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Rhetoric, Inc.: Ford's Filmmaking and the Rise of Corporatism by Timothy Johnson 9780271087917
RRP: £29.95£26.91In 1914, the Ford Motor Company opened its Motion Picture Laboratory, an in-house operation that produced motion pictures to educate its workforce and promote its products. Just six years later, Ford films had found their way into schools and newsreels,... -
Reading and Writing for Civic Literacy: The Critical Citizen's Guide to Argumentative Rhetoric, Brief Edition by Donald Lazere 9780415793667
RRP: £49.99£43.90This new edition is substantially updated for a new era of rising populism, renewed racial tensions, new social movement forms, and one of the most rhetorical presidential campaigns in memory. Moreover, the prose has been significantly streamlined for... -
Postcolonial Cinema Studies Sandra Ponzanesi (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) 9780415782289
RRP: £125.00£107.86This collection of essays foregrounds the work of filmmakers in theorizing and comparing postcolonial conditions, recasting debates in both cinema and postcolonial studies. Postcolonial cinema is presented, not as a rigid category, but as an optic... -
Rhetoric in the Flesh: Trained Vision, Technical Expertise, and the Gross Anatomy Lab by T. Kenny Fountain 9780415741033
RRP: £135.00£117.28Rhetoric in the Flesh is the first book-length ethnographic study of the gross anatomy lab to explain how rhetorical discourses, multimodal displays, and embodied practices facilitate learning and technical expertise and how they shape participants'... -
The Rhetoric of Food: Discourse, Materiality, and Power Joshua Frye (State University on New York at Oneonta, USA) 9780415727563
RRP: £49.99£43.50This book focuses on the rhetoric of food and the power dimensions that intersect this most fundamental but increasingly popular area of ideology and practice, including politics, culture, lifestyle, identity, advertising, environment, and economy. The... -
The Twitter Presidency: Donald J. Trump and the Politics of White Rage by Brian L. Ott 9780367149758
RRP: £49.99£43.50The Twitter Presidency explores the rhetorical style of President Donald J. Trump, attending to both his general manner of speaking as well as to his preferred modality. Trump's manner, the authors argue, reflects an aesthetics of white rage, and it is... -
Humanizing Visual Design: The Rhetoric of Human Forms in Practical Communication by Charles Kostelnick 9780367730963
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book analyzes the role that human forms play in visualizing practical information and in making that information understandable, accessible, inviting, and meaningful to readers-in short, "humanizing" it. Although human figures have long... -
Sacred Rhetorical Education in 19th Century America: Austin Phelps at Andover Theological Seminary by Michael-John DePalma 9780367418410
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book offers new insight into the ways rhetorical educators' religious motives influenced the shape of nineteenth-century rhetorical education and invites scholars of writing and rhetoric to consider what the study of religiously-animated pedagogies... -
Democratic Vernaculars: Rhetorics of Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Criticism since the Enlightenment by J Michael Sproule 9780367416676
RRP: £135.00£117.68Democratic Vernaculars is a comprehensive, culturally inclusive, and thematically unified history of the communicative, audience-centered rhetorical vernacular that occupies the "middle range" of English, bounded on the one side by expressive... -
Democratic Vernaculars: Rhetorics of Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Criticism since the Enlightenment by J Michael Sproule 9780367416669
RRP: £36.99£32.53Democratic Vernaculars is a comprehensive, culturally inclusive, and thematically unified history of the communicative, audience-centered rhetorical vernacular that occupies the "middle range" of English, bounded on the one side by expressive... -
Practicing Citizenship: Women's Rhetoric at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair by Kristy Maddux 9780271083506
RRP: £88.95£78.46By 1893, the Supreme Court had officially declared women to be citizens, but most did not have the legal right to vote. In Practicing Citizenship, Kristy Maddux provides a glimpse at an unprecedented alternative act of citizenship by women of the time:... -
A Feeling of Wrongness: Pessimistic Rhetoric on the Fringes of Popular Culture by Joseph Packer 9780271082356
RRP: £74.95£64.98In A Feeling of Wrongness, Joseph Packer and Ethan Stoneman confront the rhetorical challenge inherent in the concept of pessimism by analyzing how it is represented in an eclectic range of texts on the fringes of popular culture, from adult animated... -
Being at Genetic Risk: Toward a Rhetoric of Care by Kelly Pender 9780271082103
