Winner of the Distinguished Book Award by the Applied Communication Division of the National Communication Association, 2001, (USA) Effective Health Risk Messages provides step-by-step instructions for developing theoretically based campaigns that work. Students and readers will learn about message development theories, formative and summative evaluation, and even basic research designs for evaluating your campaign. Worksheets are provided at the end of each chapter to provide readers with hands-on, practical experiences in developing effective health risk messages. This book is suitable for...

Can murder save this marriage?

Mitch and Melody Ambrose, a 50-something suburban Massachusetts couple in the throes of "empty nest syndrome," are drawn into the investigation of a suspicious death at a local nursing home. What the two ex-journalists uncover sets in motion a series of life-rattling events and revelations. Along the way, they also re-discover each other and the victims far-flung family is brought together with a common purpose of avenging his death.

When nostalgia meets reality, things can get ugly.That's the lifestyle clash awaiting young mother Becca Norris when she returns to her small-town childhood home after seven years as an architect in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai. What she remembers are tree-lined streets, friendly neighbors and a child-nurturing bucolic environs. What she finds is duplicity, corruption, murder, sexual assault, marital infidelity - a hard-drinking, hard-living world where little is what it appears to be.