Written by leading scholar and award-winning teacher Julia T. Wood, INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION: EVERYDAY ENCOUNTERS, 8e relates theory and skills directly to students’ everyday interactions as it delivers a solid introduction to interpersonal communication. Completely up to date, the new Eighth Edition integrates the latest communication research, including findings from more than 125 new sources. Reflecting the author’s expertise in gender and social diversity, the text includes an unparalleled focus on diversity. The new edition also features increased coverage of social media and an expanded emphasis on ethical choices. It addresses such timely issues as emotional intelligence and forgiveness, interracial relationships, safe sex, ways to deal with abuse from intimates, race-related differences between conflict styles, and the power of language.Interpersonal Communication: Everyday Encounters 8th Edition is written by Julia T. Wood and published by Cengage Learning. ISBNs for Interpersonal Communication: Everyday Encounters are 9798214346229, and the print ISBNs are 9781285445830, 128544583X. Additional ISBNs include 9781305549807, 9781305448322, 9780357689745, 9781305544994, 9781305548848.