next generation of word-of-mouth marketing—Lois Kelly — 658.8 K29B
Body language — Susan Quilliam — 153.69 Q66B
Communicating effectively: Write, speak, and present with authority —Garry Kranz —
658.45 K89C
The definitive book of body language — Allan Pease — 153.69 P363D
The emotional lives of animals: A leading scientist explores animal joy, sorrow, and empathy — and why they matter — Marc Bekoff — 591.5 B424E
The lost art of listening — Michael P. Nichols — 153.68 NIC
Magic in the air: Mobile communication and the transformation of social life — James Everett Katz — 303.4833 K198M
Naked conversations: How blogs are changing the way businesses talk with customers — Robert Scoble — 659.2 S363N
Speak to influence: How to unlock the hidden power of your voice — Susan Berkley —
808.51 B513S
Women seen and heard: Lessons learned from successful speakers — Lois Phillips —
808.51 PHI
Would you really rather die than give a talk? The comic-book guide to brilliantly surviving your next business presentation — Michael Egan — 658.452 EGA
Your attention, please: How to appeal to today's distracted, disinterested, disengaged, disenchanted, and busy consumer — Paul B. Brown — 659.1 B879Y

EBooks (Find others in WebCat)

Stranger in the Nest: do parents really shape their child's personality, iintelligence, or character -- 1999-- David Cohen
The Politics of Heredity: essays on eugenics, biomedicine, and the nature-nurture debate -- 1998-- Diane Paul

Videos in our collection (second floor)

Conflict resolution and peer mediation — AV 303.69 C748
The merchants of cool — AV 658.8340 M554
Successful speaking — AV 808.51 SUC
That's not what I meant!: Language, culture, & meaning — AV 302.2242 T166T

Find Books & Films Available from Other Libraries

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Allow up to two weeks (average is one week) for the materials to arrive.

Find Articles

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Databases

Student Edition
Scholarly articles from journals, magazines, and newspaper reports.

Try a Subject Guide SearchSearch for "Communications" or your main topic

Choose "Subdivisions"
Choose a subdivision related to your topic
Or click on the subject link and add a keyword in the search box

Today's Science

Articles on the latest scientific discoveries and the fundamental concepts that underlie them.

Search for your subject in the search box on the left of the screen.
- Read the article on Brain Power, Culture and the Brain, Memory & Learning, and many more psychology subjects.
- Link to related articles from the lists on the left of the screen.

General OneFile

Scholarly articles from journals, magazines, and newspaper reports.

Make sure you click on the Academic Journals tab!!

Try a Subject Guide Search and use the Subdivisions to narrow your topic.
- Hint: Use only one very broad term Example: Genius
- Add additional terms in the Search box on the left side of the screen.

OR

Try an Advanced Search and search for terms in the Abstract field.
- Hint: use the pull down menu.
- Search for more than one term at a time.

Put each term on a different line.

Academic Search Premier

Scholarly articles from journals and magazines. Includes book reviews.

Type in a broad topic, add "AND" and an aspect of the subject that interests you.
Use "quoation marks" to search for phrases.
- Example: "multiple intelligence" AND children
  - Once you have a results list, Narrow By Subject.
- Choose Academic Journals to eliminate magazine articles.

Websites

Use the Website Evaluation Checklist to evaluate your web sources.

Some reliable website directories and websites are:

Advertising Principles: "Evidence Based Advertising"
http://advertisingprinciples.com/

American Rhetoric: The Power of Oratory in the United States http://www.americanrhetoric.com/

FAA: Navigation Services — Global Positioning System http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ato/service_units/techops/navservices/gnss/gps/

Intercultural Dialogue: UNESCO Culture Sector

http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=11406&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/
The Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs & Body Language Cues http://members.aol.com/nonverbal2/diction1.htm

Scientific American Frontiers: Calls of the Wild http://www.pbs.org/saf/1308/index.html

Citations

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