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Learn how to master and apply strong communication principles in both your personal relationships and on the job with Adler/Proctor/Manning's popular LOOKING OUT, LOOKING IN, 16E. Written with you in mind, this market-leading book connects today's latest research and theories to your everyday life. This is a textbook you'll actually enjoy reading with current, captivating magazine-style readings and the latest pop culture references -- from recent Marvel movies to viral stars rising through TikTok. This edition continues to focus on the impact of social media and technology on relationships, whether it's "Netflix and chill" or families tethered to cell phones during dinner. You explore the lives of diverse people as you gain a wide sense of understanding about relationships. Compelling photos and cartoons, thought-provoking prompts and hands-on activities bring principles to life. MindTap digital resources are also available to reinforce learning.

Used by more than a million readers, LOOKING OUT, LOOKING IN, 14E, International Edition maintains its market-leading tradition of combining current scholarship and research with a reader-friendly voice that links course topics to students’ everyday lives. This popular text motivates students to improve their interpersonal skills and sharpen their critical understanding of communication processes with diverse and compelling examples that illustrate how each student’s communication skills impact both society and their own life. Show your students how and why learning the basic concepts of communication can change their relationships and contribute to their career success, with the text that engages them in theory through popular references to interpersonal concepts that are familiar in music, art, movies, and television.

Complements and expands your understanding of the book. Includes chapter outlines; vocabulary list; activities on perforated pages including Invitation to Insight, Skillbuilders, and group discussions; and self-test questions. Can be bundled with the text and is availalbe online within the Interactive eBook. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Written by Mary O. Wiemann, Santa Barbara City College. This Activities Manual/Study Guide contains more than fifty class-tested exercises and more than five hundred study test items designed to build understanding of principles and proficiency in skills introduced in the book. Each chapter in the Activities Manual/Study Guide parallels the corresponding chapter in Looking Out, Looking In.

LOOK, Fourth Canadian Edition, weaves theory with popular culture and first-person accounts from diverse communicators to provide students with critical understanding of interpersonal communication. Now with even more opportunities for practical application, the fourth edition gives students the modeling and confidence to build communication skills in their own relationships, both in academia and in their future workplaces. Built with students in mind, LOOK 4Ce invites students from all programs of study to see the impact of communication skills on their everyday lives.

Used by more than a million students, LOOKING OUT, LOOKING IN, Twelfth Edition, continues its outstanding tradition of combining current information with a fun, reader-friendly voice that links course topics to your everyday life. You'll discover the reasons to improve your interpersonal skills and sharpen your critical understanding of the communication process through diverse and compelling examples that illustrate how communication skills can affect both the world around us and our own lives. Improve your relationships and your future career success, with the only text that offers the tools that have been proven to build better communication skills for almost 30 years!

The fifth Canadian edition of LOOK weaves together theory, popular culture, and first-person accounts from diverse communicators to give students a critical understanding of interpersonal communication. With opportunities for practical application, readers will gain confidence to build communication skills within their own relationships, both in academia and in their future workplaces. Built with students in mind, LOOK, 5Ce, invites students from all programs of study to see the impact of communication skills on their everyday lives.​

This textbook presents an introduction to the practical principles of communication in interpersonal relationships. Emphasis is placed on personal, situational and cultural influences of interaction. Attention is given to human perception, interpersonal dynamics, listening, conflict management, verbal and nonverbal symbol systems.