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Beliefs About Text and Instruction With Text by Ruth Garner
RRP: £54.99£47.72Every day in classrooms, teachers and students think about and with text. Their beliefs about what text is, who created it, and how to evaluate it are an influence, often a profoundly important one, on how they use text. This book brings together... -
Speaking Respect, Respecting Speech by Richard Abel
RRP: £80.00£77.01The feminist campaign against pornography, the furore over a racial epithet in the O.J. Simpson trial, and Iran's continuing threat to kill Salman Rushdie exemplify the intense passions aroused by hurtful speech. In this study Richard Abel offers an... -
Accident Report (Creative Writing Tutor) by Sally Jones
£8.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907733031Author Sally JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 25Imprint Guinea Pig EducationPublisher Guinea Pig Education -
Academic Writer's Handbook: Pearson New International Edition Leonard Rosen 9781292026190
RRP: £58.99£53.55With its unique focus on source-based writing and writing across the curriculum, The Academic Writer's Handbook contains all the features of a traditional handbook combined with the tools students need in order to read, write, and conduct research in the... -
Landmark Essays on Historiographies of Rhetorics by Victor J. Vitanza
RRP: £53.99£46.87This reader presents essays that editor Victor Vitanza describes as "efforts at revisionary histories that are either quasi-traditional histories or radical subversive histories." They are influential works published over the past four decades... -
Discursive Framings of Human Rights: Negotiating Agency and Victimhood by Karen-Margrethe Simonsen
RRP: £45.99£40.53What does it mean to be a subject of human rights? The status of the subject is closely connected with the form and rhetoric of the framing discourse, and this book investigates the relationship between the status of the subject and the form of human... -
Women at Work: Rhetorics of Gender and Labor by David Gold
RRP: £45.95£13.16Women at Work presents the field of rhetorical studies with fifteen chapters that center on gender, rhetoric, and work in the US in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Feminist scholars explore women's labor evangelism in the textile industry, the... -
Violent Exceptions: Children's Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics by Wendy S Hesford
£37.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814257906Author Wendy S HesfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
The Rhetoric of Intellectual Property: Copyright Law and the Regulation of Digital Culture by Jessica Reyman
RRP: £47.99£41.81In recent years we have witnessed a rising tension between the open architecture of the Internet and legal restrictions for online activities. The impact of digital recording technologies and distributed file sharing systems has forever changed the... -
From Hysteria to Hormones: A Rhetorical History by Amy Koerber
RRP: £31.95£28.61In From Hysteria to Hormones, Amy Koerber examines the rhetorical activity that preceded the early twentieth-century emergence of the word hormone and the impact of this word on expert understandings of women's health.Shortly after Ernest Henry Starling... -
Coaching Writing in Content Areas: Write-for-Insight Strategies, Grades 6-12 by William Strong
RRP: £59.25£52.79Coaching Writing in Content Areas: Write-for-Insight Strategies, Grades 6-12, Second Edition, is packed with practical, motivating strategies for making writing a tool for learning, and for integrating it into content area instruction. Designed to help... -
Speaking of Evil: Rhetoric and the Responsibility to and for Language by Matthew Boedy
RRP: £85.00£74.51Rhetoric and the Responsibility to and for Language: Speaking of Evil relocates the "problem of evil"- the question of why God would allow for the existence of evil-and surveys it as a rhetorical problem. It raises this question: if we speak... -
Theorizing Digital Rhetoric Aaron Hess 9781138702394
RRP: £43.99£38.44Theorizing Digital Rhetoric takes up the intersection of rhetorical theory and digital technology to explore the ways in which rhetoric is challenged by new technologies and how rhetorical theory can illuminate discursive expression in digital contexts... -
The Multimediated Rhetoric of the Internet: Digital Fusion by Carolyn Handa
RRP: £45.99£40.13This project is a critical, rhetorical study of the digital text we call the Internet, in particular the style and figurative surface of its many pages as well as the conceptual, design patterns structuring the content of those same pages. Handa argues... -
Persuasive Acts: Women's Rhetorics in the Twenty-First Century by Shari J. Stenberg
RRP: £27.00£24.82In June 2015, Bree Newsome scaled the flagpole in front of South Carolina's state capitol and removed the Confederate flag. The following month, the Confederate flag was permanently removed from the state capitol. Newsome is a compelling example of a... -
For the Sake of Argument: Practical Reasoning, Character, and the Ethics of Belief Eugene Garver 9780226283975
RRP: £32.00£31.11What role does reason play in our lives? What role should it play? And are claims to rationality liberating or oppressive? For the Sake of Argument addresses questions such as these to consider the relationship between thought and character. Eugene... -
Mothering Rhetorics by Lynn O'Brien Hallstein
RRP: £38.99£34.22Once only a topic among women in the private sphere, motherhood and mothering have become important intellectual topics across academic disciplines. Even so, no book has yet devoted a sustained look at how exploring mothering rhetorics - the rhetorics of... -
Language and Power on the Rhetorical Stage: Theory in the Body by Fiona Harris Ramsby
RRP: £135.00£118.28Through a fusion of narrative and analysis, Language and Power on the Rhetorical Stage examines how theater can enact critical discourse analysis and how micro-instances of iniquitous language use have been politically and historically reiterated to... -
Classical Rhetoric and Modern Public Relations: An Isocratean Model by Charles Marsh
RRP: £41.99£36.75This book expands the theoretical foundations of modern public relations, a growing young profession that lacked even a name until the twentieth century. As the discipline seeks guiding theories and paradigms, rhetorics both ancient and modern have... -
Rhetoric and Demagoguery by Patricia Roberts-Miller
