Books published by Baywood Publishing Company Inc

These writings constitute a diverse and thematically coherent set of inquiries and cover topics such as cyber activism, digital dispositio, citizen and open-source journalism, broadband affordances, XML, digital resumes, avant garde performance art, best pedagogical practices, and intercultural communication between East and West, North and South.

The increasingly global nature of the World Wide Web presents new challenges and opportunities for technical communicators who must develop content for clients or colleagues from other cultures and in other nations

During the 1970s and 1980s, a hazardous waste management industry emerged in the US, driven by government and polluting industry responses to a hazardous waste crisis. This title presents a history of labor's success on the coattails of the environmental movement and in the middle of a rightward shift in US politics.

Sustainable product design is more than eco design: it goes beyond 'green' to consider the work environment, community impacts, consumer health, and economic viability, as well as environmental attributes. This book explores the concept of sustainable product design in the context of the global doll-making industry.

Traces the evolution of written forms of communication at Lukens Steel from 1810 to 1925. This volume offers an overview linking technical communication to literature and describing the historical context.

Examines the roles that texts serve as parts of an organizational cognitive infrastructure. This book reports on a study of the impact of two technologies (paper text and textual replay) on writing review.

Explores the development of internship experiences, creates an introduction to the topic of internships, and provides a foundation for college-corporation partnerships in professional education and training.

Provides a unique tableau of the funeral director's world. As such, it is a contribution to the growing literature on death and dying. Like the study of deviance which aids understanding of the norms of society, the sociology of death uncovers many insights into the very structures and patterns which shape life.

To establish that scientists should use metaphors to explain science to the public and need to be conscious of how metaphor can be useful to their research, this book examines the controversy over cloning and the lack of a metaphor to explain it to a public fearful of science's power.

"The Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory and Practice" is the scholarly journal devoted to college student retention. It has published many articles on minority student retention. This book presents a compilation of the very best of these articles, selected on the basis of reviews by a cadre of experts in the education field.

Offers a historical account of the profound economic collapse of the Connecticut River Valley region, focusing on Bosch, its workers, and its union. This book describes how the US, in a ten-year period from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, went from being the world's leading exporter of machine tools to its leading importer.

Addresses the politics of recognition in case studies of the long-haul trucking industry, repetitive strain injuries, and lung disease in miners. This text considers the politics of response in studies of a factory fire, the loss of an offshore oilrig, lung disease among miners, a mine explosion, and the prosecution of health and safety offences.

A collection of essays that examines how practitioners can improve the acceptance of their documentation when communicating to cultures other than their own. These essays begin by examining the cross-cultural issues relating to quality in documentation. They then look at examples of common documents, analysing them from several perspectives.

Looks at the nature and types of violence, the causes of violence, and the emotional wake left by violent episodes. This title focuses on the need to better understand violence, both lethal and non-lethal, to become aware of the many forms of violence, and to learn how to survive in the aftermath of violent death.

Describes why and how applied research carried out in a national public health program sometimes influenced program action in the field-and sometimes did not. This title presents and analyses a number of case studies to draw some practical lessons and to provide a theoretical basis for future program action.

Older adults suffer from a variety of causes such as illness, loss, and life disappointment, to name a few. Suffering also occurs due to experiences related to one's gender, ethnic background, and religion. This book explores the multifaceted experience of suffering in old age.

An examination of the impact of the terrorist attack on the United States in terms of how it may alter academic and corporate research, as well as the sharing of information generated by that research, by international colleagues in technological fields.

Corporate Social Responsibility Failures in the Oil Industry directly challenges the oil industry's claims of corporate good citizenship, now widely advanced as part of a global public relations initiative.

Addresses issues and feelings commonly encountered after the death of a pet. This work provides practical guidelines for coping with feelings of loss and sorrow. "Are your other pets grieving?" and "Should I get another pet right away?" are other questions addressed. It also explains the medical aspect of euthanasia.

Sociologists and health experts from the U.K., Scandinavia, Australia, and the U.S. discuss issues surrounding stress in the workplace, including its causes and ways in which jobs can be designed to minimize it. The book is intended for professionals and students in occupational health and safety, s

Intended to complement scriptural and theological studies, this volume has a philosophical methodology. Since the belief in a continuation of life after death or reunion with deceased loved ones offers consolation to many people, this book examines the possibility of human immortality. It also presents various rational arguments.

Describing a middle-aged women, this is a story of faith and love, of insight, determination, independence and strength.

Few areas in life have experienced the rapid pace of change that has been the experience of health care. It's an area where nothing feels "safe" and everything is threatened with reexamination and redefinition. This title explores this area that is continually being introduced to treatments, challenges, people, expectations, and time limits.

Surviving the death of a brother or sister is not a phase of life that eventually passes. Sibling survival is a life-long achievement. This guide recognizes this and celebrates not only the life of the brother or sister who has died but the lives and spirits of their sibling survivors.

Theorizes how matters concerning the birth of the universe, its fate, and the creation, evolution, and final destiny of life on earth co-exist with regenerated consciousness.