Books with title Communication

A number of new topics, including the Global Positioning System and the Internet/World Wide Web were added to Exploring Communication for the 2000 edition. This text provides a thorough explanation of the history, purposes, influences, devices, and uses of communication in our society. The text focuses on the devices and techniques used in the technical graphics, printed graphics, and electronic areas of the communication industry.

In this sequel to Mechanical Failure, Captain Rogers, despite his best attempts to do otherwise, has become the acting admiral of the 331st Meridan fleet. His first task: worrying. A lot.The rival Thelicosan fleet, under the influence of bad intelligence, a forbidden romance, and a communication officer with an eardrum injury, is about to break a two-hundred-year-old nonaggression pact. They have offered a vague, easily misinterpreted message: �We're invading.� Rogers isn't sure, but he thinks that's probably bad.War is hell, especially when you've forgotten how to fight one.

Imagine a world where you had to write letters, mail them at the post office, and wait a week or two for a response. You might not realize that there was once a world without your favorite forms of instant communication. The way you keep in touch with the people around you is because of amazing inventions in communication throughout history! From braille to texting, this title explores the amazing inventors, scientists, and engineers who saw challenges in the way we communicate with each other, and overcame them! With a little inventive thinking, what might you create to help us connect freely with friends and family across boundaries?

"The Communication Room is a smart, fast-paced and original sci-fi novella that provides an intense and thought-provoking look at an alternate history...and future. A fantastic read!" -- Jeremy Robinson, international best-selling author of Apocalypse Machine Leonard Ackerman lies low in a mysterious lab filled with strange communications devices and telephones -- a last-ditch experiment to save Earth from an alien invasion. Then the first telephone rings. The only thing Ackerman can do is answer... In this tale of post-apocalyptic survival, Leonard Ackerman works at a remote army base trying to solve the greatest threat facing mankind -- an alien invasion has eroded our species down to very few numbers. His base is compromised, and Ackerman retreats to a laboratory he has never been seen, locking himself there with the enemy right outside his door. Inside the lab are thirteen telephones -- from the American civil war through to Ackerman’s present day. This laboratory seems to be some sort of closed experiment, and Ackerman discovers that he cannot exit the lab until the experiment has run its course. The method and ultimate goal of the test is beyond his reach for now... but the first telephone rings and the only thing Ackerman can do is answer... Will Ackerman be able to find some chink in the armor of the relentless and seemingly invincible menace that destroys the human body and shatters the mind of everyone it touches? Or is Ackerman simply the last victim standing? Adam Aresty, author of Recovery, hits hard in this breathless race to save humankind from the insidious alien invasion from a species determined to destroy from within in this science fiction thriller. If you like post-apocalyptic survival fiction and alien invasion science fiction packed with action and cinematic pacing, you’ll love The Communication Room. Free Kindle Book with Paperback via Kindle Matchbook! Praise for The Communication Room “In this futuristic, psychological horror novel, aliens control and victimize members of the human race… Overall, the book’s most terrifying details are its quietest: dull thuds of fists on doors, a corpse’s single open eye, the dead air of a call after a child is killed. A sci-fi tale that will stay in readers’ minds as they ponder the value of human connection in times of crisis.”- Kirkus Reviews ”Aresty makes full use of the freedom to explore an alternative history to build a fully plausible scenario for one of the most insidious threats to humankind as you are ever likely to find. It is very well thought out and frightening concept…What I can say, though, is that it is very well-written making it very difficult to put down once you start reading it. It hooks you in and you're almost compelled to continue reading just to see what happens next.”- SF Crows Nest

The questions of whether there is life after death and, if so, what it's like have puzzled humanity throughout history. Seeking reassurances from the great beyond, people have tried to make contact with those who have died in hope of gaining definitive proof of the afterlife or obtain other helpful knowledge. For centuries, people have attempted to forge bridges to other worlds through summoning the dead, dreams and visions, trance, mediumship, channeling, mirrors, gadgets, and other means. The history of spirit communications stretches from ancient times to the high-tech present and involves flamboyant personalities, genius inventors, spectacular failures and frauds, and equally spectacular alleged successes.Spirit Communications explores all of these modes of communication and, wherever possible, separates fiction from fact. The book discusses how spirit communications work and what communicators do, but cautions young readers against do-it-yourself spirit communications, such as entering into trances or using risky devices, since the practices can be dangerous for those who are unprepared.Chapters include:Dreams and Visions Ritual Trances and Altered StatesSéance SpiritsInterdimensional ToolsPsycho-What? Machine MediumsChanneling: Calling the Universe.

From the pony express to e-mail, from newspapers to satellite television, the history and future of media and communications are explored in superb Eyewitness style. This stunning volume is packed with information and photos about the important inventions and advances in this rapidly changing field, including the printing press, radio, telegraph, telephone, and television. Learn how the media and methods of communication are used in entertainment, commerce, military and security applications, and the news.From the Hardcover edition.