RRP: £64.95£56.00Rhetorics of choice have dominated the biosocial discourses surrounding BRCA risk for decades, telling women at genetic risk for breast and ovarian cancers that they are free to choose how (and whether) to deal with their risk. Critics argue that women... -
Votes That Count and Voters Who Don't: How Journalists Sideline Electoral Participation (Without Even Knowing It) by Sharon E. Jarvis 9780271081267
RRP: £30.95£27.35For decades, journalists have called the winners of U.S. presidential elections-often in error-well before the closing of the polls. In Votes That Count and Voters Who Don't, Sharon E. Jarvis and Soo-Hye Han investigate what motivates journalists to call... -
Advocating Weapons, War, and Terrorism: Technological and Rhetorical Paradox by Ian E. J. Hill 9780271081236
RRP: £74.95£64.98Techne's Paradox-a frequent theme in science fiction-is the commonplace belief that technology has both the potential to annihilate humanity and to preserve it. Advocating Weapons, War, and Terrorism looks at how this paradox applies to some of the most... -
Museum Rhetoric: Building Civic Identity in National Spaces by M. Elizabeth Weiser 9780271079035
RRP: £62.95£55.25In today's diverse societies, museums are the primary institutions within the public sphere in which individuals can both engage critical thought and celebrate community. This volume uses the lens of rhetoric to explore the role these societal... -
Sign of Pathology: U.S. Medical Rhetoric on Abortion, 1800s-1960s by Nathan Stormer 9780271065557
RRP: £64.95£56.00Much of the political polarization that grips the United States is rooted in the so-called culture wars, and no topic defines this conflict better than the often contentious and sometimes violent debate over abortion rights. In Sign of Pathology, Nathan... -
Authority Figures: Rhetoric and Experience in John Locke's Political Thought by Torrey Shanks 9780271065045
RRP: £64.95£56.00In Authority Figures, Torrey Shanks uncovers the essential but largely unappreciated place of rhetoric in John Locke's political and philosophical thought. Locke's well-known hostility to rhetoric has obscured an important debt to figural and inventive... -
From Apartheid to Democracy: Deliberating Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa by Katherine Elizabeth Mack 9780271064970
RRP: £60.95£52.53South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings can be considered one of the most significant rhetorical events of the late twentieth century. The TRC called language into action, tasking it with promoting understanding among a divided... -
The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy by Lyn Carson 9780271060125
RRP: £76.95£67.60Growing numbers of scholars, practitioners, politicians, and citizens recognize the value of deliberative civic engagement processes that enable citizens and governments to come together in public spaces and engage in constructive dialogue, informed... -
The Evolving Citizen: American Youth and the Changing Norms of Democratic Engagement by Jay P. Childers 9780271054117
RRP: £52.95£45.58It has become a common complaint among academics and community leaders that citizens today are not what they used to be. Nowhere is this decline seen to be more troubling than when the focus is on young Americans. Compared to the youth of past... -
Speaking Hatefully: Culture, Communication, and Political Action in Hungary by David Boromisza-Habashi 9780271056371
RRP: £52.95£45.58In Speaking Hatefully, David Boromisza-Habashi focuses on the use of the term "hate speech" as a window on the cultural logic of political and moral struggle in public deliberation. This empirical study of gyuloeletbeszed, or "hate... -
Five Chapters on Rhetoric: Character, Action, Things, Nothing, and Art by Michael S. Kochin 9780271034553
RRP: £68.95£58.60Michael Kochin's radical exploration of rhetoric is built around five fundamental concepts that illuminate how rhetoric functions in the public sphere. To speak persuasively is to bring new things into existence-to create a political movement out of a... -
Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America by Dave Tell 9780271056289
RRP: £62.95£54.26Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America revolutionizes how we think about confession and its ubiquitous place in American culture. It argues that the sheer act of labeling a text a confession has become one of the most... -
Philosophy and Rhetoric in Dialogue: Redrawing Their Intellectual Landscape by Gerard A. Hauser 9780271027685
RRP: £29.95£26.49Philosophy and Rhetoric, one of Penn State Press's longest-running journals, was conceived at a time of immense philosophical upheaval: rhetoric as a field of study-first dismissed by Descartes-was being reexamined after decades of neglect. Now, nearly... -
The Rhetorical Turn: Invention and Persuasion in the Conduct of Inquiry by Herbert W. Simons 9780226759029
RRP: £40.00£38.95We have only recently started to challenge the notion that "serious" inquiry can be free of rhetoric, that it can rely exclusively on "hard" fact and "cold" logic in support of its claims. Increasingly, scholars are shifting their attention from methods... -
