A new edition of this comprehensive and widely used Handbook. It takes an interdisciplinary approach, covering issues that will be of interest to interpersonal and mass communication researchers as well as to psychologists and public health practitioners.

A relevant and timely book with a unique approach: the focus here is on how and why ethnic and racial minorities produce and consume media for themselves - not just how they are represented in or by the media.

An expansion of Baxter's earlier award winning work on relationship communuication and 'relational dialectics theory', the 1996 Relating Dialogues and Dialectics (co-authored with Barbara Montgomery).

Teaches advertising, marketing, and management students (both the "suits" and the "creatives") how to effectively judge and critique creativity in advertising.

Integrates ethical theory and practice to help strengthen readers' awareness, judgment, and action in organizations by exploring ethical dilemmas in a diverse range of well-known business cases.