Rhetoric

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781319244996Author Elizabeth LoshFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bedford/Saint Martin'sPublisher Macmillan Learning

Presidential Power, Rhetoric, and the Terror Wars: The Sovereign Presidency argues that the War on Terror provided an opportunity to fundamentally change the presidency. Alexander Hiland analyzes the documents used to exercise presidential powers,...

Carl Sagan's Cosmos inspires audiences to look at the universe with new eyes and to appreciate humanity's importance in it. Sagan's deft use of rhetorical strategy creates an experience that pushes beyond the limits of a mere "educational"...

Since its publication in 1950, Kenneth Burke’s A Rhetoric of Motives has been one of the most influential texts of theory and criticism. Critics have discovered in its pages concepts that reveal new dimensions of human motivation. And yet, despite its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641730907Author Keith HerronFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Smyth & Helwys Publishing Inc.Publisher Smyth & Helwys Publishing Inc...

Post-9/11 American Presidential Rhetoric examines the communication offensive orchestrated by George W. Bush and the members of his administration between the initial terrorism crisis of September 11, 2001, and the March 20, 2003, invasion of Iraq...

Rhetoric and Governance under Trump: Proclamations from the Bullshit Pulpit analyzes the rhetoric of Donald Trump to argue that Trump's deeply illiberal rhetoric, cruel policies, corruption, disruptive foreign policy, and disdain for the rule of law...

The Corruption of Ethos in Fortress America: Billionaires, Bureaucrats, and Body Slams argues that authoritarian strains of U.S. governance violate the idea of ethos in its ancient, collectivist sense. Christopher Carter posits that this corrupts the...

This book considers the rhetorical strategies used by celebrities and their surrogates and attorneys when faced with claims of sexual misconduct. During the past five years, a series of public figures has claimed that their celebrity persona is distinct...

New Directions in Rhetoric and Religion reflects the complex and fluid natures of religion, rhetoric, and public life in our globalized, digital, and politically polarized world by bringing together a diverse group of rhetorical scholars to provide a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786206024453Author Lucie Donckier de DonceelFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams) 95g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643173160Author Hui WuFormat PaperbackPage Count 606Imprint Parlor PressPublisher Parlor PressWeight(grams) 1025g

In Rhetoric of the Protestant Sermon in America: The Pulpit at the Turn of the Millennium, ten scholars analyze notable sermons from the fifty-year span between 1965 and 2015, during which the Protestant sermon has undergone significant change in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786205926314Author Leila MakhloufFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams) 95g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725286313Author Rodney Wallace KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

This book is about Freedom of Speech and public discourse in the United States. Freedom of Speech is a major component of the cultural context in which we live, think, work, and write, generally revered as the foundation of true democracy. But the issue...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942697664Author T Michael W HalcombFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint GlossahousePublisher GlossahouseWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781618950116Author AristotleFormat PaperbackImprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604444650Author AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594577789Author Cynthia Joyce ClayFormat PaperbackImprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 240g

Rhetoric and Centers of Power in the Greco-Roman World: From Homer to the Fall of Rome traces Greco-Roman rhetoric as it evolved into a system that dramatically influences the development of Western culture. Christian and later European educational and...

The Rhetorical Invention of America's National Security State examines the rhetoric and discourse produced by and constitutive of America's national security state. Hasian, Lawson, and McFarlane illustrate the importance of rhetoric to the expansion of...

This book honors the advocacy of Dr. Wangari Maathai, acclaimed environmentalist and the first African woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace. Dr. Maathai was a gifted orator who crafted messages that imagined new possibilities for human agency and...

Increasingly, rhetorical scholars are using fieldwork and other ethnographic, performance, and qualitative methods to access, document, and analyze forms of everyday in situ rhetoric rather than using already documented texts. In this book, the authors...

Increasingly, rhetorical scholars are using fieldwork and other ethnographic, performance, and qualitative methods to access, document, and analyze forms of everyday in situ rhetoric rather than using already documented texts. In this book, the authors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822967149Author Jim RidolfoFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher University of Pittsburgh PressWeight(grams) 152g

This book analyses the public discourse of Elizabeth Dole. It explores the way in which this trail-blazing public figure navigated the double binds that confront women who obtain and exercise political power. The text argues that Dole crafted a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780915250431Author Kaiman LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Environmental Design & Research Center (Edrc)Publisher Environmental Design &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419699153Author Bahadur TejaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 603g

A Revolution in Tropes is a groundbreaking study of rhetoric and tropes. Theorizing new ways of seeing rhetoric and its relationship with democratic deliberation, Jane Sutton and Mari Lee Mifsud explore and display alloiosis as a trope of difference,...

A Revolution in Tropes is a groundbreaking study of rhetoric and tropes. Theorizing new ways of seeing rhetoric and its relationship with democratic deliberation, Jane Sutton and Mari Lee Mifsud explore and display alloiosis as a trope of difference,...

Knowledge and Self-Knowledge in Plato's Theaetetus advances a new explanation for the apparent failure of the Theaetetus to come to a satisfactory conclusion about the definition of knowledge. Tschemplik argues that understanding this aporetic dialogue...

African American Women's Rhetoric: The Search for Dignity, Personhood, and Honor deals with the rhetoric of African American women from enslavement to current times, examining slave narratives and contemporary print, music, and other media surrounding...

Pope John Paul II was clearly one of the most influential persons of the 20th Century. He affected the world of politics, religion, and culture with a rhetorical zeal unmatched by few actors on the international stage. From the downfall of communism in...

African American Women's Rhetoric: The Search for Dignity, Personhood, and Honor deals with the rhetoric of African American women from enslavement to current times, examining slave narratives and contemporary print, music, and other media surrounding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416601715Author Vicki UrquhartFormat PaperbackPage Count 169Imprint ASCDPublisher ASCDWeight(grams) 431g

Genocide represents one of the deadliest scourges of the human experience. Communication practices provide the key missing ingredient toward preventing and ending this intensely symbolic activity. The Rhetoric of Genocide: Death as a Text reveals how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781169986718Author Izora ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 376g

Throughout history, determined individuals have appropriated and reconstructed rhetorical and religious resources to create effective arguments. In the process, they have remade both themselves and their communities. This edited volume offers notable...

In Ambient Rhetoric, Thomas Rickert seeks to dissolve the boundaries of the rhetorical tradition and its basic dichotomy of subject and object. With the advent of new technologies, new media, and the dispersion of human agency through external...