The Seven Challenges Communication Skills Workbook and Reader

A full university course on relationships with an entire chapter devoted to friendship: how friendships start, the stages they pass through, and what makes them end. Comes with exercises and review questions.

Wrench, Punyanunt-Carter and Thweatt

What happens to friendship when most of it runs through a screen. Petricini follows the idea from Aristotle to social media and asks whether contact at a distance can carry the same weight as the real thing.

Tiffany Petricini

An introduction to communication studies covering listening, verbal and nonverbal signals, perception and conflict. Solid groundwork if conversation feels harder than it should.

Jay Frasier and Dan Henry