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Norton Communication creates books and resources that respond to the needs of today’s teaching and learning community. Collaborating with passionate instructors at a wide variety of schools, we provide course materials driven by active leaders in communication. These materials reflect the most current learning science to help all students thrive.
As an independent and employee-owned publisher since 1923, our main responsiveness is to instructor and student needs, not to outside shareholders.
Featured Titles
Contemporary Public Speaking
Second Edition
By Pat Gehrke and Megan Foley
An engaging guide to speaking and advocating in a digital world
Contemporary Public Speaking builds students’ confidence and skills, inviting them to view their intersectional identities as the very strengths that will help them succeed.
The Norton Field Guide to Public Speaking
Second Edition
By Isa Engleberg, John Daly, and Susan Ward
A uniquely flexible guide to speaking today
The Norton Field Guide to Speaking offers students practical advice and positive encouragement in a user-friendly, easily referenced "field guide" format. New revisions address the realities of speaking today.
It’s Interpersonal
An Introduction to Relational Communication
Second Edition
By Bruce Punches and Leslie Ramos Salazar
A relatable, application-focused book for a life-changing course
Using examples from real students and pop culture, It’s Interpersonal helps students understand key interpersonal communication concepts and connect those concepts to their own lives to improve their interpersonal communication skills.
The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching
First Edition
By Isis Artze-Vega, Flower Darby, Bryan Dewsbury, and Mays Imad
Looking to make your teaching more inclusive?
Start here.
Written by renowned teaching and learning experts, this guide offers concrete steps to help any instructor striving to ensure that all students—and, in particular, historically underserved students—have an equal chance for success.
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Superbloom
How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
By Nicholas Carr
The Influencing Machine
Brooke Gladstone on the Media
By Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld
Between Us
How Cultures Create Emotions
By Batja Mesquita
Belonging
The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides
By Geoffrey Cohen
You Have More Influence Than You Think
How We Underestimate Our Powers of Persuasion, and Why It Matters
David Shi
Mind Over Media
Propaganda Education for a Digital Age
By Renee Hobbs
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Meet your marketing manager: Emily Erickson
Hi! I'm Emily. I've been fortunate to work at W.W. Norton for the past four years. I love this role as marketing manager for communication because I'm able to connect with instructors, learn about their teaching challenges and find creative ways to help solve them.
When I'm not at work, I enjoy hiking in the Rockies, traveling to a new place, or going for a bike ride in the small town I live in north of Denver.
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