Chapter 1
Developer: Donnell King
Brief Description: This webpage lists four principles of interpersonal communication that are necessary for everyday life functioning.
Developer: Phillip J. Milano
Brief Description: This site gives people an opportunity to ask people from different backgrounds questions they were not able to ask because of an inability to contact people from another culture or an uncomfortable feeling asking the questions.
Developer: Jon H. Larsen and the World Hello Day Organization
Brief Description: This site provides the history for “World Hello Day” which is an annual event where people are asked to greet ten others as way of demonstrating the importance of personal communication for preserving peace.
Developer: Gerard M. Blair
Brief Description: This web page offers an article that views communication as a process of simple planning and control. Students can contrast this view with the definition of communication in the text. The article discusses practical applications of this model of communication in the context of business meetings.
Developer: Management Assistance Programs for Nonprofits; assembled by Carter McNamara
Brief Description: This site provides a library of resources for not-for-profit and for-profit businesses on a range of issues, including face to face communication.
Developer: Queendom.com
Brief Description: An online test to evaluate general levels of communication skills.
Developer: Harvard Medical School Ombuds Office
Brief Description: Effective Techniques to Improve Interactions
Developer: Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Brief Description: Interpersonal Communication Rubric for understanding different levels of achievement with different criteria regarding interpersonal communication.
Chapter 2
Developer: Living Life Fully
Brief Description: This page lists quotations about the self from a variety of sources.
Developer: Dr. Daniel Chandler, University of Wales at Aberystwyth
Brief Description: This website is a workshop-based module and is designed to help students raise awareness of issues of communication and identity on the Internet.
Developer: About.com
Brief Description: Offers various options for women regarding name changes when they marry. It also includes an interactive poll with statistics about which choices people have made.
Developer: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Brief Description: Surveys the main questions that go under the heading of personal identity.
Developer: Carsten Korfmacher; Linacre College, Oxford University
Brief Description: The aim of this article is to (1) add precision to the problem of personal identity, (2) state a number of theories of personal identity and give arguments for and against them, (3) formulate "the paradox of identity," which proposes to show that posing the persistence question, in conjunction with a number of plausible assumptions, leads to a contradiction, and (4) explain how Derek Parfit’s theory of persons attempts to answer this paradox.
Developer: Metaphysics By Default
Brief Description: Describes the three criteria for personal identity.
Chapter4
Developer: David C. Smith, University of Washington, published in Orange
Brief Description: An article in Orange: An Online Journal of Technical Communication and Information Design that links cognitive processes, communication, and human community.
Developer: Culture at Work
Brief Description: A brief overview of how perceptions are developed.
Developer: Dr. Khaleel Isa
Brief Description: This website provides a training program on communication skills dealing with perception.
Developer: Dr. Lee McGaan
Brief Description: Explaining differences in the way we see, feel, hear, etc.
Chapter5
Developer: The American Feng Shui Institute
Brief Description: This site provides answers to frequently asked questions about the ancient Chinese practice of Feng Shui
Developer: Empowerment Enterprises
Brief Description: This site explains the relationship between nonverbal communication and workplace effectiveness.
Developer: Unknown
Brief Description: Argues that requiring men to wear ties in the workplace is gender discrimination. Includes a link to a BBC News article about a civil servant who is challenging the tie requirement.
Developer: MIT’s Media Lab
Brief Description: Offers some studies with dealing on facial movement
Developer: MIT’s Media Lab
Brief Description: Offers a unique look at facial expressions created using a robot
Developer: Vicki Ritts and James R. Stein
Brief Description: This site gives the six major components of nonverbal communication and further explains each of the six components.
Chapter 10
Developer: Howard Rheingold
Brief Description: This site contains an online version of Howard Rheingold’s book The Virtual Community which discusses how people use computers to communicate, form friendships that serve as a basis for a community, and the tensions between “virtual” communities and “real” communities.
Developer: Dave White
Brief Description: A list of books and resources about friendship and platonic love.
Developer: John Burke, Bankrate.com
Brief Description: Reports on Gallup survey that found good friends in the workplace can have a positive effect on employee motivation and job satisfaction.
Developer: friendship.com.au
Brief Description: This site is devoted to friendships. It offers chat rooms, poetry, and cards.
Chapter 11
Developer: Queendom.com
Brief Description: This web site is similar to a “Dear Abby” column but has some good points about various relationship topics.
Developer: Aish HaTorah
Brief Description: This site provides a series of articles, advice, and journal reflections about dating from a Jewish perspective.
Developer: Lesbian.com
Brief Description: A directory for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered community, the site also includes links to sites based on “how we identify,” such as deaf lesbians, dykes with disabilities, and lesbians of color.
Developer: Gay.com
Brief Description: Available in several languages, this website includes information on relationships, health, careers, travel, and entertainment for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered community.
Developer: Paul Axel-Lute, Rutgers Law Library, Newark
Brief Description: An extensive bibliography addressing all views on the issues, including international debates and laws.
Developer: Lovestories.com
Brief Description: This commercial web site includes poems, journals, and stories devoted to love.
