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Nuclear Decolonization: Indigenous Resistance to High-Level Nuclear Waste Siting by Danielle Endres 9780814258910
£37.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258910Author Danielle EndresFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press -
The Norton Introduction to Fiction 6e (Paper Only) by J Beaty 9780393968217
£61.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393968217Author J BeatyFormat HardbackPage Count 828Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 800g -
Writing Research Papers: A Norton Guide by Melissa Walker 9780393971088
£47.27This in-depth, process-oriented guide takes students through the research process step-by-step, following five students from across the disciplines throughout their research projects—from developing interests, investigating sources, and focusing ideas to... -
Evangelical Writing in a Secular Imaginary: The Academic Writing of Christian Undergraduates at a Public University by Emily Murphy Cope 9781032494616
RRP: £135.00£117.28Evangelical Writing in a Secular Imaginary addresses the question of how Christian undergraduates engage in academic writing and how best to teach them to participate in academic inquiry and prepare them for civic engagement.Exploring how the secular... -
Patterns Across Cultures, International Edition by Stuart Hirschberg 9781285173290
£64.35PATTERNS ACROSS CULTURES, International Edition is a rhetorically organized reader driven by the principle that as the world gets smaller, students should be exposed to a wide variety of cultural perspectives-both from within the United States and from... -
The Wadsworth Handbook by Stephen Mandell 9781133308775
£105.13With practical advice on topics ranging from writing effective essays, paragraphs, and sentences to documenting sources and designing Web pages, THE WADSWORTH HANDBOOK is the essential tool for any college student! Tailored to the way students like you... -
Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness by Melanie Yergeau 9780822370116
RRP: £97.00£83.01In Authoring Autism Melanie Yergeau defines neurodivergence as an identity-neuroqueerness-rather than an impairment. Using a queer theory framework, Yergeau notes the stereotypes that deny autistic people their humanity and the chance to define... -
Writers Under Siege: Voices of Freedom from Around the World by Lucy Popescu 9780814767429
£90.28The freedom to write is under threat today throughout the world, with more than 1,000 writers, journalists, and publishers known to be imprisoned or persecuted in more than 100 countries. Writers Under Siege bears witness to the power and danger of the... -
Another Kind of One Nation: Young South African Writing: Vol 1 by Linda Rode 9780795700248
RRP: £9.99£7.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780795700248Author Linda RodeFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Kwela BooksPublisher Kwela BooksWeight(grams) 165g -
Purpose, Practice, and Pedagogy in Rhetorical Criticism by Jim A. Kuypers 9780739180181
RRP: £93.00£85.70This edited volume fills a void in the literature concerning the purpose, practice, and pedagogy associated with performing rhetorical criticism. Literature regarding these issues-predominantly purpose-exists primarily as scattered journal articles and... -
Post-9/11 American Presidential Rhetoric: A Study of Protofascist Discourse by Colleen Elizabeth Kelley 9780739129258
RRP: £46.00£42.05Post-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... -
The War of Words by Anthony Burke 9780520298125
RRP: £25.00£19.18When Kenneth Burke conceived his celebrated "Motivorum" project in the 1940s and 1950s, he envisioned it in three parts. Whereas the third part, A Symbolic of Motives, was never finished, A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950) have... -
Rhetoric and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Purity, Covenant, and Strategy at Qumran by Bruce McComiskey 9780271090153
RRP: £83.95£72.87Discovered in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of ancient Israelite documents, many of which were written by a Jewish sectarian community at Qumran living in self-exile from the priesthood of the Second Temple. This first book-length study of... -
Responding to the Sacred: An Inquiry into the Limits of Rhetoric by Michael Bernard-Donals 9780271089577
RRP: £91.95£79.69With language we name and define all things, and by studying our use of language, rhetoricians can provide an account of these things and thus of our lived experience. The concept of the sacred, however, raises the prospect of the existence of phenomena... -