£57.06In a culture of profit-driven media, demagoguery is a savvy short-term rhetorical strategy. Once it becomes the norm, individuals are more likely to employ it and, in that way, increase its power by making it seem the only way of disagreeing with or... -
Toward a Rhetoric of Insult by Thomas M. Conley
RRP: £23.00£22.13From 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... -
The Rhetorical Sense of Philosophy by Donald Phillip Verene
RRP: £44.00£38.34Philosophy and rhetoric are both old enemies and old friends. In The Rhetorical Sense of Philosophy, Donald Phillip Verene sets out to shift our understanding of the relationship between philosophy and rhetoric from that of separation to one of close... -
Ableist Rhetoric: How We Know, Value, and See Disability by James L. Cherney
RRP: £28.95£26.04Ableism, 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 of... -
The Rhetoric of Oil in the Twenty-First Century: Government, Corporate, and Activist Discourses by Heather Graves
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book examines mass communication and civic participation in the age of oil, analyzing the rhetorical and discursive ways that governments and corporations shape public opinion and public policy and activists attempt to reframe public debates to... -
Arguing with Numbers: The Intersections of Rhetoric and Mathematics by James Wynn
RRP: £33.95£30.34As 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... -
Rhetorics of Names and Naming by Star Medzerian Vanguri
RRP: £43.99£38.44This volume takes up rhetorical approaches to our primarily linguistic understanding of how names work, considering how theories of materiality in rhetoric enrich conceptions of the name as word or symbol and help explain the processes of name bestowal,... -
Rhetorical Machines: Writing, Code, and Computational Ethics by John Jones
£37.25A landmark volume that explores the interconnected nature of technologies and rhetorical practice. Rhetorical Machines addresses new approaches to studying computational processes within the growing field of digital rhetoric. While computational code is... -
History of Rhetoric, Volume I: The Art of Persuasion in Greece by George A. Kennedy
RRP: £45.00£35.32A concern for the art of persuasion, as rhetoric was anciently defined, was a principal feature of Greek intellectual life. In this study of the complex of subjects labeled "rhetoric," the author explores rhetorical theory and practice from the fifth to... -
Political Tone: How Leaders Talk and Why by Roderick P. Hart
RRP: £27.00£26.47It's not what you say, but how you say it. Solving problems with words is the essence of politics, and finding the right words for the moment can make or break a politician's career. Yet very little has been said in political science about the elusive... -
Sexual Rhetorics: Methods, Identities, Publics by Jonathan Alexander
RRP: £45.99£40.13Sexual rhetoric is the self-conscious and critical engagement with discourses of sexuality that exposes both their naturalization and their queering, their torquing to create different or counter-discourses, giving voice and agency to multiple and... -
The Cup Cake (Creative Writing Tutor) by Sally Jones
£8.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907733024Author Sally JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 25Imprint Guinea Pig EducationPublisher Guinea Pig Education -
Chiasmus and Culture Boris Wiseman 9780857459602
RRP: £99.00£80.47Anyone who has heard of chiasmus is likely to think of it as no more than a piece of rhetorical playfulness, at times challenging, though useful for supplying a memorable sententious note or for performing a pirouette of syntax and thought. Going beyond... -
The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology by Kenneth Burke 9780520016101
£29.13"But the point of Burke's work, and the significance of his achievement, is not that he points out that religion and language affect each other, for this has been said before, but that he proceeds to demonstrate how this is so by reference to a specific... -
Ethical Dilemmas in Feminist Research: The Politics of Location, Interpretation, and Publication by Gesa E. Kirsch 9780791442104
RRP: £23.32£23.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791442104Author Gesa E. KirschFormat PaperbackPage Count 133Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Can I Change Your Mind?: The Craft and Art of Persuasive Writing by Lindsay Camp 9780713678499 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.26These days, we all need the ability to argue a case effectively in writing. Drawing on his long experience as a leading copywriter, Lindsay Camp shows how it's done-whether the 'end product' is a glossy magazine ad, a new business proposal, a page for... -
Countermemory: A Rhetoric of Resistance April L. O'Brien 9780817361884
RRP: £29.95£25.46Countermemory: A Rhetoric of Resistance investigates the interdisciplinary dimensions of countermemory through a rhetorical lens by drawing upon a mixed-methodological approach that includes site-based analysis, participant observation, textual analysis,... -
Ethos, Technology, and AI in Contemporary Society: The Character in the Machine Aaron Hess 9781032688510
RRP: £135.00£114.75Bringing together expert rhetorical theorists and technologists, this book explores our current understanding of and attitudes toward ethos, credibility, trust, and technology. Recent advancements in technology, including the development of digital... -
Ethos, Technology, and AI in Contemporary Society: The Character in the Machine Aaron Hess 9781032671499
RRP: £36.99£31.44Bringing together expert rhetorical theorists and technologists, this book explores our current understanding of and attitudes toward ethos, credibility, trust, and technology. Recent advancements in technology, including the development of digital... -
Oligarchy in America: Power, Justice, and the Rule of the Few Luke Winslow 9780817322069
RRP: £94.00£79.90A fascinating survey of the history of political and economic ideas in the US that have led to an increasingly entrenched ultra-rich class of oligarchs.To an American, oligarchy is something that happens somewhere else. In Oligarchy in America, Luke... -
Rhetoric and Storytelling within the U.S. Asylum Process: Shelter Rhetorics Mónica Reyes 9781032382852
RRP: £49.99£43.50This book explores the U.S. asylum process and how those seeking shelter deal with the rhetorical pressures of compelling asylum narratives they need to write in order to stay.Centred around a study conducted at a shelter on the US border, this book...