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<p>Introducing Communication Research: Paths of Inquiry teaches students the basics of communication research in an accessible manner by using interesting real-world examples, engaging application exercises, and up-to-date resources. Best-selling author Donald Treadwell and new co-author Andrea Davis guide readers through the process of conducting communication research and presenting findings for scholarly, professional, news/media, and web audiences. New &amp; Key Features New vignettes introduce a theoretical or methodological topic using language and contexts that students new to research can easily comprehend. </p><p>New and updated content includes: "First Decisions": expanded discussion of basic research perspectives, worldviews, communication metatheories, and communication research traditions. Bibliographic research: new content on identifying and assessing fake news. Survey methodology: new content on "big data" and surveys. </p><p>Application exercises help students learn to make decisions about research practice. Ethics panels with questions facilitate discussion of research ethics in practice.</p>

In this expanded collector's edition ofThe Art of NASA, complete with a paper model Lunar Module and a poster, explore over 200 stunning artworks commissioned by NASA to sell its missions.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Formed in 1958, NASA has long maintained a department of visual artists to depict the concepts and technologies created in humankind's quest to explore the final frontier. Culled from a carefully chosen reserve of approximately 3,000 files deep in the NASA archives, the200+ awe-inspiring illustrations presented in this special boxed edition are complemented by:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><ul><li>32 pages of new material</li><li>A paper model of the Lunar Module</li><li>A rolled poster</li><li>A sheet of four postcards</li><li>A new foreword by astronaut Tom Jones</li></ul><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />From space suits to capsules, from landing modules to the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station, and more recent concepts for space planes,The Art of NASApresents60 years of American space explorationin an unprecedented fashion. All the landmark early missions are represented in detail-Gemini, Mercury, Apollo-as are post-Space Race accomplishments, like themission to Marsand other deep-space explorations.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The insightful text relates thewonderful stories associated with the art. For instance, the incredibly rare early Apollo illustrations show how Apollomighthave looked if the landing module had never been developed. Black-and-white Gemini drawings illustrate how the massive NASA art department did its stuff with ink pen and rubdown Letraset textures. Cross-sections of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project docking adapter reveal Russian sensitivity about US "male" probes "penetrating" their spacecraft, thus the androgynous "adapter" now used universally in space. International Space Station cutaways show howhugethe original plan was, but also what was retained.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Every picture inThe Art of NASAtells a special story. This collection of the rarest of the rare is not onlya unique view of NASA history-it's a fascinating look at the art of illustration anda glimpse of NASA history like no other.