Arguing with Numbers: The Intersections of Rhetoric and Mathematics by James Wynn 9780271088815
RRP: £74.95£65.20As discrete fields of inquiry, rhetoric and mathematics have long been considered antithetical to each other. That is, if mathematics explains or describes the phenomena it studies with certainty, persuasion is not needed. This volume calls into question... -
The Enthymeme: Syllogism, Reasoning, and Narrative in Ancient Greek Rhetoric by James Fredal 9780271086132
RRP: £84.95£73.72Central to rhetorical theory, the enthymeme is most often defined as a truncated syllogism. Suppressing a premise that the audience already knows, this rhetorical device relies on the audience to fill in the missing information, thereby making the... -
Ableist Rhetoric: How We Know, Value, and See Disability by James L. Cherney 9780271084688
RRP: £84.95£73.72Ableism, a form of discrimination that elevates "able" bodies over those perceived as less capable, remains one of the most widespread areas of systematic and explicit discrimination in Western culture. Yet in contrast to the substantial body... -
How to Belong: Women's Agency in a Transnational World by Belinda A. Stillion Southard 9780271082011
RRP: £29.95£26.39In How to Belong, Belinda Stillion Southard examines how women leaders throughout the world have asserted their rhetorical agency in troubling economic, social, and political conditions. Rather than utilizing the concept of citizenship to bolster... -
Votes That Count and Voters Who Don't: How Journalists Sideline Electoral Participation (Without Even Knowing It) by Sharon E. Jarvis 9780271081250
RRP: £75.95£66.06For 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... -
Reimagining Advocacy: Rhetorical Education in the Legal Clinic by Elizabeth C. Britt 9780271081021
RRP: £75.95£66.46Domestic violence accounts for approximately one-fifth of all violent crime in the United States and is among the most difficult issues confronting professionals in the legal and criminal justice systems. In this volume, Elizabeth Britt argues that... -
Rhetoric: Readings in French Literature by Michael Hawcroft 9780198160076
£75.49Rhetoric is the art of persuasion, whether spoken or written. In the first chapter of Rhetoric: Readings in French Literature, Michael Hawcroft sets out its principles comprehensively and lucidly, providing an easily-consulted outline of key terms and a... -
Canons of Style in the Antonine Age: Idea-Theory and its Literary Context by Ian Rutherford 9780198147299
£42.04The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between literature and stylistic theory in the Antonine Age. The literature is the prose literature of the Second Sophistic and the stylistic theory is the so-called idea-theory set out in the Peri... -
Speech and Debate as Civic Education by J. Michael Hogan 9780271079059
RRP: £93.95£81.80In an era increasingly marked by polarized and unproductive political debates, this volume makes the case for a renewed emphasis on teaching speech and debate, both in and outside of the classroom. Speech and debate education leads students to better... -
Ross's Novel Discoveries: Quotes from Great Works on Men, Women, Romantic Relationships, Love, Sex, and Marriage by Michael Ross 9781942600039
RRP: £10.99£9.73In this elegant but pocketable edition, passionate bibliophile Michael Ross has curated 106 favorite literary quotes from the collection of over 1,500 well-read books on his shelves--but this isn't your typical rehashing of Bartlett's quotations. Michael... -
Views and Voices: Writers of English Around the World by Francoise Beniston 9781882483877
RRP: £34.95£23.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882483877Author Francoise BenistonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Alta English PublishersPublisher Alta English PublishersWeight(grams) 494g -
Arguing for Our Lives: A User's Guide to Constructive Dialog by Robert Jensen 9780872865730
RRP: £9.99£9.03We live in a time when public discourse is more skewed than ever by the propaganda that big money can buy, with trust in the leadership of elected officials at an all-time low. The "news" has degenerated into sensationalist sound bites, and the idea of... -
Persuasion: History, Theory, Practice by George Pullman 9781603849982
RRP: £28.99£23.28George Pullman's lively and accessible introduction to the study of persuasion is an ideal text for use in courses where the understanding and practice of argumentation, rhetoric, and critical thinking are central. Continually challenging his readers to... -
