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An innovative textbook that presents a novel and compelling examination of family communication studies

Family Communication as… Exploring Metaphors for Family Communication presents a series of metaphors through which students explore the nuances and complexities of family interaction. With a unique approach to the foundational theories and real-world practices of family communication, this easily accessible textbook helps students develop a clear understanding of what family communication is and what it can be.

Contributions by both prominent and newer scholars theorize about family communication, offer new perspectives, challenge long-held assumptions, and describe original research to provide students with an up-to-date representation of the leading thinking in the field. Each concise chapter focuses on a specific element of family life, engaging key metaphors to stimulate classroom discussion about family in contexts ranging from ritual and embodiment to estrangement and heteronormativity. Throughout the text, students examine family metaphorically—as memory, as social identity, as estrangement, as loss, as resilience, as raced, and more.

Family Communication as… Exploring Metaphors for Family Communication is an excellent textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in courses including family communication, family studies, interpersonal communication, relational communication, and communication theory. It is also a highly useful resource for scholars in fields such as media studies, psychology, sociology, social work, counseling, and public health.

An innovative textbook that presents a novel and compelling examination of family communication studies

Family Communication as… Exploring Metaphors for Family Communication presents a series of metaphors through which students explore the nuances and complexities of family interaction. With a unique approach to the foundational theories and real-world practices of family communication, this easily accessible textbook helps students develop a clear understanding of what family communication is and what it can be.

Contributions by both prominent and newer scholars theorize about family communication, offer new perspectives, challenge long-held assumptions, and describe original research to provide students with an up-to-date representation of the leading thinking in the field. Each concise chapter focuses on a specific element of family life, engaging key metaphors to stimulate classroom discussion about family in contexts ranging from ritual and embodiment to estrangement and heteronormativity. Throughout the text, students examine family metaphorically—as memory, as social identity, as estrangement, as loss, as resilience, as raced, and more.

Family Communication as… Exploring Metaphors for Family Communication is an excellent textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in courses including family communication, family studies, interpersonal communication, relational communication, and communication theory. It is also a highly useful resource for scholars in fields such as media studies, psychology, sociology, social work, counseling, and public health.

A mysterious city

A cryptic leader

A deranged prisoner. Blind followers. 

A life saved. A plot thwarted. An ally gained. 

And still, Victor Wells is marked for death. 

Upon their arrival in the city to the south, Victor and team enter an environment unlike anything they''ve ever experienced-a place free from crime, strife, or division. Ville is a system of coexistence, lead by an enigmatic man known simply as "The Chairman," whom the citizens of Ville trust and adore. The lone detractor to his leadership is the only incarcerated man in the city-a deranged, rambling, prisoner named Jahko. Is there truth to his madness? Is the Chairman playing a larger game? And will Victor get the help he needs to fight Rosewood back home? Or will he even make it out of Ville at all?

A city changed, a population deceived.

A new player in a divided resistance.

A life lost. A failed plot. 

A hidden identity exposed.

And at the end, the only answer is death.

After weeks spent in deliberation and hiding, the last of those who oppose Rosewood are still divided. Victor and his small team are forced back to the Heights with less help and fewer resources than they could have imagined. Not to mention, everything has changed-their former home, the previous power structure, even the lay of the land. New players control the masses of the Heights, and old powers are not so easily swayed. Will a common enemy unite them or further divide them? With Rosewood''s endgame in motion, a singular question remains-can she be stopped? And if so, at what price?