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 Robert Atwan Convergences (Bedford/St. Martin's)
With a unique focus on message, method, and medium, Convergences asks students to think about what, why, and how we communicate. What's the best way to tell the story of your life, through words or pictures? How would the Gettysburg Address be received if Lincoln had delivered it on PowerPoint? Why did Benetton design a marketing campaign around death row inmates? Convergences asks these questions, among others. Convergences has been put together to help students explore the many different kinds of compositions that surround them. Clusters bring together texts from multiple media and genres - essays, advertisements, the Web, news, comics, television, and film, among others - with a methodology to read them. And the new edition does even more to suggest a vocabulary students can use to talk about all kinds of texts, both in the book and in ix - a ground-breaking CD-ROM exploring fundamental concepts of visual rhetoric - that comes with every copy of Convergences.
Robert Atwan, Director of the Blue Hills Writing Institute at Curry College, is the series editor of Best American Essays and on the board of Aperture Magazine. His essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Kenyon Review. For Bedford/St. Martin's he has edited Our Times, Fifth Edition (1998); America Now, Fifth Edition (2005); and Ten on Ten: Major Essayists on Recurring Themes (1992). He has coedited with Donald McQuade The Writer's Presence, Fourth Edition (2003) and with Jon Roberts Left, Right, and Center: Voices across the Political Spectrum (1996). |
Susan James
(and Emily Stone McKinney, Sharon Smith Murray and Jean Weiler Ashwill) Maternal-Child Nursing. (Elsevier Saunders) Two books in one, Maternal-Child Nursing covers both the maternity and pediatrics portions of the nursing curriculum. A condensed format makes this book ideal for programs that teach this content in an extremely abbreviated time period. Written by expert educators in both arenas, this text provides a consistent level of depth and accuracy as well as a student-friendly writing style. Current issues and trends are addressed through the use of community nursing care plans, expanded health promotion content, enhanced communication tips, and parent/child teaching boxes.
 Associate Professor Susan James has had extensive teaching and clinical supervision experience in both nursing of children and community health nursing. In addition, she continues to practice in an outpatient pediatric office setting. She has authored and contributed to several nursing text books, including James/Ashwill Nursing Care of Children (2nd Edition) (W.B. Saunders, 2002).
Bill Littlefield
(and Richard A. Johnson) Fall Classics (Three Rivers Press)Fall Classics is a collection of the best writing about the World Series in its first hundred years. Certainly it is a kind of history of the event. It is also a catalog of the work of some of the most accomplished and entertaining writers of the past century, since the World Series has drawn to |