Persuasion: History, Theory, Practice by George Pullman 9781603849999
RRP: £70.99£56.48George Pullman's lively and accessible introduction to the study of persuasion is an ideal text for use in courses where the understanding and practice of argumentation, rhetoric, and critical thinking are central. Continually challenging his readers to... -
An Ideological Analysis of Breastfeeding in Contemporary America: Disciplining the Maternal Body by Loreen N. Olson 9781498531290
RRP: £76.00£70.20An Ideological Analysis of Breastfeeding in Contemporary America: Disciplining the Maternal Body analyzes the discourses involved in the pro-breastfeeding, "breast is best" paradigm, highlighting how such politically charged rhetoric restrains... -
Building a Social Democracy: The Promise of Rhetorical Pragmatism by Robert Danisch 9781498517775
RRP: £105.00£96.43Building a Social Democracy offers an alternative intellectual history of American pragmatism, one that tries to reclaim the middle of the twentieth century in order to push neo-pragmatism beyond its philosophical limitations. Danisch argues that the... -
Transatlantic Rhetoric: Speeches from the American Revolution to the Suffragettes by Tom Wright 9781474426251
£99.77This pioneering collection brings alive the world of public speaking between the American Revolution and the age of the Suffragettes. It presents over seventy speeches by a diverse range of female and male activists, politicians, tribal leaders, fugitive... -
Rhetoric and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Purity, Covenant, and Strategy at Qumran by Bruce McComiskey 9780271090160
RRP: £30.95£27.23Discovered in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of ancient Israelite documents, many of which were written by a Jewish sectarian community at Qumran living in self-exile from the priesthood of the Second Temple. This first book-length study of... -
Une introduction à l'analyse du discours argumentatif by Vance Mendenhal 9782760302709
RRP: £24.95£18.80Ce manuel de logique informelle vise initier l' tudiant de niveau coll gial et universitaire la pratique de l'argumentation.Book InformationISBN 9782760302709Author Vance MendenhalFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint University of Ottawa PressPublisher... -
Just Kids: Youth Activism and Rhetorical Agency by Risa Applegarth 9780814258996
£31.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258996Author Risa ApplegarthFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press -
Dewey for a New Age of Fascism: Teaching Democratic Habits by Nathan Crick 9780271084824
RRP: £33.95£29.77During the rise of fascism in the early twentieth century, American philosopher and educational reformer John Dewey argued that the greatest threat to democracy was not a political regime or even an aggressive foreign power but rather a set of... -
The Rhetoric of Official Apologies: Critical Essays by Lisa S. Villadsen 9781793621801
RRP: £90.00£83.12The Rhetoric of Official Apologies: Critical Essays focuses on the many challenges associated with performing a speech act on behalf of a collective and the concomitant issues of rhetorically tackling the multiple political, social, and philosophical... -
Beyond Civility: The Competing Obligations of Citizenship by William Keith 9780271088044
RRP: £93.95£81.40From the pundits to the polls, nearly everyone seems to agree that US politics have rarely been more fractious, and calls for a return to “civil discourse” abound. Yet it is also true that the requirements of polite discourse effectively silence those... -
Rhetoric and Governance under Trump: Proclamations from the Bullshit Pulpit by Bernd Kaussler 9781498594837
RRP: £102.00£94.71Rhetoric 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... -
Rhetoric and the Synoptic Problem by Mike Duncan 9781978713086
RRP: £85.00£78.35Mike Duncan argues that the Farrer Hypothesis is the best working solution to the Synoptic Problem in New Testament studies by way of rhetorical theory, as he sees the Synoptic Problem as less about source and textual criticism and more as a writing... -
Writer's Handbook, The by Lester Faigley 9780134571331
RRP: £103.70£95.47For courses in Writing. Applying the fundamentals of good writing to a modern world The Writer’s Brief Handbook, 6th Edition continues the long celebrated tradition of The Brief Penguin Handbook with a new name. The text teaches students the traditional...