Toward a Rhetoric of Insult by Thomas M. Conley 9780226114774
RRP: £80.00£76.61From high school cafeterias to the floor of Congress, from "The Daily Show" to every comments section on the internet, insult is a truly universal and ubiquitous cultural practice with a long and earthy history. And yet, this most human of... -
Rhetoric in the European Tradition Thomas Conley 9780226114897
RRP: £27.00£26.47Rhetoric in the European Tradition provides a comprehensive, chronological survey of the basic models of rhetoric as they developed from the early Greeks through the twentieth century. Discussing rhetorical theories and practices in the context of the... -
Composition and Literature: Bridging the Gap by Winifred Bryan Horner 9780226353401
RRP: £30.00£29.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226353401Author Winifred Bryan HornerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago... -
Storytelling in the Digital World by Anna De Fina 9789027203960
£67.25Storytelling in the Digital World explores new, emerging narrative practices as they are enacted on digital platforms such as Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Contributors' online ethnographies investigate a wide range of themes including the... -
The Interruption That We Are: The Health of the Lived Body, Narrative, and Public Moral Argument by Michael J. Hyde 9781611177077
£63.87In this provocative and interdisciplinary work, Michael J. Hyde develops a philosophy of communication ethics in which the practice of rhetoric plays a fundamental role in promoting and maintaining the health of our personal and communal existence. He... -
Write It Right!: Seven steps to revising, editing, and polishing all kinds of writing by Ron Benson 9781551382623
RRP: £13.95£13.58No matter what you are writing or why, Write It Right! is a handy companion that will guide you through the various stages of the writing process. Straightforward and easy-to-read, this unique flipchart focuses on the revising and editing stages and... -
The Concept of Conversation: From Cicero's Sermo to the Grand Siecle's Conversation by David Randall 9781474430104
RRP: £95.00£86.45The first history of early modern conversation in English. In the classical period, conversation referred to real conversations, conducted in the leisure time of noble men, and concerned with indefinite philosophical topics. Christianity inflected... -
New Rhetorics for Contemporary Legal Discourse by Angela Condello 9781474450560
RRP: £95.00£86.85Presents a new way of thinking about the relationship between law and language Are the general and the particular separated in legal rhetorics? What is the function of singular events, facts, names in legal argumentation and what is their relationship to... -
Worth Writing About: Exploring Memoir with Adolescents by Jake Wizner 9781625310484
RRP: £24.99£21.81Who am I?" This is the question that many adolescents ask during the turbulent middle and high school years. In Worth Writing About: Exploring Memoir with Adolescents, Jake Wizner addresses how searching for the answer to this question leads his students... -
Day by Day: Refining Writing Workshop Through 180 Days of Reflective Practice by Ruth Ayres 9781571108098
RRP: £31.99£28.73Have you ever wanted your own personal writing coach to help improve your teaching of writing? How about two personal writing coaches? In Day by Day, Stacey Shubitz and Ruth Ayres, creators of the popular blog Two Writing Teachers, guide you through the... -
Patients Making Meaning: Theorizing Sources of Information and Forms of Support in Women’s Health by Bryna Siegel Finer 9781032503943
RRP: £49.99£43.50This book explores how women make meaning at various health flashpoints in their lives, overcoming fear, anxiety, and anger to draw upon self-advocacy, research, and crucial decision-making.Combining focus group research, content analysis,... -
Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies Randy Allen Harris 9781138695894
RRP: £54.99£48.12Now in its Second Edition, Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies presents fifteen iconic essays in science studies, rhetorical criticism, and argumentation. Integral to the launch of the Landmark Essays series and renowned for its impact... -
Landmark Essays on Tropes and Figures Roberto Franzosi 9781138925625
RRP: £49.99£43.90Landmark Essays on Tropes and Figures offers a thorough overview of the most influential essays on rhetorical tropes and figures, providing a solid foundation for understanding this area of study. The book is divided into two parts. The first part deals... -
Landmark Essays on Tropes and Figures by Roberto P. Franzosi 9781138925618
RRP: £135.00£117.68Landmark Essays on Tropes and Figures offers a thorough overview of the most influential essays on rhetorical tropes and figures, providing a solid foundation for understanding this area of study. The book is divided into two parts. The first part deals...