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Dr. Andrew Wood
Office: HGH 210; phone: (408) 924-5378
Email: wooda@email.sjsu.edu
Web: http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda

Readings

Begley, S. (1999, March 15). Talking from hand to mouth. Newsweek, pp. 56-58. (not in reader - handed out on first day of class)

Birdwhistell, R.L. (1970). Kinesics and context. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Knapp, M.L. & Hall, J.A. (1992). Nonverbal communication in human interaction. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers.

Majaj, L.S. (2000, July 19, downloaded). The body, in several languages. Available online: http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~amathur/majaj.html

Schulte, B. (1998, September 5). Pretty boys get the girl: What makes a man attractive? The Montreal Gazette, p. J8.

Staff. (1998, November 28). Sociobiology. A beauty contest. The Economist, p. 86.

Argyle, M. (1975). Bodily communication. London: Methuen & Co.

Axtell, R.E. (1991). Gestures. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Burgoon, J.K., Buller, D.B., & Woodall, W.G. (1996). Nonverbal communication. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Ford, C.V. (1996). Lies! Lies!! Lies!!! Washington D.C.: American Psychiatric Press.

Lauer, R.H. (1981). Temporal man. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Giffin, E. (1997). A first look at communication theory. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Kunstler, J.H. (1996, September). Home from nowhere. Atlantic Monthly, pp. 43-66. Available online: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/96sep/kunstler/kunstler.htm

Adler, J. & Springen, K (1998, October 12). Back at the ranch. Newsweek, pp. 58-59.

Gaura, M.A, & Zinko, C. (1999, November 8). Invasion of the monster homes. San Francisco Chronicle, p. A1.

Carpenter, E. (1999). The new languages. In D. Crowley & P. Heyer (eds.), Communication in history (pp. 262-267). New York: Longman.

Spigel, L. (1999). Making room for TV. In D. Crowley & P. Heyer (eds.), Communication in history (pp. 268-276). New York: Longman.

Saenz, M.K. (1994). Television viewing as a cultural practice. H. Newcomb (ed.), Television: The critical view (pp. 573-586). New York: Oxford University Press.

McAllister, M.P. (1996). The commercialization of American culture. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Guterson, D. (1993). Enclosed. Encyclopedic. Endured. Harper's, pp. 49-56.

Eliade, M. (1959). The sacred and the profane (W.R. Trask, Trans.). New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company.

Woodward, K.L. (2000, July 24). A city that echoes eternity. Newsweek, p. 28.

Mitchell, W.J. (1999). Softcities. In D. Crowley & P. Heyer (eds.), Communication in history (pp. 315-322). New York: Longman.

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